Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters
Influences
A course by Mark Boutros , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I want to share with you the influences that have shaped me and the kind of writer and person I am today.”
In this video lesson Mark Boutros addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters. Learn how to imagine and bring to life memorable characters with their own unique stories to tell.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I'm going to tell you a bit about my influences and things that have inspired me. And generally those have come throughout my life from my environment, people places and other stories. So I'm going to share some of those with you now. In terms of my environment, I grew up in a very creative place with my parents. I think what that environment did for me, to be around them and my brother, was it gave me a sense of freedom to express myself, to try things, to, fail and to just find out how I wanted to engage with the world. They're all so creative. It was also quite scary beca...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters
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Character Design, Creative Writing, Creativity, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Mark Boutros
A course by Mark Boutros
Mark Boutros is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and author based in London. Having grown up in a family of artists, he’s always been creative and was encouraged by his English teacher at school to pursue writing. He began his career working in television production, but his love of writing inspired him to study a master’s in creative writing at UEA. After graduating, he spent time sending out scripts, one of which was a comedy-drama that won him silver in the PAGE Awards.
Since then, Mark has won several more awards, received an International Emmy nomination, and written for some of the biggest channels in the UK, including The BBC and SkyOne. He is also the author of The Craft of Character as well as a fantasy novel series, and he hosts lectures on creative writing at universities and drama schools.
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