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Mark’s Character Profiles – Part 1
WHAT I LEARNED from this assignment is how helpful the examples are in creating the characters. Descriptions of types of Antagonist/Protagonist/Genre help to focus on characteristics. Its like someone asking you, “Which music artist do you like?” There’s so many. Hard to choose! But when you are given categories its much easier to focus in on a choice. The nine aspects of character profiles are great for shaping a character in my mind.
PROTAGONIST: FIGHTER
VICTORIA is impulsive by nature. Her impatience in decision-making is born from her strong-willed character. She is a fighter, and her grit and determination are what enables her to focus on the overwhelming task of survival in a shipwreck in the arctic. She becomes a guardian for those who panic.
ANTAGONIST: PREDATOR
DRAKE, the ship’s first mate is an ugly, tough-as-nails, seaman who is hardened by years of the elements and loneliness at sea. His deformed face and perverted disposition alienate him from others. He becomes a force for anarchy, even attempting mutiny. But its Victoria that burns in his innermost thoughts.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
CAPTAIN JENSEN is a bearded bear of a man who commands respect and admiration. He has never lost a ship until now, and is driven to save all those under his care. An honorable man who is crushed under the overwhelming task of leading and caring for 100 people. When things look hopeless, he gets hope from Victoria.
TONY CAMERON, A handsome, likeable pilot, in love with Victoria. He grew up taking apart and building small planes in his backyard while his friends worked on cars. His love of flying has made him the best pilot there is. Now this love is put to the ultimate test in trying to save Victoria from freezing to death.
NICK, Tony’s childhood friend and sidekick, also a pilot. Content to be in his shadow. Nick ha always been in support and this life-or-death situation is no different. Nick rises to the challenge as always, by assembling a squadron of small planes to assist Tony in the impossible rescue.
MINOR ROLES
Navy post commander who puts up roadblocks to Tony’s unofficial search and rescue flights.
Two Navy pilots who sit by, following orders, and watch Tony’s gutsy search efforts, until they finally join him in searching for the shipwreck.
Reporters who follow the story and wake up the world to the tragedy unfolding, when the story appears on the front page of the NY Times.
GENRE
An action/Thriller
A woman’s yearning for adventure turns disastrous when she is stranded on arctic ice floes with 100 shipwrecked people drifting toward the North Pole. Her pilot fiance, attempting a virtually hopeless rescue, fights nature’s extremes and Navy animosity to save her.
CHARACTER PROFILES – PART 1
VICTORIA
Role in
the story: Small town girl yearning for adventure
as a way to empower herself in a man’s world.Age range
and Description: Female,
late 20s, beautiful, kind-hearted
Internal
Journey: From struggling for self-reliance and
independence to having the strength to influence and command men.
External
Journey: From a pampered woman to a respected,
admired leader, equal to the men around her, and able to relate to her man
as an equal.
Motivation:
To be self-reliant
Wound: Small-town boredom
Mission/Agenda:
To survive until Tony can rescue
her
Secret: Amelia Earhart
What makes
them special? Her sympathetic ability to console and
encourage people to struggle on.DRAKE
Role in
the story: First mate
with a disfigured face. His hatred
of people drives his urge to anarchy in camp.
Age range
and Description: Male, late
40s, thin, wiry, sinewy. Dark eyes,
Internal
Journey: From anti-social to a lust for
Victoria, and finally to desperation for companionship
External
Journey: From a disciplined crewman to a
crazed, psychopath
Motivation:
To take power from the captain
Wound: Shunned by people on land
Mission/Agenda:
to take
command and possess Victoria
Secret: His mother
What makes
them special? His underhanded, sly manipulation of
trusting peopleTONY CAMERON
Role in
the story: Barnstormer
pilot, determined to rescue his fiance
Age range
and Description: Male,
30s. Dashing and daring
Internal
Journey: From a reckless, cocksure
showoff to a pilot with an unswerving dedication to a mission
External
Journey: small town pilot to world-wide
hero
Motivation:
His two loves
Wound: Being kicked out of the Air Corps at 17
due to a stunt.
Mission/Agenda: Rescue Victoria from the Arctic ice
Secret: His failure to achieve glory in WWI as
the youngest ace.
What makes
them special? His
brilliance in building and flying small planes.CAPTAIN JENSEN
Role in
the story: Ship
captain. Leader of 100 shipwrecked
people, determined to motivate people to survive.
Age range
and Description: Male,
50ish. Large, muscular and bearded.
Internal
Journey: From a supremely confident
captain in command, to being dependent on a woman for strength.
External
Journey: From a ship captain to becoming
the last to leave the ice.
Motivation:
His ingrained sense of duty and
honor
Wound: None
Mission/Agenda:
To not lose any passengers or
crew
Secret: Falling in love with Victoria
What makes
them special? His ability to elicit admiration from
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Renee’s Character Profiles
What I learned doing this assignment is that creating character profiles isn’t my strong suit. I’m pretty sure that these character profiles will change dramatically as I write the script.
1. The protagonist will start out as a Runner but will turn into a fighter by the end of the script. When she is first contacted by her stalker, she will naturally want to run away from the conflict. As the story progresses, she will find her strength and turn into a fighter and confront her stalker.
2. The antagonist will be a predator. Because of his social difficulties, he’s had issues with women before. He develops an unnatural attachment to the protagonist because she is kind to him. This will lead to him stalking her and killing anyone he thinks is going to stand in his way.
3. There will be several supporting characters including a high school friend, a roommate, and a love interest. There will also be minor roles including other co-workers and other art students. As for background characters, this will include customers, professors, and other students.
4. The genre will be a thriller with a bit of horror mixed in, just because just about everyone dies.
5. Mia Roberts
Role in the story: Starts as a Runner turns into a fighter. Shy art student scared of her own shadow. She’s a minnow in a pond of sharks.
Age range and description: female, late teens, a meek young woman who would rather spend her time painting than hanging out at the clubs.
Internal journey: At the start of the story, she is a shy and naive young woman who is scared of her own shadow and lets people walk all over her. By the end of the story, she has found her strength and has learned to stand up for herself.
External Journey: She starts out weak and ends the story stronger than she ever thought possible.
Motivation: stay alive and finish art school
Emotional Wound: she watched her father kill her mother
Mission/Agenda: to escape her violent stalker
Secret: her failure to save her mother
What makes her special: she’s a talented artist
Lonnie Baxter
Role in the story: Predator. Awkward and unassuming.
Age range and description: male, early 20s, tall and lanky
Internal journey: No change
External Journey: from being alive to being dead
Motivation: to find a companion
Emotional Wound: bullied because of his social difficulties
Mission/Agenda: to make Mia see him as more than a coworker and friend
Secret: not sure yet
What makes him special: he is incredibly intelligent
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What I learned is to get in touch with a powerful confident moment before you begin the writing process. It makes sense.
Who is my hero? Jason a young man trapped in the world of gang membership. He sees no future outside of possible incarceration or death. He wants a life with his long time girlfriend.
His internal journey: he wants to live a normal life without having to look over his shoulders constantly worrying about police or attackers.
External journey; How do I deal with my friends in the gang. How do I relate without coming off as soft.
Old ways: always doing things to impress the gang, taking risk day after day involving criminal activity. Unable to share his real feeling towards his girl or his family.
New ways: He can actually say”I love you”
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Fred’s Character Profiles – Part 1
What I learned is that roles in the story help pave the way for coherent structure and act as a guideline for what kind of actions the Protagonist and Antagonist will take.
Role in the story:
Protagonist – Runner/Victim, loving boyfriend, close with his father’s side of the family
Antagonist – Villain, Cheating husband, dishonest father, separates marriage from parenting, hides infidelity from his son
Age range and Description:
Protagonist – 18, innocent, naive, cuts his hair in an edgy way later out of rebellion, small frame
Antagonist – 44, entitled, condescending, wears expensive clothing
Internal Journey:
Belief and understanding on love changes from eternal to temporary (so does hate)
External Journey:
Wanting to preserve everything to letting go and allowing things to break off separately (family members, girlfriend)
Motivation:
Want: hurt his dad, retribution for what he’s done to his mom
Need: accept that his dad is human too and that he has made a mistake
Wound:
Belief of faithfulness shattered by news of infidelity
Maybe was cheated on by someone else previously, personally (?)
Mission/Agenda:
Expose the fraud his father is, have him shunned by his relatives
Cause him pain that his mother went through
Secret:
Jin also cheats on his girlfriend purposely to have a reason to break up with her because he can’t tell her the truth, that he doesn’t have feelings for her anymore
What makes them special?
Can’t Lie?
???
What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: Girlfriend Emma, new friend Eilo, Mother
Minor roles: Brother (?)
Background characters: Relatives
Pick your genre.
Drama
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Aline’s Character Profiles Part 1
I love digging into the character and story with a purpose. I didn’t know her motivation- I hadn’t thought of what type of protagonist she was; or that her partner in crime in the story might be a powerful sidekick with a transformational journey. In my head I had two protagonists and a journey. The antagonist was “life”.. but it turns out, it’s just her family and her belief system.
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
She is a Runner who wants to be a Dreamer. She sees what she doesn’t like in her life but doesn’t have the courage or knowledge to change the situation, so she runs. She shows the seed of courage by running away at first, but ultimately will realize that running doesn’t solve the problem. She will learn to take action to change her situation in a solid way.
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Her family (3 mothers) are the image of Authority. They serve a religion that requires strict faithfulness to their rules and their clan, and they intend to keep Lucy safe from the world by exercising their power over her.
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: Lucien is close to a second protagonist because he will have his own transformational journey and battles to fight, Charlotte, the younger of the polygamist wives, will be a false friend, Lucy’s real mother Eliza, Tori Amos(the singer) is a presence because her feminist music prompted Lucy to question and run.
Minor roles: The waitress in LA, the cop, Lucy’s father is kept in the dark by the three mothers who are trying to “save” Lucy from being disowned.
Background characters: Lucien’s family, other Tori Amos fans, Lucy’s 13 brothers and sisters.
5. Pick your genre.
Dramedy road trip / buddy movie-drama-comedy
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Lucy: Protagonist
Age range and Description: 17, shy, smart, deep thinker, few friends, good grades, unassuming looks and demeanor.
Internal Journey: becoming active in making the changes that will take her away from the future as a young wife in a polygamist marriage.; becoming brave and assertive.
External Journey: leaving home (to get the attention from her family in a way she wouldn’t otherwise by simply voicing her wishes)- making her way to Los Angeles and then back home to face them with a newfound outlook and attitude.
Motivation: She won tickets to a Tori Amos concert. Her family won’t let her go. She sees her younger mother crying because she is miserable in her life- but smiles through the misery.
Wound: Feels rejected by her mother who is too busy with all the other children and has to deal with her own wound of having two younger wives in her marriage to her husband. There is a lot of trauma going around in the family.- female emotional wound.
Mission/Agenda: break free. Be “normal”
Secret: listens to Tori Amos in her walkman and CD player
What makes them special? She should have stayed with the program. Something inside her makes her question instead of accepting her fate like the other women and girls around her. That makes her think that she can see something that others can’t- and that’s not exactly a blessing in this household.
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Becky’s Character Profiles Part 1:
What I learned doing this assignment is that by answering the
questions, even if I strayed and over explained, it was all in there.
I just went back and cut out the real information. It was a great
assignment.Dreamer vs. Predator A Thriller
Protagonist: Dana was a Jr. high school
science teacher until her fear got the better of here. She believes
that the early 1900s was the era to live in if she had a choice.Early 30’s, and because of her
love the early 1900s, dresses that way, minus the skirt. Usually in
slacks with fitted blouses and billowy sleeves, at times adds a
steam punk lilt. Her hair is usually at a knot at the top of her
head, reminiscent of a Gibson Girl. A vaudeville history buff,
believes life was easier, more relaxed with no worries. Her travels
are always hunting down historic vaudeville theaters and discovering
who performed there.Internal Journey: Dana goes from
an introvert to an outgoing, strong proponent of living life to the
fullest.External Journey: Dana visits the
Vaudeville world and comes out realizing that life is doable
whatever era she is in.Motivation: Dana wants to live an
uncomplicated, stress free life. Where nothing is pressing in on
you.Wound: After father died her
mother never let her out of her sight. At 14, her mother never came
back one night from the grocery store.Mission/Agenda: Wants an
uncomplicated, stress-less life?Secret: She knows how the ghost that wants to
change places with her died.What makes them special? Her
knowledge of the past.Antagonist: The ghost of Ade died at a
young age, she is angry her life ended just as she was becoming a
star. She believes through a dimensional rift there is way to stop
her death and maybe live a much better life. Somewhere, somehow.A beautiful black Vaudeville
actress, she died at 30. Extremely talented in all aspects of
Vaudeville, especially the business side. She always wears the most
modern outfits she can get.Internal Journey: Ade goes from
being an angry, resentful, to accepting her death and finding a
friendship in Dana.External Journey: Ade pulls Dana
into her world of Vaudevillian chaos and entertainment, trying to
seduce Dana into living this life. As Dana becomes her friend Ade
chooses to help Dana live her life in her own time era.Motivation: Ade wants either her
star powered life back.Wound: Ade is angry that her life
was cut short of her dreams, just as she was in the midst of
becoming a star.Mission/Agenda: Ade’s mission is
to get her life back. One way or another and will stop at nothing to
get what she wants. Maybe even a better life in this new world she
has discovered.Secret: Ade knows there is a time
limit on the rift between the two worlds.What makes them special? Ade is a
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Jonathan’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that the relationship between Protagonist and Antagonist is more than a hero and a villain. By having an adversary that is also the person that they love the most makes for a compelling drama full of conflict, duty, and tension.
The choice of Genre also impacts these relationships accentuating differences and streamlines the script’s focus, message, and tone.
