Thursday, 2 October 2014

5 narrative theorists - Sophie Bishop

Todorov's narrative theory:

Todorov had a theory that provided a structure for a narrative, our thriller follows this, the following shows this structure:

1 Equilibrium - our 'Red Caller' and the 'Business man', are shown along with the London scenes, so the audience are used to this.


2 Dis - Equilibrium - most shots show just the 'Red Caller' creating the suspense.


3 Realisation - That the 'Red Caller' is in fact the person harassing the 'Business man'.


4 Attempt to resolve - this is not shown in our thriller, because we wanted to build some mystery to the film.

5 Resolution - the film would shoe the resolution.

6 Re - Equilibrium - The 'Business man's' end of conversation.

Claude Levi-Strauss:
Believes in binary opposites, in every narrative. A binary opposite is two contrasting oppositions, such as a villain and a hero.

So we had good v evil and villain v heroin.

Good and heroin

villain and evil

Vladimir Propp:
Propp's theory consisted of the character in a narrative, stated what characters should be in a narrative, here are his character theories below, some that we did use:

The Hero

The Villain - The Red Caller











The Donor 

The Dispatcher

The False Hero

The Helper 

The Princess (the heroin) - The Business man, gender stereotypes not relevant in our thriller, making it somewhat more unique.











Roland Barthe's:

Barthe's theory was a way to see a narrative, through codes, they include:

Denote - What the audience see encoded by the director.

Connote - What the audience see it to mean.

Action - A narrative way/device, to show a resolution.

Enigma code - A puzzle/riddle for the audience to solve.

Our thriller, included a couple of these codes, to make our thriller diverse. We included an enigma code, showing the 'Red Caller' but not saying clearly who she was and what she was doing, allowing the audience to feel they had power because they could figure it out. We also has a connote, allowing the audience to depict their own diverse meaning, and create a narrative to collect the ending, making them want to see the film to find out if their theory is correct.

Our Music video could follow some of theses theorists theories in order for it to be diverse, and reach a broad audience.

Pam Cook:

A hollywood narrative, include a cause and effect, our thriller did, because the cause of 'The Red Callers' actions (blackmailing)left the effect of the business man feeling alone and vulnerable.



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