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Lesson 1
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Title="Timothy’s Rom Com Project"
What I learned from doing this assignment is that characters’ personalities are a result of their life experiences; both current and in the past. And, there is a primary storyline that brings the characters together. Each character also has their own storyline occurring within the larger storyline. Our goal is to connect all these storylines in a satisfying ending that leaves the viewer happy.
• Two People Who Belong Together: Bonnie has two focuses in her life, work and her nine-year-old Charlie, and feels guilty when she focuses on one over the other. Luke is a good-old-boy college dropout living in his brother’s shadow at the company he works for.
• How Are They Separated: Bonnie’s employer expects her to promote healthy eating and lifestyle. Luke promotes big burgers and fries as Bigger Burger Guy in the ads.
• What Forces Them together: Luke is the one-millionth customer at Good4You Foods and won the spot as company spokesman in ads for one-year. Charlie idolizes Bigger Burger Guy on the commercials, and is excited when Bonnie is ordered to convince Luke to give up the ad spot if she wants that promotion.
• Issues to be Resolved: Bonnie has issues with muscular men like her ex-husband who left Charlie and her. She looks at Luke as a rich, spoiled frat-boy who never had to work. Luke was burned when his ex-fiancée left him for his best friend the doctor. Now, he has to trust Bonnie who is so work-focused, she never takes time for fun with her own son.
• On Their Journey of Love: Charlie runs away from school to the park across town where the three picnicked. At the studio where Bigger Burger is filming an ad, Luke hears that Charlie is missing and runs to help find him, still in costume. Bonnie is getting her big promotion at last when she hears Charlie has left school, so she dashes out.
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• Experience of Falling In Love: Bonnie and Luke notice their differences compliment the other’s needs.• The Journey of Love: Bonnie notices Luke isn’t self-conceited by the way Luke treats Charlie and he cares about others. Luke finds Bonnie works so hard so that she and Charlie can buy a house with a yard and get a dog.
• Relationship Set-up: When Luke and Bonnie first meet, Charlie recognizes Luke as Bigger Burger Guy and thinks he is in disguise. Luke goes along with the story s Charlie isn’t disappointed.
• Issues each must Resolve: Bonnie believes all body-builders are only concerned about themselves and will disappoint you. Luke believes upwardly mobile women will dispose of you once you are no longer useful to them.
• Separation: Luke is called back to his grandparents’ farm who raised he and his brother when grandfather has a bad accident.
• How will Comedy be Expressed: Bonnie believes clothes make the man, or woman, and always tries to dress accordingly. Luke grew up on a farm and is more comfortable in jeans and flannel. Bonnie has her MBA, while Luke claims he graduated from the school of Hard Knocks.
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I love the storyline and your explanation of what you learned. Something for you to think about: Bonne, Blake, Bigger Burger – all begin with the letter B. My first screenplay had most of the characters begin with the same letter or letter sound. It was the first comment in my judge evaluation. I tend to select my characters the same way. I now have an alphabet chart, and I write my character names using the letters of the alphabet. I spend a day working on the character names—something for you to ponder.
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Thank you, Mary. Good advice about too many names sharing the same first letter. Should have caught that one. 😁
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Mary Buchanan: RomCom Project Lesson 1
I forgot this course was about “comedy” and I worked all month on a beautiful romance story. Today, I picked up another manuscript I tried to finish but failed to finish. I may have to start over with a new plan. I learned that my original purpose for Margo, one of the three main characters in the Madison County Series, may be more challenging to create. Margo may need to be more rounded as a character. I learned the conventions of romcom and how tracking ideas may lead the writer down a different path because the original purpose may be too narrow to allow for creativity.
This scenario is book 5 of the Madison County Series.
