The document discusses various concepts related to narrative structure in films. It begins by defining key concepts like equilibrium, disequilibrium, and resolution. It then provides examples of how these concepts are shown through characters and their relationships changing in the film 27 Dresses. The document also discusses how films can use codes like actions, enigma, symbolic, semantic and cultural to tell stories and activate audiences. It analyzes how Propp's character archetypes like villain, dispatcher and hero are represented in the film Shrek 2. Finally, it briefly touches on concepts like diegesis, narrative range, and modular narratives involving techniques like forking paths.

2.  Equilibrium
 Disequilibrium
 Recongnaition
 Reparation
 New equilibrium

3.  A period in time where
everything is running
smoothly and steadily for
her .
 The characters are at
peace.
 who‟s looking for „Mr
right‟.

4. journalist
 In the 27 dress Where the
relationship changes between
the journalist and her sister for
her .
 she is unsettled .
 A problem start to arise ,and
becomes bigger between
character . Her sister Her dream
man
 She‟s upset because her
dream guy(her boss) is taken
away by her sister and also I
journalist wants to write a bad
article about her else he lose

5.  The relationship changes again for
the better (the main characters)
start to make peace with each other
.

6.  The reparation is where the
relationship between her and the
journalist start to resolve their
problems themselves and start to
have felling for each other each other but now
Before they hate .
they are learn to get alone and even
becoming close friends .

7.  This is where all the problems
are finally restored and
character's live are the way she
wanted it to be because he did
not write the article about her
instead they fall in love and get
married .This end with a “happy
ending”.

8.  Believed that our world is described in binary
opposites . Night Day
Good Bad
Dark Light
Male Female
Superman:
Hotel Rwanda:
War Vs peace

9. Films Character 1 Character 2 Explanation
spider man The differences
2(Action) between them is
that one is saving
• Villain –trying life and the other
• Hero –saving to have power one is taking life .
people lives' over everything The hero is using
always trying to . his power
do the right • Killing innocent responsibly and
thing. people . the villain is not,
• Young ,good • Old/midel age he he taking
looking ,unfriendly advantage over
Living normal life . living his own his power .
life separately
form other
people .
the unborn They both trying
(Horror) to end the fight
.With different
• Heroine is • Villain is killing ways like the girl
young ,good people is fight the villain
looking and because of by finding out

10. Film Character 1 Character 2 Explanation
Avatar film They both are
(Sci-fi) doing what they
think is the right
thing to do. The
villain is doing
Hero –is very The villain is this for money
caring and very cold and place of
young trying to hearted ,only power and the
find what the care what the hero doing this
right thing to do benefits for him. fight for love .
in order to
make very one
happy . Makes
the right
choices

11.  Suggested that narrative works with five different
codes which activate the reader to make sense of
it. Example of a film.
 Actions
 Enigma
 Symbolic
 Semantic
 Cultural

12.  Actions or behaviour that lead the audience to
expect certain consequences .
 Something the audience knows and doesn‟t need
explaining e.g. someone being wheeled out on s
stretcher tell us they are going to hospital.

13. Slasher/horror Action Romance
Action : Action : Action :
•Going to a dark •The hero and the •The couples
room alone villain have a battle realise their
•Being suggestive mistakes .
•Virgin, good heart
female
Assumption: Assumption: Assumption:
•Will get killed •One character •Kiss passionately
•Will get killed always dies which and look at each
•Will live is the villian others eyes

14.  That Something hidden from the audience.
teases the audience by presenting a puzzle to be
solved .Usually thriller mystery based in which the
question is „who is the killer 'or
 Example of an enigma code from unborn & Saw
film: Why is he dead??
„why is he/she have the weapon‟.

15. Something that symbolize a more abstract
concept e.g darker than usual room of a
murder scene could symbolize the depth of
darkness.
Female victims Male villain (saw)
The male has more power then
the female

16. Connotative (connotation)meaning of
characters,objects,locations
Example Colour :
Pretty woman(romance/drama)
Red dress represent sexuality and love /passion.
Carrie(thriller/horror)
Red represent murder and violence.

17.  Something that is read with understanding due to
cultural awareness e.g youth culture use certain
words that are understood by the culture.
Example of a film that uses the culture code is
„Romeo & Juliet
Locations,drugs,petrol station and guns which we
know it is the Morden society.

18. He states that all fairytales have
common narrative structure and
character functions.
 The villain
 The dispatcher
 Helper
 Princess
 Her father
 The donor
 The hero
 False hero

19. Shrek –hero Fairy godmother Charming
Villain & donor False hero
In Shrek 2,Shrek The fairy Charming is a false
seeks to be godmother wants hero as he is trying
reunited with Fiona her son charming to take the hero
after her father ,to become the action and steeling
arrangers for him to prince and try to the princess.
be killed to ensure get rid of Shrek. reacting like a real
the best future for She also acts as an hero. Takes credit
Fiona. Shrek unwilling donor as for the hero‟s
believe in order to Shrek needs to actions.
reunite with Fiona, become humane is
he must become produced at fairy
human and seeks godmother‟s potion

20. Donkey –helper Fiona –princess King Harold –
Fiona's farther
Donkey helps Shrek wins back King Harold
Shrek by coming Fiona once he rewards Shrek with
with him in convinces her that Fiona once he wins
breaking into the charming is not the the heart of the
factory and stealing human version of people .The reason
the potion and then shrek.Fiona is why king Harold
helps him reveal manipulated by her challenge Shrek
charming‟s true fairy godmother become he want to
identity to the and her father into see if Shrek is
citizens of “far far believing that worthy of having

21. Express a sense of time which can be detachable
and may have manipulation
(where time is not liner)
 Diegesis
 Narrative range

22.  The internal world created by the story Where the
characters live in,
 which is showing through a film.
 Avatar

23.  Unrestricted narration
 A narrative which has no limits to the information that is
presented (gives as much information as possible not
hiding any pieces of information to the audience.
 super size me
 Restricted narration
 Only offers minimal information regarding the narrative .
 The ring is a restricted film becomes there is hidden
information

24.  Modular narrative (Camercon theory)
 Episodic
 Forking path
 Split screen
 Anachronic

25.  The forking path narrative introduces a number of
plotlines that usually contradict one another.
 Example of forking film can be the Sliding door

26.  Modular narrative the use of flash-back or flash-
forwards.These narrative often repeat the scene
directly or though a different perspective.
 Example of a flash-back and flash-forwards are
the film 4321 & Memento.