Narrative Formal System Gill Branston

1) Making stories, or narratives is a key way in which meanings and pleasures are organised and made vivid both in and outside the media.

2) Narrative theory suggests that stories in whatever media and whatever culture share certain features.

3) Roles of action, propp argued, make sense of the ways in which many different figures can be reduced to eight character roles

4) Barthes suggested that narrative works with five different codes which activate the reader to make sense of it.

5) They define story as consisting of 'all the evemts in a narrative, both explicity presented and inferred.