Lesson I
1. Create a Concept:
Two People Who Belong Together: Margo, a 45ish real estate broker who has never been married, and Tony, an attractive FBI agent (she met in book 1), meet again at the wedding of Margo’s best friend. Tony and Margo dance all night at the reception and promise to call her. Due to career travel, Tony does not call. The two meet again when Margo is framed for a Ponzi scheme. The original crime was solved in Book 3 but the financial advisor sent to prison has framed Margo for the original crime and has created false evidence.
How Are They Separated: Both are career-minded. Tony travels most of the time. He is the investigator for the new case. When the criminal’s second personality speaks on the witness stand, Tony realizes the truth. Tony has personal relationship issues because his first love chose the rich man over him. He has commitment issues for fear of rejection.
Margo can not forgive Tony for believing she committed the crime. She has to accept she is unhappy and lonely as a single woman.
What Forces Them Together: A con artist tries to trap Margo in a real estate situation. Tony is called to help another real estate firm involved, and he travels to Madison to meet with Margo, who doesn’t know he is coming.
The courtroom segment forces Tony to see the truth, but Margo hates him after she is cleared. He wants to move to Madison to live. She refuses to sell him a home.
A Category 4 hurricane blows through Madison County and destroys the land. Tony hears that 2,000 body bags have been ordered for the tri-county area where Madison is located.
The night the storm passes through reminds everyone of the value of life and how lucky they are to be alive.
Issues to be Resolved: After the hurricane, Tony rents a helicopter to get to Margo to see if she is alive. Tony has to take a chance on love and trust Margo will not leave him.
Margo has to forgive Tony for thinking she was a criminal and believe in herself
On Their Journey of Love: Margo lost most of her money in the original Ponzi scheme in Book 1. She is constantly facing a begin-again process in her work, finances, and relationship with men. (She lost her first real boyfriend in Book 3.) She was the key witness in the first crime. She helped the FBI last year. Now, they are not believing her side of the new situation.
2. Conventions:
Experience of Falling In Love: Margo is frustrated because Tony has not called. She receives a letter from the FBI the informs her she is under investigation of a crime. She discovers Tony is the investigator assigned to the case.
The Journey of Love: Tony has a job to do, and he is shocked that Margo is accused, but the evidence is strong that Margo was a co-conspirator in the Ponzi scheme.
Margo stresses because her life is in turmoil again. She has lost all of money and not she will lose what she has saved to pay attorney expenses.
Margo has another con artist situation that she must face from a different group other than the Ponzi scheme.
Her two friends stand by her.
Relationship Set-up: The framing scheme does not work when the criminal shows his second personality and confesses that he is the mastermind of the first crime. However, it’s too late for Margo to salvage her relationship with Tony. She never wants to see Tony again. He feels terrible but decides it’s best he forgets Margo because he believed the evidence and not her. He realizes she will not give him a second chance.
Issues Each Must Resolve: Margo and Tony’s fears of commitment and rejection. Their lack of trust in themselves and others. It’s not bad luck. Life has many challenges.
Separation: The hurricane arrives and both believe they may die. When Tony can not get to Margo, he disobeys the boss and hires a helicopter and flies to Madison County to find her. The damage is horrific, and he has to search in several places and finds her at her friend’s farmhouse. She doesn’t want to face any more challenges alone.
How will Comedy be Expressed: Margo can not cook and she wants to learn because Tony is Italian. His mom is a great cook. Margo’s two best friends possess fabulous culinary skills and try to teach Margo to be successful in the kitchen. The first department is called often to save Margo’s house from a kitchen fire. She has many culinary catastrophes throughout the book. It’s so bad that she always brings the rolls to the friends’ gatherings.Note: The Madison County Series is about three best friends who have settled in Madison County after living in other states for 25 years away. Two have successful marriages and want Margo to be happy. They tend to interfere and “help” her along the way, especially in the love department.
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Madeleine’s Rom Com Project
What I learned doing this assignment is… brainstorming around romantic comedy conventions and the seven steps of romantic love equals a concept that will map the story.”
