Opening Scene

What is narrative?

The opening of doors begins with the audience unaware of the full description and features of the main character Mr. Smith; furthermore this gives an eerie feeling that the audience are to expect the unknown.  This method of narrative is also known as the enigma code where by Barthes believed that some films/movies often began with a mystery. Past movie productions that have followed Barthes theory is inception, where the main character Leonardo Dicaprio is on the beach and the audience are confused to why he is there or and what trouble he has gotten himself into? 

Our reason for this chosen method instead of others like Torodov's theory of Equilibrium - Disequilibrium - Equilibrium  or Strauss theory of binary opposition is because we wanted our audience to think for themselves as active audience and not to give the whole plot/story away in the first opening scene.

Exposition – rising action – climax – falling action – resolution