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Unit 3: Media art
Quick questions on Narrative and structure in media art: WACE Year 12 Media Production and Analysis Unit 3
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What are narrative elements?Show answer
Narrative elements are the components from which any story is constructed. They include characters and their roles, setting in time and place, the central conflict or complication, cause and effect relationships between events, point of view, and resolution. A media artist selects and arranges these deliberately. Choosing an unreliable narrator, withholding a character's motive, or leaving a conflict unresolved are all manipulations that shape how the audience reads the work.
What are narrative structures?Show answer
The most familiar structure is linear and follows a recognisable arc: equilibrium, a disruption to that equilibrium, a series of complications, a climax, and a new equilibrium. Audiences read this pattern fluently because it is so common.
What are challenging audience expectations?Show answer
Audiences arrive with expectations built from the conventions of a form or genre. A media artist can satisfy these expectations or deliberately frustrate them. Withholding a resolution, denying the audience a sympathetic protagonist, or breaking the fourth wall all challenge expectation. This is not a flaw; it is a strategy.
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