Narrative Theory Reading.

From this piece of reading, I found many things to note down. For example; 

*Concerning narrative, it needs to have a beginning, a middle and an end, and these have to make sense to the audience and through out own experiences, we can understand these meanings.

*The conventions of a narrative include the genre, the character, the form and the time. 

Bartne's Code

This is like unravelling a piece of wool in that as we identify with the narrative codes, we are able to understand the meaning.

Structures

*Tvzetsh Tadorov talked about equilibrium, disequilibrium and a new equilibrium. This is where the character starts off normally, equilibrium, then is faced with a problem, disequilibrium, and they work it out and have a new ending, new equilibrium. 

*Vladimir Propp talked about characters and actions

*Claude Levi-strauss talked about the conflict and oppositions with the character. 

I think these are definitely relivent for today, as they are the structures that make a film, and it is how everyone has grown up knowing how to recognise these; people do not like change in such a big way that they will not enjoy it. 

As an audience of course we have a say in the way we read the narrative, as we all read things differently, and as mentioned earlier, through our own experiences, we would interpret aspects differently than others.