Jaslyne Liber
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</font>Susan Liber
Authority Step-mother
of Jaslyne, she has always held Jaslyne on a short leash, constantly
reminding her that she saved her from squalor in the Far East. While her
other daughters are independent and strong-willed over-achievers, Susan
continues her iron-grip on Jaslyne as someone that she can control and
dominate, especially in her dying days.</div><div>Supporting characters:
Illyana Susan’s eldest daughter. Chef/somm, super-foodie. Hedonist, patient, but harbors grudges and resentment. Knows the most about wine but hates the business aspect of it. Wants to sell off company.
Bex Susan’s 2<sup>nd</sup> eldest daughter. Cutthroat ex-real estate. By-the-book, practical, and square. Short temper. Has a vison of the company that only she can implement – to obliterate the competition.
Priscilla – Susan’s 3<sup>rd</sup> child. Altruistic, gregarious and kind. Was mother’s favorite when he was Paul but after his recent transformation she’s been practically ignored. Wants to take the company to next level of Feminist empowerment.
Tanya – Susan’s youngest. Prodigy College student. Renaissance woman like her mom, but without the worldly experiences, mistakes, and thick-skin. Secretly wants to leave the family business and work with the biggest and best distributors.
Pick your genre:Drama
Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles:
Jaslyne Liber
Role in the story: Hero: Dreamer/Victim Sheltered, homebody who seeks to break
free from her Suburban captivity to be an independent, bold woman capable
of leading the family wine business.Age range and Description: Thirty-something,
book-smart and mousy Asian woman, who day dreams her way through life.Internal Journey: From being a meek,
submissive follower co-dependent to her family to being a confident, independent,
and unapologetic.External Journey: From being a passive, shy,
book-smart, pollyana to being a pro-active, take-charge, street-wise,
saleswoman -worthy of taking over the family businessMotivation: Her Step-Mother’s looming
death. To be nothing like her.Wound: She feels obligated that she was
picked at a young age at the orphanage by Susan. She can never forget.Mission/Agenda: To throw her hat in the
upcoming leadership void of the wine company.Secret:
Has dreamt of killing her step-mom.What makes them special? Jaslyne has a
photographic memory that also extends to her senses. She can recall and remember
any sight, sound, scent, fact, and taste at an almost super-human level.</div><div>Susan Liber
Role in the story: Authority Susan knows that she is
dying and that she has all but lost control of her daughters, so she holds
on to Jaslyne even tighter, unknowingly suffocating her.Age range and Description: 60-something. Worldly,
sophisticated, stubborn. And dying.Internal Journey: From being feared to
being loved.External Journey: To being stoic and
unbreakable to telling her daughters how she really feels about each one
of them.Motivation: Her cancer.
Wound: She sacrificed being a kind mother
by being a ruthless provider. She regrets it.Mission/Agenda: To give the gift of leadership
of the company to the one daughter who is most worthy and secretly the
most loving to her.Secret:
Her cancer is actually in remission and she is not dying. She just wants
the attention of her daughters.What makes them special?
She can manipulate and make anyone do anything she wants except for her own
biological daughters who rebel against her constantly.
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John T’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that a theme of self-actualization informs the characters and their roles In the story.
DISCOVERY ISLAND, a sci-fi thriller.
Clare is a runner, has been all her life. Running from her past memories of her mother and how she allowed herself to be the victim, running from being the center of attention, running from repressed memories of her abuse to a sanctuary of silence.
Role in the story: Wallflower who works in a cubicle, plucked from anonymity by Rod. No ambition but to stay out of the limelight. Quite settled in a male-dominated relationships.
Age range and Description: Female, Mid 20’s, clever, can talk her out of stepping outside her comfort zone, loses herself when jogging.
Internal Journey: From being totally dependent on a man to being her own person, confident, strong, freedom-loving and able to fend for herself.
External Journey: From an introverted and quiet desk clerk to a strong and sassy woman in charge, free from her self-imposed shackles.
Motivation: survival from cyborgs suddenly turned hostile.
Wound: Her mother’s absence when she needed her the most, as when being abused by her uncle Henry. Being absent has taken the place of being in the moment.
Mission/Agenda: To discover how she will survive on an island of predatory cyborgs.
Secret: Her repressed memory of abuse.
What makes them special? Her cleverness at solving puzzles and riddles and her ability to concentrate with distractions all around, leaving her body in a sense.
Rod is the villain, an egomaniac and a phony who puts up a good front of being brave and in control. Rod self-validates by domineering his girlfriend, Clare. It’s a match made in a heaven for fools and the fooled.
Role in the story: Protagonist who dares Clare into stepping outside her box while seldom stepping outside his own. His ego is all hot air based on accomplishments dating back to college.
Age range and Description: Male, 30’s, well-dressed exterior is his shield to scrutiny, Feels empowered when powering over Clare. He’s let himself go, a bit chubby.
Internal Journey: Rod is ripe for a lesson in self humility and a reality check.
External Journey: From being a boastful leader to a cowering baby, left in a fetal position unable to function.
Motivation: Dominate through intimidation and ridicule.
Wound: Harbors a serious lack of self-awareness and ability.
Mission/Agenda: Every man for himself. He’d be the first one off the Titanic.
Secret: He’s a wuss.
What makes them special? His Harvard law degree and legal knowledge comes in handy.
Other characters:
Clare’s cyborg double, SAC 12, a carbon copy of Clare in almost every respect except in Clares’ unique skill at leaving her body and letting her mind go somewhere else, sometimes deep in the recess of her mind’s eye into the unchartered waters of repressed memories.
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I learned to focus and stay on track with my characters. I realize my story is about two people who both experience transformations but one is more the protagonist and the other the antagonist.
Aleta Rafton’s Character Profiles Part 1
Action/Comedy
Protagonist Hero
Stepdad
To recover the boy’s favorite Christmas ornament he inadvertently left on the tree which was picked up by the garbage truck, Stepdad has to take risks and do dangerous things he never would do before.
Age: Mid 30’s
Internal Journey: From feeling fearful to confident by taking risks
External Journey: Goes from nerdy computer geek to lion tamer hero
Motivation: Make up for mistake and win respect of boy
Wound: Ridiculed growing u for being fearful and unathletic
Mission/Agenda: To recover lost ornament he forgot on tree
Secret: Knows how to use whip
Specialness: Brilliant computer wiz
Antagonist Change Agent
Boy Age 11
Boy whose firefighter father died a few years ago after giving the boy a firetruck Christmas ornament. The boy challenges the stepdad’s ability to live a full life rather than be constrained by his fear and extreme caution.
Age:11
Internal Journey: From feeling angry and judgmental to understanding and open
External Journey: Goes from dislike and disdain for Stepdad to admiration and trust
Motivation: Get his favorite last gift from his dad back
Wound: Mourning loss of dad. Loss of ornament amplifies loss
Mission/Agenda: To recover lost ornament Stepdad forgot on tree
Secret: Is afraid a lot too especially of wild animals
Specialness: Loves computers, creating his own locator app
Supporting Characters:
Mom/Widow 30’s who chose Stepdad because he was so opposite of her first husband
Grandpa 60’s for comic relief 60’s
Lion formerly entertainment lion now in zoo that escapes
Garbage truck driver 20’s wearing headphones, rocking out while driving
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Janeen’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that I know a lot about my story and characters, but am seeing a lot of scenes “predefined” by the information I want to convey to the audience that I’ve defined below. It’s not going to be hard to come up with meaningful beats using this method.
1. The type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Hero: My heroine, Jym, is valiantly trying to save her S-I-L and the other people at her gym who are overweight or prediabetic or diabetic from the inevitable (so the predominant thinking is) downhill slide to death. She finds that the deck is stacked against people by big pharma and big money-backed studies that have left the ADA with the role of helping people manage the downhill slide rather than recovering. <div>
Explorer: My heroine is also an explorer, seeking a way to help herself and others recover from typical food’s addictive qualities while still eating healthy and on a constrained budget.
2. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Change Agent: Jym’s brother, the Doc, pushes her to lose weight and help her clientele at the gym lose weight, but his diet and exercise plans leave people with strong cravings when their blood sugar crashes and more of those cravings after every hard workout. His pressure on her forces her to think outside the box. <div>
Authority: Jym’s brother Doc is, in fact, an endocrinologist and has the power of authority behind his every decree. He also has her hero worship as her big brother and will pressure her to succumb to his methods even though they are flawed and unsuccessful. In the end, however, he finds the same conclusions that Jym did by looking at study data and the data of those who have bucked the generally accepted knowledge and current dogma.
3. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: the Doc’s wife (motivation for the doc and Jym to find a better Type II solution), the OB/GYN who works out at the gym (who helps monitor patients who try Jym’s diet/exercise programs); Old Doc (who is Doc’s idol and who espouses ADA guidelines, keeping Doc from trying new things when his wife starts going downhill); the Trainer (who is in love with Jym throughout but is not taken seriously by her for most of the movie – serves as her sidekick); </div><div>
Minor roles: Jym and Doc’s Mom; Doc’s practice partners who see themselves above him since they have practiced longer and come from wealthier backgrounds;
Background characters: Other people at the gym; patients at the clinic;4. Pick your genre.
Comedy
5. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Jym is the hero.
Age range and Description: Late 20’s </div>Internal Journey: From obedient, but frustrated little sister who fails whenever she tries a diet to dedicated and brave explorer who finds a better diet and rescues others who are in trouble from weight or Type II.
External Journey: From 50 pound overweight, fit woman to trim, fit woman with more energy, confidence and bravery who establishes a program to fit the lifestyles and budgets of her gym membership.
Motivation: To lose weight and keep it off easily, save her S-I-L’s life, help others at her gym with Type II or pre-diabetes become healthy.
Wound: Feels an obligation to follow her brother’s orders since he save her from bullies and ordered her to leave so he could handle it. He has been giving her orders (things he considers to be for her own good) ever since.
Mission/Agenda: To save her neighborhood and loved ones from the ravages of obesity and Type II
Secret: She has disobeyed her brother before and things have worked out, but she has always felt guilty about it. She feels inadequate to deal with health issues if she disagrees with her brother because he is an MD and she is an exercise physiologist (BA)
What makes them special?: She is modest enough about her capabilities to feel the need to rely on authority and back everything up before trying things herself. She also insists that anyone trying her diet and exercise program do so with a doctor’s supervision since she doesn’t want to be responsible for blood sugar problems or other issues if they can be prevented by having a doctor on board.
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Dale’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment was the importance of finding my protagonist’s wound, something I hadn’t much contemplated. And I loved that the antagonist can be a change agent!
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Role of protagonist
Elizabeth Dreweris an explorer. In her teaching and her articles she pushes the intellectual boundaries of philosophy. What she has explored less in her life, is the value, also, of one’s emotions. Her journey will involve this new kind of “exploration.”
Role of antagonist
Richard Amado, is a change agent. The attraction that Richard and Elizabeth feel for each other will force Elizabeth out of her well delineated set of standards into an unpredictable and hard-to-control state of passionate infatuation.
Other characters:
Supporting characters: Barbara, colleague and best friend; Philip, fellow philosophy prof; Marshall, ex-husband; Amanda, victim of a predatory professor.
Minor roles: a few students in Richard’s class
Background characters: non-speaking students, in lecture hall and Richard’s class
Genre:
Drama, Forbidden Love Story
Role in the story:
Age range and Description: Elizabeth is 42-45 years old, attractive (though she places more importance on her mind than her looks), a classic sense of style, graceful
Internal Journey: certainty and high-minded ethical stance to embracing ambiguities
External Journey: strictly believing in university rules to realizing there are many grey areas that are not so easily defined.
Motivation: Her want is to retain her certainty about her life and her beliefs, her (contrary) need is to expand into a less judgmental, rigid person and learn heart is as important as mind.
Wound: She lost a brother to suicide (he was a teen) – which made her suspect out-of-control emotions, and to want to protect her own feelings through the use of stringent rationalism.
Mission/Agenda: She is a proponent of the Me Too movement and supports any actions that seem to protect students against predatory fellow students or professors. She also is driven to teach critical thinking skills to her students.
Secret: She is falling in love with one of her graduate students.
What makes them special: She is brilliant, a damn good teacher and respected contributor to the field of philosophy.
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Dave’s Character Profiles – Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that thinking about the individual characteristics listed in the lesson for the two characters enabled me to define them more specifically in my mind and make them more rounded.
Protagonist’s role
Nigel is a fighter. He’s not naturally brave, but is motivated by the dilemma of the story to act in more courageous ways than he ever has. He has a tenacity that enables him to succeed.
Antagonist’s role
The antagonist is the warden of a prison where Nigel’s wife is held. He’s an authority – holding power and maintaining control are the uppermost goals for him. He is cold and domineering, and will do virtually anything to ensure his power and control of the inmates and the prison are not broken.
Supporting characters
Nigel’s wife, Livia
Nigel’s best friend, Roger, who accompanies him on the journey
Other inmates and guards at the prison
Various people that help Nigel and Livia
Role in story:
Nigel is Livia’s husband. He must rescue her from a prison in a military state.
The Warden oversees the prison where Livia is held.
Age:
Nigel is 25
Warden is 45
Description:
Nigel is of medium height, with a rather thin body and brown hair.
The warden is of medium height, with black hair, a mustache and a muscular build that results from regular workouts
Nigel’s Inner Journey: Nigel must prove to himself that he will risk his life to rescue Livia. If he falls short from fear, it will be unbearable to him.
External Journey: He must cross the North American continent overland to get to the military state, located in what was once California, to rescue Livia.
Warden’s Inner Journey: His self-esteem rests on his ability to control his prison and its inmates without any escapes or successful inmate revolt.
External Journey: To ensure that Nigel’s quest to free Livia is unsuccessful.
Motivation: Nigel is determined to rescue his wife, who he loves dearly.
Motivation: The warden is motivated to ensure no one escapes the prison to maintain his self-image as a strong, successful warden.
Wound: Nigel’s wound occurred when another boy beat him up at school when he was 12.
Wound: The warden’s wound occurred when there was a successful escape from the prison 10 years before, in which five inmates escape and two guards were killed.
