james horbury

1. Evaluation
By James Horbury

2. Narrative structures
• Open narrative/close narrative
• My story is a closed narrative because the story
ends with no other conflicts left and a clear
resolution to the story and my characters story
arks. Much like Gone in 60 seconds the story ends
with the good/bad guys winning and driving off.
This shows the characters have successfully done
what they needed to do to get a outcome to they
story ark.

3. Narrative structures
• Single stand/multi-stand narrative
• My story is a single stand story but also gives
a idea that they has be passed events in the
story, the story is simply, animals have a race
every year and the crocodile wants to make
sure that the rat doesn't cheat again. A movie
like kill bill has single stand story that is simply
the main character wants to get revenge.

4. Narrative structures
• Linear/non-linear narrative
• My aim with my story was to have a beginning,
middle and end, I didn’t want to confuse the
reader so I kept it to linear narrative, in a straight
line to the end. Transformers is an example of a
linear story with beginning meeting the main
character, middle meeting the robots and the end
the big fight.

5. Narrative structures
• Realist/anti-realist narrative
• My story has talking animals and animals who are
in swimming race who should not be able to
swim, so yes my story is anti-realist, I did this
because this was the only way I could make my
story work and to fit my art style. An example of a
anti-realist narrative is like any superhero
movies/action movies today, in which a hero does
the impossible, fights impossible odds and does
impossible stunts.

6. Narrative components
• Opening
• My story opens with the reader leaning about
how the animals have a race every year to see
who is the quickest out of them, and that this
year is a swimming race. It then moves onto
finding out about the cheating rat and meeting
the crocodile. An example of this is the opening
to Raiders of the Lost Ark in which you meet the
main character and what he does in the story,
also you meet the main villain of the story and
sets up the rest story.

7. Narrative components
• Conflict
• The conflict in my story is between the cheating
rat and the crocodile, the conflict is that the
crocodile wants to stop the rat from cheating, but
the rat wants to win the race by cheating. An
example of conflict is the classic story of the the
hare and the tortoise who are involved in a race
and are both out to win the race, the hare hoping
to win by speed and the tortoise by his wits and
mind.

8. Narrative components
• Resolution
• The ending of the story is with the crocodile
winning the race and getting a gold medal,
and the cheating rat getting his comeuppance
with coming in last place. An example of a
resolution in a story is The lord of the rings
The return of the king, in which the hero's
defeat the main villains, and complete the
tack they set out on in the first movie.

9. Narrative components
• Enigma
• My story has no real enigma and this was a chose I
didn’t think my story needed a puzzle or a mysterious it
is simple and tells you what is going on and what
everyone is thinking. An example of an enigma in a
story is the movie memento in which the main
character has memory loss and is trying to find the
man who killed his wife the film jumps around and
sometimes the audience doesn't know where they are
in the story and what is going on. It is also one of the
few films that has surprises.

10. Narrative components
• Climax
• The climax of the story is when the crocodile
sends the cheating rat back to last place and
wins the race it changes the plans of the rat
and completes the plans of the crocodile. An
example of a climax in a story, is in the movie
Aladdin when the main character meets the
genie and gets his three wishes.

11. Narrative components
• Manipulation of time and space
• In no way does my story play with time and
space. It starts at the beginning and keeps on
going until the end and doesn’t jump around
the story. An example of this is the movie
interstellar which plays with space and time all
the way though the movie. It has big jumps
through time and condenses time from scene
to scene.