Individual Narrative

The narrative starts with a young woman aged between 20 and 24 and is business dressed; like coming from work, it is late and there are not many people around she makes eye contact with a man around the same age. The innocent woman walks down a dark alley which looks very mysterious and dangerous. At the same time there is a man chopping up a body there is gore and blood the low key lighting helps to hide the killers face. We then see this man walk also walk down a dark road the low key lighting hides his outfit and face. The slow editing crosses between the man walking and the women. The woman becomes scared by a dangerous looking man who the audience would suspect is the killer. The dangerous looking man is used to throw the audience off the scent of the killer who comes across at first to the audience as a police officer who has the denotation of a hero; in this case he is the killer of the film. By throwing the audience of the scent of the killer at first makes the audience more intensified by the characters therefore making the film more engaging. Instead of following the normal conventions of a thriller film by using a gun or physically dangerous weapon I decided to go down the route of using an injection this is more mysterious. The injection also has many different affects death, poising in this case it is used to put the women to sleep. The use of the police offer and the injection will acts as a cliff hanger to keep the audience engaged. The hero is an normal citizen who see the women being sedated and runs to her rescue her the off screen sound will create a dramatic chase to get to the women he runs to the car but it is to late therefore creating the tone for the rest of the film.

 

We are going to follow Tzvetan Todorov theory. who simplified the idea of narrative theory whilst also allowing a more complex interpretation of film texts with his theory of Equilibrium and Disequilibrium. Equilibrium is a simple formula can be applied to virtually all narratives - it is a more formal way of thinking about the beginning, middle and end, and it takes into account Aristotle's theory that all drama is conflict i.e. there is disequilibrium at the heart of every narrative. These help to create a new equilibrium creating a better narrative. The narrative is not seen as a linear structure but a circular one. The narrative is driven by attempts to restore the equilibrium. However, the equilibrium attained at the end of the story is not identical to the initial equilibrium. Todorov argues that narrative involves a transformation. The characters or the situations are transformed through the progress of the disruption. The disruption itself usually takes place outside the normal social framework, outside the ‘normal’social events. The fictional environment begins with a state of equilibrium (everything is as it should be), it then suffers some disruption (disequilibrium), and new equilibrium is produced at the end of the narrative. There are five stages the narrative can progress through. A state of equilibrium (all is as it should be) then to A disruption of that order by an event thirdly A recognition that the disorder has occurred An attempt to repair the damage of the disruption A return or restoration of a new equilibrium.