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Choose a topic that has most interested you in the first three weeks of this course. Write a short essay on how this particular focus is developing. For example, if Narrative Form has piqued your interest, write about why that is. Reference the readings that are pertinent to your topic. For an essay on Narrative Form this would obviously be Ch 3, but don't limit yourself to the most direct readings. Be sure to incorporate references from other chapters, or even other texts such as Sound Film: Worthy of the Name. Use film examples from class or your own viewing experience to specifically illustrate particular concepts. Make sure to use appropriate vocabularies such astemporalityand its sub-categoriesdurationandfrequency, orspatialityand its sub-categories ofon-screenandoff-screen. Consider how you watched and thought about films before this class and how you are watching, thinking about, and discussing them now. Do you notice any changes? If not, do you notice any behaviors solidifying or becoming reinforced? Explore why this is. Take your innate understanding of film and media, and develop your ability toexplainit. Challenge any assumptions you have about any kind of analysis ruining your enjoyment of movies. Rather, focus on how this intentional and concentrated reflection helps you understand your own response to a particular film better; convince others why you enjoy or dislike a film and what is, in your opinion, either successful or lacking in its storytelling; or make connections between a film and other areas or social culture in order to illuminate both the culture and the film it produces.

Again, the specific topic is up to you. You have fairly free reign here. As long as we've covered it in some detail in class, you may write about it. The point of this essay is more about your own personal development in becoming a critical viewer and thinker of film, rather than regurgitating what you think is expected of you. Enjoy this assignment, it's ultimately about your own experience, and how what you've learned or been exposed to thus far in this course is affecting your approach to media consumption.

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Narrative Form			                                                                                        2
NARRATIVE FORM
Table of Contents
Topic Chosen: Narrative Form	3
Telling the story	3
Plot and Story:	4
Cause and Effect:	4
Time	5
Space	5
Personal view on the subject	5
References	7
Topic Chosen: Narrative Form
Humans have never ended craving for stories. As children, myths and fairy tales caught our attention, and we never got bored of watching the same cartoon over and over again. As adults, we become fascinated by other stories – in history, novels, and of course, movies. We recall our life events, or just do small talks about our daily happenings. Politicians and journalists speak about “changing the narrative”. In the courtroom jury hears contrasting stories, and we dream of ourselves in imaginative scenes and situations. Narrative is the key to human making sense of the world. Stories grab hold of us. E.g.: When the newest Harry Potter novel released, both children and their parents queued up outside bookstores to get their hands on a copy. Harry Potter still hard a cult following across generations. Storytelling is a common and a powerful tool that films, both fictional and non-fictional, embody Narrative Form.
A narrative can be considered a link of events connected by cause and effect, occurring in time and space. What we usually term “a story” is this narrative we are now speaking about.
Telling the story
Narrative is all about the way you tell a story. A film has a plot, characters, a storyline, but a single plot or storyline with the same characters can have a completely different narrative, or the way the story is being told.  There are multiple patterns a story could be arranged into. E.g.: Say you are making a romantic movie. One form of the narrative could begin from the day the protagonists met,

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