Mission/Agenda: Nigel’s is to cross the country as quickly as possible, rescue Livia and get home with her and Roger to England.
Mission/Agenda: The warden’s is to defeat Nigel and ensure that there are never again escapes from his prison or deaths of his guards.
Secret: Nigel’s secret is that he doesn’t feel confident he’ll be brave and strong enough to succeed in his mission.
Secret: The warden’s secret is that he’s not sure the prison is as impregnable as he’d like it to be, and it’s possible some of his guards might be susceptible to bribes or fear that could enable an escape.
What makes Nigel special: His unusual tenacity, which keeps him going on a very difficult, fearful (at times) journey, and the depth of his love for Cynthia, which motivates him to act with more courage than he would otherwise.
What makes warden special: The fact that he goes to incredible lengths to make sure the prison cannot be escaped from, including bugging the homes of his guards and the inmate’s cells, having video cameras and listening devices throughout the prison, and tracking every new entrant to the military state, to ensure that none have come to help a prisoner escape.
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Chris’ Character Profiles, Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that I found it beneficial to specifically narrow down the Cat and Mouse characteristics between my protagonist and antagonist.
-PROTAGONIST: CORA is a FIGHTER because she is capable and will rise to the challenge. Initially, I thought that she could be a RUNNER, but I don’t think so because she is serving as the driving force for discovering information, primarily acting as a detective while seeking information and overcoming physical challenges coming at her. Female, bi racial, 20’s. INTERNALLY, she is non committal, takes shortcuts and has a selfish streak. She becomes self reliant, resourceful, selfless and determined. EXTERNALLY, she goes from someone who’s just along for the ride to someone who out smarts everyone, stays alive and comes out on top. Her MOTIVATION is to stay alive. Her WOUND is that her family life was unstable and it messed with her confidence and ability to set goals. Her MISSION is to find the McGuffin and her SECRET is that she is a pathological liar. What MAKES HER SPECIAL is her ability to chameleon her way into social situations and fit in with many different personality types or groups of people.
-ANTAGONIST: BROOKE is a CHANGE AGENT primarily because in her role as the New Director of the film, she has a major vision, (undermining her producer bosses and essentially changing the genre of the film) is in charge of the film and ultimately is responsible for everything that is going on here on multiple levels. Female, 30’s, Artsy. INTERNALLY she doesn’t really change because she may be a psychopath. EXTERNALLY she evolves from being a rule following AD to being a huge catalyst and force as the director of the film and shot caller. Her MOTIVATION is to make ‘The Most Pure Giallo Film Ever Made.’ Her WOUND is that she has never been ‘good enough’ in life and as a result is working as crew on a porn film. Her MISSION is to complete her work of art/ masterpiece while hiding her SECRET which is that she may be insane and killing people. WHAT MAKES HER SPECIAL is her singular drive and tunnel vision on route to getting what she wants.
-SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:
SHANE: The belligerent, misogynistic, drug addicted original director of the porn movie.
CHET: Bartender at resort and son of the wealthy owner. He becomes a love interest for Cora. He’s a constant mystery as information is slowly revealed about him. Never what he seems.
KARLA: Employee at a local boutique who witnesses more than she lets on, ultimately demands blackmail money and or position from production.
JOLENE: One of the more seasoned porn actresses, smart about what’s actually going on when others don’t realize .
-MINOR CHARACTERS:
BRIAN: Braggart, poser, low level on set “producer” in name only, he is a blowhard always hanging around but basically has no power.
STEVEN: Promoted to First AD and is basically the voice of reason.
JACK LYNNE: Porn actress, new to the world, insecure.
WHITNEY: Porn actress, diva and constant source of angst.
ROB: Young guy, intern. Wide eyed and always logical to a fault.
-GENRE: Is THRILLER. People definitely die and it is a Giallo film deconstruction but at the end of the day it is essentially a Noir and a detective story.
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Richard’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learnt doing this assignment is that not writing for six years has its disadvantages.
Shane is a fighter. Forced to fight for love, clan, and country. Put in a physically and mentally draining situation, and after devastating loss, he finally understands identity.
The Antagonist will represent a foreign king’s insatiable desire to destroy a rebellion. He is ambitious, focused, and cruel beyond belief.
A group of seven secondary characters will accompany Shane and the Antagonist throughout the story. A handful of smaller roles.
Genre: Action
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Patricia Towers -Characters Profile Part 1
ASSIGNMENT
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.
Victim: My character is a victim of circumstances. As a little girl, her mother left her. My character has to make some sense of her life as she grows into adulthood.
Hero
Explorer
Runner
Fighter
Victim: Victim: My character is a victim of circumstances. As a little girl, her mother left her. My character has to make some sense of her life as she grows into adulthood.
Dreamer
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:
Villain
Change Agent: My character is a change agent by initiating and managing her own internal change.
Authority
Predator
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters:
Minor roles: Her aunt, teacher
Background characters: dancers, street people walking
5. Pick your genre.
Rom-Com or Buddy Movie
Thriller
Horror
Action
Drama: My genre, would be Drama
Sci-Fi
Comedy
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Lead Character
Age range and Description: 5years to 80 years old
Internal Journey: Very alert to her surroundings
External Journey: From loneliness to moving to New York
Motivation: To belong
Wound: missing her mother
Mission/Agenda:
Secret:
What makes them special?
Her Tenacity, endurance.
7. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.
I learned Not to overthink and answer the questions.
8. Post your assignment in the forums at http://www.screenwritingexperts.com
Subject line: (Your name’s) Character Profiles Part 1 (place in first line)
Deadline: 24 hours
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Brandi’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned during this assignment is… don’t get bogged down in the details. Determine character first. If you don’t immediately have an answer come back to it later.
Genre: Drama
Violet
Role in the Story: Protagonist. Dreamer/Explorer. Lonely librarian, seeking to create a fantastic life and romance for herself, like the ones she is surrounded by. Insecure, highly imaginative woman burned one too many times by men.
Age Range and description: Late 20’s/Early thirties. Unconventional and semi etherial good looks, hidden behind the affects of her occupation and low self esteem.
Internal Journey: From feeling paralyzed by indecision and fear of loss, to being able to choose loss despite fear.
External Journey: From a single, isolated librarian, to a new mother with the tenacity to seek out a more fulfilling career.
Motivation: The desire for excitement and love.
Wound: Repeated unrequited love.
Secret: She is immoral and superstitious.
Mission/Agenda: To make Samuel choose her.
What makes her special: Her ability to love deeply over and over and over again.
Samuel Leavitt
Role in the Story: Antagonist. Change Agent/Villain? Up and coming actor on the brink of success, who begins an affair with Violet.
Age Range and description: Late 20’s/Early 30’s. Cursed with both charm and classic good looks and completely aware.
Internal Journey: From cavalier, hedonistic and selfish to accepting of consequence and responsibility.
External Journey: From a fledgling actor, longing to escape a dying long term relationship, to a new father, recently cast in a film role.
Motivation: To live without attachment. To be free to make it In LA.
Wound: Not sure yet.
Secret: He is still in a relationship when he begins pursuing Violet.
Mission/Agenda: To have fun before he moves to LA.
What makes him special: His charisma and ability to enchant.
Other Characters:
Rayma: Tarot Reader
Candy: Violet’s best friend
JSB: Violet’s most recent ex
Jess: Samuel’s current girlfriend
Mrs. Leavitt: Samuel’s mother
Mr. Leavitt: Samuel’s grandfather
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Pat’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is filling out the details now adds clarity later.
Protagonist – IRA
· Type: A dreamer/fighter – he dreams of becoming a great thespian, but is ridiculed because he is black.
· Role in the story: An African-American man who has a passion for Shakespearean theater. He is also an abolitionist.
· Age range and Description: From 9- 60, clever, resourceful, ambitious
· Internal Journey: From a people pleaser to strategist
· External Journey: From a farmer boy to a critically renown Shakespearean performer
· Motivation: Wants praise; Needs a sense of belonging.
· Wound: Being judged on the basis of skin color
· Mission/Agenda: To become a sought after, influential performer and to use his influence to help abolish U.S. slavery.
· Secret: Mistresses and illegitimate children.
· What makes them special? Tenacity, willingness to grow, and his ability to outwit his naysayers and detractors.
Antagonist – Gilbert
· Type: Villain
· Role in the story: A newspaper editor, theater critic and magistrate unwilling to accept a black man playing Shakespearean roles in England.
· Age range and Description: From 20 – 56
· Internal Journey: From bigoted to tolerant
· External Journey: From an esteemed editor of a popular newspaper to being vilified by his competitor.
· Motivation: Wants prestige; Needs decency.
· Wound: TBD
· Mission/Agenda: End Ira’s career as a thespian
· Secret: Mistresses and illegitimate children.
· What makes them special? He’s a prolific theater writer and critic. Promoted to magistrate at an early age because of his detailed writing ability.
What other characters might be necessary?
· Supporting characters: Ira’s Wife, Ira’s Mistress(es)
· Minor roles: Ira’s father/mother; Ships Captain, Ira’s Mentors, Theater owners/managers, Oher Newspaper critics
· Background characters: Performers, Churchgoers, field workers, ship workers
Genre: Drama
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DeRuve’s Character Profiles – Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is why doing this now is so helpful in building your screenplay. By exploring these characters this way, and before anything else, I found myself having idea after idea, some scenes, some lines, a variety of thoughts, and little by little I started seeing the story come out through the characters, who they are and what they are going through. Like tiny breakthroughs every five minutes. Very cool. Not an easy assignment, but incredibly rewarding.
What role does your Protagonist play and how?
Rhino is a combination of two of these roles.
The Runner, as the story unfolds Rhino will be fleeing the Mob for a new life.
The Fighter, Rhino is not only a boxer, but he is hardened by a lower middle class life where he’s done everything for himself, he’s a great boxer, an experienced leg breaker, and if anyone can break free of the Mob, it’s him.
What role does your Antagonist play and how?
The Mafia is the Antagonist, and they are a clear Authority. They dictate every aspect of Rhino’s life, and have even convinced him that it is in his best interest.
Supporting Characters…
JOEY PAONE, 34, the Capo, Rhino’s best friend since they were children, also the youngest of five siblings. He often flexes his power and has a Napoleonic way about him. He does what he’s told, but when his father isn’t around, he’s the boss in his eyes.
BILLIE BELLE, 28, the love interest, a single Mother of two kids, she works nights and her brother watches the children for her. She has goals and dreams, and doesn’t let many people in, similar to Rhino.
GUISEPPE PAONE, early 70’s, the Don of the Paone crime family for thirty years, has his hands in everyone’s pockets including the Police.
Minor roles…
Rhino’s family.
Rhino’s opponents.
Rhino’s targets.
Pick your genre…
This is a (Crime) Drama so sort of a Thriller too.
SEVERINO PERISI, aka The Rhino or Rhino
Role in the story: The protagonist, a professional boxer, and debt collector/leg breaker for the mob.
Age range and description: Rhino, 34, is thick all over, he doesn’t have much of a neck, and his face looks like a 34 year old punching bag. A fat nose broken a few too many times, permanently puffy eyelids, and a square jaw. His shiny black pomp whisps over his brow, and covers his ears. His olive skin looks like a tan in the winter, complimenting a shiny gold Cornicello and chain.
Internal journey: Rhino begins the film a hardened man, who isn’t very smart, and has no one looking out for him. He has accepted a lifestyle he isn’t truly happy with because he believes he doesn’t have any options. He will discover his worth, and challenge the forces against him, and finally break free of this controlled lifestyle. He also realizes that he doesn’t have any love in his life, and pursuing his love interest is something he wants.
External journey: As a boxer Rhino’s entire career has been carried by the Mob and the sportsbook. His record floats around .500, and he makes more money serving the Mob’s fix, than he does actually fighting. He realizes that he never really reached his full potential even though he felt like he was a better boxer than anybody. He realizes he was being used, in and out of the ring, and he wants to change it.
Motivation: Rhino’s initial motivation is survival. He’s worked for the Mob his entire adult life, and uses the means to support his poor family. He soon begins to find some value in himself through his love interest, and realizes he isn’t living for himself, but for someone else.
Wound: The last relationship he had was with the girl who married Joey Paone.
Mission/Agenda: To break free of the control of the Mafia.
Secret: He is a romantic, a lover, and a gentle man.
What makes them special?
He is a sweet and charming guy when he lets his guard down.
JOEY PAONE
Role in the story: Joey is Rhino’s best friend since grade school. However, his intentions for Joey and his actions towards Rhino are harmful, but his hate is perceived as love.
Age range and description: Joey Paone, 33, stomps everywhere he goes, you can hear him coming from a mile away, but when he arrives, people are often surprised by his height. A true Napoleon, constantly feeling the need to flex his muscle.
Internal journey: Joey knows he isn’t very smart, and if it wasn’t for his father he would be a nobody. When he starts to lose control of Rhino he reveals how he really views Rhino, and everyone. Expendable. He’s the loneliest man in the room, even when he’s the center of the party.
External journey: Joey is losing control of the whole operation as Rhino begins to do his own thing and not follow through on orders. Joey loses the little control he has and starts making a mess of things.
Motivation: Power and control.
Wound: He knows people make fun of him behind his back. He was picked on when he was young.
Mission/Agenda: To take over the family business
Secret: He targeted Rhino years ago because he was threatened by him. He stole his girl, he stole his career, he set him up for a lonely reserved life intentionally.
What makes them special?
He is the son of the Don, he’s the Capo.
BILLIE BELLE
Role in the story: Billie is Rhino’s catalyst for change, the love interest.
Age range and description: Billie, 28, is the most “exotic” woman in Rhino’s Italian-American life. She’s African-American, tall and athletic looking, but her big glasses and large books that she lugs around suggest she’s quite smart. Her smile is the best moment of Rhino’s week.
