CREATING YOUR CHARACTER

1. FLT402: Technical Script
writing
LECTURE 05: CREATING YOUR CHARACTER
SHAOLIN SHAON
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2. •Character
•Structure
Two main
building
blocks of a
script are:
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3. •The creation of the
characters themselves, their
biography and back story
•The design of your cast
Two most
important
factors when
creating
characters for
a script:
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4. Choosing a name
Good, strong,evoking
Generation specific
Underscore an emotion
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5. Creating 3D Characters
As a writer your goal is to create 3D Characters.
We learn about the character from the decision they made.
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6. Creating 3D Characters
Intriguing
Catches audiences attention
Know your character like a best friend
May not use 80% of the characters , but your should know all to know Why
does the character do/say so?
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7. Don’t use just two-
Action
Personality
Emotion
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8. Action
Physical (visual action)
Verbal action (dialogue)
Psychological action (inside a characters mind, encompassing
thoughts,feelings, dreams,states of mind)
Decision action- the formulation of a goal, a decision to act or to not to act
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9. Emotion
Characters emotional make-up meeting an obstacle,
generating an emotional reaction
Characters capacity or tendency to feel
joy/love/frustrations/compassion/hate/despair/nothing
Emotional action or reaction can be a kiss, a special look, a
display of grief
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10. Personality
Combination of integrated
interior attributes
(attitudes/aspirations/beliefs/life-
POV/intensions)
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11. Subplots
•A main plot
•A main subplot
•Other subplot
additional stories
linked to and
involving other
characters, incidents
which have an
influence on the
main plot and the
way your main
characters reacts
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12. Dramatic uses of Subplot
To show parallel action
To reveal subtext
To reveal different aspects of your characters
To surprise the audience
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13. Dramatic uses of Subplot
Tod delay the development of your main story
To introduce another character
To reveal Back story
To provide a context/ setting of main story
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14. Relationship of Subplot and Main Plot
Contradictory:
going against
the core idea of
your main plot
Complementary:
resonating the
ideas in your
main plot
Acting as a Set
up: and hooking
your audience
until you
introduce your
main plot
Complicating:
the life of the
main plot
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15. Cast Design
Hero/ine
• protagonist
Opposition Charecters
• Antagonist
• Nemesis
• creates obstacle
• (antagonists are protagonists)
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16. Cast Design
Mirror Characters
• reflection/support
• aligned to protagonist
Romance characters
• protagonists desire
• Supports
• creates obstacles
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17. Characters Categories
Main Characters
•Protagonist
•Who advances the story
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18. Secondary characters
•Interact with protagonist
•Have a significant effect on your plot/
main characters
(antagonist/mirror/romance)
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Characters Categories

19. Minor Characters
•Add color, atmosphere, comic relief
•Deliver messages
•Open doors and generally contribute to
the world of the story
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Characters Categories

20. Characters Biography/analysis/Checklist
Age/gender
Weight,height,hair color,
eyes, skin, right/left
handed,facial expression,
wear spectacles or not,
walk / move, ant habist
Pitch, speed, word, slang,
swear
Alone, family man,
children
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21. Characters Biography/analysis/Checklist
One partner,
several lovers,
married, pets,
flat mates
Own house,
furnished or not,
domesticated,
tidy, messy
good jobs, power
relationships
Education Sexuality
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22. Audience
Identification
Sympathy
Inequality
Jeopardy
Likeability-
good/bad- go with
the flow
Curiosity
Empathy-
sympathy, fear,
curiosity
Admiratio
n
Power
Omnipotence
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23. Thank You
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