Concept:
A charismatic stranger, whose fancy car breaks down in a remote Nevada town, quickly becomes entangled with a goodhearted miner’s daughter, sparking distrust, tomfoolery, and love as his mysterious past comes to light.Conventions:
Two People Who Belong Together: A sophisticated San Diego marine architect, who has lost his business because of the crooked dealings of his partner, is drifting to he doesn’t care where. A goodhearted woman, stuck in a small Nevada town helping to support her parents, longs for the day when she can spread her wings and adventure into the wider world.
What Forces Them Together.
When his car breaks down out in the middle of the Nevada desert, he is forced to accept a tow into the small town where she lives and forced to take lodging with her family and go to work for her father as a gold and silver miner. They work together doing assessment on various mining claims during the summer.How Are They Separated:
They are separated when he is arrested for the murder of his partner and taken back to San Diego where the crime took place.Issues to be Resolved:
From the get-go, she suspects him of being a criminal looking for a place to hide out. When he is arrested, her worst fears are confirmed. In her eyes, he’s just another crook.From the beginning, he looks down on her as a country bumpkin.
On Their Journey of Love:
Step by step, she comes to know his goodness and honesty, and he comes to respect her intelligence and talents, which she already is sharing with the wider world.Experience of Falling In Love:
They fall in love while living and working together. She puts ointment on his blisters. He protects her from a couple of creeps out to do her harm.The Journey of Love:
He falls for her when he realizes her kindness is genuine. She falls for him when he puts himself between her and two criminals out to do her wrong.Relationship Set-up:
Her family gives him lodging and temporary work while his car is being repaired.
He and she live and work side-by-sideIssues each must Resolve:
She suspects he’s a criminal hiding from the law.
He thinks she’s a country bumpkin and somehow beneath him.Separation:
He is arrested and dragged away by law enforcement.How will Comedy be Expressed:
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Ola Höglund’s Romcom project
What I learned doing this assignment is that their issues have to be clearer and connect to the theme in a clear way that I haven’t nailed yet. Can’t formulate my theme yet.
Just want to declare that my English is not very good, coming from Sweden. So feel free to question what I really mean when I might use the wrong words, and please feel free to correct me, so I learn.
• Two People Who Belong Together:
Speechwriter Jasco and adoption agent (social worker/adoption case manager?) Henna both have given up hope finding the right one to marry and have kids with.
Jasco decides to try to adopt a child before he gets too old.
Henna decides to find a man that can give her a biological child, without having to live with the child’s father, since Henna is adopted herself and needs to feel that her child is her own blood.
Jasco and Henna share the same weird humour, curiosity, melancholy and specific chocolate taste.
Jasco misses his deceased mother who he loved watching when she was drawing. Henna is good at drawing too, but Jasco doesn’t know that until the climax scene. (Only we see that, in the very first frame showing Henna.)
Henna misses her deceased biological father who has written a wedding speech for her to be opened and read at her wedding. But she has already read the speech which has made her sure that she will never find that kind of love that her father describes in the speech. Jasco happens to be a speechwriter who often write wedding speeches. And Henna’s father’s speech is supposed to be read out loud by Henna’s husband at her wedding dinner…• How Are They Separated:
As a single man it’s a very small chance that you get to adopt a child on your own if the child is under 8 years old. Jasco wants to get an early connection with the child so it will feel like a real father-child relationship all the way. His goal is a kid around 1-2 years old. Your chances increase a lot if you are married. Fast track. So the couple that he shares an apartment with, Richard and Lara who also have become his best friends, are willing to help him. Lara pretends to be Jascos girlfriend and they plan to marry each other on paper to get through with the adoption, all three of them taking care of Jascos child as long as they share the same apartment.
