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CHARACTERS AND EMPATHY

What is the key to creating empathy with the audience and our characters? How does success play into this?

The key to creating empathy with the audience and characters is to make the characters either relatable or desirable. Once the audience see's the motivation behind the character's actions, they can empathize more easily. If the audience see's what they want to be, they tend to empathize more with them. Or they see someone similar to them, status wise, personality wise, etc. they are tend to empathize with the character. 

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