8. PROPP AND TODOROV THEORY APPLIED TO TRAILER

I HAVE ALSO DONE THE MIND MAP.
I DONT HAVE A CAMERA TO POST THE PICTURE.
WILL HAND IT IN ON WEDNESDAY 5TH OCTOBER. 



THE PROPP THEORY.

prop analyzed some russian folks tale . He broke down the tales into the smallest possible units, which he called narratemes, or narrative functions, necessary for the narrative to exist. Each narrateme is an event that drives the narrative forward, possibly taking it in a different direction. Not all of these functions appear in every story, but they always appear in this order.

the prop theory is decided in around 30 narrative functions.
in my trailer same of them will be actually taking place :
here is some of them and how i am going to apply them to my trailer:

1 an interdiction ( a command not to do something) . in my trailer  the characters will be told not to call                      spirits through a special rite.

2 the characters  ignore the interdiction. they still do the rite and call spirits.

3 the "enemy" appears.  spirits appear in the trailer after they called them

4 the enemy injures characters.  in the trailer some characters get injured possessed and killed

out of 30 points that prop made only 4 will be in my trailer. this because the rest of the points that prop made were about an entire story or movie; as a consequence although they might occur in the full movie of my trailer ,  the other points made by propp cannot be applied to my trailer.

i think that the prop theory is really hard to apply to trailers because  his theory involves a full story while a trailer is the teasing of a story and it does not have some key parts on which the prop theory is based on .

TODOROV THEORY

Todorov proposed a basic structure for all narratives. He stated that films and programmes begin with an equilibrium, a calm period. Then agents of disruption cause disequilibrium, a period of unsettlement and disquiet. This is then followed by a renewed state of peace and harmony for the protagonists and a new equilibrium brings the chaos to an end.

    todorov's theory is considerably more applicable to trailers compared to propp ' s theory. 

    as in many trailers everything is quiet in the beginning , after there is a period of chaos followed by a more quiet , followed by harmony , that leads in the end  to the chaos. 

  as an  example i could use my trailer.   students go back from school ( beginning harmony) . the call spirits ( chaos) 

  they try to escape and run away ( quiet period ) they run in the church ( harmony) . spirits appear in the church ( final chaos)