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Making A Hero: Protagonist Development for Film & Fiction
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About Making A Hero: Protagonist Development for Film & Fiction
Introduction
Habits of Highly Successful Writers
Two Sides of the Coin
Q1: What Does Your Hero Want?
Q2: How Does Your Hero Need to Change?
Q3: Why Do We Care?
Q4: What Are The Stakes?
Q5: What Are The Obstacles?
Conclusion
What You Will Learn?
- What is it that draws us into a story? It’s not that we haven’t seen a boy-meets-girl before, or watched a movie about a heist. There’s nothing new under the sun. What makes us care is not that there is an explosion, but that a character we love is caught in the blast..
- Stories are not about happenings; they’re about the people who experience what happened. Though many stories can be categorized as being either plot-driven or character driven, the best of them balance both. To figure out what your story is about, you need to also figure out whom it’s about; because your protagonist and plot are irrevocably intertwined. They are the two sides of the same coin, each mutually defining the other..
- In this class, we’ll explore the two sides of that coin. I’ll be walking you through a series of questions to help you generate ideas and solidify who your main character is in relation to your plot..