Narrative

The narrative of a storyline is often created involving a wide range of different fictional or non-fictional involvements. These aspects often include prose, pictures, song, motion pictures, speech, video games, poetry theatre or dance.

The narrative of a film can be rearranged using different ‘narrative devices’, this mainly occurs when a film travels through the past, present or future tense. This is very popular in the majority of films; these are often related to as flash forwards, notions and flashbacks. These can be used in many different ways to represent the past, present and future tense.

In SAW movies flashbacks of the present tense are very affective. These flashbacks are often revealed in a shift narrative which explores the present tense of a situation.

Another narrative device is known as shifting a certain narrative point of view. In this case the plot is often very chaotic, an audience will usually figure plot and story information with pieces of information between individuals and groups.

I feel that if I was to involve this narrative into my film with use of flashbacks and sound will be the perfect combination to make my trailer stand out in a unique way.

I will now talk about a few narrative devices which I feel can bring a lot of excitement and thought into a trailer from an audience’s perspective.

Dreams, Nightmares – Including dreams in a narrative are the perfect method to make an audience feel involved and draw their mind. This is evident that an audience will instantly wonder whether a scene is happening in the past, present or future tense.

Voiceovers – Voiceovers are a strong narrative device which is often used to explore into an individual or a situation to give an audience a deeper insight into a situation. A good example of a voiceover revealing emotion would be to explore an individual characters problems, this instantly connects an audience to feel as if they should be helping them.

Repetition – I feel repetition is a very strong narrative device which if used with sound can be displayed very effectively. A good example of repetition being affective would be a brutal scene where perhaps an individual was being tortured, together with use of sound this could build up perfect tension to an audience.