Narrative

Narrative is a text focusing specific participants. Its social function is to tell stories or past Events and entertain the readers.

Generic Structure of Narrative

A narrative text will consists of the following structure:

1. Orientation: Introducing the participants and informing the time and the place
2. Complication: Describing the rising crises which the participants have to do with
3. Resolution: Showing the way of participant to solve the crises, better or worse

We followed this generic structure very well in our piece as too begin we chose a selection of shots that would introduce all three members of the group. Starting with a tracking shot of myself "its election time for an election rhyme." In this shot I am holding a TMB poster which introduces our political 'party'. This shot then follows on to a mid shot of Alex "we'll welcome you with the cheese and wine." In this shot again we had a TMB poster in the background to self promote our group. final the sequence ends with a long shot showing Paige walking from the left side of the camera to the right side showing the comical satire of our work "we'll kill your kids if you decline". This follows the first generic step of orientation very well as we successfully introduced all three charcters and introduced what the music video would be about.

The rising crisis in our music video is not just affecting us in the video but everyone as the crisis faces the whole country. This links is into the time period because when we were making the video there was the polictical election with the three main parties labour, conservatives and liberal democrates. Each trying to get into power to solve the economic crisis. This is shown in our video well through a selection of shots starting with a close up of big ben to and how we will bring it into the future as to represent the outdated principles of the other parties. this outlines step two complication as it describes the crisis were facing.

Finally step three is resolution we followed this step extremly well as most of our video shows the way we can solve the problems facing the country again linking back to the 2010 elections. Several scenes show this with the a group shot showing all three members with me and paige saying what we will do to change the bus services "were making buses baby blue" this type of shot was influenced by the director of this is england the film and this is england 86 the tv series shane meadows who is famous for using shots that will include all members of the group to show a disfunctional family which is a message we try and create through our video.

other types of narrative structures we could have adopted from journalism and films are:

Basic structure

Writing Coach Dick Weiss summarizes the essential structure of narrative: a story with a beginning, a middle and an end, where action moves through time. Each of these descriptions that follow is a variation of this basic structure.


Martini glass

This story form, named by writing Coach Don Fry, starts out as a traditional inverted pyramid, giving the reader the most important news first in a straight lead, following with other news in decreasing importance, just like the inverted pyramid, which becomes the top of the glass. At the bottom of this triangle is an olive, the nut graph or set-up for a narrative. The narrative follows in a straight path, the stem of the martini glass. The story ends with a conclusion that wraps up the story, perhaps fulfilling a promise you made up in the olive´ paragraph or resolving the conflict lay out there. While an inverted-pyramid story can cut from the end, the martini-glass story needs this ending, the base of the glass. If you must cut, you probably will need to shorten the stem. This is a different description of what Roy Peter Clark of Poynter calls the hourglass, ´ structure, which turns from inverted pyramid to narrative with some sort of transition like It started with ´ this approach can be effective in using a narrative approach for a daily news story. You need to cover the news up high and give a few important facts, and then you launch into the narrative of what happened. Another variation on this is called the champagne glass the top before the narrative begins is a summary, but not necessarily in
inverted-pyramid structure.

Story arc

Jack Hart of The Oregonian coaches writers to plan their narrative stories along the story arc Exposition, rising action, climax, denouement. The exposition sets the scene and introduces the characters, or at least the protagonist. The plot begins to unfold with the rising action, when the protagonist engages the complication of the story. (This is the conflict Fuson says is essential to a story). The rising action will be the body of the story, the unfolding plot. It must build tension, or at least pique curiosity. The rising action leads to a climax, the resolution of the conflict. The writer ties up the story and any loose ends in the denouement.