Characters are one of the most important elements of your story. Will the audience cheer for your hero and boo for your villain or will they not care one way or the other? Three dimensional characters is the easiest way to get your audience invested in what happens to the people between the pages or on the screen. In this class, we are going to cover how to build your characters so they live and breath on your pages (book or screenplay). 

Day 1 - We will go over various character archetypes from The Hero's Journey for protagonists, antagonists, and secondary characters. The importance of naming characters and we'll go over the types of details to think about when creating characters. A character info sheet will be provided to the students for them to build their characters with details such as name, age, birth, sex, race, parents, siblings, childhood, careers, where they lived, highs and lows in life, skills, needs, and more. 
Spoiler Note: Character arcs will be discussed for some example characters from films and books which could spoil the ending or twists of them: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, A League of Their Own, Harry Potter series, Star Wars IV-VI, The DaVinci Code, and Avengers: Infinity War.

Day 2 - We will go over the characters the students have created and discuss the characters to make them live and breath for the writer and the audience. We might discuss other characters that are similar to their own. Details such as names, character backgrounds, and what their goals are will be fine tuned to better serve the story they want to tell.