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DESERT SONGS OF ANA VICTORIA by Kim Reed Lesson 2 Homework
2. Ana Victoria is a heroine, but she also has elements of other characters or multiple selves related to different times in her story. She is a fighter and a dreamer who wants to find a new future for herself and her family. As a runner she fled criminals, was left for dead, and authorities who oppose illegals. She is exploring the United States, a big country where many people from south of the border have settled in different situations, but all share some similar vulnerabilities and risks.
3. Antagonists include:
Gang members who see Ana Victoria and her family as property. Villains and predators.
Local ranchers and police who oppose the volunteers who rescue and hide Ana Victoria. Authorities.
Other immigrants who believe Ana Victoria should give up her search for her children because she is causing trouble, attracting attention, and provoking organized criminals. Social blockers, social empowerees, and change agents.
Her new husband is a change agent, hopeful, patient, in love with Ana Victoria.
Her own son who becomes a gang member and rejects Ana Victoria’s love and offer to reunite as part of her new marriage to an American cop. The son cannot be a pure villain, so this is a compromised role as a change agent.
4. Major roles will be Ana Victoria, Gang kidnappers, three friends who guide her way and redirect the story, her Son and Daughter, and her new husband. Upfront it is Ana Victoria, the kidnappers, and her children from the first scene who are present in the last 10/15 minutes.
5. This is a drama with action, exploration, romance, and heartbreak.
6. MAJOR ROLES: ANA VICTORIA, SON, DAUGHTER, TRAFFICKER 1, 2, RESCUER 1, 2, HUSBAND, IMMIGRANT BUSINESS OWNER/COMMUNITY LEADERS 1, 2, 3.
ANA VICTORIA
Role
in the story: HeroineAge
range and Description: Trafficked in her 20s, ends in her late 40sInternal
Journey: From dominated, disempowered slave to confident seeker after
justice.External
Journey: Rescued in the desert by water volunteers, Ana Victoria travels to an
American city (Chicago) where she searches for the men who took her
children in hope of reuniting with them: She meets and marries an American retired police officer who increases her networking where she takes on people who urge her to
give up. Ana Victoria finds her son and her daughter, coming to terms with each
one, and discovering that she may not be able to recover her son.Motivation:
Love, self-respect, seeking justice.Wound:
Loss of her family, loss of her dignity, must recover herself.Mission/Agenda:
To find her children and reunite her family.Secret: Ana Victoria is not perfect. She made compromises when she was trying to negotiate
her husband’s debt with the gang, so she feels responsible for the bad way
things turned out and their separation, a vulnerability her son goads her with at the end that she must overcome.What
makes them special? Perseverance,
courage, insistence on the importance of her family and her human
feelings.SON
Role in the story: Victim, antagonist.
Age range and description: in first scene a boy 6-8 years old, later scenes a man in his late teens to 20s.
Internal journey: From loving child to hostile, indifferent gang member
External journey: Largely unseen, he grows up in the gang who kidnapped him, a privileged position as their adopted family member compared to others who are sold for sex or labor.
Motivation: Survival in the gang
Wound: Abandoned by his mother who could not find him.
Agenda: To fight off authorities and his mother’s search, to get rid of emotions from the past.
Secret: He dreamed of being found by his mother as a child, but it was just a dream and now it is threatening who he is.
DAUGHTER
Role in the story: Victim, motivation, motivator for Ana Victoria
Age: Child in first scene, later a woman in her 20s.
Internal journey and External journey: From passive victim to motivated member of her reunited mother’s search efforts for her brother.
Motivation: Justice for herself and her brother, love for her mother.
Wound: She never loved her adopted parents who bought her from the gang.
Agenda: To be reunited with her mother in a common cause that helps them recover an important bond.
TRAFFICKER 1
TRAFFICKER 2
RESCUER 1
RESCUER 2
HUSBAND
IMMIGRANT BUSINESS OWNER
COMMUNITY LEADER 1
COMMUNITY LEADER 2
MINOR ROLES: GROUP VOLUNTEERS, LOCAL POLICE, LOCALS IN SETTINGS, IMMIGRANT INFORMANTS, PRIESTS AND NUNS, BACKGROUND GANG MEMBERS.
7. What I learned from doing this assignment:
As the story unfolds over time, major and minor characters are interacting and engaging with the central problem of finding and recovering Victoria’s children. This requires a careful weaving of a web of social and symbolic connections, dialogues, and cascading scene settings to support the drama unfolding over a limited period of time to tell a story.
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ASSIGNMENT 2
Subject line: Pat’s Character Profiles part I
What I learned doing this assignment is it helps to get inside the protagonist head. About all the parts he’s got going on.
