Linear, Non - linear and Todarov
Task 2
What is Linear
This is when a movie/TV show is in chronological order. It progressing from one stage to another in a single series of steps; sequential
Endless love
An example of a movie that is in chronological order is endless love. It is about a privileged, innocent girl and a charismatic boy with a dark past whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.The movie has no flashbacks as it just runs from start to finish. Using linear for movies are a good way to keep the audience entertained, as it would get boring going back and fourth. Also using an linear also helps the audience to follow the movie and understand what is happening. If the audience can't follow the plot then the movie would not be a big hit as many people would not watch it. However, using the linear in this movie lets the audience understand what is happening without using flashbacks.
Evil dead
Another example of a linear movie is evil dead. It is about a girl and her friends going to a cabin from her childhood, where she tries to get over her drug addict. However, they awake a demon which possess the girl. Doing a horror movie most companies use Linear as it makes the scenes more intense and scary for the audience. If there were to be a flashback in a horror the movie wouldn't be as appealing as it goes back and fourth. However, with a a linear you can build up the suspense and keep the audience guessing and even make them jump during the movie.
What is non - linear
An example of a movie that is in chronological order is endless love. It is about a privileged, innocent girl and a charismatic boy with a dark past whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.The movie has no flashbacks as it just runs from start to finish. Using linear for movies are a good way to keep the audience entertained, as it would get boring going back and fourth. Also using an linear also helps the audience to follow the movie and understand what is happening. If the audience can't follow the plot then the movie would not be a big hit as many people would not watch it. However, using the linear in this movie lets the audience understand what is happening without using flashbacks.
Evil dead
Another example of a linear movie is evil dead. It is about a girl and her friends going to a cabin from her childhood, where she tries to get over her drug addict. However, they awake a demon which possess the girl. Doing a horror movie most companies use Linear as it makes the scenes more intense and scary for the audience. If there were to be a flashback in a horror the movie wouldn't be as appealing as it goes back and fourth. However, with a a linear you can build up the suspense and keep the audience guessing and even make them jump during the movie.
What is non - linear
This is when a movie/ TV show is not in chronological order. For example, the movie/TV show would consist of having flashbacks.
The 100 is an example of an non - linear TV series. Using a non - linear structure for a TV show would help the audience to get a better understanding of the characters past. For example, in the 100 we don't know anything about the characters so using flashbacks would help us to figure out what happened, why they are in this situation, and why this person would act like this.
The 100 it is about 100 teenagers who are sent down to earth to see if it is survivable. 100 years ago the planet was bombed making it soaking in radiation. When we first see the show the audience have a lot of questions on what has happened. Using information through flashbacks helps the audience to get a understanding to what happened to these characters. It lets the audience put the pieces' together which keeps them entertained and interested. Rather then watching a scene unfold we get a sense of mystery as the audience get to guess what is happening. This makes them come back as they want find out more.
In this scene of the 100 we get a better look of how a character called Bellamy made it to the ground as all the teens on the drop ship are 15-18 but he is 23 and he had gotten to the ground. He was a mystery until a flashback was used which explained how he got there.
Pretty little liars
Pretty little liars is another non - linear TV show. During the beginning there is a flashback of five friends having a sleepover, drinking and laughing. However, as the scene progresses one of the friends goes missing and none of the friends can find her. Starting an episode like this is a good way to set a mysterious plot for the audience. This intrigues them and gets them to want to watch more as they want to know what happened to their friend. However, for us the audience we get annoyed but confused because we don't know what happened. Is the girl dead? where is she? did someone kidnap her?
Throughout the seasons of pretty little liars there are many flashbacks. The reason they put so many flashback's is for us to know the character who went missing a bit more. Through flashbacks we get to know Alison more, and even though she's missing we get to know what she was like. However, as the flashbacks progress we get to know her character and see her being mean to others, lying and manipulating people which would make the audience hate her. They done this to make us feel bad for her friends, as she always treated them badly and feel mixed feelings for her. We dislike her because of how evil she was to others but she's missing and we feel sympathy for her because she's gone.
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