Narrative

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

In the flash it starts of with the equilibrium of him getting his powers  and enjoying the everyday use of them. But there is another person who got powers who is now causing trouble and tries destroy the city. This would be the disequilibrium as there is the problem. The flash then would stop him abd saves the day whic would mean that is the new equilibrium. 

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.

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

1.The hero is Barry Allen who is the flash 
2. The villain is the reverse flash which is a villain who wants to kill the flash. 
3.The princesses is Barry's crush Iris as she gets into trouble 

4) Give an example of a binary opposition.
In the flash Barry is the good guy going against the evil reverse flash. This happens throughout the whole season.

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

Family guy 
The Simpsons
CSI
6) Why do enigma and action codes (Barthes) offer gratifications for audiences?

This is because the enigma code makes the audiance wonder and become suspicious of whats about to come and gets excited or scared while the action codes shows what happens which satisfies the audiences.

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

• Episodic narrative (the series) The problem within the episode 
• Overarching narrative (the serial)The problem within the whole season 
• Mixed narrative: The different stories in the episode 
• Multi-strand overlapping narrative (soap narrative): 

These have a continuous narrative and they tell a number of different

stories at the same time. This is sometimes called an open narrative

as there is no final resolution for the text. Each narrative strand

involves different characters.

8) How does the Fact sheet suggest adverts use narrative? +
The analysis above uses the terminology from
the theories covered to discuss how the narrative in the advert
works. This is useful for exams because you can demonstrate
you understand theory by using terminology and you don’t

need to write out the theories themselves.