Planning & Development: Narrative Theory

Narrative theory refers to the structure of a film/video and how it affects our perception or it. As a group, we hope to achieve an extremely clear narrative. Throughout our planning we have discussed how we can make the theme of the narrative being lost, depressed and alienated by the whole world by her being lost in busy London and having drinking problems. We wanted to raise a poignant issue that is going on at the moment with teenagers who think it is 'cool' but showing them the negatives for if, drinking is taken to far and becomes a habit. The conclusion to which we came to decide that that was going to be our narrative was due to the fact that in the lyrics emphasis of the words 'Emergency' began to make us realize that the girl is in some kind of state of disparity and needs some guidance and the song is helping her to understand that she is not the only one out there and that she doesn't want to be in an emergency situation with alcohol.
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Through costume and make-up it will be evident, between who the band our and the girl in the narrative as we will distinguish the characters using the Prop and Todorov principles about character types and narrative stages. These principles have helped through planning this portfolio because I've had to focus on how I really want my narrative character to be portrayed as the hero but in a way that is more like an anti-hero because the fact that she is on a quest to find herself. However, her behaviour is not the stereotypical manner that you would expect from a hero e.g. the drinking. The presentation of the cast is based upon fitting in with the stereotypical concept of the genre specific type of clothes, so she will wear ripped dull clothes and the band will have a much cleaner Pop Punk look as we are trying to stick to the codes and conventions of this genre of music.