Film Studies 1022 Lecture 4: F Lecture - week 4

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1022
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

Oct 5th narrative: a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space. Causal chains: cause(s) lead to effect(s) which in turn become the cause of further events etc. To determine causality, we ask what leads to an event coming. Story: the set of all events in a narrative, both the ones explicitly presented and those inferred. Plot: everything visible and audibly present in the film in front of us (not inferred events: non-diegetic material: images and sounds that are outside the story world. By turning a story into a plot: plot directs are interpretation of characters, mood atmosphere, and ideology are often effected by the plot. Plot changes and helps construct the story. Inferred events (part of the story, not part of the plot) During the time covered by the plot but not explicitly presented.