3.2 question 1b-Narrative

For the trailer for 28 days later I believe that Todorov's narrative theory doesn't hardly applies to the trailer. Firstly,at the start the pace is rather fast as the editing is very quick as it goes through the different days. This goes against Todorov's theory as he stated that the start is rather calm during the equilibrium stage. Instead the equilibrium stage comes more towards the middle of the trailer when the protagonist wakes up in the hospital and discovers London to be adbandoned. A way in which it does apply to the trailer is that it has the disruption towards the end of the trailer. We can see this as the trailer becomes much more fast paced through the editing and we start to see more of the zombies. Also, we don't see the restoration stage when the characters escape during the trailer. The main reason for this is that they don't want to ruin the film before the target audience has even seen it. So really it's not possible for the trailer to completely follow Todorov's theory. I also believe that the trailer applies to Kate Domailles theory. Kate Domailles theory states that any film can be put into at least one of eight narrative types. One of these narrative types i believe that trailer fits into is 'circe'. Circe is the idea of there being a chase between the hero and villain and a battle between good and bad. This is shown in the 28 days later trailer as there is a battle between the good, the group of people, and bad, the zombies. During the film there are battles between these two groups as the protagonist try to survive whilst the antagonist try to hunt them down. Furthermore, I deliver that Levi Strauss' theory of binary opposites. One of the binary opposites the trailer follows is between civilised and savage. During the film we see how the group of people are civilised as they try to work together in order to survive, whereas the zombies act in a savage way by trying to hunt down and kill the protagonists. Another binary opposite it follows is good vs evil. During the trailer we see how the protagonists, the good guys, have to try to fight back against the zombies, the bad guys, in order to survive and try to get rescued.