In lesson notes on Narrative

Narrative= Story + Plot


Story- what happens (fabula)
Plot- how we see what happens (syuznet)


Tim O'sullivan et al (1998) argues that all media text tell us some kind of story.


Trough careful mediation, media texts offer a way of telling stories about ourselves- not usually our own personal stories, but the story of us as a culture or set of cultures.


Narrative theory sets out to show that what we experience when we 'read' a story is to understand a particular set of construction, or conventions, and that it is important are put together.


Narrative - The structure of a story


Diegesis- The fictional space and time implied by the narrative-the word in which the story takes place.


verisimilitude: literally- the quality of appearing to be real or true.


rules of continuity- where people are in relation to each other.


The structure of the class narrative system.


Pam Cook (1985), the standard Hollywood narrative structure should have.


Linearity of cause and effect within a overall trajectory of enigma retaliation.


A-B-C-D
linearity- chorological order of events.


In short as O'sullivan  et al (1998) suggest narrative have a common structure, starting with the establishment of plot or theme.


This is then followed by the development of the problem, on enigma (Roland Borthes, 1977) on increase in tension.


Finally comes the resolution of the plot.


Such narrative can be unarming or liner.