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Film Posters - Coggle Diagram
Film Posters
Representation
Font
Main image
Sub image
Costume
Industry
The Big Six
Walt Disney Studios
Warner Bros.
20th Century Fox
Paramount Pictures
Comcast
Sony
Regulation
BBFC (British Board of Film Classification)
U
PG
12
12A
15
18
Audience
Media Language
Narrative theory
Tzvetan Todorov
Theory of equilibrium (balance)
Every story opens with a description of 'normal' life (equilibrium – everything in balance)
A disruption occurs to this 'normal' way of life. Dis-equilibrium is created.
Some of the characters recognise there is a disruption, attempt to put things right. Undergo a series of challenges in their quest to repair the disruption.
Climax – a defining event that resolves the disruption.
The story closes with the characters' lives back to 'normal' or at least a new version of normality after everything they have been through. A new equilibrium is established.
Vladimir Propp
Stock character theory
The Villain
The Dispatcher
The Hero
The False Hero
The Helper
The Princess/Prize
The Donor
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Binary Oppositions
The way we understand words depends not just on any meaning they themselves directly contain (connotation) but much more by our understanding of the difference between the word and its 'opposite' or 'binary opposite'.
Example:
Roland Barthes
5 Narrative Codes
Hermeneutic/Enigma Code (the important one)
Refers to mystery within a text. Clues but not clear answers are given.
Enigmas within the narrative make the audience want to know more.
Unanswered enigmas tend to frustrate the audience.
