Narrative

Definitions...

Narrative: The events directly incorporated into the action of the text and the order in
which they are presented
Plot: The events directly incorporated into the action of the text and the order in
which they are presented
Story: all events referenced both explicitly in a narrative and inferred (including
backstory as well as those projected beyond the action)

My teaser trailer will have a restricted narrative, as not all the information of the film will be shown through the trailer, as the whole point of a teaser trailer is to give a little amount of information, to tease the audience into being persuaded to watch the film when it is exhibited.

Unrestricted examples:
Bridesmaids
Comedy trailers tend to

Restricted:
Man of Steel
Godzilla

I researched trailers that gave examples of unrestricted and restricted narratives. Unrestricted narrative trailers usually give way too much of the story away and therefore spoil the film. The link for the website that gives examples is here. Restricted narrative trailers give little information, and are said to be misleading. Here's a link to the website I found of examples. As I'm in school I can't link to YouTube videos as it's restricted, so below I'll include screenshots.

Restricted / unrestricted narrative trailers screenshot.

In my teaser trailer, objective character identification as a point of view shots. However, as it's a teaser trailer form, not all information of the film will be given.

I would like to include, Anachronic modular narratives, as it involves flash backs and flash forwards. For a teaser trailer, I believe this form of narrative may be shown as a teaser trailer conventionally only shows small segments of the film itself, not specifically in order. an example of a film that uses this, is Pulp Fiction, and this is my favourite film. I believe the main reason Pulp Fiction is my favourite film is because of the continuity, as it makes the audience think. As I really like this technique, I feel inspired to use this narrative technique.

Pulp Fiction still.

Here is an image which shows Pulp Fiction in chronological order.

Below I've embeded a SlideShare that I found online which is very helpful, as the language is quite simplistic and easy to understand. At first I found the difference between narrative, plot and story quite hard to understand but this SlideShare helped a lot.

Narrative theorists from Sarah mediafilm