Narrative Theory

Narrative Theorists can be applied to my work, for the trailer.

The main narrative theorist would be Claude Levi-Strauss as he talks about how plots have binary opposites, for example:
-good v bad
- happy v sad
In my plot for my trailer then it has many binary opposites in it so Levi-Strauss theory can apply. In my trailer i have the binary opposites of good v bad, with one of the characters being good one being bad. Another binary opposite was happy v sad as the bully character is happy and the character being bullied is sad. Another binary opposite that could be used is strong v weak as the bully is obviously strong whereas the bullied character is weak in the sense of not sticking up for herself.

Vladimir Propp's theory was that there were 6 main stages of a story and it includes 8 main characters, my trailer however does not use all 8 characters but it does use the typical main characters of a horrible person and a nice person so it does have the typical characters that Propp argues most plots have.

Roland Barthes is another narrative theorist who argues such theories of 'Proairetic' which is where a way of tension being built up so that the audience is left thinking what is next. This could be seen as happening in my trailer when it comes to an end the audience will lead to think what happens in the trailer and what happens next. My trailer also uses Hermencutic in Barthes theory which is a way of the story avoiding telling the whole truth in order to drop clues to help create mystery, this will happen throughout the trailer as it doesn't give the whole plot creating mystery of what is going to happen throughout the whole film.