Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Initial Ideas: Narrative
- Levi Strauss
- believes that binary opposites are important in narrative,
as they help thicken the plot and further the narrative
- Good vs Evil
- Girl vs Boy
- Crime vs Justice
- Andrew Goodwin
- believes that in
music videos
the narrative
often links to
the lyrics and
the tempo of
the music
- Vladimir Propp
- believes that media texts need
particular characters to
develop the narrative
- hero
- princess
- villain
- dispatcher
- believes certain parts of
a narrative always
happen
- hero battles villain
- hero is given quest
- princess is made distress
- Todorov
- believes there
are several main
stages to
complete a
narrative,
recognisable in
any story:
-equilibrium
-disruption
-resolution
-equilibrium
- Alan Cameron
- believes there are
several types of
'unusual' narrative
- ANACHRONIC
NARRATIVE: includes
regular flashbacks and
flashforwards, with all
different narrative parts
being just as important
- FORKING PATH
NARRATIVE: shows two
different consequences
that are diverse only as a
result of a small
change/decision
- EPISODIC NARRATIVE:
separate narratives
have some sort of
link, e.g. different lives
being linked by a
particular accident
- SPLIT SCREEN
NARRATIVE:
different
stories, linked
by the fact that
they are shown
on screen at
the same time
- Unrestricted/Restricted Narration
- UNRESTRICTED: where
information is given out in as
much detail as possible with very
little restrictions so that the
narrative is clear. Audiences
often know more than the
characters
- RESTRICTED: where the narrative is kept minimal,
with parts unclear. Audiences are often in the dark
over a lot of the narrative (used effectively in the thriller genre)