Narrative Flashcards
What is linear narrative?
Where events of the narrative unfurl in a strictly chronological way.
What is non-linear narrative?
Where time is played about with and manipulated. Often uses devices such as flashback/flash forward and cross cutting.
What is Ellipsis?
Periods of time that may have been left out of the narrative.
What is verisimilitude?
The idea that the narrative of the film is logical and plausible in its diegesis.
What is alignment?
Where we follow a protagonist(s) throughout the film and we follow the film through their perspective(s).
What is narrative arc?
A set of expectations that in terms of the film we see develop (exposition, conflict, climax, resolution).
What is character arc?
The key motivations of the protagonist as they try to achieve a number of goals.
What is the omniscient narrative?
Where we get a god-like view of all the events - some of which nay be withheld from the main protagonist.
What is subjective narrative?
Where we follow one perspective and seeing the actions around the main protagonist.
What is it when a film is narrated?
Where the films narrative is told.
