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Yr 12 OCR Media Studies
Narrative Theories
Learning Objectives:1. To understand how to apply narrative
theories to media texts
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Narrative
A man pulls up outside a church in his car,a woman is waiting for him.
TASK: What happens next? In fivesentences, finish the story for a TV Drama(to last about one episode).
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Co nventi o ns
Which of the following narrative conventionshave you come up with? A beginning, middle, and end
Binary opposition in characters A happy ending
A narrative in its most basic sense is a series of
events. But, in order to construct meaning fromthe narrative those events must be linkedsomehow.
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Dang ling cause
Dangling causes are based on our understanding of cause/effectrelationships.We know that an event (a cause) willresult in some effect.
In television we often see a cause butthe effect is withheld and we will notknow the result until a future episode.
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Narrative in TV D rama
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The Story World of the Series (Plot A )
The individual episode Each episode has itsown storyline. Thisis often called Plot B.In some instances thereare multiple plots (B, C,D) in each episodeFriends, for example.
The Story World establishes a contextin which weekly or daily episodes unfold. Theoverall plot of the series moves slowly. This is
considered Plot A .
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The o ristsTodo r o v: Equilibrium, disequilibrium, restored equilibrium.
Levi-Strauss : Narrative is the resolution of two binary opposites by amediator.
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inear progression (and character archetypes).Freytag : Narratives start with exposition, rise to a climax, anddecline to a den ou emen t .
Arist o tle: Narrative must have a beginning, middle, and end, and
have to come to a proper ending.
Barthes: Narratives are not constructed by the author, but by thepeople who read them.
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The en d of the beginning
Does this feel like the beginning of anarrative? Why?
What narrative theory could you apply tothe extract?
TASK: Write a PEE paragraph to answer the questions above and demonstrate your application of narrative theory.
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