Theorists in media

Theorists in media

   Propp's Theory

     Vladimir Propp came up with a theory, when he was studying texts and productions, he came up with "7 broad character types" in a 100 tales that he had analysed. here are the list of seven that he had come up with;

1. The villain (struggles against the hero)
2. The donor (prepares the hero)
3. The helper (helps the hero along the quest/journey)
4. The princess ( person whom the hero marries)
5. The false hero ( he/she was good at the beginning, but then turned evil as the story went on)
6. The dispatcher ( the one who sends the hero off)
7. The hero ( AKA the winner and the one who weds the princess)
   
   In our film we will just have one of these, which will be 'The Villain'(struggles against the hero) but we will not have the hero in our film because he/she will not fit in to our script.

Vladimir Propp(Theorist)

    Levi Strauss Theory

Levi Strauss believed that "all narratives could be reduced down to binary opposites".

E.G
Old-New

Light-Dark

Weak and Strong
   In our film we will just use the one of these. Which will be light and dark, because we dont want to see the stalkers face at the start of the film, so we shall make that dark. As the film goes on we will be able to see the stalkers face, so with this happening we shall make the stalkers face light, so you can see his face and the facial expressions. 

Claude Levi-Strauss(Theorist)

Todorov's Theory

There are five steps to Todorov's theory;

1. A state of equilibrium (All is well/ as it should be)
2. A disruption in the equilibrium by a certain event
3. A realisation of the event that has just occurred
4. An attempt to restore the damage by the event that had occurred
5. A return or restoration of a NEW equilibrium   

A film that follows these steps perfectly is "Die Hard"

Tzvetan Todorov(Theorist)





Barthes Theory

Barthes created 5 codes which are woven into ANY narrative. These codes are;

'The Hermeneutic Code(HER)'