Category: Play/Screenplay Publisher: First Strike Productions
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 148
Copyright: September 17, 2012
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
How to create amazing supporting characters and subplots.
How Do You Create The Best Supporting Characters For Your Screenplay?
You've created a take charge protagonist, but what about the rest of your cast? How do you make them unique and interesting?
Using the hit comedy"Bridesmaids" as our main example we dig into what makes an interesting supporting character. What do Supporting Characters do? The "Rear Window" theory. One Degree Of Separation. Opposites React and the film "The Shape Of Things". Your character's Story Purpose and "The 40 Year Old Virgin". Supporting Character Unity and why "The Watch" flopped.
Introducing your Supporting Characters. Your most important Supporting Character: The Antagonist... and the lovable antagonist Ted the stuffed bear. Relationships between your Supporting Characters. Individual Humor and "The Hangover". Plants & Pay Offs in "Bridesmaids". The Dog Juice Theory. Symbolic Supporting Characters and "High Fidelity". Dialogue differences. Attitude. Instant Identifiers and "Top Secret!" How to handle crowd scenes and extras. And much, much more!
Shakespeare’s tragic love story ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ is putt on a fair way as two lovers go for the green together only to be frustrated by the sands of time.
Write a Hollywood screenplay! Professional screenwriter William C. Martell takes you step-by-step through the process of writing an action, adventure, or thriller script!
