Keanon Mcsween

The challenge narrative theory

Story: a boy falls asleep in bed then mysteriously the boy wakes up in
a forest scared and disorientated, beside him is a mat. On the mat are
some items a hammer, a marker, a chisel, a phone and an x-ray of a
foot or penis with a capsule in it. The phone then rings, the boy looks
at the phone to find a voice or video message. The message tells the
boy what to do and what the consequences are and how long he has
then the count down begins. In a panic he quickly grabs the hammer
and chisel he marks the spot where the capsule is. Then tries to build
up the courage to hammer the chisel into his foot or penis he taps it
lightly flinches scared, then goes to hit it hard. Then the boy goes to
hit the chisel with the hammer and shouts.

Todorovs narrative theory: the disruption of equilibrium and the
recognition of this disruption with an attempt to restore the
equilibrium or a new equilibrium is made.
Todorovs narrative theory relates to our production because in the
beginning the equilibrium is; that our main character Jake sets
people challenges with vicious consequences but nobody ever tries to
stop him or get him back until one day the equilibrium is disrupted
and changed. Whilst Jake our protagonist sleeping he finally gets a
taste of his own medicine. This is our disruption of the equilibrium.

Roland Barthes enigma code: refers to any part of the story that is
not fully explained meaning it then becomes a mystery.
Roland Barthes theory is significant to our production this is because
the mysterious person who sets Jake the challenges throughout the
film is unknown to the audience all the way through the production,
the audience only ever understands why this person is setting Jake
these challenges but they never understand who this person is. This
adds to our thrilling atmosphere of suspense.

Levi Strauss; binary oppositions, Levi Strauss argued that the
meaning in narrative is based upon binary oppositions.
The binary oppositions that we have used in our film are good vs. evil
and protagonist vs. antagonist. This is represented as Jake vs. the
mystery person that sets him his challenges.


Keanon Mcsween