Structuralism:

• Chronological and Liner, sequential  LINEAR and SEQUENTIAL, (My video will follow this conventions and be in order from start to end).
• About an organisation of space and connection
• Have a theme (Isolation, joy in music – opposite – crowds and misery)
• Need to explain why – subvert

Theorists:

• Todrov – theory tripartite narrative structure (beginning – equilibrium, middle – disruption/conflict , end – new equilibrium). (High point of drama – group coming together/think about, incising incident?)
• Setting before action – communicate equilibrium
• Fretag – dramatic art, Fritages Pyramid – visual diagram of your drama
• Propp – Character types and functions – stock characters preform stock roles that can be divided up – villain/victim
• Turner – developed for Trodov
• Levi-Strauss – binary opposites. People have role and do certain things (stock characters) similarities/all the same. Stories provide, messages/communications. – Only know it is not – ‘Theory of the other’.
• Seymour Capman – satellites and kernels. Stories broken into 2 parts – C’s main things (characters etc) Satellites orbit around, not essential but helpful. – Essential and disposable.
• Need multiple people+settings (3:3)

• Narrative is the overall structure (Isolation, music brings happiness etc)
• Story things in it/themes (isolation)
• Plot – how you are organising it
• Proairetic code: action, movement, causation
• Hermenuetic code: reflection, dialogue, character or thematic development
• Enigma Code (RB) = if somethings enigmatic it is confusing, strange, intriguing . Ask questions, creates puzzles. – Engage a audience to fill in the gaps – creates an active audience – Lenny talks about an enigma code – pleasure of a book – not knowing what will happen.
• Elision and Ellipses – to cut things out – shorter time
• Flashback and Flash forwards – most films time and sequences
• Foreshadow
• Dramatic Irony
• Jokes and Comedy
• Light and Shade
• Non Sequitars – lose endings, ceased plots

MEMENTO – parallels between structure and memory

• flash forward – backwards slow motion -photo developing-shooting
• meeting man – entering building -shooting man
• back and forth – from hotel room to shooting- more detail every time
• Memory issues – short term memory
• Timeline distorted like memory – backwards
• Trying to remember – order of film – filling in blanks
• Relies on photos and notes to remember
• Writing all over body
• Seeking revenge
• All actions meaningful despite not remembered/in the right order.
• This is not in liner order as it is depicted in the same way his memory is distorted such as repetition and added information.
• Memory unreliable – notes and facts
• Susceptible to mistakes and confusion – memory is subjective/unreliable