Narrative Analysis

Narrative is a series of ideas arranged in order of occurrence in a cause-effect connection happening in a given time. Narrative form is a very vital concept since it helps to explain the occurrence of certain issues in a given surrounding. It makes the people engaged in the narrative mostly referred as audience, to believe the issue at hand and also gain knowledge of solving a dispute in a similar situation in life. A narrative revolves in the cause, effect/conflict and resolution to the dispute. Narrative can be in form of a film that mostly includes the movies that people go to watch. Narrative film is based on fictions since it involves more of viewing the way the events are happening.

The effects in a narrative involves the characters who are the people involved in the story. The characters consist of the traits that are portrayed within the story depending in the roles and the event a character is involved. This makes causes and affects crucial aspects of narrative that occurs in time. This is evident via the way events occur, not in a chronological order but instead in their plot order. However, there is a temporal order that presents a chronological order; an example in a story is use of flashback. Temporal duration helps to show the amount of time taken by a given action. It is also a way of reducing the amount of time depending in the order of the occurrence of the events. Temporal frequency creates the awareness of the number of times an event will occur within the story.

There are three main concept applied in analyzing a narrative film that includes; motivation, parallelism and patterns of development between opening and closings. These concepts play a role on their own that act very effective in making the spectators to understand the narrative film. The film can be divided to make it interesting; this can be done by creating a scene or segmentation depending on the parts and way one what the film to be divided.