Lois' Blog: Development of Ideas & Structure (Moving Image)

Pre-production: Character Design

There are four aspects of a character:

1. Protagonist

2. Antagonist

3. Dialogue

4. Stereotype

Scrubs

"The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick (a type of comedy) and surreal vignettes presented mostly as the daydreams of the main character, Dr. John 'J.D' Dorian."

Appearance:

J.D appears nerdish yet masculine and he has carefully styled hair.

He tends to daydream a lot, when he does this he tilts his head to one side and looks up.

Action:

He is a doctor of internal medicine.

Throughout the series he is also the narrator, he is shown to be a very skilled doctor although he acts quite childish at times.

"He is described as having compassion for his patients, 'very good instincts' and a lot of determination and enthusiasm for his job."

Interaction:

J.D relates with all the other doctors/surgeons in Scrubs. He relates especially to his 'best friend and surrogate brother' Turk. It is suggested that J.D has a "codependent relationship with Turk, regularly going through some stages of depression whenever he can't be with him".

Future Film: Digital Storytelling

A lot of TV series or films use multiple platforms or extended forms to engage more with the audience.

An example of a TV series that uses multi platforms / extended forms could be Hollyoaks.

Hollyoaks is shown every night Monday - Friday and occasionally they show what's called

'Hollyoaks later', which is described as 'Sexy, Action packed and Late Night'. I feel that the Hollyoaks Later show does make the audience engage with the show more as they show clips of it on adverts, I think by doing this helps to engage more with the audience as they want to know what's going to happen.

For those who watch the Hollyoaks half 6 show i believe that they would definitely be engaged by the extended part of the series as it does relate to the ongoing week night shows. I think that if the people who watch Hollyoaks religiously, they would definitely engage with the 'later' show so they know exactly what's going on, if they missed the later shows they would then watch one the next day and something would have changed, for example maybe someone got killed on the later show yet the audience who didn't watch it wouldn't know how or why.