In the narrative process of unnatural film, the construction of impossible story world depends on physical reality, but also mixes with physical or logical impossibility. The impossible story world is formally constructed through unnatural audiovisual means. In multimodal film discourse, this impossibility is often conveyed in the form of visual focus, auditory focus and other modes. The unnatural form of the audiovisual mode creates the unnatural content of the narrative, and then helps the audience’s cognition focus on the unnatural content of the story. The combination of form and content promotes the audience to understand the creative intention and metaphorical meaning of the film.

Wen Cheng. Unnatural Narrative in Film: Unnatural Audio-Visual Focus and Cognitive Focus. Frontiers in Art Research (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 14: 56-60. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2023.051410.

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