From the course: Storytelling for Business Video
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Main characters
- I've said a few things about characters so far. The characters are necessary to conflict, and that they're necessary to story. Bottom line, you've got to have them. Or at least one, your main character, often called your hero. More about her in a minute. You might say that a character is any person in a story, but that's too loose a definition to help us. For our purposes, a character is the embodiment of a collection of believable traits that is both unique and essential to our story. If you've got someone in your story who's entertaining and fun, but doesn't help deliver your message, he's not a character worth having. Kill him, before he wastes your time and money. If you've got two characters who are both telling the same part of the story, get rid of one of them. And if you find yourself with two characters who are serving two different and valuable functions in your story, but resemble one another closely, change one or the other, turn up the contrast, every character must be…
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