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30 Min timed essay (Narrative Theory) For this essay, I will be looking at my summer trailer. Narrative is defined as a chain of events in a cause-effect relationship occurring in time. I will be looking at 5 narrative theorists in this essay. I’ll be discussing about the following: Tzetvan Todorov, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Vladimir Propp & Pam Cook. Todorov’s theory, talks about a three-act structure in narrative. This includes Equilibrium, Disequilibrium and Resolution. As our summer trailer was only a trailer, we did not include the resolution, as it will just spoil the film. Many other trailers do not show the resolution too. The equilibrium was displayed at the beginning of our trailer, for a few seconds, then disequilibrium. Also known as the disruption. The part where things begin to go downhill, for our trailer it was when the people started going missing and flying into the air. Then as the disequilibrium continues, we had a montage. The next theoris

In this essay, I will be discussing how the following genre theorists: Christian Metz, Rick Altman, Nicholas Abercrombie, Steve Neale & Daniel Chandler, are used in last year’s horror trailers. The trailer I will be talking about is The Collector, by the production group Jumpscare. Christian Metz, theorist for genre characteristics. He claims there are four stages to the genre of film: Experimental stage, classic stage, parody stage & deconstruction. The experimental stage is where the genre is being identified. Then it’s the classic stage, once the all the conventions have been set in the ground and have been identified as the genre.  After the classical stage, it’s the parody stage, this is where they start taking the genre and making it comedic, and, they tend to re-enact scenes from the classical stage. The deconstruction stage is the stage where they start implanting completely new conventions into the genre, they usually team with other sub-genres. Based on the tra

Narrative Theorists: Tzetvan Todorov Claude Levi-Strauss Roland Barthes Vladimir Propp Pam Cook Todorov Theory – 5 Stages of narrative ·          Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, recognition, action, restoration Propps Theory – Stock Characters ·          The Villian, The Hero, The Donor, The helper, The princess, Her Father, The Dispatcher, The false hero. Claude Levi-Strauss Theory – Binary Opposites ·          Boy vs. Girl, Peace vs. War, Man vs. Woman, Young vs. Old. Roland Barthes – Structuralist approach ·          Action, Enigma, Semic, Symbolic, Cultural Pam Cook – The Structure of The Classic Narrative ·          Enigma Resolution ·          Narrative Closure ·          Fictional World that contains verisimilitude

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