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Subject line: Jack Young’s Three Circles of Characters
What I learned doing this assignment is character development and understanding their place and role in the story is extremely important. This will allow us to build characters that are rich in detail and dimension. I noted while looking at the characters in American Horror Story how unique and different each character is. So when the main character is not on the screen, we are still entertained and engaged by the other characters and their stories.
ASSIGNMENT 1:
American Horror Story Season 10, Episode II:
A. Main Characters Circle: Harry, Doris, and Alma Gardener
B. Connected Circle: Belle Noir, Mickey, Austin, TB Karen, Dr. Feldman (Lark)
C. Environment Circle: Harry’s agent, Zombie Vampires, Grocery Store manager, male prostitute under bridge
ASSIGNMENT 2:
The three circles of characters for my show titled “Stream: Episode I”
A. Main Characters Circle: Michael Walker, Diane Walker (Wife), Nicholas Walker (Son), Professor Darlington
B. Connected Circle: MIT Engineer, Thomas, Michael’s friend, Marty, Michael’s girlfriend, Chris, Michael’s older brother, John, Michael’s father, George, Michael’s mother Bonnie, Female Demon in bar, Gina
C. Environment Circle: Professor Darlington’s caretaker, News reporters, People rioting and protesting, Doctor and nurses at hospital, Bartender in bar, Patrons in bar, Professor’s astral team, YMCA homeless men, police Officers
One sentence description of each of the Main Characters:
Michael Walker: Michael, an accountant and family man, is having an affair and has lost all of his family’s savings in a stock deal gone horribly bad.
Diane Walker (Wife): Diane is a dedicated wife and mother but her devotion to the marriage will be tested to the limits beyond life itself.
Nicholas Walker (Son): Nick, 5 years old, loves and idolizes his father.
Professor Darlington: The foremost expert on the human soul and possibly the only one on the planet that knows how to prevent man’s destruction from the “No-Birth” crisis.
Marty, (Michael’s friend): A risk taker who comes up with a get rich scheme that will lead him and Michael straight to prison.
Chris (Michael’s girlfriend): A girl that Michael hooked up with after his brother died and now she has her hooks deep into Michael.
Johnny (Michael’s older brother): A handicapped Afghanistan war hero and Michael’s older brother who overdoses on heroin.
George (Michael’s father): A Korean war veteran who supported the war but blames Michael for Johnny’s death.
Bonnie (Michael’s mother): She tries to keep what’s left of her family together after the loss of her son.
Gina (Female Demon in bar): A beautiful blonde that shows up in the bar and reveals herself as a demon with a warning for Michael.
News reporters: News reporters on the news reveal to us how the continuing “No-Birth” crisis is crippling the world and may lead to the end of mankind.
People rioting and protesting: People rioting and protesting against the government for inaction demonstrate the chaos associated with the “No-Birth” crisis.
Doctor and nurses at hospital: Doctors and nurses at the hospital treating Michael for the onset of stage 4 brain cancer.
Police Officers: Police officers respond to the event when the professor purposely stops Michael’s heart to send him into the Stream.
YMCA homeless men: Homeless men populate the YMCA where Michael now calls home after his wife threw him out.
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George Petersen THREE CIRCLES OF CHARACTERS
What I learned from this assignment is how to layer characters and establish them as a resource for future episodes.
3 Circles of Character:
The Americans:
Main Characters Circle:
Phillip Jennings – Russian Spy Dad
Elizabeth Jennings – Russian Spy Mom
Paige Jennings – Innocent Daughter
Henry Jennings – Innocent Son
Connected Circle:
Stan – Neighbor who is an FBI agent
Sandra – Stan’s wife
Colonel Zhukov – Phillip’s Trainer
Agent Mitzi – FBI
Agent Bartholomew – FBI
Deputy Attorney General Warren – FBI
Pasty Bureaucrat – Mysterious Spy
Timoshev – Russian Agent
Helene – Office Secretary
Martha – Witness
Trainer – Elizabeth’s first trainer
Environmental Circle:
Bartender – Phillip’s friend
Rob – Mysterious Spy
Young Man – a Man Timoshev talks to
Chess Player #1 – Friend of Paige
Chess Player #2 – Friend of Paige
Tom – Friend of Paige
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The Red Ballot:
Main Characters Circle:
Alan Pinkerton – the young, inexperienced Detective, who will be the first to provide a security/detective service across state lines.
