Lesson 5

[Melissa Barreca]

Melissa Barreca’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy

My vision: Melissa Barreca is one of the most sought after writers in the movie industry because of the artistry of her writing, professionalism and exceptional ability to tell important, entertaining, joyful, and heartbreaking stories that inspire audiences and become legendary classics.

What I learned…All characters are stronger when they are nuanced. Just because someone does something bad, that doesn’t mean there cannot be good or even great and likable aspects to their personality. Just because someone is basically good, that doesn’t mean they cannot have dark secrets.

Brainstorm one or more ways you can present your Protagonist through each of these: Norah/mother trying to be reunited with her children.

Likability: Norah has a big heart and loves people. She is always serving people. She seeks out the downtrodden and broken and tries to lift them up. Her love for her children and her husband shines through, as well as her extended family. She has a sweet relationship with her mother and father.

Relatability: Norah is the kind of person we all wish we could be and that we admire and value in our lives. She reminds us of a favorite aunt/cousin/sister/grandmother.

Empathy: When Norah loses her husband and then her children, we are devastated for her. It is hard to see and we want to take away her pain.

Just to get the experience, give us one or more ways that your Antagonist could be presented through each of these: Michael/manipulative best friend who has ulterior motives.

Likability: Michael is handsome and charming. He is someone we are intrigued by and we are introduced to him as a steadfast friend and happy helper. He is also very witty and always seems to say the right thing in social situations.

Relatability: Michael cares deeply about the people in his life and his brokenness and turn to become a manipulative abuser is an evolution out of his own loss and failure to cope with it. We can all remember feeling like we wanted to cling to something or someone that we could not have. We have all had a broken heart and longed for a relationship or a person that we couldn’t have.

Empathy: Michael is obviously in grief over his own loss and struggling with his desire for Norah even though he knows it’s wrong. We want him to make the right choice and when he doesn’t we want him to change.

[Lloyd Shellenberger]

Module 3 Lesson 5 Audience Connection to Characters

Vision Statement: Working Hard to become the best writer I can be and as a result I do become the best screenwriter in Hollywood.

Lloyd Shellenberger

Title: Letters From Baghdad

Protagonist: SFC Jerry Reese

Likability/Relatability/Empathy

What I learned…Every character that is layered and nuanced is a character the audience will embrace and want to watch. Dark secrets and character flaws enhance the character.

SFC Jerry Reese Protagonist

Likability: SFC Reese is well liked by his company and the soldiers under his command, they trust him. The family of the slain interpreter comes to trust and care about him as well. The interpreter trusted Reese with his life as well. The North Dakota Congressman who steps in to help him has great respect for his grit and his never back down attitude as well. Reese reminds us of that leader or uncle we went to for help and he made everything better.

Empathy: When the audience sees the flashback of Reese’s little brother murdered in a drive-by shooting we now understand why the children lost in the open market hit him so hard. He feels he failed them and we feel his pain. The antagonist knows that Reese cares about the children and the widow and uses that to his advantage. In the battles that ensue and the various encounters, Reese is injured but he never backs down or gives up.

Relatability: Reese is intensely focused and committed. The audience sees a side of him they can relate to and aspire to be like. His life wasn’t always easy but he has overcome incredible odds to join the Army and serve his country. Everyone loves a survivor and Reese is definitely that. In addition, we all want to see the hero ride in on a white horse and save the day even if they are flawed at the core.

Title: Letters From Baghdad

Antagonist: Al-Sadar

Likability: Al-Sadar is well respected by his cell. He believes himself to be a patriot and soldier of Allah and expects nothing less from those around him. He is also a seasoned soldier who foresees the US Army’s ploys and tactics. This cements his status as their leader even more. Al-Sadar does not compromise and for that we don’t have to like him but we must respect him.

Empathy: Through a series of events we understand that Al-Sadar wasn’t always a terrorist. He once was a soldier and patriot but he lost his whole family in bomb raids over Baghdad and he blames the Americans and Western coalitions for that. He also believes in the sovereignty of the Pan-Arab world and the right to self governance without Western interference.

