Thursday, 12 January 2012

Thriller notes

Research techniques for creative media industries

Purpose
  • to provide evidence and support your chosen topic
  • credible, accurate and authentic
  • can be trivial and have a sense of humour but still matter of fact
  • interviews with experts
  • equations/ graphs/ percentages
  • articles/ documentation


Different Character Types :

Protagonist: Good guy
Antagonist: Bad guy
Dramatic irony - when the audience knows more than the protagonist

Character archetypes
Handicapped Protagonist:
Paul Sheldon - Misery (Physical)
Leonard Shelby - Memento (Mental)

Picaresque: uses wits and charms to escape problems (Bond)

Unaware Hero - Become involved in plot by accident (Mistaken identity)

Unreliable narrator - Cant believe everything the narrator says, biased

Conspiracy theories - usually governments or big corporations
manipulators

criminals - murderers, assassins, kidnappers

Handicapped antagonist - deformed

Absent Villain
Supernatural

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