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RESTRICTED NARRATIVE: BY KIERA TOLHURST

We decided to film a restricted narrative film, to get an idea on how we could use particular techniques in our final product. A restricted narrative has less shots, and has little continuity. It can include jump cuts from one scene to another and the narrative has more cuts to make the shots more interesting and shorter. For example, in our small exercise, we shot Louis walking down to the vending machine in college. It is simple, lacks in continuity, and is shorter than the unrestricted. When he arrives at the vending machine, it is out of order, and in this cut, this is the only information the audience receives.

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Unrestricted and Restricted Narration Research

Narration Narration is the act of telling a story as well as the flow of story information moment by moment over the course of a film. Unrestricted Narration (Omniscient) Unrestricted narration has no restrictions to every aspect of the film. It tells and shows the audience everything whilst the characters in the film remain oblivious to the narration. The viewer knows more than the characters. An example of an unrestricted narrative in a film is His Girl Friday by Howard Hawks (1940). The film shows different characters and scenes. The audience acquires more knowledge about the characters whilst the characters don't know much. The audience knows how Walter schemes to get Bruce in trouble but in the film Bruce is unaware of Walter's actions. Restricted Narration A restricted narration limits the amount of information that the audience receives. The audience will only receive information through the narration of a single character. This biases the audience towards on...

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