Narrative & Memento Analysis By Sina Hadgu

Narrative

What is a a narrative? Narrative is a chain of events that has a beginning, middle and end that embodies a judgement about the nature of events.

Narrative is the art of storytelling:

• Think of the story as the raw ingredients of a text
• Narrative is the methodology of how its put together
• Then the narrator or the producer of the text cooks it in a certain direction.

Narrative techniques: Alternative narrative, Enigma, Climax, Equilibrium

Narrative + plot + story

•Plot = everything visibly and audibly present in the text; what the reader observes.

•Story = all events of the narrative, both explicit and implicit – what the reader understands.

•Narrative is a chain of events in a cause and effect relationship in time and space.

Different types of narrative:

Single strand -This just means that it's having a storyline that has one main story e.g. The Fault In Our Stars and Juno are single strand narratives.

Multi strand -A multi - Strand narrative are basically several stories or characters in one film/TV show. Examples of these are Soaps, such as Eastenders & Emmerdale are also in the multi strand narrative structure.

Closed

Open

Linear

Non-linear

Alternative narrative-"This means what the norm is".

Enigma-An enigma means the mystery and the clue to the storyline

Climax- A climax is the big reveal or buildup of the problem regarding the story or the solution.

Equilibrium -This means that when its at the point o the story where everything is okay e.g. the guy gets the girl = happy ending or the bad guy is dead so no one else will get murdered.

Stories are rarely told in real time, instead they are broken down into scenes or sequences

Memento

Momento is a great film as it's a non chronological film (non-linear). Guy Pearce plays a character who has a disease where he can remembers his past, however he's unable to make new memories. He is