What Is Narrative

Narrative is the media term for story telling, Narrative is the way the different elements in a story are organised to make a meaningful story. some of these elements can be facts as in a documentary or characters and action as in a drama.
When we look at Narrative we see that stories throughout the media share certain characteristics. This is often linked to genre, different media tell stories in a lot of different ways, Narrative is informed by character, action and location
The characters have functions such as heroes or villains,or as someone who assists the hero or villains as a helper or messenger
The actions determines how the events in the narrative occur and the influence they have.
The location of the film or television programme is an important ingredient in how the story unfolds. A horror film about Dracula MUST have a castle