Traditional Hollywood narrative Structure
•Three Act Structure = the typical Hollywood narrative = set up (25% time) /confrontation (50%) /climax (Final 25% of film time)
•Linear (chronological), few, if any, sub-plots, tendency towards closure at end of film.
Enigma Codes
•Enigma (mystery).
Roland Barthes:
all
texts are ‘complex’ bundles of meaning.
•Enigma codes (problems introduced) –
usually in ‘disruption’ stage.
•Open – not resolved at end
•Closed texts – resolved at end
• Polysemic texts – lots of different
meanings
Levi Strauss - Binary Opposites
Todorov's narrative Theory
There are five stages the narrative can progress through:
1. A state of equlilbrium (All is as it should be)
2. A disrupution of that order by an event.
3. A recognition that the disorder has occurred.
4. An attempt to repair the damage of the disiption
5. A return or restoration of a new equlilbrium
Vladimir propp - character types
Hero/villain/Helper/donor(provider)/father/Dispatcher/princess/False Hero
Tzvetan Odorov
Tzvetan Odorov is a Franco-Bulgarian historian, philosopher, literacy critic, sociologist and an essayist. He was born on the 1st of March 1939. He was born in Sofia Bulgaria.
Tzvetan Odorov discovered the 5 stages, which all films follow, its a narrative pattern through various stages.
1. Equilibrium, at the start of a story, where everything should be as it should, normal.
2. A disruption of that order by an event
3. A recognition of that order by an event
4. An attempt to repair the damage of the disruption
5. A return or restoration of a new equilibrium
Vladimir proppVladimir Propp - character types - analysed traditional folk stories.
hero/villain/helper/Donor(provider)/farther/dispatcher/princess/false hero - N.B one character can perform more than one role.
Levi Strauss - Binary Opposites
Todorov's narrative Theory
There are five stages the narrative can progress through:
1. A state of equlilbrium (All is as it should be)
2. A disrupution of that order by an event.
3. A recognition that the disorder has occurred.
4. An attempt to repair the damage of the disiption
5. A return or restoration of a new equlilbrium
Vladimir propp - character types
Hero/villain/Helper/donor(provider)/father/Dispatcher/princess/False Hero
Tzvetan Odorov
Tzvetan Odorov is a Franco-Bulgarian historian, philosopher, literacy critic, sociologist and an essayist. He was born on the 1st of March 1939. He was born in Sofia Bulgaria.
Tzvetan Odorov discovered the 5 stages, which all films follow, its a narrative pattern through various stages.
1. Equilibrium, at the start of a story, where everything should be as it should, normal.
2. A disruption of that order by an event
3. A recognition of that order by an event
4. An attempt to repair the damage of the disruption
5. A return or restoration of a new equilibrium
Vladimir proppVladimir Propp - character types - analysed traditional folk stories.
hero/villain/helper/Donor(provider)/farther/dispatcher/princess/false hero - N.B one character can perform more than one role.
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