narrative revision
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Narrative
Todorov
Four main stages to a complete narrative.
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Narrative and Story
What is the difference?
Story is the chronological order of events in your film.
Narrative is your choice in the way these are presented.
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Equilibrium
Disruption
Resolution
New Equilibrium
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Can these stages be identified in your film?
Can the standard order be identified?
How does the audience engage with each stage?
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Levi-Strauss
Binary Opposites
Theorised that it is the resolution of the conflict between these that
creates a Narrative.
Batman
Joker
Batman Bane
Two Face / Harvey Dent
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Good Vs
Men Vs
Crime Vs
NarrativeIdentify binary opposites in your
coursework.
How did these affect the audience's engagement with the film?
Did the binary opposites create the narrative or could you evaluate the theory's application to your film?
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Propp
Morphology of the folk tale
Characters and functions
7 characters and 31 functions
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Propp
Morphology of the folk tale
Characters and functions
7 characters and 31 functions
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HeroVillainHelper
DispatcherPrincess or Prize
DonorFalse Hero
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Not types of person, but patterns of behaviour.
One character can move between the 'spheres'
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Can you identify any of the spheres in your coursework?
Do these assist with your audience's engagement with the film?
NarrativeLevel 4 (21–25 marks)
Candidates demonstrate a clear understanding of narrative and relevant media theory and can relate concepts articulately to
the production outcome, describing specific elements in relation to theoretical ideas about how media texts are constructed as narratives. Candidates offer a range of
specific, relevant, interesting and clear examples of how their product can be understood in relation to relevant theories of
narrative. The use of conceptual language is excellent..
Complex issues have been expressed clearly and fluently using a style of writing appropriate to the complex subject matter.
Sentences and paragraphs, consistently relevant, have been well structured, using appropriate technical terminology.
There may be few, if any, errors of spelling, punctuation and grammar.