Looking at Movies Chapter 4 Terms

The act of telling the story

Who or what is telling the story

A character from within the film who provides narration

A narrator who exists outside of the narrative

A narrator who has unrestricted access to all aspects of narrative

A narrator whose awareness is limited to things known by a single character

Complex character which change significantly over the course of the story

Characters that exhibit few distinct traits and change little as the story progresses

The rules of the world that we (the audience) will inhabit

The total world of the story (events, characters, objects, settings, and sounds) that form the world in which the story occurs

The elements that make up the diegesis

Things that we see and hear on the screen that come from outside the world of the story