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Card
A card is text printed on the screen - either over black or superimposed over an image - that is needed to indicate location, time, date, or era. CARD: is written in all CAPS followed by the colon and typed at the same left margin as for character names. Underneath CARD:, the location, era, and date is written at character dialogue margins set off ....
Character Attitudes
Attitudes convey opinions, a particular slant, belief, perspective, sentiment, or world view.....
Character Change
Character change is essential to your main character’s arc. If after going through the main tension and reaching the resolution, the character does not change in some way - not always for the better - then the experience is futile for the audience.....
Character Core
Most characters should never be predictable nor stereotypical. Instead, the character’s core personality helps to define who he/she/it is, which should be an interested and flawed being.....
Character Description
Screenplays give a few lines of powerful character details when a new character is introduced, so the description will grab the attention of the reader as well as potential actors.....
Character Development
Developing a character is essential to bringing that character to life on the screen. The writer must dig deep to unearth background history, personality, psychology, and current goals. There is no secret recipe as to how to develop a character, but starting with a physical description, followed by exploring the character through specific exercises....
Character Identification
Character identification occurs when the audience is linked to the character on an emotional level. Sometimes this occurs when a character is going through an action that someone in the audience has gone through. For example, the dad character may be changing his baby’s diaper for the first time and his son pees on him. Any father in the audi....
Character Paradox
Paradoxes are essential to creating fascinating characters who constantly surprise us, changing our preconceived notions about them. Unique and memorable characters are complicated, illogical at times, and often unpredictable.....
Character Psychology
To be consistent with human behavior, the writer must understand the psychology of a character: what motivates him, why does he behave a certain way, what are his subconscious intentions?....
Character Relationships
Most characters don’t live on an island alone. Part of who they are and how they will change is based on the relationships they have and have had. The chemistry between characters in each relationship is a story in of itself, and the screenwriter should maximize this chemistry by choosing qualities that bring characters together as well as cr....
Characterization
Characterization is applied by describing of superficial traits and features in order to help depict character: language, manner of speaking, dress, gesture, physical condition, mannerisms, etc.....
Climax
The climax, also called the main culmination, is the ultimate decisive moment at the end of Act Two, in which the character has done everything he or she could do to reach the desired objective, and now he or she faces his/her highest obstacle and the end of the main tension. This moment usually works in opposition from the midpoint and end. If the....
Collective Unconscious
Collective unconscious is a term of analytical psychology, coined by Carl Jung. It is a part of the unconscious mind, expressed in humanity and all life forms and describes how the structure of the psyche autonomously organizes experience.....
Concept
The concept of your script is the idea or story premise. And every story is about an interesting character, who wants something badly, and is having trouble getting it.....
Conflict
Conflict occurs when a character finds him/herself in a predicament, facing obstacles - physical, psychological, social - that requires him/her to take decisive action.....
Context
Context is what influence character: culture, historical period, location, occupation, etc.....
Continuous
Sometimes, instead of DAY, NIGHT, DUSK, or DAWN at the end of a SLUG LINE, you’ll see CONTINUOUS. In these instances, action moves from one location to another without an interruptions in time.....
Contrast
Contrast is a great way to define character duos, especially in “buddy pictures”. Opposites do attract, and by contrasting two characters that seemingly have nothing in common, but with further investigation, it is clear they do share common ground, the strongest character dynamics can be achieved. For example, there may be clear polari....
Costume
Costume refers to a set of clothes in a style typical of a particular location or historical period. In scripts that take place in present day, costume is not an important element to describe; however, if the world itself is quite different from the present day world we know, costume become an important part of a character’s introduction. Als....
Delay
Delay is a narrative and dramatic device used to strengthen the established tension. The viewer anticipates that certain events will happen, and the tension - hope and fear - grows from that anticipation and creates audience impatience, which in turn fuels the tension. By delaying the arrival of an expected character or event, the solution of a mys....
