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CS2027 Week 2: Classical Narrative Form, how does the viewer build story…

- - - - Cues prompt us about the choronological sequences & guides us through the broken timeline: eg. clothes, age, settings
        
        our ordinary sense of time and cause and effect help make assumptioons and inferences
        
        reconstructing story time on the basis of ploot
- - - - Filmmakers build the plot from the story, viewers build the story from the plot.
        
        by making assumptions and inferences about the information and cues presented on screen to determine the causes, temporal sequences
        
        diegesis: world of story action that is assumed to exist within the world the film depicts. (eg. people, skyscapers)
        
        non-diegetic: material that lies outside the story world (eg. credits & music, animations, comic words, documented images)
- - - - Setups in films:
        1) tells us about the characters and their situation before an Event is caused.
        2) in medias res: thrown into the middle of an action that has already started & we speculate on the causes
  - - - a character learns something crucial in the course of the action
    - - steps needed to achieve an object or condition and one must be achieved before the other.
        
        searches, investigations etc.
    - - Time can provide plot patterns: a deadline, a specific historical period, a specific stage of life.
- - - - Narrator is omniscient--we know more, see more and hear more than any characters can.
        (eg. film about WWII, we know who wins but the characters don't)
        
        gives a good overview to the broader contexts, understanding each character's specific psyches
        
        degrees of information can be revealed slowly as the narrative progresses. Initially we may know more than the character does, but slowly, we may lose this power if the director obscures information
        
        all depends on the director's intentions
    - - We don't know any more than the character do
        
        creates curiosity, tension and surprise by retaining information and hiding important causes.
        
        Alfred Hitchcock: while restricted narration can create surprise, a dose of unrestricted narration helps to build suspense. (eg. the public knows a bomb is placed and explodes, will the people in the film escape?)
  - - - only observing what the characters say out loud and carry out.
        
        effective way of withholdiing information; we don't know the characters deeply-- curious
    - - plunges into the character's psychological state and access into what the characters experience and hears from their POV
        
        POV shots taken from the character's optical stand-point; sound perspectives taken from the character's surrounding
        
        hearing internal thoughts, seeing hallucinations, memories and flashbacks: going beyond the character's senses and into their minds
        
        increases our sympathy for the character & cues expectations about what the characters will say or do; yields information about the characters traits
- - - - Characters in film have traits; attitudes, skills, habits, tastes, psychological drives and other qualities
        
        These traits will play causal roles in the overall story action & serves a narrative function.