Hey, welcome back and we're going to look at shondra in theme. All right as far as genre. Basically whenever you decide what movies were chosen to watch before I go by genre, no words the kind of movie or TV show, such as science fiction, drama, western, Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, genre is can be defined by time and location. Take sci fi for instance, it usually tackles themes of humanity struggles to survive and flourish in the future. westerns have at their core issues of freedom in the struggle to control the land, animals, and people, especially people who don't want. drama is about people in that setting situations as close to reality as possible.

Fantasy can be about anything, at anytime and anywhere. genres are useful when you want to write about certain themes. subject matter. There's so many films being made nowadays that are blurring these genres, you can blur them too. But you have to be careful genre seems to be easier to accept if there's nothing to confuse the audience. Many people like westerns, but it's like science fiction.

And if you mix the two, you'll create a hybrid that need extra care storylines and character wise to engage the audience. So it's in the best set of our genre. So let's move on to theme. Now, if you read film reviews and academic studies of film, you've probably come across a subjective thing. Theme could be defined as what the story is about. It's the point of the story.

As a writer, you want to tackle certain subjects and ideas. Want to communicate your views via the story of your character? Now there's a lot of books or writing that stress the others that's a theme is a side effect of the story. Now this can seem confusing to a writer starting out. So the question is, how do you write a story If you're concerned whether or not you have a theme. Now, for me, I think theme is something that I noticed after I notice a pattern of ideas and or subject matter based on what my characters are doing and feeling.

I see theme pretty much as visiting a person's home in seeing how they've decorated or non decorated rooms. You start to notice how their environment reflects their mind. You look at the colors that they like, how clean or messy their houses, you get an overall feel and understanding of that person's values and priorities. In other words, you get a feel for their character. And since stories are mostly about people and their struggles, we can say the theme and character can be linked and that they can move along the story chain together. theme was like a particular person who travels and a particular car.

Each can be separate, but they help each other get to the same place. Let's take a look at how same pops out of a story. We're helps create a story. Now let's say I write a script about a teenage boy. Let's call him Gerald, who has trouble expressing himself by talking jerell he wants to speak but the words in his head. That's the basic character trait that he has.

His friends and family have accepted this to varying degrees. They find it annoying, and some give them a hard time about it. He feels insecure. So let's say jerell wants to protect someone from a situation that will turn out badly. He could speak up, but he's got problems doing so. What's the situation is so unique that he decides that taking the blame, and not speaking at all is the best way to protect this person.

The story asks if a perceived weakness could be a strength. The theme could be something like silence is a virtue, or the meek shall inherit the earth. If we look up the word meek, it can also mean being strong enough to endure suffering to allow others to appear strong, especially prevents harm to the innocent. The more I work on the story and plot, the more I'll notice what the theme might be. The more I develop Gerald's traits, and those of the other characters, the closer I get to the theme. And this script, I can accentuate the theme by showing how he's a good listener.

I can also show he likes to do quiet things like reading and taking pictures. Now, Gerald doesn't usually stay silent by choice. He actually does have a hard time speaking even when he wants to. Until he meets a girl, Jana who accepts me for who he is, then he discovers he has no problem talking when he's around her and his friends and family notice and something. It's a good thing. And some think it's, well not a very good thing at all.

I decided to have Gerald take the blame for something to protect his family demand and explanation that he refuses to use his newfound ability to express himself So his actions have to speak for him. And he does that by staying silent in tears by using what was a perceived weakness, and it's difficult to speak. It seems to me that the theme of the meek shall inherit the earth. It's this I can show the opposite of the scene by having an antagonist an obstacle, who is in the form of Janice exploit for somebody who is loud and brash. I can also include other characters who pretty much fall in the middle. Everything that the characters do and say goes towards expressing to think.

So you could say that theme is in the details, and theme is the impression you get from those details. As you can see, working on a theme is difficult to do without having characters. creating characters creating their wants and needs and creating a story that shows their struggles will help develop see. In short, you have to develop your characters and character development. What we're going to look at next. So that pretty much wraps it up for stain.