Narrative Revision Presentation for G325

1. Narrative
Todorov
Four main stages to a complete
narrative.

2. Narrative
Narrative and Story
What is the difference?
Story is the chronological order of
events in your film.
Narrative is your choice in the way
these are presented.

3. Narrative
Equilibrium
Disruption
Resolution
New Equilibrium

4. Narrative
Can these stages be identified in
your film?
Can the standard order be
identified?
How does the audience engage
with each stage?

5. Narrative
Levi-Strauss
Binary Opposites
Theorised that it is the resolution of
the conflict between these that
creates a Narrative.

6. Batman
Joker

7. Batman Bane

8. Two Face / Harvey Dent

9. Narrative
Good Vs
Men Vs
Crime Vs

10. Narrative
Identify binary opposites in your
coursework.
How did these affect the audience's
engagement with the film?
Did the binary opposites create the
narrative or could you evaluate the
theory's application to your film?

11. Narrative
Propp
Morphology of the folk tale
Characters and functions
7 characters and 31 functions

12. Narrative
Propp
Morphology of the folk tale
Characters and functions
7 characters and 31 functions

13. Narrative
Propp
Hero
Villain
Helper
Dispatcher
Princess or Prize
Donor
False Hero

14. Narrative
Not types of person, but patterns of
behaviour.
One character can move between the
'spheres'

15. Narrative
Can you identify any of the spheres in
your coursework?
Do these assist with your audience's
engagement with the film?

16. Narrative
Level 4 (21–25 marks)
Candidates demonstrate a clear understanding of narrative and
relevant media theory and can relate concepts articulately to
the production outcome, describing specific elements in
relation to theoretical ideas about how media texts are
constructed as narratives. Candidates offer a range of
specific, relevant, interesting and clear examples of how their
product can be understood in relation to relevant theories of
narrative. The use of conceptual language is excellent.
.
Complex issues have been expressed clearly and fluently using
a style of writing appropriate to the complex subject matter.
Sentences and paragraphs, consistently relevant, have been
well structured, using appropriate technical terminology.
There may be few, if any, errors of spelling, punctuation and
grammar.