What is narrative?

A narrative is a chain of cause and effects that mould a story. Meaning that everything that comes into play whilst telling a story/narrative should be affecting the plot. there are many ways to tell a narrative and occasionally a story does not have to be told in consecutive order. in many films, they start the movie with the middle section and work their way back to the start.

Plot and story

Plot and story are the bones and the meat of a story. The real important content. typically it should be a basis for characters/ subjects and what happen to them. i suppose all stories revolve around a main subject and it causes a domino effect, almost like a chain reaction. one thing leads to another until they reach an end point.

Cause and effect

the concept of causality does not only apply in constructing a narrative, it is also a philosophical belief that everything happened because of something else. nNot to say there is a reason behind why things happen. It just does and we have to work our way around it. (same applies to life)

“Types of Form in Experimental Films:
Like documentaries, experimental films sometimes use narrative form. James Sib­
ley Watson, Jr., and Melville Webber’s 1 928 film The Fall of the House of Usher
evokes the atmosphere of the Edgar Allan Poe story through expressionistic sets
and lighting. Occasionally, we find an experimental film organized by categories,
as in Peter Greenaway’s The Falls, a mockumentary tracing, in alphabetical order,
information about a disparate group of people named Fall. Yet other types of form
are characteristic of experimental films: abstract form and associational form.”