Week 7: visual narrative.
Narrative consists of 2 natures,
which are the story and the discourse. The story focuses on ‘what’ the visual
image is trying to tell and then followed by the discourse which is ‘how’ it is
delivered. For example, the story of Alice in wonderland, some of us were
brought up to see the Disney version of this story, and quite recently Tim
Burton made a remake of the story. We knew how the storyline goes; yet people
still watch it, why? This is because the discourse of the story was altered
thus making it a whole different story. According to Aristotle, a narrative
story must consist of a beginning, middle and an end. According to Mieke Bal (1983),
the plot is the story, which is linked by fabulas; plays a role where it
connects one plot to the other.
Simply,
in vague terms, narrative is the story, without the story there are no message
to be told. Thus making it important when shaping visual images to
audiences.
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