Abraham Lincoln – the President-Elect, an eternal optimist who naively thinks all Americans are basically good at heart.
Kate Warner – the First Female Detective, a twenty-five year old widow in need of a job, out to prove that women can make better detectives as they can “worm” their way through relationships and discover secrets men can’t.
Bertolucci the Barber – head of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society committed to promoting slavery among the countries circling the Gulf of Mexico. Their first big job: assassinate the abolitionist President-Elect while transferring between trains in Baltimore.
Connected Circle:
Mary Lincoln – the wife of the President-Elect, who loves politics so much that she would run for office herself — if only she could. At least she can live a political life of sorts vicariously through her husband.
Detective in Baltimore – Pinkerton’s lead spy trying to track down Bertolucci and the KGC.
Lincoln’s Security/Bodyguards – a casual group of retired military officers who are ill equipped to deal with Bertolucci and the KGC. Police Officers had no jurisdiction outside their regions. There was no national police force, no FBI.
New York Chief of Police – searching for the President-Elect so he can protect him from assassination.
Environmental Circle:
PLACEHOLDER:
People of Chicago, Illinois
People of Springfield, Illinois
People of Baltimore, Maryland
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Cathryn Atkinson’s Three Circles of Characters
What I learned – Breaking characters into three circles is an excellent way to highlight how each character plays a part in the overall story of the series, where they are in the food chain. It’s a pyramid. It also helps focus on the connection of all characters to the protagonist (and antagonist). It solidifies the world and plot.
In watching Mr. Robot, you can see how characters who might be considered in the connected circle can move closer to the main circle when the narrative needs them. You can see how they bolster Elliot’s journey. I feel like we don’t have a full understanding yet of who is Elliot’s main character circle, especially in terms of the female characters. Shayla and Angela are the flipsides of each other.
ASSIGNMENT 1:
Three Circles of Characters for MR ROBOT
A. Main Characters’ Circle – Elliot Alderson, Mr Robot, Tyreill Wellick, Angela,
B. Connected Circle: Shayla, Darlene, Invisible friends, Terry Colby, Gideon (boss), Ollie (boyfriend), Cisco (musician/hacker), fsociety people, Fernando Vera (drug dealer), Krista (psychologist), father (not alive), Mr X driver.
C. Environment Circle: EvilCorp lawyers, Doggie, Allsafe workers, subway travellers, cops, New Yorkers,
ASSIGNMENT 2:
1. Three circles of characters for RUN ANGELITA.
A. Main Characters Circle: Angelita Alves, Chance Tremblay, Veronica Segundo, Dario
B. Connected Circle: Luis Alves, Nana Alves, Rosalino, Moneda, Aguila, Warden Mac, Freya, The Minutemen (Cory, Simon, Buddy), The captive refugees (Estella, Older Woman, Teenage boy), Johnny Johnson, Waitress in truck stop, Waitress in LA, Lynelle, CBP Officer, Beck (guard), Matteo and Santiago, Good Ole Boys, Young Refugees, Rocky/He-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed (Veronica’s editor), Vintner, Grape Pickers, woman in truck, Judge, FBI agent Sloane, Two lawyers, CIA Agent,
C. Environment Circle: Cartel henchmen, Walking migrants, Teacher at Angelita’s school, Eduardo (dead), Detained Migrants, Detention guards, Customs and Border Services Protection Guards. Texans, Arizonans, Mexicans, Californians. Detained refugee children, guard dogs, online trolls, restaurant patrons, nurses, doctor, hospital security, SUV driver, Police, FBI agents, DEA agents, El Salvadorean official, Patrons at The Refuge Coffeeshop, People on vacation.
2. Give us a one sentence description of each of the Main Characters.
Angelita Alves A spoiled 16-year-old El Salvador girl who has been trained in shooting and martial arts, and who goes on the run after her accountant brother and grandmother are killed by the cartel he secretly works for.
Chance Tremblay, 17, Texan with a cowboy’s honor and a way with rifles, who rescued Angelita after she escapes from detention and promises to help her.
