Narrative Discussion - Forking Path
Today I looked a series of trailers of films that used a narrative technique called 'forking path', which is where a story goes between two events/times back and forth, like the prongs of a fork, to create different narratives.
Source Code - This is an action packed film, that uses a forking path narrative to have the main character keep going back to the same moment over and over again, till a problem is fixed. Furthermore, this movie has a love interest to maintain a diversity, and add an extra plot to the main story and give the audience something else to look forward to.
Edge of Tomorrow - The Edge of Tomorrow has a similar structure to the Source Code, however in this movie the main character doesn't swap between people's bodies, though it still does have a love interest, and the focus to save people's lives, over and over again.
Time Traveller's Wife - This movie's genre is mainly a romance story between a time traveller and a woman, in which the man time travels and meets a woman who he sees again when she is older and they both fall in love with each other. This story uses a forking path narrative as the time traveller goes forward and backwards in time to different points in his life, whilst his wife continues with her life, upset by this.
Sliding Doors - Sliding Doors is a story that uses forking path to tell a narrative of a woman who we see living with two possibilities of where her life can lead her, from the event of catching/missing a train. This is a forking path narrative that only using two prongs, unlike the other films above that use multiple. It gives us a perspective on life, about how simple things can change a big part of our lives, and forking path is the way we see it on screen.
All of these give me an idea of how my music video can use a forking path narrative, even though these are films, I believe that this is still relevant to my coursework as I will still be including a narrative.
Source Code - This is an action packed film, that uses a forking path narrative to have the main character keep going back to the same moment over and over again, till a problem is fixed. Furthermore, this movie has a love interest to maintain a diversity, and add an extra plot to the main story and give the audience something else to look forward to.
Edge of Tomorrow - The Edge of Tomorrow has a similar structure to the Source Code, however in this movie the main character doesn't swap between people's bodies, though it still does have a love interest, and the focus to save people's lives, over and over again.
Time Traveller's Wife - This movie's genre is mainly a romance story between a time traveller and a woman, in which the man time travels and meets a woman who he sees again when she is older and they both fall in love with each other. This story uses a forking path narrative as the time traveller goes forward and backwards in time to different points in his life, whilst his wife continues with her life, upset by this.
Sliding Doors - Sliding Doors is a story that uses forking path to tell a narrative of a woman who we see living with two possibilities of where her life can lead her, from the event of catching/missing a train. This is a forking path narrative that only using two prongs, unlike the other films above that use multiple. It gives us a perspective on life, about how simple things can change a big part of our lives, and forking path is the way we see it on screen.
All of these give me an idea of how my music video can use a forking path narrative, even though these are films, I believe that this is still relevant to my coursework as I will still be including a narrative.
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