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

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

Non Linear Narratives

• Chronology- Media chronology (also referred to as statutory windows) is an issue that is considered crucial by the French film and television industry.
   
• Concurrent / parallel narratives-  concurrent is published by concurrent media strategies, consulting and editorial services company specializing in strategic business, technology and policy issues facing producers and distributors of digital media content. Parallel narratives, denotes a story structure which the writer includes two or more separate narratives linked by a common character.

• Flashback / Flash-forward- is a scene that temporarily takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media.
  A flashback is the opposite, is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.
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• Time and space- where is located.   
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• Serial format- the format of the product/ work. 

• Cliff-hangers- this technique used on the audience leaving them wondering whats going to happen next and have to wait for the next episode.

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• Editing and non-linear narratives: continuity v dis-continuity- the way of speeding editing together.

 

Narration

• Use of a narrator as a piece to camera, voice over, caption: documentary, captions  
   
• Subjective / objective: subjective is when you can tell the writers and the viewers. based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions
• objective is something your trying to achieve. Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
   
   
• Mode of address / tone- how the media product is delivered.

 

Genre and its function

• Types: romance, fantasy, comedy...
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• Sub –genres: paranormal
   
   
• Cross genre products: is a genre in fiction that blends themes.
   
• Role for the audience: hypodermic, needle theory
   
   
• Role for the producer: they determinate everything on set.

Prison break

Format- series








Purpose- entertain. this programme make the audience get to know how it works in America which is something very bad for the fact that there are death penalties for whom they think commited a crime and in this case Lincoln was innocent.








Platform for broadcast- online streaming( Netflix, YouTube )








Target audience- 18+ because of the language use and a lot of violent scenes. For either male or female.








Non-diegetic sound- is used most of the time which makes the audience tense and pay attention to the film making it interesting. the non-diegetic sound is the sounded that is added to the scene, those sounds are: the keys of the prison used by the guards, the doors opening( which is a added sound because in the scene it cant be listened clearly) , shots and the music.
The use of different sounds(music) make the audience feel different feeling to what's happening depending on the scene.








The lighting- used when Michael is in the clinic with Sara( artificial)








Time and space- fox river state penitentiary/ 5 years

Cliff-hanger- for some reason Scofield wants to attend a prison which is not revealed yet to the audience, making them feel anxious to know what is going to happen

Non-linear series because it starts from the middle. The audience does not know what happened before, it all starts with Michael getting his tattoo done. there's no beginning or end.

Flashback- and some minutes after there’s a flashback. Where it shows us that Michael has been in the prison before talking to Lincoln (his brother). In this scene there’s no much colour.

Type-criminal, romance, suspense.

Crime- committing crime such as killing people, robbing…

Romance- Michael Scofield and Sarah seem to have an affair.

Suspense- the audience is not sure of who is right. If Lincoln killed or not the man

Flash-forward- at the middle of the film, there’s a speed in the scene which will sooner be where Michael will escape from prison. This scene is at black and white.

Narration
Objective- Michael is trying to get all the needed information to get his brother out of jail.
there's a transition in the middle when someone shoots .






Eye shot level in the conversation between Michael and Lincoln  and a flash-forward again after Michael shows the plant of the prison to Lincoln showing the way where they going to be escaping from.

Vladimir prop’s character theory:

The villain:  in the moment of the first episode we can't really identify the villain but it would be; John Abruzzi.






The helper: we would find it in next scenes which`h are: Sucre and Sara at first






The prize: Lincoln Burrows freedom