1. Listen to the 3-minute Empowerment Audio FIRST.
https://30dayscript.s3.amazonaws.com/Empowerment+Audio.m4a
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Explores with how to help
people with their marriagesDreamer Has a dream like
imagination that he knows all about marriages. He must learn that he doesn’t know
anything about marriages and his clients are the ones who teach him that
he’s been all wrong.3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Change Agent: He’s a know it
all and must change to be happy.
Authority: Officer investigating his operation
without a license. He must finish his night classes to become legal.4. What other characters might be necessary?
· “Supporting characters: His mother Carrot Top; Receptionist: Bobbi Sue
· Minor roles: The clients
5. Pick your genre.
Rom-Com or Buddy Movie
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: A want a be
marriage counselor.
Age range and Description: 30 –
40Internal Journey: He believes he knows all about marriage
because he’s been married 7 times.External Journey: To find a way
to be happy again. Journey He’s goes from hurt to finding his way back to
the last ex-wife.
Motivation: To prove that he
can have a successful marriage.
Wound: He’s been hurt 7 times
when his ex-wives divorced him.
Mission/Agenda: When his 7<sup>th</sup>
wife divorces him, he’s motivated to change
Secret: That he’s hurt by the
divorces but doesn’t admit it.
What makes them special? He
loves his mother. -
Joy Geldard-Smith’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is… starting with the broad strokes isn’t too tricky, especially when you have a system to create characters. Their depth will come with the detail but giving them some initial contradictions will drive conflict both internally and externally.
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Madison is a dreamer. She trained and took a stable job as an accountant but really wants to be a stand-up comedian. She is pushed to act on her dreams after she keeps getting called boring.
Jose is an explorer. He is pushing the bounds of his art and people’s expectations of him – which is that he will be poor and generally considered a failure. He is rebelling against this.
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfil that role.
Madison and Jose play antagonist to each other, as they will both be change agents.
Madison pushes Jose because he is pretentious and concerned about what other people think of him. Jose points out that Madison is just as shallow, and if she was really happy being an accountant, she wouldn’t be in an escape room trying to prove to herself that she was creative. Their conflict is what makes them an overnight sensation and even though they both want to be on their own, they are linked. Jose finds he can’t create without Madison, Madison is more humorless without Jose.
Jose also has a manager for his art, who is part of the art clique and feeds Jose’s pretentiousness. Madison has a mentor via her work who encourages her to do all the accountant things and nothing else. Focus is the key to success!
4. What other characters might be necessary?
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</div>Supporting characters: Romcoms usually have some kind of best
friend, though I think both these characters really need mentors. Not just
in love but in their lives as well. They can be somewhat antagonistic
though, and maybe they each need a best friend to tell them to follow
their heart?Minor roles: colleagues, fans, press?
Background characters: I’m currently thinking they’ll both be under
25, or a maximum of 30, so probably parents and possibly roommates.5. Pick your genre.
I’m all-in with romcom!
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Madison
Role in the story: lead character, protagonist and antagonist to
Jose. <div>Age range and Description: Under 25, 30 tops. No preference for
ethnicity. Has not long finished her accountancy qualifications and is
finding it well-paid but boring. Did enjoy it to begin with, but life has
thrown her curveballs that she can’t help but laugh at, and she wants to
share that with the world.Internal Journey: trying to prove to herself that she isn’t just a
boring accountant, no matter what all her friends and family say.External Journey: embraces her creative side as well as her analytical
side and launches her risky stand-up comedy career.Motivation: Proving people wrong and living a more fulfilling life.
Wound: All three of her serious boyfriends have dumped her because they
said she was boring.Mission/Agenda: To prove to the world that accountants can be fun
too!
Secret: In the last round of promotions, she copied someone’s idea
because she’s actually terrible at managing her own money and needed the promotion.What makes them special? The diligence that she learned as an
accountant – paying attention to detail and making sure things add up,
which hide her wildly creative imagination and humor.Jose
Role in the story: lead character, protagonist and antagonist to
Madison. </div>Age range and Description: Under 25, 30 tops. Latin American. A free spirited artist, he is also much more down to earth than his persona belies.
Internal Journey: validating who he is as a person and the choices
he’s made so far in his life, rejecting the ‘starving artist’ stereotype.External Journey: becomes somewhat famous as an artist, but because
of his company in the escape rooms, not just because of his performance
art and the work he creates.Motivation: Proving people wrong and being a huge success.
Wound: After college, he dated his tutor, who then told him she’d
only passed him so that she could sleep with him.Mission/Agenda: To prove that artists can be rich and successful and
there is room for many of them.Secret: Loved maths at school, and loves watching soaps.
What makes them special? He has to have a vast network to sell his
art, but he is a truly steadfast and caring friend for the few people he
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George Tedino
Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment?
How many characters I needed where they fit in the general roles and how they will affect everyone else in the story.
