The Antagonist
In class, my groupmates and I have begun to discuss who are characters are going to be, specifically the protagonist and antagonist. Today I will be discussing information about our antagonist.
After doing some research, I have found that there are four main types of antagonists: the evil villain, who has purely malicious intentions; the everyday antagonist, who simply opposes the main character and is not necessarily evil; the immoral entity, such as a totalitarian government; and the internal struggle, which would be an element of the protagonist itself. In our case, we find it best to use the evil villain as our antagonist. It is a horror movie, after all, and nothing strikes fear into the minds of people like a ruthless, senseless, killer.
Although we don't want to reveal too much about the antagonist in the film opening, we do want viewers to receive a brief image or visual of him and a clue as to why he is evil, as we also learned that humans aren't usually inherently evil. We don't want our antagonist to be anything extraterrestrial, he will more or less look like a normal person that has been mentally beaten and destroyed.
For his backstory, the antagonist would have come from a rough family, where he dealt with great emotional trauma. The antagonist would have already killed his parents and feels like he needs to "avenge" himself by murdering more people. We still need to find what his "trigger" was, or what ultimately drove him to become a murderer. A classmate told me that I should create a "who, what, when, where, why, how" for my character so that we have a solid idea of his backstory. We will be sure to elaborate upon this and create character profiles for both of our main characters in the near future.
Below I have attached a rough sketch of what we want our antagonist to look like. In the background, we are probably going to have a blurred image of the antagonist's "master plan", and we may decide to focus on a picture of his family with some blood on it, to give a hint about where his malicious intentions come from.
We will continue to plan out our main characters; this is just a rough sketch but more or less an idea of what the antagonist might look like.
After doing some research, I have found that there are four main types of antagonists: the evil villain, who has purely malicious intentions; the everyday antagonist, who simply opposes the main character and is not necessarily evil; the immoral entity, such as a totalitarian government; and the internal struggle, which would be an element of the protagonist itself. In our case, we find it best to use the evil villain as our antagonist. It is a horror movie, after all, and nothing strikes fear into the minds of people like a ruthless, senseless, killer.
Although we don't want to reveal too much about the antagonist in the film opening, we do want viewers to receive a brief image or visual of him and a clue as to why he is evil, as we also learned that humans aren't usually inherently evil. We don't want our antagonist to be anything extraterrestrial, he will more or less look like a normal person that has been mentally beaten and destroyed.
For his backstory, the antagonist would have come from a rough family, where he dealt with great emotional trauma. The antagonist would have already killed his parents and feels like he needs to "avenge" himself by murdering more people. We still need to find what his "trigger" was, or what ultimately drove him to become a murderer. A classmate told me that I should create a "who, what, when, where, why, how" for my character so that we have a solid idea of his backstory. We will be sure to elaborate upon this and create character profiles for both of our main characters in the near future.
Below I have attached a rough sketch of what we want our antagonist to look like. In the background, we are probably going to have a blurred image of the antagonist's "master plan", and we may decide to focus on a picture of his family with some blood on it, to give a hint about where his malicious intentions come from.
We will continue to plan out our main characters; this is just a rough sketch but more or less an idea of what the antagonist might look like.
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