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Narrative Structure
way special telling your story in the own...
One of the most controversial areas of new media theory
Some people think this is the main difference between new and old media
The re-thinking of how we tell the story - narrative
Narrative
What is narrative?– Telling a story– How a story is structured for a particular
media– The story telling process
Each media develops its own narrative structure, how stories are told in that media
Linear Narrative Old media uses linear narrative What do we mean by this? In its purest form linear narrative is the
chronological telling of a story Start at the beginning and work to the
end, telling the story in the order it occurred
An accurate time line of events
Many forms of linear narrative don’t stick to a true time line, events aren’t always shown in the correct order
For example, the use of flash backs to show what has occurred before
Non-Linear Narrative
Modern films tend to skip back and forth along the time line
Need to remember causality, it must look like events have causes, there is a reason why they occurred