Narrative in our opening sequence

Narrative

Todorov's Narrative Theory: I feel our narrative structure will be challenging Todorov's structure as we are beginning with the end of the film instead of an equilibrium. You could say there is a disruption in it which would be the murder, however the happiness has already been disrupted. You could say that the film is the  equilibrium as it is a flashback before the opening sequence so it would start off normal and happy whereas the opening sequence is the disruption.

Vladimir Propps Characters: 

• There is no protagonist in our film because it is a dark psychotic storyline based on Ophelia killing her best friend and so everything goes wrong in the film.
• Antagonist would be Ophelia because she has murdered her best friend and we do not know why
• There is no dispatcher as Ophelia is independent and choses to go on this 'Quest' of psychotic  behaviour by herself
• There is no princess/prize however Ophelia's boyfriend may count

So once again our film idea is challenging props theory as this sub-genre of 'Psycho' may create difficulties following these theories as it focuses on just the main character and not many other people are involved. Also, we don't have a protagonist as the film is so dark and sinister and so we felt it best to have no one which could help Ophelia.