Looking back at my thriller i'm trying to link different theorists with the work I had already created. I looked at the prositives and negatives within the sequence that Sophie and I had created and linked them to Tzetvan Todorov, Roland Barthes and Claude Levi.
The first theorists I decided to see if my work linked with their theory was Tzetvan Todorov, the theory he created was the argument of the structre of Equilibrium/Disequilibrium/New Equilibrium. I noticed that we did have an equilibrium/Disequilibrium Structure. Within our sequence we showed a female villain who was seen as a strong individual, powerful character. This character was blackmailing a business man, showing that are narrative did contain a structure.
Even though we did show a strong concept for the theory that Tzetvan Todorov created, in some areas and could of shown the theory in a stronger way. For example we did show a disequilibrium structure, this was highly visible. The way we could of pushed through a more obivious take on the theory would have been to show the male character (who was the hero) being phyiscally shaking with fear. I feel looking back even though we did show the actions of being scared, if we had showed it in a different way it would of not only made the sequecne slightly more intense, but also more interesting for the audience.
I also linked Roland Barthes with our sequence. Roland created the theory for the Enigma code, Action code and also opened and closed texts. We showed an enigma code very strongly throughout our sequence. We did this by creating an engima code within our thriller. We created suspence and mystery by showing our villain walking around London doing different tasks. We also only showed our villain as the only character in colour. This would of created questions and queries for the audience. These questions wouldn't be answered until the end of the sequence.
Claude Levi - Strauss created the theory of binary opposities. We showed this a huge amount within our thriller. We went aganist the stereotypical concept and had a female villain and male hero.
Did 'nt finish within the 30 minute time. Need to work on my time keeping and planning skills.
The write up shows good understanding of these approaches and you have applied them. Some of your points have textual detail to support them.
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To improve:
You need to develop your analysis to justify all your points what you are writing ie how have you constructed the villain or hero?
You need to answer the question - does your work conform to traditional theories?