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WIM+AI – Module 2 -Lesson 2: Intentional Lead Characters
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FRANK’S INTENTIONAL LEAD CHARACTERS
I can see myself writing two great, marketable screenplays every year going forward and teaming up with a manager/friend. Short term, I imagine a very difficult but valuable and rewarding six months going balls to the wall in this class.
Completing this assignment, I discovered a more complete way to analyze the main character component using step one in your process. The process doesn’t overcomplicate things: all the intricate elements that go into designing/creating a three-dimensional, interesting character made specifically for THIS concept. Yeah, great stuff!
Concept: A bride’s wedding plan is hijacked by her divorced parents’ feud, so she decides to give them a push—into killing each other.
Emily (protagonist) is a nervous bride who desperately wants her “green” wedding to be perfect.
Vivian and Greg (antagonists) are the bitterly divorced parents who go to war with each other hijacking and ruining the perfect “green” wedding.
Eric (third wheel) is the Groom who supports the bride’s idea to kill her parents by using their mutual hate for each other as a catalyst, and the one who secretly poisons them doing the deed without the bride’s knowledge.
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Patti’s Intentional Characters
TITLE: Home Deadly Home
GENRE: Thriller
CONCEPT: A technophobic kindergarten teacher is trapped in her smart home, battling an AI system her ex-husband programmed to kill her.
PROTAGONIST: Lily Masters’ technophobia makes her an unlikely hero in a high-tech nightmare, but her instincts as a teacher allow her to approach the AI battle in creative, low-tech ways.
ANTAGONIST: Daymon Master’s tech expertise makes him a formidable, omnipresent threat using the AI system, which mirrors his cold, calculated personality.
TRIANGLE CHARACTER: Buddy Masters, their tech-savvy teenage son, must overcome his hero worship for his dad and find a way to undermine the deadly plan to save his mom.
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Demethress’ Intentional Lead Characters
MY VISION: I am a EGOT writer who is very successful and revered by the industry for writing amazing stories that will live on in history.
What I learned from doing this assignment is it didn’t take me but a minute to write each sentence for my characters. It was like they were telling me what to say. I really didn’t have to think much about it.
LOGLINES: “What makes this character fit my concept and title powerfully?”
Protagonist: A Black man struggles with his guilt around the death of his wife hides his identity by posing as a White man.
Antagonist: A White Supremacist hides her true heritage of being a Black woman.
Triangle Character: A white supremacist caught between wanting to reform and afraid of the consequence if she does.
3. Tell us what makes each of these characters unique:
* Character: Protagonist
* Logline: A Black man struggles with his guilt around the death of his wife hides his identity by posing as a White man.
* Unique: A Black man posing as White.* Character: Antagonist
* Logline: A White Supremacist hides her true heritage of being a Black woman.
* Unique: A White supremacist discovers her Black heritage and fights to keep it a secret.* Character: Triangle Character
* Logline: A white supremacist caught between wanting to reform and afraid of the consequence if she does.
* Unique: Fear of being killed if she goes against her White Supremacist leader.-
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Matt's Intentional Lead Characters
I want to be a fantastic writer who creates highly successful movies that are seen as thought-provoking, original and entertaining.
I learned how important it is to have characters that fit the story. They can't just be great characters, but ones that will move the story forward in the most compelling way possible.
I also realized my story may be better as a dramatic triangle then simply protagonist vs. antagonist.
Protagonist:
Eve: A college failure who wants out of her crappy, mundane life and who loses herself in social media. Her rant about her job goes viral, making her an icon to people who never cared about her before. Once she finds out the truth about the cult, she has to confront her obsession with fame and social media, while also coming to terms about her feelings about the people who treated her like shit her whole life.
Unique: her authenticity and coming from a poor family makes her different from other influencers, most of whom are born rich. She also has a great bullshit detector because of her rough upbringing.
Intentional: she has to decide between keeping her real self with a hard life or selling it out for fame and love from others.Antagonist:
Darius: a tech idea thief who thinks himself as a modern messiah. He believes what he's doing is good because it gives him control of people so he can make them peaceful and better. HIs goal is to make an entire cult of empty people who must do as their told, in order to end all problems in the world and change it to the image he saw in an acid-induced vision.
Unique: a tech titan whose ego is even bigger than real life tech founder's, who actually believes his own story. He's an expert at pushing someone's insecurities until they're begging for themselves to be 'set free' (which is destroyed into an empty shell).
Intentional: He's the ultimate success in today's tech world–rich, egotistical, without morals and 'influential.' With his PR in place, he's also the opposite of Eve, as nothing is raw and everything is perfectly in place and controlled.Triangle:
Sloane: a seasoned influencer whose run is coming to an end after being aged out. She is now alone and empty. She acts as Eve's mentor, but is slowly going crazy from everything she was put through..
Unique: She is conflicted. She wants her fame back, but also hates fame because it took her real self from her. She also wants a more meaningful life, but has no idea where to look except fame.
Intentional: She is a mentor to Eve, acts like she's helping Darius, all while using both for her own insane agenda. Her actions will force the two to confront each other.-
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Mailman’s Intentional Lead Characters
PROTAGONIST: Plato, a slave bought as a child to be the companion and protector of the Greenvale Plantation owners’ young son, Leon, is freed after the Civil War. He returns to Greenvale decades later to resolve issues between them.
ANTAGONIST: Leon, now owner of the failing plantation, resents Plato’s success but needs him to save the plantation. Leon’s resentment of Plato drives him insane.
TRIANGLE CHARACTER: Sybille, a voodoo queen, was raped by Leon and Plato as teenagers to re-establish their feelings of manhood, after they became homosexual lovers.
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Mailman’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure.
VISION: First, I want to write scripts that I can be proud of and say what I want to say. Not being an idiot, I also want to sell them.
GENRE: Feature – Dramatic Triangle.
TITLE: Greenvale Plantation.
LOGLINE: Two children, one a Black slave and the other the White plantation owner's son, are raised together until the Civil War separates them. Decades later, the now successful Black businessman reunites with the White son, but their past rekindles a deadly rivalry.
HOOK: History isn’t dead, it’s waiting for revenge.
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