Narrative structure is how you tell your story.
It’s the order you organise events in, to take your audience and their feelings on a journey.
A lot of stories follow a simple structure of three acts: setup… conflict… resolution.
You set up a situation, a conflict or challenge makes things difficult, and how this problem is dealt with is the resolution and ending.
Here, the setup is the character’s goal: they want the cake.
The conflict is what gets in the way: the cake is taken!
The resolution is how the story ends. There’s an even better cake to enjoy!
To create simple narrative structure - give your character a goal… then put an obstacle in the way. How the character faces this problem is the climax of your film that leads to the resolution, how the situation ends.
How you organise events can make a big difference to the same basic story.
Some films tell their story out of order, using flashbacks, multiple perspectives or showing events in a non-chronological order.
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Explore how stories are crafted for film and television.
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