Learning Media Arts
Genre conventions are audience expectations linked with certain genres. Looking at the Media Study Key Knowledge we need to understand the "nature and function of and relationships between story elements in fictional media narrative".
Storyline |
Storyline is the plot of the film. Many films have multiple storylines in order to keep the audience engaged. Sometimes stories stay separate and other times they interweave with each other. Sometimes the multiple storylines have characters that do not know each other but are linked by an event or one character.
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Character |
It is important to understand that this element is NOT character motivation - element comes under cause and effect.
We need to look at a few things with the element of character:
Some key points to think about:
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