Narrative theory

• In media terms, narrative is the coherence / organization given to a series of facts. As humans we need to have a clear structure and things in a particular order to make sense of things. in everything we see and do we expect there to be a beginning a middle and an end. 

there are 3 main theories which are;

Vladimir Propp, a Russian critic, who was around in the 1920s believes that narratives are not important fir the story line, he equilibriums and disequilibrium. Every narrative should have a beginning , middle and an 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.