UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVES
CREATING COMPLEX CHARACTERS FOR FICTION AND FILM
with Carolyn Mamchur
10 AM - 4 PM Saturday/Sunday March 7/8 2009
Lively, complex and believable characters create the energy that drives most successful screenplays and fiction writing -- from Moby Dick to Juno. How do writers turn ideas into personalities -- especially personalities that differ from themselves?
Carolyn Mamchur reveals her techniques for exploring deep character and developing conflict based on her work as a script and fiction writer and story editor as well as thirty years of research as Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her expertise in Jungian archetypes, the Meyers-Briggs personality profile, and other analytical tools will give writers the techniques to develop their own complex and subtle characters.
The course will cover:
- Introduction to Jungian type theory
- Use of the Meyers-Briggs Personality Profile to analyze your own type and apply it to your writing Analyzing of scenes from films and literature to explore character type conflicts
- Exploring those things which most challenge the various temperaments, how each type "family" responds under stress, and how the dark side will appear before a character arc is manifest
- The writing of various speech patterns congruent
- with type preferences.
CAROLYN MAMCHUR teaches creative writing as a Professor of Education at SFU. Author of numerous children's books and poetry as well as two books and twenty articles on Jungian type theory, she is also currently working on nine novellas, each representing a different major Jungian archetype. Her screenplay, Sunnyside Canal, is being produced by Seredipity Films. She is presently serving as script editor for Telefilm Canada.
$175 (FREE for registrants of Intermediate Screenwriting with Rodger Cove)
Space is limited -- register today!