Theatre And Film Overview
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Theatre And Film Overview
Theatre and Film -Week 2
Principles of Narrative Construction
- films take narrative form
- narrative film a film that tells a story
- Narrative form is the most common in fictional films, but it can appear in all other basic types.
- As the viewer watches the film he/she picks up cues (Clues).
Plot and Story
- A narrative can be considered to be a to be a chain of events in cause-effect relationship occurring in time and space.
- A narrative is the story
- Causality, time, and space are important to narratives in most media, but causality and time are central.
- Events are a part of a series of causes and effects time is also important
- The fact that a narrative relies on causality, time, and space does not mean that other formal principles cannot govern the film.
- The set of all events in a narrative, both the ones explicitly presented and those the viewer infers, comprises the story.
- The total world of the story action is sometimes called the film's diegesis (recounted story)
- Something is diegetic if they are assumed to exist in the world that the film depicts. IE people
- Plot is used to describe everything visibly and audibly present in the film before us
- Non-Diegetic film credits, hear orchestral music, extraneous music. Non-Diegetic elements are elements that are brought in from outside the story world.
- The plot explicitly presents certain story events, so these events are common to both domains.
- The story goes beyond the plot in suggesting some diegetic elements we never witness.
- The plot goes beyond the story world by presenting nondiegetic images and sounds which may affect our understanding of the story (diagram page - 93)
- The story is the sum total of all the events in the narrative.
- The plot is the arrangement of material in the film as it...
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