narrative in moving imagery products are hooked around Time
Moving image uses linear and is chronological.
they normally have a theme with mine being random clips representing isolating showing the change in a person not sequential.
Structuralism -rules roles and convention.
Propp had the ides if stock characters performing stock functions – eg villain victim and hero
Claude Levi-strauss – narratives are structured around binary oppositions.
Seymour chatman- Kernels: key moments in the plot/ narrative structure satellites: embellishments, developments, aesthetics.
Narrative rules-
Todorov – tripartite narrative structure ; 3 part narrative structure; beginning middle and end
- equilibrium – represente
- disruption- conflict/ drama for interest
- new equilibrium-
Ideas: climax returning to the place where the actor ones was alone -reflecting isolation and a change some sort of fight causing this. theme of relationships and isolation. Difference between before becoming isolated and after. Happiness comes with others, revisit same places.
narrative – over all structure
story – themes and things included the narrative of a work, whether of fictional or nonfictional basis. The narrative threads experienced by each character or set of characters in a work of fiction. The storyline method of teaching.
plot- how you organise it the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
my narrative is – focusing on a main character showing various\ Montage of happy time in her life showing joy and then interjecting with clips on her own.
Barthes- Barthes‘ Semiotic Theory broke down the process of reading signs and focused on their interpretation by different cultures or societies. According to Barthes, signs had both a signifier, being the physical form of the sign as we perceive it through our senses and the signified, or meaning that is interpreted.
- Proairetic code- action, movement, causation
- hermeneutic code- reflection, dialogue,character, thematic development.
- Enigma code the way in which intrigue and ideas are raised- which encourage an audience to want moreinformation.
NARRATIVE
- Elision And Ellipsis- when you drop things out.
- flash forwards – flash-backwards: moments which break the line sequences.
- foreshadowing- rises the concept to he audiences giving them some information.
- dramatic irony- when the audience knows something the characters don’t.
- parallel- when to story lines interrupt.
- light and shade- varied intensity. moment of more light hearted moments.
- non-sequitars- a storyline which goes nowhere.