What Writers Need To Know About Character Voices - Mark W. Travis
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In this Film Courage video interview, Filmmaker/Author/Instructor Mark W. Travis on
What Writers Need To Know About Character Voices.
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His clarity is unequalled, in my opinion. Letting your character use all of their 'voices' makes you aware of the (possible..?) mess inside their head... The added tensions. It's all obvious stuff, but Travis states it clearly. It's more on a philosophical level than your average 'help video' from Film Courage. The guy is really inspiring. Brilliant. Thanks guys.
This definitely made me appreciate the plurality of forces inside a character/person's mind and the source of their decisions, willpower, and how that organically shifts through character development over a story.
I think about many voices inside my and my characters heads including yours Karen. Cheers!
This is so genius! A while ago on the internet there were a lot of 'OC interview meme' that my friends and I did and I never realized how important those were to developing character voices. All the characters I used for those memes are still with me and feel like individuals rather than my characters.
I think I'll revisit some of those.
Please make more videos with Mr. Travis, his mere presence is just pleasing! Also, I believe you already uploaded videos on finding character voice and personality.
I totally agree with the idea that some characters purely exist to advance the plot but is that always a bad thing? Currently I'm writing a TV show where a character (an old lady) exists so that she drives a part an crumbling relationship, she also makes it more believe that another character owns the majority of a small town because she refuses to be leave. Am I doing a bad thing here, please help!
Thanks for sharing this!
Do you think about the many voices inside your characters' heads?
Yes!
Not until now. And it’s mind blowing 😳🤯
The committee thing sounds Borg.
I think Mark W. Travis is my favorite from the channel, he's so inspiring...
Wait should I actually compose a bunch of questions and mentally ask them to myself but in the mindset of my characters? Also what should these questions be, should there be plot oriented or random?
Excellent vid.
tbh i don't really have voices in my head, it's just me
Its a metaphor about the conflicting impulses and desires of the brain. What you're talking about is an inner monologue, which is a related but seperate thing.
Pixar’s Inside Out comes to mind