Narrative theory

As I have just filmed my narrative for my music video, I chose to look at theories such as Todorov's Equilibrium theory, Propp's theory and also Denis Johnston's 7 plots.

These are Denis Johnston's 7 plots:

• Unrecognised virtue at last recognised. the good is despised, but is recognised in the end, something that we all want to believe.
• The Fatal Flaw, that is the groundwork for practically all classical tragedy.
• —The Debt that Must be Paid, the fate that catches up with all of us sooner or later.
• —Standard triangular plot of two women and one man, or two men and one woman
• —Boy meets Girl, Boy loses Girl, Boy either finds or does not find Girl: it doesn't matter which.
• —The Gift taken Away. This may take two forms: either the tragedy of the loss itself, or it may be about the search that follows the loss.
• —The Hero Who Cannot Be Kept Down.
• The homeless loner.. Mostly the drifter rides into the sunset or walks into the fog.

I personally think that my narrative links with the 'Boy meets Girl' plot as I have filmed a narrative which includes a couple, and in my rough treatment I have written about how they fall out, but in the end the boy and girl end up together again happy.So, by looking at these narrative theories I can see that my narrative links in with one of the seven plots even though I did not realise before. I can now see how many films link with these seven theories such as Lord of the Rings as Aragon is seen as The homeless loner or in she's the man is the plot Boy meets Girl.