Secrets short film

In this blog i will be talking about what we learnt in today's lesson. We learnt about Narrative Structures, here is the following things we learnt.

• Linear/Non-Linear.
• Realist/Non-Realist.
• Open/Closed.
• Single strand/Multi strand.
• Diegetic/Non-Diegetic.

Okay so the first one you see here listed above is something called linear and non linear and basically what it is, is that linear means that the film you are watching goes in chronological order like start-middle and end. Non linear is where it isn't in chronological order so it'll have a flash back saying something like "20 years ago" and will then carry on from 20 years ago.

The second one you see listed is Realist and Non-Realist and realist means that it could happen in real life whereas non realist means that it couldn't happen, like Harry Potter or Lord Of The Rings.

Next is Open/Closed. Open means it leaves you on a cliffhanger like Maze Runner 2 which is really annoying but good because it makes you want to watch the next film, it means the story isn't finished yet and closed means that the whole film is finished.

After that you'll see one which is called single and multi strand. This means that when you are just watching a film from one persons point of view it is single strand but when you're watching it from more than 1 persons point of view it needs to be labelled as multi strand. 

Finally We have Diegetic and Non Diegetic sound. Diegetic is where you can see whats making the sound, so if i was in a film and i banged my hand on a table or was speaking to the camera that would be Diegetic sound. Non Diegetic sound would be where you cant see where the sound is coming from, so dogs howling in the woods in a film or doors slamming but you didn't see what doors slammed or it can even be as simple as background music and voice overs.

Here is a picture of my Spider-gram and the handouts that we had to fill in after we watched a few short videos made by other people.