changing the narrative

During todays lesson we used our "terror in the night" story boards to see what happens if the narrative changes and what effects it would have. We started by putting our second to last scene first. This automatically changed the meaning and narrative to the story. Our story started off in the narrative off as Todorov's theory and with a linear structure, but as soon as we put the last scene first, it changed to Levi Strauss' theory as we found it had binary opposites such as: life and death, day and night and man and woman. We also found it took a different structure as it is now a circular structure as it starts in the ending events. Changing the narrative also changes the way the audience can identify and understand the characters. This is because the audience now start off thinking the character is strange and a killer as before they didnt find that out until the end. This is a good example of a film called Psycho as at the beginning the audience think the story is about the woman but the half way through she dies and the audience realize that the story isnt actually about her and is about a man who has mental disabilities and the people he ends up killing.