Film Analysis

• Vladimir Propp

--31 stages of a film
--Set Characters

• Tzvetan Todorov

--Equilibrium (order)
--Disruption
--Resolution
--New Equilibrium
---The equilibrium in Jaws is starting off calm and leading up to a disruptive shark attack. After this, the order is restored with a quiet setting followed by a new equilibrium.

• Roland Barthes

--A number of codes that we can see in a narrative.
--Enigma Code - A narrative device that teases the audience by representing a puzzle or riddle to be solved. (Represented by the shark in Jaws as we can't guarantee at the start that it is a shark)
--Action Code - A narrative device by which a resolution in produced through action (Shown in Jaws by when they go out to get him but don't kill him until the end.) (http://www.slideshare.net/guest9e3b3b/narrative-theory-2104298)

• Sizmeund Freud

--Id - Desires and Pleasures (bad)
--Ego - Reality (In the middle)
--Superego - Moral, right and wrong (good)

• Levi Strauss

--A conflict between two parties or terms (Good against Evil, light dark)