narrative

time – how is it going to be organised? beginning, middle and end? linear, non-linear, sequential, circular, chronologically?

space- how will each scene/setting fade into the next?

theme – what is the theme of the video?

narrative – overall structure

story – overall theme

plot – how you sequence everything

equilibrium – wakes up , disruption – imagining doing things (parties etc), new equilibrium – wakes up again

Vladimir prop (character types and functions)- stock characters. hero, damsel in distress, princess etc. The stock characters have stock functions

Claude Levi-Strauss (binary oppositions) – one thing that connects groups connect people as they tell similar stories – about binary oppositions

theme – in isolation but imagining having fun outside of it

Seymour Chapman (satellites and kernels) – kernels – if you remove something from a story it will not work. satellites – things that change and do not affect the story eg their favorite color.

start off with water being tipped on phoebe in bed. she looks bored sitting in her room. she looks in her mirror and it goes into a party scene. the scene before last is her jumping into a pool and when she comes up for air she is back in bed again.

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