A narrative is a brief explanation/ description of the film. It’s important to the audience as it gives them an insight of the film without watching it which helps them decide whether they’re going to like watching it or not also to see if it’s suitable for them.
Died:
August 22, 1970, Saint
Petersburg, Russia
Each character had their own detailed characteristics
Propp was mainly interested in narrative folk tales. He believed that folk tales were about the same basic struggles.
Complication à Transference à struggle à return à recognition
Tzvetan Todorov
Born: March 1, 1939 (age 74), Sofia, Bulgaria Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher.
Equilibrium – How the characters appear table at the
beginning
Disequilibrium – something disrupting happens and a change occurs which needs to be resolved
New equilibrium – usually disruption is sorted and the narrative is dosed
Equilibrium à Disruption à resolution à resorted order à new equilibrium
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and
polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Disequilibrium – something disrupting happens and a change occurs which needs to be resolved
New equilibrium – usually disruption is sorted and the narrative is dosed
Equilibrium à Disruption à resolution à resorted order à new equilibrium
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and
polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
Born:
384 BC, Stagira,
Greece
Died:
322 BC, Chalcis,
Greece
The importance of plot
He believed in having a beginning, middle and an end. The events must casually relate to one another as being either necessary or probable. In addition he also believed that it is important to arouse the emotion from the audience and this is mainly within tragedy (fear and emotion)
Roland Barthes
Philosopher
Born:
November 12, 1915, Cherbourg-Octeville,
France
Died:
March 25, 1980, Paris,
France
-Semi logy within narrative
He believed narrative can be defined by using five of the following things:
1- Action – understanding a resolution is understood by the action seen
2- Enigma – teases the audience by presenting a puzzle or riddle that needs to be solved
3- Symbolic – connotation
4- Semic – denotation
5- cultural understanding – events which can be recognised as being part of a culture.
(Halloween)
- Denotation – pumpkin
-Connotation Halloween
-Semi logy within narrative
He believed narrative can be defined by using five of the following things:
1- Action – understanding a resolution is understood by the action seen
2- Enigma – teases the audience by presenting a puzzle or riddle that needs to be solved
3- Symbolic – connotation
4- Semic – denotation
5- cultural understanding – events which can be recognised as being part of a culture.
(Halloween)
- Denotation – pumpkin
-Connotation Halloween
Thrillers usually use Roland Barthes structure in their thrillers as it teases the audience the most and keeps them on the edge of their seats and therefore i will be promoting this idea in my own thriller by including cultural understanding (Halloween)
Narrative theory
ReplyDeleteSome good ideas here and the four theorists clearly identified and discussed.
To improve;
--Try and provide examples from thrillers to support your analysis. For example, relate Propps characters to conventional thriller examples and for Todorov, look at a scene and look at the state of equilibrium, disequalibrium and new equilibrium
-include the characters that Propp suggested
-do you think thillers also tend to mix some of these ieas, os is Barthes the predominant one?
-How else will you use the idea of connotaion and denotation within your work?