Narrative film , fictional film or fiction film is a film that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative . In this style of film, believable narratives and characters help convince the audience that the unfolding fiction is real. Lighting and camera movement, among other cinematic elements, have become increasingly important in these films. Great detail goes into the screenplays of narratives, as these films rarely deviate from the behavior and lines of the classical style of screenplaywriting to maintain a sense of realism. Actors must deliver dialogue and action in a believable way, so to persuade the audience that the film is real life.

General

Probably the first fictional film ever made was the Light’s Sprinkler watered , which was first screened at the Grand Cafe Capucines on December 28, 1895. ^[1] A year later in 1896, Alice Guy-Blache directed the fictional film The Fair to cabbages . Yet Known Perhaps the best of early fictional movies is Georges Méliès ‘s A Trip to the Moon from 1902. ^[2] Most movies previous to this HAD beens Merely moving pictures of everyday occurrences, Such As The Arrival of a Train at of La Ciotat by Auguste and Louis Lumière. Méliès was one of the first directors to progress cinematic technology, which paved the way for narrative as style of film. ^[3] Narrative films have come so far as their introduction that film genres such as comedy or western films, were, and continued to be introduced to a further way to categorize these films. ^[4]

Narrative cinema is usually contrasted with films that present information, such as a nature documentary , as well as some experimental films (works such as Wavelength by Michael Snow , Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov , or films by Chantal Akerman ). In some instances pure documentary films, while nonfiction , may nonetheless recount a story. As evolve genres, from fiction film and documentary to hybrid one emerged, docufiction .

Many films are based on real occurrences, but these too fall under the category of “narrative film” rather than a documentary . This article is based on real occurrences of the occurrence, but rather hired actors portraying an edited, often more dramatic, retelling of the occurrence (such as 21 by Robert Luketic ). ^[5]

Unlike literary fiction, which is typically based on characters, situations and events that are entirely imaginary / fictional / hypothetical, cinema always has a real referent, called the “pro-filmic”, which encompasses everything existing and done in front of the camera.

Since the emergence of classical Hollywood style in the early 20th century, during which films were selected, the stars, producers, and directors involved, narrative, usually in the form of the film feature , has held dominance in commercial cinema and has become popularly synonymous with “the movies.” ^[6] Classical, invisible filmmaking (what is often called realist fiction) is central to this popular definition. This key element of this invisible filmmaking lies in continuity editing .

See also

• Genre film
• Non-narrative film
• Drama (genre) , which deals mainly with film.

References

• David Bordwell , Mark Dherrick Cuevas, and Kristin Thompson . 1997. Film Art: An Introduction . Fifth ed. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies. ISBN  0-07-114073-5 .