Relatability: While audiences most likely will not agree with him turning to murder and terrorism as a solution they will identify with Al-Sadar’s national identity. He believes Iraq belongs to the Iraqis and shouldn’t be a political football for the west to kick about.

[Lenore]

Lloyd, Glad you’re doing a story about helping an interpreter’s family–a story that needs to be told after the dismal treatment our country gave interpreters in Afghanistan. I’m fascinated that yours is a true story and will look forward to seeing how you approach it. Letters From Baghdad indicates you might have a narrator and each letter would be a flashback. Just wondering! Lenore.

[Lloyd Shellenberger]

I was one of the lead journalist on this story and you are right we thanked the interpreters by handing their names over to a corrupt Iraqi government we installed. I did what I could to help get them out as I was part of the security detail on their last trip out of their homeland. They deserved better. It sounds like you know a little about this subject. I still haven’t decided exactly how to write this. The Letters refers to the request the family made for visas that were denied. Always looking for good ideas as this story needs to be told while protecting the family.

[Lenore]

I went back to the forum to read your assignments 6, 7, and 8, but find you haven’t posted them. You have a good protagonist and antagonist, and of course the all the family members will be characters. Don’t hesitate to put yourself in this story, maybe as journalist and narrator. And don’t feel you have to stick to facts as your screenplay can always be “based upon a true story,” giving you a lot more freedom in your writing. I’ll look forward to your next postings.

[Paul Schutte]

Paul’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy

My Vision: I am going to study, learn, and practice to hone my natural talents to become a master writer who creates works that people love and that make an impact on their lives. These works will be published, produced, distributed, and seen by a wide audience.

What I learned from doing this assignment is …?

It was easy to rattle off some characteristics, but I’m not sure they are enough or that they are unique. We’ll see if I can translate/transfer them to the page.

Protagonist – Sarah

Likability: Her sister loves her. She cares about the underdog AI. She doesn’t give up even when she falls flat on her face. She admits her mistakes.

Relatability: We’ve all had public humiliations. We’ve done and said things we regretted later. We’ve all been confused. We’ve felt unheard and ignored.

Empathy: Her life is threatened. She has to face a crowd and feel horrible. She has had an action of hers presented with the best of intentions go wrong and hurt people instead of help. She’s lonely.

Antagonist – Danny

Likability: He wants to save Sarah.

Relatability: We’ve all had to face moral and allegiance dilemmas. We’ve all hated ourselves.

Empathy: He’s plagued by the inner voices. He’s plagued by his own guilt. He’s abused and neglected by owners.

Antagonist – Bushnell

Likability: He wants to save the world.

Relatability: Even though we’ve never had the power that he has, we’ve all wished for it at one time or another and would have liked to have used it as he did, even if our intellectual/moral compass would be against it.

Empathy: He can’t relate to others. He’s lonely but can’t even understand what loneliness is. He doesn’t know why he needs it.

[Alyssa Giannola]

Alyssa’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy

One Sentence Vision: I want to be the best writer I can be and a go-to writer in the industry, crafting scripts that become successful movies which make a lasting impact on people.

What I learned from this assignment is…making sure I’m adding these important layers in to create characters that people can connect with and understand, even for my main antagonist who at first was purely a villain.

Protagonist: Alex

Likability: He’s witty, smart, pursuing a beneficial goal for everyone and his colleagues like/admire him.

Relatability: He’s pouring his heart, soul and money into his passion and a goal that’s bigger than himself but the endless work is wearing him down and affecting his relationships/judgements.

Empathy: He experienced deep trauma by losing both of his parents in the opening scene and that’s what is fueling him to “change the world,” though it’s still an unhealed wound and affects him throughout the story.

Antagonist: Nijara

Likability: Highly intelligent and cultured, sought after and respected by others.

Relatability: She thinks she’s doing the right thing and what’s best for people, believing in her goals even though they are wrong.

Empathy: At the very end, she discovers she’s been lied to and is actually a clone with no free will of her own- trapped in the system just like Alex and Celia.

