Narrative and Narrative devices
Narrative
- Narrative is basically the way stories are told.
- A narrative voice can vary whose story is being told and from whose perspective
- Organised time and space in very compressed from.
- Group events into cause and effect action and inaction.
Narrative Devices 1
Flashback/forward- skip into the past/future .
Red herrings -a wrong lead or distraction in the story.
Omnipotent narrative - the audience are Godlike, knowing everything that is happening the diegetic world .
Dramatic irony-audience knowns more than the individual characters .
Pathetic Fallacy - weather matches the mood of the scene.
Plot Twist-something that is not expected that then happens which n changes the course of the story.
Narrative device 2
Deux ex machine -The story is resolved by an agent not previously involved.
In medias res-The story begins midway through events, rather than at the natural beginning
Poetic justice- A good character's behaviour is rewarded at the end of the story and vice versa.
Ticking clock scenario- The story takes place against a finite, ever descending clock
Unreliable narrator- A voice over is used ,but the character voicing the story displays bias and may even mislead the viewer .
Breaking the fourth wall- A character ,or multiple characters, directly address the audience .
Todorov's approach to narrative
We have five steps that narrative needs to follow :
- The state of equilibrium (good bad or neutral)
- An event disrupt the equilibrium (action or character).
- This is when the equilibrium is been disrupted from the protagonist.
- Protagonist attempts to rectify this in order to restore equilibrium.
- Equilibrium that has a new equilibrium.
Tzetan Todorov,1939 France, Author, Philosopher ,Sociologist
McKee's 5 part structure -Developed and Simplified
- Inciting incident
- Progressive Complications
- Crisis
- Climax
- Resolution
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