Character Bible gives a summary about the characteristics and personalities of each role in a script and helps the actors and actresses to better express themselves as that character as they will understand how they are like. Here is a step by step tutorial of doing character bibles.
1) Have an idea of where the story is going. Does it take place in hours or over years? This will affects the type of people your characters will be.
2) Decide on the desired type of characters in your script. Be thorough abut this decision. Know everything from age to race to religious affliation, family background and everything in between.
3) Research your characters. Once you know who they are and where they are going, give them realistic representations in your script.
4) Know about your characters and that includes their family. Be clear on where your character fits into their family and the relationship they have with them
5) Include a basic summary of each character you write. The basic summary will include age, weight, height, gender, schooling, occupation, where they are originally from and where they currently live.
Write a detailed biography of each character using the information you've accumulated in Steps 1 - 5.
To help you, here's extra resources on the web to help you:
1) http://aldric.wrytestuff.com/swa368283.htm
2) http://www.ehow.com/how_2049246_write-character-bible.html
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