Creating Unforgettable Characters by Linda Seger

Author:Linda Seger [Seger, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-03-23T07:00:00+00:00

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS ADD

COLOR AND TEXTURE

The kind of character you create to fulfill a function in a story is not an arbitrary decision. Once you know who you need, the next step is deciding what colors and textures will round out the design of your story. there are a number of different choices you can make.

Contrasting your characters will give you the strongest strokes.

This may mean contrasting a supporting character with the protagonist, or contrasting supporting characters with each other. Contrasts between different characters may be physical contrasts, such as light and dark, heavy and slim, fast and slow. They may be contrasts in attitude, such as cynical and optimistic, innocent and sophisticated, hostile and happy-go-lucky, passionate and cold.

Contrasting characters are particularly important in ensemble shows. Bills Finkel, writer-producer from "L.A. Law," talks of the many contrasts that are built into the characters in that show. Although some of them might be considered main characters rather than supporting characters, Bill says, he wouldn't know how to make a meaningful distinction. Thus their inclusion here.

"There are contrasts in their attitudes towards their work. Brackman is managerial, he is primarily focused on the financial well-being of the firm, whereas Kuzak is somebody who has more of an ideological bent. He's interested in a more active, moral, political agenda. Becker is intensely materialistic, more of an egoist, more interested in self-aggrandizement than

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