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Jasmine Briggs on Narrative Structures

The document discusses different types of narrative structures in films. It begins by exploring basic linear, open, and closed structures. It then introduces Allan Cameron, who analyzes modular narratives. Cameron identifies four types of modular narratives: anachronic narratives use flashbacks or flashforwards with no timeline dominance; forking path narratives show how small changes impact the overall plot; episodic narratives feature separate storylines of characters linked by one incident; and split screen narratives display two or more separate images simultaneously.

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Jasmine Briggs on Narrative Structures

The document discusses different types of narrative structures in films. It begins by exploring basic linear, open, and closed structures. It then introduces Allan Cameron, who analyzes modular narratives. Cameron identifies four types of modular narratives: anachronic narratives use flashbacks or flashforwards with no timeline dominance; forking path narratives show how small changes impact the overall plot; episodic narratives feature separate storylines of characters linked by one incident; and split screen narratives display two or more separate images simultaneously.

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Narrative

JASMINE ANNE BRIGGS

What is narrative
The narrative is how the story is told, its the way you arrange the
plots in a film
Exploring the conventions of :

Genre
Character
Form
Time

Basic structures
Linear structure
Going through the story in order

Beg

Mid

Having the beginning, middle and end

End

Open Structure
The audience are left to wonder what happens next and make sense of it
themselves

Closed Structure
There is a definite ending with a clear conclusion

Circular Structure
The narrative begins at the end event. The audience are taken on a journey
arriving back where they started

Allan Cameron
Senior Lecturer
In: Film, Television & Media Studies

Biography

My core research focus is on time, technology and media


aesthetics, with a strong orientation towards questions of
memory and history. My other principal research areas are
New Zealand cinema, Asian cinemas, media business
practices and policies, and the horror genre.

Allan Cameron is a theorist analysing modern cinema. He


identifies four different kinds of narrative called MODULAR
narratives

Modular narratives
The four types of modular narratives

Anachronic
Forking Paths
Episodic
Split Screens

Anachronic
Something thats not in its correct historical or chronical time. For
example use of flashbacks or flash forwards with no clear dominance
between any of the narrative threads.

Forking Path
There are two ways it can go. The forking path as a narrative which shows
how small changes can change the overall plot of a film with different
outcomes due to the small changes within them.

Episodic
This shows separate narratives of two different characters who are linked
only with the fact that they are involved on the same incident.
An "episodic narrative" is also story that can be told through a series of
episodes.

Split Screen

A techniques that has two or more separate images displayed .

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