Demonstrate understanding of narrative in media texts
This standard asks you to show you understand how stories work in media like films, TV shows, and websites. You need to identify specific techniques that filmmakers and writers use to tell their stories—like how they show characters, use time, arrange scenes, or create tension—and explain how these techniques shape the narrative you're experiencing.
You describe what narrative features you notice in the media text and explain in basic terms how they contribute to telling the story.
You explain in detail how the narrative features work together and why the creator chose them to shape how the story unfolds.
You examine how the narrative features create particular effects and explore the deeper implications—what messages or meanings they build, or how they position the audience in a particular way.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.