Narrative and Editing

Everything within media is done to create a meaning.
Narrative - the order of the story
Editing - when you put something in order to therefore create something meaningful

narrative structure - super-size me

• man buys meal
• begins to eat meal
• *five minutes later*
• seeing him eating the meal
• *ten minutes later*
• He is still eating the meal, but this time clip shows him begin to feel unwell
• *fifteen minutes later*
• another clip played of him eating
• *twenty-two minutes later*
• We see man with his head out of the car window
• We see a shot of his vomit on the ground

This is an example of narrative structure as it is creating a story for the audience. We are not 100% sure whether this was set up or not, we jump to conclusions all because of editing. 
Editing constructs narrative out of footage
With a lot of footage, by editing, they can manipulate it in a certain way to create a specific narrative. By manipulating this, we are being told what to think, rather than questioning it ourselves, we are simply believing what we are being shown.

Screen wipe - putting different footage together to manipulate a situation