Narrative Structure

Narrative structure- The way in which a film is structured, either chronologically or with jump cuts or flashbacks. If a film is in time order, this would make it a linear narrative structure. However, if the film cuts between multiple narratives happening simultaneously or has flashbacks, this would make it a non-linear narrative structure.

Our film opening is going to have a linear narrative so it easy for our target audience to understand our storyline and so that they can feel the tension created in our opening. We think that using flashbacks isn't going to be effective as we want our film opening to be fast-paced and to keep the audience intrigued as what is going to happen next in our opening. Therefore, our film opening will flow continuously and keep our audience interested in it until the end.