Jasco and Henna first meet at the place where they are going on a hot air ballon tour above the beautiful landscape. Since the weather isn’t ready for lifting, they have to kill time in the village nearby until the weather is fine again. During these hours they get to know each other in a playful way until they get the message that there won’t be any lifting today, making them both long for the next chance to board the ballon, which will be one month from now. Little do they know each other’s occupations or adoption plans. So when Jasco and Lara turns up at the adoption agency they meet their case worker – Henna… In Hennas world that means Jasco is already taken and will marry Lara. 100% separation.
• What Forces Them together:
The adoption process makes them meet at different occasions. Especially when Henna has to do the usual workplace visit to see what Jascos work life is like from a child’s perspective. She does this unannounced when Jasco has his most important wedding speech assignment at a big expensive wedding with Lara and Richard as guests. This wedding becomes very complicated and romantic.
• Issues to be Resolved:
Jasco wants to fall in love and marry someone too much. Too eager. Too romantic. But now he has promised himself to give up his dream to not be disappointed anymore. He needs to learn to let go and let love come to him instead of him chasing love scaring it away. Fight or flight? He fights too much and loses everything. He will never go on a date again from now on.
Henna has this classic wall around her not letting any man get too close to her. Flirting is okay. But she ends up being friends with all men since no relationship will last. They all end sooner or later, so why not end it sooner. Fight or flight? She runs away as soon as it heats up and becomes too emotional. Her long runs with music in her ears closes out deep feelings. She needs to learn to fight and learn to lose in order to win.Can a romantic with married faithful parents be together with an anti-romantic with divorced parents? Can that relationship last forever? Only if you give it a chance.
• On Their Journey of Love:
Jasco risks losing both the adoption and Hennas love if/when he gets caught lying during the adoption process. Will Henna decide to give an adoption to Jasco or not?
• Concept:
After giving up the dream of finding the right one, speechwriter Jasco wants to adopt a one year old child, even though single men have little chance of doing that. He gets help from his buddy's girlfriend who pretends to be Jasco's future wife. But Jasco falls in love with Henna, the adoption agent, at the risk of being exposed as a fraud and losing both the adoption and Hennas love.
What if you are a single man, and pretend that you are in a relationship going through with a fake marriage in order to be able to adopt a child, only to fall in love with the adoption case manager who will decide if you are to be trusted to adopt or not?
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• Experience of Falling In Love:At their first meeting when they wait for a new balloon time slot they kill time by discovering the little village nearby and tries different glasses and different perfumes for each other, playing around and start giggling like they were in kindergarten, feeling that they just belong together with exactly the same humor, like coming home.
• The Journey of Love:
Jasco risks losing both the adoption and Hennas love if/when he gets caught lying during the adoption process. Will Henna decide to give an adoption to Jasco or not? Will she forgive him when she realizes who has been lying?
• Relationship Set-up:
Meet-Cute at the hot air balloon reception glancing at each other while waiting, and then they both walk straight over the dirt pile on their way outside the reception, both surprised that they are equally weird in doing so because they see the humour in that unnormal behaviour. That’s when they start talking.
• Issues each must Resolve:
Jasco needs to stop chasing things. Henna needs to stop running away from things.
• Separation:
First interview at the adoption centre.
• How will Comedy be Expressed:
Mostly within the situations where Jasco and his fake girlfriend Lara have to lie without being caught. Comedy of confusion and quick dialogue between Jasco and Henna. Plus Lara’s boyfriend Richard who is the comic relief character with all his strange and stupid ideas and arguments while being a lovable person only wanting the best for everyone. The one who wants to solve all problems, but only creates problems.
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What I learned doing this assignment is how the headings help with the clarity of the project. It’s still a work in progress but every time I come back to it, I can improve it.
Concept: How do two cynical 30 somethings, one Jewish Caucasian, the other a Polynesian Evangelist, believe true love exists when both have struck out over and over again?
Two People Who Belong Together: Ina and Dave both value family, have an elderly grandparent (mentors) and agree that true love doesn't exist. They are both righteous with a deep sense of justice.