Veronica Segundo, 39-year-old journalist and Chance’s friend, she is an ex-marine who agrees to help Angelita and Chance in exchange for the story of her career.
Dario – 45, A hitman with a secret who is sent to kill Angelita and anyone who helps her.
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David Quinn’s Three Circles of Characters
What I learned doing this assignment is that I can ALWAYS get more creative with the kinds of characters that will complement the protagonists journey. I am not done.
I am still playing with two ideas for my project. Blythe: Nightvision is a true new concept created in our model based on “source material,” a published comic book series I created and scripted. Brooklyn the Barbarian is a new concept straight from the dirt.
#1:
Jessica Jones:
A. Main Characters Circle: Jessica, Kilgrave, Hogarth, Trish
B. Connected Circle: Hope, Luke, Malcolm, Twin Neighbors?
C. Environment Circle: Alias Investigations Clients and Cases, Police, Detectives, Prostitutes, Lawyers, Social Workers, Bar/Restaurant/Hotel Staff and Patrons, Hell’s Kitchen / NYC Bystanders
#2:
Blythe: Nightvision
Dark Fantasy/Urban Gothic. Serial. “Two Pros Go to War”
A culture of monsters seeded by a sexually transmitted virus hides within, and hunts the human herd: Blythe, first to be infected and transformed, is unwavering in her obsession: uniquely able to perceive the monsters as they truly are, she slays them all to revenge herself on Ian, the pioneering virologist who began the plague a hundred years ago.
A. Main Characters Circle:
Blythe: creature killer, creature, emotionally wounded survivor of an assault – lives a vital lie, she feels empathy for her survivor sisters and an unhealthy attraction to their creator<div>
Ian: brilliant psychopath, father of the virus, manipulator of all his creatures, including Blythe
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Alice James – human shaman with spirituality/magic than gives her limited insight to the sub-world of creatures – mercurial, allies with both Blythe and Ian
Franco – human mechanic obsessed with his client Blythe, as his father Franco was
B. Connected Circle:
Braals, Harpies, Rifters, Wraiths, Despoilers, Infant Incubi and Succubi, etc. Creatures – all of Blythe’s sisters (Ian’s lovers) around the world and across the ten decades, such as Eve, creature who uses her power to beguile 1960s Hollywood </div><div>
Humans entangled in Blythe’s life / war ie Franco the human mechanic obsessed with his client, Blythe, his father Vincenzo, who was a victim to the same attraction in 1950s Rome, Bette Noir, club kid and wannabe vampire circa 1990
C. Environment Circle:
“Night shift” Humans – bars, clubs, hospitals, law enforcement, criminals – create possibilities to make each one complementary to Blythe, that is, designed to be a specific challenge to her war or her vital lie
Brooklyn the Barbarian
Action/Comedy. Serial. “A Leader Journeys into an Uncharted World”
Yesterday, Gustavo “Gus” Silva just wanted to finish his first year at Brooklyn College with passing grades. His motto’s always been, “Leave me out of it.”
This morning, he woke up in a prehistoric sword & sorcery world naked between two strange young women, one who has a monkey head. And then the dinosaur-riding monkey guard attacked “usurper to the throne!”
A. Main Characters Circle:
Gus: 21<sup>st</sup> boy reluctantly becomes a man, some say even the leader he was destined to be, in The Realm Forsaken, an absurd – and absurdly violent – barbaric alternate reality.</div><div>
Jane: strategic smarts, endless energy, and the cutest little monkey pout in the Realm – just don’t call her a “girlfriend.”
Sanguine: Blood drinking assassin. Exterminates anyone the King fears. Paid for volume.
Captain “We, the People,” (Dinosaur-riding Monkey Headed Warriors)
B. Connected Circle:
King Con: Large and In Charge – nothing goes down in the Realm unless Con gets his Cut.</div><div>
Vinny A: Back in Brooklyn, covering for Gus, missing his boy.
C. Environment Circle:
“Realm Dwellers – all manner of exotic, ruthless bastards, not to be trusted.</div>
Flatbush Dwellers – diverse humans from Brooklyn, students, professors, locals, cops, gangs, not to be trusted.
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Madeleine Vessel’s Three Circles of Characters
What I learned doing this assignment is how to part characters into three circles (main character circle, connected character circle, and environment circle). I also discovered my story’s characters and the circles they belong in.
