• narrative is to do with time
• beginning middle end
• linear or non linear or sequential or non sequential
• can alternate space in an unnatural way
• can organise or disorganise space
• there’s a theme that links it all together
• narrative (overall structure), story (theme), plot (structure of events)

TODOROV

• bulgarian, cultural theorist
• equilibrium, disruption, new equilibrium
• tri part type narrative structure

GUSTAV FREYTAG

• you can draw the narrative of a moving image
• eg like a roller coaster, there’s a climax then it slowly levels out

VLADIMIR PROPP

• similarities in similar media products (stock characters), perform stock functions
• preparation, complication, transference, struggle, return, recognition

CALUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

• we never know what is, we only know what isn’t
• narratives play out binary opposition

SEYMOUR CHATMAN

• if you take something out, the story doesn’t work
• everything works together to create a story