Character Development

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Lesson today we talked about character development. We looked at examples from different films and the different ways of showing internal and  how visual storytelling is extremely important.


Example of Character Development
INT. RECORDING STUDIO NIGHT
Follow a series of wires over junk food packets, torn sheet music. Tim rocks backwards and forwards - his black vans drum to an invisible beat, his hair once neatly combined is now ruffled. Eyes darting fast back and forth between the studio and his computer screen, his hands click furiously. Fatigue stricken face hidden behind a pirates moustache. His coffee lays untouched, his wife's number pops up on his phone. He doesn't pick up.




I will make sure to include these points in the screenplay that I am writing.

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