This week our lecture was on narrative. Exciting. We were asked what is story? What is narrative? How do we go about structuring this vast expanse of time and experience that we call life into something that it feels right for credits to roll up after? Well from my understanding, narrative is a sequence of events, that has a beginning, a middle and an end, and although there are a few films that challenge this formula, it is pretty conventional. Although story and narrative are different, “everything is story and story is everything”, and I think narrative is the way a story is portrayed to an audience.

Causality is like the wheels on the film…bus??? Ok well causality is cause and effect, and this propels the narrative logically from A to B. For example, people have to actually go to an abandoned cabin for them to actually be murdered. If they didn’t, the movie would be completely different, or wouldn’t exist at all.

I mean most of the things we covered in today’s lecture was covered in Unit 3 Media, and because that was only this time last year for me, I can remember a fair amount of it, so this lecture was just a bit of a refresher.