Lesson notes

Lesson notes.

Bordwell and Thompson (1997):

- They offer tow distinctions between story and plot which relate to the diegetic world of the narrative that the audience are positioned to accept what they see.

-"Lore" (Story) in all the events in the narrative that we see and infer.

             ( Plot) everything we actually see presented in front of us.

- Structure of the classic narrative system:

According to Pam Cook (1985) the standard Hollywood narrative structure should have: 

. Cause and effect with an overall trajectory of enigmatic resolution.

. A high degree of narrative closure.

. A fictional world that contains verisimilitude, especially goverend by spacial and temporal coherence.

Barthes (1977):

- Suggested that narrative works with five different codes and the enigma code setting up puzzles for the audience to solve.

- A code simply being symbolism of something, cocking of the hammer representing an imminent duel in a Western. Visual ques are simply narrative ques.

AdrianTilley (1991):

- Further supports the theory of visual ques to inform the audience of narrative situations without resorting to exposition.

Claude Levi-Strauss (1958):

- Ideas about narrative amount to the fact that to be believed all narratives operate within direct binary opposites. 

- The importance of these ideas is that essentially a complicated world is reduced to an either/or structure. There is good or bad there is no in-between, this sounds like something Yoda would say but I disagree. Think about characters like Han Solo, they are seen as good but the things they have done are certainly bad.