Form - Narrative Structures

In every advert there is a narrative story, there are many different ways that a narrative can be told, so there are many different narrative structures. Firstly, a narrative story can be Linear, a linear story is where the story is told in sequential order, from the beginning through the middle and to the end. It doesnt flashback at any time and events happen as they occured.

In the above advert, it uses a linear narrative structure, this is because its starts of with him brushing his teeth and then when he finishes he uses the listerine mouthwash, in sequential order he is swelling his mouth as the time bomb ticks away in his hand. At the end of the advert, the dynamite goes off in his mouth and he expells the listerine. Therefore, the story in the advert was told in a linear fashion.