BERNARD'S WATCH

Location:

The setting started of at his house, as a good simple start off to the children's drama. It's a typical family home with the mum, dad and thier son Bernard. It's good to start off in a family home as it's more relatible to children and not too complicated. They mostly showed the stairway of the house, and the front door to focuse on how many times he went back and forth from his house and so it was cheeper. The other main setting is the community centre, where his friends party was being held. This is also a relatible setting because the time it was set in, most towns would have a community centre and would be where things like partys were held. The episode only really needed these two main settings so it was quite a cheep episode. However other scenes were used, such as his next door neighbours front door and kitchen, a bit of the park, a shop and outside the community centre.

Style:

The style of Bernard's watch is quite old fashioned, around the 1990's style. The family house is fairly big and at the same time it's an average house with nothing out of the ordinary, quite wooden and well decorated, looks like the family made an effort to make the house welcoming. The community centre is also average, like most community centres, white wood panelling and plain on the inside with big rooms. The style of clothes are plain are quite stereotypical towards e.g. the man was wearing a suit.

Characters:

There aren't many of Propp's theory of narrative in the first episode. The characters in the story were

• Mum
• Dad
• Bernard
• Postman
• Lady next door (next door neighbour)
• Friend
• Friends mum

Bernard is the Hero because he restores the equilibirum by using the magic watch to get his friend a present and get to his party without being noticed that he wasn't there.
The postman who gives Bernard his watch plays 3 roles is Propp's theory, he plays the Donor, as he gives Bernard the watch, He's the Helper, as he explained and gave information as to why he gave him the watch, and he is also the Dispatcher by giving him the watch , he sends him off on his journey to restore equilibirium.
The lady next door is aslo a Donor, as she gives bernard a spare key to his house, so he can get indoors and change.