10 Effective Techniques for Creating Your Cast of Characters

ABOUT THE ONDEMAND WEBINAR In this OnDemand webinar learn how to bring your characters to life on the page. Using prompts and brainstorming tools, tap into your personal creative resources and the world immediately surrounding you to create intriguing, accessible, and unforgettable characters for your script. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN: • Effective ways to tap into your heart and mind to create great characters• Essentials of a strong relationship-core understanding between writer and your “family of characters”• How to identify and build out different kinds of characters for specific story purposes WHO SHOULD LISTEN? • Beginning feature and TV writers, and novelists• Intermediate-advanced writers• Creative executives Tom Benedek wrote the screenplay for Cocoon and other films. He has completed more than thirty-five writing assignments at major studios, independent production companies and TV networks, worked with Robert Zemeckis, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Richard Rush, Harol