Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Diegesis
9 Apr 2016
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The majority of commercial films have a narrative a series of events that make up a story. While most people use the terms story and plot interchangeably, in film studies these two terms have different meanings. Elements of the film that exist outside of that world (such as music heard by the audience but not the characters in the film) are called extradiegetic or nondiegetic. Narrative development: film narrative usually is linear and driven by cause-and-effect relationships among characters and events, to stimulate interest in the narrative, films typically present characters with whom viewers can identify. Narrative filmmaking refers to the types of movies that tell a story. These are the films most widely screened in theatres, broadcast on tv, streamed in the internet, and sold as dvds and blu-rays. Though fictional filmmaking is another term for narrative cinema, the word. Fictional doesn"t imply that such movies are purely based on fictive events.
