Experimenting With Narrative: Crime Story

• 1-Crime Committed-Disruption in equilibrium
• 2-Crime Discovered-Disruption recognised
• 3-Crime Investigated-Attempt to restore equilibrium
• 4-Crime Solved-Attempt to restore equilibrium
• 5-Perpetrator Caught-Equilibrium restored

For this task we used acting skills and the use of different camera angles, shots and the use of props. Our plot consisted of a character purposely littering and another character trying to arrest him of this crime; which he succeeds in doing.
Our images can be seen below:

1. Crime Committed:

2.Crime Discovered:

3. Crime Investigated:

4. Crime Solved:

5. Perpetrator Caught:

In our crime story, we chose to portray the story in chronological order, the most commonly used type of modular narrative. However, we could have chose to shown our story in another way. We could have used flashbacks or flash-forwards to show an anachronic modular narrative, which is a narrative that is not shown in the correct order; for example, Pulp Fiction. We could have used the forking-path narrative modular which shows the different possible outcomes that could have happened due to a slight change within the story; for example, Groundhog Day. Also, we could have used split-screen, which would be showing two linked scenes from different perspectives.