Level 2 Creative Media Production

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.
Time and space- travelling around America
Serial format- animated American series

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

Editing and non-linear narratives:
continuity- is the process in film and video creation of combining more-or-less elated shots, or different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence so as to direct the viewers attention to a pre-existing consistency of story across both time and physical location.
dis-continuity- is a unique editing style in film that is antithetical to that of normal cinema or continuous editing in a discontinuous sequence, the filmmaker will deliberately use an arrangement of shots that seem out of place or confusing relative to a traditional narrative.

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