Prompt Using Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016) . Develop an analysis of how the film?s narration works to facilitate the viewer?s understanding/comprehension of the fabula (story) from its syuzhet (plot) and stylistic systems.

Essay #1 Prompt Using Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie, 2016) . Develop an analysis of how the film?s narration works to facilitate the viewer?s understanding/comprehension of the fabula (story) from its syuzhet (plot) and stylistic systems. You should construct a strong and clear central thesis that considers the film?s narration as a whole (a global approach), while also identifying specific moments, scenes, and/or sequences (a local approach) to support your thesis. As we have discussed, a film?s narration uses specific devices to guide the viewer in their understanding of the fabula, so you should consider how the concepts we?ve worked with in class function here to cue and/or constrain information in particular ways. This involves connecting broad narrational strategies, such as range and depth of knowledge, to more specific narrational strategies. Finally, your thesis should also include a statement on the film?s stylistic system and how it interacts with syuzhet processes at both local and global levels.In order to develop and write your analysis, you will need to understand and apply the following concepts:Differentiate and discuss the different types of ?gaps? of information, delays, or repetition of information that may be relevant to the film?s narration in helping to create the fabula;Discuss how information is restricted/unrestricted (range of knowledge); the degree of subjectivity/objectivity of information (depth of knowledge); the self-consciousness and/or communicativeness of film?s narration in organizing the cues that create the fabula;Demonstrate that fabula and narration/syuzhet are different things (though related);Show you understand and can analyze how the film?s style (e.g., mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound) works as part of the narration to help create the fabula;Select and apply the concepts that are most relevant for this assignment?s analysis;Undertake a detailed close reading of parts of the film and relate them to the whole;Understand that analysis of the film?s narration is not the same as a plot summary.Remember that not all of our course concepts will be relevant to every film: make sure you are organizing your analysis around the concepts that you find most pertinent to your analysis of this particular film?s narration. In other words, you do not need to include every concept discussed in Weeks 1 and 2, as not all will be relevant to this particular film. Focus on the concepts that you determine to be most important for your analysis of the film?s narration. Part of what you are learning to do is to determine which concepts are most relevant as you analyze the narrational strategies for a particular film.