Scriptwriting: Character profile (Gary Axis)

Character Profile

Name:Gary Axis	Religion:None
Age:23	Culture:
Gender:Male	Marital Status: unmarried
Ethnicity:White	Occupation: Tesco Check out staff
Nationality: British	Education:Finished College

Hair:	Black
Eyes:	Green
Height:	6 foot 3
Build:	Broad Shoulders in the early stages of starting to get a muscular build from regular working out
Health:	In good shape often visits the gym
Introvert/extrovert:	Introvert
Pessimist/optimist	Optimist

Siblings:	Youngest of two brothers
Family	Parents happily married has one war veteran granddad and a large extended family with more cousins than he can count

Favorite:
Colour	Orange
Food	Subway
Place	Gym/Work
Music	Nickel back
Film	Pain and Gain
Book	Does not read
Article of clothing	Sleeveless shirts
Saying/phrase	This is why we cant have nice things
Actor	Mark Whalberg
Sport	Rugby,Boxing and Wrestling
Newspaper	The Sun
Chocolate/sweet	Snickers
Drink	Milk
Pet	Dog
Toy	Bike
Fragrance	Lynx
Photo	Him and Arnold Schwarzenegger at the gym
Hobby	Gym

Childhood memories: Bullied for being chubby in school despite joining multiple sports teams and trying to get in shape Gary longed to become larger than life like tough guys like the stars he watched in Action/War movies with his dad and grand dad

First kiss: At one of his ex-Friends house party as a child during a game of truth or dare

Fears: Fear of heights ever since getting stuck on a roller coaster upside down for over an hour

Friends/acquaintances: Micheal Gillings and Alex Moon

Relationships:Not to interested in getting a relationship and thinks people do not take them serious enough if he finds a girl he likes after a while of psyching them out he may attempt to get in a relationship

Holidays/Travel:Went to Amsterdam and other lesser known parts of Europe for a mates stag do just like Las Vegas what happened there no one talks about

Medical History: For the past 2 years he has turned his life around and become much healthier and lost tonnes of weight not literally. Wore glasses to help with short vision does not require them anymore

Plans for the future:Wants to become a personal trainer and some sort of professional fighter would also like to get into some extreme sports while he is still able to.

Scriptwriting: Character Profile (Michael Gillings)

Character Profile

Name: Michael Gillings	Religion:None
Age: 22	Culture:
Gender: Male	Marital Status: Unmarried
Ethnicity: White British	Occupation:Trainee lifeguard
Nationality: British	Education:College

SEXUALITY: Homo-sexual

Hair:	Ginger
Eyes:	Blue
Height:	6 foot 2
Build:	Thin
Health:	Relatively in shape
Introvert/extrovert:	Introvert
Pessimist/optimist	Pessimist

Siblings:	Only Child
Family	Parents Divorced

Favourite:
Colour	Orange
Food	Pizza
Place	Liverpool
Music	Beatles
Film	Jackass the movie
Book	Harry Potter
Article of clothing	Colourful shirts
Saying/phrase	Shit
Actor	Leonardo DiCaprio
Sport	Tennis
Newspaper	The Metro
Chocolate/sweet	Fudge
Drink	Wine
Pet	Cat
Toy	Xbox one
Fragrance	Lynx
Photo	Family photo with parents before divorce
Hobby	Swimming

Childhood memories: Camping trips to Scotland

First kiss: 13 year old after finishing school to a boy that had a crush on him

Fears:Pigeons/Seagulls

Friends/acquaintances:

Relationships:Recently broken up with long time Boyfriend

Holidays/Travel:Camping trips in Scotland as child to visit his grandparents

Medical History:Asthmatic

Plans for the future: Hopes to move down south and get a high paying job would also like to travel the world in his retirement to some foreign English speaking countries (America,Australia and Canada)

Scriptwriting:Genre and Mis-en-scene

In scriptwriting class we talked about Genre,Iconography and Mise-en-scene specificity focusing on what they are.

Genre

 Is a term for the categories all forms of entertainment (Films,Music and Literature) have with each area having dozens of genres to choose from with the biggest genres also having sub/cross over genres which creates a completely new genre.

In film comedy is one of the oldest and most popular genres going all the way back to silent era have multiple sub genres including (Action,Romance and Spoof comedy) which all have the same purpose of making an audience laugh but now two genres are combined there can be a new approach with playing around with style,iconography and location to get the laughs.

Below are a random selection of comedy film posters that fall into a sub genre that fall into a sub genre.

Below are three of the biggest film genres and some of the many sub genres they have

COMEDY

Action comedy

Teen comedy

Rom-com

Spoof 

Slapstick 

ACTION

Action adventure

Action comedy

Action thriller

Martial arts 

War

SCI-FI

Horror

Comedy

Military

Time travel

Parallel universe

Alien invasion

MISE-EN-SCENE

Mise-en-scene is everything placed inside the camera frame from (characters,props and lighting) everything you see in the frame at any given time should be there for a reason either driving on the story or setting something up for a later scene.

When something needs focused on specifically in a scene there is multiple ways of drawing attention to it from rule of thirds blurring out the background and in older black and white films good lighting

When something is given screen time for no apparent reason and does not get explained like in Wizard of Oz (1939) when the scarecrow has a gun one moment and its gone the next it just leaves unanswered questions. Questions the audience is unable to answer because the film maker has not done what they should of done in the first place and answered where the gun came from and what its purpose is because it never gets seen again.

Iconography

Looking at Mise-en-scene in a film you can sometimes piece together what the genre is by the iconography on show. Iconography meaning objects and other visual symbols/conventions you would expect to see in a specific genre.Iconography is particularly frequent in film trailers which is one of the main methods of advertising and enticing an audience to watch a particular film

Its also the best time to show the story premise,characters but most importantly the genre of a film. Because people are less inclined to see a film they have little to no perception of over one where they understand E.G In a Slasher Film you expect to see (Young girls,Knives and Blood) if the trailer shows none of that how are you supposed to know its a slasher film.

This trailer for A Fist Full of Dollars (1964) is a good example of a trailer showing conventions and iconography of a Western film in the first 10 seconds alone you see (western town,cowboys and guns) all things you imagine when thinking of the wild west.