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New Article at CultureHacker | 4-Dimensional Characters

Submitted by on February 12, 2009 – 2:12 amNo Comment

Cross media screenwriting - scriptxrayFor those interested in cross-media screenwriting or character development, check out Story in Another Dimension – 4-Dimensional Characters and Cross-Media Screenwriting, a post over at Culture Hacker.

In it, I explore a few ways we might tackle the cross-media story form as a screenwriter and how character plays a big, big role in new media storytelling.

Here’s a peak:

Writing In Another Dimension.

While studios hustle to revive the classic-cinema past with the release of 3D spectacles for modern day audiences, screenwriters are busy working on their own amplification of dimension.

It’s called character dimension.

Pick up any writing book and you’ll read about the importance of 3D characters. A 3D character isn’t merely someone with realistic professional, personal, and private aspects to their life, but someone who reacts to conflict with these aspects of their life in mind. In other words, they jump off the page with realism (read the full article at

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