Internal journey: Billie is a very strong woman, but her maternal instincts draw her to Rhino who looks like a lost puppy in her eyes. She has maintained her family on her own for ten years, and she displays a confident grasp of it all. She eventually opens up to Rhino about the difficulty of being a single Mother and the pain she goes through in moments when she is alone. She doesn’t know how to be vulnerable, and doesn’t see the power in talking about her pain.
External journey: She works nights, and attends school three evenings a week. When she finishes school she decides to move to North Carolina with her family, she hopes that Rhino will meet them there.
Motivation: She at first wants to help Rhino in some way. She sees him as a broken man. She falls for him, but also has a family to look after. When she decides to go to North Carolina, it is a decision made for her and her family, and asking Rhino to meet her there is overcoming her vulnerability.
Wound: She was abandoned by her baby daddy.
Mission/Agenda: To be a strong Mother who provides and raises good men. To help Rhino see the good in himself.
Secret: Her favorite movie is On the Waterfront. Rhino reminds her of Brando.
What makes them special?
She has the ability to see inside of people through their eyes, but in doing so she also reveals herself. A vulnerable trait/gift that she doesn’t offer to just anyone.
GIUSEPPE PAONE
Role in the story: The Don, the macro Antagonist, dictator of Joey and the way of life for anyone under his umbrella.
Age range and description: Referred to as Don Giuseppe, and sometimes Godfather, 71, is a stoic psychopath. He is cold as the ice in his glass, rarely expressing emotion. He is sure to always dress in a way to demonstrate his value, and covered with gold jewelry.
Internal journey: He doesn’t have faith in his son’s ability to take over the business but he can’t tell anyone and reveal a weakness in the operation.
External journey: He begins losing money because of Rhino’s performance in the ring, and lack of execution in his job. He’s going to take matters into his own hands.
Motivation: Power.
Wound: None.
Mission/Agenda: Rule all.
Secret: He’d kill his own son if he had to.
What makes them special?
He’s the Godfather.
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EUGENE’S CHARACTER PROFILES – PART 1
What I learned from this assignment is that thinking more about each character helps to delineate their differences and similarities, making them well rounded and able to more easily interact with each other.
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.
Hero… Celeste will train Patrick for the debates and how to be an effective speaker…
Explorer
Runner
Fighter
Victim
Dreamer… Celeste will point Patrick in the right direction when he needs support in implementing his ideas.
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Villain
Change Agent – Celeste is the change agent in the film, but Patrick is who she changes as she helps him implement his proposed changes in a concrete way.
Authority… The government and the other candidates try to stop the campaign, but the dynamic duo of Celeste and Patrick are more than they bargained for.
Predator
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: Samuel BrightCloud… Celeste’s mentor and elder of the tribe.
Seco BrightCloud… Samuel’s son, leader in the Native American Movement
Barb… Patrick’s former girlfriend
Minor roles: Ray… A mentally unstable man who tried to assassinate Patrick Lee.
The Republican and Democratic candidates for President.
The reigning President of the U.S.
Background characters: The campaign workers, crowds, etc.
5. Pick your genre.
If I was to pick one genre, it would definitely be “A Solution Film”
Rom-Com or Buddy Movie (This would be the closest listed genre as films it has similarities to would be: “Meet John Doe,” “My Fair Lady” and “Rain Man.”)
Thriller
Horror
Action
Drama
Sci-Fi
Comedy
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Celeste is the catalyst that makes Patrick’s run for the Presidency possible.
Patrick falls in love with Celeste at first sight, he follows her directions like a puppy dog.
Age range and Description: Patrick is in his mid-30’s and Asian American.
Celeste is in her mid-40’s and Native American.
Internal Journey:
Celeste’s parents died when she was young and she was raised by the tribe. She wants to reach her potential and her dreams guide her. She is a Seer.
Patrick who grew up without his parents in a institution wants to feel loved and be independent.
External Journey:
Patrick wants to change the world for the better and feels he can accomplish it by being elected President of the United States.
Celeste must follow her visions to become President of the U.S.
Motivation:
Celeste sees herself as the first Native American President of the U.S.
Patrick wants to solve the problems of the U.S. and rest of the world.
Wound:
Celeste lost both her parents at a young age in a plane crash.
Patrick’s parents left. They could not deal with his autism. His girlfriend left him when he became blind.
Mission/Agenda:
Celeste must help Patrick to reach his goals in order to reach hers.
Patrick must change the U.S. political system and solve the problems people face every day.
Secret:
Celeste is starting to have feelings for Patrick.
Patrick feels ashamed that he has such strong feelings for Celeste.
What makes them special?
Celeste is a Seer, she must follow her vision.
Patrick thinks in a different way than the majority. He is a problem solver.
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WHAT I LEARNED DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT IS I’ve picked out specific character description and this gives me a framework to stay within.
Role of protagonist – victim
Role of antagonist – predator
Supporting characters: Mexican cartel girlfriend , victim’s mom
Minor roles: police investigator
Background characters:
cartel, police officers,Genre – thriller
Role in the story: protagonist- a story writer who is a
struggling screenwriter in Hollywood.Age range and Description: in
his 30’s and a normal schlub. Not exciting.Internal Journey: is without confidence and learns he is
more that what he thinks he is.
External Journey: he lives a quiet life that gets upturned
and tries to get back to normalMotivation: to help form the
movie company that the antagonist claims he wants to form.
Wound: Has been single for most
of his life and lacks the confidence that love can bring.Mission/Agenda: To find out
what the antagonist is actually about because there is a lot of negative
energy coming into the apartment.Secret: He lacks a story and ability to tell so
he wants help and falls for the antagonist’s idea of forming a movie
company.What makes them special? They have hopes and dreams and kindness
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7. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?”
What I learned was that this is a new way of looking how to learn more about my characters and 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.
Victim – Patricia is a victim, who strives to right the wrongs that her father causes against herself and her mother. She realises that she is the only one in her family who will protect her mother.
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
· Villain/Change Agent/Authority – Jesse is Patricia’s father. He actually has several roles because as well as being a prick, he is a change agent who causes Patricia to change and as he’s her father he is also an authority figure to her.
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: Pearl (Patricia’s mother), Blake – Patricia’s Father, Uncle DrewMinor roles: Siblings, Other relativesBackground characters: Neighbours, Friends
5. Pick your genre.
Drama (Faith/Biopic)
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Patricia is the hero, who looks after her mother’s illness worsens.Age range and Description: Patricia goes from a child to an adult 40.Internal Journey: Has to find the courage to stand up to her father and then later on to forgive him.External Journey: From child who is cared for by her mother, to an adult who cares for her mother.Motivation: Protecting the welfare of her mother.Wound: Her father had denied that she was his daughter.Mission/Agenda: To get married and make sure that her mother is cared for.Secret: Her Father is and adulterer and wants to kill her.What makes them special? She is the type of daughter any man would be proud of, but he is the nightmare of a father no one would want.
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Pam’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned: Having a hard time wrapping my head around Henri’s love interest being the Antagonist! I will learn to get used to it.
ROM-COM
HENRI BERGER (Protagonist)
Role in the story: Runner / Victim. Up-and-coming celebrity hairstylist whose career and life gets upended when he witnesses a murder and is relocated for his safety.
Age range and Description: Male, 30s. Perfect hair, fashion-conscious.
Internal Journey: Henri goes from being obsessive, anal, and insecure — governed by what others think — to a guy who “keeps it real” and redefines what’s important in his life.
External Journey: From image-conscious, accomplished celebrity hairstylist to creative and sought-after dog groomer. From needing to be part of the “it” crowd to a guy who prefers the company of his real friends.
Motivation: Creativity. To excel in his craft.
Wound: Needs to get past his “less-than” self-image as a middle-class grade school kid in a school with upper-class, snooty kids.
Mission/Agenda: To figure out who hired the hit on movie star Bradley James. He is living incognito in a new world and doesn’t know who to trust.
Secret: He’s not who he says he is. Hiding his true identity while in a witness protection program.
What makes him special? He’s incredibly adaptable. Able to turn lemons into lemonade, shit into Shinola. That skill set will really come in handy in his new, faux world.
ACADIA PARKS (Antagonist1)
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Role in the story: Change Agent / Love Interest. Dog shelter director in a small Vermont town, and *Cameron’s younger sister (*Henri’s new boss).
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Age range and Description: Female, 30s, natural beauty. Practicality trumps fashion.
Internal Journey: Goes from suspicious to trusting (twice), and from reserved to happy.
External Journey: From guarded, to open to new relationship possibilities
Motivation: Wants to play by her own rules in life. Values individuality. Doesn’t believe in dressing or behaving to impress other people.
Wound: Was hurt in her last relationship; she keeps single men at arm’s length.
Secret: Prefers the company of dogs over some people. She knows they’re loyal.
What makes her special? She has so much love to give, but rarely opens up to anyone but
her dogs.
MARC RICHE (Antagonist2)
Role in the story: Predator. Owns the Marc Riche Hair Salon in Beverly Hills. The Hairstylist to the Stars. A narcissist who is threatened by the talent of his protégé, Henri.
Age range and Description: Male, 40s, immaculately dressed. Mannequin hair.
Internal Journey: None
External Journey: From hairstyling demigod to dangerous narcissist
Motivation: Wants to continue his reign as The Hair Superstar.
Wound: He mentored a salon intern (Henri) who outshines him in a number of ways.
Mission/Agenda: He wants Henri out of his life
Secret: He hires a hitman to kill Henri. Unfortunately, the wrong guy gets killed.
What makes him special? He is an evil creative genius. He was the best in his field for years, but it was never enough. Still so insecure that he needs to see his name everywhere — on signs, hair product, at sponsored events — to reaffirm his status.Supporting characters:
Chuck MacKay, Hitman
Detective Kurt Stone, Lead on the Bradley James murder investigation
Cameron Parks, owns the Sitting Pretty Dog Grooming Salon where Henri will work
Jared, Henri’s best friend since grade schoolMinor roles: Movie star Bradley James (murder victim), his supermodel wife Tiffany, her ex-husband/actor Conan King, Studio CEO Stuart Drake, and Chico the Parrot
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Sam Reynolds Character Profiles Part 1
The toughest part of me about this assignment was answering some of the questions for my main character. What these questions do begin to point out to me is my character’s arc and how I can best support it.
Assignment Two
Protagonist: Explorer/Dreamer: After the termination of her baby, Nadine slowly spirals into a grieving altered reality and chooses to go against all convention and deliver her dead baby at home on her own terms. A wall flower who has little self-confidence turns into a woman who follows her own path no matter what the cost.
Antagonist: Authority: Johnny, Nadine’s husband, is a cautious and follow the rules kind of guy who finds comfort in being conventional.
Minor Roles:
Dr. Cooper and Dr. Bates – obstetricians who terminated the pregnancy
Dr. Bryant – the couple’s obstetrician
Kyla – Nadine’s mid-wife
Karen, Annie and Leslie – pregnant moms in the neighborhood
Genre: Drama
Protagonist:
Role in the story: Explorer/Dreamer: This is Nadine’s story. She desperately wants a life that lives in her imagination and after her baby is terminated, she slowly descends into an altered and exaggerated reality, choosing to deliver her dead baby at home on her own terms. A wall flower who has little self-confidence turns into a woman who follows her own path no matter what.
Age range and Description: late 30s to early 40s. Very pregnant, lives a simple life, has had 3 miscarriages before this pregnancy. Desperately wants a child.
Internal Journey: From a woman who has lived her life to please others to a woman who discovers the strength to control her own destiny.
External Journey: From the termination of her baby to then giving birth to her dead baby in her home as she always wanted, to pretending to the outside world that this baby is alive.
Motivation: to have a baby
Wound: unable to carry a baby up until now. Seems like every other woman can.
Mission/Agenda: to give birth one time her way.
Secret: Chronological time has run out – she knows this was her last shot of being a biological mother to a child. Her belief that you are not a woman if you cannot procreate.
What makes her special: her resourcefulness and determination despite those around her telling her no.
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Bob Colley – Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this is to fill in the blanks and let it flow.
2. Protagonist: Fighter/hero – A small town sheriff steps up to take down a local terrorist group.
3. Antagonist: Villain /predator – Willing to kill thousands for his beliefs sparks a man hunt.
4. Other characters:
Supporting characters: hero’s partner
Minor roles: hero’s boss
Background characters: you have to have henchmen.
5. Genre: Drama
6. Lead character profile: Hero
Role in the story: leads the hunt for the terror cell.
Age range and Description: Mid 30’s, ex-FBI
Internal Journey: unsure
External Journey: totally confident
Motivation: stop the terrorists before they kill thousands
Wound: in a raid he was leading went sideways and he was shot and several agents killed
Mission/Agenda: stop the terrorists and all costs
Secret:
What makes them special?
Lead character profile – Villain
Role in the story: anti-government agenda; kill and be killed
Age range and Description: 40’s, ex-Seal,
Internal Journey: hurt and strikes out
External Journey: violence will solve and change the government
Motivation: punish the government
Wound: lost his family in a botched FBI raid
Mission/Agenda: take on the government
Secret:
What makes them special?
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Veleka’s Character Profiles Part 1
I’m not able to paste into this field like I was yesterday for Day One. Don’t know what to do about that.
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Veleka’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that if there is a proper framework, this is a fast-blooming story.
PROTAGONIST – Fighter – she’s mainly a fighter, came from a hardscrabble childhood. She is a medical doctor and psychiatrist and counsels the others.
ANTAGONIST – Predator – he’s the secret killer who seems to be interested in her office space as a real estate venture, but that’s his cover story. He’s buried bodies there. It’s his killing ground.
SUPPORTING – her friend and assistant, the Detective, the Female Cop, the others in our family, the strange Handyman.