MY SHOW’S THREE CIRCLES OF CHARACTERS:
A. Main Characters Circle: Sophie, Bill
B. Connected Circle: Zhora, Olivia, Aimée, Hannah, Lucy, Dave, Jane, Peter, Maxim, Sergei, Logan, Yelena, Vitaly
C. Environment Circle: Ivan, Demyan, Falisa, Aleksei, Kazimir, Iosif, Vitaly’s bodyguards, Nurse Cathy, Kolya, Marta, Dr. Brown, priests, Irina, Leonid, Renata, Renata’s assistant, Nina, commandos, desk clerk, Karp, Mrs. Ananyeva, Pavel, Denis, Arseny, doctor,
ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTIONS OF MY TWO MAIN CHARACTERS:
• On the surface Sophie is an art history professor at the University of San Francisco, but beneath the surface, she is a Russian defector in the United States’ witness protection program, trying to keep her real identity hidden.
• Bill is an FBI Special Agent assigned to handle Sophie’s father, Zhora, a Russian defector in the United States’ witness program and an FBI informant.
I watched the second episode of SUPERNATURAL. Here is…
…SUPERNATURAL’S CIRCLES OF CHARACTERS:
A. Main Character Circle: Sam, Dean, Impala, Dad’s notebook,
B. Connected Circle (Episode 2): Demon, Roy, Holly, Ben
C. Environment Circle: Gary, Brad, Tommy, Ranger Wilkinson, Mr. Shaw, law enforcement officers, paramedics.
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Rafal’s Three Circles of Characters
What I learned doing this assignment is designing groups of characters in advance and organise them in order of importance.
Assignment 1
A. Main Characters Circle:
Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renate
B. Connected Circle:
Bonnie, Nathan, Ziggy, Abbi, Chloe, Ed, Perry, twin boys, Ammabela, School manager
C. Environment Circle:
School teacher, Renate’s husband, parents of other children, Yoga teacher, waiter, Joseph, parents of other children, parking boy, police inspector
Assignment 2
A. Main Characters Circle:
Arcadia – grandma happy about the perfect life of her daughter’s family, especially in love with her teenage grandson, heavy ill and reconciled with the impending death yet… desperate to live when needed
Chris – an oversensitive and quick-thinking teenager who becomes depressed from the conflicts of his parents whose relationship has broken up
Eve – Arcadia’s daughter and doctor and main financing person, Chris’s strict mother, co-owner and leader of the clinic who forces her husband and son to pretend that their family is perfect, at least until the grandmother dies
Matthew – great teacher of music, frustrated composer, co-owner of the clinic, cheating on his wife and disappointed with his son
B. Connected Circle:
Nelly – Arcadia’s friend 1, Cate – Arcadia’s friend 2, Chris’s girlfriend, Eve’s partner, Matthew’s lover, Eve’s lawyer, Chris’s psychotherapist, Chris’s friend, Chris’s teacher, nurse, bookseller, doctor opposing to Eve, priest, pharmacist,
C. Environment Circle:
clinic technician, other doctors, other psychotherapists, other students in Chris’s school, staff and students of Arcadia’s University of the Third Age, Arcadia’s employer, school director, driver, postman, music band members, mail courier, Matthew’s students, judge,
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Leybe Diaz’s Three Circles of Characters:
What I learned from doing this assignment is how to group characters and think of them as support systems / tools to help move the story and the journey of my main characters forward.
ASSIGNMENT 1:
The 3 Circles of Characters for Scandal:
Main Characters Circle: Olivia, Fitz, Cyrus, Quinn, Abby, Steven, Harrison, David.
Connected Circle: Mellie, Billy, Key staff for the president / WH, Key reporters. The Clients.
Environment Circle: White House staff, press, police, extras.
ASSIGNMENT 2:
3 Circles of Characters for my show
“The home aide”
(An innocent on a mission in a strange world.)
Main Characters Circle:
Emma Bala: Main character, the home aide. Works at a restaurant before she’s offered a job as a home health aide by a customer.
Flora Scherstein: The patient, suffers from a rare type of Alzheimer’s. Comes from a super wealthy family.
