How strong character development creates viewer investment in the narrative?
This question allows me to really explore the parts of character writing that I really want to be able to craft myself. I can also look into audience investment and engagement with narrative in general and in relation to characters specifically.
There have been a few things I've been gradually researching into, the main one at the moment is a video masterclass by Aaron Sorkin. He talks about a great many tips, tricks and formula's to writing stories and characters. In one part he spoke about the fundamental base of drama being intention and obstacle. He talks in great detail about how every character needs to be moving for something and there needs to be something else, no matter how small, stopping them from doing so and that is the basis of writing a drama. From this, good character development will ultimately be when there are multiple events of intentions and obstacles, and these events make the character change the way they would try to overcome them. This is a good springboard idea as it is very simple yet very relevant.
Some keywords to do with the idea of character development are:
Emotion
Connection
Growth
Evolution
Change
Strengthening
Adapting
Familiarity
Arcs
John Silver - Black Sails
Rick Grimes - The Walking Dead
Tyrion Lannister - Game of Thrones
Jamie Lannister - Game of Thrones
Walter White - Breaking Bad
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