Positioning techniques

 

POSITIONING TECHNIQUES:

Binary oppositions – the contrasting of two oppositional characteristics, in which one half of the binary is always privileged (seen as good/ right/ better).

Soliloquy/ Soliloquies – speaking without or regardless of hearers/ other characters.

 Asides – a brief comment under the breath of the character or to the audience that reveals the characters true feelings/ intent.

Monologues – a lengthy speech that usually gives the perspective of the character on one or several topics.

 Sequencing – the order of events.

Point of View – whose perspective a scene/ episode is mainly seen from/ reported from.

Imagery – lines in which there are visual images (used to colour our opinion of a character/ event positively or negatively).

Foreshadowing – when characters’ words pre-empt/ warn of an ominous outcome as a result of a particular action/ personality trait.

Repetition – repeated lines/ words/ ideas/ images. 

Humour – funny lines that make the audience align with what a character says… although sometimes this shows how ‘laughable’ the character’s view is/ discredits it. 

Deaths – honourable deaths, dishonourable deaths, sacrificial deaths, redemptive suicides, drawn-out torture… consider the death of your various representative character and how this punishes/ rewards (well, idealises) them for the characteristic they epitomise. What message does this send the audience about the trait/s they represent?

Language choices

Dialogue

Symbols

Motifs