Narrative

Narrative is a series of events in a connected sequence to create the film. The most basic form of narrative structure is the starting point of equilibrium, then disruption, then a new equilibrium. Films play on this basic narrative structure to make the film more exciting and different, possibly by adding in more disruptions etc. I have used a non-liner narrative structure to play with the storyline. The equilibrium is the first flashback of the child in the woods, nothing seems wrong at this point. We start to see the disruption through more flashbacks of when he is in the army. He then goes to attempt to return to the equilibrium however this does not happen as he knocks the glass for taking his tablets on the floor and no equilibrium has been restored. My short film is a compressed form and so it is necessary to use narrative short-cuts (no new equilibrium) and visual ellipsis (using flashbacks to tell the story without having to go through from start to end in a linear sequence) to tell the story in such a short space of time.