Crime Narrative

Someone has died.

Discovery of the crime.

Investigating the crime

Murderer gets away.



The above images show a task we were given, which was to take still images showing a crime narrative, the way the images are set out, shows that the type of narrative is linear, as it is follows a chronological order.
Another way the images could be set out to tell a story would be as follows:

Murderer gets away.



Discovery of the crime.

Someone has died.

Investigating the crime.
 

This way, the narrative is told non-linear, as it does not follow a specific order, and the events happening do not exactly follow one another. Other types of narratives include Ana-chronic, Forking Path, Episodic and Split Screens.

Ana-chronic: Narratives involving the use of flashbacks, or flash forwards with no clear dominance between any of the narrative threads. These narrative types also often repeat scenes directly or through a different perspective.

Forking Path: Narratives that juxtapose alternative versions of a story, that show alternative outcomes that may result from small changes made in a single event or group of events.

Episodic: Narratives that are organised as a series.

Split Screen: The narrative is divided into two or more frames juxtaposing events within the same visual field, in a sustained fashion.