Production log 9

I learnt a lot about narratives this week. I have learnt about linear narratives, non-linear narratives, restricted narratives and omniscient narratives. A linear narrative is a basic story line with a beginning, middle and end. It is a story set in chronological order.  A non-linear narrative is when it is not in order. These are things such as flash forwards and flashbacks. If  this is done really bad then it could be very confusing for the audience. A restricted narrative is when the audience see the narrative from the view of only one character whilst an omniscient narrative is looking at the story through multiple characters. The audience may enjoy this as then they can find out more and more about the story through different views.

Looking at all this helped me realize how to structure my film. What kind of narrative to use. I decided to use a linear narrative from the view of only one person. I chose this because a linear story will be easy to follow and BSR's are typically very easy to follow and i chose a restricted narrative because this way they won't get confused looking at different characters and they can actually empathize and invest with that one character getting the audience into the film.

We first chose to a non-linear narrative but then we saw that BSR's don't really do this and we didn't want to subvert from the conventions of a BSR.

Propp's narrative

Todorov's narrative

Mckee's narrative