Narrative - Enigma, Story and Plot

Narrative - Enigma, Story and Plot

Narrative:

Narrative is the order in which a film is told. In terms of Media and films narrative is the coherence/organisation of media texts (eg. the story). The human brain needs narrative to make sense of things. We connect events and make interpretations based on those connections. Narrative is correlated with genre as some genres have typical story-lines.

Narrative Enigmas:

The purpose of this engages audience attention, maintains curiosity and interest within the narrative chain of cause and effect. (It is essential that you create enigma when making your own Opening Title Sequence - OTS)

Difference Between Narrative Story and Narrative Plots

A narrative story is what happens in the film which includes a backstory as well as those projected the story whereas a narrative plot is the order in which the story is told.

For example the series of events from a narrative story could be in this order:

Crime Conceived
Crime Planned
Crime Committed
Crime Discovered
Detective investigates
Detective Identifies criminals

However, the story events could be re-arranged in a different sequence to make the narrative more interesting, for example the plot could be:

Crime Discovered
Detective investigates
Detective Identifies criminals
Crime Conceived
Crime Planned
Crime Committed