Comments on: The Transformational Character Arc Part 9 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:52:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: suburban screenwriter http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4470 suburban screenwriter Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:03:55 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4470 (glancing left and right) Is it safe? Hey...I ain't no romeo myself (thank god) hehe thanx for taking the heat off me, Clive. (glancing left and right)
Is it safe? Hey…I ain’t no romeo myself (thank god) hehe thanx for taking the heat off me, Clive.

]]> By: Clive http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4465 Clive Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:31:33 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4465 It's true I am hideous. Maybe we ought to order two masks! Of course, Unk's managed to pull the wool over all your eyes, because SHE'S actually a four hundred pound ex-professional aligator wrestler who lives with her truck driver husband (the seventh in a line of drunken Vegas weddings) in a double wide trailer in Orlando. There is no inch of her which isn't adorned with jailhouse tattoos. And, the reason she can't always post everyday is because of the seventeen kids, who require almost constant bailing out of Juvie. You don't think I'd be allowed the lattitude I get here if wasn't holding pictures as leverage! LOL It’s true I am hideous. Maybe we ought to order two masks!

Of course, Unk’s managed to pull the wool over all your eyes, because SHE’S actually a four hundred pound ex-professional aligator wrestler who lives with her truck driver husband (the seventh in a line of drunken Vegas weddings) in a double wide trailer in Orlando. There is no inch of her which isn’t adorned with jailhouse tattoos. And, the reason she can’t always post everyday is because of the seventeen kids, who require almost constant bailing out of Juvie.

You don’t think I’d be allowed the lattitude I get here if wasn’t holding pictures as leverage! LOL

]]> By: suburban screenwriter http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4392 suburban screenwriter Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:15:06 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4392 You know the more you pump you your image as eye candy the uglier you gotta actually be...hehe I'm just saying...like the mask idea we need a secret identity too kinda like clark kent or bruce wayne. You know, I never hear about unk working maybe he's an eccentric millionaire who dolls out screenwriting advice....Naah, he just sitting in his basement in 3 day old boxers with cheeto stains on his wife beater shirt...exiting quickly (puff of smoke) to avoid the impending flame :) You know the more you pump you your image as eye candy the uglier you gotta actually be…hehe I’m just saying…like the mask idea we need a secret identity too kinda like clark kent or bruce wayne. You know, I never hear about unk working maybe he’s an eccentric millionaire who dolls out screenwriting advice….Naah, he just sitting in his basement in 3 day old boxers with cheeto stains on his wife beater shirt…exiting quickly (puff of smoke) to avoid the impending flame :)

]]> By: Clive http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4390 Clive Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:56:47 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4390 I was thinking a Mexican wrestling mask for Unk! To make sure his secret identity remains secret and also so I'd have less competition in the eye-candy department! LOL I was thinking a Mexican wrestling mask for Unk!

To make sure his secret identity remains secret and also so I’d have less competition in the eye-candy department! LOL

]]> By: suburban screenwriter http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4389 suburban screenwriter Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:31:30 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4389 let's get the cameras set up we can tape it this weekend slap it on youtube hehe oh but then he won't be the unknown screenwriter anymore damn!! let’s get the cameras set up we can tape it this weekend slap it on youtube hehe oh but then he won’t be the unknown screenwriter anymore damn!!

]]> By: Clive http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4386 Clive Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:46:16 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4386 We're never going to upick the whole fat/bald issue -- sounds like we should be fronting out own show instead -- we're both obviously higher quality of eye-candy than the competition! LOL And neither of us would ever run out of opinions about films! Wouldn't that be one heck of a show! We’re never going to upick the whole fat/bald issue — sounds like we should be fronting out own show instead — we’re both obviously higher quality of eye-candy than the competition! LOL

And neither of us would ever run out of opinions about films!

Wouldn’t that be one heck of a show!

]]> By: Unk http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4369 Unk Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:18:52 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4369 Clive, Not fat or bald... Maybe a little thinning going on but WTF? I'm older than you. LOL. adam, I more or less agree about showcasing the character traits that epitomize your character as the quinessential WHATEVER... The problem seems to stem from screenwriters not really KNOWING their characters well enough to know which traits to showcase. Unk Clive,

Not fat or bald… Maybe a little thinning going on but WTF? I’m older than you. LOL.

adam,

I more or less agree about showcasing the character traits that epitomize your character as the quinessential WHATEVER… The problem seems to stem from screenwriters not really KNOWING their characters well enough to know which traits to showcase.

Unk

]]> By: adam http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4352 adam Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:52:16 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4352 Okay, let me see if anything’s left . . . Clive and MQ, here’s another step for writing in isolation. I think Karl Iglesias calls this “showcasing” . . . . or a Character Showcase . . . . Identify the most essential traits for each character. Then write a scene where you dramatize or showcase that trait. And this is something that should find its way into your script. Some version of it. You can call a character a “chauvinist” in description, but it means nothing until that character shows it, “physicalizes” it. (This, of course, includes dialogue.) I’m with Clive and MQ, in that I like to travel with my screenwriting scratchpad and knock out scenes like that in isolation. I’m still in development, but I’m also cranking out script pages. Anyhow . . . . Damn, there’s a lot of good stuff hurr. Okay, let me see if anything’s left . . .

Clive and MQ, here’s another step for writing in isolation. I think Karl Iglesias calls this “showcasing” . . . . or a Character Showcase . . . .

Identify the most essential traits for each character. Then write a scene where you dramatize or showcase that trait.

And this is something that should find its way into your script. Some version of it. You can call a character a “chauvinist” in description, but it means nothing until that character shows it, “physicalizes” it. (This, of course, includes dialogue.)

I’m with Clive and MQ, in that I like to travel with my screenwriting scratchpad and knock out scenes like that in isolation. I’m still in development, but I’m also cranking out script pages.

Anyhow . . . .

Damn, there’s a lot of good stuff hurr.

]]> By: Clive http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4351 Clive Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:16:51 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4351 Heck, I'm neither fat or bald, so Unk you pick and I'll either shave my head or supersize my life to make up the spare! Heck, I’m neither fat or bald, so Unk you pick and I’ll either shave my head or supersize my life to make up the spare!

]]> By: Unk http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc-part-9/screenwriting/characters/2007/04/22/comment-page-1/#comment-4342 Unk Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:00:23 +0000 http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/the-transformational-character-arc%e2%80%a6-part-9/screenwriting-characters/2007/04/22/#comment-4342 Moviequill... Skateboarding then? Unk Moviequill… Skateboarding then?

Unk

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