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To understand how narrative works in film and TV texts.
Narrative: 'story' chain of events. cause of effect e.g situations and consciquences
Diegesis: The internal world created by the story that the characters themselves experience and encounter e.g own world harry potter, dr who etc.
Story: all events referenced explincently in a narrative and infered (inc backstories)
Plot: The events directly incorporated into the action of the text (script) and they're in order that there presented.
Narrative Range-
Unrestricted narrative: a narrative which has no limits of information
Restricted narrative: only offers minimal information regarding the narrative e.g thrillers, charlie and the chocolate factory.
Narrative depth: subjective character identification - the viewer is given unique access to a range of characters (switching) like in harry potter.
Objective character identification: the audience gets more/different access to a particular character i.e we can hear and see what they do. e.g harry potter.
Narrative Theory: conventional narrative theory can be explored via the work of russian formalists from the 1920's (vladmir propps)
Viadamir Propps theory of narrative- he suggested that the characters took the roles - - -
The Hero: usually male - restores narrative equilibrium
The victim hero: center of the villians attention e.g voldermort
The seeker hero: texts central character, tries to be the hero?
The villian: creates the narrative disruption
The donor: gives the hero something like an object or information e.g lord of the rings
The helper: aids hero in tasks of restoring equilibrium e.g ron and hermonie
'The princess' (victim) : usually is most threatened and has to be saved.
'The father': role is usually to give away princess to the hero at the narrative.
The dispatcher: sends hero on his/her task (who can typically be the father)
The false hero: appears to be good but is revealed to be bad (villain) at the narratives end (or in reverse like snape in HP)
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