INTRO TO NARRATIVE

What do you think narrative means?

The words and phrases that make up the script

Tutor Definition
Narrative is the media term for how a story is told in text
Story = a sequence of events, known correctly as the plot
Narrative = the way those events are put together to be presented
Therefore, when analysing a narrative we analyse the construction of the
story ie the way it has been put together, not the story itself.
What are the different ways of structuring a narrative?
Linear
Non Linear
Multi Strand
Single Strand

List Propps seven archetypes

Hero/Anti hero
Villain
The helper
The donor
The princess or a sought after person
The dispatcher
Seeker hero
Can you apply Propps theory to a TV show or Film?
Walking Dead
Daredevil
Deadpool
Luke Cage

List the stages or Todorovs narrative theory.

Equilibrium
Disruption of the equilibrium
Recognition of disruption
An attempt to repair the damage
New equilibrium
 Can you apply Todorovs theory to Dead Man Walking?
Equilibrium OMalley and Burke
Disruption Jamies Kent brothers death
Recognition of the disruption Thinking that Jamie Kent is behind it
An attempt to repair the damage - Questioning Jamie Kent
New equilibrium
List Barthes Codes.
Action
Enigma
Cultural
Connotations
Symbolic
Can you analyse Barthes codes in Dead Man Walking?
Action the investigation of Sam Kent death
Enigma catching Jamie Kent
Cultural
Connotations
Symbolic -

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