Assignment 6: Simple film narrative structure analysis

By: Maria Fashakin

• Justice (Janet Jackson) is a young woman living in South Central, Los Angeles.

• After the shooting death of her boyfriend ‘Markell’, Justice falls into a deep depression.

• Justice meets a guy called Lucky.

• Justice & lucky argue a lot as they find it difficult to agree on anything.

• Justice and Lucky begin to spend more time with each other & fall in love.

Poetic Justice.

Yes, there is a clear linear narrative which could be broken down into

A) Has the institution created a text with a conventional (stereotypical) narrative structure?

Act 1 (set-up)

Act 2 (conflict)

Act 3 (resolution)

Shows Justice & lucky meeting for the first time at the hair salon.

Connotes Lucky & Justice arguing in the van.

Lucky & Justice finally make peace & fall in love with each other.

B) Explain how the film is narrative implicit or explicit ?

Implicit narrative reasons.

implicit narrative evidence.

It starts with a beginning of Justice loosing her boyfriend,She meets Lucky

The film then goes an the audience later start to see conflict through the middle of the film.

Towards the end of the film we see Justice and Lucky have come to a

• Lucky is holding his mum. As she is crying.

• Lucky is outside he just finds out his cousin died.

• Justice & lucky put a side there issues with each other.

• Justice and lucky are out in the woods.

• Lucky & Justice first meet in the van.

Act 1 – (beginning) (set up)

Justice has a boyfriend who gets shot. Justice is then depressed and grieving about her boyfriend.

Discuss the conventional narrative ?

Justice at the cemetery.

Justice & Lucky constantly argue over the fact Justice believes she should get respect.

Middle

Justice & lucky are arguing in the van.

By act 3 Justice & lucky have resolved there issues and are able to get on, as they are now in love.

The end

Lucky and justice at the fun fair & they

are getting on.

Lucky is holding a lollipop while touching Justice’s hair.

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Why have the film makers done this & what effect would it have on the audience?

•The film makers have done this to make the audience happy

•To make it more understandable

•The film makers may have wanted to give the audience some sort of satisfaction.

•The film would have been told in chronological order

•It would of been one of the best ways to make money.

• There is no confusion.

• The film makers reinforced the narrative structure as they show the chronological order of the movie.

• The effect this would have had on the audience is, it would have been gave a sense of fulfilment & happiness.

• The target audience would of been please to know they wouldn’t of wasted there money.

What audience expectation have they established by using this structure?