Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters
How to Frame Your Idea
A course by Mark Boutros , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: How to Frame Your Idea
Overview
“We’ll start by taking initial ideas and framing them from character, so story grows from them.”
In this video lesson Mark Boutros addresses the topic: How to Frame Your Idea, 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, we're going to take a look at initial ideas and then how we frame them through character so they become a story. How do we find ideas? Essentially they're everywhere. You might be influenced by a song lyric You might talk to someone and you think they might be a great person to write about. You might see a news story that inspires you or even a podcast where the content makes you think that would make a great idea for a TV show, a book or a film. It's really about figuring out what resonates with you. Like for me, I find I'm 39 now, I'm getting old. I kind of draw on life ex...”
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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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