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[Christopher Confer]

Module 4 Lesson 5 Audience Connection to Characters

Vision:

To write and sell excellent, original, enticing screenplays in order to take audiences on cinematic adventures that satisfy their need for great stories.

Brainstorm one or more ways you can present your Protagonist through each of these:

Likeability: Judge Ken chases Burlyman down and confronts him after Burlyman causes a traffic collision on purpose.

Relatability: We have all been cut off by distracted drivers and can relate when Judge Ken tells him off.

Empathy: He has a flashback to the day when they were t-boned on the passenger side and he watched his wife die in the car.

Likability: Sense of humor because rotary phone sentences are funny.

Relatability: Rotary phone sentences are cathartic and we want him to recover.

Empathy: Lost his wife to a distracted driver, carries some of her art with him: has it in a card form and on his phone. They used to paint together on Friday nights. He talks about how she loved to challenge him if his paintings were not so good, not in a mean way but hey you could have done a little better in this section of the painting.

Just to get the experience, give us one or more ways that your Antagonist could be presented through each of these:

Likability: Kirill is charming, evil, well trained at causing mayhem and subversion.

Relatability: A spy on foreign soil, eventhough he’s a bad guy in the movie, we can relate to being ordered by one’s government to do a job that sucks like being a spy.

Empathy: The star chamber is going to get him, so his time is short. Since he’s a bad guy, not sure there will be too much empathy here.

[Lenore]

WIM Module 3, Lesson 5

Lenore Bechtel’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy.

My vision: I want to create enough salable screenplays that an agent will want to market my work and recommend me for writing assignments.

What I learned from doing this assignment is three endearing qualities characters must have to make viewers identify with them and root for their success: likability, relatability, and empathy.

My Title: Berlin Rendezvous?

Concept: Keeping her promise to Zhores, the Russian soldier she loved until the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, Libby—flying to meet him when the Wall is coming down in 1989—is stunned to learn how her seat-mates lives intertwined with theirs.

Dramatic Triangle

LIBBY:

Likablity: She is gracious about letting Freida and Allison tag along with her and the flight arrangements she makes at Chicago O’hara Airport after her flight from Honolulu runs late and misses her connection to Berlin.

Relatability: Viewers will re-experience first loves as they watch Young Libby falling in love with Zhores.

Empathy: Viewers will feel sad that in 28 years Libby never had a lasting love relationship, and they’ll long for Zhores to show up in Schulenberg Park on the day the Wall comes down—as he and Libby had promised each other.

FREIDA:

Likablity: Viewers might find Freida too meek and selfish at first, but as steps beyond her pity-me attitude and takes the initiative to get Libby to Berlin on time, she’ll become completely likable.

Relatability: Everyone has had something they’d like to run away from and will relate to Freida’s fear of earthquakes.

Empathy: Anyone who’s experienced feeling like a total outsider will empathize with Freida and hope her husband takes her back so she can give the USA a second chance.

ALLISON:

Likablity: Viewers will love her from the start. A 12-year-old smart enough to get an audition with the Berlin Philharmonic, make her way from a rural private school to Chicago to book a flight, have guardian grandparents who trust her enough to give her own credit card, and humble enough never to flaunt her child prodigy status. Who wouldn’t love this gal?

Relatability: Viewers will begin to relate to her more and more as they begin to realize the lonesomeness of her life and her underlying need to be like a normal child.

Empathy: When she gives her monologue stating what she hopes is her family tree she never knew about, viewers will want it for her—and for Libby and Freida.

[Margaret]

Margaret’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy

Margaret’s Vision: To be the best screenwriter for faith-based movies

What I learned: How to connect an audience with your characters.

Movie Title: Rock of Cashel

Protagonist: (St.) Patrick

Likability: Risks his life to save a lamb.

Relatability: Rebels against his father who is forcing him to serve in the church.

Empathy: Kidnapped and made a servant to a sheep farmer in Ireland.

