NARATIVE DEVICES

There are a varirty of devices which are used in film and television to create different moods and feelings within the film and to the audience, some of which are:

1.Flash Back - Go back into the past or furutre

2.Red Hearring - A missleading path

3.Dramatic Irony - The audience know more than the characters do

4.Foreshadowing - Hinting things to come

5.Pathetic Fallacy - Where the weather matches the mood in the narrative. E.g in the opening of "The silence of the lambs" the weather is very dark and mysterious which fits the eiry, dark and mysterious mood of the beginig.

6.Twist Ending - is an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction, and which often contains irony or causes the audience to reevaluate the narrative or character