NARRATIVE

How stories are told
so what's your story? casual, love narratives
is life a narrative, is a day, a relationship
everything random but causality, we want to makee stories to make sense of the world
cave paintings!!!!! hunter goes out, finds animal, shoot
always, as long as able to ommunicate

fILM NARRATIVES
the way a story is told, how meaning is constructed to achieve audiences understanding
groups events into cause and effect - action and inaction
variation - different perspectives change the narrative, whose story is it
EVERYONE IN LIFE HS THEIR OW NARRATIVE, SAME THINGS HAPPENING BUT MULTIPLE NARRATIVES
not the same as story

we love causality - one thing is caused by before thing, helps make sense of world for brains, narratives organise stories so they can be understood
reality TV - Emma having a bad day, see her having a bad day - caused by something else. narratives are fictitious in reality tv because life is not a story
we like chronology
religion gives us a narrative - god, person has bad luck because they did evil thing - my crops failed because I didn't do the thing to make the thing happen, god pray etc

narrative voice - whose story
ATB - sams perspective we see Moses how she sees him!!! relatable narrative voice, not Moses perspective necessarily

NARRATIVE PLOT
everything audibly or visibly present

narratives are selective - film covers a week but
narrative plot is an hour - decide what to show
narrative story - everything that happens
narrative plot - what we choose to show of all the things

Brewis - story, not plot -- he's offscreen a lot

FAIRYTALES AS KIDS
RELIGION
SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH
CULTURAL PHENOMENA
NEWS EVENTS
DREAM,S

ARISTOTLE SAYS
a beginning, middle, end
over 2000 years ago
ATB INTO BEGINNING, MIDDLE, END - three act structure

beginning - aliens introduced
middle - getting to the weed room (rising action)
end - moses changes attitude, big explosion Moses running bit (climax), hanging from the thing and being arrested (end)

TODOROVS THEORY - disagreed with Aristotle
e q u I l I b r I u m - everything normal and fine
disruption 0 something bad happens to get ij the way of protag
recognition - characters recognise the disruption happened
attempt - characters attempt to repair the situation, put it right
restoration of a new equilibrium - yay everything is put back, new normal. character or situation changed but order is restored. not saying it has to be a good ending, just a new state of being

ATB -
equilibrium - normal robbing someone for the gang, Moses is a gang member and sam is avoiding dodgy people on her estate
disruption - meteorite falls
recognition - realising the gang weren't lying about aliens for sam, police van - her perspective
attempt - try to hide but then decide to kill the aliens, they do it in the end
restoration - some friends are dead but aliens are gone, back to being arrested like a regular criminal, normal life as a gang BUT Moses is a Nero on the block and sam, is a friend now
new equilibrium in a t b is that Moses reforms himself, different people in the block can talk to each other

VLADIMIR PROPP
studied Russian folktales and fairytales and decided that all narratives have a similar structure
shaped and directed by certain characters not actions
narratives are character driven - interactions between them
a function is a plot motif or event in the story
SEVEN CHARACTER TYPES - CALLED FUNCTIONS:

VILLAIN aliens, hi hat, the police!!! police win technically - as monstrous as aliens
DONOR pre[pares hero or provides a magical agent
HELPER
PRINCESS sought after person who marries hero or punishes villain
DISPATCHER sends hero off
HERO 
FALSE HERO pretending to be the real hero

hi-hat is like a false villain
a t b doesn't have clear cut roles which makes it unconventional
Moses is the hero?
helpers and dispatchers - Brewis realises the alien goop thing, sam helps, Ron helps,


CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS
studied myths and legends

we make sense of the world using binary opposites - narratives organised around these binary opposites. conflict, natural opposition has to happen or there's no story, makes it interesting, no narrative without conflict
good vs. evil
black vs. white
male vs. female
democracy vs. dictatorship

narrative is about what's shown onscreen, and we wouldn't't be shown the mundane boring bits
ATB:
not human vs. human
authorities vs. youth/hoodlums
old vs. young
strong vs. weak
hurting vs. healing (nurse)
lower class vs. middle class vs. working class
moral vs. immoral
action vs. inaction
knowledge vs. confusion
order vs. chaos