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Day 7 Assignments
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Marie’s Connection with Audience
What I learned doing this assignment is that it’s not difficult to find traits in my characters that will have them fulfil the four essentials for connectivity. Revealing these traits through their actions and dialogue may be a bit more tricky but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.
1. Tell us which characters you are going to INTENTIONALLY create a connection with the audience.
Kay, Emoke, Wesley
2. With each character, tell us how you’ll use each of the four ways of connecting with the audience in the first 30 minutes of the movie.
Kay:
A. Relatability – she comes from a small town, she loves her mom but finds her overbearing
B. Intrigue – she’s an actress playing a princess on a popular TV show – the intrigue of celebrity
C. Empathy – she feels stifled by her mother and some neighbours and wants to get away from it all
D. Likability – she has a good sense of humour and beneath the TV star veneer seems very down to earth
Emoke:
A. Relatability – she loves books and kids
B. Intrigue – her gender is intriguing to many
C. Empathy – she is abused just for being who she is; makes her a loner
D. Likability – she likes children, books, the arts and she’s witty and amusingly sarcastic
Wesley:
A. Relatability – he speaks his mind but tries to be kind
B. Intrigue – he seems to have a secret
C. Empathy – he likes Eunice but she walks all over him; he’s had a somewhat hard life but doesn’t underline it
D. Likability – he is a positive addition to the theatre crew, always good energy and helpful
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Kathleen’s connection with the Audience
What I learned was a way to add depth to my characters.
1. Which characters are you going to intentionally create a connection with the audience?
Cassaundra (Cassie), TT, Rose and Rhonda
2. Cassie-A. Relatability: Most all have had stage fright and insecurities. C. Empathy-27-47% of children are born out of wedlock In the United States. Many will understand the struggle. D. Likeability. Show her naiveite’ and down to earthiness.
TT (Thea West)-A Relatability- She stands up for the underdog. B. Intrigue-Why are there paintings of Noah’s Ark in her room? D. Likeability – She is honest, but loving.
Rose-A. Relatability and C-Empathy: Others have had their husbands to cheat.
Rhonda – A. Someone coming to take your place. B. Intrigue – Her scheme to thwart Cassie’s plans.
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1. Which characters are you going to intentionally create a connection with the audience?
Miguel, Dulcinea, Hamad
2. With each character, tell us how you’ll use each of the four ways in the first 30 minutes.
Miguel
A. Relatability – he’s trapped.
B. Intrigue – why is he a prisoner?
C. Empathy – his life is not his own
D. Likability – he tries to take responsibility for the escape and save O’ Driscoll’s life.
Dulcinea
A. Relatability – she’s trapped.
B. Intrigue – who will she choose?
C. Empathy – she’s trapped in a love triangle between two men who don’t appreciate her.
D. Likability – she sacrifices her happiness for the other concubines in the harem
Hamad
A. Relatability – his sense of duty
B. Intrigue – will he break?
C. Empathy – he’s under appreciated in his shitty job.
D. Likability – his love for the concubine
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Kathleen’s Connection with Audience
What I learned is a way to add depth to my characters
Characters I will intentionally create a connection with the audience:
Cassie, Rhonda, Rose and T.T.
Cassie: A Relatability – we all have had stage fright and insecurities. C. Empathy – according to statistics almost half of the children in the U.S. is born out of wedlock. D. Likeability – She shows how she is down to earth and how she is kind.
T.T.: A. Relatability – She stands up and has empathy for the underdog. B. Intrigue – Why are those painting and model of Noah’s ark in the locked room? D. Likeability – She is honest, but loving.
Rose: C. Empathy – she’s be a dutiful wife and mother, but has been cheated on unknowingly for years.
Rhonda: Intrigue – her tricks to thwart Cassie’s Plans. Relatability – someone coming to take your place.
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Maria’s connection with the audience.
Relatability: Janet is a single mother. She’s past the age of desirability but far from past the age of wanting connection. Mike has a dream and works so hard for it that he doesn’t have time for anything else. He sees his best friend and partner with a family and longs for that connection.
Intrigue: What will happen when a robot enters Janet’s life? What will happen when a human has to pretend to be a robot? Will he be found out? Will they fall in love (of course they will).
Empathy: Janet’s child is leaving the nest AND going through a major change at the same time. What would it feel like to fall in love with someone who isn’t real (read: available)? What does it feel like to fall in love with someone while you are living a lie?
Likeability: Janet will support her child in everything. She’s generous — to a fault (old ways), and learns to express what she wants (new ways). Mike is torn between business, love and oing what’s right. He chooses to do what’s right.
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Forgot to add what I learned: The higher the stakes, the greater the emotional investment.
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