Question

Wk. 2: After watching all the films in Week Two’s content (with the exception of The Birth of a Nation) discuss at least 5 storytelling/narrative/plot devices or editing choices that you have seen in recent films or TV shows. How did these devices or choices help drive the story? Then link those narrative techniques to the films you watched. For example: In Walk, - You, Walk! (1912) Rose gets the help of friends to teach someone who mistreated her a lesson. This is common plot device in today’s situation comedies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=239&v=vS6Vuy5dV1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uahjH2cspk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYedfenQ_Mw

https://archive.org/details/TheGreatTrainRobbery_555

https://archive.org/details/dw_griffith_birth_of_a_nation

Answer 1

Sacred Games, a new series which has been launched of Indian discent, keeps track of the back story to give context and relevance to the present circumstances. This device is called back story.

Mind hunter, a series again, is using the cliffhanger of one of the protagonists and his future with the current behaviorist department.

Arabian nights, is a famous example of Frame story, within which there is a story of the Sultan and his 'wife' and the stories the wife tells him.

Reservoir Dogs, uses the tool of plot twist wherein the audience is surprised by the sudden change of events at the end.

Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, uses the tool of red herring wherein the attention from significant items and or people is drawn away from.