I enjoyed the week 1 reading on the creation of Narrative Roles in fictional media texts, such as ‘heroes and villains’ and ‘good versus evil’.  But it was interesting to note that they are not solely restricted to fictional forms.  Narrative roles can also be used in non-fiction forms of media, such as the news, where language can be used to attribute characteristics to non-physical forms, such as weather, turning natural forces such as wind and storms into ‘the villain’: “This was Nature at her most unforgiving”.

Similar to Jasmine’s lecture, it was pleasing to see in the reading “Getting An Idea” that some well-known motion pictures had been thought of spontaneously after an unexpected life moment.  Kevin Brownlow’s It Happened Here (1966), which depicts Hitler’s Britain had Germany won World War II, was founded when Brownlow in 1956, then a trainee of a documentary film company, witnessed a man shouting in German to a companion in London.  “The scene was straight out of a war film; only the surroundings were unusual,” Brownlow says.  This moment helped to trigger a train of thought in Brownlow; “What might have happened if the Germans had invaded England?”  Ten years later, the film was complete and Brownlow’s dream achieved.