The role of the Protagonist (George) plays is
Reluctant hero, fighter. He didn’t chose to be this way he was put into this role from the antagonist.
The role of the Antagonist (Marty) and (Adam) plays is
villain Marty Stone is the government agent who killed George’s family and lover. Adam Henderson was just a bully who picked on him because he was different.
Other Characters
Love interest: Sara Williams
Best Friends: Kimmy Wilder, John Sinclair
Minor roles: George’s Grandparents Bill and Emma St. John, Sara’s parents Bob and Colleen Williams. Adam’s 5 Football teammates. Liz Clark Adam’s Girlfriend. A bunch of special forces guys that are employeed by Marty. High School Gym Teacher. Two Thugs
Background: High school and college kids Professor from the classroom where Sara and George meet.
My Genre is
sci fi thriller
George St. John Profile
Role: Main Character
Age: infant to 14 to his 20’s the bulk of his description in the movie is 20’s black hair, wears special glasses, athletic build.
Internal journey: from orphan with special gifts to understanding those gifts while trying to find out the truth about his powers and his past.
External Journey: From being a kid looking for answers to everything about himself to the answer to bring justice to those who need to held accountable for killing his parents and others.
Motivation: to figure out his gift and his past
Wound: Everyone who he knew and loved or who did love him is dead
Mission: To bring to justice and resolve everything about his past and the person responsible for killing his family and lover
Secret: What is under his glasses
Special: His gifts
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DENI B. SHER’s Character Profiles Part 1
DENI B. SHER – Protagonist
Role in the story: Victim/Fighter/Dreamer/Hero. As the mother of an addict, Deni is a victim of the injustice of drugs and alcohol in her son’s life. She is a warrior who rises to the challenge to save her son. She imagines a brighter future for him and takes action to bring it into being. And finally becomes a hero in her battle to save her son. He is sober 12 years as of today!
Age range and Description: Female, early 50s, president of a computer company, physically fit, engaged to be married to the love of her life.
Internal Journey: From feeling helpless (unable to keep her son from using drugs and alcohol) to having the strength to do what’s called, “tough love” where she stops enabling and helping her son financially and always preventing him from failing.
External Journey: From a co-dependent mother, with her head buried in denial to a healthy mother willing to examine familial dysfunction and to own her part of the problem.
Motivation: To have a son free of drugs and alcohol and to build a healthy relationship between mother and son.
Wound: Deni was engaged at 19 to her high school sweetheart, who started using drugs, tearing them apart and it broke her heart as she couldn’t get him to stop… and now, she’s lost her son to drugs and alcohol.
Mission/Agenda: To help her son recover from drugs and alcohol.
Secret: Her failure to save her young fiancé from drugs.
What makes them special? Her ability to face the painful truth about herself, her childhood and stand her ground even if it means her son could die without her enabling.
DR. ARTHUR SHER – Antagonist
Role in the story: Change Agent/ A physician who not only loves Deni, but understands her better than she understands herself. He wants to marry her, but won’t as long as she remains co-dependent and continues to enable her son.
Age range and Description: Male, mid-50’s, strong in his convictions, intelligent, compassionate and only wanting the best for Deni and her son.
Internal Journey: Firm in his convictions yet proud of Deni for staying strong and ultimately helping to plan their wedding.
External Journey: From being engaged to a married man.
Motivation: He didn’t want to marry Deni if she had an addicted son, as he knew she would continue giving him money and being tormented by his addiction
Wound: His ex-wife had abused drugs.
Mission/Agenda: To not be the one supporting Deni’s addicted son.
Secret: His ex-wife abused drugs and ruined their life together.
What makes them special? His ability to understand the psychological side of the situation and explain things to Deni so she could understand. And his ability to be logical about anything that came up and use it as a “change agent.”
4. The other supporting characters will be my son, August; his then girlfriend, Rachel; Counselor at Rehab Center; Anne Salter, an addiction therapist and perhaps other minor roles.
5. Genre is tough for me. It’s a Drama, but because I asked God how does a mother turn her back on her son? And, God answered me… I think it’s also Faith driven.
What I learned from this assignment is how important it is for us to understand the main character’s roles, and to clearly define them, so when we write our story each character has their own voice, purpose, and role and we understand where they are coming from psychologically and what motivates them.
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“What I learned doing this assignment is…? This exercise helped separate the main characters and look at how their worlds will be built and visually different. Also, it clarifies the motivation of the main characters and what they need along the way to help tell the story.
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Fighter – Daria is fueled by anger and grief as she takes on politicians and PACs.
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Villain – Senator of her state. Male incumbent for decades. ( MM from Kentucky type)
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: son, journalist, best friend, mother
Minor roles: co-worker, lawyer, secret supporter, lobbyist, constitutes
Background characters: Mixed types of extras to demonstrate the character’s change.
