Lesson Write Up - 1st October

Bordwell & Thompson: (1997)

Offer two distinctions between story and plot which relate to the diegetic world of the narrative that the audience are positioned to accept and that which the audience actually see. They based this on Russian film theory:

Fabula: (story) is all the events in the narrative we see and infer. Defined as chronological events that are implied

Syuzhet: (plot) everything that is visible

Linearity of cause and effect within an overall trajectory enigma resolution = narrative moves forward to solve the problem

Equilibrium with diegesis – usually has conflict to create interest between protagonist and antagonaist.

Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before the Lights Come On

Narrative -

• Haven't met
• Meet
• He's married (quest)
• Rejection
• Goes back (resolution)
   

Todorov (1997)

Stage 1: point of stable equilibrium, everything is calm and normal

Stage 2: disrupted by some kind of force which creates a state of disequilibrium

Stage 3: recognition disruption has taken place

Stage 4: only possible to re-create equilibrium through action directed against disruption

Stage 5: restoration of new state of equilibrium. Consequences of the reaction to change the world of the narrative. New equilibrium is not the same as the initial state.