3. Narrative and non-narrative structures (100 Words)

Using three of these films Koyaanisqatsi, 1001 nights and the girl chewing gum. I will try and explain how each of these films have there own style of structure.
The first I will use is 1001 nights. I think this has the basic structure because we are introduced at the start to 5 female actresses. At the start of the story we are introduced to the first women and this continues to the third women who out of the five is the middle part of this story and we end the story on the fifth and final woman.
This is slightly different to the one we see in the video Koyaanisqatsi and this is because the storyline we see in this video is that in the beginning we are introduced to some cave drawings and then into what we may presume is a fire. So as the film goes on we can tell that the peak of this story (middle) is switching between fast and slow tempos and that soon using some repetition we can expect the story to end. This is done by using the opening clip of cave drawings.
The final clip the girl chewing gum is similar more to the video 1001 knights more than the film Koyaanisqatsi. This is because that the film Koyaanisqatsi has a beginning, middle and end yet the girl chewing gum and 1001 knights we are taken into the story ands the middle of a scene.
These three stories all have a narrative structure yet with the film Koyaanisqatsi structure creates the sense that we look at it differently to the other two. The girl chewing gum has a tiny introduction yet we are able to grasp the story further and further on we go because we are given more detail. Even towards the end of the film we can tell that even though we can understand we are learning more as we go along.