Isaac Scherstein: Flora’s brother who hires Emma.
Linda Scherstein: Isaac’s wife. Isaac’s first hand, secretly hates Flora.
Connected Circle:
Leo: Emma’s dad. Gets in troubles and needs Emma’s help.
Lucia: Emma’s mother: Desperate seeks help for her husband and demands it from Emma.
Sofia: Emma’s little sister, is also in danger.
Dan: Current Emma’s employer – Emma works as a waitress at his restaurant.
Sarah: Emma’s co worker also a waitress.
Laura Scherstein: Isaac’s daughter who is well married and has two children.
Ismael Scherstein: Isaac’s son, single, a psychologist with not much going on apparently.
Dr. Jagbhatt: A top, renowned neurologist who diagnosed and treats Flora.
Environment Circle:
Restaurant customers and staff.
Extended family members for Emma and Flora.
Isaac’s Associates.
Doctors office staff.
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Eric Humble’s Three Circles of Characters
What I learned is: that once you organize the characters based on the role they play in the main character’s journey, you not only are able to juggle the characters without being distracted, overwhelmed, or side-tracked by the peripheral characters, but you’re able to keep the transformational journey front-and-center. I recently took the Writing the Profound Screenplay course with screenwritingU, where I really started to understand transformational journeys beyond the basic Mini-Movie Method. I was really struck for the first time while doing this lesson at how the transformational journey of a TV series is at the root of the structure in the same way it is with a feature film – and that much of the challenges that move the character through the journey come from the other characters to varying degrees. Organizing the characters in terms of the role they play within that transformational journey really helps keep the story on track and keeps those “profound elements” at the forefront. I’ve never approached supporting characters this way before, and I’m excited to see how I can write them into the story so that they engage the transformational journey via the main characters, and without the environment circle characters distracting from the most important emotional aspects of the main story.
Assignment 1:
MR. ROBOT:
A. Main Characters Circle:
Elliot – protagonist; hacker “avenger”
Mr. Robot – leader of the hacker group out to take down E Corp
Tyrell Wellick – newly minted CTO of E Corp, has people watching Elliot everywhere
B. Connected Circle:
Angela – childhood friend/unrequited love interest
Shayla – drug dealer/casual lover
Gideon – cybersecurtity firm boss
Krista – Elliot’s psychologist, whom he “protects” from afar even as he’s shutting her out
C. Environment Circle:
The other hackers of FSociety
Angela’s cheating boyfriend
The Men in Black watching Elliot
The employees of the cybersecurity firm
The lawyers of E Corp
Assignment 2:
MY CONCEPTS:
CONCEPT ONE: An oncologist discovers there’s a strain of DNA in a small group of people which is the key to curing cancer, and Big Pharma has known about it for decades… and has been systematically hunting down and exterminating these people, because cancer is big business.
Journey: Oncologist goes from a comfortable life profiting off the system to on the run from a shadowy cabal to save the last people with the genetic code in order to cure his wife’s cancer.
What characters are required for this Unique World? (Court battle = Judge, prosecutor, public defender, victim, defendent, witnesses, press, etc.)
Oncology research team
Wife’s oncologist
Board of directors of hospital
CEO of Pharma corporation
Board of Pharma corporation
Assassins/mercenaries
People with the unique genetic code
Targets’s social/cultural circles
What Supporting Characters are required to have this story work?
Jude’s wife
His boss at the Pharma company/head of the cabal
The target – a woman who has the unique genetic code without knowing she has it or
why she’s being targeted
Who else would they conspire/conflict with during the journey?
Police detective on the case when she gets initially targeted
Underworld figures who can supply aliases, fake IDs, etc.
CEO’s underling who is looking into what’s really going on – and scheming to take the
throne
Who else would naturally be in the environment as things were happening?
Patients in the hospital
Corporate employees at the Pharma company
People in the targets’s orbit – friends, culture, etc.
Board of Pharma corporation
Three Circles:
A. Main Characters Circle:
Jude – oncology researcher who stumbles onto a massive, decades-long conspiracy to exterminate a subset of the world population whose DNA holds the secret to curing cancer.
Marks – CEO at the biggest Pharma company, who is secretly head of the global cabal dedicated to identifying, hunting, and exterminating the people whose DNA can cure cancer.
