Saturday, 21 September 2013

Narrative

Narrative Blog Post 5


Narrative is basically the organisation and structure of media texts for example a story. In these media texts there is a narrative chain of cause and effect meaning the plot lines of the story are caused by enigma codes. The narrative connects with genre in the fact that some genres have typical story lines.

Narrative Enigmas
These are codes in which they limit the audiences information for instance a puzzle needing to be solved like who, what, why, when and so on. The purpose of these enigmas are to engage the audience and maintain curiosity and interest in the narrative chain of cause and event. For example in crime drama its narrative enigma is 'investigate' as the audience are limited to information.

Narrative Themes
Narrative themes are social issues which are often explored in a media text subjects such as family values,social class and sexuality. When it comes to Horror and Crime Drama the narrative themes tend to be explored on a more manifested level due to their narratives being simplistic and encoded with entertainment values.

Narrative Structure 
The structure and format of a story line can involve:

  • Closed/open
  • Three act structure
  • Four act structure
  • Linear/Non linear 
  • Asynchronous
  • Single stranded/Multi stranded 
A Hollywood film is usually structured by having a single stranded, closed, 3 act structure.


This clip expands on the information about narratives helping us on how to analyse a media text, for example you must remember three codes these are technical,verbal and symbolic. 



                                     

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