Narratology | Chapter Discussions | FORUM

Narratology is a study of how stories work, how we make sense of the raw materials of a narrative, how we fit them together to form a coherent whole. A movie’s style can differ from the genre of the story, the structure of the narrative, The narrator could be a character in the film or an all-knowing narrative to the film. Formalistic narratives show the film out of chronological order in order to help the audience have a full understanding of the plot and to explain the reasoning of some actions.

Narratology is the study of how the story is told in film, and how the storytelling method can be used to deliver a coherent movie. Narration is important to the movie’s style, but differs depending on how one wants to tell the story. For a more realistic movie, the author is taken out completely and hidden; the movie’s story is something that could happen in real life. In a more unrealistic story, the author can be hidden but still very present and controlling the direction of the movie; which in turn leads the audience to know in the back of their heads that it is a story, but they are so involved that they don’t think about it.

Narrator of is the study of how the story is told in the film. Movies can be narrated in a variety of ways depending on how the narrator wants to tell the story. For example, in a realistic film, the author is usually non existant in the story, but in an unrealistic film, the author can be present.

Narratology is a study of how stories work, how we make sense of a narrative, and how we fit them together to form a whole. Narration differs according to a movie’s style, for example: in realistic films, the implied author is virtually invisible and the events speak for themselves (usually in chronological sequence), whereas in formalistic narratives, the author is manipulative and will sometimes mix up the chronology of the story or heighten and/or restructure events.