Intertextuality

Camera language - Angle

Audience Involvement

Camera language - Movement

Narrative Theory

1.  Read the mini-saga and complete the grid below.

Emily and the Dragon.

Emily was tired of watching wimpy princes trying to get rid of the local dragon, so she decided to have a go herself. Soon she came upon the dragon who was singeing the top of a freckle-faced boy's head.

Being a resourceful princess, Emily set a trap for the dragon and then tricked him into following her..

"You're just a silly girl, and even though it's hardly worth it, i'm going to toast you to a crisp and have you for pudding' boomed the dragon. Just then, the branches he was standing on gave way, and he fell down a very deep well, his fire put out once and for all.

Emily returned to the boy.

'What's your name?' she asked.

'Prince Mathew' said the boy.

'That'll do nicely,' said Emily. 'Where do you live?'

'In Happy-Ever-After,' he replied.

'That'll do nicely too,' said Emily.

And with that, she and Matthew rode off together to Happy-Ever-After.

Todorov’s Stages	Todorov applied to 'Emily and the Dragon.'
1. Equilibrium	We meet key character Emily and find out that she wants to kill the dragon.
2. Disruption	Emily met the dragon and thats the disruption.
3. Recognition of disruption	Emily was a approached by the dragon.
4. Attempt to repair disruption	emily talked to matthew.
5. Reinstatement of equilibrium	she rode off with the boy to happy ever after land.

2. In pairs or small groups, identify each of the stages in a film you know well.

Name of film: Paul

Todorov’s Stages	Applied to one of the films
1. Equilibrium	in a nerd festival getting a magazine signed.
2. Disruption	they meet an alien which makes them stop.
3. Recognition of disruption	the alien creates problems with the police
4. Attempt to repair disruption	they talk about how they are going to get rid of the police
5. Reinstatement of equilibrium	paul the alien gets taken away by his alien friends and everyone lives happily ever after.

3. Think of your own simple narrative featuring a small girl or boy. Write a 50 word story

that follows Todorov's narrative structure.

(The naughty boy)

one day a boy named john got expelled from school for beating up a child a lot younger then him.

but the next day he was playing outside and a bigger boy came up to him and beat him up and the boy never hurt anyone again the very end.                                   

Todorov’s Stages	Applied to your story
1. Equilibrium	boy got expelled from school.
2. Disruption	he beats up people.
3. Recognition of disruption	people end up in hospital.
4. Attempt to repair disruption	boy gets hurt by another boy
5. Reinstatement of equilibrium	john never hurts anyone ever again. THE END.

Science Fiction Films

Stock Characters

Film Genre Grid