Theory Of Narrative Part Two

• No point in creating a media text if it doesn't refer back to your audience. 
• Re-representation - creating a narrative based on society

Boardwell and Thompson (1997)

• Offer two distinctions between a story and a plot which relate to diegeis world of narrative that the audience are positioned to accept and that the audience actually see.
• Fabula (Story): Is all the events in the narrative that we see and infer. The fabula is defined as the chronological series of events that are represented or implied.
• Syuzhet(plot): Everything visible and audibly present before us. Syuzhet is considered to be the order, manner and techniques of their presentation.

The structure of classic Narrative;

• According to Pam Cook (1985) the standard Hollywood narrative structure should have;
• Linearity of case and effect within an overall trajectory of enigma resolution. 
• A high degree of narrative closer.
• A fictional world that contains verisimilitude especially governed by spathal and temporal coherence.  

Todorvo (1997)

• Stage 1: A point of stable equilibrium, where everything is satisfied, calm and nomoral
• Stage 2: This stability is disrupted by some kind of force which creates a state of disequilibrium.
• Stage 3: Recognition that a disruption has taken place
• Stage 4: It is only possible to re-create equilibrium through the action directed against the disruption.
• Stage 5:  Restoration of a new state of equilibrium the consequences of the reaction is to change the world of the narrative and/or characters so that the final state of equilibrium is not the same the initial state.

Barthes (1997)

He suggested that the narrative works with five different codes and the enigma code works to keep up setting problems or puzzles for the audience. His action code ( a look, significant word, movement) is based on our cultural and stereotypical understanding of actions that act as a short hand to advancing the narrative. 

Adrian Tiley (1997) 

He used the bucking of the gun belt in the western genre as a means of signifying the preferred reading of a shoot out, and this works in the same way as the starting of a car in an engine etc. 

Claude Levi- Strauss (1958)

Had ideas about the narrative amount to the fact that he believed all stories operated to a certain clear binary opposites e.g good vs bad, black vs white, rich vs poor. 

The importance of these ideas is that essentially a complicated world is reduced to a simple structure things can either be right or wrong, good or bad there isn't an in between.

Michael Shore (1984)

He argues that music videos are; recycles styles, surface without substance, simulated experience, information overload, image and style scavengers, ambivalence,decadence.

For example; Weezer's -Buddy Holly music video. 

It was a reference back to the 1970s sitcom which was set in 1950s.
There video included a mix of footage of  from the TV Show and video.