Story line

3 main characters.
Two brothers - one 15 one 18
one girl - 15 - Younger brothers girlfriend.
All working class.
Older brother goes behind younger brothers back by having sex with his girlfriend.
The younger brother has always been the favourite sibling out of the two, older brother was jealous, always put down by feeling not good enough, so he had it away with the younger brothers girlfriend to get revenge.
Girl finds out she is pregnant. tells the boyfriend.
Younger brother (boyrfiend) notices his older brothers jewllery at girlfriends house. finds out the girl has had sex with him.
Brothers have a huge fight at home about it, breaks family apart, brothers get kicked out of their house. living on the street, sometimes at their freinds. stealing food from shops.
Brothers meet in the street, have a second fight and grow apart.
TWIST - Girl has slept with another guy but hasnt admitted it.
None of the brothers turn out to be the dad. The other guy is, family squash their differences and are happy families.

Narrative theory's

Their are two types of narative theory's. Here they are

 

Todorov's theory

TODOROV’S THEORY – Todorov proposed a basic structure for all narratives. He stated that films and programmes begin with an equilibrium, a calm period. Then agents of disruption cause disequilibrium, a period of unsettlement and disquiet. This is then followed by a renewed state of peace and harmony for the protagonists and a new equilibrium brings the chaos to an end. The simplest form of narrative (sometimes referred to as ‘Classic’ or ‘Hollywood’ narrative).

Propp's theory

• PROPP’S THEORY –Vladimir Propp’s theory was formed in the early twentieth Century. He studies Russian fairytales and discovered that in stories there were always 8 types of characters evident. These are: the hero, the villain, the donor, the dispatcher, the false hero, the helper, the princess and her father. He did not state these characters were all separate people e.g. the provider could also be the helper. There are only 8 different character types and only 31 things they ever do. Once you have identified the character type (e.g., the hero) it’s easy to guess what they will do (save the maiden, defeat the villain, marry the maiden or whatever) because each character has a SPHERE OF ACTION. This is easily relatable to films and programmes today.

Narrative theory

Narrative theory

In media terms, narrative is the organisation given to a series of facts. The human mind needs narrative to make sense of things. We connect events and make interpretations based on those connections. In everything we seek a beginning, a middle and an end. We understand and construct meaning using our experience of reality and of previous texts. Each text becomes part of the previous and the next through its relationship with the audience.

Representation in the media

Representation is the message something portrays. For example a picture of a woman in the kitchen could represent that stereotypically women are always in the kitchen. Sometimes representation of some things are questioned as different people would interpret things in a different way.

Here is a professor called stuart hall talking about representation and the media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTzMsPqssOY