This document provides guidance on developing characters and climaxes for scripts. It instructs the reader to understand their characters' personalities, flaws, drives and challenges to make them realistic. It recommends using an online personality test to help determine a character's traits and provides scenarios to generate character reactions and dialogue. Finally, it likens developing a climax to a boxing match, where two opposing elements struggle before an unexpected twist, with the underdog delivering the final blow. The reader is prompted to identify the opposing elements in their story and envision how the conflict escalates before an unforeseen climax surprises the audience.

1. SCRIPTWRITING Know your characters and
they will speak for you

2. LEARNING AIMS
MUST be able to develop a climax for your script
SHOULD be able to develop a character profile
COULD generate plausible ideas for your script that are realistic to
your character reactions.

3. MIND MAP IN PAIRS- WHAT MAKES
YOU ENGAGE IN A STORY?

4. DEVELOPING REALISTIC
CHARACTERS
Understand personality
Understand their flaws
Give them challenges/difficulties
Make them plausible by giving them drive or ambition in your story
(everybody wants or needs something)

5. USE THE PERSONALITY TEST TO FIND
OUT YOUR OWN PERSONALITY- LOOK AT
OTHERS TRAITS TO BUILD UP YOUR
CHARACTER PERSONALITY.
https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types

6. NOW THINKING OF YOUR CHARACTER
PERSONALITY WRITE YOUR
CHARACTERS REACTIONS TO THE
FOLLOWING SCENARIOS:Your character is asked to drink alcohol by their boss at a work
meeting
Another character tells your character that some work they are proud
of is lame
Your character gets questioned by the police
Your character finds a 50 pound note on the floor
Your character is sick
Your characters parent has died

7. NOW WRITE A LINE OF DIALOGUE
FROM YOUR CHARACTERS
PERSPECTIVE WITH ONE OF THEM IN
MINDYour character is asked to drink alcohol by their boss at a work
meeting
Another character tells your character that some work they are proud
of is lame
Your character gets questioned by the police
Your character finds a 50 pound note on the floor
Your character is sick
Your characters parent has died

8. ADDING A CLIMAX AND CONFLICT
Think of a story as a professional boxing match- a struggle between
two characters/elements in your story.

9. ADDING A CLIMAX AND CONFLICT
There are two characters fighting throughout your story both want to
win, the stakes are high, and the conflict is close and personal

10. ADDING A CLIMAX AND CONFLICT
The fight starts with the two opponents just measuring each other
up, but soon it becomes increasingly brutal, and it’s clear that one of
the boxers will finish the fight knocking the other out.

11. ADDING A CLIMAX AND CONFLICT
But then, moments before the final gong, the boxer whom we
expected to lose delivers a punch that kills the boxer who we
believed would win.
Not just knocks him out…. Kills him.
That’s the climax.

12. WHAT ARE THE TWO
CHARACTERS/ELEMENTS IN
CONFLICT/STRUGGLE IN YOUR
STORY?Write it down quickly and don’t share yet.

13. WHAT DO THEY WANT TO WIN/ WHAT ARE
THE HIGH STAKES IN YOUR STORY?
HOW IS THE CONFLICT CLOSE AND
PERSONAL?

14. HOW ARE THE OPPONENTS IN YOUR
STORY MEASURING EACH OTHER UP?
WHICH ONE DO WE BELIEVE TO WIN AT
FIRST (BUT DOESN’T)?

15. HOW DOES THE UNEXPECTED HAPPEN?
HOW DOES THE LOSER FINALLY WIN?
WHAT DO THEY DO THAT IS UNEXPECTED
AND SURPRISES THE AUDIENCE?

16. TASK
Develop a climax in your script
Develop a character profile consider personality and visual attributes
of your character.