19th september work

The difference between narrative and story.

the story is the overall event that is happening, for example a lady gets stabbed in the parking lot, the narrative is the way it's told, like a perspective, like the lady's narrative is that 'I was stabbed', the person that stabbed her's narrative is 'I stabbed someone' if there was someone to watch that event, their narrative would be 'I saw someone get stabbed' but the story is the same.

The Three Act Narrative structure and hollywood structure.

The bace 3 act narrative structure in all films is the simple start, middle and an ending, the start should develop a character and the problem they have to face, middle should have the climax of the film and the ending should have a final resolution.

the hollywood narrative structure is different, they have:

Exposition

What the point of the story is, why it's happening.

Development

Telling us who the characters and developing them.

Complication

what the hero/heroine has to overcome

Climax

the final battle! DUNDUNDUNDUNDUN

Resolution

everything ends with a new equilibrium. 

linear and non-linear narrative structure

A linear narrative takes place in chronological order, like Tangled, everything happens in a set order, she escapes, meets the prince, has a falling out with him, then they destroy evil together and fall in love, that's the order it happens and it's the way it's told.

Now lets look at pulp fiction, one of my personal favourite films of all time, the narrative here is all over the place, it's starts with events that happen at the end, that in the timeline are actually in the middle and it's all a big mess. this is a non-linear narrative and it used to keep a story interesting by keeping the viewer guessing as to what's happening.

pulp fiction's narrative.

oh boy, pulp fiction is all over the place. here's the order that the narrative should be in...