HOW DOES YOUR PRODUCT USE OR CHALLENGE CONVENTIONS?

Looking at narrative theory, especially Todorov and Barthes

NARRATIVE THEORIES

• Tvzetan Todorov - suggests narrative is simply equilibrium, disequilibrium, new equilibrium
• Vladimir Propp - characters and actions (31 functions of character types)
• Claude Levi-Strauss - constant creation of conflict/opposition propels narrative. Narrative can only end on a resolution of conflict. Opposition can be visual (light/darkness, movement/stillness) or conceptual (love/hate, control/panic), and to do with soundtrack. Binary oppositions. 
• Roland Barthes Action/proiarectic code & enigma code (i.e. Answers & questions). Read about Barthes' Five Codes here
• David Bordwell on narrative: see his blog on understanding film narrative here
• See our class blog post 

In class,  we revise each theoretical framework and seek to apply the relevant ones to our own productions in answer to one of the questions asked in the Creative Critical Reflection