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#ThinkpieceThursday – Learning from the Ugandan Tarantino

A Sense of Humor

Do you have a sense of humor about yourself? Doing serious work demands not taking your success, your failures or yourself too seriously. Not doing so is a serious mistake.

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The obstacles in a film or television series should create the kind of risk, peril or danger that pushes the character to take actions that define what is most fundamentally important or true in a character’s life.

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Values at Stake – Televison

A character should be forced to make a stark, definitive and active choice. As one value is ultimately chosen, the character finally negates or surrenders the other contrasting value. What price is paid for the character’s choice?

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