Catherine – Jude’s wife, dying of inoperable cancer; Jude is lying to her about the gravity of her situation to shield her from worry while he searches for a fringe-science “miracle cure.”
Dres – a homeless petty thief who has been targeted by the cabal, not knowing that it’s because she carries the strain of DNA that can directly cure cancer.
B. Connected Circle:
Catherine’s oncologist
Assassins/mercenaries
Dres’s friends/accomplices
Jude’s and Catherine’s friends and family
Police detective on the case when she gets initially targeted
Underworld figures who can supply aliases, fake IDs, etc.
C. Environment Circle:
Jude’s oncology research team
Patients in the hospital
Corporate employees at the Pharma company
People in the targets’s orbit – friends, culture, etc.
Board of Pharma corporation
CONCEPT TWO: Just as an FBI agent is about to arrest a mob boss, an anonymous website sets up a full-out Presidential campaign for the mob boss and raises billions of dollars, making him the heavy favorite to win… and shielding him from prosecution until the election is over.
Journey: An idealistic FBI agent has to catch a mob boss who is on the cusp of becoming his boss and corrupting the Justice Department into a powerful extension of his own mob… so he has to start breaking the law and playing dirty to ensure that doesn’t happen. Meanwhile, the mob boss, who has to win at the campaign trail in order to avoid immediate arrest, has to become a genuinely empathetic and civic-minded leader in order to win the presidency… or face immediate arrest as a private citizen.
What characters are required for this Unique World? (Court battle = Judge, prosecutor, public defender, victim, defendent, witnesses, press, etc.)
FBI agents
FBI director
Mob lieutenants
Mob underlings
Businesspeople involved in the mob boss’s move to legitimize the business
Campaign staff
Chief of staff
Community leaders
Campaign communications director
FBI Cybercrime Task Force
FBI Organized Crime Task Force
What Supporting Characters are required to have this story work?
Mob underboss
FBI agent’s wife and family
FBI agent’s best friend/colleague
Mob boss’s family
Mob boss’s scheming son
Who else would they conspire/conflict with during the journey?
FBI informant
Mob lawyer
Local government officials on the campaign trail
Local business people on the campaign trail
Who else would naturally be in the environment as things were happening?
Members of the press
Rival gangsters looking to muscle in while the gangster is tied up running for president
People on the street along the campaign trail
Workers/employees involved in the business side of the mobster’s front
FBI staff
Three Circles:
A. Main Characters Circle:
Darren – Idealistic FBI agent who must buck his superiors and go undercover in Scoleri’s
mob after his by-the-book investigation is upended by Scoleri’s mysterious Presidential
run.
Scoleri – ruthless mob boss used to ruling from the shadows, who must now make a
serious – and very public – run for President of the United States in order to avoid
immediate arrest… and to grow his empire globally.
Eco – Scoleri’s mob lawyer and advisor who must manage the crime empire while
shielding Scoleri’s true self as he goes campaigning.
Bender – Darren’s best friend and fellow Special Agent who takes over the investigation
into Scoleri’s mob dealings… not knowing that Darren has gone undercover and is rising in its ranks.
B. Connected Circle:
FBI director
Darren’s wife and family
Bender’s wife and family
Scoleri’s scheming son
Scoleri’s scheming underboss
Campaign chief of staff
Campaign communications director
C. Environment Circle:
FBI staff
Mob lieutenants
Mob underlings
Businesspeople involved in Scoleri’s move to legitimize the business
Campaign staff
Community leaders
FBI Cybercrime Task Force
FBI Organized Crime Task Force
Local government officials on the campaign trail
Local business people on the campaign trail
Members of the press
Rival gangsters looking to muscle in while the gangster is tied up running for president
People on the street along the campaign trail
Workers/employees involved in the business side of the mobster’s front
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THREE CIRCLES OF CHARACTERS
What I learned from this assignment:
All characters are part of the main characters’ journey. Differentiating characters’ groupings keeps the focus on the actual journey of the BW show. Consider character worlds when populating your show.
