Linear Narrative
- Starts from the beginning
- Continues to middle events
- Ends with the end
- Follows a timeline of past, present, future
- Does not always start at the beginning
- No set timeline so often jumps around
- Moves around from events in the story
Barthes' Theory of Narrative
OPEN - can be unravelled and have several different meanings or potential outcomes
CLOSED - only one obvious ending to the story
ENIGMA CODE - a question which is asked at the start of the film and answered at the end in order to kep the audience hooked on what a potential answer could be
Bodwell and Thompson
"narrative consists of a chain of events - every cause leads to an effect"
Reverse Chronology
a method of story telling whereby the plot of the story is revealed to the audience at the beginning of the film itself
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