Comment pouvez-vous faire en sorte que l’arc d’un personnage puisse être raconté au public ?

CHARACTER ARC -- an arc for the protagonist means there is change. Change takes time. In real life, most people are reluctant to change -- if you keep this in mind, the change in your character needs to be MOTIVATED. It needs to be real. Real cause and effect. What causes this change? I read many scripts and my notes often refer to when a character changes as either too "plotty" or not motivated. Too plotty means the change occurs because the writer has written it, rather than it feeling motivated. So when you think character arc, this change, and think MOTIVATION. Cause and effect. Again, as in real life, it usually is a series of events that changes us. Good luck!

Humans are flawed, so your characters also need to be. This is often overlooked even in big Hollywood productions. Consider Harry Potter as an example. Although I love the series, I find it difficult to relate to Harry. He is flawless and consistently chooses the best course of action, that is not the normal human experience. It is through doing the wrong thing that we discover what is right.

You can make a character's arc relatable by showing how they initially fail at what they want to do. Inherently being skilled at something isn't realistic for most people, and so a character needs to improve from ground zero for us to relate.

Stay true to the human experience. The character has to be RELATABLE for the audience to connect to their journey. Start there. Let your character behave in a way the audience can relate to, make choices... even bad ones, the audience can relate to... allow the character to be vulnerable. Not necessarily for other characters to see, but just for themselves and the audience.

In my experience, as a video editor who assembles pieces to create a cohesive flow, the key to a relatable character arc is showing the character grappling with universal struggles. Everyone faces self-doubt or feels lost sometimes, so portraying these moments authentically lets viewers connect with the character's journey from the start.

My writing professor once told me "All movies are about characters who strive to overcome their limitations and do, or are destroyed by them." It's a simplification for sure, but it gets at an interesting point and the key element of character in screenwriting: what does your character want? What's stopping them from getting it? What must they do, who must they be, what must they sacrifice, to obtain the thing they want? These questions are the basis for nearly every movie you will have seen. Study the formula and see how different screenwriters attack these questions, and how different characters either obtain the thing they want or are destroyed by their quest.

Understanding a character's motivation is important cause it’s a driving force behind a character's actions, decisions, and behaviors within a story. It stems from their desires, goals, background, values, and beliefs, and is influenced by external factors and conflicts.

It involves establishing the character's starting point, identifying areas for growth, setting goals, charting progression, reflecting on lessons learned, highlighting turning points, showing transformation, resolving internal conflicts, demonstrating maturity and wisdom, and providing closure and resolution.

It involves identifying catalysts, internal conflicts, learning and growth, turning points, demonstrating change, resolution, and examining the impact on the story and other characters.

The arc of any character no matter what the transformation is, must always be within the character from the beginning. There exists no magical transformation, you can’t flip a character from evil to good (only Disney does that) if you do not show the potential for both.All the arcs must be present within a character to allow transformation otherwise it’s unbelievable. The audience doesn’t have to identify with the character in fact that is usually impossible in any interesting character. What the audience identifies with is the believability of the arc. Did the bad character have any sign of goodness or vice versa. You can only believe an arc if it has potential to exist. The context of the arc can be anything with that in mind.

Whatever arc, be it character, action, suspense or light (??! what the.. not only AI-generated questions, but on top of that bad AI translation?), for audiences to engage with your film/script, it has to be relevant to them. What's relevant to most of us today, rarely makes it into theatres, or streaming. Most of what we get to see are escapist adventures. You want to engage audiences? Show them someone or better yet a group who find creative solutions to our daily troubles. Genre, format, medium is up to you. You will create more value for your audience, and for yourself, than any industry streamlined process could.

These AI suggestions are nonsensical. Imagine all the 6 recommendations embraced for a number of characters in a 2-hour movie… And, did I actually read the word, “journey?” The character’s journey?” That’s a social media buzzword. In writing a character, the audience will expect definition of the lead characters. Their circumstance, then what they’re like. Then, something happens to challenge that. How they respond is the basis of most stories, and it should be consistent with the character as introduced or, for giggles, have them do something totally out of character and create an artificial arc. Most of other characters are supporting that, and they need to be consistent and understood. It’s basic story structure for a novel or a movie.

What else to consider is your audience, their culture and beliefs. This way, writers create dynamic narratives that resonate with audiences and reflects human life and experience.