Key Theorists

There are four key theorists that have different ideas about what the narrative is.

Propp

His idea is that characters drive the narrative, he also analysed russian folk tales by their structure, that had the typical 'happily ever after' that is used in hollywood films and Disney films.
He had 8 main types of characters:
-heros the protagonist
-villain the antagonist
-princess
-father
-dispatcher
-donor
-sidekick
-false hero

Barthes
His idea of the Narrative is that it is a series of codes that are read an understood by the audience of the piece of media.
his series of codes were as follows:
-action code
This is an action that means that the audience already knows what is happening by, whats on the screen, e.g. someone on a wheelchair tells us they are disabled.

-enigma code
something that creates the audience to be intrigued, because a key fact is hidden.

-semic code
something the audience recoginses through connotations.

-symbolic code
something that symbolizes a more abstract concept.

-cultural code
something that is read due to cultural awareness.

Todorov
Todorov's theory is about the idea that a story start with some sort of an equilibrium (everyday life, something that sets scene.), and leads into disruption (a complication that stars after the equilibrium.). Then conflict (which is the climax, where the problem is being solved.) which then leads into a resolution (where the problem is sorted). Finally leading to an equilibrium that was different from the first (this is a pleasing ending, where things go back to normal, but its a new normal.)

Levi-Strausse
His idea of the narrative was that it was created by binary opposites.
For example- love&hate, black&white, good&evil.

Narrative Theory

The Narrative is they way in which a story is told.

The Narrative theory explores many convections:
-Genre
-Character
-Form
-Time

There are different narrative theories used in media. In many films an ellipses is used to fill in blanks of the story and to highlight key events of the film.
The  most classic structure is the LINERA STRUCTURE, in this structure there is a clear beginning, middle and an end where there is closure.

However there are other structure that do not follow a chronological order.
An open structure: the audience are left to make sense of the story themselves linking it to the series of events that happened in the movie before. They are left wondering, what next... The complete opposite structure to this is the closed structure: this means that there is a clear and definite ending, conclusion to the piece.
The next structure used is the circular structure. this is where the story starts at the end and the audience go on a journey to come back to the end.

Editing in Narrative

Editing plays a large roll when it comes to the production of any type of video. editing consists of: transitions, cutting shots and changing positions of different shots. the use of editing can change the meaning of a film completely. for example different types of transitions can either make the scene more exaggerated or more natural. 

the main types of transitions used in television are: 

• fade to white 
• straight cut
• crossfade
• wipe

The use of editing changes the story completely. For example we created a short story board of events. If we were to start the story board with the the 4th shot, how would that affect the rest of our scene?
We tried this, and as a result we had to move many of the other shots, in oder for the scene to make sense.

Editing is used to manipulate the audience into thinking in a certain way. For instance in a scene you see something is about to happen, then you see the result of what 'supposedly happened' therefore as an audience we think something happened, though we didn't actually see it.

How can genre aid me in relation to my

Genre is a set of convections, that is recognised through iconography, familiar narrative, mise-en-scene, actors and style of representation. Knowing how genre is represented in many different ways, will help me with my aim because, having the knowledge on how different aspects affect genre, will allow me to focus on creating a certain genre. This will help us develop our films' genre throughout the process of creation, of our opening scene. This will be done by using many different aspects of mise-en-scene. For example: camera angles, sound, lighting, props and costume and make-up.

Introduction to the brief

Brief: The title and opening of a new fiction film, to last a minimum of two minutes

•  Research
• Planning
• Filming 
• Post Production

During the course of production, we have to ensure that all of our sources are completely original. We also have to ensure the sources  do not have copy right.