Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters
Other Characters
A course by Mark Boutros , Screenwriter and Author
About the video: Other Characters
Overview
“Our characters are the journey, but it’s also important to think of who they will be inhabiting the world with. In this lesson we’ll build other characters from your protagonist then write six line descriptions on each.”
In this video lesson Mark Boutros addresses the topic: Other Characters, 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 look at the other characters that accompany the protagonist on their journey and the ones that cause problems for that protagonist too. As we've been developing our character and filling out questionnaires and asking why a lot. Our minds would have naturally drifted to other potential people in that world. I mentioned a few already as I was going through the process. Now it's about giving those characters goals and motivation and desires as well. and looking at how they're going to work in relation to the main character too. Some people like to look at charact...”
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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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