Swarm Characters: The Principle of Distinctness in the Character Analysis
Journal Title: Online Journal of Art and Design - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
To create scenes like battles with thousands of soldiers means to create thousands of different and individual soldiers. For instance, when Gandalf is riding down the hill towards to the army of millions of Uruk-hai during the battle of Helm’s Deep in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings (Part 2: The Two Towers) the fighting, dying and escaping Uruk-hai should act in an optical consequent way. Thus, every Uruk-hai of the army had to be programmed individual. But in spite of their individual properties and individual behaviours, they are not individual characters. According to the actions, all Uruk-hai are indistinguishable. Like extras every single Uruk-hai disappears in the background. They do not carry any significance in terms of characters in themselves, but in some movies crowds are important vehicles of the story. Therefore, the term “swarm characters” will be introduced and defined as fictional crowds in which the single being has no relevance for the story. But as a whole the crowd can be regarded as a single and discrete character. Using the example of the two movies “For the Birds” by Ralph Egglestone and “Balance” by Wolfgang und Christoph Lauenstein, swarm characters are analysed with help of Eder's basic model “clock of character” to verify them as equal characters in the plot of the stories.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Lutz Peschke| Ipek University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Visual Communication Design, Ankara/Turkey lpeschke@ipek.edu.tr / lutz.peschke@gmx.de
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP8216
- DOI -
- Views 413
- Downloads 25
Contribution of Futures Studies to Industrial Design Studio Education
Designers should keep up with the pace of change and have the power of directing change to the desirable. In order to design forward product/services in a continuously changing world, designers should have “future vision...
ARTWORKS AS MUSEUMS: ARTISTS AS CURATORS
Given that public display is at the core of the visual arts, this research simultaneously explores the methods of the field itself while publicly sharing those results. It is both reflexive and reflective. By creating ar...
Role of visual communication in advertising: a study of consumer purchase decision making behavior
Visual communication is the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon. Primarily associated with 2d images, it includes a variety of disciplines: art, signs, photography, typography, dr...
The Use of Caricatures as a Means of Advertising: The Case of Süta?
Advertisers often make use of humorous elements in advertisements they create. Advertisements that contain such elements play a great role in creating awareness and attaining positive attitudes. Caricature, which is an e...
THE BRITISH BAUHAUS? JP HULLY AND AN UNWRITTEN HISTORY OF BRITISH MODERNISM
This is the first refereed article that presents the life and work of JP Hully, a British modernist that worked with Gane furniture manufacturers in Bristol. His design life and tenure at Gane overlapped with that of Mar...