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Day 3 Assignment
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DAY 3: Denise’s Right Characters
Protagonist. Teen struggling as an independent college student. Works retail first job, first paycheck. Self-reliant but needs help. Inner city resident.
Antagonist. Young male struggling to make a living absent an education to attain one. Works by robbing stores. Inner city resident.
ASSIGNMENT
Compare your concept to your lead characters to find unique ways for them to fulfill the concept.
Think
about your Concept Hook and Contained Setting.You wanted money for your check. A gunman wanted money without one. Bang!
Contained setting. Grocery store check cashing booth.
With
each of your main characters, how can they uniquely fit with the Hook?Hostage situation.
Thinking
about the conflict that hook creates, how does each main character enhance
or cause that conflict?Main character was only person standing between gunman and money booth. They both wanted money. Main character wanted it honestly. Gunman wanted it crookedly.
Tell
us what makes these characters the “right ones” for this story?Neither one knows the other. They both wanted the same thing. They were in the same place at the same time. Main character had no power. Gunman had all the power.
Answer
the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and
put it at the top of your work.I learned to look at the unique and complex relationship between the main characters.
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Rolando’s Right Characters!
What I learned doing this assignment is building your characters around the hook helps to keep that focus and make sure they serve the concept and the story.
1 – Think about your Concept Hook and Contained Setting.
HOOK: Clearing your debt come at a price.
CONTAINED SETTING: 3 bedroom apartment, possibly penthouse.
2 – With each of your main characters, how can they uniquely fit with the Hook?
Scott (20s) took out school loans, co-signed by his parents, and have come due. Job prospects are not good. Just internships. Parents may lose the family restaurant.
Jay (20s) dreams of moving to Alaska to start a new life to get away from his abusive family but needs the money to do it. For now, he performs eccentric stunts and dares on social media for cash.
Lulu (20s) wants so badly to see her film career move forward. She’s not seeing opportunities as her male counterparts since graduating and feels she needs to jump head-first into her passion project to get noticed. She just needs the money.
3 – Thinking about the conflict that hook creates, how does each main character enhance or cause that conflict?
In desperate need of money, Scott decides to start an OnlyFans account. He catches the attention of the account, “DaddyLovesYou.” Scott is enticed to perform acts for money. He then invites his roommates to take part, which exposes their vulnerabilities and tests the strength of their friendship.
4 – Tell us what makes these characters the “right ones” for this story?
These characters embody Generation Z and their struggles and fears when it comes to work, money, and prospects. Worries about their future as well as an epidemic of wanting notoriety and having overnight success.
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Alvoro’s Great Hook!
This process worked well for me, in particular the phrase, “Having to do with ___________, what haven’t we seen before?”
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is that, I need to scrape some of the rust off of my imagination and get more comfortable with exchanging components.
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ASSIGNMENT 3, N. Lucas Right Characters!
What I learned by doing this assignment is how important each character is to the story. Each character has to bring something specific to the story to contribute to the movement of Plot or Story Arch.
Compare your concept to your lead characters to find unique ways for them to fulfill the concept.
Think about your Concept Hook and Contained Setting.
** Still working on this**
2. With each of your main characters, how can they uniquely fit with the Hook?
Each Character will play a specific part in planning to foil the Mayor’s plans—or add to the backstory of the Day’s events.
Thinking about the conflict that hook creates, how does each main character enhance or cause that conflict?
Owner of Ice Cream shop: Will have a lot of connections or people that want to help because they have known her for so long and have been coming to her business for so long. These people may include Workers from Public Works who have heavy equipment, etc
Employee A: Father is the Chief of Police in the town
Employee B: Brother is a Police Officer
Employee C: Has a pick up truck and lots of Comic-con type ‘out-there’ friends
Assistant Manager: Against all of it out of fear.
(other characters not fleshed out yet)
Tell us what makes these characters the “right ones” for this story?
Each has a story to contribute to make a connection to the desire for retribution
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QUESTIONS
How can this character deliver on the hook? How can this character bring unique conflict that fits this hook? How can these characters cause problems for each other?
I want to develop this idea/concept to further enhance the story
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