Week 1 Character Development Instructions ( Due: Sun, 06 Feb | Status: Not Completed )

Character Development

1. Watch Keynote: Character Development

2. Read Ch. 5 in Wright

3. Questions to consider:

a. Why is it important to develop characters into three-dimensional personalities?

b. How does plot and action come from character?

c. How does character arc help move the story forward?

d. How do the main character’s flaws help create the final climatic scene in a script.

e. Think about some of your own experiences:

• most embarrassing moment

• biggest fear

• something funny that happened to you

• your knowledge of subcultures and other worlds such as sports, workplace, other cultures, hobbies, etc

How you can use some of your own experiences and translate them into experiences that develop your characters?

4. Understand the following concepts:

a. Using character profiles to develop character

b. Using your own experiences to develop your characters as well as observation and imagination

c. Conflict and story come from characters

5. As you watch television and film this week and read comics, ask what characters are compelling and successfully developed (including villains). What was effective? What was overly-familiar and predictable?

6. Assignment 1: Two Character Profiles due Sunday 11:59 EST