Dave needs someone who is stable, loyal and honest. Ina needs someone who displays integrity and a deep love for her.How Are They Separated: They live on opposite sides of ‘the bridge’, in different religious and cultural worlds where they are expected to stay with ‘their own’, (Ina is Jewish Caucasian, amazing curly hair, Dave is Polynesian Evangelist, amazing tattoos). Ina thinks all men are narcissists. Dave thinks all women are free-loaders that won't accept responsibility for their actions.
What Forces Them together: Ina loses her driver’s license after multiple speeding offences, so her boss at the florist she works at, asks her nephew, Dave, a painter with a large van, to drive Ina and her deliveries. Dave stops for Ina to visit her grandad at his nursing home. They both spot an old garden in need of attention and decide to restore it. Ina wants it to be vibrant and natural. Dave wants it to be modern and functional.
Issues to be resolved: their ideas for the garden clash with both realising they don't trust each other. Ina – due to previous bad match-making dates. Dave – due to a series of dates which have left him feeling used. As they begin to grow closer and begin to enter each other's world, they discover many differences in their religious and cultural heritage (which has the comedy). Eventually, Ina sees Dave’s true self, a man of integrity who truly cares for her. Dave finally sees Ina take responsibility for her actions and that she is genuine, proving her love for him.
On Their Journey of Love: Dave drives Ina to deliver her flowers. He makes a stop so Ina can visit her granddad. Together they restore a rundown garden at the nursing home.
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Experience of Falling In Love: Ina and Dave are cynical about love due to their bad experiences. Meet-cute: in the hallway at a function centre, Ina is at her brother’s bar mitzvah, Dave is at his nephew's hair cutting. Ina is drunk, falls over, he catches her. They are physically attracted – for a moment, until Ina picks a fight.The Journey of Love: Ina is forced together with Dave as he drives her to deliveries and to the nursing home to see her granddad. Ina wants to restore an old garden, Dave offers to help in exchange for letting his grandma have some respite.
Relationship Set-up: Dave is pushed by his grandma to ask Ina to stay at a family event that they deliver flowers to.
Issues each must Resolve: Dave thinks women are free-loaders, dishonest. Ina thinks men are narcissists. Both think their worlds are too far apart to ever consider a relationship.
Separation: working on the nursing home garden, Dave overhears Ina telling her granddad their relationship can never work, their worlds are too different. Dave’s belief about women is confirmed – they are flakey, untrustworthy, take no responsibility. He leaves angry. Ina says Dave is being overly dramatic which is expected since all men are self-centred. She breaks a garden ornament which is of huge value to Dave.
How will Comedy be Expressed: Ina never takes responsibility for her actions eg her speeding fines were definitely not her fault. Dave’s grandma can’t see or hear well but says the most profound things. Ina’s best friend is in awe of Dave’s massive build and for someone who talks a lot, is speechless.
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Katie’s Rom Com Project
What I learned doing this assignment is how important it is to integrate the conventions of romcoms to guide decision making when it comes to setting up our stories.
CONCEPT ELEMENTS:
TWO PEOPLE WHO BELONG TOGETHER (similarities, shared values, chemistry, surprising shared background, or a deep need for what the other brings): Lara, a young woman (who’s taken over her dad’s NYC hop on-hop off bus tour business after his death and wants to honor her dad’s legacy by sticking to his vision) and Lars, a young man (who is feeling stunted while managing his mother’s canal tour business by her rules) find they share the same dream: to run their own business their own way.
HOW ARE THEY SEPARATED (something keeps them apart that they must overcome): Lara lives in NYC, Lars lives in Copenhagen. But more than that, her family business is acquiring his family business with plans to make significant changes, and it’s unclear whether Lars will be kept on after the takeover. Lars understandably feels distance and apprehension toward Lara at first and sets out to prove to her how good he is at his job. And Lara feels sympathetic to Lars’s situation, but needs to assess how he’s managing the business in order to make her decision about whether to keep him on or not.
