CLASS EXERCISE 1

GENRE:

class, classification, grouping, or type of story. 

eg: fantasy, adventure, horor, thriller, action, romance, comedy, ...

CLICHE:

a condition when a story is too typical and predictable

eg: happily ever after, the bad characters lose in the end

STEREOTYPE:

An assumption of character to be a bad guy, or a loser character. An inaccurate expectation of  what will a character is going to be.

Eg: Mr. Bean

 ANTAGONIST:

The main bad or evil character in a story or movie, and should be the enemy of the protagonist character

Eg: Plankton in Spongebob Squarepants

PROTAGONIST:

The good character or the leading character in a story or movie, and should be against the antagonist character

Eg: Spongebob himself

SUPPORTING CHARACTER:

The character that will be the partner, friend, comrade or etc for the main character to make the story more interesting.

Eg: Patrick

COMIC RELIEF:

A character that always make the story funny and raise the mood of the audience with the joke he make. Have a cheerful, stupid, ridiculous, or even nonsense personality.

Eg: Scratch the squirrel in ice age

CHARACTERIZATION:

Something to describe what type of character that is.

Eg: protagonist, antagonist, supporting character, …

CONCEPT/ CONCEPTUALIZATON:

The main idea of what is the story/ movie about.

THEME:

Kind of mood or style of the whole story/ movie from the beginning to the end.

PITCH:

The short summary of the story/ movie

LOGLINE:

The main idea that telling the story just in one sentence.

CHARACTER BIO:

All the information or the background that explain the character.

SYNOPSIS:

The main summary of the story.

STORYLINE:

All the detailed and completed of the story script from beginning to ending.

TREATMENT:

Rough / draft version of movie. Can be in animatic

DEVELOPMENT HELL:

A time when a movie is freezing in progress because of the development. It may takes a long time to start or never does.