Narrative in Film

Media texts like films have to different aspects to them this is the plot and the story line. The plot is something that is being created the whole time that the media text progresses however we doing see this occurring, the story line is what we see on screen watching as it progresses.

The narrative behind a media text like a film is the way in which the story is being told. This can occur through the use of many different common structures, these structures are as follows:

• A linear narrative structure: This type of structure goes in a straight lie there is a clear order to it with a story line that is easy to follow, there doesn't have to be masses of thinking behind what is going on. 
• Circular Structure: A media text with this type of structure starts with the events that it is going to end with causing the story line to go in a circle as we see why the film started the way that it did at the end. 
• Open narrative: This is when a story line as a story line that stays open, even once the film has finished. This can occur if there are more than one characters in the film that have a story line about themselves occurring or a murder that never get solves occurs and we see the killer free once the film comes to an end, as this will show that the killer is still out there. 
• Close narrative: This is the opposite to what the open narrative is, where the story line comes to an end once the film has finished. With all of the questions that would have arisen during the film being answered. 

 Out of the four structures listed above my short film is going have a circular structure and be an open narrative. The reason for it being a circular structure is due to the fact the first scene of the short film with Hannah being dead on the floor with the girls all around her is also going to be the last scene of the film. It is also going to have a open narrative structure due to the fact that the person who kills Hannah is never shown, also the secrete  that Hannah is trying to prevent from being spread is also never revealed, leaving the audience with two answered questions, along with many others.