Antagonist: Morrigan, Queen of the Otherworld

Likability: Expresses her love for the people of Ireland, “her children”

Relatability: Up against someone who is taking her group away from her.

Empathy: Humiliated by a human she is unable to control.

[H. Vince]

Student Name: H. Vince

WIM – 2023

Lesson 5: Audience Connection to Characters

My Vision: I am going to go to the theater in disguise and watch a movie I wrote and listen to the reactions of the audience.

What I learned from doing this assignment is…

Finding ways for the audience to feel for the antagonist. People may see him coming from a position of privilege and think that he should have no excuse.

PROTAGONIST: JAMES

Likability: Planned out a wonderful dreamlike
retirement vacation for he and his wife to enjoy
Relatability: He takes on the stress and anxiety
not wanting to put that on his family <div>

Empathy: Develops dementia, becomes helpless and
lost and can’t care for himself

PROTAGONIST: CLARA

Likability: She pulls great strength inside to
care for and help her husband return home
Relatability: A humble woman, wife, mother just
wanting to experience a dream retirement vacation with her husband </div><div>

Empathy: She is hit with the unexpected and has to
forget her expectations of how her plans were supposed to go. She is going through so many emotions trying to deal with her husband’s sudden change.

ANTAGONIST: DR. RIA

Likability: Is a doctor that is in the business of
helping people feel better

Relatability: has a family of his own that he
needs to care for so he falls for a desperate way to make side money not
thinking of the ultimate harm

Empathy: has to bow down to a greater entity than
he which is the pharmaceutical company. Falsely accused of malpractice in
the past which almost cost him his license.

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[Cassie Randall]

Cassie’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy

My vision: I am a dynamic, respected, constantly learning and growing writer with an ever-growing and improving library of A-list quality, genre-diverse scripts that present genuine stories that audiences love to watch and that producers love to sell, and boy, do I make that MONEY, y’all!

What I learned from doing this assignment is…continuing to learn about who my characters genuinely are. I said in last assignment’s “what I learned” that I typically have focused on plot structure and therefore ended up with pretty generic characters and struggled with making their scenes dynamic, unique, interesting, compelling, and engaging. A major goal of mine is to “present genuine stories that audiences love to watch and that producers love to sell” (cuz I want that MONEY lol), and to do that, I need characters the audience likes, relates to, and empathizes with. I hadn’t ever considered these aspects of character development and they are very powerful and effective ways to further meet my characters! I am really excited about this whole “meeting my characters” process because, again, in the past I have just forced generic things into my story.

2. Brainstorm one or more ways you can present your Protagonist through each of these:

Likability: Even though people are really mean, unfair, and awful to him, he doesn’t retaliate and punish them back. Going through the divorce, he doesn’t try to destroy his soon-to-be ex’s life. Being forced to live with a terrible roommate who hates him, he still isn’t as awful as he could be.

Relatability: We’ve all had people bully us and try to make our lives miserable: bosses, partners, spouses, roommates. We’ve all been in relationships that harm us that we still try to make work. We’ve all been desperate for a way out of those relationships, to develop the strength to stand up for ourselves.

Empathy: We want to see people stop shitting (forgive my language) on him and treat him decently, because he’s a nice guy. We want to see him finally in a relationship and in a situation where he is happy, safe, and secure. We want to see him stand up for himself.

3. Just to get the experience, give us one or more ways that your Antagonist could be presented through each of these:

Likability: He’s an antisocial ghost. This is immediately endearing because he’s stuck here forever and has to deal with people that he doesn’t like. He has no way to escape and does very entertaining things to keep people away from him. We like watching those entertaining things and him being frustrated and upping the ante with each tactic. (Trying to spook, being obnoxious…possessing his roommate so he does what the ghost wishes he could do…?)

Relatability: We’ve all been forced to deal with, work with, or live with people we don’t want to. Think coworkers or college roommates. Especially since he especially doesn’t like people, that potentially takes some audience members (who also don’t like people very much) even deeper in relatability.
HOWEVER, his subtext is that he is secretly jealous of people still living and being able to have live experiences. We’ve all felt like we’re on the outside looking in and wishing we could have experiences of groups we just aren’t a part of.

