Screenwriting Essentials: Create, Write, and Develop for TV
Creating Your Characters
A course by HaJ , Screenwriter, Producer, Director, and Performer
About the video: Creating Your Characters
Overview
“Learn about the different types of characters that you will create for your TV script and how to create strong intentions for them that drive them and the story forward. Review examples of characters from popular TV shows to understand what made audiences drawn to them.”
In this video lesson HaJ addresses the topic: Creating Your Characters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Screenwriting Essentials: Create, Write, and Develop for TV. Learn to write thought-provoking scripts with an authentic voice, strong characters, and exciting conflicts.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating Your Characters In this lesson, we're gonna talk about creating characters. The most important thing for you to know is that characters are story. Let's get into more detail. Whatever's going on with your character is what's going on with your story. Strong characters drive strong stories. Weak characters drive no story. When creating a main character for your TV show, you wanna start by asking yourself, what does my character want. This is also called giving a character an intention or motivation. I'm sure you've heard people say, "What's my motivation?" This is a joke that comes ...”
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Course summary for: Screenwriting Essentials: Create, Write, and Develop for TV
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HaJ
A course by HaJ
HaJ is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, director, performer, and part-time rapper from Brooklyn. Growing up in a creative household meant she was exposed to storytelling from a young age, something which she explored through her studies at LaGuardia Performing Arts High School in New York. During that time, she was nominated for a 1995 Emmy Award for a project she worked on to raise awareness around voting and gun violence. She later went on to hone her acting and storytelling skills at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
HaJ has created, written, produced, licensed, and sold content to networks and studios including ABC, CBS, VH1, and Disney. Her work has appeared in festivals including The New York Television Festival, IFP Film Week, and SeriesFest. She also created and starred in an Off-Broadway show that won her a ‘Best Writer’ Award and has had her work recognized by The New York Times, NPR, and Rolling Out.
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