Telling a "film-​story" is not really dif­fer­ent from telling a nor­mal "text-​story".



The cam­era is your nar­rator and provides dif­fer­ent points of view - de­pend­ing on what you would like to tell and how you in­tend to present it.

Of course, sound and cuts sup­port the pic­tures.



So, you can have an ob­ject­ive nar­rator, i. e. the cam­era just shows everything without ex­plain­ing that much (or maybe noth­ing at all).



A first-​person nar­rat­ive in film means, we get the view of a cer­tain per­son (or ob­ject!), i. e. we see things as the char­ac­ter who tells the story sees them.



As a se­lect­ive nar­rator, the cam­era would show the ac­tions, thoughts and emo­tions of one char­ac­ter or maybe two prot­ag­on­ists, show­ing them 'from the out­side'.



An om­ni­scient nar­rator or cam­era would give in­sights into al­most every­body's lives and re­veal more in­form­a­tion than the char­ac­ters them­selves have (e. g. DEA of­ficer Hank does not know that Wal­ter, his own brother in law, is the no­tori­ous drug pro­du­cer "Heis­en­berg", but the view­ers know (as they are told by pic­tures and sound). This cre­ates a lot of sus­pense and some­times even funny situ­ations.



Fur­ther nar­rat­ive devices:

• flash­backs
• state­ments / in­sinu­ations about the fu­ture
• par­al­lel storytelling ...