ASSIGNMENT 1:
SCANDAL, Episode 2
A. Main Characters’ Circle: Olivia (hero), Quinn (innocent on a mission in a strange world), Harrison, President Fitzgerald, Cyrus, Amanda, Sharon, Patrick Keating
B. Connected Circle: Mellie, Stephen, Huck, Abby, David, Gideon, Stacey (Keating’s wife), VP Chief of Staff (Billy)
C. Environment Circle: Sharon’s girls (Stacey/, Ginger Bell, Inez Parks and children), Johns, Security Guards (Morris), journalists, police officers, politicians
Ms. Hanley, Judge (Sharon’s), Process Server, hospital staff
ASSIGNMENT 2:
FORESHADOWING
A. Main Characters’ Circle: Maggie, Sam, Katharine Agnes, Joseph, Jack, Hassan
B. Connected Circle: Joseph (Maggie’s dad; Two friends to Maggie, Claire, Haig (Maggie’s twin brother), Curator (Arthur), Anthony (Maggie’s younger brother), Department Heads: CHESS/physics (Robert), Art History (Ananda), Teammates Maggie creates or joins
C. Environment Circle: Hadron Collider staff/researchers; Art history department faculty/students; Katharine’s colleagues and patient; Museum visitors, students on campus, clergy, people on beach
Maggie: recently tenured professor in Art History (Baroque Art), gaining comfort in authority, bright, penetrating, warm soul summoning strength while PTSD is resurfacing,
Sam: Tenured Physics professor, former lover who abandoned her when she was challenged in the past (“Couldn’t deal with it”? Different cultures?)
Katharine Agnes: Maggie’s mom (possibly welsh/irish) gained celebrity as an art history consultant and research psychoanalyst, now becoming more reclusive. Recently more challenge in relationship to her daughter.
Joseph: Maggie’s dad (Armenian), finance consultant in ‘futures”, PTSD genocide
Jack: Highly competitive, former colleague to Maggie; highjacked one of her projects and moved on to consult in NYC,
Hassan: Mentor, worked with Katharine in the past, somewhat mysterious but supportive
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THREE CIRCLES OF CHARACTER
What I learned from this assignment is to keep the core group of main characters contained, and allow the connected circle to expand.
ASSIGNMENT 1
The Handmaid’s Tale
Main Characters
Offred/June
Serena
Commander Waterford
Nick
Connected Circle
Moira
Luke
June’s daughter
Aunt Lydia
Ofglen/Emily
Rita
Janine
Environment Circle
Other handmaids
Guards
Other Marthas
Other Wives/men of Gilead
People of the “normal” world before Gilead
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ASSIGNMENT 2
What I learned doing this assignment is that I expect some of my minor characters in the environmental circle may become more connected circle characters as I develop the project further.
NO MAN’S LAND – By Eloise Healey
Main characters
Emma Richardson – 32 years old, ex-convict, scarred physically and emotionally, Emma is sick of the damage men have done to her life and dreams of a peaceful life free from their influence.
Mary Winthorpe – 25 years old, ex-convict, idealistic and a romantic at heart, Mary hopes that transportation to Van Diemen’s Land will turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
James Sheldon – 29 years old, escaped convict serving time – charming but hardened, James doesn’t want to hurt anyone but his priority is to survive and he’ll let nobody get in his way.
Ruth Martin – 38 years old, ex-convict Ruth is no longer a sexual object for men – much to her relief – and is ready for adventure but isn’t about to take commands from another woman.
Connected circle
George MacKenzie – 42 years old, a former sailor, George has abandoned his post to make money off those keen to undertake the treacherous crossing of the Tasman Sea.
Ann Phelps – 27 years old, ex-convict, Ann thinks she should be in charge of Emma’s settlement instead – and she’d rule it with an iron fist if she could.
Sarah – 31 years old, ex-convict, Sarah has seen enough death, pain and suffering to last a lifetime and believes in taking the humanitarian option whenever possible.
Aboriginal Man – 23 years old, a young warrior who wants to protect his people from the sickness that always comes after anyone sees the strange white people.
Aboriginal Woman – 38 years old, she’s never seen a white woman before and is confused by their lack of power within their own society.
Charles – 24 years old, ex-convict who wants money, sex and power, and doesn’t care how he gets any of it.
Environment Circle
Convict women, ex-convict women and men, guards, soldiers, free settlers, politicians and their families, sailors, Aboriginal people.
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