Characters

How to Write "Reel" Dialogue

Contrary to popular belief, characters in films do not speak as people do in real life. Information like this can feel misleading,...

How to Nail the First Ten Pages of Your Screenplay

As a script consultant, I can generally gauge the quality of a screenplay based on how the first ten pages play out… And, in those...

Manipulate Your Audience With Dynamic Characters

The plot sells the story, but the characters make it real. A great story means nothing if the audience is not interested or invested in...

Crafting the "Unlikeable" Character

I have always believed that the most annoying word in the filmmaking lexicon is “likeable”. Likeable, in its most common context, refers...

Crafting the Perfect Relationship

Rick and Ilsa. Buzz and Woody. George Clooney and anyone. Three of the greatest and most fulfilling screen pairings in cinema history....

Crafting the TV Drama Lead

Don Draper, Frank Underwood, Olivia Pope. Complex, human characters that are also the leads of arguably some of the most popular...

Constructing a TV Ensemble

They say two’s company, three’s a crowd and eighteen’s a DMV line. But there’s no denying that the ensemble cast has been a crucial part...

Crafting Relationships: Love Outside the Norms

“Love comes in many shapes and many sizes.” That, my friends, is a nonsense sentence giving an abstract concept an unnecessary physical...

The Rom-Com Pairing

As discussed in our recent article “Falling in Love with Settings”, romantic cinema is built on fantasy. Everything is ‘romanticized’;...

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