AS Media Psychology In Dramas Source Of Inspiration

Psychology In Dramas Source Of Inspiration

Brief

I have chosen to look at "Mr Robot" influenced by my previous blog post that revolved around urban issues. I felt this TV show sometimes portrays the gritty urban violence I wish to create. Yet, using a character, Elliot, that suffers with a mental illness allows for a greater impact of emotion and vulnerability without being in bad taste. This is explained in the below video:

As a group we are undecided between creating a psychological drama/thriller with urban drama conventions similar to "Maniac", or an urban drama. Therefore, I felt "Mr. Robot" does this fairly well and could help create a complex plot and protagonist similar to those seen in psychological thrillers. This is because Elliot conforms to the complexity of characters commonly seen in psychological thrillers by having an alter ego called Mr. Robot.

Personal Comments

The only issue is creating such a complex plot for a film opening and making it either seem like a short film or make the genre hard to identify. Consequently, I want to focus on the violence and urban drama conventions as I feel that will be easier to convey. I could look at ways to show some slight instability of the protagonist's mind by deconstructing fight scenes from psychological films like "Fight Club", where like Elliot, the character has an alter ego. However, I feel the mixing of genres like in Mr. Robot may be confusing. Nevertheless, deconstructing violence from different genres may provide conventions which can make our film opening's genre more identifiable if we were to include a violence.