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 Media is published by Concurrent Media Strategies, LLC, a Washington, DC-based research, consulting and editorial services company specializing in strategic business, technology and policy issues facing producers and distributors of digital media content.
   
  parallel narratives or parallel plots, denotes a story structure in which the writer includes two or more separate narratives linked by a common character, event, or theme.
   
   
• Flashback / Flashforward- 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 an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story
   
• Time and space
   
   
• Serial format
   
• Cliffhangers
   
   
• Editing and non-linear narratives: continuity v dis-continuity

 

Narration

• Use of a narrator as a piece to camera, voice over, caption
   
• Subjective / objective
   
   
• Mode of address / tone

 

Genre and its function

• Types
   
• Sub –genres
   
   
• Cross genre products
   
• Role for the audience
   
   
• Role for the producer