How many categories are animated films divided into according to their narrative form? What are the characteristics of each category

Divided into four major categories, which are:

I. Literal Narrative:

Literary narrative is of the nature of novels, poems, essays, etc. This type of film does not have a main line of dramatic conflict, usually centering on the main character or an event in the life of the story, rather than focusing on the details. This type of film does not have a main line of dramatic conflict, usually around the main character or an event in the life of the clues to develop the story, focusing on the details of the portrayal, rather than focusing on the fabrication of the plot and conflict.

II. Dramatic Narrative:

Dramatic narrative is to tell a story in accordance with the traditional dramatic structure, cavity conflict and dramatic cause and effect connection.

Three, documentary narrative style:

Documentary animation is a relative concept here, the reason why it is called documentary, because he either in terms of the content of a specific period of time, or to the real events as the motive for the creation of the form of a more realistic and realistic.

Fourth, abstract narrative:

In this narrative, not storytelling-based, basically no storyline, not even a specific image, the performance of a variety of graphic movements and changes or philosophical connotations and poetic realm.

Expanded

The narrative structure of animation can be divided into the beginning, development, climax, and the end, or the "head, body, and tail" approach, which reflects the rhythm of the narrative structure.

The complete narrative of a story begins with a beginning, which expresses what happens, the appearance of the main character, the characters who move around the main character, including the villain and the positive characters, and shows their relationship with the main character, the main character's desires and aspirations to achieve the goal.

Then comes the development and climax of the story, which expresses all the obstacles, all the resistance and conflicts that arise in the realization of the protagonist's goals. The basis of the plot is the conflict, which is mainly expressed as the conflict between the individual and the times; the conflict between people; and the conflict in the inner world of the characters.