Become the Characters in your Story

No matter how much you read or think about making the characters in your story real, when it comes down to writing the screenplay it is a different thing altogether. So how do you bring your characters to life? I have read over and over again, that it is best to become the characters in your story. To put that into practice, I began writing the description, habits, thoughts, and actions of my characters. Then I set them into some scenes in the screenplay. This didn't seem to be enough so I started inserted some script. Dialogue really is a test of your characters strength in the film. Once you write a few scenes, get some friends together and read the script together. Have a narrator who reads the background setting and information. Then just go through it to see how it flows.