On Story: Creating New Characters

Aired 2012-05-26

Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, Tootsie, The Way We Were) and NYPD Blue and Deadwood creator David Milch discuss the inspiration behind creating classic film and television characters. Followed by the suspenseful short film The Lab by writer/director Ryan Scheer, about two young boys whose summer afternoon in the woods goes horribly awry.

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On Story: Creating New Characters

Creating New Characters

The Comedy That Resonates

Action!

Exporting Comedy

Based on a True Story

Creators

Heart of Film

Silence of the Lambs

Buck Henry

Creating Complex Characters

The Humor & Heart of Animation

Raising Stakes, Reversals, and Payoffs