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A good story makes for a good script, but great character work elevates the script to excellent. But writing compelling and real characters that audiences will relate to and follow throughout the course of your movie/show is no easy feat. People are complicated. So are characters.
Roadmap is thrilled to welcome Kira-Anne Pelican (PhD) to host a special four week class to help us develop our characters. This course will draw on evidence-based psychology and neuroscience to give us the tools to solve our most common character problems.
This Four Week Class Will Cover:
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What we can learn from psychology about creating more emotionally engaging characters
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How to make your characters believable
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What psychology tells us about why some characters are more memorable than others
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How to create dialogue that truly reveals personality
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Psychological approaches towards creating tension
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How to use a character’s backstory and flaw to drive their transformation
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Creating sizzling character relationships
Kira-Anne Pelican, PhD is a London-based writer, educator and script editor, who specialises in helping writers develop more compelling TV shows and films through insights from psychology. She is the author of The Science of Writing Characters (Bloomsbury, 2020) and has taught character development workshops to screenwriters across the world, including at BBC Writers, the BFI, Cambridge University and Story Academy (Sweden). After graduating from the London Film School, Kira-Anne began her career working as an assistant to director Stanley Kubrick on EYES WIDE SHUT, before retraining in screenwriting at UCLA. She is passionate about helping writers solve character development problems with easy to use insights and approaches from psychology and is the founder of charactermasterclass.com.
Cancellation Policy: You may cancel for a full refund up to 5 days prior to the start of the class. Cancellations requested after this period will be ineligible for refunds.
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