Can anyone confirm/deny that WOC or POC is acceptable/industry standard these days? Thank u!
Can anyone confirm/deny that WOC or POC is acceptable/industry standard these days? Thank u!
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I initially thought WOC/POC was a way to specify a character as non-white, but keep the ethnicity open for casting. But according to this discussion, some people don't even recognize the term, and it comes off as lazy or offensive. Query resolved!
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I was curious as I've never seen those type of descriptions before. In one of my scripts, I described a Boston police officer as a black male on the cusp of retirement. For some reason, this is how I...
Expand commentI was curious as I've never seen those type of descriptions before. In one of my scripts, I described a Boston police officer as a black male on the cusp of retirement. For some reason, this is how I pictured him as he is partnered up with a young white female. I guess it makes the dynamic more interesting?? I don't know. In any case, I usually don't describe characters as far as race is concerned if it's not pertinent to the story unless it's the lead, otherwise it's left up to casting.
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I describe my characters fully. For age I uses general terms , teen, young, forty something. But I describe race or gender because it fits the stories I write. The story is yours; if you wrote the cha...
Expand commentI describe my characters fully. For age I uses general terms , teen, young, forty something. But I describe race or gender because it fits the stories I write. The story is yours; if you wrote the character Black, Latino, Asian or White, you can say so. If that upsets anyone then I am not concerned.
From one of my scripts:
"The driver steps out. He is JEROME TURNER, a Black Los Angeles police detective in his late thirties. His car, his clothes say Venice Blvd. He looks at the bare hills across the highway, turns looks at the Mesa in the distance behind the station.
TURNER
Damn, this is the big nowhere."
I spent too many years as an engineer subtly hiding that fact that I was Black until an interview to care that anyone is still offended.