single camera drama outline and plots

1) Format e.g. Sitcom, feature and documentary

2) Narrative structure - Plot + story


Story - the events
Plot - order of events

 fight in playground
1) student A at bed side with sick mum and family
2) on way to school + late
3) late into school other students make fun
4) break time - fight


Problem to be resolved - Beginning
                                      - Middle              3 act structure
                                      - End

Order - Equilibrium
Disorder - Disequilibrium                 Good v.s Evil
Order again - Re Equilibrium 


Romance
Boy meets girl
Boy loses girl
Boy get girl back

Jaws

Narrative thoughts of Jaws

1) Vladimir Propp

Propp believes that nearly every fairy tale follow the same structure with the characters and the roles they play with in the story itself.



The villain - struggles against the hero.

The dispatcher - character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off.

The helper - helps the hero in their quest.

The princess or prize and her father - the hero deserves her throughout the story but is unable to marry her because of an unfair evil, usually because of the villain. The hero's journey is often ended when he marries the princess, thereby beating the villain.

The donor - prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object.

The hero or victim/seeker hero - reacts to the donor, weds the princess.

The false hero - takes credit for the hero’s actions or tries to marry the princess

2) Tzvetan Todorov

'Order'

Equilibrium

Disruption

Resolution - Order restored new equilibrium ' gone back to normal'

3) Roland Barthes

A number of codes that we can see in a narrative

Enigma code - A narrative device to tease the audience. In jaws they are trying to find out what is killing the people, some think its a shark and others think its people.

Acton code -  A narrative device by which a revolution is produced by an action. In jaws this is the shoot out at the end of the film were it ends up killing the shark

4) Sigmund Freud

Superego - Law 'Police'

Parents

Government

Ego - Self

Id Unconscious - Desires

 Brody 'Police officer' - Superego + Id unconscious

Jaws - Id unconscious

Hooper - Id unconscious

Quint - Id unconscious

 Brody trying to deal with the desire of stopping the shark and save the people but the other two guys are in it for their own desire


5) Levi Strauss
Oppositions
Good Vs Evil

Jaws
Brody Vs Jaws
Life Vs Death
             Drink
             Mayor