NARRATIVE THEORY

PART A:TODOROV Equilibrium Disequilibrium Recongnaition Reparation New equilibrium

EQUILIBRIUM A period in time

where everything is running smoothly and steadily for her .

The characters are at peace.

who’s looking for ‘Mr right’.

DISEQUILIBRIUM

In the 27 dress Where the relationship changes between the journalist and her sister for her .

she is unsettled . A problem start to arise ,and

becomes bigger between character .

She’s upset because her dream guy(her boss) is taken away by her sister and also I journalist wants to write a bad article about her else he lose his job .

Her sister Her dream man

journalist

RECOGNITION The relationship changes again

for the better (the main characters) start to make peace with each other .

REPARATION The reparation is where the

relationship between her and the journalist start to resolve their problems themselves and start to have felling for each other .

Before they hate each other but now they are learn to get alone and even becoming close friends .

NEW EQUILIBRIUM This is where all the

problems are finally restored and character's live are the way she wanted it to be because he did not write the article about her instead they fall in love and get married .This end with a “happy ending”.

PART B:LEVI-STRAUSS Believed that our world is described in

binary opposites .Night Day

Good Bad

Dark Light

Male Female

Superman:

Hotel Rwanda:War Vs peace

Films Character 1 Character 2 Explanation

spider man 2(Action)

• Hero –saving people lives' always trying to do the right thing.

• Young ,good looking

Living normal life .

• Villain –trying to have power over everything .

• Killing innocent people .

• Old/midel age ,unfriendly living his own life separately form other people .

The differences between them is that one is saving life and the other one is taking life .The hero is using his power responsibly and the villain is not, he he taking advantage over his power .

the unborn (Horror)

• Heroine is young ,good looking and innocent .

• And trying to do what the best choice .

• She is very caring person .

• Villain is killing people because of revenge .

• Anger ,careless

They both trying to end the fight .With different ways like the girl is fight the villain by finding out more about that person so she knows how to kill it .

Film Character 1 Character 2 Explanation

Avatar film (Sci-fi)

Hero –is very caring and young trying to find what the right thing to do in order to make very one happy . Makes the right choices

The villain is very cold hearted ,only care what the benefits for him.

They both are doing what they think is the right thing to do. The villain is doing this for money and place of power and the hero doing this fight for love .

PART C:BARTHES Suggested that narrative works with five

different codes which activate the reader to make sense of it. Example of a film.

Actions Enigma Symbolic Semantic Cultural

ACTIONS Actions or behaviour that lead the audience

to expect certain consequences . Something the audience knows and doesn’t

need explaining e.g. someone being wheeled out on s stretcher tell us they are going to hospital.

ACTIONSSlasher/horror Action Romance

Action :•Going to a dark room alone•Being suggestive •Virgin, good heart female

Action :•The hero and the villain have a battle

Action :•The couples realise their mistakes .

Assumption:•Will get killed •Will get killed•Will live

Assumption:•One character always dies which is the villian

Assumption:•Kiss passionately and look at each others eyes

ENIGMA That Something hidden from the audience.teases the audience by presenting a puzzle to

be solved .Usually thriller mystery based in which the question is ‘who is the killer 'or

Example of an enigma code from unborn & Saw film:

‘why is he/she have the weapon’.

Why is he dead??

SYMBOLIC

Something that symbolize a more abstract concept e.g darker than usual room of a murder scene could symbolize the depth of darkness.

Female victims Male villain (saw)

The male has more power then the female

SEMANTICConnotative (connotation)meaning of

characters,objects,locationsExample Colour : Pretty woman(romance/drama)

Red dress represent sexuality and love /passion.

Carrie(thriller/horror)

Red represent murder and violence.

CULTURAL Something that is read with understanding

due to cultural awareness e.g youth culture use certain words that are understood by the culture.

Example of a film that uses the culture code is ‘Romeo & Juliet

Locations,drugs,petrol station and guns which

we know it is the Morden society.

PART D:PROPP

The villain The dispatcher Helper Princess Her father The donor The hero False hero

He states that all fairytales have common narrative structure and character functions.

Shrek –hero Fairy godmotherVillain & donor

Charming False hero

In Shrek 2,Shrek seeks to be reunited with Fiona after her father arrangers for him to be killed to ensure the best future for Fiona. Shrek believe in order to reunite with Fiona, he must become human and seeks to find a potion.

The fairy godmother wants her son charming ,to become the prince and try to get rid of Shrek. She also acts as an unwilling donor as Shrek needs to become humane is produced at fairy godmother’s potion factory.

Charming is a false hero as he is trying to take the hero action and steeling the princess. reacting like a real hero. Takes credit for the hero’s actions.

Donkey –helper

Fiona –princess King Harold –Fiona's farther

Donkey helps Shrek by coming with him in breaking into the factory and stealing the potion and then helps him reveal charming’s true identity to the citizens of “far far away” in order to win back Fiona

Shrek wins back Fiona once he convinces her that charming is not the human version of shrek.Fiona is manipulated by her fairy godmother and her father into believing that charming is Shrek.

King Harold rewards Shrek with Fiona once he wins the heart of the people .The reason why king Harold challenge Shrek become he want to see if Shrek is worthy of having Fiona as his wife.

PART E:TERMS

Diegesis Narrative range

Express a sense of time which can be detachable and may have manipulation(where time is not liner)

DIEGESIS

The internal world created by the story Where the characters live in,

which is showing through a film. Avatar

NARRATIVE RANGE Unrestricted narration A narrative which has no limits to the information

that is presented (gives as much information as possible not hiding any pieces of information to the audience.

super size me

Restricted narration Only offers minimal information regarding the

narrative . The ring is a restricted film becomes there is hidden

information

PART F:CAMERON Modular narrative (Camercon theory) Episodic Forking path Split screen Anachronic

FORKING PATH

The forking path narrative introduces a number of plotlines that usually contradict one another.

Example of forking film can be the Sliding door

ANACHRONIC

Modular narrative the use of flash-back or flash-forwards.These narrative often repeat the scene directly or though a different perspective.

Example of a flash-back and flash-forwards are the film 4321 & Memento.