Narrative

A narrative is a retelling of a story and is often brought across to the audience through a voice over. It is not the story itself rather the telling of the story and so each of the events is a recollection. Narratives are used as they can give in depth details into the rise to and during a key scene within a film. Barthe devised that when a story is taken a part a whole collection of new meanings are generated and so the story gains depth. A narratives order as given by Torodov suggests there are 5 stages to the narrative: An equilibrium, A disruption of an equilibrium, Recognition of disruption, Restoration and back to the beginning equilibrium. often the disruption was caused by an antagonist who is often decided by the theory of binary opposites devised by Levi-Strauss.