Shocking Entertainment - A Viewers Response To Violent Movies by Annette Hill

Building Character Relationship

A major problem with my script is the relationship between characters and how they interact in certain situations. I feel that i have to build sympathy for the characters so i have doing some research and reading on the subject. i found this book very useful on how to achieve a better respond for the audience and the relation between them and the characters.

Even if you cannot identify with the characters then build on character relationship. Relationships are dynamic and fluid. Utilizing a number of factors of building character relationship - consumer choice, personal experience and perferences, imaginative hypothesizing and character expansion. These factors combine to create complex and varied interpretations of the scene.
RESPOND rather the IDENTIFY = Process of viewing violence

Questioning the Identification
-Identify with actions but not character.
-Feelings fluctuate according to context, characterisation and personal opinion.
-'Sympathy, empathy, relate, feel for, understand were used to qualify what identification meant to individual particicpants.

Question of Entertainment
-Participants differtiate between real violence and fictional violence.
-Participants consider mediated images of real violence. Problematic in relation to their respone to viewing fictional violence.
-Participant consider degrees of emotional involvement with real violence, mediated images of real violence and fictional violence central to their response.
-The term 'responsibility' and the role of 'witness' are sigificant to degrees of emotional involvement and response to viewing real violence,and mediated images of real violence.
-Participants consider real violence violence as abhorent and in no way entertaining.
-Participants consider the target films to be entertaining.