Creative Writing Foundations: Develop Compelling Characters
How to Frame Your Idea
A course by user6423583 surname6423583 , Screenwriter and Author
Joined March 2021
Learn how to imagine and bring to life memorable characters with their own unique stories to tell
Joined March 2021
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 user6423583 surname6423583 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
“How to Frame Your Idea In this lesson, we're gonna take a look at initial ideas and how we frame them through character so they become a story. How do we find ideas? They're everywhere. You might be influenced by a song lyric. You might talk to someone and think they're a great person to write about. A news story might inspire 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 about figuring out what resonates with you. I'm 39 now, I'm getting old. I draw on life experience a bit. I think about what I'm scared of, what...”
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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
A course by user6423583 surname6423583
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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