Analysing my AS Production in Terms of Narrative.... (2nd)

Deconstructing Narratives of this Opening Scene
 In this opening scene we discover, that the video actually goes through the five stages of narrative structure which is

• Exposition - Setting scene and introducing character, therefore in this case we are immediately introduced to our character Damien.
• Development - situation gradually develops, therfore we are introduced to the character a bit more as soon as he leaves his estate and start to walk but yet constantly looking around.
• Complication - Something then happens to complicate lives or the character - in this instances it is when we see our main chracter see a robbery occuring.
• Climax- The descisive moment is then taken into consideration, a suspense high, this occurs when we our main character is coming a conclusion of whether to help our victim.
• Resolution - the reolution is not what we expect however as we only see our main character turn round to go help but the scene just ends. Therefore we are left on a cliff hanger.

Being left at a cliff hanger means that we are forced to decide what happens at the end. This is in connection to Roland Barthes Theory. Barthes theory is that we start to unravel a text and meanings that could be catergorised in the following ways.

1. Symbols and Signs
2. Point of Cultrual Reference
3. Simple descriptions/reprodcutions
4. Actions

Therfore we as the audience have different perceptions, where our job is to deconstruct these meanings through these ways. In relation to my prodcut, the audience is left to unravel the meanings and solve the mystery on what happens, whether our character wins the fight or looses the fight. (Barthes Enigma Code).

In my opening scene there is also evidence of Levi Strauss approach to an narrative, where we allow binary oppositions of good and evil and even through the use of colours of black and white contrast to construct to audiences an narrative.
Lastly in this opening scene there is evident Todorov's theory, where there is an equilibruim at the beginning of the opening scene, where things are quite normal at the beginning until a certain situation where a character and an action disrupts the equilibruim and in this case it is when Damian see's a robbery occur and decides to go and resolve it.