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Things you need to create a film:

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Todorov:

Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, intellectual history and culture theory.
Todorov’s theory: there are 5 stages that a character will go through; those are Equilibrium, Disruption, Recognition Repair the Damage and Equilibrium Again
Todorov studied classic fairy tales and stories. He discovered that narratives moved forward in a chronological order with one action following after another. In other words, they have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Born: March 1, 1939
Died: February 7, 2017
Equilibrium: the story constructs a stable world at the outset of the narrative. Key characters are presented as part of that stability
Disruption: Oppositional forces – the actions of a villain, perhaps, or some kind of calamity – destabilise the story’s equilibrium. Lead protagonists attempt to repair the disruption caused.
Frame stories: stories told inside of stories, testing Todorov’s ideal narrative structure through the presentation of nested moments of equilibrium and disequilibrium.

Vladimir Propp:

Vladimir Propp was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible structural units.
Vladimir Propp suggests that stories use stock characters to structure stories.
Propp argued that stories are character driven and that plots develop from the decisions and actions of characters and how they function in a story.
These are Propp’s 8 character types:
- Hero
- Villian
- Victim
- Helper
- Princess
- Dispatcher
- Father
- False hero

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