Sunday, 10 October 2010

Todorov

Todorov’s Narrative stages

Todorov is a Bulgarian philosopher, he believes there are five key stages to any narrative film. These include:

  1. Equilibrium - here the setting is established and key characters are introduced, this is when the story line is set up.
  1. Disruption - the oppositional characters appear and the story is taken in a particular direction.
  1. Recognition of disruption - this is the longest section of all the stages, consisting of both the events and the characters.
  1. Fixing the disruption - here we feel a lot of tension and the problem we saw at section two has been fixed.
  1. Reinstatement of equilibrium - all the problems are resolved and a new balance is created.

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