narrative and genre key terms

Level 2 Media Unit 1C: Narrative and Genre Key Terms

Non Linear Narratives

• Chronology
• A list which has a chronology order , or has a certain arrangement.
   
• Concurrent / parallel narratives
• a concurrent is something existing or happening at the same time.
   
   
• Flashback / Flash-forward
• a flashback is when a character in a scene is furthering back to the past or we are seeing glimpses of the past , a  flash forward is when your seeing things happening in the future.
• Time and space
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• Serial format
   
• Cliffhangers
   a cliff-hanger is when  
   
• Editing and non-linear narratives: continuity v dis-continuity

 

Narration

• Use of a narrator as a piece to camera, voice over, caption
   
• Subjective / objective
   
   
• Mode of address / tone

 

Genre and its function

• Types
   
• Sub –genres
   
   
• Cross genre products
   
• Role for the audience
   
   
• Role for the producer