This week was all about developing our characters and how to make them feel realistic, gain audience empathy and what kind of emotional journey they are undertaking. It has definitely helped to think further into Kath’s story and her history. As Aristotle said, the behaviour brought about by the choices a person makes will influence their actions in the future. This concept helped me pull an entirely different level of drama into my narrative which serves to give Kath a more interesting journey and help audiences relate to her plight.
“Character development itself dictates how situations and actions take shape” Egri says that the audience needs to know why man is as he is. Actions are the outward manifestations of a character and hopefully my addition of her flashbacks running parallel to the main narrative, will show my protagonist overcoming her fears and neurosis, without being too literal about it.
Looking into the Hero’s journey I felt a little worried at first that my story didn’t fit enough to still portray my protagonist as a ‘Hero’ but after I read this week’s reading by Batty, I realised that the Hero’s journey is “Meant to inspire not inhibit!”. I was also fascinated by the differences in Heroine’s journey and it has inspired me to research the differences further.
