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**Resolution = The answer to the Dramatic Question

*In dramatic stories, characters make CHOICES or take ACTIONS that represent a change in state

**Types of Resolutions:
Happy/Funny/Tragic/Bittersweet/Ambivalent/Ironic...

**Reflects your stories' MEANING

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What question is your story asking?

What question is the audience waiting to be resolved?

*Anticipation and Uncertainty - Play with your audience!

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To make character's objectives difficult and make them have to work hard to get them (so your audience knows who they are), introduce OBSTACLES:

**Internal Vs. Interpersonal Vs. Nature

**Type of obstacles can determine the TONE/GENRE of your story

**Stakes: What happens if they fail?

**Action and obstacles generate a DRAMATIC QUESTION

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*Active characters need compelling goals

*Goals/Wants/Needs can be anything...

**Internal vs. External

**Make them hard to obtain for your characters...

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*Protagonist
Single Protagonist or Multi-Protagonist
The audience's avatar through the story
*2-Dimensional vs. 3-Dimensional
(The more dimensional/complex, the better the story)
*Sympathetic vs. Anitpathetic
(Audiences like both sympathetic and antipathetic characters)
*Active vs. Inactive
(The character drives the energy of the story)

IN VISUAL MEDIUMS, CHARACTERS ARE REVEALED BY ACTION - WHAT THEY DO !! (instead of narration)