Antagonist

    In class, my group and I have begun to discuss who are characters are going to be, specifically the protagonist and antagonist.

     After doing some research, I have found that there are 4 main types of villains. The evil villain, who has purely malicious intentions; the everyday antagonist, who simply opposes the main character and is not necessarily evil; the immoral entity, such as a totalitarian government; and the internal struggle, which would be an element of the protagonist itself. In our case, we find it best to use the evil villain as our antagonist. It is a horror movie, after all, and nothing strikes fear into the minds of people like a ruthless, senseless, killer.

          For his backstory, the antagonist would have come from a rough family, where he dealt with great emotional trauma. The antagonist has a very dark soul and will show no remorse for his victims. The killer will be very mischievous and sneaky and will most likely not be seen at all or seen only a couple times for a few seconds as not revealing the killer adds more suspense for the viewer. We still need to find what his "trigger" was, or what ultimately drove him to become a murderer. We are going to develop a who, what, why, when, where chart for our antagonist because we believe   that this chart will help us develop our character to the fullest extent. In the background, we are probably going to have a blurred image of the antagonist's "master plan", and we may decide to focus on a picture of his family with some blood on it, to give a hint about where his malicious intentions come from.