5. Genre.
Thriller – Political thriller
6. Lead character profiles.
Hero – Daria
Role in the story: mother, widow. Works at a large Hotel. Not sure about her job yet. Discovers that her child didn’t receive the care needed because of a local bill that should have passed, but dark money caused its defeat. It looked fishy, so she went deeper and started her journey.
Age range and Description: Early 30s. Attractive, physically strong from hard work, and knows what endurance is. Focused and disciplined almost militarily.
Internal Journey: From sitting on the sidelines and letting life happen to her to standing up for herself and others in the face of a Goliath.
External Journey: From working in the bowels of an expensive hotel, head down, she rises to protests as an activist and leader. Head up, voice raised.
Motivation: To be heard, counted, and to take the vote back to the people.
Wound: The loss of her husband by a random bullet when she was pregnant, and the loss of her son through the delinquent health care he needed are linked to politics and local government.
Mission/Agenda: To defeat Citizens United on a local level and stop the flow of money that doesn’t represent the voters.
Secret: She can’t forgive herself for failing her son.
What makes them special? She won’t give up. She is a voracious reader and remembers most of what she reads.
Villain – The senator
Role in the story: A career political, now senator, whose only skill is fundraising and saying the “right” thing to the “right” people with charm
Age range and Description: late 60s, attractive, focused, lawyer, ex-blue blood. Married and headed towards divorce.
Internal Journey: He’s confident and self-assured but soon is battling to hold on to the image he has carefully built.
External Journey: He starts in the cushioned life of a 3 -4 term senator knowing all the lobbyists and big funders. However, by the end of his journey, he is politically and personally defeated.
Motivation: To hold on to a senate seat and lifestyle that was bought and paid for by Dark Money
Wound: Looking for his father’s approval.
Mission/Agenda: Uphold Citizens United and the business of government and endless money for elections uninterrupted.
Secret: he has a pregnant mistress that is not yet 18. Time bomb!
What makes them special? His charm and legacy are his superpowers. He is also closely connected to the most powerful in money and politics.
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Tasha’s Character Profiles Part 1
Doing this assignment, I learned the following:
I really need to work on prioritizing being fast over being good (at this stage). It’s hard not to want to revise as you go along.
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Bethany
Role in the story: Victim/Dreamer.
A wonderful girl that misses out on love due to the meddling forces of her church and a demon that once possessed her. Despite the stigma of her past possession, she changes her dating tactics with the hope of make a lasting connection with someone special.
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Priest Anders
Role in the story: Villain
Actively blocks Bethany from dating because he believes that her past possession means that God has deemed her unworthy of love. Also is able to keep her tied to the demon.
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters:
Brad, the love interest who isn’t intimidated by Bethany’s past…yet.
Demon 23, the demon that possessed Bethany who’s starting to realize that maybe it didn’t actually want her soul but her devotion/love instead
Minor Roles: Other suitors, foster children
Background characters: Church congregation
5. Pick your genre.
Comedy
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Bethany
Role in the story: Can’t find love due to her past possession but still hopes she’ll meet someone
Age range and Description: 28
Internal Journey: Goes from lonely, fearful, spiritual victim and loveless/unlovable to spiritually strong, aware, self-love
External Journey: Goes from misguided by priest, demon attachment and striking out in love to in charge of her spiritual health, kicking the demon to the curve and finding love after learning to love herself
Motivation: She wants her first boyfriend
Wound: She was abandoned by her family and feels unloved
Mission/Agenda: To brave world of blind/online dating and find a guy
Secret: She was possessed by a demon and it’s still around
What makes them special? Due to her family’s abandonment, she has dedicated her life to making foster kids feel loved
Deacon Anders
Role in the story: The Deacon who exorcized Bethany and now thinks it’s his God-given mission to protect God’s children from her vulnerability to the corruptive forces of evil by controlling her and keeping her attached to her demon.
Age range and Description: 72
Internal Journey: Goes from righteousness, blind belief, absolute assuredness to fearfulness and compliance
External Journey: Goes from exerting a controlling and manipulative influence over Bethany to agreeing to leave her alone and help free her of demonic attachment
Motivation: To fight evil in the name of God
Wound: Hasn’t been allowed to climb the ranks of religious hierarchy
Mission/Agenda: To be recognized for the exorcism and management of a demon so he can be promoted to Priest
Secret: He was once possessed himself
What makes them special? He is very good at manipulating Bethany and making her think he actually loves and cares about her
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H. Vince’s Character Profiles Part 1
The 30-Day Screenplay – 2023
Lesson 2: Who Are We Traveling With?
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
Keeping it to the point of who the protagonist and antagonist are and how they fit in the story.
Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Victim: The audience is taken through the life Victor currently has until he is kidnapped and forced to see the truth of his life from Day One. Victor didn’t ask for this but turns out he’s glad his life has more meaning.
Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Authority: Donna: Victor’s Mom. She’s been assigned to keep watch over him his whole life. She’s given Victor the impression his whole life that she’s his birth mother until Victor finds out the truth.
What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: One of Victor’s close homies and his girlfriend. They give Victor peace of mind and support.
A female helping Victor that he will later find out is his sister.
A mechanic that causes Victor to be cancelled.
Minor roles:
Jeremy, a friend of Victor’s that has a party at his house.
Some randoms that point out Victor as one that got cancelled and try to get a pic of him.
Some rich kids he’s cool with
Background characters:
Fast food workers
People at the beach
People at his job
Some rich kids
Other extras
Pick your genre:
Sci-Fi
Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles:
VICTOR
Role in the story: Protagonist
Age range and Description: Around 18
Internal Journey: Goes from feeling lost to having more purpose.
External Journey: Goes from thinking his life is just average to realizing he was chosen.
Motivation: He is shown some truth about his life that makes him want to know more
Wound: Doesn’t have a dad
Mission/Agenda: Get back to the present and help
Secret: Has a girlfriend
What makes them special? He was conceived inside a mother that was altered
DONNA
Role in the story: Antagonist/Victor’s Mom, been keeping the truth from Victor his whole life
Age range and Description: Late 30s or 40s
Internal Journey: Coping with the fact that she is a liar
External Journey: Has been putting on a front, keeping a lie acting like she is someone Victor can trust into someone Victor can’t trust any longer.
Motivation: Fear of people above her
Wound: Started out she was on a job/mission but grew attached to Victor as if he were her real son since she was obligated to him and wasn’t allowed to have her own family.
Mission/Agenda: To keep watch over Victor
Secret: Became a mother of Victor since he was a baby when he was supposed to be aborted
What makes them special? Not everyday someone gets to be the mom of someone who will grow up to be important
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What I learned: the dynamics of the protagonist and antagonist and how it is important to flesh out both. Obviously, we need to know this information from the main character, however, it’s important to know the “villain” as more than just a bad guy. There’s reason, motivation, and history that pushes them to be the way they are. The most interesting Villains I’ve liked (The Joker, Regina George, Killmonger) all had reasons that were understandable, but didn’t justify their actions.
Protagonists
Michelle Hamwell
Role in the story: Victim- used by husband as fall guy for his crimes, and must defend herself or she will die.
Age Range: Early 30s, in-shape, trophy wife type,
Internal Journey: From meek, helpless, passive to confident, dangerous, and headstrong to go against her husband and his minions.
External Journey: She goes from sub- par boxing class student to trained fighter to take gain power and fight against her husband to defend herself from his punishment.
Motivation: If she doesn’t defend herself then she would be the target of her husband’s enemies and would die.
Wound: The betrayal of her husband. He was the first family member she trusted due to her family’s crazy life.
Mission: to learn the skills to prove her innocence by getting a confession or information from her husband.
Secret: Her “trophy wife” connections to people who can help her.
What makes her special: her ability to persevere in a life or death situation.
Antagonist
Brad Hamwell
Role in the story: Predator, used wife and her resources to gain notoriety, and then planted evidence on her to be the target.
Age Range, Early 30 year old forever frat boy in a business suit.
Internal Journey: From cold- hearted husband to a husband who wants to hide his true feelings for the sake of his goals.
External Journey: From promising gang leader to the joke of the gang.
Motivation: He broke the “rules” of the gang and blamed it on his wife. He needs her dead to save himself.
Wound: A need to prove himself and belong.
Secret: Who is really afraid of.
What makes him special? His ability to manipulate others to do what he wants.
Supporting characters: gang members, cops, and family.
Genera: Action
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1. What I learned doing this assignment is that each role in the screenplay follows a certain dynamic of archetypes including the story itself. Typically in the form of an individual person, but in some cases can be the environment or challenges themselves. For example, I’m not sure my story has a defined antagonist in the “human” sense, unless a character can be both the protagonist and antagonist simultaneously.
2. My character is going to follow the Fighter/Hero Archetype progressively. We are going to go from him having to fight his demons, and his limitations to ultimately fulfilling his goals and finding love in all forms, then becoming the Hero. His transformational journey is one that requires him to wear many hats including:
3. The Change Agent: which will be our hero character as well, not only his beliefs but also his body working against him to hinder him from reaching his goals. I may add in a rival of some sort, but I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary. Society (or society’s view of our character) can be the true antagonist. Obviously having to change the destructive behaviors is beating our “villain” however, as I stated in the “What I learned” section, it doesn’t have to necessarily be a physical person who serves as the antagonist (right?)
