Narrative


Read Media Factsheet 14 - Telling Stories: The Media's Use of Narrative and answer the following questions:

1) Give an example from film or television that uses Todorov's narrative structure of equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium. 

In the movie Train To Busan, the equilibrium is that Seok-woo and his daughter are travelling back home. The disequilibrium is the zombie apocalypse where they are attacked and are trying to reach the safety point Busan. The New equilibrium is when his daughter reaches Busan and is finally safe.

2) Complete the activity on page 1 of the Factsheet: find a clip on YouTube of the opening of a new TV drama series (season 1, episode 1). Embed the clip in your blog and write an analysis of the narrative markers that help establish setting, character and plot.

https://youtu.be/49_44FFKZ1M (Trailer as i cant find full episode)

Temporal Market: It is day as seen through the main characters bedroom window.

Geographical marker: The city shown is seen as Tokyo Japan through the capitals iconic buildings, roads and the Japanese writing.

Historical Marker: The technology used e.g the gaming pc and phones used to transfer and text shows its present day.

Character Marker: In the opening the main character is playing games, we can see he is an unemployed adult when his brother and father complain about his laziness.

Generic Marker: We can tell its sci-fi and thriller when the characters are  teleported into a game world where they are forced to survive in order to not get eliminated.


3) Provide three different examples from film or television of characters that fit Propp's hero character role.

- Miles Morales (Spider man across the spider verse)

-Seok-woo (Train to Busan)

- Drea (Do Revenge)

4) Give an example of a binary opposition.

Good vs Evil

5) What example is provided in the Factsheet for the way narratives can emphasise dominant ideologies and values?

-In a romantic comedy where a girl gets the heart of a guy she likes where ideas of a heterosexual relationship is reinforced.

-Where a criminal is captured by a police officer, the law and justice is empathised.

6) Why do enigma and action codes (Barthes) offer gratifications for audiences?

-Enigma=  An introduction to a problem or complication creating an enigma code where the audience with be curious about the plot and its solution.

-Action= When the text provides a climax leaving the audience with a problem being resolved and a reward for watching the journey unfold.

7) Write a one-sentence summary of the four different types of TV narrative:

  • Episodic narrative (the series)                                                     Can be watched in any order no need to watch any previous episodes as it is resolved by the end of the episode.                                                                                        
  • Overarching narrative (the serial)                                            Instead of being resolved at the end of the episode it is resolved at the end of a series so there will be a cliff hanger and a recap included.                                                                  
  • Mixed narrative                                                                        Both episodic and overarching as there are minor conflict with a resolution this also includes large development.                                                                            
  • Multi-strand overlapping narrative (soap narrative)                There are multiple stories that are mostly resolved over 1 to 2 episodes this can vary. Each episodes ends with a cliff hanger  keeping audience interested with a variety of stories, not repetitive.

8) How does the Factsheet suggest adverts use narrative?  

Adverts are usually made with a problem and with an immediate resolution. This is the crucial in advertisement in order to create a narrative for the audience to relate to.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Gender, identity and advertising

David Gauntlett: academic reading Read  this extract from Media, Gender and Identity by David Gauntlett . This is another university-level piece of academic writing so it will be challenging - but there are some fascinating ideas here regarding the changing representation of men and women in the media. 1) What examples does Gauntlett provide of the "decline of tradition"? He shows that traditional view of a woman as a housewife or low-status worker has been re shown as the feisty, successful 'girl power' icons. On the other hand, There are ideals of hyper masculinity where  toughness,  and emotional silence have been shaken by a new emphasis on men's emotions, leaving them without advice. 2) How does Gauntlett suggest the media influences the way we construct our own identities? He illustrates how media influences us where modern western societies forces people to create their own identity and lifestyle, even if their preferred options are rather obvious and conve
Read more

Representations of women in advertising

  Academic reading: A Critical Analysis of Progressive Depictions of Gender in Advertising Read  these extracts from an academic essay on gender in advertising by Reena Mistry . This was originally published in full in David Gauntlett's book 'Media, Gender and Identity'. Then, answer the following questions: 1) How does Mistry suggest advertising has changed since the mid-1990s? There is increasingly employed images in which the gender and sexual orientation of the subject(s) are markedly ambiguous. There's is also  growing number of distinctly homosexual images. 2) What kinds of female stereotypes were found in advertising in the 1940s and 1950s? Feminists had been articulating the  idea of women having their own plans and careers; but soon after 1945, women were made to feel  guilty by warnings of the 'dangerous consequences to the home'.  Betty Friedan (1963) claims this led  to the creation of the 'feminine mystique': 'the highest value and the o
Read more

Ideology

Image
  Part 1: BBC Question Time analysis Watch this clip from BBC Question Time with Russell Brand and Nigel Farage. The BBC deliberately placed the two against each other and the episode resulted in far more people than usual watching and reacting on social media. 1) What examples of  binary opposition  can you suggest from watching this clip? Conservative and liberal values,  hate and Love for Nigel Farage, support and neglect. 2) What  ideologies  are on display in this clip?   Conservative, Liberal, Socialist, Immigration restriction, Social welfare Part 2: Media Magazine reading Media Magazine issue 52 has two good articles on Ideology. You need to read those articles ( our  Media Magazine archive is here ) and complete a few short tasks linked to them.  Page 34: The World Of Mockingjay: Ideology, Dystopia And Propaganda 1) Read the article and summarise it in one sentence. People who have power control ideas and resources while propaganda and the media use TV to distract the masses.
Read more