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Friday, 8 December 2017

Genre Research - Characters and Iconography



There are only two main characters in our film, One is the main character, Max who finds the fidget spinner and can rewind time, and the other is the criminal that Max accidentally foils over and over again. There isn't much too conventional about these characters other than the comedy aspects that they both employ. The dim witted character unknowingly doing good is something that has been used in comedy for decades such as in Dumb and Dumber and various Simpsons episodes with accidentally catching criminals.


As for Iconography, this is basically just devices, characters or symbols that stand out and are iconic. Be it the DeLorean in Back To The Future, The bat symbol in Batman, The hat in Cat in The Hat or even "I Will Always Love You" being used in The Bodyguard.


The iconography in our film will be more typical of comedy, the main iconographic feature being the time traveling fidget spinner. I would like the music to be iconic too like in The Bodyguard but we will probably have to use non copyrighted music or something made specifically for the film so it may not be as iconic as a truly professional song. The characters are also nothing too special or iconic, we don't have a Joker, we have a regular dim witted guy who can time travel, and a mugger.

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