Empathy: This is his apartment. He didn’t agree to having a roommate and he doesn’t like anyone. We want him to be happy in his grumpy solitude.
ALSO, we want him to be able to be happy and secure in being able to experience certain aspects of living that he either never got to or genuinely misses.

[Marguerite Langstaff]

Module 3 Lesson 5Audience Connection to characters

Marguerite Langstaff: THE BILLIONAIRE IN 501

Vision I want to learn to write and market movie scripts.

What I learned during this assignment: That my characters are just like all of us in real life….we have our good traits and bad traits….and it’s what audiences identify with….both good and bad. So don’t discount the good.

STATE: I have fun simply doing these assignments…

Activity ; Making my charaters likable, relatable and empathetic!

Protagnist: Grandmother: She is likable…she puts herself out to be nice to the residents in her new neighborhood and to like them and to make them like her…. When she has spent all her money but doesn’t want anyone to know…everybody can relate to that. Empathy…She wants to do what her daughter wants and expects of her, but it’s not always easy….don’t we all empathize with that!!!

Antagonist: Pappy: Pappy falls in love with Grandmother. Can’t most of us identify with that…we’vee fallen in love with someone…and when and if that spouse dies we are lonely. We’re lonely…we relate to that…and we are looking for another love. There is all of the three: likability, relatability and empathy…..involved here…and so too does it include possible family problems with nay-saying to all of the above.

[Ruthie Harris]

Ruthie’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy

My Vision: To be known for and make a living from female-driven, dark comedy, while remaining confident that I have the skills and knowledge to elevate my ideas to their highest potential.

What I learnt: You can have empathy for a villain…

2. Brainstorm one or more ways you can present your Protagonist through each of these:

Likability: Zadie is naturally vivacious and funny. She’s genuinely friendly – it’s part of her job as an agent. You instinctively know she was never the mean girl in school. She embraces her quirks.

Relatability: She’s not stick-thin and embraces body positivity. Acknowledges her insecurities.

Empathy: Her imposter syndrome when it comes to her profession. She always feels on the verge of being called out as a fraud, even though she’s good at what she does.

3. Just to get the experience, give us one or more ways that your Antagonist could be presented through each of these:

Likability: Jasper can be charming and witty when he wants to be.

Relatability: Doing what it takes workwise to make a living.

Empathy: A former child star who’s aching to be someone again, not a has been.

[Ashley Sarikaya]

Ashley’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy

Vision: I write enthralling, entertaining, and transformational scripts that win awards, get produced and create positive change in the world.

I love this exercise. It really helps me narrow down the essence of each main character.

Malinche (Protagonist)

Relatability: She wants to be accepted by the community. She tries to fit in despite being different. She hides her “hideous” birthmark and tries to dress like the people around her. As a result, she won’t let herself be truly seen.

Likability: Malinche is a loving mother, and will do anything for her son. She is dedicated to service and freedom for all. She tries to save her people from the plague. In Act 3, she finds her community through leadership and sharing her story, struggles and wins.

Empathy: Malinche was sold into Mayan slavery as a child by her Aztec mother and stepfather to gain her inheritance after her biological father died. She falls in love with Spanish conquistador, Hernando, but he casts her aside and summons his wife from Cuba after he discovers Malinche is pregnant with his child. She experiences the death of her child when she travels back in time.

Hernando (Antagonist)

Relatability: Hernando’s father wants him to pursue a career in law, which would be a slow death for Hernando. He is constantly under-estimated and disappointing the “father figures” in his life. He wants to prove his worth, but he is deeply insecure.

Likability: When he isn’t planning his next move, he is the life of the party. On the surface, he is charming, funny, and playful. But it’s all fun and games until someone steps on his pride.

Empathy: Hernando has been rejected by his father, the Governor of Cuba and King Charles of Spain. After having sacrificed everything to conquer the Aztec Empire, Hernando is fired from his position as ruler by the King of Spain. The new ruler arrives, takes Hernando’s office, gold, and crew.

