Within our AS course we focused on the first interpretation of characters, and how the opening two minutes of a long film can allow the audience to start to derive their own ideas of the main characters for example we focused on how we personally interpret the character played by Lester Burnham in American Beauty). In today's lesson we advanced on our characterisation work, firstly we looked at how every film demonstrates a beginning, middle and end however the narrative may not be linear, for example in the film 'Brick' starts in the middle then goes to the beginning then to the end. We then focused more on characterisation, we looked at 'Shrek' which as a film followes a linear narrative and is a good example that demonstrates the break down of a characters, most basic films demonstrate the four key characters; the protagonist (hero), the antagonist (villain), the mirror (side-kick/buddy) and the resolution/romance.
When focusing on Shrek we can break down the characters into these four key roles:
Mirror or Buddy : Donkey
Antagonist or Villain : Lord Farquad however also at parts Shrek's own self-doubt
Romance : Princess Fiona
Within Shrek the story line followes the Shrek who is the protagnist , to start with his main aim to get his swamp back, however when he goes to Lord Farquad (antagonist) to ask for it back, he is told that he can have it if he saves the princess and brings her to him (as Lord Farquad wishes to marry her). However as the story continues the twist starts, as Shrek falls for Princess Fiona (the romance), However when Donkey (the mirror) sees Fiona turn into an ogar, he believes that Fiona and Shrek blong together, when Dinkey and Fiona are chatting Shrek over hears Fiona talking about herself however he belives that in fact she is talking about him when she says "hideous, green and ugly", and at this stage it is Shrek's own self-doubt that makes them fall out. However Donkey saves the relationship by making Shrek see that he has mis-understood, another issue than arises as now Fiona and Shrek wish to be together however Lor Farquad stands in the way between true happiness, and it is not untill Fiona reveals her true self that her and Shrek can be together, and they live happily after ever...(well untill the next crisis!)
Within Shrek the story line followes the Shrek who is the protagnist , to start with his main aim to get his swamp back, however when he goes to Lord Farquad (antagonist) to ask for it back, he is told that he can have it if he saves the princess and brings her to him (as Lord Farquad wishes to marry her). However as the story continues the twist starts, as Shrek falls for Princess Fiona (the romance), However when Donkey (the mirror) sees Fiona turn into an ogar, he believes that Fiona and Shrek blong together, when Dinkey and Fiona are chatting Shrek over hears Fiona talking about herself however he belives that in fact she is talking about him when she says "hideous, green and ugly", and at this stage it is Shrek's own self-doubt that makes them fall out. However Donkey saves the relationship by making Shrek see that he has mis-understood, another issue than arises as now Fiona and Shrek wish to be together however Lor Farquad stands in the way between true happiness, and it is not untill Fiona reveals her true self that her and Shrek can be together, and they live happily after ever...(well untill the next crisis!)
We were then set the task of enforcing our new knowledge of the role of characters in films by coming up with a few short film ideas in a small group that demonstrate clearly a protagonist/mirror/antagonist/resolution, so off me, Caitlin and Nicole went into the sunshine to get our thinking caps on and try to think as much as we could outside the typical box! We decided to go more down the comical side for our two ideas as when creating a short film, many of the most successful films are comical
Idea One
As valentimes day is fast appraoching, a young, timid and small boy (the protagnist) has since reception been in love with the beautiful, cleaver and musical girl that sits infront of him (the romance) however he does think such a girl would love a boy like him. However his bestfriend (the mirror), decides that the best way for him to show the girl his true feelings, and too see if she feels the same is to send her a card in the school "love box" every day for the fourteen days prevous to valentimes day. However he is not the only one in love with her, and his greatest rival, the school bully (the antagonist) also likes her and when they girl recieves the mysterous cards he pretends that he is the sender. Whilst the timid boy is to scared that the girl will reject her if he tells her the truth, hides the fact that he is the true author behind the cards however it is his bestfriend that plays cupid and ensures that the girl understands who is the true sender behind the cards. The happily ever after ending is that in fact the girl has always been in love with the small and timid boy that sits behind her, and the boys recieves the valentimes kiss he had been dreaming of!
The Protagonist : Author (timid, he lacks confidence and victim of bullying)
The Antagonist : Jack (over confident and popular, however is also a bully who is in all the sports teams)
The Mirror : Rose (author's bestfriend)
The Romance : Florance (beautiful and cleaver, she is musical and kind)
Idea Two
Inspiring childrfen that maths is cool, the hardest task for a maths teacher to do - however this maths teacher takes education to a whole new level when he becomes the next Banksy, graffiti wall art + maths calculations = a whole new sort of education, to insipre the young minds of today. However now all of the community agree with this "new banksy" and the neighbour-hood watch man goes around in the day painting over all the new art that has been added by night. All the teacher wants to do is insprire the children, however the more he paints the more that is destroyed, however in the end it is the neighbour-hoods daughter that shows him that the art is not vanadalism instead it is amazing, by gaining her B through the calculations she sees on the walls that surrond her.
The Protagonist : Mr Waller (a highschool maths teacher, he has a passion for art and the aim to insprie young minds that maths is not always the boring subject)
The Antagonist : Larry (the neighbour-hood watch man, he sees the art as vandalism and is jealous that it is recieving so much praise)
The Resolution : Tilly (the daughter of Larry, she has struggled with her maths for years and the chance of getting a C in maths seems so distant however she is inspried by teh graffit resulting in her getting a B)
Idea One
As valentimes day is fast appraoching, a young, timid and small boy (the protagnist) has since reception been in love with the beautiful, cleaver and musical girl that sits infront of him (the romance) however he does think such a girl would love a boy like him. However his bestfriend (the mirror), decides that the best way for him to show the girl his true feelings, and too see if she feels the same is to send her a card in the school "love box" every day for the fourteen days prevous to valentimes day. However he is not the only one in love with her, and his greatest rival, the school bully (the antagonist) also likes her and when they girl recieves the mysterous cards he pretends that he is the sender. Whilst the timid boy is to scared that the girl will reject her if he tells her the truth, hides the fact that he is the true author behind the cards however it is his bestfriend that plays cupid and ensures that the girl understands who is the true sender behind the cards. The happily ever after ending is that in fact the girl has always been in love with the small and timid boy that sits behind her, and the boys recieves the valentimes kiss he had been dreaming of!
The Protagonist : Author (timid, he lacks confidence and victim of bullying)
The Antagonist : Jack (over confident and popular, however is also a bully who is in all the sports teams)
The Mirror : Rose (author's bestfriend)
The Romance : Florance (beautiful and cleaver, she is musical and kind)
Idea Two
Inspiring childrfen that maths is cool, the hardest task for a maths teacher to do - however this maths teacher takes education to a whole new level when he becomes the next Banksy, graffiti wall art + maths calculations = a whole new sort of education, to insipre the young minds of today. However now all of the community agree with this "new banksy" and the neighbour-hood watch man goes around in the day painting over all the new art that has been added by night. All the teacher wants to do is insprire the children, however the more he paints the more that is destroyed, however in the end it is the neighbour-hoods daughter that shows him that the art is not vanadalism instead it is amazing, by gaining her B through the calculations she sees on the walls that surrond her.
The Protagonist : Mr Waller (a highschool maths teacher, he has a passion for art and the aim to insprie young minds that maths is not always the boring subject)
The Antagonist : Larry (the neighbour-hood watch man, he sees the art as vandalism and is jealous that it is recieving so much praise)
The Resolution : Tilly (the daughter of Larry, she has struggled with her maths for years and the chance of getting a C in maths seems so distant however she is inspried by teh graffit resulting in her getting a B)
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