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Week 1 Narratology and Film Week 2 Cinematic Narrative Models Week 3 Visual Storytelling

Lecture/Seminar Series – Digital Narratives. Week 1 Narratology and Film Week 2 Cinematic Narrative Models Week 3 Visual Storytelling Week 4 Anti-Narrative Week 5 Student Presentations. What is Narratology?.

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Week 1 Narratology and Film Week 2 Cinematic Narrative Models Week 3 Visual Storytelling

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  1. Lecture/Seminar Series – Digital Narratives Week 1 Narratology and Film Week 2 Cinematic Narrative Models Week 3 Visual Storytelling Week 4 Anti-Narrative Week 5 Student Presentations

  2. What is Narratology? • Narratology or the ‘study of narrative’ provides a means of analysing narrative forms and their underlying structures • Narratology as a theory establishes a discourse through which we can examine a number of recurring elements in narrative construction (the ‘system of narrative’ or the ‘language of narration’) • Narratology concerns itself with how we tell stories, through what means, what voices and through what media

  3. Narratology - the complex nature of storytelling, some definitions: Narrative means a spoken or written (or visual) account of connected events Narratology asks how do these processes ( speaking, accounting, connecting) occur? A Narrative is: ‘a text in which an agent or subject conveys to an addressee (‘tells’ the reader) a story in a particular medium, such as language, imagery, sound, buildings or a combination thereof’ Narrative should therefore not to be confused with Story Mieke Bal Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (2009)

  4. We should add two other terms here: Focalisation The particular manner in which an addressee is addressed by the text (how the story is told (first, third person narration) and from what perspective (subjective addressor or by extension subjective characterisation) Occularisation The particular way in which the story is told using imagery that replicates or mimics a certain position e.g.‘through the eyes of’ (see film language) Both create very deliberate forms of audience identification Mieke Bal Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (2009)

  5. Narratology - the complex nature of storytelling, further definitions A Story is: ‘the content of that text, and produces a particular manifestation, inflection and ‘colouring’ of a fabula’ Story is therefore ‘the fabula …presented in a certain manner’ Mieke Bal Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative (2009) A Fabula is: ‘a series of logically and chronologically related events that are caused or experienced by actors’ We should add another term here: Syuzhet (from Russian) Means how that chronology follows particular patterns, what we often call plot

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