narrative and genre key terms


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

Non Linear Narratives

  • Chronology: The arrangement of events or dates in the order of their occurrence
  • Concurrent / parallel narratives: operating or occurring at the same time  
  • Flashback / Flash-forward: when you go back on a past event or event that is yet to come
  • Time and space:
  • Serial format: a serial has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion
  • Cliff-hangers: a cliff-hanger is when a story is ended before the end of the story
  • 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:

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