The Character Map is based on universal
truths we all know and understand intuitively. Learn to use
these
principles consciously to make informed creative choices and create
characters with strong believable personality profiles.
The
Character Map is easy to use, and most importantly, it
works. Mapping your character will make your screenplay or teleplay more vivid, compelling and dynamic. Great screenwriting begins with great characters. Great characters will make your script stand out with real emotional appeal.
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Emotion in Screenwriting |
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All great screenplays and teleplays are about characters and emotions clashing and colliding. Without conflict there is no story. Without a story you have no script.
Although all characters struggle with external events and obstacles, the deepest conflicts are always within the character. A Character Map will help you chart the emotional tensions deep inside the character and how those tensions lead to his or her transformation. Powerful screenwriting creates powerful internal conflict for the script's characters.
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Start By Mapping Yourself |
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Why should I map myself? To best understand the insights to be gained in the Character Map, I suggest that writers map themselves as though they were a character in a movie or television series. This is the best way to test the process.
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