Friday 7 January 2011

Narrative

What is narrative?

The concept of narrative is the coherence/organistation given to a series of facts, in other words, its what strings each event to the next and how we can interpret those facts and events.

How useful is a narrative?

The concept of  narrative is very useful when understanding someone's work as people need a narrative to understand the ideas and messages behind the work. People need a narrative to string toegther the events in order for it to make sense. Every work has a beginning, a middle and an end. The narrative helps the viewer in understanding how these all link.

Differences between film and music videos

The differences between film narratives and music video narratives is that music video narratives are often just a reflection of the lyrics, while film narratives try to follow along a story or plotline. Music videos tend to focus on the artists themselves, while a narrative will create a universe the film's plot can work around.

The structure of our narrative

Our narrative isn't a conventional equilibrium, disequilibrium and another equilibrium or a standard beginning, middle and end in terms of time. Chronologically, our video starts from the end, slowly revealing what happened in the beginning.