structuralism: most interested in those things that narrative have in common.

Time: is generally linear.

Chronology: it is sequential.(video mostly random)

Space: different spaces being connected.

Narratives have an underlying or an underpinning theme. ( isolation by the beach)

Rules to narrative:

Tzetvan Todorov: Equilibrium, disruption, new equilibrium, (Tripartite narrative structure):e.g. beginning middle and end.

Freytag’s pyramid: visual illustration of your drama. Exposition, climax!, denouement.

Vladimir Propp: (stock characters who perform stock functions) For example, if you have a villain you probably have a victim.

Claude Levi-Strauss: Binary oppositions: This is where you understand narrative structure e.g. good vs bad.

Seymour Chatman: satellites and kernels: kernels are the main things in the story. Satellites orbit round they are not essential but they are helpful.

Narrative: is the overall structure

Story: is the things and themes

Plot: how things are arranged