Day 8 Assignments

[Dennis Chrisman]

Subject line: Dennis Chrisman Likability/Empathy/Justification

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”. This assignment shows the different characteristics that shed more light on necessity to show as imagines the heroine and the villain’s personality and morale conventions.

LIKABILITY/LOVABILITY The Heroine

A. Other people like or respect the character. Other people like the Heroine, she’s a loving mother and wife. She has a loving relationship with her husband and they both adore their child.

B. The character shows love for something. The Heroine loves her children, dog, and husband.

C. They’re trying to do something good. The heroine just wants to get to her father’s self-sufficient farm. To meet this mission, she saves a woman in destress, fights the villains and makes to her father’s farm.

D. Save the cat — rescue or do something good for someone else. She rescues the women at the bridge security checkpoint. And continues to escape, evade, and fight the villains. In doing so, she saves her daughter and the rest of the kids in her care.

E. Funny, humorous, witty. The heroine has a sense of humor through her voice and the various clever, resourceful tricks she plays on the motorcycle gang.

F. Kindness. She shows her kindness by loving her daughter, dog, and husband; through her fight with the villains to save the group of kids.

G. Good moral decisions and actions. Being on the right side. She makes the right decision to leave their suburban home, rescuing the woman and her child at the bridge, willingness to take two orphans with her on her trip to her father’s home.

EMPATHY / DISTRESS The Heroine

A. Undeserved misfortune. The heroine has lost her husband, house and almost all worldly possessions. Through an unintentional act, she has continued conflict with the motorcycle gang. Moreover, the woman she saved at the bridge security, was killed by the motorcycle gang.

B. External Character conflicts. After her unintentional act that disrupted the villains, she continues to combat the villains to a final conflict with the villains.

C. Plot intruding on life. The heroine doesn’t want the conflict, it was cast up on her.

D. Moral dilemmas. The heroine doesn’t want conflict with the villains, they force the issue, and she has the moral obligation to defend her child, the dog, and the gang she’s sworn to protect. She’s obligated to take her daughter, but not necessarily the woman and son at the bridge, nor the two orphans she pickups along the way.

E. Forced decisions they’d never make. She’s obligated to take her daughter, but not necessarily the woman and son at the bridge, nor the two orphans she pickup along the way. She picks them up because she knows they would never survive without her. Her background as a police officer, as a mother and her moral obligation as a human being, forces her to make these decisions.

F. Wound attacked. I not quite sure how to answer this question because the term “Wound Attacked” is not clearly defined within the context of the lesson. I assume this is in reference to the heroine in physical distress. The heroine becomes physically distressed when she is capture by the villains, intimidated and soft tortured. The kids are also intimidated. I haven’t determined if the dog is killed yet.

JUSTIFICATION The Heroine

A. The character or their family abused. Foremost, the heroine is forced from her home, not knowing if her husband is alive or dead. She is abused by the villains as she drives to the safety of her father’s farm. The she is eventually captured by the villains and intimidated, teased and tortured until a time she and kids can get away from the villains.

B. Threatened by others. Same as above.

C. The Hero is the victim of attacks. Same as above

D. They’ve suffered major losses. The woman they rescued at the bridge security checkpoint dies in the hands of the villains.

E. The Villain or their representatives have trespassed. They trespass in the sense they abuse and capture the heroine and kids, but not in the sense of ground appropriation.

[BG]

ACTION LESSON 8 – Why Do We Care

ASSIGNMENT

BG’s Likability/Empathy/Justification

What I learned doing this assignment: This assignment made me think and come up with at least one new scene idea.

LIKABILITY/LOVABILITY
A. Other people like or respect the character. REPORTER’s neighbors and his editor like him and try to cheer him up.
B. The character shows love for something. He’s been dumped by the love of his life. He’s still in love and he’s in the middle of his grieving process.
C. They’re trying to do something good.
D. Save the cat — rescue or do something good for someone else. The first time we meet him, he’s under an elderly neighbor’s kitchen sink, fixing a broken pipe.
E. Funny, humorous, witty. Self-deprecating, bitter wit of the kind that depressed people have.
F. Kindness. He’s a naturally kind person.
G. Good moral decisions and actions. Being on the right side. He will get out of his funk and will try to stop a war.

EMPATHY / DISTRESS
A. Undeserved misfortune.
B. External Character conflicts.
C. Plot intruding on life.
D. Moral dilemmas. REPORTER has to decide between saving his friend and not breaking the law.
E. Forced decisions they’d never make.
F. Wound attacked.

JUSTIFICATION
A. The character or their family abused.
B. Threatened by others.
C. The Hero is the victim of attacks.
D. They’ve suffered major losses.
E. The Villain or their representatives have trespassed. The villains want to start a war for their own interests and benefit.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by  BG ERENGIL.

[jeffrey jeff glatz glatz]

Assignment 8:

What I learned doing this assignment is…? I enjoyed analyzing my character to make sure that his traits will make an audience care and root for him. I may need to work on more justification in Act 1. Right now we see multiple terrorist attacks and innocents killed, but no one particularly close to the hero. Yes, his father was killed, but that was in the past. So I need to work a little more on this lesson and adapting to story.

Trevor Forbes – Why We Care

Trevor is more involved and complicated than some random cat-burglar/thief. While he may have a sense of humor and an involving skill set, it is his past that will direct his future.

He stumbles upon a plan by a group of men intent on controlling the world through terrorism and murder.

He loves his country enough to at least, at this stage, bring this plan to the intention of those that may be able to make a difference. We learn he carries deep scars from his time in the Afghanistan war and that his own father was assassinated by terrorists.

A man of compassion. A war hero. He saves 2 children during a battle but loses men under his command in the process.

While he may be a handsome ex-seal team leader, he also cares significantly. He has decided to use his history, both military and personnel, to become a philanthropist and uses his skills for good. A modern-day Robin Hood. Donating his ill-gotten goods to worthy causes.

Charming and romantic, but with a dark side.