Antagonist vs. Protagonist

Characters:

• Need to be essential 
• Characters and characterizations 
• Need to be Real, and believable. 
• Unique
• Connected
• Characters are looking for some form of power (goal) motivation. 
• Fact check your characters
• Don’t talk about characters that you don’t know about. 
• If you dont know a cop then when you talk about one it will seem fake, and unrealistic. 
• Lingo needs to be authentic and seem real
• If you cant find a authentic cop, teacher, pilot, use google and research. 

The Hero’s journey.

• Joe Campbell- researched mythology and wrote the Hero’s journey.
• Came up with 5 concepts that were similar in many different mythologies. 
• 1. Call to adventure. 
• Common joe and something calls them out for adventure. Something that will prove himself to others. 
• Given choice to accept or decline. If they accept it means the character is active. 
• Can use decline to show a weakness.
• 2. Road of Trials:
• Along the road we have many successes and failures. 
• 3. Achieve Goals:
• Which leads to some kind of self-knowledge. 
• 4. Has to return to the real world. 
• Leads to not fitting in. 
• Either they take the head seat of the table and lead the tribe or they have to leave. 
• 5. Application:
• Where they don’t think your a weirdo anymore. 

Antagonist: Make them worthy of your protagonist. 

• Characters communicate the message. 
• Make sure that your antagonist can connect with your protagonist. 
• Your worst enemy is yourself.