I think the characters in films and TV I’ve seen, for almost all of them, it really depends in the type of environment they live in. When I say that I mean that environment has the biggest impact on the type of character that becomes them, for example like their life style, the people around them, the things they like, do and say are all the aspects of the character that makes one become connected to the actual person/character and even can make them relate to them in various people’s own life’s. I find that it is easy to like or dislike a character upon what they are like, but one thing about film, actors on TV and fantasy characters in books is that it’s all fake! That’s the only thing that puts me off getting overly connected to them, but then again the same goes for games, no matter how hard we try to be realistic about them, they never will be...
They definitely are good at trying to capture all kinds of feelings that we can feel towards them, you have to be creative to do so and I feel like it’s definitely all to do with the Art style and direction simply because it’s that which basically controls the mood of everything. It’s all used to create an emotional feel to the viewer, whether it is the settings or the script of the film, show, book or game and how the characters and actors react to it and make what’s written on paper into practise. It basically is just like making a film or game, you have to plan it all down on paper and make documents first. The point is how you plan it out is how it should be follow through, so writing a script and giving a film or game a setting (or an Art direction) will effect they way we perceive it.
I believe that a character can be defined by these types of things even the clothes they wear is such a strong way to give an idea of them, but I also think that it doesn’t define them completely, as in there are a lot of questions that could still be answered, what I mean is that there’s so many things you could say about them and the script is what they follow, but the script doesn’t give a description of absolutely everything about them, so I feel like there’s more that can be answered which not only the script but the settings and actions don’t always necessarily show with just about any character really. The only way you ask these questions is to gain such strong feelings towards them that you want to find out, but maybe never will.
I’ve personally never been interested in books, I think this is because it’s basically reading, which I think is (to blatantly put it) boring... My main problem with them is that I like images, I learn more by looking at imagery. The thing you get with it is a sense of the mood, colours, and settings and from that you can gain a better feeling of it in my opinion. I’ve seen quite a lot of films and played a lot of games however, the type of stories I personally like are ones that don’t have all this cliché crap in them. There’s far too many stories were everything is okay in the end and you know it’s going to happen before you’ve even got through half the game or movie, because whatever the problem is, you know it by about 1/4th into the film and the problem is always resolved in the end. I more of a fan of the old games and films, where it all began, the story lines were simple and they were the biggest thing for their time and to me still are, now-a-days it’s all the same stuff being repeated over and over and it’s a case of “seen it all before”! Don’t get me wrong there are some good games out there that are different and maybe forgotten about now and there are probably a lot more out there released every week but I don’t have the money to buy everyone of them. Some of the games I do like are re-made like the original Super Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot and Spyro etc, and I always find myself coming back to them and buying the latest ones because I guess it’s just the roots of what I know and liked as a kid, and it’s just something that can’t be taken away... never, and I don’t think I’ll ever change that to be honest. These characters and the settings they are put in, in just something that I think will last forever, because it was there right from the start, I’m not a fan of change either and that’s where my feeling stand on them, my connection is so strong to them that I don’t want to ever forget them.
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