One of the most important parts of film-making is how important the structure of a narrative.
The definition of a narrative is a chain of events linked by cause and effect occurring in time and space. A narrative may begin with one situation, then cause and effect will occur and a new situation will arise that brings about the end of the narrative. In a round about way, that means a beginning middle and an end. This can be seen in the past screening, such as The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy gets caught in a hurricane, which takes her to the land of Oz, wherein which she begins a quest to go home, this is a traditional narrative form. Yet a film such as Holy Motors is nowhere near traditional form, one scene does not make sense of another, one dramatic situation may occur yet it does not amount to anything in the next scene. This shows that film narrative is important, and is dependent on the content, the themes, the genre and the message the filmmaker wants to get across to the audience.
Something I found interesting about story and plot was the notion that filmmakers have built the plot from the story, yet viewers build the story from the plot; they do this by making inferences about what is presented. My understanding of this is that, through the film maker’s employment of different techniques, he or she creates a chain of events which eventually are finalized for viewers to see. Yet viewers make sense of a film however the filmmaker has chosen to make it, if they had made different choices plot wise then the film audiences would be watching would be different. Whilst it all seems fairly like inception, I found this incredibly interesting in understanding how a film is made, and how we make sense of narrative form.
