Narrative

Bordwell and Thompson (1997) offer two distinctions between story and plot which relate to the dietetic world of the narrative that the audience are positioned to accept.

The structure of the classic narrative systems according to Pam Cook (1985), the standard Hollywood narrative structure should have:

Linearity of cause and effect within an overall trajectory of enigma resolution.
A high degree of narrative closure.
A fictional world that contains verisimilitude especially governed by spatial and temporal coherence.

Tzventan Todorov (1977)

• Stage 1: Stable equilibrium-everything is satisfied, calm and normal.
• Stage 2: Stability is disrupted-creates a state of disequilibrium.
• Stage 3: Recognition that a disruption has taken place.
• Stage 4: Never possible to reach the same equilibrium.
• Stage 5: Restoration of a new equilibrium and changed characters.

O'Sullivan et al (1988) suggest, narratives have a common structure, starting with the establishment of the theme.
Development of the problem an engima (Barthes 1977) creates tension.
Finally comes to the resolution of the plot.
Such narratives can be unambiguous and linear.

Kate Domaille (2001) every story ever told can be fitted into one of eight narrative types. Each of these narrative types has a source, an original story bases upon which the others based.

• Achilles - one weak spot in every character.
• Candide - The hero that cannot be put down. For example, James Bond, Indiana Jones.
• Circe - The chase, the spider and the fly, the innocent and the victim. For example The Terminator.
• Feast - Selling your soul to the devil may bring riches but eventually your soul belongs to him.
• Orpheus - The loss of something personal, gift that is taken away, the tragedy. For example, The sixth sense.
• Romeo & Juliet - The love story.
• Tristan
• Iseult

Claude Levi-Strauss (1958) idea about narrative amount to the fact that he believed all stories operated binary opposites. For example, good vs evil.

Micheal Shore (1984) argues videos are:
Recycled styles.
Surface with substance.
Information overload.
Image and style scavenges.
Vanity and the moment.
Classical story telling's motifs.

Andrew Goodwin (1992) argues that in music videos "narrative relations are highly comlpex" and meaning can be created from individual auto-viewers musical personal musical.

3 types of narrative:

• Performance
• Narrative
• Abstract/conceptional