![]() To a lesser extent, devices such as the Captain's Log can be viewed as a Framing Device, especially when (as in many Star Trek: The Original Series episodes) they appear to have been written after the fact. This method was also used to get foreign children's shows that were Quarter Hour Shorts on the air in the United States back in the 90's, usually by creating an entirely new show to serve as the framing device. A noteworthy example from the days of radio is Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, whose stories were told in the form of explanations to a private detective's expense account. ![]() Occasionally, an entire series can use a persistent Framing Device, such as Cro, which was framed by a recently thawed mammoth, who was telling the stories which composed the bulk of each episode. The earlier "Treehouse of Horror" specials of The Simpsons use a framing device in this way, though the practice was eventually abandoned. The inner story does not need to be a work of fiction from a frame-story character's point of view: letters, journals, and memoirs can also be used as framing devices, often in the form of Day in the Life.Īnthologies and Clip Shows often use framing devices to connect the unrelated elements into a unified whole. Occasionally, the inner story is a hallucination or delusion experienced by one of the outer story characters. Other times, the outer story character is the author of, or a performer in, the inner story. The framing device places the inside story within a different context.įraming devices typically involve outer story characters as the audience of the inner story, such as a parent reading a bedtime story to a child. ![]() The inner story is usually the bulk of the work. The Framing Device is a narrative technique in which a story is surrounded ("framed") by a secondary story, creating a story within a story, often through Separate Scene Storytelling. "Well, I believe it went something like this." " Man, do you remember that article we wrote about framing devices?" ![]()
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