Writing Character Descriptions

About this course:

We are more than our age, weight, and body type -- more than hair and eye color, sexuality, race, or one word adjectives that give a vague sense of someone without giving any specifics (“Sassy," “Beautiful, but doesn’t know it”). A character’s description is the blueprint that brings them to life. Their core drives and attitudes can be established the moment they appear in the script. In this course, you look at how specific descriptions of characters can help lead to their dialogue, actions, and choices. You look at how characters are described on the page vs. who brought them to life on screen and when to use race, sexuality, or physical descriptions. You look at how to describe characters we know and apply these perspectives to your own character descriptions beyond clichés and tropes.