Narrative Theorists.

The narrative is constructed through camera work, lighting and mise-en-scene. It organises time and space in a very compressed form. Narrative plot refers to everything visibly/audibly present.


Vladimir Propp - narrative theorist.
He based his theory on categories of character functions:

• Hero
• Villain
• Donor (person who helps/gives info to the hero)
• Dispatcher (person who sets hero on his way)
• False hero
• Helper
• Princess
• Father

Claude Levi-Strauss - philosopher
Believed in binary opposites
e.g. night+day hero+villain love+hate

Roland Barthes - French literary theorist
Believed that narratives contain codes which suggest things to the audience for them to understand more about the plot/characters.
e.g. action, enigma, symbolic, cultural, semic

Todorov
At the beginning of the narrative there is an equilibrium to set the story off then something happens to disrupt the balance which usually by the end of the story the state of equilibrium has been restored.