WHAT FORCES THEM TOGETHER (an external situation or party that keeps them together long enough to build a relationship): Lara comes to Copenhagen to acquire the canal tour business Lars is operating, but Lars’s mother (who owns the business) forces Lara to spend 3 days touring Copenhagen with Lars as her guide before she will sign off on the deal. The mom wants to sell and retire, but she hopes that these 3 days together will convince Lara to keep Lars on after the takeover. The mother hopes this will also nudge Lars to go after his own dreams, since he’s worked at the family business for his whole career, and he seems to resent it at times.
ISSUES TO BE RESOLVED (both have some internal issue they must resolve in order to have this relationship):
FOR LARA: Lara thinks Lars doesn’t appreciate all that he’s been given by his mother. She also thinks it’s sad that he doesn’t value the time he still has left with his parents, since she has recently lost her dad. For her part, Lara is avoiding getting in touch with what she herself values, because she makes all her decisions based on her Dad’s playbook, out of respect for honoring his legacy, but this may not be what she herself would do.
FOR LARS: Lars resents Lara’s approach to obliterating all traces of his family’s way of doing things in the takeover. But he also needs to stand up to his mom and tell her that giving tours is his passion, but his vision for the business has never been the same as hers.ON THEIR JOURNEY OF LOVE (a literal or figurative journey that causes them to work through their issues and find a deep love for each other): Over the course of the 3-day tour, Lara learns about Copenhagen through Lars’s eyes and comes to appreciate the unique experience he creates for his customers. Meanwhile, Lars discovers the potential to grow the business and make it more profitable through Lara’s suggestions. Together, they find they complement each other. She’s great with the numbers and budgeting while he’s great at creating a meaningful experience and dealing with the public. And they see a future together where they are running their own business by their own rules.
CONVENTION ELEMENTS
THE JOURNEY OF LOVE (two people go from their “meet-cute” to denial of love to overwhelming attraction to breaking up over differences to finally reuniting and experiencing the love of their life) Their names being so similar will be a funny revelation when they meet. Their differences of opinion will keep them at a distance, as will the takeover circumstances, but they will bond over their shared experience of living in their parents’ shadows. And they will see a new path for themselves through their heart to heart conversations.
RELATIONSHIP SET-UP (from the moment of the “meet-cute” we see the romantic future for the couple, even if they refuse to believe it. This setup allows the couple to deal with their issues while the audience yearns for them to be together.): They find they have the same favorite business motto and finish each other’s sentences. As they debate over how to best run a business, we see the fire and passion they each have for what they do. Lars loves to challenge Lara and she’s always up for whatever he proposes and tends to outdo him: swimming in the cold sea, climbing up a winding tower staircase for a view of the city, or making Danish pastries.
ISSUES (each person has an internal personal issue that must be resolved for them to truly be together. This requires personal growth for them to become a couple): Lara must learn to live out her own dreams, not just carry out her dad’s legacy, and she gains some courage to start doing so through her conversations with Lars. Lars must learn to stand up to his mom and make it clear that how she operates her business is not in line with how he wants to do things.
SEPARATION (either physically or because of a specific situation, something keeps this couple apart. It is this separation that causes the audience to yearn for them to come together.): After the tour is complete, Lars learns that Lara’s company had already hired someone to replace him before she came to Copenhagen, a move she herself only learns about mid-way through her trip and tries to hide from Lars and undo before he finds out. Meanwhile, Lars learns that his mother is taking all the info Lars has shared with her about Lara’s ideas to improve the business and has reached out to a local Copenhagen buyer instead and isn’t going to accept Lara’s company’s offer to buy the business after all. Lars and Lara need to make the case to both his mom and the Copenhagen buyer to prove that they can run the company better together.
COMEDY (relationship and personal issues are dealt with through humor. As we laugh at the embarrassing moments on the screen, the audience feels better about their relationships.): There will be funny language barrier moments, and awkward and funny moments as Lara experiences firsts (winter swimming in the sea, pedaling a bike-bar, meeting Lars’s friends and family).
