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Image analysis of Chris Marker’s La Jetée

Posted onSeptember 5, 2017September 5, 201718,455 Comments

Here are two very good articles that provide valuable insight into the structure behind Chris Marker’s La Jetée, which we will be viewing and discussing in class. Editing La Jetée Continue Reading

CategoriesFilm theoryTagsanalytics, chris marker, editing, storytelling

Photography and narrative: What is involved in telling a story?

Posted onSeptember 5, 2017September 5, 201713,292 Comments

Narratives can be structured in a number of ways, but the classical form is that of the linear narrative – a story with a beginning, middle and end, strong characters Continue Reading

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsfilm, image, narrative, photography, storytelling

Constructive Editing – Robert Bresson

Posted onAugust 20, 2017August 20, 201711,257 Comments

Analysis of editing in Robert Bresson’s 1959 Pickpocket. By David Bordwell Source: David Bordwell

CategoriesEditing, Narrative, StorytellingTagsbresson, editing, movement, narrative, narratology, storytelling

Propp’s morphology of the Folk Tale

Posted onAugust 19, 2017August 19, 20179,374 Comments

Propp’s analysis Russian Vladimir Propp (1895-1970) analyzed many of his country’s folk tales and identified common themes within them. He broke down the stories into morphemes (analyzable chunks) and identified 31 narratemes (narrative units) Continue Reading

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsnarrative, narratology, storytelling

The Hero’s Journey – Joseph Campbell

Posted onAugust 18, 2017August 20, 201714,023 Comments

The Hero’s Journey Outline The Hero’s Journey is a pattern of narrative identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth that appears in drama, storytelling, myth, religious Continue Reading

CategoriesUncategorizedTagshero, myth, narrative, storytelling

Dramatic structure

Posted onAugust 9, 2017August 19, 201711,711 Comments

There exists something called a narrative structure which can be used to structure virtually any story. See the following plot graph. Is this a structure you may recognize in films Continue Reading

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsartistotle, dramatic structure, freytag, narrative arc, storytelling

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