“The Language”
Narrative: a story
There is a difference between narrative,story and plot.
Plot: The MC is feeling alone as he is separated from his friends and they are feeling the same and as they think, time passes by
-time
-space
-linear
-sequential
-structures around a theme
Tztevan Todorov: 3-part structure theory
-beginning, middle, end
A story has Three parts to it the equilibrium where everything is balanced and good nothing, in particular, affects the story yet which then shifts into disequilibrium/Disruption as their is conflict,change, issue that is introduced and finally finishes into resolution/new equilibrium where the story gets balanced again after the issue or change is fixed or accepted.
equilibrium:The characters are in a neutral state-just sat by themselves feeling/taking in their environment not completely focusing on the music
disequilibrium: The characters starts to recall their friends and how they feel lonely- could show shots of them when they were together, empty shots, multiple versions of one character in one scene moving around:time passing
new equilibrium: they return to the neutral thinking about how they might meet them again or they end up meeting at the end
Claude Levi-Strauss(binary oppositions)
we do not know what truth or meaning is but we know what it isn’t
eg: Black-White Good-Bad Rich-Poor
Vladimir Propp (character Types and Function)
Character types: a character type is a certain trait or role a character will have to progress the story = examples are the Hero(protagonist), Villain (antagonist), princess(the character who gets rescued in one way or form) etc.
-hero
helper
princess
villian
victim
dispatcher
father
false hero
Seymour chatman: Satellites and kernels
kernels main elements of the stories that if changed,affected the story greatly
Eg: The film is a sci-fi planet but then goes normal
satellites are changeable elements of the stories that wont affect the story to much
Eg. he has a blue hat in part 1 but in part 2 changes to a black hat