Narrative and story Structure

the explanations and differences in narrative and story

The story is what the piece is about either it being film, television, radio or video games, the story comes down to the events themselves and the things and characters that are there.

The narrative is how the story is told and presented to an audience, for example a story of a robbing of a bank could be told from the cops view of dangerous crooks that need to be taken down or on the other end from the narrative side of the crooks themselves if it followed their view it could show struggle and that they are doing it for a good cause in their eyes.

so a simple story can easily blended to different views and narrative of loads of characters and even places or objects.

The Explanations of 3 act structures and 5 act structures 

3 ACT STRUCTURE

3 act structure is in 3 basis of a start to end, the first act is known as the set up and this introduces us to characters in the piece and the way they live, their relationships and the world they live in.

then towards the end of the first act a turning point happens to where the protagonist(s) have dynamic occurrence to deal with through the film and creates the climax throughout out and leaves them with a pending question if they can resolve the problem that occurred.

The second act is the Rising action or known as the confrontation within this part of the film we have the main character(s) trying to resolve the first problem that was the turning point however the problem seems to go further or they even worsen the situation that they were already in.

the main character(s) can not deal with the issue at hand yet due to a lack of skill that is required or a set advantage they have above the problem this achieved through the piece via character development and progressing in a way of changing who they are to solve the issue.

The third act is the resolution and is resolving the story and the problems and challenges the main characters had to deal with, the resolution also deals with the sub-plots of the piece e.g a relationship between two people either love or not whilst the main story would saving the world for example.

this then leaves the main character(s) and protagonist(s) with a new sense to who they really are and a new lease on life.

5 ACT STRUCTURE (CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD)

1. Exposition- the exposition features the key characters and the main locations to the audience e.g Andy Duframe  in the shaw shank prison in the film shaw shank redemption.

2. Development- learning more about the characters and how they live and what their world is about, e.g shaw shank redemption again of learning the life Andy Duframe and how he develops in prison life and the friends that he makes and the past that he had.

3. Complication- then something happens within the film that changes the current status of the character just like the turning point in the 3 act structure e.g Andy Duframe tries to prove his innocence in multiple ways and multiple ways to over come the issue however finds them to come to loose ends.

4. Climax- the problem is being solved by the protagonist and is coming to a build up of where the issues and problems are going to be resolved e.g Andy Duframe is digging is way out of prison over the years he is there (not told until the end) and is trying to escape via that method.

5. Resolution- the issue is solved at last and the sub-plots too and leaves it on a happy ending for the main character(s) e.g Red is released from prison and meets up with Andy Duframe and they start a fishing business together.