MINOR ROLES – the Little Girl, the Little Girl’s Mother, the man who flirts, the secretary
BACKGROUND – neighbors resistant to them moving into the neighborhood, visitors, clients
GENRE – Buddy Movie with elements of Thriller, Magical Realism, Visionary, Christian
PROTAGONIST PROFILE
Role in the story: Feminist, healer, teacher
• Age range and Description: overweight deliberately so men aren’t attracted and the girth gives stability and authority
• Internal Journey: realizing that she can be fully a woman and fully a man and let all parts play while still doing her duty and following her vocation
• External Journey: protecting her tribe and neighborhood from crime
• Motivation: helping people makes me feel really good and being of service as a counselor
• Wound: was disappointed in love long ago
• Mission/Agenda: to see that our work is given credit and respect, even if we are mere women
• Secret: intensely sexual and have to restrain it much of the time, and do so by diving into beauty anywhere can find it
• What makes them special? She’s ahead of her time and will find this out as the show goes on. Also, she has Discernment of Spirits, so can really help people.
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Brendan Williams Character Profiles 1
In this assignment, I learned to work more from the inside and then out. Sometimes people start with what the characters look like, but instead I got to start with their wound and backstory and how that affects their current life in the story.
Protagonist:
Anita Pearson. (Dreamer).Antagonist:
Valerie Pearson. (Villain).Genre:
Drama.Character
Profile #1: Anita Pearson.Role
in the Story: Dreamer.Age
Range and Description: 20-years-old.
Wears vintage clothes and likes being creative about her fashion
sense. Very physically fit since she’s athletic.Internal
Journey: Anita starts out as
someone suffering from depression to moving on to the final stage of
the grieving process which is acceptance.External
Journey: Anita goes from being
a young woman who needs love and affection from her mother to
becoming the parent figure in the relationship and decides to help
her mother instead of abandoning her.Motivation:
Wants to be unconditionally
loved by her mother.Wound:
Anita has a guilty conscience
by the death of her brother and feels somewhat responsible.Mission/Agenda:
To understand why exactly her
mother refuses to acknowledge her. Also, she’s trying to get into the
writing program at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.Secret:
She was giving Sam opioids and
that could’ve led to his suicide. Also, she’s the only one who knows
Sam committed suicide since she hid the suicide note form her mother.What
makes them special? Anita is a
damaged young person who’s unable to develop new relationships in
life because she fears that she’ll be abandoned or betrayed by them.
She tries to build a better future for herself by applying to a
college in Dublin, Ireland.Character
Profile #2: Valerie Pearson.Role
in the Story: Villain.Age
Range and Description: Late-forties.
Looks like a typically New England farmer. Often wears a cross
necklace around her neck since she’s religious.Internal
Journey: Valerie goes from
being in denial about her son’s suicide to moving onto the next stage
of the grieving process which is anger.External
Journey: Valerie refuses to
enter Sam’s room and won’t even pack it up before the moving men
arrives, however at the end she finally builds the courage to enter
the room.Motivation:
Valerie wants to prove to
herself that she’s a good and caring mother.Wound:
A year ago, Valerie lost her
17-year-old son to suicide and even after a year, she’s still in
denial about it and refuses to accept that he’s gone.Mission/Agenda:
Valerie decides to throw Sam a
successful birthday party before finishing packing up the house.Secret:
Anita was conceived during a
rape and the rapist was never caught. She never wanted a second child
and therefore she would take her anger out on Anita. Meanwhile, she’s
also doing opioids behind Anita’s back.What
makes them special? A small
town farmer and the piano player at her local church. Valerie is a
war veteran still dealing with PTS and other complications that arise
from her son’s suicide. She refuses to accept her son committed
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Sandra’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that this is an easier process for creating characters than what I have used in the past.
Genre: Thriller
PROTAGONIST: LUCY
Role in the Story: Victim/Dreamer. Ambitious, yet innocent and naïve about research funding
Age Range and Description: Female, early 30’s, physically fit, intelligent, researcher.
Internal Journey: From fearful and timid to strong and confident.
External journey: From a timid Ph.D. student to taking down a manipulative professor.
Motivation: Defend her dissertation and become a professor/researcher.
Wound: Abandonment. Doesn’t know who her father is (family secret).
Mission/Agenda: To find out who is sabotaging her research.
Secret: Maybe pregnant, but hasn’t told her husband. Afraid of public speaking.
What Makes Them Special: Her ability to analyze, pay attention to details, and go deeper.
ANTAGONIST: GEORGE THOMAS
Role in the Story: Change Agent/Predator. Manipulative university professor.
Age Range and Description: Male, 50’s, brilliant, and arrogant.
Internal Journey: From feeling powerful to powerless.
External journey: From top professor/researcher to jail cell.
Motivation: To obtain a large grant to support his research project.
Wound: Hasn’t received the recognition he feels he deserves.
Mission/Agenda: To sabotage Lucy’s research as it undermines his research.
Secret: He killed a coworker.
What Makes Them Special: His brilliance at disguising himself, hiding from authorities, controlling and manipulating others.
Other Characters: Lucy’s family (husband, mother, brother, sister). Research assistant. Mystery man following Lucy. Paramedics. FBI agent.
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Adam’s character profile 1
What I learned from this assignment: ‘wound’ and ‘secret’ are great to keep top of mind when thinking of how the character might react in certain situations, plus if aligned with an external obstacle – how does that play out?
Protagonist: Victim/Fighter
Antagonist: Authority
Supporting Characters: Wife, kids, best friend
Minor roles: neighbours, students, politicians
Background characters: news/media, Youtube creators, alt news sources, oppressed population
Genre: Comedy/Thriller… Comedy/sci-fi?
Protagonist: Les Beamington
Role in the Story: Self-conscious school teacher who comes out of denial to realize what’s really happening during a world threat only to realize he can’t not do anything.
Age range and description: mid 40s, decent looking, guarded, funny, fit
Internal Journey: From being fearful and living in denial/under a veil to brave and eyes wide open.
External Journey: From living a comfortable, quiet and ‘safe’ life to a freedom fighter trying to save humanity.
Motivation: to protect his children
Wound: humiliated as a child when he spoke up
Mission/agenda: to uncover the truth and save his kids/family from population control agenda
Secret: that he’s learning the truth, that goes against norms
What makes him special: his true empathy and desire to do good ends up making him very resourceful
Antagonist: Mayor Elizabeth Donaldson (representative of ‘the system’)
Role in the Story: Tightly wound politician who speaks out of both sides of her mouth. She ‘speaks for the people’, but caters to her constituents and uses the bad situation to further her own agendas and make more money. Not really knowing what she’s paving the way for. She is known as ‘the people’s politico’.
Age range and description: mid 50s, very fit and attractive, kind and open face, well put together
Internal Journey: From rationalizing her self-centred decisions to realizing she doesn’t care
External journey: From attempting to keep chaos under control to hammering down the iron fist with impunity
Motivation: Power and money
Wound: neglected and unloved as a child
Mission/agenda: to steer the focus away from her dirty dealings and backroom deals to make more money
Secret: Make it secrets, but she really loves rocky road ice cream and crushing people who are weak
What makes her special: Her ability to lie without breaking a sweat
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Michael O’Keefe
Homework – Day 2
[1] What I learned doing this assignment? By providing guidelines and parameters for the hero, antagonist and supporting characters, I can begin to plot out the action scenes, turning points and begin planting “bread crumbs”
[2] Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Clendon’s role in the story: Hero / Fighter. Angry without a clue how to find out who killed his mother. Young man out of his depth, but not afraid to face anyone.
Age range and Description: Male, Late teens, physical specimen, martial arts expert.
[3] Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Role of the Antagonist in the story: Change Agent. As Clendon’s surrogate father, J.R.Foster, an ex Marine, knows about death, loss and what killing takes out of a person.
[4] What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters in the story: Homicide Detective, Ramirez, Dino’s guardian angel
Supporting characters in the story: Clendon’s best friend & future lover, Natalie Foster
Minor roles in the story: Mary, Clendon’s mother, the philanthropist
Minor roles in the story: Clendon’s current girl friend, Gina Reynolds
Minor roles in the story: Clendon’s father, Trevor Reedloc III
Minor roles in the story: Joe-Joe, vet, homeless, saves Clendon’s life
Background characters in the story: Lagina Ramirez’s associates: Det., Riley & Det., James
[5] Pick your genre.
Drama – characters experience a lot of emotional and mental conflict.
[6] Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Clendon – Protagonist / lead character
[1] Role in the story: Protagonist, high-school senior, an outsider, loner into his own “thing.”
[2] Age range and Description: Eighteen, physical specimen, martial arts expert who always sides with the under-dog, the downtrodden and homeless.
[3] Internal Journey: From feelings of anger and despair (unable to save his mother) to discovering her killer and embracing forgiveness and letting vengeance go.
[4] External Journey: A clueless teen who through luck and insight discovers the identity of his mother’s killer and rises above his want for vengeance and embraces forgiveness.
[5] Motivation: To find his mother’s killer and exact justice.
[6] Wound: His father’s disapproval of him as a person and disregard for him as a son.
[7] Mission/Agenda: catch his mother’s killer.
[8] Secret: He feels guilty for moving out of his mother’s home, leaving her alone. He feels like he abandoned her the way his father abandoned them both.
[9] What makes them special? Clendon’s ability to see past circumstance and pursue what is right, what will make a positive difference in peoples’ lives no matter what others think.
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Jsneen’s Character Profiles Part 2
What I learned from doing this assignment is I either knew more about these people than I thought, or this process is working well.
My lead characters:
Jym (Jymima)
Role in the story: Jym is the hero. <div>
Age range and Description: Late 20’s, fit but 50 pounds overweight, black, attractive – but not stunning
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Internal Journey: From obedient, but frustrated little sister who fails whenever she tries a diet to dedicated and brave explorer who finds a better diet and rescues others who are in trouble from excess weight or Type II.
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External Journey: From 50 pound overweight, fit woman to trim, fit woman with more energy, confidence and bravery who establishes a program to fit the lifestyles and budgets of her gym membership.
Motivation: To lose weight and keep it off easily, save her S-I-L’s life, help others at her gym with Type II or pre-diabetes become healthy.
Wound: Feels an obligation to follow her brother’s orders since he saved her from bullies and ordered her to leave so he could handle it. He has been giving her orders (things he considers to be for her own good) ever since and she tries sincerely to follow them even when she thinks he is wrong.
Mission/Agenda: To save her neighborhood and loved ones from the ravages of obesity and Type II.
Secret: She has disobeyed her brother before and things have worked out, but she has always felt guilty about it. She feels inadequate to deal with health issues if she disagrees with her brother because he is an MD and she is an exercise physiologist (BA)
What makes them special?: She is modest enough about her capabilities to feel the need to rely on authority and back everything up with research before trying things herself. She also insists that anyone trying her diet and exercise program do so with a doctor’s supervision since she doesn’t want to be responsible for blood sugar problems or other issues if they can be prevented by having a doctor on board.
What draws us to this character? Her big personality, hard work, genuine affection for her clientele and her modesty about the Trainer’s affection for her.
Traits: Hard-working, noisy, genuine, sharp
Subtext: Not good at hiding things so if people look closely, she gives away when she thinks something is BS and when she is really behind something.
Flaw: She second-guesses herself whenever she disagrees with her brother. He was always older and wiser than her when she was a kid and she’s having a hard time believing he isn’t still in spite of his awful diets and exercise plans.
Values: Caring for people and keeping them well is very important. She loves her family and neighborhood more than anything. She values knowledge/research and proof of “rightness”.
Irony: She is afraid to believe her research over her brother and vacillates between the two feeling guilty when she chooses her own research over her brother’s decrees.
What makes this the right character for this role? She’s bold and blunt enough to stand up to her brother, ignore the trainer’s advances and fight for the S-I-L that can’t seem to do it for herself.
Doc
Role in the story: Doc is the Change Agent. Doc is a budding endocrinologist with a wife and two kids. He’s strapped for money paying back his med school loans and is madly in love with his wife. </div>
Age range and Description: Mid-30’s, black, trim, hard working and worships the neighborhood-guy-famous-doc and that’s why he, too, became and endocrinologist.
Internal Journey: From by-the-book doc who especially relies on his hero’s work to doing the research to find what works and adapting it to the individual.
External Journey: From confident and adamant promoter of diets and exercise by ADA and his hero to the point of being dictatorial to caring, open-to-new-ideas doc who trusts research more than reputation.
Motivation: To save his wife’s life, make a name for himself in the field like his hero did, and pay back his student loans.
Wound: Feels like a fraud when people call him a hero. He has failed to be heroic in his mind when he got beaten up after saving his sister, can’t save his wife and has watched helplessly as she goes downhill and sees his neighborhood moving in the same direction.
Mission/Agenda: To save his wife and make enough money for the practice to keep his job. To keep up with his peers at the practice.
Secret: He’s not very sure of himself anymore because his ways have not brought health or weight loss to people, only shame and failure.
What makes them special?: He is passionately in love with his wife and she with him and regardless her weight and health, they are at it like rabbits whenever they alone are in the same room. He is sincere, even if misguided, in his desire to help people. He has made it this far by willpower and hard work.
What draws us to this character? His hard work, charm, do-gooder intentions and natural charisma.
Traits: Energetic, Emphatic, Outwardly assured, Didactic
Subtext: Sounds more emphatic and sure of himself when he has doubts — after all, if he can’t convince himself, how can he convince others, so he must convince himself when he speaks what he believes or wants to believe is the truth.
Flaw: His hero worship blocks his ability to see that more research has been done since his hero’s day and the source of funding is important.
Values: Family and love above all. Must repay debts and uphold his reputation in the neighborhood.
Irony: The more adamant and self-assured he sounds, the less sure he really is, but people haven’t caught on because he is very convincing.What makes this the right character for this role? He needs humanity (his love for his wife and family), a conviction that he is working for good (his belief that it is his mission to save his wife and get everyone healthier), and his own hero worship (justified long ago) that demonstrates that it’s sometimes time to move on from our heroes.
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Carissa’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned—Ron has become a deeper character with more layers.
