We were asked to write a summary about the movie 'The Shining' a horror movie and how it relates to propps theory on narrative.
Propps Theory:
Vladimir Propp (1969) developed a character theory for studying media texts and productions, which indicates that there were 7 broad character types in the 100 tales he analysed, which could be applied to other media:
The villain (struggles against the hero)
The donor (prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object)
The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest)
The princess (person the hero marries, often sought for during the narrative)
Her father
The dispatcher (character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off)
The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the donor, weds the princess
He then went on to say that he could make a summary of 31 points that would happen in the narrative from the beginning to the end. They may not go all in order but most will make an appearence somewhere down the line of the movie/tale.
To start off with this film does follow propps characters roles i.e. hero, donor and other roles and to an extent each character in the film plays out these roles. Some actually carry out two maybe three roles so this is a very good way on how to recognize their roles.
The next part of propp's theory was the narrative structure of a general concept for a film. We had to apply it to the movie 'The Shining' The idea behind propp was a structure of sections where an event would happen. They all go within a certain order but in terms of 'The Shining' the events didn't match up in the order of what propp had wrote.
They do match together but they do not make sense in the places they go in. It is all a bit mixed up but if correct in the right order propp's theory would certainly fit this movie and it may well fit other movies. The theory itself is an easy way to digest the narrative of any movie but it sometimes can't be applied efficiently to some movies. But it is a good way to find out the roles and event structure of a film.
Portfolio Sections
- A. Final Product: Main Product (1)
- B. Final Product: Ancillary Texts (2)
- C.1 Evaluation Question 1 (1)
- C.2 Evaluation Question 2 (1)
- C.3 Evaluation Question 3 (1)
- C.4 Evaluation Question 4 (1)
- D. Appendix 1: Research for Main Product (13)
- E. Appendix 2: Pre-Production planning for Main Product (3)
- F. Appendix 3: Research for Ancillary Texts (2)
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