Narrative Theory

The Narrative is they way in which a story is told.

The Narrative theory explores many convections:
-Genre
-Character
-Form
-Time

There are different narrative theories used in media. In many films an ellipses is used to fill in blanks of the story and to highlight key events of the film.
The  most classic structure is the LINERA STRUCTURE, in this structure there is a clear beginning, middle and an end where there is closure.

However there are other structure that do not follow a chronological order.
An open structure: the audience are left to make sense of the story themselves linking it to the series of events that happened in the movie before. They are left wondering, what next... The complete opposite structure to this is the closed structure: this means that there is a clear and definite ending, conclusion to the piece.
The next structure used is the circular structure. this is where the story starts at the end and the audience go on a journey to come back to the end.