What is narrative?

• Plot- is the narrative as it is read, seen or heard from the first to the last word or image. That is, like a signifier, it is what the reader perceives.
• Story- is the narrative in chronological order, the abstract order of events as they follow each other. That is, like a signified, story is what the reader conceives or understands.

(Tools for cultural studies, Macmillian, 1994)

More specifically, narrative is a way of orgainising spatial and temporal date into a cause and effect chain of events with a beginning, middle and end that embodies a judgement about the nature of the events as well as demonstrates how it is possible to know, and hence to narrate, the events.

(Narrative comprehension and film, Routledge, 1992)

Here me and my group have created a simple storyboard out of the pictures given to us in class.

The idea of the task was to show the rest of the class  our storyboard and let them interperet there version of the story from how we had arranged the images.