Narrative theories research task

Narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of events whether they are fictional or non-fictional such as a story is often used to describe what a narrative is and also a narrative is used in film to keep the flow of the story. This explains where the story comes from and what the story is about.

Narrative is important as it helps keep the story flowing and explains to you what is happening in the story so you don't lose what the plot is. The flow of the film is set by narrative and as the film progresses the narrative informs you of what is happening so you don't get confused and this is why narrative is important in film.

The three narrative theories are :
Equilibrium, Disequibilrium and new state of equibilirium which are when the film at the beginning is all normal and everything is fine, just a normal day and then a problem occurs and this is the diseqiulibrium which upsets the balance of the equilibrium and then this problem is sorted and then a new state of equibilirium is set which everything is almost similiar to the equilibrium at the beginning but is not the same as things have changed since then.

Binary opposition is a theory of opposites where it is good vs evil, light vs dark, tall vs dark, woman vs man and so on. This theory is that everything in film has an opposite such as a battle between the batman and the joker in the dark knight which shows the battle between good and evil.

Character types are also one of the three narrative theories which say that each character in a film has a certain role or particular set out which they are used for in the film such as:
Hero : the good guy, strong, handsome, rescues the day.
Villian : evil, ugly, power-hungry, world domination.
Sidekick : used for comedy, smaller than the hero, depends on the hero and follows him around.
Heroine : falls in love with the hero and also fights her own battles.
Helper : helps the hero on his journey usually with advice or an object
Mentor : teaches the hero everything he needs for his journey
father : looks after the hero usually is older and very close to the hero.

The most useful theory we can use in our film opening will be the equilibrium theory as the bullies lives will start off as the equilibrium which will be everything is normal at the start for them then the biggest change will be the disequilibrium where Kallam commits suicide and then comes back from the dead in order to exact revenge and this turns the bullies lives upside down and they must sort the disequilibrium and start a new state of equilibrium.

Kidulthood is also like this as at the start everything is normal until a girl gets bullied and commits suicide due to her tormentors bullying and from then on the film changes and becomes more dark.

Evidence of this is : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435680/

Filmogrophy :Kidulthood
Year - 2006
Director - Menhaj Huda