Narrative Structure

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One of the most controversial areas of new media theory

Some people think this is the main difference between new and old media

The re-thinking of how we tell the story - narrative

Narrative

What is narrative?– Telling a story– How a story is structured for a particular

media– The story telling process

Each media develops its own narrative structure, how stories are told in that media

Linear Narrative Old media uses linear narrative What do we mean by this? In its purest form linear narrative is the

chronological telling of a story Start at the beginning and work to the

end, telling the story in the order it occurred

An accurate time line of events

Many forms of linear narrative don’t stick to a true time line, events aren’t always shown in the correct order

For example, the use of flash backs to show what has occurred before

Non-Linear Narrative

Modern films tend to skip back and forth along the time line

Need to remember causality, it must look like events have causes, there is a reason why they occurred