Protagonist: Ron Glazer; 42, Fighter—With everything he does, he jumps in with both feet. He’s righteous and believes in right and wrong. He wants to serve his country in any way he can.
Antagonist: Paulo Habladoro; 38, Villain/Predator—He’s a narcissist and liar. Doesn’t care who he screws over. Doesn’t like laws or listen to authority. He only wants to make a billion dollars.
Supporting: Maxine; 40, Ron’s wife. No nonsense, works with Ron, teaches and is a mom. Thick NY accent. Don’t mess with her.
Supporting: Ian McBain; 37, Good-looking British actor who has optioned the best script in town. He has low self esteem, has tantrums.
Supporting: Mike Atkinson; 39, US Treasury Special Agent. Loves being an agent. Secretive yet likeable. Gives Ron assignments. Uses Ron. Knows art house movies.
Supporting: Saudi princes (Still working on details)
Minor: Agent Donckles; 45, gets Ron back in the game.
Minor: Bobby St. John; 23, pretty actress Ron represents. She’s always coming on to Ron. Wants him to leave his wife for her.
Minor: Sabrina, 25, Cheerleader pretty. Ron’s client. She books TV specials. Likes to date the set electrician, gaffer.
Minor: Ron’s kids—Alan and Mike, 12 and 10.
Minor: Angel—20, Ron’s receptionist.
Genre: Dark comedy
Lead character profiles:
Ron: Protag. Talent manager who is recruited to work undercover for the US Treasury.
Age range: Young Ron at 18-21 is tough, popular, hated school, but is impressive to the Dean of students. 20 years later he has a successful management company and wants to produce. He’s used to being the BMOC type guy.
Internal: Ron goes from thinking he has to do everything to feel successful to working solely undercover. He starts with the notion that what’s in his life is not enough and ends up realizing his family and working with the Treasury fulfill him.
External: Ron tries to raise 25 million for Ian’s film and is being lead on by Paulo. At the same time Ron has to get info from Paulo about the Saudis. When Paulo fails to get the money and the Saudi princes are caught, Ron realizes he’d rather focus on helping the good guys.
Motivation: Wants to raise 25 million to make a movie/Needs to leave Hollywood.
Wound: Has to prove himself. Never felt loved by his father. Resolves that he is good enough.
Mission/Agenda: Ron tries to raise 25 mill, keep his clients happy, help Paulo find the people who stole the Sheik’s money, get Paulo to work undercover, until Ron realizes he doesn’t have to prove himself, he has enough with his family and is satisfied serving his country.
Secret: Hiding that he works undercover. Hiding that he has to constantly prove his worth.
Special: Ron is truly capable and doesn’t have to prove it. He’s wise, insightful and street smart but needs to know this for himself.
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Jeff’s Character Profiles
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Fighter </font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Predator </font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>4. What other characters might be necessary? </font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Supporting characters: his team for the assault</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Minor roles: office workers</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Background characters: waitress, congressman</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>5. Pick your genre.</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Action </font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles:</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Role in the story: Fighter / Victim. Retired colonel who misses leading people to victory; is taken advantage of by modern technology</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Age range and Description: late 50s male, still in good shape due to strong work ethic and discipline.</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Internal Journey: From retired and feeling not useful to finding new purpose that is appreciated by all Americans.</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>External Journey: From being a military leader to being a civilian one; assaulting an office versus a military target. </font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Motivation: needs to help a friend who is scammed and loses his life savings; wants to know he is still capable soldier/leader</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Wound: retirement, also possible discharge before he was ready to retire</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Mission/Agenda: to take out office building of cold calling telemarketing company.</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>Secret: that he wants to continue to use his leadership skills and discovers that he can do it in the civilian world too.</font></font></font>
<font color=”#343434″><font face=”Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif”><font size=”2″>What makes them special? That he really cares about people and the American Way.</font></font></font>
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Doing this assignment helped me find the emotional core of my story for the protagonist.
George
ROLE IN THE STORY: (Fighter / Dreamer.) A tireless technical support to theater and performance artists, George has to fight his own demons and authorities to join the artists ranks as he writes and directs a play, his own dream.
AGE AND DESCRIPTION: Male (or female), late 20s, Fit, Smart, wry.
INTERNAL JOURNEY: Goes from trying to help/please everyone else to being a successful writer/director.
EXTERNAL JOURNEY: From working for others to creating his own theater production.
MOTIVATION: After years of working for others George needs to take the writer/director ride for his own play.
Wound: He melts down and freezes up when the emotion gets heavy and he’s the one that has to make a decision.
MISSION/AGENDA: To wrestle a strange dream to the stage, exploring its message as he goes. And in doing so find out if he has what it takes.
SECRET: Panic and indecision can cripple him.
WHAT MAKES THEM SPECIAL? George can be very insightful encouraging and extremely crafty when working for others.
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Mary Buchanan
Lesson 2 Who are we traveling with?
What I learned from this assignment? I am visualizing the characters more, but I am creating more drama (conflict) in my head. I always map my characters, but this is greater detail and I know them better.
2. Type of role for the protagonist Liz
Dreamer
3. Antagonist Jake Jones, famous country singer
Villain He dumped Liz and is returning to get her as an investor. His success has faded. He’s broke and will marry her if he has to.
4. The parents of Liz and Travis
Marty and husband, sister of Travis
Becca – The ex-wife of Travis (the antagonist of Travis)
Sam, the bartender, who treats Liz like a daughter
The bellhop who heads the confusion about the name Sarah
The head of security for the inn who investigates the missing “Sarah”
5. Rom-Com
6. Liz’s Mother – Annabelle (spontaneous, owner of inn, loves her family, creates a family centered place to visit, great in business, detail oriented)
Travis’s parents –
Dad is president of bank in Orlando, calm, easy going, does whatever to
keep the wife happy
Mother does not work, constantly meddles in Travis’ affairs, wants the best
for him, wants him married. “That will make him truly happy!” gullible
Marty – happy, in love with husband, follows mother in all her meddling activities.
gullible
Becca – left her husband because she was bored in a small town, wanted a rich husband, now she is broke, needs money to survive, tricks Jill and Marty into believing Becca nd Travis are reuniting at Bradford Inn at Christmas.
Sam, plays the best friend role and protects and supports Liz,
bellhop is one of the center of comedy, a college student in the field of criminology, wants to solve the big case.
Head of security – retired police officer, fears a murder may occur, looking for “Sarah”
7. Jake Jones
Role: Antagonist: He talked Liz into going to college in music, uses her all through high school to win competitions and make side money, dumps her and goes out on his own career
and makes it for a while. Now the money is slowing down. He comes home every year for Christmas and tries to connect with Liz. Sam has protected her. This year Jake goes through Annabelle and gets a gig at the night club because the other singers canceled.
Age: 25 – 30 same as Liz
He is good looking, dark hair, wears it should length, wear a Cowboy hat, always performing,
knows he is important, is determined to get Liz back this year. He pushes Travis away through a sneaking maneuver. Thanks Becca has money, goes after her. He needs the money. It doesn’t matter who is his next victim.
Mission – to get money to continue singing, needs financial support until he makes it again.
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Pat’s Character Profile Part 2
What I learned doing this assignment is it is interesting to lay out the two characters’ traits and envision how they might interact in the story.
IRA
What draws us to this character? A fish out of water — A young, black kid desires a career in Shakespearean theater. He crosses color barrier into an exclusively white world and, later, crosses the Atlantic into the exclusively European world. He will face chiding and lies about his inadequacy as he forges a path for others to follow. He must develop strategies and tactics to succeed.
Traits: Risk-taker, fighter, intelligent, ambitious.
Subtext: Metaphor, Allusion, Insinuation, Seductive, Crafty
Flaw: Sexual dalliances
Values: Hard work, determination, equality
Irony: He parodies the parodies used to taunt him. He uses tactics that others use against him, such as lies, to boost his social standing and sway public opinion. His professional and social network is white, his wife and mistresses are white, and he is an outspoken, committed abolitionist despite it’s unpopularity with some in his circle.
What makes him the right character for this role? He has a genuine passion for the art. He works hard at it. He can take a fall and get back up.
Gilbert
What draws us to this character? He is a newspaper publisher and theater critic who never attended college, but rises to success as a both a publisher and a magistrate. He is highly successful and considered a refined gentleman. Yet, he is a hardcore racist and willing to display less than cultured behavior to trash Ira.
Traits: Diligent, intelligent, diligent, compassionate to the poor.
Subtext: Refined, Diplomatic/Devious, conniving
Flaw: Racist
Values: Literacy, Sarcasm, Family, Exclusivity
Irony: A descendant of a Cardinal, he is compassionate to the poor, but is incensed by Ira’s boldness. His wife is an opera singer, but he lacks empathy as a critic. His obsession with ending Ira’s career causes him to lose credibility with his publishing peers.
What makes him the right character for this role? Despite both having less than optimal beginnings, his obsession with Ira’s boldness plays into Ira’s hands.
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Anna’s Character Profiles –
What I learned doing this assignment? This helped me flesh out that my hero’s “moral code” needs to be a central issue in both the internal and external conflicts which arise in this story.
1. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
· Hero – Mikhail is the archetypical hero, a former victim who stands up to fight for others.
2. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
· Predator – Moloch is more than an ordinary villain, but archetypical evil.
3. What other characters might be necessary?
· Supporting characters: Ninsianna (love interest/wife), Pareesa (superhero sidekick), Gita (love triangle / wounded past), Lucifer (tragic antihero), Jamin (sacrificial lamb).
· Minor roles: Aturdokht (witness), Eligor (knows a secret), Jophiel (surprise!), Raphael (best friend), Shay’tan (thorn in the side), Kasib (discovers a secret).
· Background characters: various soldiers, warriors, etc.
4. Pick your genre.
· Action / Drama
5. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
· Role in the story: hero
· Age range and Description: early to mid thirties
· Internal Journey: moves from fearful of his “wound” (his dark gift) and his thirst for vengeance, to transcend his tragic past to achieve balance to wield his gift.
· External Journey: moves from sole hero to the general
· Motivation: Moloch has kidnapped his infant son.
· Wound: Moloch genocided his entire planet as a boy. Now, Moloch has taken his son.
· Mission/Agenda: Get back his son and make sure Moloch can’t do to Earth what they did to his homeworld.
· Secret: he wields a terrifying dark power that can either defeat Moloch, or destroy the planet, the entire solar system, and quite possibly the entire galaxy if he loses control. His thirst for vengeance makes wielding this gift highly unstable.
· What makes them special? He was raised by moral people, and then schooled by moral monks, who have given him the tools to (possibly???) learn to wield his dark gift. Despite his thirst for vengeance and bloodlust, he has a deep moral code.
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Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.
I learn more about characters and how to define themselves.
Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Explorer – Moon is a goal getter, risk taker, freedom seeker. In a journal of getting her green card, she learns to face her inner demon and set herself free.
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 is a free spirit American Veteran, helping her to get her freedom to live in the US, while dealing with his life choice.
Pick your genre.
Drama.
Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story:Age range and Description:
Moon and Mike, both in their early 30s, physically fit, natural good looks.
Moon is a Chinese, hardworking, financial manager married to a stranger to get her green card.
Mike is a Texan, an American Veteran , free spirit, helps her unconditionally.
Internal Journey:
She is insecure about her status in the US, fear of losing her rights and freedom to live to set herself free.
He is about to give up his life to give his life a second chance.
External Journey:
During a journey together, they must learn about each other, they discover each other’s inner demons and give each other a second chance to relive their lives.
Motivation:
To gain her rights and freedom to live in the US and lead a successful life.
To help her before he gives up his life.
Wound:
Her abandonment, loss of loved ones.
His hidden disability, mental health, not being valuable to others.
Mission/Agenda:
Her mission is to get her green card.
His mission is to help her to accomplish her goals and then he can check out.
Secrets:
A simple marriage arrangement has made them face each other’s differences and dealt with their demons.
What makes them special?<div>
Two main characters with different cultures and backgrounds enter a complicated journey together. She wants to live but is a living dead. He wants to give up life but lives everyday as if his last day on earth. Their different life approaches end up giving hope to each other.
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Gayle’s Character Profiles Pt. 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that one of my main characters is actually the villain because that’s the role she plays despite her goals being positive. They are contradictory to her partner’s goals and present him with the majority of his challenges.
PROTAGONIST – RICK COFFEY (35) – a Dreamer… he fantasizes his success is in regaining the fame and popularity he had when he and his wife first became paranormal investigators. Rick believes he will be loved and respected more if he is seen as a career success.
PROFILE – A suburban mensch who sees himself as what observers would call a white savior. Raised in lower middle class area of Binghamton, New York with his parents (still married) always working at least two jobs to support three kids – Rick is youngest who wore his older brother’s hand-me-downs. Nice family. Older sister helped him learn how to be respectful and confident with girls. He is unreasonably handsome (which will be commented on by ghosts who parody rom-com tropes) but as a teen, popular kids and superficial girls didn’t like his inability to take them places or buy nice things. Lack of wealth or brand new things created HIS NEED TO BE RICH AND FAMOUS TO BE HAPPY/FULFILLED.
When he was 16, a series of odd electromagnetic events happened in the library where his mom worked nights, leading Rick, his sister and their best friends to find a spirit living in the library. Researching the history of the library through his mother they were able to send the spirit into the light giving Rick an interest in ghosts and other phenomena.
He is charismatic and personable and reasonably intelligent. Scholarship to state safety school SUNY Binghamton where he got is B.S. is Paranormal Psychology.
During his junior year he heard about another student who began showing symptoms of possession while under sedation while having her wisdom teeth pulled. He meets her roommate SAMANTHA COFFEY (their met-cute) and together they resolved the issue of a demon in her roommate that she connects to her grandmother always talked about of being a curse for people of (a specific heritage) and causing harm to the person possessed. Together they got the demon out of her, but the energy would not dissipate so they harnessed it into a vessel that Rick keeps in a vault.
Their love grew from that experience and they married two years after graduation.
