Narrative :

• Propp's character types (applied to fairytales) - why?
• Classic Hollywood Narrative: 

1.     Beginning, middle, end (positive resolution);
2.     Stock characters with a psychological motivation;
3.     A link between the cause and effect;
4.     Binary opposition; you have to take a side to engage into a film

• Entice a audience
• Propp's character's 31 character types / 7 common character types that appear in folk stories: 

1. The hero
2. The villain 
3. The donor/enabler ; prepares the her in someway/gives the hero an object
4. Helper, helps the hero in the quest
5. The princess, sought for in the narrative
6. The false hero; perceived as a good hero but later emerges as evil
7. The dispatcher; character who sends the hero off

• Suggests that the narrative is a 'human' / international language; we all see this 

• Todorov - Equilibrium:
• A state of equilibruim 
• Disruption 
• Recognition
• Repair
• Reinsatement
• Applied to many narratives 

• Levi Strauss - Binary Opposition 

Context + Messages = Analyse why : why it has been done/it is doing this due to the purpose of the context 

The director has the most control over the messages of the film, we need to know about the other films he/she has previously produced, why they made this/what was their motivation or opinion. 

-Youtube 

-Interviews 

Narrative or genre or authorship( themes and style )