From the course: Crafting Dynamic Characters
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Instructor jam: Easily triggered
From the course: Crafting Dynamic Characters
Instructor jam: Easily triggered
- All right, welcome back. This is our Instructor Jam for Easily Triggered. And basically this is what does the inner struggle of a character reveal about them. And we are going to tackle four different struggles. So we have the familiar struggle against situation, struggle against objective and motivation, struggle against self, and struggle against others. And then there's a bonus, in which we'll pick our favorite and sort of flesh it out, expand it into a scene. - Right. So we started out just brainstorming each one, right? So let's see, the first one struggle against situation, we had a paper prompt and then we had to sort of go deeper into this one, actually gave us the trigger, but we had to determine who the character was that would be set off by that trigger. So (indistinct)which one did you pick? - For struggle against situation? I did a character, receives a call from an old acquaintance and starts burning…
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A new spin on show vs. tell7m 23s
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Point of view4m 43s
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Tool 1: Revealing character through thought12m 10s
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Exercise: Penny for your thoughts2m 10s
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Instructor jam: Penny for your thoughts4m 23s
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Tool 2: Revealing character through reaction9m 10s
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Exercise: Reaction shot2m 8s
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Instructor jam: Reaction shot4m 21s
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Tool 3: Revealing character through dialogue8m 16s
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Exercise: What's really being said1m 45s
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Instructor jam: What's really being said7m 5s
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Tool 4: Revealing character through voice9m 49s
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Exercise: Voice extremes2m 53s
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Instructor jam: Voice extremes23m 29s
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Tool 5: Revealing character through emotion10m 8s
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Exercise: Emotional taboo2m 8s
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Instructor jam: Emotional taboo5m 51s
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Tool 6: Revealing character through inner struggle16m 51s
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Exercise: Easily triggered3m 26s
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Instructor jam: Easily triggered16m 55s
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Tool 7: Revealing character through other characters10m 35s
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Exercise: What can you do for me?5m 21s
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Instructor jam: What can you do for me?17m 44s
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