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Theories of Narrative - Toderov and Propp

Todorov(1st on the Right) is a Franco-Bulgarian philoshoper who came up with
theory to the classical Hollywood one. He believed this was the real narrative.

• Equilibrium
  
• Disruption
  
• Resolution
  
• New Equilibrium

Whereas Propp (2nd on the right) analysed the basic plot of Russian folk stories. He beleived that anrrative could be broken down into 8 key points:

1. The Hero (protagonist)
2. The Villian (antagonist)
3. The Donor (Provider)
4. The Helper
5. The Father
6. The Dispatcher
7. The Princess
8. The False Hero

Neither of these theories I can really apply to my music video as I beleive my music video followes none of these structures. Its not really a 'story' music video and therefore cannot be anaylised by either of there theories. The only thing I could possibly link this theory with my music video is the fact that it spanes a period of time allowing some story element to show in my video. However, I would nt say this is the strong est demonstration of this theory.

Levi-Strauss and Binary Opposition and how this links to my music video

Claude Levi-Strauss aruged that the stucture of different

narratives was dependent on binary opposition ( a conflict between two qualities or terms), these inturn can then form a narrative.

Gender
Gender stereotypes are organised through gender stereotypes.

The constriction of gender roles in narratoives lead to a series of binary oppositions (as seen above in the table).

Eg. Dominant vs. Subordinate

DOMINANT

• Male
  
• White
  
• Middle Class
  
• Middle aged
  
• Hetrosexual
  
• Able-bodied

SUBORDINATE

• Female
  
• Other ethnic groups


• Working Class
  
• The young, the old
  
• Homosexuel, bisexual
  
• Disabled

Example - The Western

Example - The wars in Irap and Afganistan

If anything my music video goes completely against this concept and breaks sterotypes showing a woman strong, achieving her goals and getting somewhere in life adbecoming a performer. Is doesn't really feature and binary opposites as she is the only person featured throughout of the music video.

Narrative Theory's and how my video uses this theory

Narrative is the way the story is organised.
The following list are all elements that are part of the Narrative Theory:

• Time
• Closure
• Enigma

Time

The narrative theory presents a period of time it covers and does it go in chronical order.

My video uses a flashback but not in obivous way as we see two sides to my artist due to a hiar vcut incident I had between filming. I used the "haircut" so that when we see when she is performing she has a shoter hair cut and this is part of the flashback and slow tranisition are used to show this. I would say my music video spans over 1 year.

Closure

The lose ends of the narrative is tied up and the audience is never left thinking what happens next.

My video follows this part of the theory as it doees not leave the audience hanging and has a nice ending whereby the ending make sense with what the has been going on throughout the video.

Enigma

The enigma is the problems created within a narrative and the problems that occured.

There are no real problems within my music videos that are created and resolved.

Classical Hollywood Narrative

This narative is linear and is in a diffinate sequences. They have few sub plots and has a tendency towards closure.

My music video does not follw this structure as it's quite realistic and isn't glamourised in the setting or costume. It doesn't follow any particular sequences of events and flashes back and forth between settings.