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters:
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The Friend: (who kills himself and sparks the journey)
The Waitress: (possible love interest, who works at his favorite diner)
The Kids: (who he has become estranged from)
The Ex: (who is disappointed in the man she used to love and father of her children)
The Support Group: (this is where he meets other people to inspire him)
The Training Group: (these are the people who help him meet his goals)I am still playing with the idea of a love interest. I think it can play one of three ways. One as the unrequited love of his current situation that ultimately isn’t THE one anyway. One as a friend/acquaintance that has always loved him even before he went through his transformation; Or one as his ex-wife who he wishes he could have back (and won’t get) similar to the first one. Or some combination of the three.
As far as the “Group” characters they will be fleshed out more.5. I know it’s not listed, but this will be more of a Dramedy (Drama/Comedy).
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6. Jake (mid 40s) overweight, depressed, anxious, lonely. Decides to make a change. We follow his journey.
The rest of the cast will be supporting except for maybe the Waitress.
I do need to flesh out the character arcs for the supporting cast.</div></div>
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1. The Hero Dona Gracia is an ambitious young lady who decides to use her vast fortune to take on the Inquistion persecuting the conversos.
2. The Villain is Brianda who is jealous of her sister and who will do everything in her power to get her part of the inheritance.
3. There will be supporting characters and minor roles
4. My genre is a Historical Drama
5. Lead character profile
· My Protagonist will not let the Inquisition persecute the Conversos
· She is in her mid-twenties. Not as attractive as her sister Brianda
· Internal Journey
She transforms form a woman leading a rich an opulent normal life to a woman of conviction that protects and fights for the rights of Conversos like her: people that were forced to convert from Judaism to Christianity by the Inquisition.
· External Journey
She uses her merchant fleet to help Conversos that are being persecuted by the Inquisition find refuge in safer shores within the Ottoman empire.
· Motivation: repair an injustice
· Wound: as a kid she saw auto-da-fe’s where Conversos were burnt as heretics.
· Mission/Agenda: bring the persecuted Conversos to safe land in the Ottoman empire.
· Secret: to create a homeland for the Conversos one day
· What makes her special: ability to identify and undo plots.
6. What I learned doing this assignment is what is the role of the Antagonist and Protagonist and how they will fulfill that role.
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Character Profiles Part 1
Protagonist Type – Runner
Antagonist Type – Villain
Genre – Drama
Protagonist (Tony)
Role in Story – Runner. Tony is running from his past and running smack dab right into it when he needs to return home for a funeral.
Age/Description – Male, 30s, Very polished and confident on the outside, but has a shy and nervous side that leaks out
Internal Journey – From hiding and being haunted by his past and his family to confronting it and accepting it as part of what has molded him into what he is today
External Journey – From being the “next big thing” to doing what makes him happy regardless of how it impacts his career success
Motivation – Corporate success
Wound – Losing his father at an early age, decision he made in the past
Mission/Agenda – To somehow save BOTH his friend Michael from paying for their past decision and his mentor/boss Skip from going to jail
Secret – Tony and Michael killed a man
What makes them special? – Tony is a caring, but flawed person
Antagonist (Uncle Francis)
Role in Story – Villain. Francis is Tony’s Uncle and runs the the family’s corrupt business.
Age/Description – Male, 60s, Arrogant, head of the family since his brother (Tony’s Dad) was killed
Internal Journey – No real journey
External Journey – From being “the Don” to ending up in jail
Motivation – Corporate success
Wound – Not having Tony be one of his minions
Mission/Agenda – To protect himself and to make Tony come into the family fold
Secret – Francis helped get rid of a young boy who say Tony and Michael kill a man
What makes them special? – Although he is a brutal tyrant, family is the most important things to him
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Pryor – Lesson 2: Who Are We Traveling With
What I learned: details are important! They can be the foundation of your story.
Vision: To tell one story of how two people learn to hold “the impossible” before and after death.
Genre: Drama (love story)
Character Profiles
Role in the story;
JP – the lead
The Type of protagonist: the explorer and the change agent
She pushes the boundaries of traditional, mainstream knowledge as it pertains to the physical, concrete reality.
(The antagonist is mainstream thinking/society, skeptical at best.)
She has secrets. The most controversial being her psychic abilities. She’s private because tis allows her to protect herself. There’s a lot she doesn’t talk about and she’s verbally adept at deflection. She has a surgical sense of dry humor and sarcasm.
Age Range & Description
Hard to tell how old she is-early forties to sixty! Her small size is an essential part of her identity. Middle age spread is represented by going from a size 2 to a size 4 to a size 6, but nobody believes she’s that large! She has a perfect third world face often mistaken for Latino, Native, Black, Southeast Asian!
