What makes a memorable screen character?

What makes a memorable screen character?

• unique character design
• non-human characters
• character's unusual personality
• voice

SCREENPLAY & STORYBOARDING LESSON #1

What makes a good story?

• interesting characters with unique personalities
• a storyline with a clear objective
• a motive behind the characters' actions
• a resolution that satisfies viewers

Meanings/Definitions

•   Screenplay: The script for a movie, including descriptions of scenes and some camera directions.

•   Storyboard: (Film) (in films, television, advertising, etc) a series of sketches or photographs showing the sequence of shots or images planned for a film

•   Plagiarism: the "wrongful appropriation" and "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work.

•   Pitch: a writer's description of a potential story to an editor. A pitch can be delivered verbally -- if you're on staff pitching to your editor -- or sent via email.

•   Genre: a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content

•   Conceptualize: To form a concept or concepts of, and especially to interpret in a conceptual way

•   Logline: a one-sentence summary of your script

•   Synopsis: A brief outline or general view, as of a subject or written work; an abstract or a summary.

•   3-Act Structure: a model used in writing and in evaluating modern storytelling that divides a fictional narrative into three parts, often called the Setup, the Confrontation and the Resolution.

•   -Set Up: usually used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships and the world they live in

•   -Confrontation: typically depicts the protagonist's attempt to resolve the problem initiated by the first turning point, only to find him- or herself in ever worsening situations

•   -Resolution: the scene or sequence in which the main tensions of the story are brought to their most intense point and the dramatic question answered, leaving the protagonist and other characters with a new sense of who they really are

•   Treatment: a piece of prose, typically the step between scene cards (index cards) and the first draft of a screenplay for a motion picture, television program, or radio play

•   Storyline: the plot of a novel, play, film, or other narrative form.

•   Motive: a reason for doing something.
Conflict: a struggle between two or more forces that creates a tension that must be resolved