A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non fictional or fictional events.
What does narrative mean?
- The way that stories are told - how meaning is constructed to achieve audience understanding
- The voice of the narrative can vary whose story is being told and from whose perspective?
- Narrative plot- refers to everything audibly or visibly present i.e. selective
- Narrative story- refers to all events, explicitly presented and inferred
- Organises time and space in very compressed form
- Constructed through camerawork, lighting and mise-en-scene
- Group events into cause (something that happens which causes an event) and effect- action and event
Roland Barthes believed that there are 5 action codes within the genre sector, and these are as follows:
1) Hermeneutic (interpretation) code: An element of life story not explained or unanswered questions make us think.
2) Proairetic code: Builds tension - an indication in which something is about to happen, the reader/viewer starts to question.
3) Semantic code: Connotations/extended meanings.
4) Symbolic code: Symbolisms throughout the film.
5) Cultural code: The things we believe throughout our culture.
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