INTERNAL JOURNEY – the realize he doesn’t need fame and fortune to be loved for who he is and he is enough
EXTERNAL JOURNEY – to fight the ghosts taking over his house while trying to reconcile with his wife to do a reality show.
ANTAGONIST – SAMANTHA COFFEY – Change Agent… She has different goals that her husband. She is more grounded and confident in where she is as an individual and where they are as a couple. When she gets fed up with Rick’s daydreaming she plans to divorce him, throwing a wrench into all of his goals. They will both need to compromise in order to survive.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS – CAROLINE – Fairy Helper… the ghost who believes she can reunite Rick and Samantha by giving them something to investigate.
DJINN – Villain… the evil force released to really damage the couple and give them a reason to work together and realize how much the want to stay together.
LIT AGENT – Bomb thrower… every time the action escalates or the stakes rise, it is because their Literary Agent has said or done something to make it harder for Rick and Sam to get back together.
MINOR ROLES – the other ghosts who live in their house who work with Caroline. B-story of two ghosts falling in love runs parallel to Rick and Sam falling out of love.
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS – None
GENRE – Hybrid… Supernatural Rom-Com
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Judy’s Character Profiles Part 1
1. Listen to the 3 minute Empowerment Audio FIRST.
2. Protagonist: Runner/Dreamer
3. Antagonist: Change Agent
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters:
Sister/change agent5. Comedy
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Protagonist
Age range and Description:
Teenager
Internal Journey: From runner
to hero
External Journey:
Motivation: Restoring Santa for
her sister.
Wound:
Mission/Agenda: Restoring Santa’s
memory.
Secret:
What makes them special? A
problem solverAntagonist
Age range and Description: Santa
Claus, now just an ordinary middle aged man
Mission/Agenda: Change agent
Secret: He knows who he is.
What makes them special? A
master gift giver7. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is to keep it simple for now. Let the thoughts and characters grow and reveal themselves.
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Lesson 2 – Who Are We Traveling With?
1. What I learned… I learned I need to figure out what exactly makes each character special. I really struggled with that question.
2. My Protagonist is a Runner I think. He’s running from life and running towards death.
3. My Antagonist is a Change Agent. She will protect my Protag’s secret and change him by giving him what he wants… AND MORE!
4. Protag has Lawyer and Staff (1 or 2) + Antag has 2 best friends and a Mom. Background Characters will be Museum Curator + Investigator
5. Genre is a Buddy/Heist Drama
6.
Role in the story: Protag & Antag
Age range and Description:
Protag = Carlisle Northrup Worthington / Billionaire Art Collector, made his money in steel, deceased wife, Mamie Hollister. No children. No direct heirs. AGE: 86, Tall, Thin, Handsome, striking man in his day. Stays fit by walking on treadmill – dedicated.
Antag = Juliet/ Jules, a 13 yr old girl. Working class, single parent household (Mother) Runs with 2 boys – her best friends. They ride their bikes around town with a lot of independence. Jules is a really good pick-pocketer.
Internal Journey: He gets to have one last adventure reminiscent of he and Mamie’s lives together, and in doing so, learns to love living again.
External Journey: He clears his To-Die List when Jules agrees to help him plan and enact the reverse heist.
Motivation: He wants to plan every minute detail of his death, funeral, music, burial, money goes where… all of his choices keep Mamie (and their secret) alive. He somehow needs to trust someone and share his secret without betraying Mamie and his love for her and their life together.
Wound: Loss of his wife has haunted him. Why couldn’t his money have saved her life? Found a better doctor? Stopped her illness.
Mission/Agenda: The mission is to correct the secret without anyone knowing that he and Mamie did it. His purpose (hidden) is to really relive the excitement he and Mamie had when planning and plotting the execution of the secret.
Secret: He is hiding the fact that his late wife was a klepto and he indulged her personality to the highest degree.
What makes them special. ?
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[1] What I learned doing this assignment? By providing guidelines and parameters for the hero, antagonist and supporting characters, I can begin to plot out the action scenes, turning points and begin planting “bread crumbs”
[2] Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Clendon’s role in the story: Hero / Fighter. Angry without a clue how to find out who killed his mother. Young man out of his depth, but not afraid to face anyone.
Age range and Description: Male, Late teens, physical specimen, martial arts expert.
[3] Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Role of the Antagonist in the story: Change Agent. As Clendon’s surrogate father, J.R.Foster, an ex Marine, knows about death, loss and what killing takes out of a person.
[4] What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters in the story: Homicide Detective, Ramirez, Dino’s guardian angel
Supporting characters in the story: Clendon’s best friend & future lover, Natalie Foster
Minor roles in the story: Mary, Clendon’s mother, the philanthropist
Minor roles in the story: Clendon’s current girl friend, Gina Reynolds
Minor roles in the story: Clendon’s father, Trevor Reedloc III
Minor roles in the story: Joe-Joe, vet, homeless, saves Clendon’s life
Background characters in the story: Lagina Ramirez’s associates: Det., Riley & Det., James
[5] Pick your genre.
Drama – characters experience a lot of emotional and mental conflict.
[6] Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Clendon – Protagonist / lead character
[1] Role in the story: Protagonist, high-school senior, an outsider, loner into his own “thing.”
[2] Age range and Description: Eighteen, physical specimen, martial arts expert who always sides with the under-dog, the downtrodden and homeless.
[3] Internal Journey: From feelings of anger and despair (unable to save his mother) to discovering her killer and embracing forgiveness and letting vengeance go.
[4] External Journey: A clueless teen who through luck and insight discovers the identity of his mother’s killer and rises above his want for vengeance and embraces forgiveness.
[5] Motivation: To find his mother’s killer and exact justice.
[6] Wound: His father’s disapproval of him as a person and disregard for him as a son.
[7] Mission/Agenda: catch his mother’s killer.
[8] Secret: He feels guilty for moving out of his mother’s home, leaving her alone. He feels like he abandoned her the way his father abandoned them both.
[9] What makes them special? Clendon’s ability to see past circumstance and pursue what is right, what will make a positive difference in peoples’ lives.
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Jon’s Character Profiles Part 1
Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
PROTAGONIST:
Runner
DreamerPick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
ANTAGONIST:
Authority
What other characters might be necessary?
OTHER CHARACTERS:
Supporting characters: Dad, Mom, Fiance, 2 kids, Adoptive Dad, Adoptive Brother
Minor roles: Not sure
Background characters: Not surePick your genre.
Hero
Action
DramaFill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: individual lost in traumatic circumstance
Age range and Description: 20 or 30 something, physically fit…very handsome and attractive
Internal Journey: Feeling terrible about his criminal ways to feeling great about achieving things legally.
External Journey: From being a two bit hustler to becoming a homeowner and business owner
Motivation: Recovering from his dad’s financial demise
Wound: Seeing his dad fail, thinking he too will fail
Mission/Agenda: Not to fail himself, children, mother, fiancé and FATHER
Secret: He realizes how smart he really is and how capable he is to overcome his doldrums
What makes them special? Surprisingly he has a breaking point when it comes to criminality.Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.
I’ve learned that I have been missing this kind of process, curriculum and forum that obviously makes for a successful writing process!
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Lesson 2: Randy Weaver: “What I learned doing this assignment is: Focus, focus ,focus
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Hero: Adele lives in a world of animal rescue and aspires to become a veterinarian. The animals she rescues fulfills a purpose of making a difference. She feels rescued but alone with her own adopted family.
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Predator: He already killed Adele’s father and sister years ago. He then comes in to contact with Adele. When he realizes who she is, he is determined to murder her to keep his secret and tie up loose ends.
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: Adele’s
boyfriend
Minor roles: Workers at the
Rescue Agency, other interns at the bird sanctuary <div>Background characters: Adele’s
adopted parents, Professor at the Bird Sanctuary, The owner of the Sanctuary
property<div>
5. Pick your genre.
Thriller</div><div>
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Hero/dreamer. She wants to save animals to feel
needed.<div><u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Age range and Description: Female, mid 20’s,
fit, midwestern<u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”><div><div><div>
Internal Journey: Naïve, trusting to questioning, determined, strong in
who she is
External Journey: From shy and trusting to purpose driven to find a
killerMotivation: To find her
place in the worldWound: Not knowing where she came from
Mission/Agenda: To save a bird habitat
Secret: She knows her life was different somehow yet she’s
scared to give up her everyday reality.What makes them special? Her empathy for those struggling, especially animals. Her
intuition proves to be her major strength.</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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Lesson 2: Randy Weaver: “What I learned doing this assignment is: Focus, focus ,focus
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Hero: Adele lives in a world of animal rescue and aspires to become a veterinarian. The animals she rescues fulfills a purpose of making a difference. She feels rescued but alone with her own adopted family.
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Predator: He already killed Adele’s father and sister years ago. He then comes in to contact with Adele. When he realizes who she is, he is determined to murder her to keep his secret and tie up loose ends.
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: Adele’s
boyfriend <div>Minor roles: Workers at the
Rescue Agency, other interns at the bird sanctuaryBackground characters: Adele’s
adopted parents, Professor at the Bird Sanctuary, The owner of the Sanctuary
property<div>
5. Pick your genre.
Thriller</div><div>
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Adelle:
Role in the story: Hero/dreamer. She wants to save animals to feel
needed<div>Age range and Description: Female, mid 20’s,
fit, midwesternInternal Journey: Naïve, trusting to questioning, determined, strong in
who she is
External Journey: From shy and trusting to purpose driven to find a
killerMotivation: To find her
place in the worldWound: Not knowing where she came from
Mission/Agenda: To save a bird habitatSecret: She knows her life was different somehow yet she’s
scared to give up her everyday reality.What makes them special? Her empathy for those struggling, especially animals. Her
intuition proves to be her major strength.Emory Jones
Role in the story: Predator. Adelle’s biological Uncle. He murdered her
father to retain the family’s money for himself. He killed her sister
because she witnessed the first murderAge range and Description: Male, 50’s,
always well dressed, avoids personal interaction with othersInternal Journey: Narcissist with no real change
External Journey: Living a posh life to living in desperationMotivation: To preserve
his lifestyleWound: Always felt second best after his brother
Mission/Agenda: Money and a lavish lifestyle gives him value
Secret: He owns and has kept the bird sanctuary to hide the
bodies of his victimsWhat makes them
special? He feels no remorse
in committing murder in order to preserve his own lifestyle. He’s clever at covering his tracks.</div></div>
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Subject line: (Mary E’s) Character Profiles Part 1)
Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” Is: this is do-able
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Runner/Victim -Everything happens to him
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Predator-Ex childhood sweetheart out for revenge
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: Cousin, nephew, Psychologist
Minor roles: Granny5. Pick your genre. Comedy
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Jon, prot.
Age range and Description: 28, unemployed dogcatcherInternal Journey:from victim to victor; from fear to
courage
External Journey: from running from fears to facing
themMotivation: To get his job back
Wound: ex calls him a loser
Mission/Agenda: To save the world, one pet at a time
Secret: Always
loved his childhood sweetheart
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Seana’s character profiles, Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that ideas start to cohere as you just attempt to write things down. I also think I have a new sense of the theme of this story after grappling with all this.
Protagonist: Amelia Stanhope
Hero/dreamer. She’s on a pretty standard path for her age and demographic, but getting stranded by the pandemic will shake things up.
Antagonist: the pandemic itself. It is a change agent. It will challenge everything she thinks she knows about herself and others.
Supporting characters:
Her parents and siblings at home, who will in various ways represent the status quo. Her mother is probably going to be the main enforcer of ‘the way things are’ before the pandemic and the last to let go of the old ways. There is probably a sibling who is already on that path and is held up as an example. Maybe another who was already having a hard time playing by the rules before the pandemic even set in.
In her new community, which will be more rural or at least less urban, there will be the family she has come to stay with. I’m seeing a strong woman character, possibly a grandmother who has already chosen her own road. At first I that she was the change agent antagonist, so we’ll see.
I haven’t decided yet if there are others in that household. If she isn’t the grandmother but more a contempory of Amelia’s mom, there may be a character that this woman too has to spar with, showing Amelia how you do that. I’m thinking perhaps it’s a potential partner, but with a lot in the way of this happening.
Minor roles, background characters.<div>
I’m thinking the background characters at home will probably be people from her school, friends and teachers, counselors.
In the new community, there could be several people who show her different examples of how people think about living.
Genre:
Drama. Coming of age story with some lighter comic moments.
Protagonist character profile:
She’s sixteen or seventeen. Her internal journey is to become more self-reflective about what she really wants. To make decisions that aren’t just in obedience to her parents.
External journey: to go out and be among people who are different than the ones she’s known and come home again, better equipped to make her own choices.
Motivation: In a sense, she has to find her motivation, because as the story starts, she is largely just complying to the expectations of others, though she isn’t conscious of that yet.
Wound: I am not sure that anything of a wounding nature has happened to her as the story opens, and maybe that’s the problem. She has lived in a bubble that she hasn’t seen outside of yet and the pandemic will force her to see beyond that.
Agenda: Her mission is to get back home and resume life as ‘normal’ again. Part of the internal journey is to come to terms with the fact that that is not going to happen. That she can’t wish it or will it. So there’s a tug of war between the fact that she has to become more individuated, and at the same time, she has to learn to surrender. She has to learn the difference between’ going along to get along’ (conforming) and going with the flow of life–‘using the Force’, if you will. In neither does she have all the control, but in the second she will be more in alignment with her unique nature.
