1. Story Unit 5 Notes

2. What is the Classical Paradigm? Most popular type of narrative structure Based on a conflict between a protagonist who initiates the action and an antagonist who resists it Most films begin with an implied dramatic question Viewers want to know how the protagonist will get what he/she wants in the face of opposition Builds to a dramatic conflict Resolution occurs

3. Realistic Narratives Prefer loose discursive plots with no clearly defined beginning, middle or end No clear cut conflict Story presented as a “slice of life” Move slowly Often center on a right of passage Often borrows from the cycles of nature

4. Formalistic Narratives Artificial Time is scrambled and rearranged to hammer home a thematic point Plots design is obvious Author’s personality is part of the show Interrupted by lyrical interludes

5. Narrative Types Documentary Avant Garde Fiction Movies

6. Documentary Deal with facts, real people, places and events Reports on the world Minimal interference with reality 60 Minutes

7. Avant-Garde Concerned with conveying inner impulses Not written out in advance (sometimes) Like a lyric poem Fantasia

8. Fiction Movies Like novels and plays Horizontal in development Linear structures Love stories Sleepless in Seattle, The Notebook

9. Genre Films Specific type of movie A war picture, gangster film, western Distinguished by a characteristic set of conventions in style, subject matter and values Usually directed at a specific audience Saving Private Ryan

10. Four Classifications Primitive Classical Revisionist Parodic

11. Primitive Naïve phase Powerful emotionally Bowling for Columbine

12. Classical Embodies ideals of balance, richness and poise Genre’s views shared by audience Titanic

13. Revisionist More symbolic Less certain in values Appeals more to intellect Questions popular beliefs Amelie Crash

14. Parodic Mockery of conventions Comic Cliches Scary Movie

15. OVP Fourth Quarter OVP is due Friday, November 20 th