Tangible
– Actors
– Supporting
– Cameras
– Green screen
– Cast
– lighting
– Makeup
– Sound men
– Director screen
– Script
– Props
– Costumes
-Antagonist
Conceptual
– Story / Script
– Short summary of your story
– Emotional attachment to the characters
– Empathy
– Linear
– Chronological
– Flashback
Gustav Freytag
Peripeteia – change in fortune
Anagnorisis – A moment of revelation
A really good way to think about NARRATIVE STRUCTURE is to recognise that most stories can be easily broken down into a BEGINNING / MIDDLE / END. The Bulgarian structuralist theorist
- Tztevan Todorov presents this idea as:
– Equilibrium: the story constructs a stable world at the outset of the narrative. Key characters are presented as part of that stability.
– Disruption
– New equilibrium
2. Vladimir Propp:
His work suggests that stories use stock characters to structure stories.
- Hero – Propp identifies two types of hero, the seeker-hero( who relies heavily on the donor to perform the quest) and the victim hero (who needs to overcome weakness to complete their quest)
The villain: fights or pursues the hero and must be defeated it
the hero is to accomplish their quest.
The princess and the princess’s father: the princess usually
represents the reward of the hero’s quest, while
the princess’s
lather often sets the hero difficult tasks to prevent them from mar.
rying the princess.
The donor: provides the hero with a magical agent that allows
the hero to defeat the villain.
The helper: usually accompanies the hero on their quest, saving
them from the struggles encountered on their journey, helping
struggles
them to overcome the difficult tasks encountered on their quest.
The dispatcher: sends the hero on his or her quest, usually at the
start of the story.
The false hero: performs a largely villainous role, usurping the
true hero’s position in the course of the story. The false hero is
usually unmasked in the last act of a narrative.
Often there is a villain who has done something to the victim. this means we need a hero, who is often accompanied by a helper is sent out to fight the villain.
Anachronic devices – (flash forward/flashback): subvert traditional linear storytelling techniques through time blending.