Itzamna (Change Agent/main supporting character)

Relatability: Itzamna admires his sister and doesn’t want to disappoint her. He also suffers from anxiety, migraines, and paranoia. His mental health challenges make him want to escape in music and sleep. Lastly, he is falling in love with Malinche while she is pursuing Hernando.

Likability: Despite warnings from his sister about the Aztecs and their gory human sacrifices, Itzamna is kind to Malinche. He feels a past life connection with her and is bound to help her mission.

Empathy: He has no boundaries with people and the spirit. The spirit shows up at night, in bodies of water, and during the most inappropriate times. This exacerbates his anxiety.

[Brian Bull]

BRIAN BULL – Likability/Relatability/Empathy

VISION!!!
My ultimate goal is to get my scripts from my hands to the SILVER SCREEN!!

“What I learned from doing this assignment is…
It’s the little things that add up and have a big impact on your characters.

Character Name: John (40 years old) – Protagonist

Likability – Has a photo of his brother

Relatability – Enjoys nature and the serenity

Empathy – Watery eyes / tear drop
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Character Name: Teresa- Antagonist

Likability – loves her husband

Relatability – wants him to stay home for the weekend – Labor Day – BBQ

Empathy – Going to miss him terribly

[Eden Young]

Eden Young

WIM Module 3 Lesson 1: Characters That Sell Scripts

My vision: I am going to be an empowered, wonderful writer that’s known for great dialogue and great characters that win audiences’ hearts.
What I learned from this assignment is the deeper the audience connection the better. And Likability, Relatability, and Empathy deepen the connection.

Brainstorm one or more ways you can present your Protagonist through each of these:

Calvin Knightly

Likability: He is witty, hard working and ultra talented. He loves his wife. His mom is his confidant.
Relatability: He comes so close; but can never truly get ahead/ get the acclaim he is due. The desire to make it and no longer wants to play the game and take people’s shit.
Empathy: His dad left at a young age. Mother died when he was 18.

Just to get the experience, give us one or more ways that your Antagonist could be presented through each of these:

Cora Knightly

Likability: She is cultured, attractive, worldly, yet relatable with a great sense of humor.
Relatability: She has a deep sense of the world. Is sensitive.
Empathy: Her ex-husband left her and Calvin which she never anticipated.

[Adrienne Watkins]

ADRIENNE WATKINS – LIKEABILITY/RELATABILITY/EMPATHY MODULE 3 LESSON 5

My Vision: I am going to work as hard as I reasonably am able to succeed at script writing to be recognized by multiple movie producers as a skilled script writer, and to have my scripts produced worldwide.

What I have learned from this assignment is to write script, so the audience relates to characters.

Protagonist: Fransie

Likability: compassionate, caring, industrious

Relatability: lonely for family, inside pain because she’s an orphan, tries to hide emotional pain through music.

Empathy: she’s deaf but reaches out to people.

Antagonist; Flavia

Likability: reaches out to people even though she’s sneaky, friendly

Relatability: insecure because she’s an orphan, wants to be loved

Empathy: she dealing with unrequited love.

[Haley Chambers]

Haley Chambers’ Likability/Relatability/Empathy

Haley’s Vision: I am going to work hard to be recognized as a successful screenwriter with many of my scripts made into films/TV shows.

WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS ASSIGNMENT IS… In order to have intriguing characters, they need to go beyond being likable.

Concept: A recently hired dishwasher boy discovers the strip mall sandwich shop in which he works is actually the front of an underground factory for manufacturing dreams.

Protagonist: For now I am calling him “Sam”

– Likability: Hard worker, innocent and thoughtful, takes extra shifts so that his coworkers can go home early. <div>

– Relatability: Works for a job he doesn’t really like, afraid to stand up for himself, has nightmares, unlucky/has to do a lot of dirty work

– Empathy: Was neglected/abused as a child. Told that he was worthless and that his imagination was stupid. Suppresses imagination/can’t stand up for himself.

