Saturday, February 7, 2015

chapter 14

Causality is the chain of events that comprises a conventional story.  Event causes event two causes event three and so on.

Narrative compression is frequently used in advertisements, which by nature generally must be very quick.  It involves distilling a product to a small handful of facts, a brief description, or a certain emotion.  It is meant to make the product memorable.
An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3icfcbmbs

Non-narrative structure involves expressing an idea without telling a conventional "story."  Thus, absent are concepts such as cause/effect relationships, chronology, and plot, though not always all of them.  Two examples are the 1929 Soviet film Man with a Movie Camera, directed by Dziga Vertov, which shows a various Soviet citizens going about their daily lives, as well as scenes of machinery and industry --  Vertov is credited with inventing or popularizing many now common cinematic camera rechniques-- as well as Lydia Davis short  story "Examples of Confusion,"  which, as the title suggests, is a collection of short scenes within the narrator's life where she has felt confused or out of place.

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