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Screenwriting Secrets: Why Characters Must Prove Your Premise
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Are you an actor looking to write your own series or a screenwriter struggling to make your pilot pop? Discover how the relationship between your characters and your premise defines the success of your show. In this episode, TV showrunner Danny Kallis breaks down why every character on screen must serve a specific purpose to move the story forward.
Danny explains the golden formula: character plus promise plus situation. Using classic examples such as Romeo and Juliet and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, he examines how character traits directly support the underlying message of a…
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