Advanced Screenwriting Techniques : Broadening the Characters - LINDA SEGER

You've learned the basics -- the three-act structure, an understanding of theme, an ability to start creating dimensional characters. Now you want to go deeper, broader & expand your tools for creating great scripts. In this three-part series, script consultant & screenwriting teacher, Dr. Linda Seger, takes you to another step, to further integrate your story, theme & characters.

Actors, directors, and producers want to see dimensional characters, capable of winning Academy Awards. They want breadth, depth, focus and direction to their characters, but they also want dimensionality - characters that are original and act-able. This program shows how to deepen characters through layering, creating subtext, how to transform characters & how to use dialogue to further add breadth and depth.