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Module 3 – Lesson 5: Audience Connection to Characters
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Carole Avila – Likability/Relatability/Empathy
My vision: My writing skills are in demand by the writing industry, because I provide exceptionally crafted, well-loved and inspirational stories enjoyed by all ages that compel professionals to produce my work onscreen and in print.
What I learned from doing this assignment is the necessity of having likable characters in a script.
Protagonist:
• Likability: Mandy, as she inhabits Carmena’s body, tries hard to learn her way around the ranch.
• Relatability: Things are really hard, like mucking stalls and taking care of barn animals.
• Empathy: She’s afraid to take care of so many people when she barely can take care of herself.Antagonist:
• Likability: Santa Anna, the exiled Mexican dictator, is handsome, clever, and charismatic.
• Relatability: He is injured and lost a leg in a previous battle, which causes a lot of pain at the stump of his knee.
• Empathy: He wants to oust the current Mexican president because he’s not a great leader. (Neither was Santa Anna, but he strongly believes he’s a good leader.) -
Assignment Mod 3 Lesson 5 Audience Connect To Characters
My Vision: I am an amazing writer who has fun every day, is recognized by the industry for my ability to take audiences who love me through surprising experiences, and who has multiple successful movies produced while being highly paid.
What I learned from doing this assignment is:
I thought of some things, but I am sure there is a lot more for me to delve into. There are layers in all of the things we are learning.
Start this assignment by empowering yourself using our State-To-Activity empowerment process.
State: I have fun…
Activity: …making my characters likable, relatable, and empathetic!
Done more than once during course of the assignment.
Done a few times during process.
2. Brainstorm one or more ways you can present your Protagonist through each of these:
Protagonist: BRENDI
• Likability: BRENDI is beautiful, a talented Trapeze artist, smart, brave, thinks on her feet,
• Relatability: she is trying to be great being a spy even though she is new to it, she is having problems with her work trapeze partner, she is stuck with an unknown person to help with an assignment, she has to go against her superiors, is in competition with CHAZ, is up against a dangerous person, is in a very dangerous world, doesn’t know exactly what the problem is – has to find out.
• Empathy: her Trapeze partner almost drops her, her Trapeze partner sets her up, she finds out he is a secret Ukrainian terrorist agent, her secret agent partner is killed in a shootout, she has to work with a CIA agent she is not sure she can trust, she is falling in love with the enemy (CHAZ).
3. Just to get the experience, give us one or more ways that your Antagonist could be presented through each of these:
Antagonist: The MONSTR
• Likability: ZERO
• Relatability: He is laughed at when he is sarcastic when he is not trying to be funny.
• Empathy: ZERO
Semi-Antagonist: CHAZ
• Likability: Handsome, Witty, Extremely Moral and Ethical, brave,
• Relatability: Wants to be the one to win the day, he has to go against his superiors, he is a fish out of water in a rival country, is in competition with BRENDI, is up against a dangerous person, doesn’t know exactly what the problem is – has to find out.
• Empathy: He is disrespected by his own agency, he is a fish out of water, he is falling in love with the enemy (BRENDI).
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