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Character Growth is a Palindrome

I’m trying to make this story have more inevitability. Working from the end, I am identifying each payoff (or potential payoff) and determining where to pepper the set-ups and builds. Yesterday, this pattern emerged. Many pieces of yellow, college-ruled paper gave their lives for this graph. The story elements column has been redacted. If for [...]

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by Brendan on March 8, 2012 • Permalink

Posted in Film, Ventures & Flailings

Tagged character arcs, Screenwriting

Posted by Brendan on March 8, 2012

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My latest lecture, on “Time.”

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In classical music, Pizzicato is the plucking of a muted string on a violin. The effect (in my opinion) is the indication of the note for your heart to play.

This can also be achieved in directing. We do not go to the theater to admire an actor have an emotion. We go to have the emotion for ourselves.

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