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Nice character and background development. These details help explain their feelings and needs in the backstory before the tale begins.
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Bent’s Rom com project
what i learned doing this assignment is I have created challenges to people coming together for the same reason. Love. And in the end it works out after the impediments have been conquered.Two People Who Belong Together: She’s a filipina who values her family. His family is fractured and he suffers for it.
What Forces Them together: A fiipino family gathering happens and he is a plumber who is called because the water is not working.
Issues to be Resolved: he wants to learn more about the love of a family yet he has the fear of disappointment which keeps him distanced.
On Their Journey of Love: he ends up doing work on various houses within that family and learns from each one what love is through a cast of crazy characters. They heal him to where he becomes open to the woman in the family who he’s attracted to.Experience of Falling In Love: She offers him food after he fixes the problem. He ends up staying and eating and playing with the numerous kids. He’s immersed in the culture and falls for all of them.
The Journey of Love: Through her and her family, she heals him and helps him unlearn what he thinks he knows about family.
Relationship Set-up: he is invited over again after showing what his character truly is after helping others in the family.
Issues each must Resolve: she is jealous and when she finds him being flirtatious at his office, everything built between them crumbles apart.
Separation: she doesn’t want to talk to him after experiencing jealousy over the attention he receives from other females.
How will Comedy be Expressed: through the relatives on her side. and the horrible family on his side when both sides meet. -
What I learned doing this assignment is how to put the pieces together of a RomCom. Its a different structure than a film. I learned to think deeper in the area of love.
Karen Tolliver
RomCom Project.Create your Concepts:
Two people who belong together:
Similarities- We both worked in the Car business, both involved in Real Estate, both were fashion models, both very intelligent.
Shared Values- both love or freedom above all else, the freedom to choose is very important. Making yourself happy above anything else is huge. Honesty is most important always even when it hurts.
Chemistry- Very hot and passionate.
Surprising shared background- Went to Jr. High and High school together. We have some of the same friends.How Are They Separated: He is married, but his wife is sick. She is separated from her husband.
What Forces them together: They met at a High School Reunion. One of their closest friends from school gets very sick, they end up hanging out together. His wife dies from her illness, and her husband dies in a car accident. They both end up at a grieving group together.
Issues to be Resolved: Both have internal issues they must resolve in order to have this relationship.
He doesn’t want to settle down in another relationship.
She doesn’t know if it could work, he’s not spiritual like her.On their Journey of Love: A literal or figurative journey that causes them to work through their issues and find a deep love for each other.
They start a business together get to know each other deeper, learn from each other and grow together.CONVENTIONS
The Journey of Love:
“Meet Cute” to denial of Love- Meet at the High School Reunion both remember they liked each other, but never hooked up. Too late now both are married.Overwhelming attraction to breaking up over differences- Both spouses are gone, attraction at grieving group therapy. He wants his freedom, she wants a spiritual man.
Finally reuniting and experiencing the love of their life:
After he dates so many girls and seeing her face on each one, he seeks answers from God. He realizes there’s only one girl for him.
She consumes herself in work, goes to church and there he is.Relationship Set-Up: From the moment of the “Meet Cute” we see the romantic future for the couple.
She arrives late and takes the last seat next to him at the High School Reunion. The best dressed in the entire room, he immediately starts a conversation with her, They discover all the things they have in common. Have a lot of the same interest and knows the same business people despite not running into each other for 45 years until now.Issues each must Resolve:
His grief over his wife dying, wants to “Sow his wild oats”. A huge Ego, can be rude to others.
She sometimes wants to be alone to much, feels as if she doesn’t need a man. Will give up too soon. Puts others before herself.Separation: He tells her he wants his freedom to “Sow his wild oats”.
How will Comedy be Expressed:
At the Reunion they are the best dressed and make jokes about the others.
Some of his dates turn out to be funny.
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