Internal Journey:
from feeling unconfident and unworthy to secure and self assured
External Journey:
from introverted and sarcastic to relaxed, funny; she smiles more!
Motivation:
to be loved and accepted by the right person who’s not afraid of her
Wound:
rejection in early childhood, she’s not worth anything
Mission/Agenda:
to find a way to be accepted for all of who she is
Secret:
she’s a “caul bearer: to the core, she can see and hear dead people, she’s clairvoyant, a watcher, and she knows the true intent of people.
Role in story:
TC – love interest/lead, catalyst/trigger for JP
He’s handsome, appears confident, does classified work for the government, has two sisters and a younger brother and is always the diplomat. He has his limits and can turn on you in a flash if he believes you’re a threat to someone or something he cares about.
Age Range & Description:
He could be forty or sixty! Tall, six feet, solid, athletic build, a very handsome man. He has the type of looks that make women stop and look and make men feel inferior.
Internal Journey:
from believing he’s less than and insecure to knowing he has a right to go after who or what he wants.
External Journal:
from hesitating to go after what he wants to making the necessary moves to secure what he wants.
Motivation:
to be loved by an extraordinary, intelligent woman who has something unique about her that he can be proud of; someone who doesn’t see him as a meal ticket to a better life! He’s searching for someone who wants him for who he is.
Wound:
Having been made to feel “less than” as a child and young man, he set out to defy expectations personally and professionally.
Mission:
to find the right woman to enjoy life with and who will need him and not his money or other material markers; to find someone he can comfortably share things with and learn with.
Secret:
This growing fear that he’s going to die soon.
What makes him special:
His kindness, joy of life, and passion, including his love for sailing.
Other Characters:
Supporting Characters –
Christine, long time friend from prep school, a medical doctor, specializes in neurology, going through the initial stages of divorce, two daughters. Christine is voice of the skeptical protagonist.
Carole – TG’s sister, who watches over him like a hawk! Thinks she knows everything about his life, especially the women he’s seeing. She’s very possessive.
Lucinda, long time housekeeper and protector of JP. She watches over JP and knows there’s something different about her. Lucinda has the best understanding of the scope of JP’s accomplishments.
Minor Roles
Cousin Kae – who knows JP’s secrets and how these abilities run in their family.
Betty – the voice of doubt and suspicion regarding JP. Betty “knows” there’s “something wrong with this girl!”
Wally – clerk at Zabar’s who always takes care of JP’s orders because she helped his sister-in-law attain citizenship
Todd and Jason – The doormen: Jason is JP’s doorman and Todd is TC’s doorman
Cab Driver – He’s got one or two lines!
Coast Guard(s) – one dream scene
Background Characters – street scenes, etc.
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Chuck Czech’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned — You can cover a lot of creative ground by starting simply and defining the basics of your main characters; these decisions have already shaped the story. Also, I was pleased to see that under this framework, the Science Fiction genre doesn’t necessarily have to have an embodied Antagonist.
Protagonist Role
Ronan Cambridge (20s) is a Runner and Fighter. He escapes a devastating lab explosion with a deadly organism in his car’s trunk; he can’t let the organism escape, so he drives endlessly, quietly keeping the world safe; in the end he uses his knowledge of the organism to defeat it.
Antagonist Role
Brendan Rideout (30s) is an Authority figure who oversaw the security of the failed multiverse experiment; he tracks down Ronan on his endless journey and tries to take over the caretaking of the organism; competes with Ronan over how to handle the problem.
Supporting characters:
Paulina Merritt (30s) is on the team of scientists probing the multiverse; with Brendan, she tracks down Ronan and tries to formulate a plan; recipient of Ronan’s admiration.
Dr Cambridge, Sr (60s) — Main character’s father; dies during the lab explosion; kept the main character under his wing throughout his life.
Minor roles:
Mechanic — friendly mechanic who changes Ronan’s oil every 3500 miles; Ronan’s only consistent human contact
State Trooper — pulls over Ronan, which is a threat to the one-hour limit of being stationary
Background characters:
Research Team — group of scientists trying to penetrate the borders of the multiverse; they perish in the lab explosion.
Genre
Sci-Fi
Lead Character Profile: Ronan Cambridge
Role in the story:
Hero/runner — autistic lab assistant with limited social abilities; after the lab catastrophe, his straightforward interpretation of a solution is to simply drive away and not stop; he didn’t imagine an endgame.
Age range and Description
Male, 20s, appears lean and haggard since he spends most of his time behind the wheel; he does his best with limited opportunities to keep himself properly groomed. His life on the road is punctuated with one-hour stops that allow him to eat, wash, buy clothes, sleep, etc.
