narrative structure, codes and conventions of a fictional film
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1. Narrative structure
We have got different narrative structure for example:
CLOSED: Is normally most of the time an happy ending, everyone is satisfied, the majority of time is a for granted ending where who wouldn’t expect that thing goes differently For example: Neighbors
OPEN: It leaves the audience with suspense, with a lot of questions bear in mind that will never have a proper answer.For example: Dear John, Very good girls
MULTI – STRANDED: It is when the film is composed by different protagonist with different stories and then at the end they’ll all joy up.For example: That awkward moment
POV: It is when the story is narrate from a protagonist that is in the filmFor example: Room
2.Narrative techniques
PLOT TWIST: It is an unexpected development during the film.
MACGUFFIN: It is the object, person or goal that gets characters in a movie trying to find it, control it, hide it or destroy it. It's important to move characters in a plot from point A to Point B.
DEUS EX MACHINA: It’s an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation.
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RED HERRING: It’s a clue or piece of information, which is intended to be misleading or distracting.
IN MEDIA RES: It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle.
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3. TEXAX
CHAINSAW 3D
EXPOSITION:
Heather finally gets the keys of the inherited house of the long-lost grandmother, Verna, from Farnsworth and a letter.
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She enters in the buildings with her friends, but no one know that someone else is whit them.
RISING ACTION:
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Excited about the property she now owns, Heather and her friends look through the house, decide to stay there for the night, and immediately set off to buy supplies and food, trusting Darryl to stay behind and look after the house. Darryl begins looting it and believes he will find valuables in a locked room in the cellar. Upon entering the locked room, he is killed by Leatherface. Heather and her friends return and discover the house has been ransacked, but choose to let it go. As Kenny prepares dinner he finds the cellar, where Darryl was killed, and Leatherface impales him on a meat hook.
CLIMAX:While searching through a room upstairs, Heather finds a decomposing body upstairs and runs to find her friends, but she is knocked unconscious by Leatherface. She wakes up in Leatherface's room where she manages to
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escape to the graveyard while Leatherface slices Kenny in half with a chainsaw.
FALLING ACTION:
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Latherface while was about to definitely kill her, he saw the scar on her chest, prove that they’re relatives so he removed the chains from her wrists. Successively Heather begins to flee, but she hears her cousin being beaten and, realizing that Hartman and company still want to kill her while Leatherface demonstrably does not, she decides to help him, killing Ollie with a pitchfork and giving Leatherface his chainsaw, which he uses to force Mayor Hartman into a meat-grinder. Afterward, Heather and Leatherface return home, where Heather reads the letter from Verna which tells her Leatherface will protect her as long as she takes care of him.
RESOLUTION:Heather realizes that Leatherface is the only family she has left, and traumatized by her ordeal, Heather decides to stay with him. All the while, Leatherface non-verbally promises to love her and protect her like he tried with his family members before.
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4. Generic Conventions
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MISE-EN-SCENE: the arrangement of actors and scenery on a stage for a theatrical production.For example: Kingsman
SETTING: the locale or period in which the action takes place.For example: Once upon a time
VISUAL STYLE: is how you create the image structure and style of the film.For example: Gravity
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THEMES: Is the main subject or idea in the film.For example : I robot
IDEOLOGY: is usually defined as a body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture.For example: Bruce Lee
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STEREOTYPES: Are characteristics ascribed to groups of people involving gender, race, national origin and other factors.For example: Chocolat
NARRATIVE: Is about two things: the content of a story and the form used to tell the story.For example: Terminator
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ICONOGRAPHY: The images or symbols related to something. Calls attention even more insistently to the display of masculinity.For example: Frankenstein
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Is the art of photography and camerawork in film-making. For example: The revenant
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SPECIAL EFFECTS (SFX): Are illusions or visual tricks.For example: Snake on the plane
SOUND: Is used in film to heighten a mood, provide us with information about the location of a scene, advance the plot, and tell us about the characters in the story.For example: Jurassic park