Monday, 2 October 2017

Restricted and Omniscient Narrative

Restricted narrative: The audience know only as much as the characters in the film know.
Omniscient narrative: The audience know more than what the characters in the film know.

We decided that intended film’s narrative is linear, restricted and omniscient.
It is linear as it is shown in the order of when things happen. For example, the killing of bully1 happens first, and then she wakes up to continue her normal day, and then on day 2 she kills bully 2, and then on day 3 she finds out she is the killer because she doesn’t remember doing any of it.
It can be seen in different ways as well. For example, the first stabbing scene where Mila kills bully1 might be seen as a flashback or nightmare. It’s until the end that the audience find out that it wasn’t a nightmare, but it was real all along (this is how it’s restricted).
It's also restricted because both the audience and the main character don’t know that she is the killer. However, it’s also omniscient as the audience know there have been several murders but the main character doesn’t. The way that this relates to the horror genre is because all horror films conventionally have murders and deaths of people in it. As John Corner says, familiarity with the genre can lead the audience to predict events in the genre. In this film, they can predict that the main character is the killer

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