I watched Ivan Sen’s 2013 film “Mystery Road”  and found that it had many aspects that follow narrative form, with the help of its technical aspects of camera, lighting and editing. We can consider a narrative to be a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space. Mystery Road’s events and many trials and tribulations that occurred defiantly ran by the aspect of cause and effect. With the main character finding out info about one thing which leads him to do the other. But with that, the time is sometime shown through temporal duration to shorten the narrative to show how Jay Swan finds himself ostracised from the community as he struggles to follow the trail left by the victim. As its set in Australia, we see that through camera techniques of a wide depth of field we understand the space and how its trying to communicate its sense of sparse country living.

Besides story space and plot space, Mystery Road employs screen space: the visible space within the frame. In the scene where the car is beeping him his head is in the middle of the frame to show his emotions and perplexed facial expression in hierarchy to the other aspects around him. In the opening which is integral to narrative form, it establishes the mystery road with a slow zoom  with the title and cut to a truck travelling past the sign. The opening provides a basis for what is to come and initiates us into the narrative about a random woman found dead just off this mystery road.