Vladimar Propp a Russian critic, Propp believes that narratives are not important for the story line, he feels characters are ore of an importance.
Tzvetan Todorov states that a story is not all about characters its about the narrative and the equilibriums and disequilibrium. Every narrative should have a beginning, middle and end narrative.
Aristotle claims that shorelines should be completely about themes and that characters and narratives are not important.
Our groups narrative theory links in closest with Todorov and how its not all about the characters but focuses more on equilibriums and disequilibrium with the story having a beginning middle and end. Our plan for our opening scene is a sleepover with 4 friends when they decide to do an Ouija board but it turns wrong and things start to happen. The lights start to flicker on and off and people start to hear things. The opening scene will end there but we have planned the future of the film in that one of the friends continues to become haunted and in the ends commits suicide due to them not being able to take anymore.
Our group will be using various techniques including cinematography, sounds, mise-en-scene and edits to create a detailed opening scene. The scene is meant to scare the audience and spook them out and intrigue them to want to watch more to find out what will happen to the 4 teenagers.
You have described which theory your film will follow well and this is because you have explained how your narrative supports the theory.
ReplyDeleteYou need to refer back to your class notes and you need to discuss the three theory points in more detail