STORYLINE: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MULTIPLE STORYLINES
Looking at the Media Study Design Key Knowledge we need to understand the "nature and function of and relationships between story elements in fictional media narrative, including: the relationship between multiple storylines."
Storyline is the plot of the film. Many films have multiple storylines to keep the audience engaged. Sometimes these storylines stay very separate and other times they crash into each other - as seen in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Ritchie, 1998), and also in our Narrative film Snatch, by Guy Ritchie.
Sometimes the multiple storylines have characters that do not know each other but are linked by an event or one character.
Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000) In this scene, each of the multiple storylines interject for the first time, as they crash together to add to the audience's understanding of the narrative.
How dies this aid / add to the audience's understanding of the narrative?
Take note of other Production / Story elements at work within this scene, and how they too add to the narrative.