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Steps for Introducing Characters
While plots most be original and compelling, characters are the key to every great movie. Your characters are the emotional core of your story. It is through them that your audience engages and experiences the world you have created.
To write great characters you must know them and understand them. They must live in your imagination and have unique voices, each their own.
Once they you have created and defined these characters, with backstories and future stories, how do you get your audience to understand and empathize with your characters as much as you do?
Here are some tips you can use to make sure that your characters leap off the page and grab your readers imagination:
Define Your Character’s Broad Stroke
An audience meets a character just like they meet a person in real life: with a first impression. Unless it’s via phone or text, we see a person first. Then we speak with them. We react based on what we see and how we interact with a new person.
We form an opinion based on how they appear. Then we refine it based on what we learn from interacting with them. It’s the same with characters in a movie.
As an audience observes them, they learn new details that add to their initial impression. If your…
