Linear Structure

When we were in Mr Slater's class we started overviewing about our narrative theories and adaptations we did for Miss Dawe.

Then we started to look at linear structure. "Linear structure means Linear structures are constructs which form a linear chain. Such a chain consists of elements which are linked in direct succession and the order of the elements is fixed. For instance, one type of action results in one response, which then produces another certain type of action that results in another response and so on."

So for example in film it will just follow one person around their journey through the film. You can see this in the film taken the film follows the father the whole way through him trying to find his daughter.

Also there is linear structure in some video games, such as "Call of Duty" because you make your own character and then you folow that one character round all the stages throughout the whole game.

There is linear structure in television programmes as well. There is linear structure in "Dubplate Drama" because it follows the main character in the programme and in this particular tv programme you get to decide what they do next. So it is a very tight linear strutue because they cant go and explore where they are, we pick where they go and that is it.