• Recognisable and familiar structures
• Patterns, codes, conventions that share a common features
• Narratives are a combination of many individual elements
• Narratives are organised around a particular theme and space and are based in an idea of time
• Proairetic code: action, movement, causation
• Hermenuetic code: reflection, dialogue, character or thematic development
• flashback flash forward
• STORY is often associated with themes and meaning and can be decoded from all of the different elements that are used, for example, the characters, setting, props and themes
• PLOT is the way in which the story (elements/themes/ideas/meaning) is organised and sequenced.
• stock characters-
• Hero
• Helper
• Princess
• Villain
• Victim
• Dispatcher
• Father
• False Hero

parallel narrative- two things running together

enigma code (puzzle something to resolve)

light and shade release tension and lighten it up.

fragmented identity constructed / different identities changing fake

key characteristic of postmodernism is the development of fragmented, alienated individuals living in fragmented societies.

ellipsis/elision = elements are missing leaving things out