User talk:Haschone/Not Bad for a Human - The Life and Films of Lance Henriksen

Schematics for a report on a biographical work (mainly a book)

General data

 * main type (auto- or just bio)


 * medium (book, comics-book, movie etc)
 * subject of the bio

- individual / group

- real (living dates and places) / fictional ( new / originated from literature, film, game, mythology - dates and places, culture)

- dead / living person


 * author

- previous works

- the author - relative to the subject


 * circumstances

- moment in the subject's life when the bio was written / released (real subject, mostly)

- historical moment and circumstances of the bio-writing (why point)

- current work - publisher, place (relative to author / subject, if relevant) and medium

- which edition? is this the first bio of the subject? If not which are the previous?


 * original language

Why
- origin / inspiration / idea / motivation

- target public

- intended message

- intended result

- informative, neutral, general culture

- career management

- tribute / honor / legacy

- for the glory of the author

Title
- type of/ content

Structure and contents
- volumes, chapters, episodes etc
 * book

- along with the writing (images in text, charts, statistics, annexe etc)

- type of chronology

- type of story (simple, framed etc)


 * time span and episodes of life presented in the work


 * - years
 * - private / public


 * - personal / professional


 * - real / invented


 * - obscured / emphasized

- other subjects presented (secondary) / specific places

(Stylistics)
- who writes and how: in first / third / second (rare) person and what: biography / autobiography
 * Type and mode of writing

- narrative

- memoirs

- confessions

- novel

- correspondence/letters

- testimonials

- speeches

- interviews

- dialogues

- play / theater etc

- formal
 * writing style

... ...
 * - prose
 * - poem (verses)

- point of view (+ / 0 / -) and general tone

- writing tools


 * - type of story narration / framed etc
 * - quotes etc
 * - recurrent words, phrases (meanings)


 * - visual aspect of text


 * -(leitmotivs)


 * - rules and exceptions


 * - themes etc


 * - etc
 * - for other than books (film) - music, visual and artistic effects, inserts from other movies etc


 * Contents point

- see autobiographical pact - real facts, people, places

- real people, facts etc transferred to fictional characters etc... (life novelization)

- (semi) fictional bio...

Presentation
book as object or movie-biography, other types of media


 * written text

- edition - deluxe etc, formal aspects of the delivery medium

detail (style)

- book

- comics-book

- newspaper

- web site (simple / interactive) (fan / encyclopedic)

etc
 * movie

- live action

- animation

- documentary

- short


 * theater play


 * music work (opera etc)


 * mixed media

Reception
- professional critique and press
 * local / international

- public

- accolades

- controversies

- legacy (see importance)

- advertising industry
 * materials generated by the work

- screenplays / dramatizations / games/ - mentions of the bio in other works

- another bio version based on, or

- re-edition (with or without adjustments)


 * translations