Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script
Character building
A course by Emma Mussoll , Creative Writer
About the video: Character building
Overview
“I'll teach you to get to know your main character better and to define their past, and I'll give you the tools to outline their personality and even talk to them to find out how they express themselves. Get ready, this lesson will be fun!”
In this video lesson Emma Mussoll addresses the topic: Character building, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script. Learn the art of storytelling in audio format, from the initial idea to the finished script .
Partial transcription of the video
“character building In this lesson we are going to meet and build our characters. We will define a little what their past is like and we will learn to listen to them, We will even get to dialogue with our protagonist. In any fiction it is essential to know our characters, but in a sound fiction even more so. Because we have to learn and know how they speak, how they express themselves, what language they use, what tone of voice, what jargon. If they have tics, if they stutter, even. Then it will be important to learn to listen to them. That is why, what I have said, we are going to talk with...”
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Course summary for: Creating Audio Fiction: From Idea to Script
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Category
Music & Audio, Writing -
Areas
Audio, Communication, Fiction Writing, Narrative, Podcasting, Script

Emma Mussoll
A course by Emma Mussoll
Emma Mussoll is a creative writer with more than seven years of experience producing audio stories, bringing them to life with engaging dialogue and descriptive sounds, from the mundane to explosions and chase scenes.
Over the years, she's specialized in audio fiction and has written Ladrones de memoria, which already has two seasons, Operación Reset for Storytel, and La vecina indiscreta, Espero tu email, and Ni en tu casa, ni en la mía for Podimo. She is also the creator and producer of Mai no ho sabreu, a fiction podcast supported by the Catalan Institute of Culture. In addition to her own projects, she collaborates with commercial brands and publishers, big and small alike.
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