Sunday, 12 October 2014

Research: Narrative themes


Narrative themes are a prominent or recurring ideas in films, these ideas are often repeated in narrative or scrips in films.

Here is a list of different themes in different genres:
Rom-come: Breakups, Family, Couple, Happiness, Marriage, Commitment
Action: Crime, Battle, Death, Violence, Money, Drugs
Thrillers: Supernatural, Religion, Death, Obsession, Psychological
Crime: Greed, Addition, Money, Good vs Evil, Death
Science Fiction: Religion, Battle, Disaster, Supernatural 
Historic; War, Battle, Deaths, Fighting, Ownership, Hierarchy

Themes are dependent on their genre because without themes, they won't be able to choose the right genre for the themes that is being made for the film, Without them, the films would be horrible.

List of themes of these scenes/trailer below:


The themes I've identified from this trailer called Black Swan is:

- Psychological
- Jelousy 
- Obsession
- Paranormal 
- Battle
- Good vs Evil


The themes I've identified from this trailer called Stigmata is:
- Religion
- Supernatural
- Forbidden love

The themes I've identified from this trailer called Memento is:
- Depression
- Trust
- Friendship
- Desperate  
- Vengeance

The themes I've identified from this trailer called The Conjuring is:
- Supernatural
- Haunted
- Innocence
- Mystery
- Family









1 comment:

  1. Good examples of different sub-genres of thrillers and what themes they portray. Also, good to see that different genres are also discussed in terms of themes.

    To improve;
    -where you discuss themes are dependant on genre, make this clearer please. Very vague what you are trying to say here at the moment. DO you think certain genres have to include certain themes? Why?
    -what themes are you looking to include and why?

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