Media Theory
Hey blog! Today I'm going to be talking about media theory, and which one I decoded to incorporate in my film.
The media theory that we decided to integrate in our portfolio project is Character Theory- Vladimir Propp- characters can be classified into specific roles. Propp argues there are seven types of characters. We decided to use False Here. The false hero is someone who pretends to help the hero but is secretly trying to make them fail in whatever it is that they're trying to do.
The character theory states that the false hero is someone who pretends to be good but ends up being bad. This is the theory we will use to describe our main character, which is the doctor, since he pretends to be good, by being a doctors and "helping" his patients, but the audience later finds our that he is the one making them sick.
Throughout the whole film, the audience would see him try to "help" his patients and act like an amazing doctor, his colleagues think he's a good doctor, they ask him for help with their patients, he seems normal and helpful, but they will all later realize that he enjoys to keep his patients sick for money. The sicker they are, the more money he gets, since the patients and their family keep paying for their care and hospital bills and medicine.
For our two minute opening the audience won't know the whole plot and will be left with some suspense on what will happen, which is good since it'll keep them engaged and interested. They won't know what the marbles mean and why there are names on each jar, which will make them curious to know, and when they see he's a doctor they will assume he's a good doctor who cares for his patients, like most doctors, and like how doctors are usually represented in films, but will later discover that he is the exact opposite of what they thought. We will incorporate the character theory by making our main character the false hero.
Ex. Hans from Frozen pretends to love Anna when in reality all he wants us to steal the throne os Arenndelle.
Media Studies 2020, Vladamir Propp’s 7 Character Types and Narrative Theory, Media Studies.
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