Week 12 Story Lab: TVTropes

The tvtropes website is very interesting in the way it picks out different things that directors do in tv shows to depict different things they want and also things they put in scenes to add effects to the show.

The first one that got me was the Groin Attack, which takes a look at the different ways a director uses a punch to a persons groin as an effect. The one example was shown in the show The Simpsons when Homer is watching a video of a guy getting hit with a football. In that scene it shows how funny most people think watching someone getting hit in the groin is funny. Then there is also the use of groin attack from a female to a male to show a diminishing of the male characters masculinity. This article really just caught me because I would have never even known that directors and writers put these in the shows to add drama for the viewer.

The second thing I read about was the article about the Determinator- which is a character that is good or evil, male or female, young or old, and who never gives up. This was really interesting because the determinator is said to be some character that just will never give up no matter what the odds are. One of the examples they use for describing what a determinator is, is the energizer bunny, where it just keeps going and going and going. Then they also use the Trix rabbit for the cereal commercial. The two commercial examples that they used were interesting to me because I don't think I would have ever matched those two commercials up to having a main theme to their characters.

Energizer Bunny Source: Giphy

Bibliography: TvTropes. Web Source