BACKSTORY: How Much Baggage to Give Your Heroes and Villains
In this live webinar, Jon James Miller will share the tricks of the screen trade in how much to share with the audience over the course of a character-arc, in order to retain the mystery and relevance that can make fictional characters so iconic and timeless.
Every writer knows that an audience wants to love their favorite heroes and hate their favorite villains. But few beginning screenwriters take the time to really flesh out their characters with compelling backstories.
This live webinar will enlighten the process of creating an all-encompassing character history that took place before the cameras started rolling. Equally important, this live webinar will share the tricks of the screen trade in how much to share with the audience over the course of a character-arc, in order to retain the mystery and relevance that can make fictional characters so iconic and timeless.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
- The narrative techniques to creating compelling and cinematic characters
- How to find your character’s unique voice and internal motivation
- Create a character that captures the imagination of your audience
- How to engage and keep a reader guessing the true nature of a character
- How to structure the cinematic universe all your characters will inhabit
- How to build reader empathy for even the worst fictional villain
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Writers who want to craft compelling characterizations using backstory
- Writers who are having trouble utilizing flashbacks in their script
- Writers who want to engage the reader with fully-realized characters
- Screenwriters who want to create original characters to attract A-List actors
- Writers who want to create a script with franchise potential using great characters
- Novelists who want to successfully adapt their characters into the screenplay format
Learn from an expert instructor!
Jon James Miller started his Hollywood career as a script reader for producers at 20th Century Fox Studios, Paramount Pictures, and MGM Studios. Jon co-wrote Adapting Sideways: How To Turn Your Screenplay Into A Publishable Novel (Komenar Publishing), which chronicled the process of adapting his award-winning screenplay into a novel. Jon’s debut novel, Looking For Garbo, was published by Amphorae Publishing Group in 2019. Jon has been featured in Creative Screenwriting Magazine, and is a frequent contributor to SCRIPT Magazine. He is represented by Agent Jill Marr at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency.
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