Narrative

Narrative

Every film has a story to it, these are a sequence of events that happen in a film, the story can also be known as the plot of the story. However we can go deeper into the idea of the story or plot, and this is the Narrative of a film, this refers to the way that the events of a film are revealed to the audience.

Narrative can be split up into two different parts, Linear narrative and Non-linear Narrative.

Linear narrative is when the sequence of events in the film are shown in the order that they took place, the beginning, middle and the end are all in order. This is the most popular form of narrative structure.

Non-linear is the sequence of events are revealed out of the expected order. For example the film can start at the end and then go into a flashback to show what is going to happen leading up to that point, for example the film 'Fight Club' Directed by Curtis Hanson (1999) starts off in this way with the ending at the beginning and then flashes back into the story.