Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Narrative time examples:

Crime.
Period/literary.
Family.
Relationships of various content.
Hybrid – post-modern.
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Time is manipulated in this scene as there are shifts from certain time periods. The mise-en-scene helps to support this as you can tell by the lighting and setting that the time is skipping. Within this 7 minute clip, it starts in mid-day and ends at night in the hospital. Directly, you can see Kerry getting hurt in the day, and then the hospital scene starts during the sunset judging by the lighting, then at the end it is in the dark, implying it has skipped straight to night time. This technique of time manipulation is compressed time. It is where time is skipped in order to only view the important parts. In this case, the audience does not want to see her being taken in the ambulance all the way to the hospital, so they cut that part out of the show.
This entire scene is set in real time. Pride and prejudice only has one common time manipulation usage, compressed time for when they transfer to new scenes in the show. In this scene, however, there are no transitions, and since the show has a realistic feel to it, it plays in mostly real time, with a few exceptions being present in the shows run. This scene progressively focuses on just the conversation involving these characters without changing anything involving time. Basically, since the time is generally moving properly in this scene, there is no time manipulation involved with this scene. The time is also linear in this clip too, meaning it is straight from start ot finish and no twisting or manipulating in the time at all.
This scene also features compressed time due to the fact that every time the food is cooked, only a few seconds of it is shown. This is due to the fact that no-one wants to see it being cooked from start to finish. The second part of the scene involving the eating section had a real time inclusion to it as no time was skipped in this part. This is because the conversation they were having was linked to the content in the series afterwards and the audience needed to carefully listen to it. The time cut outs of the cooking were made purely due to irrelevance and lack of interest within the episodes featured content. it only shows the important factors of the scene in the Doctir actually eating it and hating it when it is cooked.
This scene features a fair amount of time manipulation. For example, it includes the scene where Del and Rodney are running in their costumes, and it seems to be that the camera is providing a slight slow-motion effect to add to the effectiveness of the scene. It also presents false emphasis on how Del and Rodney seem like heroes to the other characters when they are really not. Also, the scene gives us an ambiguous time effect, during the part when the Trotters are running down the town and the lady is getting mugged after leaving the station, the Trotters arrive just a mere short period of time after she started to get attacked. It is unknown if this was real time and it actually took them that long to run there, or if it was either slowed down or sped up time used to make it seem that way so the events in the scene can appear to be logical and chronological when they are actually not.
This scene features obvious time manipulation since the lighting changes from sunny to dark and gloomy within just a few minutes. This mise-en-scene trick is added to show the effects and feelings of the characters as worried and the plot context to be intimidating. It also plays with the lighting as it wants the show to emphasis of the conversation by showing time pass quickly as the talking continues to draw in tension to the characters. It shows the intensity and importance of the scene in the respect. Basically, time is sped up to develop an understanding of the conversation and how significant the issues surrounding it are overall. It also makes the event stand out amongst other events occuring within the scene around them.

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