A Protagonist or in other words the main character is the main central figure of a story. The protagonist is usually seen as the good character in the story, the main story focus is also mainly based around the protagonist characters experiences.
The Antagonist is usually portrayed as the bad guy, or the person that goes against the protagonist and what he is trying to do. The Antagonist is portrayed as a villain and in classic stories where the hero fights the villain the two can be seen as a protagonist fighting an antagonist. In general the Antagonist is seen as a villain but this is not always the case as is not always the villain, just simply a character who oppose's the main character.
LOG LINE - "Teacher risks her marriage to lie one last time"
Protagonist - The teacher of which is called Francesca is seen as the protagonist throughout the film as she is the main focus and the story is based around her experiences.
Antagonist - The antagonists is the character of whom is causing Francesca to lie, putting her marriage at risk
I theoretically asked the two Main Protagonists of this film some questions to help get a better under standing of the story and there life's and what effect that has on the plot. Below is the questions and answer of which were asked to the main protagonist Francesca.
Questions to ask the Character...
1. How is your relationship with one another?
2. Are there any major problems within your marriage?
3. What hobbies do you enjoy?
4. Are you a sociable person?
5. Do you have any children together?
Answers to the Questions....
1. I would say that our relationship has been stronger and more open in the past compared to now as feel we are slowly moving apart, the more I lie and hide things from my husband but I am only not telling him things to help protect him, well that what I believe to be true.
2. There are no real major problems in my marriage only that my husband Josh doesn't do his fair share around the house meaning more for me to do but its manageable nothing to argue about.
3. I have many hobbies such as I run the school choir where I work for the primary school children, I also love doing water sports believe it not, my father was always into surfing and canoeing and kayaking so was kinda brought up doing lost of different water activities.
4. That is a bit of an odd question? but yes I would say I am a very sociable person as i'm easy to talk to and get along with and love to have a little gossip every now and then.
5. Yes I have one child in this marriage of which is daisy and she is 6 now and she adores her father so very much. But I also have another child from a past relationship names Lucus his ages 14 now but his farther hasn't been in contact with us or Lucus in over 10 years now after he walked out and left us.
Catch up for next lesson -
ReplyDeletePost 3 - add images that help give more of an idea about your antagonist and protagonist. Annotate these images.
Post 4 - Beats - see power point in 'Collect work from teachers' that outlines what a beat is (Mollie will show you which one). Write up a definition of beats. SEmbed a short film or use one from the power point and work out the beats. Now work out the beats for your favourite logline.
Post 5 - Formatting your script (how to lay out the pages) again information on this can be found in the power point. Look at the helpful website link - copy info out onto your blog from this and add the link to your post.
Fiona - the questions you asked your antagonist and protagonist was to establish their back story. This will help develop your script and make your characters more three dimensional (can you make this clear in your post). Also, there is a tendency to write 'of which' which is grammatically incorrect eg the teacher of which is called...here you would write the teacher is called.... I can't think of any written circumstance when one would write 'of which' so I would drop this grammatical habit.
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