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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4590297" data-attributes="member: 32740">You can't (as such) just pick characters and expect that doing so will have any particular bearing on anything.&nbsp; You need characters and a STORY to go along with them.&nbsp; Then, you don't neeed to provide 5 pages of backstory for any of them.&nbsp; You don't necessarily need backstory at all.&nbsp; What you need is what writers call EXPOSITION, and it doesn't necesarily concern itself with providing extensive details about the characters or the story - it provides needed and desired details which are NOT the same thing.&nbsp;Anyone can invent 5 characters for a movie or TV series - but just because the characters are interesting doesn't mean the show will succeed, or even that the characters will work out well.&nbsp; I think it would be much more meaninful to ask, &quot;Here is the general plot for a movie, here is the general concept for a TV series... Now what assortment of characters would you plug into that?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 4590297, member: 32740"] You can't (as such) just pick characters and expect that doing so will have any particular bearing on anything. You need characters and a STORY to go along with them. Then, you don't neeed to provide 5 pages of backstory for any of them. You don't necessarily need backstory at all. What you need is what writers call EXPOSITION, and it doesn't necesarily concern itself with providing extensive details about the characters or the story - it provides [I]needed and desired[/I] details which are NOT the same thing. Anyone can invent 5 characters for a movie or TV series - but just because the characters are interesting doesn't mean the show will succeed, or even that the characters will work out well. I think it would be much more meaninful to ask, "Here is the general plot for a movie, here is the general concept for a TV series... Now what assortment of characters would you plug into that?" [/QUOTE]

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