Internal Journey
Ronan starts in a state of rejection and isolation; he learns to function within a group, and eventually takes on a leadership role.
External Journey
For three years, Ronan is trapped with the responsibility of keeping the monster at bay; as the story unfolds, he becomes part of a team, and he eventually takes charge to kill the organism
Motivation
Preserve the world
Wound
Was assaulted as a child causing his father to be overprotective in raising him.
Mission/Agenda
Ronan’s first and only instinct is to run away; by keeping the organism in constant motion (apart from his periodic one-hour stops) he’s able to keep it from destroying the world — an epic agenda, although it means he’s trapped on an endless road trip.
Secret
He has a companion on his journey — a small lizard who joined him while in the desert.
What makes them special?
He’s unnaturally dedicated to carrying out a plan. Also, he’s astute at reading emotions; no one can mask their true self.
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Renee’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned… I love this ridiculous story. It still makes me laugh. I do see where I need to amp it up. Great class!
Protag – Angel – Runner – if skirt chasing was a profession this guy puts in overtime. He got himself in too deep staring at Hot Wife in her bikini and ends up ducking buckshot from a very jealous Oil Baron. Now he’s on the run. Good Luck, Angel.
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
I have 2 Antagonists
Antag 1 – Oil Baron – Villain – So jealous of anyone looking at his Hot Wife that he loses control of himself. The more side Characters stir the pot the more He keeps the chase going.
Antag 2 – The Enigma – Change Agent – He’s so smooth and brilliant – What a fucking hustler. Always on top of the game, because it is only a game to him. Who the fuck is he anyway?
4. Other characters
Supporting characters: Hot Wife, Snarky Housekeeper at mansion,
Enigma’s friends at trailer park
Minor roles: Naïve Maid,
trailer park residents
Background characters: Trailer
park residents5. Genre.
Rom-Com or Buddy Movie – I have
a Comedy Farce. I get that it’s a
tough sell but I believe I have a good handle on it. WTF do I have to lose?Running behind . will post what I have
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Iliona’s Character Profiles Part 1
“What I learned doing this assignment is to go deeper in the ways I am approaching the character and antagonist. I am so confident this is going to be extremely helpful moving forward.”
Type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role:
Jared starts as a RUNNER and he will evolve as a fighter.
At the beginning he runs away from the responsibilities of paying his debts, runs away from the problems in his mariage that led to his divorce. He blames everything and everyone for the way his life turned out and for his unhappiness and he runs away from every challenge that comes its way. He evens wants to run away from his own life. Pessimistic, he always see the glass half empty.
He will then become a FIGHTER when he’ll be challenged by the antagonist. He’ll find strenght he didn’t even know he had in him. He will rise and succeed to all the challenges that come his way.
Type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role:
The African witch is a CHANGE AGENT. Through the spell she puts on him, she will cause a drastic change to Jared’s life by challenging him, guiding him and lead him be in charge of his own happiness and life.
What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: Wife, Daughter, Best friends
Minor roles: Co workers, debt creditors
Pick your genre: Comedy/fantasy
Part 1 of Character Profiles:
JARED
Role in the story: Runner/Fighter. A drowning in debts car seller that lost his wife, daughter and job sees himself as a victim and blames everything and everyone for his unhappiness. <div>Age range and Description: Male, Late 30’s, early 40’s, could be good looking if he cared about his appearance and was taking care of himself
Internal Journey: From feeling helpless, lost and unhappy to being fulfilled, grateful and finding true happiness
External Journey: From being broke, self-centered, pessimistic to becoming rich, generous, caring and an extrovert
Motivation: He wants to be rich and respected and needs love
Wound: Gave up on being himself and any original idea he had or new endeavors he ever started because he’s been hurt, humiliated and mocked by friends and coworkers and their negativity affected him since his childhood
Mission/Agenda: Impress everyone with his money and attract all the attention hoping to get respect and love
Secret: He’s hiding the fact that he’s trying to find another black magic witch to change the spell so he can keep the money without the curse
What makes him special? He has a good heart and has real greatness in him despite some stupids actions he sometimes does or the fact he doesn’t see it. He’s capable of impacting people’s life in a good way.
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THE AFRICAN WITCH
Role in the story: Change agent </div><div>Age range and Description: Black female, 50’s, african accent
Internal Journey: From being disappointed by him to being proud
External Journey: From being passive to being manipulative for his own good
Motivation: Help him create a break through
Wound: Disappointed by people that give up and are living beyond their full potential
Mission/Agenda: Help him find his path and find happiness. Show him his lack of money wasn’t the main issue in his life
Secret: She is Jared’s gardian angel and changes into different people if need be. She makes him believe he or his daughter will die to push him to become brave and be the wonderful person he was meant to be
What makes them special? Her magical superpowers, she’s beyond human
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