Character Development Chart...

[Joseph Hutson]

Interesting chart I just found...

 

[Ace]

This is a fantastic script writing excercise..

 

[Imran Farouk]

Wow...that's heavy! Mostly for LOTR

 

[Austin Glass]

I like the xkcd for the Primer shout out. For anyone who's seen it, then the Primer frame is the punchline.

 

[alexwhitmer]

Very cool.

I don't any writers that go through all that, but I bet it would help.

Thanks for sharin'

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[Joel Kaye]

This seems like more of joke on 12 Angry Men and Primer than a serious writing/structure/beat tool. I can't see any actual use for it other than it's a good joke.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Niceone. Including the jokes.

 

[Mitch Gross]

Anyone who has read the Film Writing & Directing books by Edward Dymytryk will recognize the origins of this exercise. It is a common thing to do for feature films. Dymytryk used Casablanca as his example. IIRC, such a chart also appears in Truffaut's Day for Night.

 

[Martin Weiss]

Saw Angry 12 Men the other night (again - always a good one), and must say that graph is totally off. Pretty much every jury member changes during the film, adn there are certainly some animosities.

 

[Austin Glass]

Saw Angry 12 Men the other night (again - always a good one), and must say that graph is totally off. Pretty much every jury member changes during the film, adn there are certainly some animosities.

This is not character development, it's character interactions. It's simply defining when the characters are together, and at what times.