Yes I believe there is a connection!

Yes I believe there is a connection!

Writers, filmmakers, and even animators have to make a connection between their characters and the audience.  This is the key to having an audience relate to your work.  There are several ways, but here are the ones I find more affective:  relatable characters and experiencing something new.

Now usually writers (etc) makes this connection with the hero.  The most obvious character that you want everyone to fall in love with.  But one of my all time characters is Loki from "The Avengers" and "Thor".  Loki is one of those characters where they made him into something so much more.  I could really relate to Loki (especially if your a younger sibling like me).  His actions were based on feelings that you could remember feeling.  Even though Loki took his actions into hate (like Cain and Able), we all felt like Loki.  We all had those feelings and could have a direct connection to.   Thor was prideful and reckless in the beginning of the movie.  But generally, people remember the time they had extreme emotions of anger and sadness than when they were boastful.  

But then there are some things, we (as artists) want to show people of different thoughts and emotions they haven't experienced before.  Like tragedy, not everyone has experienced such great sadness all at once. But in tragedy, it's all different problems happening at the same time.  They may have experience something tragic, but not tragedy as a whole.  But it's the same with other genres as well.  Bringing different emotions to the audience that they haven't had before makes the work a lot more memorable.

(This wasn't the main topics in class, but this was something Mr. Leeper said quickly that sparked something that I feel is very critical as an writer/filmmaker/etc)