Applying Narrative to our short film

Structure

It is hard to give a definite structure for our short film. It uses a flashback within a linear plot line. 

So we can apply Todorov's Theory of Classic Narrative to our story line:

1. The normality, or Equilibrium, is the existing couple of James and Rachel. They have been in a long term relationship together and are happy with how things are. 
2. I believe the Disruption of this occurs at the point where she begins talking to and seeing another man aside from James, her current partner. In terms of the plot, the disruption occurs when we see the man collapse outside of his car. 
3. Confrontation - this is the part where Rachel finds out that the waiter (the man she has secretly been seeing) was the one behind her partners collapsing.

The next step of Resolution doesn't apply to our film as the situation is never resolved. Rachel can no longer be with either of the two men. She isn't able to forgive Dylan, the waiter. Therefore the New Equilibrium consists of Rachel now being single and on her own.

Restricted narration means that the characters and the audience are unaware of the events happening until it is revealed in the flashback.

Claude Levi Strauss... 

good vs. evil 

...can be applied to our film with his proposal of binary oppositions. The characters withing 'Drop' can be separated into good and bad. The waiter's morals are very different to what Rachel, the women, has in mind.  

The waiter appears to think that the only way to be with her, is to go to extreme lengths of killing her current partner. Rachel however isn't expecting this and would have preferred to do it in a more civilized manor i.e. a normal break up.