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Module 1 – Lesson 5: Depth of Emotions
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Assignment #1 – AHS Character Emotions
VIVIEN PROFILE
A. Hope: To trust her husband/Believe in her marriage again / Fear: Losing another pregnancy
B. Want: Sell the Murder House / Need: Feel in control of her life
C. Base Negative Emotion: Empty and Sad / Public Mask: Stoic
D. Weaknesses: Emotionally disconnected
E. Triggers: Betrayal / Loss of control
F. Coping Mechanisms: Denial / Isolates
BEN PROFILE
A. Hope: To be a happy family man / Fear: Losing his family
B. Want: Feel safety and warmth of a home / Need: Validation from Vivien
C. Base Negative Emotion: Shame / Public Mask: Confident Therapist
D. Weaknesses: Lack of self control and personal accountability
E. Triggers: Feeling unwanted or unneeded
F. Coping Mechanism: Cheats on wife / Self-pity
VIOLET PROFILE
A. Hope: Escape her pain / Fear: the unknown… new city… new house… new people
B. Want: Acceptance / Need: Be seen and loved
C. Base Negative Emotion: Lacks self-confidence, Anger / Mask: Too cool to care
D. Weaknesses: Depressed, Anxious
E. Triggers: Disrespect / Unjust Treatment
F. Coping Mechanism: Fights / Self-harm
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Assignment #2 – Devil’s 8 Character Emotions
What I learned doing this assignment is the amount of consideration that needs to go into building the depth of the character’s emotions and how all of the traits of a character will play off one another. There has to be rhyme and reason so that the character’s actions will make sense.
GREGG PROFILE
A. Hope: To get his wife and daughter back / Fear: His daughter’s dead and wife doesn’t love him anymore.
B. Want: To discover and understand his purpose in life / Need: Find his personal connection with God
C. Base Negative Emotion: Self-Loathing / Public Mask: Saint
D. Weaknesses: Trouble asking for help / Impatient / Stubborn
E. Triggers: Criticism / Perception of being abandoned / Rejection
F. Coping Mechanism: Has to fix everyone else’s problems
POE PROFILE
A. Hope: To be the best at what she does / Fear: Being alone
B. Want: To believe in a higher power / Need: Respect
C. Base Negative Emotion: Emotional neglect / Public Mask: The Boss
D. Weaknesses: Problems maintaining personal relationships / Trust issues
E. Triggers: Disrespect / Isolation
F. Coping Mechanism: Battle all opposition
MAREESHA PROFILE
A. Hope: Reunite with her mother / Fear: Giving birth to a monster
B. Want: Revenge against those who have hurt her and her family / Need: Stability and love
C. Base Negative Emotion: Anxiety / Public Mask: Sedate
D. Weaknesses: Self-Deception
E. Triggers: Fear of change / Uncertainty
F. Coping Mechanism: Plots against perceived threats
ADAM PROFILE
A. Hope: Become God’s equal / Fear: Death
B. Want: Control and be worshipped by an army of adoring followers / Need: Forgiveness
C. Base Negative Emotion: Pride / Public Mask: God
D. Weaknesses: Desires control over others / Competitive
E. Triggers: Being ignored / Loss of control
F. Coping Mechanism: Manipulation
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Assignment 1: Example Show: Scandal
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</font>A. Situational: Hope: solve her client’s problems / Fear: losing a case
B. Motivation: Want: protect her client / Need: to know the truth
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: wants to be loved / Public Mask: poised and strong hero
D. Weaknesses: allowing the president to manipulate her emotionally
E. Triggers: being questioned and doubted
F. Coping Mechanism: constantly strategizing next move, impulsive, won’t take time to regroup
Cyrus
A. Situational: Hope: get an upper hand / Fear: he will be undermined
B. Motivation: Want: power over people and things / Need: control
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: rage / Public Mask: strategizer
D. Weaknesses: he is puts the office over people
E. Triggers: anyone getting in the way of the overall goal
F. Coping Mechanism: retreats then attacks
Assignment 2: Your Show
What I learned in this assignment is that in order to create characters with depth and layers, you have to understand so many different parts of their being. These things drive their actions, reactions, motivations, wants and needs.
1. For each of your main characters, brainstorm an Emotional Profile, filling in the following:
The Mayor
A. Situational: Hope: avenge those black people whose land was stolen / Fear: getting caught
B. Motivation: Want: help people / Need: create her own persona
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: resentment / Public Mask: hero
D. Weaknesses: inexperience in politics/tunnel visioned
E. Triggers: being questioned and doubted
F. Coping Mechanism: constantly strategizing next move, impulsive, won’t take time to regroup
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Her Father
A. Situational: Hope: use politics to expand family’s empire Fear: he will lose everything like his father did
B. Motivation: Want: power in politics / Need: secure his fortune
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: fear, rage / Public Mask: confident leader
D. Weaknesses: hurts people he cares about
E. Triggers: disobedience
F. Coping Mechanism: retreats then attacks
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>The City Manager
A. Situational: Hope: fix the city’s bad financial status Fear: people are working against her
B. Motivation: Want: follow the letter of the law / Need: build relationships
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: inadequate / Public Mask: organized/detailedD. Weaknesses: prideful
E. Triggers: being lied to
F. Coping Mechanism: obsesses over details
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>The Assistant
A. Situational: Hope: find some dirt on the new mayor that will get her ousted bc she supports the old mayor / Fear: betraying the old mayor
B. Motivation: Want: to be liked / Need: seen a valuable
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: weak / Public Mask: team player
D. Weaknesses: loyal to a fault (to old regimes)
E. Triggers: being overlookedF. Coping Mechanism: blackmail
Old Mayor
A. Situational: Hope: show the new mayor’s incompetence and regain power / Fear: the city is changing to the point where he can’t get back in power
B. Motivation: Want: keep things the same / Need: control
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: insatiable greed / Public Mask: keeper of tradition
D. Weaknesses: stuck in the past
E. Triggers: not getting their way
F. Coping Mechanism: sabotage
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Council Person
A. Situational: Hope: manipulate the new mayor into doing their bidding / Fear: they will lose the support and money of local, powerful business people
B. Motivation: Want: keep their actions hidden / Need: seen as powerful
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: selfish / Public Mask: public servant
D. Weaknesses: poor decision maker
E. Triggers: being doubted / laughed at
F. Coping Mechanism: blames others
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Cousin
A. Situational: Hope: to leverage this position for upward mobility / Fear: won’t be taken seriously/can’t get out of her shadow bc he is related to the mayor
B. Motivation: Want: attention / Need: acceptance
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: jealousy / Public Mask: supporter
D. Weaknesses: uses people
E. Triggers: being micromanaged
F. Coping Mechanism: distract
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