Development of Ideas and Structure in Moving Image.

Character Design

Select a character from a TV or film and produce an illustrated guide, including three key areas.

When creating a character there are four key aspects or areas to think about. Firstly you have the protagonist of the film or TV Series. One aspect of character design, is the main characters personality, whether are going to be good or bad, nice or horrible?

Secondly, you have the Antagonist, these two characters usually use binary opposites and the antagonist is the cause of conflict. For example: an obstacle which creates disturbance in the peace to make an interesting story line, if nothing goes wrong or changes, then the story would not be interesting, and wouldn’t be a story at all.

Thirdly, the dialogue on the character, this is how the character is presented to the audience. The characters accent and mannerisms and speech, portray how the audience views the character.

Lastly, stereotype, when creating any character you need to free your self from conventions and stereotypes. If you don’t do this you will end up with a character that is oversimplified and lacks in originality and individuality. You want your character to stand out, be interesting and unique to engage an audience.


For example, Homer Simpson, an animated character from, well-known TV series, The Simpsons. His character is a middle-aged husband and farther of three. The family and show is situated in the small town of Springfield, America. All these animated characters are bright yellow, with black outline and they all have basic block colours, making up their clothes and accessories.

I have chosen to talk about and discuss Homer Simpson, as he is no exception to this. He is in bright blue trousers and a casual white shirt. I feel that although his design is fairly simple, he is remembered not only remembered for the way in which he looks but is also remembered for his personality. Unlike most fathers, Homer is lazy, stupid and an alcoholic, yet he is a very likeable and comic character. As Homer is animated the audience find all of his mannerism’s funny, such as strangling and abusing his eight-year-old son, or when he shouts excessively or even badly hurts and injures himself. All of these aspect and use or originality, make Homer Simpson a very likeable character. Homers audience does not forget him, which is proof that these four key aspects, work.


Future Film: Digital Storytelling

Show how a chosen TV series, game or film uses multiple platforms or extended form to engage audience.

I have chosen to discuss the British television soap opera, ‘Eastenders.’ Eastenders first appeared on the BBC One on the 19th February, 1985. Back then the only way to watch the show was on television at the time in which The BBC chose to broadcast it. Now the soap has a vast amount of followers, this audience has recently grown. Not only watch can you the TV series on television but it now can be viewed on other multi media platforms, such as: BBC iPlayer(an online anytime service) and YouTube. This means you can catch up on any episode at a time convenient for you. This multiplatform release of the TV series reaches and engages a larger and wider audience. Due to the shows popularity Eastenders has created a spinoff series entitled ‘Eastenders E20’. There are also advertisements for Eastenders in magazines, on the radio and on television. The multi platform extension to the series gives the show a bigger audience and can engage them on many media platforms. In turn this multi platform extension allows viewers to watch Eastenders as and when it is convenient the individual person, without restrictions and being confided to real time broadcasts.