The Methods Of Portraying Characters In Script Creation

The shaping of characters is the key link in the script creation.The success of character image is directly related to the communication quality and artistic value of film and television works.A successful character image not only has the character’s unique "personality",but also has the universal "generality",that is,its "typical" significance.The script conceives the plot and sets the structure around the characters,and completes the characterization and the transmission of the theme in the process of plot development.Based on the author’s original play "Elderly Immigrants",this paper takes Zhao Xiufang’s Elderly Immigrants image shaping process as an example to demonstrate the role and significance of dramatic demand,dramatic conflict and character details in the characterization,and discusses the characterization methods in script creation.First,demand brings action,action produces contradiction,and contradiction forms the story.Grasping the multi-level dramatic demand of the protagonist is the fundamental driving force to shape the character’s image and the prerequisite of script creation.Second,setting multiple contradictions for the protagonist and constructing the framework of the script to promote the dramatic transformation of the characters and reveal the truth of the characters.Third,depicting the details of the characters and showing the truth of the characters It shows the character and increases the credibility and recognition of the character.At the same time,this paper expounds the methods of characterization in the script creation,in order to grasp the rule of characterization more deeply and carefully.