1. Independent Research: Macro Features
Task: Produce a macro features pack that illustrates all the theory you have learned so far.
Define each macro feature and apply each theory to all three of the films we have watched.
• Narrative (Oldboy)
• Genre (No Country for Old Men)
• Representation (Harry Brown)
Use the three case studies as examples.
You may choose to do this however you want (PowerPoint?)
Create something that is a useful resource for you to refer to.
Narrative:
• Todorov’s narrative structure
• VladamirPropp’s spheres of action (character roles)
• Syd Field 3 act structure
• Circular, Episodic, Linear
• Restricted, Omniscient
Genre:
• 4 Stage Process
• Codes and conventions of genres
Representation:
• Stereotype
• Archetype
• Countertype
• Positive or Negative representations?