RTF 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Three Turnings Of The Wheel Of Dharma, 500 Days, Kristin Thompson
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Director of the african queen, moby-dick, annie, key largo, and more. The camera identifies itself with one of the actors in the scene. We understand the diegesis (story) through the actor. Conventions are old-school, established, and conservative, but they are not without meaning. Narrative is a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space. The story is the chain of events in chronological order. The total world of the story action is the diegesis. Story duration the duration of the whole time period the movie occurs in, from flashbacks to flash-forwards; the amount of time that the implied story takes to occur. 500 days of summer story duration is from day 1 to day 500 even though we do(cid:374)"t see all 500 da(cid:455)s. Plot duration elapsed time of those events within the story that the film explicitly presents. Omniscient narration - all knowing, the film tells you everything you need to know.