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MARY ELLEVOLD: KAT’S TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY-LESSON 2
1. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…DOUG THE BUG IS THE ANSWER TO ALL HER PROBLEMS
LESSON 2; KAT
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Role in the story: ANTAGONIST
Age range and Description: 28, THINKS SHE’S A DIVA,
MANIPULATIVE, GREEDY</div><div>Internal Journey: NO REAL CHANGE
External Journey: FROM TRYING TO DESTROY JON’S CO &
CREATE PERFECT PERFUME TO GOING AFTER DOUG;Motivation: REVENGE
Wound: HURT BY JON , LEFT SCAR THAT KEPT
HER FROM BEING MODEL;Mission/Agenda: TO GAIN CONTROL OF DOA SO SHE CAN
EXPERIMENT ON ANIMALS & CREATE PERFECT PERFUME; & DESTROY JON;Secret: SHE’S
OBSESSED W/HIM; WEARS A WIGWhat makes them special? DEVIOUS
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Jon’s Character Profiles Part 1
Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
PROTAGONIST:
Runner
DreamerPick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
ANTAGONIST:
Authority
What other characters might be necessary?
OTHER CHARACTERS:
Supporting characters: Dad, Mom, Fiance, 2 kids, Adoptive Dad, Adoptive Brother
Minor roles: Not sure
Background characters: Not surePick your genre.
Hero
Action
DramaFill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: individual lost in traumatic circumstance
Age range and Description: 20 or 30 something, physically fit…very handsome and attractive
Internal Journey: Feeling terrible about his criminal ways to feeling great about achieving things legally.
External Journey: From being a two bit hustler to becoming a homeowner and business owner
Motivation: Recovering from his dad’s financial demise
Wound: Seeing his dad fail, thinking he too will fail
Mission/Agenda: Not to fail himself, children, mother, fiancé and FATHER
Secret: He realizes how smart he really is and how capable he is to overcome his doldrums
What makes them special? Surprisingly he has a breaking point when it comes to criminality.Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.
I’ve learned that I have been missing this kind of process, curriculum and forum that obviously makes for a successful writing process!
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Justine’s Character Profiles Part 1
Annie is a Victim/Dreamer. She is the victim of her hallucinated Block and dreams of a future where she is able to find her path and be successful in whatever she ends up doing. Annie has a natural gift for writing, but after a humiliating experience in college is reluctant to follow her creative voice and express her artistic thoughts and ideas.
The Block is a villain. She is the expression of Annie’s fears, literally. Annie hallucinates the Block as if she were a real person in her life. Anytime Annie has a productive idea, or becomes motivated to make progress in her life, the Block stops her by highlighting the worst-case scenario and saying demeaning, disparaging things to her.
Supporting Characters are Jenn and Mom. Jenn has been Annie’s friend since grade school and has always been there for her, but has always been envious of Annie’s natural talents, as Jenn doesn’t have the imagination and creativity that Annie does. After years of wallowing with Annie, Jenn starts to feel that Annie is holding her back, thinking Annie is lazy and wasteful of her natural gifts. Jenn is tall, very pretty and comes from a wealthy family.
Mom is disappointed in Annie because she got her the job at the editing company after college, thinking that Annie would eventually be a professional author like her. Since divorcing Annie’s father, she uses her writing talents to write extravagant romance novels about the love rendezvous she has. She takes a lover, then writes steamy novels about their escapades. She tells Annie to “write what you know” and thinks divorce was the best thing that ever happened to her. She wants Annie to come to Greece with her and start exploring and using her writing talents. She is VERY glamourous and elegant.
This will be a buddy-movie. Annie is going to have to confront her innermost critic while she is face to face with it. In order to conquer her Block, she is going to have to confront it and pay attention to what it is really saying- that is- what she is TRULY afraid of. She’ll learn that she CAN do hard things, and she CAN make positive change. She’ll learn, over the course of the movie, that the BLOCK is there to help her identify what she’s most afraid of so she can overcome her fears of failure and embarrassment. She’ll befriend herself and learn that no one’s idea of her is as important as her own.
CHARACTER PROFILES – Annie
Role: Protagonist – Victim/Dreamer
Age Range/Description: Annie is plain, bordering frumpy. She lacks self-confidence and it shows in her appearance and she drinks/smokes too much. She’s 29, days away from 30. She is kind, disorganized, creative and funny. She’s out of shape because she doesn’t take care of herself.
Internal Journey: Annie starts with low self-esteem, almost no faith in her abilities, unable to finish whatever she starts. She ends as a confident, successful author with a strong sense of self-awareness and understands her fears and limitations.
External Journey: Annie goes from distributing mail in a prestigious editing firm to giving a TED talk and releasing a book about how to use your negative inner voice to help understand yourself better and motivate you to succeed.
Motivation: Annie is motivated by the stark realization that she’s turning 30 and it not where she thought she’d be in life.
Wound: She’s traumatized from a time in college when a jealous rival classmate lied and said that Annie’s creative novel was stolen. This caused her great public humiliation, even though it wasn’t true.
Mission/Agenda: To become a successful adult, be personal accountable for herself, take care of herself physically and emotionally. Ultimately, to get past her block.
Secret: No one knows that she is literally hallucinating her Block as if she was a real person in her life. While Jenn and Mom know that she has always struggled with negative self-talk, she hasn’t told them that her Block has now manifested into a full, real-life person as a result of partying too much the night before her birthday.
What makes her special? Annie is nothing if not relatable. We all talk to ourselves in ways we would never allow someone else to, and Annie is struggling with this on an all-too-real basis.
CHARACTER PROFILE – The Block
Role: Antagonist – Villain/Bully
Age Range: The Block is the same age as Annie and looks like her, but cleaner, better cared for, and carries herself with an air of confidence and success. Much like Annie wishes she was. The Block is very sarcastic and negative.
Internal Journey: none
External Journey: The Block pops into existence the morning of Annie’s birthday, after she’d blacked out the night before. The Block disappears after Annie has a devastating betrayal from Jenn.
Motivation: The Block’s motivation seems to be to put Annie down, when it’s actually to keep her safe by mitigating the risk of failure presented by Annie taking chances and putting herself out there and trying to succeed.
Mission/Agenda: The Block’s mission seems to make sure that Annie doesn’t leave her comfort zone, ensuring that her self-esteem and self-confidence stay as low as possible.
Secret: The Block is terrified of Annie’s failure and revisited humiliation like the one in college.
What makes them special? The Block is special because she represents a common downfall for most people and a force that people commonly need to overcome to succeed.
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Kristin’s Character Profiles, Part 1
I learned that I had to think hard about the (seemingly obvious) differences between things like “motivation” and “mission.” It’s also easy to oversimplify or ignore things that add greatly to drama (or, in my case, comedy)—such as “what makes them special?” For my antagonist, at first I was so busy thinking about his badness that I forgot he was special at all.
Genre: Comedy
JOE / PROTAGONIST / VICTIM:
Joe’s self-absorption and willingness to ignore procedure get him into the cross-hairs of others in his industry—who feed the Feds exaggerated information. Once the FBI seizes Joe’s property, he has the chance to stand up or fold. He cleans up his attitude, turns all his charisma and intelligence toward his problem, and saves his company, his partners, and his industry.
Age/description: 35, fit, smart, outwardly cocky, just wants to enjoy his life, entrepreneur
Internal Journey: From selfish and childlike to mature, inclusive, and forward-thinking.
External Journey: From rough-around-the-edges small-time entrepreneur to hero of an entire industry
Motivation: To be the best in his business—and to have fun doing it
Wound: Always told he wasn’t good enough
Mission/Agenda: To win
Secret: Thinks he might NOT be good enough
Special because: When shit gets real, he stands up and fights.
MR. LITTLE / ANTAGONIST / AUTHORITY:
The Acting US Attorney wants a promotion and he sees an easy target. He wraps his action (seizure of very high-profile property) in some very weak arguments, but plays his position to the hilt. For Mr. Little to make a name for himself, Joe has to be a very, very bad man. The lack of evidence is only a minor obstacle. Joe is so annoying…he must be guilty, right?
Age/description: 45, tired, bad suits, will do anything to be noticed
Internal Journey: Refuses to have one
External Journey: From Acting US Attorney to unemployed
Motivation: Advancement, which is especially satisfying if done on others’ shoulders
Wound: Teased as a child for being boring
Mission/Agenda: To take down the state’s most famous guy
Secret: Could actually be a great barbershop quartet baritone, but is too shy
Special because: He’s willing to go to any lengths—much beyond his and his boss’s comfort zone—to catch his man.
OTHER CHARACTERS:
Supporting:
- Family and friends (many of whom are Joe’s business partners)
- Staff at Joe’s company
- Joe’s new young wife
- Joe’s various ex-wives
- Joe’s kids (for that matter, everybody’s kids)
- Mr. Little’s investigators
- Judge Richard Butts
- Joe’s competitors/admirers
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Minor: Court staff / witnesses / jurors
Background: Protestors & townsfolk
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What I learned from this assignment is that you do become more familiar with you character by answering these questions.
Jason is a runner, fleeing from his over reliance upon his gang members and the culture . He no longer wants any part of but he can’t quit. He is running from his heart and what he really wants is a life with his sweetheart. A normal life.
Rick is a villain, focused on Jason.because he knows that Jason has a chance to get out of their predicament. He himself has very slim chance to escape.
Genre :Drama
Jason is the protagonist caught in a world that he knows will end one of two ways . Death or incarceration. He wants a life …normal life with his sweetheart.
Age:23 dark and handsome , over six feet tall, rough on the outside but soft on the inside…it’s what he is hiding.
Internal journey:from the tough guy gang leader to the sensitive loving future husband of his sweetheart.
External journey: He puts his life on the line in his attempt to free himself from thug life.
Motivation: Is to take care of his family and be able to spend quality time his grandmother and girlfriend without interference of his tribe.
Wound:His father left when he was a small child for a prison stint and his mother became a drug addict. He found himself and his younger sibling struggling for survival.
Mission: To be there for his little brother and sister until they can take care of themselves.
Secret:He loves his sweetheart with all his heart and he loves to read.
What makes him special : He is a gang banger with a kind soul.
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John T’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that a theme of self-actualization informs the characters and their roles In the story.
DISCOVERY ISLAND, a sci-fi thriller.
Clare is a runner, has been all her life. Running from her past memories of her mother and how she allowed herself to be the victim, running from being the center of attention, running from repressed memories of her abuse to a sanctuary of silence.
Role in the story: Wallflower who works in a cubicle, plucked from anonymity by Rod. No ambition but to stay out of the limelight. Quite settled in a male-dominated relationships.
Age range and Description: Female, Mid 20’s, clever, can talk her out of stepping outside her comfort zone, loses herself when jogging.
Internal Journey: From being totally dependent on a man to being her own person, confident, strong, freedom-loving and able to fend for herself.
External Journey: From an introverted and quiet desk clerk to a strong and sassy woman in charge, free from her self-imposed shackles.
Motivation: survival from cyborgs suddenly turned hostile.
Wound: Her mother’s absence when she needed her the most, as when being abused by her uncle Henry. Being absent has taken the place of being in the moment.
Mission/Agenda: To discover how she will survive on an island of predatory cyborgs.
Secret: Her repressed memory of abuse.
What makes them special? Her cleverness at solving puzzles and riddles and her ability to concentrate with distractions all around, leaving her body in a sense.
Rod is the villain, an egomaniac and a phony who puts up a good front of being brave and in control. Rod self-validates by domineering his girlfriend, Clare. It’s a match made in a heaven for fools and the fooled.
Role in the story: Protagonist who dares Clare into stepping outside her box while seldom stepping outside his own. His ego is all hot air based on accomplishments dating back to college.
Age range and Description: Male, 30’s, well-dressed exterior is his shield to scrutiny, Feels empowered when powering over Clare. He’s let himself go, a bit chubby.
Internal Journey: Rod is ripe for a lesson in self humility and a reality check.
External Journey: From being a boastful leader to a cowering baby, left in a fetal position unable to function.
Motivation: Dominate through intimidation and ridicule.
Wound: Harbors a serious lack of self-awareness and ability.
Mission/Agenda: Every man for himself. He’d be the first one off the Titanic.
Secret: He’s a wuss.
What makes them special? His Harvard law degree and legal knowledge comes in handy.
Other characters:
Clare’s cyborg double, SAC 12, a carbon copy of Clare in almost every respect except in Clares’ unique skill at leaving her body and letting her mind go somewhere else, sometimes deep in the recess of her mind’s eye into the unchartered waters of repressed memories.
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Rhonda’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that all behaviors, good or bad come from a back story. There’s a reason characters are the way they are, and it’s important to know that and to give the audience a peek into it.
Protagonist’s Role: Barbara begins as a victim but quickly becomes a fighter. She begins her new life as the wife of a well-known successful musician, whom she quickly discovers is an unfaithful, self-indulgent, arrogant and sees her as just a church girl who’s there to provide the comforts of home and raise the children while he lives his exciting, glamorous, adventurous life as an entertainer. When he leaves her and her children to be with his mistress, Barbara must fight for the security of her family by learning to be a provider after years of being a housewife.
Antagonist’s Role: Robert – Villain. Unfaithful husband, self-absorbed, disrespectful to his wife, arrogant beyond measure, and finally an abandoner. <font face=”inherit”> </font>
Supporting:
Bettye Brown: Daughter of Robert’s Manager. Robert’s mistress, a primary reason for the divorce.
Shirley Carter: Barbara’s sister – sidekick – help agent – supporter
Minor Characters:
Mason Brown – Robert’s Manager
Background:
Musicians, audiences, fans, church members.
Action / Drama
BARBARA’S JOURNEY begins at 18. She is a simple, shy church girl with an Angelic voice. She lives with her strict father and her mischievous older sister. She is obedient and follows the rules. She is swept off her feet by the charismatic Robert Bailey whom she meets when he performs at a neighborhood juke joint.
BARBARA’S SECRET – She is a fabulous vocalist and prolific writer who has more than enough talent to make it on her own, but doesn’t know it.
Robert is a charismatic R&B performer, early 20s, who is enjoying some success in the regional market with a particularly high visibility and large fan base in the New Orleans area. His huge ego and philandering ways make him an unsuccessful catch for Barbra, and he soon abandons her and her children.
ROBERT’S SECRET – He lacks self-confidence because of how he was raised by an abusive, critical father, and overcompensates for it by trying to be overly confident and less caring.
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