Taaha and Lewis Media Montage

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Narrative Strand

A narrative strand is a story which focuses on a certain character. In a single narrative strand the story focuses only on a single hero or heroine in the story for instances like superman or Spiderman. A multiple narrative strand focuses on multiple characters for example X-men.

The different types of narrative structures in short stories:

• Linear narration - linear structures are the most common of the narrative structures.
• Flashbacks and streams of consciousness. Short stories written on nonlinear narrative structures are not concerned with chronological sequencing of events.

• Parallel and Framing Structures...
• Circular stories.

The Killing

Steve Neale - Genre is instances of repetition and differences.

• Female lead in film Noir and bleak view of humanity (female detective with with dull natural lighting look out of the window of her car with heavy rain outside - metaphor for a dull view of humanity)
• Sexualisation in film Noir but with the male gender instead (male sex doll at the start).

Todorov - The theory of equilibrium and distribution.

• The lead actress cancels her flight to catch the killer (her plan to start anew, in a new place with her son and boyfriend was disrupted the missing girl case she’s working on).
• The father of the girl that’s missing going to work happily but, then finding out his daughters missing (the pitch perfect life of the victim family is shown with the scene of her father and mother messing about which is further empathised by the orangish lighting in the background, which is mise en scene, however is thrown in disruption when the mother tells the father their precious daughter is missing).

Strauss - The theory of binary opposition

• We know everything about the detective but, nothing about the killer - The known vs The unknown.
• The detectives home life is great whereas the victims family is in disraught - Happiness vs sadness.

Knight - The prolonging of the inevitable

• The police trying to find out weather or not the heroine in the story is alive or not.
• The council man not confronting the mole in his part, his lover.

The killing

In the killing we see how "mise en scene" shows character through the use of costumes and lighting, an example of this is when the female lead is shown with normal, almost formal attire in dim lighting which shows how the she's serious about her job and is a women in power not a damsel in distress like in your typical film Noire, showing a clear following of Neale’s theory of genre.

Also the "editing" in the killing in the beginning is quite fast and uses a lot of jump cuts to show the intensity of the scene of the naked women being chased through the woods almost as if a rapid beating heart further increasing tension.Another thing about the editing in the beginning is that after the jump cuts in the chase they editors would jump to the opening credits and in the background you would see an indistinct image of something, these cuts would continue for a while until the image became more distinct and in the end it’s an image of a fingerprint.This reveal of the the print is slow almost as if to show that the story of the show will be like this, slow, but revealing at the same time.

Another thing to mention in the Killing is the "sound" especially with the chase of the women when she's running away from her purser, is that the sound is quite muffled and ragged adding an almost out breath feeling increasing the intensity of the scene, not only that, when we see her being able to catch her breath after hiding behind a tree the sound quiets down almost as if the calm before the storm(when she's caught) further increasing the suspense before the climax, which follows Knight’s theory of suspense.