‘NARRATIVE is any kind of retelling of a sequence’
CAUSALITY- Cause and Effect
Causality allows for three key elements of story telling
Character development
Plot
Resolution
STORY MAPPING (group activity)
SHREK
- Lives by himself, is content, but lonely.
- Life is turned upside down when he has to go on quest to bring back princess Fiona for the Lord
- He befriends Donkey and is irritated by him but has an underlying sense of gratefulness for his company
- They rescue Fiona and Shrek begins to develop feelings for her and the narrative rises in terms of emotional highs
- Shrek then overhears Fiona talking about an ugly ogre and assumes she is talking about him so he angrily leaves her in the hands of Lord Farquaad instead of confessing his feelings for her and the narrative drops to low emotion
- Donkey later tells Shrek that Fiona wasn’t talking about him and Shrek then runs in on her wedding ceremony and confesses his love for her and the film ends on a high note as the two get together.
Is there such a thing as ‘non-narrative’
SHORT FILM NARRATIVE DISCUSSION
NARRATIVE
- Followed ‘Birth, Between and Rebirth’ sequence
- Followed a pattern of weird movements, slow motion and reverse movement
- Birth and Rebirth were accompanied by the same music
- Camera pans down from sea to pool at beginning and pans up from pool to sea at the end
- Always heading to an end point in each sequence
NON-NARRATIVE
- Lack of cohesion within story
- There’s no point of conflict or emotional highs and lows
- No explanation as to why these events are taking place
- More of an art installation than film?