Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters
Character Questionnaire
A course by Mark Boutros , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Character Questionnaire
Overview
“Now we can take all the work we’ve done on our character and place it into one document. It’s a place where we can find information as we write, and as we move things into it we can decide whether they are still truthful or if our character has become someone else.”
In this video lesson Mark Boutros addresses the topic: Character Questionnaire, 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
“Character Questionnaire In this lesson, we'll fill out a character questionnaire. It will help us to scrutinise our character further and see whether what we're thinking, based on these questions, is still truthful to who we see them as. As lot of this questionnaire is gonna be backstory. The thing with backstory is it's in the back. We don't need to see everything in the final script or book that we produce, but it informs forward motion to a degree and it gives you anecdotal references as you're writing too. There can be experiences that your character shares that further shares with the ...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters
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Areas
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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