Session 2: Justification of Final idea, Adaptation choices and Narrative Analysis

My group has chosen the myth story of the ‘Trojan War: Apple of Discord’ to shoot for our short movie which is between 3-5 minutes. We chose this story deliberately because of the good concept behind the main story and we could adapt the story how we wanted it to be and make it more interesting. Below I am showing the original story we searched of the Trojan War and the adapted version we change to how we wanted: http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/history.html

      This is the website where we got the original version of the ‘Trojan War’.

 

  

   Below is the original and adapted version together: 

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   The structure of our story is based on one part of the Trojan War which is the ‘Apple of Discord’ which is a Greek myth from 1200 B.C. We are focusing on this bit mainly because of the concept behind but we are changing the concept and bringing in our own formula which has a beginning, middle and an opening open.

In AS Media I learnt the 5-Stage theory which I am going to use in A2 Media studies which I am going to apply to the adapted version of the Apple of Discord. These stages consist of the following: Exposition: Introduction to settings & the characters.
Development: Audience develops to know characters, the story starts to kick off and new settings and characters are introduced.
Complication: Distribution or conflict within the story.
Climax:  Distribution & Conflict reaches a peak.
Resolution: Happy Ending, Bad Ending & Open Ending.

      

      

In the ‘Apple of Discord’ my group has applied ‘Propp’s Function’. Propp’s Function consists of 31 function character types and from the following functions they will be incorporated into the short movie. Below I am going to show the four functions we have applied to our adapted version of the ‘Trojan War’.

Also Propp concluded that they’re can be seven different characters types which I’m going to put in below:
Helper: Who assists, rescues, solve and/or transfigures the hero’s.
Villain: Struggles with hero.
Donor: Prepares and/or provides hero with magical agents.
Princess: A sought- for person (and/or her father).
Dispatcher: Who sends the hero off.
The Hero: Who departs on a search reacts to donor and weds at the end.
The False Hero: Who claims to be the hero, often seeking and reacting like a real hero.

Our adaptation of ‘The Trojan War’ includes a ‘Villain’ (Paris who steals the apple), the ‘Prize’ (Apple of Discord which is what everyone is fighting over), the ‘Donor’ which is Eris (she provides the apple to everyone), & the ‘False Hero’ (Zeus- appears to everyone like he’s trying to settle the situation on the other hand he has other things on his mind).

Levi-Strauss looked at narrative structure in terms of binary oppositions. Binary oppositions are sets of opposite values which reveal the structure of media texts. An example would be GOOD versus EVIL. Levi-Strauss theory was a constant creation of conflict/opposition and this narrative can only end on a resolution of conflict. Levi-Strauss narrative relates to our adaptation as my groups narrative is based on conflict because Eris is jealous and fuming that she wasn’t invited so she crashes the party and starts a conflict with the ‘Apple of Discord’.

The moral of our story is based on ‘Vanity carries its own punishment’  this means if you fight over something because your vain means not far behind there will always be punishments for the ones who let vanity control them.