Antagonist: I am experimenting with a new antagonist, a secretary of the Dream Factory named “Jane”

– Likability: Sweet and caring, everyone thinks she is kind and cheerful. Helps Sam and is the first person to see past his lack of imagination, treats him kindly. </div>

– Relatability: Under appreciated by coworkers, hard working with little reward, points out the wildness of the Dream Factory (which the audience thinks as well)

– Empathy: Used to be a Dream designer, but had a major mishap and destroyed a lab. Fired from her favorite job, forced to be a secretary who is always remembered for her dream mishap. Wants to work her way back into everyone’s favors.

[Veronica Turowski]

Veronica Turowski’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy

My Vision: I want to be a successful writer who writes several scripts yearly and then sells them to producers who create my vision for the big screen.

What I learned from doing this assignment is the audience needs to find ways to like and relate with the characters, even if they are evil.

Protagonist: Eppsa Kestner

Likability: Eppsa is helpful and caring. She wants to help Lonnie pass over and protect her son and others from possibly becoming victims of the serial killer.

Relatability: She loves her family.

Empathy: She is a widow and is still looking for her son who ran away years ago.

Antagonist: Hayden Kestner

Likability: He loves his son.

Relatability: Hayden likes to see happy children.

Empathy: His dad died.

Protagonist: Lonnie Dowic

Likability: He’s a pastor.

Relatability: Even though he’s a ghost, he still wants to help people.

Empathy: He was murdered.

[shira marin]

Shira Marin’s Character Likeability/Relatability/Empathy

WIM- MOD. 3 ––L 5

VISION: I commit to doing everything from my strongest, most creative writer self to learn the course material as thoroughly as possible, then, revise and sell my screenplay to a producer who can’t wait to make it into an unforgettable film that everyone, everywhere can’t wait to see, be inspired by, and fulfill their best, most creative selves.

What I learned from this assignment is responsiveness of the audience on these three factors is essential for the movie to catch fire. I loved working on these elements because of the ways they create so much dimensionality and a bridge between the characters’ and the viewers’ experiences.

Protagonist: KARA CAVALLI

· Likability: She’s bright, cultured but a little edgy and humorous.

· Relatability: The above traits make her human. She has Mother issues

· Empathy: She struggles, has anxiety about her challenging dissertation work, and problems with her mother.

Antagonist: Grayson Benoit (Ben-wah) He actually also represents society’s attitudes so that society is also an antagonist.

.Likability: He looks cultured. At first, he’s neutral. He becomes likable when his struggles are revealed fairly early on. (needs more development).<div>
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.Relatability: Anyone in his position, feeling subjugated, subverted, and experiencing himself as not really belonging, especially these days, can probably identify with his feelings.

.Empathy: It’s pathetic that a person feels threatened enough by the truth of his history he hides so much of himself.

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[Bent Hanlen]

BENT’S LIKEABILITY RELATABILITY EMPATHY

MY VISION IS TO BE A RESPECTED TELEVISION WRITER AND SELL A FEATURE THIS YEAR. PREFERABLY THIS ONE!

WHAT I LEARNED DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT IS THIS….. MY ANTAGONIST WANTS TO PROTECT THE NORTH POLE AND WE CAN ALL AGREE. HE’S DOING IT THE WRONG WAY THOUGH.

THE GENERAL ANTAGONIST

• Likability: HE WANTS THE ELVES TO BE SAFE
• Relatability: HE IS PROTECTIVE OVER A LAND HE LOVES. HE WANTS TO GIVE MORE SPACE TO THE ELVES.
• Empathy: HE WANTS PROGRESS TO COME TO THE NORTH POLE THROUGH MILITARIZATION AND STRUCTURE ADVANCEMENTS.

INDIGO

• Likability: HE CARES DEEPLY FOR HIS FAMILY
• Relatability: HE HAS A SISTER YOUNGER THAN HIM AND HE TRIES TO WRANGLE HER SO SHE DOESN’T RUN AWAY.
• Empathy: HE HAS A FEAR OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD , HEIGHTS, AND KRAMPUS.