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Expressing Characters Through Their Voices

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SCRIPT X 465.2E

Use prompts and exercises to spend time with your characters outside the world of your story, learning more about their voices and reactions in various situations.

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What you can learn.

Explore how your characters think, feel and behave in a variety of scenarios
Separate your characters for the story in your script to witness them moving through life
Discover what makes each character unique and responsive to people and situations around them
Identify how to enhance these characters' voices when placing them back into the world of your script

About This Course

We take it for granted that real people bring their personalities to situations completely unrelated to their most pressing motivations and conflicts. What would it look like if our characters did the same? Now that you have a first draft of your screenplay or TV pilot, this course lets you unshackle your characters from the hard work of delivering your story so you can experience what they’re like “off the clock.” Through a series of writing exercises, you explore how your characters think, feel and behave when confronted with mundane situations we all recognize from everyday life. The premise of this course is that once your characters reveal to you what makes them interesting and distinct in situations divorced from the aims of your plot, you then see how to let them express themselves more vividly when it really counts.

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