NARRATIVE THEORIES

I have based the main structure of my film around Todorov’s theory. I have chosen to do this as in my film as I will start with a balanced equilibrium where it seems as though everything is as it should be and a normal day. There will then be an unbalancing of this equilibrium, in which the main character will have to overcome this. And finally a new equilibrium will be formed. This is what Todorov’s theory suggests, a balanced equilibrium, an unsettling of this equilibrium and then a new equilibrium is formed.

However, rather than showing this new equilibrium at the end, it will only have a short shot, leaving the audience to try to guess and figure out what has happened. In my film I am also going to include the basic principles of binary opposites as suggested by Propp. But rather than having a good character vs. a bad one, I am going to have the good and bad represented within one character.