Narrative Theory Assignment

In your books you are to complete a research assignment on 'Narrative Theory'.

Explain what we mean in media by narrative.  Give a clear understanding of what narrative means.

You must research the following narrative theorists and their theories.  You must put the information into your own words and it must be presented neatly in your books making use of a range of communication methods including bullet points, lists, images/ drawings, tables, highlighting, underlining, diagrams etc.

The theorists are;

• Tzvetan Todorov
• Jean Claude Levi-Strauss
• Roland Barthes
• Vladimir Propp

Provide some background information on each of the theorists and explain in detail their theories about narrative.  Explain the importance of this in relation to media studies and your study of it.  Explain how you think it will be useful to you in your coursework?

The deadline for completion is 21st October

Contents Development

Keep uploading the development of your products to your blog to show how you are developing technical skills and understanding the elements of media language and conventions of the form. 

Contents Draft Ideas

Once you have completed your layout ideas you need to upload the contents drafts by adding text and images into the document.

Examples of contents pages-what are the key conventions?

Contents page layouts

 These are examples of different layout designs for contents pages.

Contents pages have clear conventions that you must conform to.

Identify on your blog what these key conventions are and then design 2 idea layouts similar to these shown on this page.  
Make sure that you use guidelines to help you to construct your ideas.

Final Front Cover for School Magazine

• When you have completed your final front cover upload it to your blog and evaluate what you have done.
• I want you to explain what new skills you have learnt and what progress you have made whilst completing the drafts and the final media product.

Draft Development

Second Rough Draft for School Mag Front Cover

It is a good idea to develop a few ideas for your front cover by drafting ideas.  This is basically designing ideas and generating alternative ideas.  It will allow you to try things out and to plan for your final idea.  You might try different layouts, fonts and photos to help you decide on what works best.  You might even ask people to access your blog to leave comments to give you feedback on their thoughts.  You can produce as many draft ideas as you like as long as you upload them to your blog and complete the final idea by the deadline date.