tv news and narrative
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TV News and Narrative
+What is narrative?
Narrative is the way a story is told
You can tell a story through pictures, words, sounds, moving images, dance etc
All media texts have a narrative
+Example - Macbeth
+Study: Cinderella
With the cards put the story in order
How is the story told?
Now re-order the cards and see if you can make a new beginning, middle and end
+Narrative Theory No.1Todorov
Tzetvan Todorov’s theory of narrative is:
EQUILIBRIUM
DISEQUILIBRIUM
NEW EQUILIBRIUM (Beginning, middle and end)
+1) Equilibrium
2) Disequilibrium
3) New Equilibrium
+Narrative Theory No.2Claude-Levi Strauss
Claude-Levi Strauss believed that one way narrative can be move along is through opposites.
Or what he called ‘Binary Opposition’.
+Binary OppositesHappy/Sad
+Binary OppositesRich/Poor
+Binary OppositesLazy/Busy
+News Story Examples
Watch the three videos about the murder of a school teacher from Leeds last year.
Do the stories have a equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium?
Write it down in short notes
Do the stories have any binary opposites?
Make notes of these