Izetan Todorov
Todorov was a Bulgarian structuralist who had a theory about Narrative Structures.
His theory had 5 stages shown below:
His theory had 5 stages shown below:
- Equlibrium
- Disruption of the Equlibirum
- Realisation of the Disruption
- The repair of the Equilibrium
- A restoration of the Equilibrium
Vladimir Props
Props studied different Russian fairy tales and came up with the theory that every storyline has 8 main characters.
- The dispatcher
- The helper
- The girl/ prize
- The villain
- A scholar/ person of authority
- The donor
- The fake hero
- The hero
- The hero and the villain struggle
- The hero is branded
- The villain is defeated
- The state of order is restored
Claude Levi strauss
Levi-Strauss was a French philosopher and anthropologist, his theory was that in every storyline oppositions occur. For example:
- Light/Dark
- Girl/Boy
- Villain/Hero
- Good/Evil
- Right/Wrong
- Storm/Clear
- Life/Death
roland Barthes
Barthes was a French literacy theorist and philosopher. His theory was that every storyline had codes theory. This theory was that a storyline was like a ball of thread, once unravelled could be read to have many different meanings. You can look at a narrative in one particular way, then unravel it further and find a completely different meaning. There a re 5 different codes for storylines:
It is Barthes theory of the Enigma Code that we plan to use in our trailer, to keep it a mystery, so the audience don't know what's going on.
- The Hermeneutic Code - avoids telling truths, or revealing facts to create mysterious storyline.
- The Enigma/ Proairetic Code - tension is built up and leaves the audience left guessing about what is to happen.
- The Symbolic Code - sorting semantic meanings into a broader and deeper set of meanings.
- The Cultural Code - looks at the audiences wider cultural knowledge, morality and ideology.
- The Semantic Code - suggests a particular and different meaning by way of connotation.
It is Barthes theory of the Enigma Code that we plan to use in our trailer, to keep it a mystery, so the audience don't know what's going on.