Lesson notes

Lesson note.

Critical Perception in media:

- Narrative

Within the exam you will need to show how you used media theory in your production, therefore we will be looking at narrative structure and theory applied to your finished product.

Narrative:

A narrative is simply made up of two components, the plot and the story. In laymen's the two are often confused or used incorrectly entirely. 

Picture a time line separated into three sections, the first is "inferred events" the second is "What we see" the third is "Non diegetic material". 

Inferred events:

- Waking up

- Birth of the protagonist

- Things that we just accept have happened without being shown, things that we assume have happened to the character to get them where they are(either metaphorically or physically). 

What we see:

- The interesting bits without bogging it down with mundane specifics. I.e. we see John Wayne in a duel but we do not see him brush his teeth that morning we just assume that he has done so as this would be a waste screen time and exercise in mundane futility.

Non-diegetic material:

- The things we view that are unseen by the characters involved i.e. the bad guys talking about their master plan, it is something that the protagonist is unaware of but as an audience we are allowed to see.

Story:

The story encompasses the first two sections of the narrative structure.

Plot:

The plot encompasses the second and third sections of the narrative structure.

(All of this is much easier to picture with a diagram so I advise drawing one out)