definitons – narrative

  • Time, space & theme
  • Films & music videos are linear & sequential
  • Stories have a beginning, middle & end
  • Tztevan Todorov – tripartite narrative structure = equilibrium, disruption, new equilibrium
  • exposition, inciting incident, climax, resolution, denouement
  • Vladimir Propp = set character types & functions
  • Stock characters
  • claude levi-strauss = binary oppositions
  • kernels and satellites
  • Story: Someone falls in love w someone because they like their music
  • Plot: Someone listens to music & falls in love w the musician’s music & voice, then they meet but the musician doesn’t like them.

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