Verismilitude: How real the world of a story appears to the audience - how realistic and believable it is.
Diegesis/Diegetic World: The world in which the film takes place.
Juxtoposition: Placing one object next to another to create meaning.
Narrative Theory: Theories that categorise narratives and find features to common them.
Levi-Strauss' Binary Opposition: Narrative tension is based on opposition or conflict. This can be as simple as two characters fighting, but more often functions at an ideological level.
E.g: good vs evil, girl vs boy, peace vs war, etc.
Vladimir Propp's 8 Character types:
Street Dance Clip Analysis:
Diegesis/Diegetic World: The world in which the film takes place.
Juxtoposition: Placing one object next to another to create meaning.
Narrative Theory: Theories that categorise narratives and find features to common them.
Levi-Strauss' Binary Opposition: Narrative tension is based on opposition or conflict. This can be as simple as two characters fighting, but more often functions at an ideological level.
E.g: good vs evil, girl vs boy, peace vs war, etc.
Vladimir Propp's 8 Character types:
- The villian - against the hero
- The helper - assists the hero on their mission
- The princess/prize - prize for the hero. Usually faught over between villain and hero
- Her father - rewards the hero - usually identifies the false hero
- The donor - the character who gives
- The hero - the character who saves everyone from the villain
- The false hero - takes credit for the real hero's actions - usually tries to claim the 'prize'
- The dispatcher - the character that sends the hero off on their quest
Laura Mulvey - 'The Male Gaze' Theory
- White, heterosexual men control the media
- They objectify women
- They create media to appeal to white, heterosexual men
Todorov's Equillibrium Theory:
- Equilibrium
- Diruption of equilibrium by an event
- A realisation that the disruption has happened
- An attempt to repair the damage or disruption
- A restoration of equillibrium
Examples of this include disaster movies, such as '2012' and 'Indapendance Day'
Action + Enigma Codes - Roland Barthes
Action Codes - What will happen next...
Enigma Codes - The audience question 'why?'...
Street Dance Clip Analysis:
- Short cuts - get shorter when she's dancing
- Binary opposition
- Non-diegetic sound
- Slow tracking shots
- Slow motion
- Paralel sound - reflects the characters emotions
- Montage of the characters day
The shots of the scene tend to be of the protagonists body (for example, her torso). This is a reflection of Laura Mulvey's 'Male Gaze' theory, as it shows how the character is being objectified.
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