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Day 8 Assignments
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Aaron’s Supporting Characters
VISION: I will work harder than anyone to be an incredible writer who the industry seeks for projects that have consistent commercial success.
What I learned doing this assignment is that these support characters are fascinating and dynamic in their own right as they help the story and concept progress.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:
– Pro’s uncle – junkyard owner
– Undersheriff
– Pro’s undercover sister
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS:
– Deputies in the department
– Victims
– Mayor & wife
– Drug runners
SUPPORTING CHARACTER PROFILES
SUPPORT 1
Name: Pro’s uncle
Role: Business partner
Main purpose: Give pro his business that gives him access to the cops. Later, he unwittingly exposes the cop’s operations.
Value: Pro trusts him and he guides pro throughout the story, but he has a hidden agenda.
SUPPORT 2
Name: Pro’s sister
Role: Co-conspirator
Main purpose: To covertly and illegally work with pro to infiltrate and expose the Sheriff’s department.
Value: She gets him access to the department and enables him to get the pieces he needs to put the puzzle together so to speak.
SUPPORT 3
Name: The Undersheriff
Role: Sheriff’s loyal right-hand-man partner-in-crime.
Main purpose: To execute the Sheriff’s orders, run the other dirty deputies and get rich doing it.
Value: He is the heavy hand that lets the Sheriff not get his dirty. He is also the most feared man on the streets because he’s like the platoon sergeant that calls the shots in the wild. He helps the Sheriff run his illegal dealings and he is good at hiding it, making it hard for our pro to uncover their drug running.
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Supporting Characters
My Vision: I am a masterful, ahead-of-the-game, and outside-the-box writer full of ideas and creative energy. My writing is fresh, impactful, iconic, beautiful, and effortless. My projects deliver outstanding entertainment and bring yet unseen commercial and artistic success. I am on the leading edge. I create a lot, it’s fun, quick, and easy. My whole life is that way.
I’m really great at creating purpose-driven supporting characters.
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
– Supporting characters have a lot to offer in terms of layers and textures of the theme, they can give some good ideas for the story.
– The more functions one supporting character can combine the better.
– In a script, every person is an idea. If not, they don’t belong in the story.
BOO WHO HOO
Supporting Characters: Mother, Sister and her husband, father, niece, store owner, friend, shrink.
Background Characters: random guy, dentist and nurse, people in the club and coffee shop, Irene’s clients.
Support 1:
Name: Agatha
Role: Nagging and estranged mother.
Main purpose: Keeps belittling Irene and everyone else.
Value: Shows the background of Irene’s problems. Monster’s godmother.
Support 2:
Name: Nicky
Role: Sister
Main purpose: Potential victim. Shows Irene’s other options.
Value: Shows the scenario of pretending to be happy when she isn’t. Happy on the outside.
Support 3:
Name: Stephan
Role: Brother-in-law
Main purpose: Bully, narcissist. Behave like a total jerk and get away with it.
Value: Another kind of monster. Challenges Irene, brings out her fears and insecurities, and undermines her self-esteem.
Support 4:
Name: Anthony
Role: Paralyzed father.
Main purpose: Potential victim. What was good in their family — frozen. Dies in the second act.
Value: Irene’s alter ego and the source of guilt. Fear of death. Scared to death.
Support 5:
Name: Christal
Role: Niece
Main purpose: Gives hope. Potential victim. Irene has to save her in the third act.
Value: Can see what Irene sees. Challenges Irene to step up her game.
Support 6:
Name: Theo
Role: Store owner, romantic interest
Main purpose: Potential victim. Shows ways of dealing with being scared to death.
Value: Challenges Irene’s old ways. Helps her change.
Support 7:
Name: Sunny
Role: Happy successful friend.
Main purpose: Potential victim. Show what Irene doesn’t have in terms of success and self-actualization.
Value: Shows contrast, and vision, highlights the untapped potential of the main character. Shows that life is short and precious, worthy of living until we die. Challenges Irene’s old ways.
Support 8:
Name: Sara
Role: Shrink
Main purpose: Push Irene to deal with the monster.
Value: Starts Irene on her journey, connects Irene’s situation to reality.
7RDRD4
Supporting Characters: Nurse, Inventor, F11, Policeman, his partner Robocop, Lo’s boyfriend, woman robot, politicians
Background Characters: Robots on the run, kids, a teacher, Judges, police force, humans, doctors, guards, hooligans, neighbors, crowds, journalists and tv hosts,
Support 1:
Name: Camilla
Role: Nurse, politician.
Main purpose: Starts the hate wave. Gets killed in the second act.
Value: Red herring. Represents the radical point of view, personifies the antagonistic force.
Support 2:
Name: F11
Role: Robot due for recycling
Main purpose: Betrays main characters while promising help, puts them in more complicated and dangerous positions.
Value: Betraying character. Shows that change is hard. And that not robots are good. Loss in the game (disposable character).
Support 3:
Name: BRIANAN
Role: Inventor of 7RDRD4
Main purpose: To get killed by his creation, sending 7RDRD4 on the journey.
Value: Gives purpose, message, meaning, and quest to 7RDRD4. Runs an experiment on robots.
Support 4:
Name: LUCAS
Role: Policeman
Main purpose: Defends robots, and stands on the side of what good there is in humanity.
Value: Shows that not all people are heartless or gullible. Dies along the way. Model of relationships Lo and 7 could have. Loss in the game (disposable character).
Support 5:
Name: ROBOCOP
Role: Ex-cop robot.
Main purpose: Serves his purpose till the end. Good robot.
Value: Loss in the game (disposable character). Shows the drama that’s going on inside Lo and 7RDRD4.
Support 6:
Name: ERASMUS
Role: Lo’s boyfriend.
Main purpose: Mistreat Lo, and betray her when she needs help. Next generation of haters.
Value: Represents humanity rejecting Lo. Leaves her no choice but to stand on her own. Challenges Lo’s old ways.
Support 7:
Name: LADY
Role: Robot due for recycling
Main purpose: Stock female stereotype character with a ceiling for improvement.
Value: Loss in the game (disposable character). Breaks out of her mold the way she can/given a chance to do so.
Support 8:
Name: ALT
Role: Alternative side in discussion on dehumanization.
Main purpose: Well-balanced citizen. Equality token character. Represents robots in society.
Value: Red herring.
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Linda Anderson’s Supporting Characters
Vision for your success from this program:
Audiences around the world view and love my meaningful screenplays—one of the most satisfying and energizing accomplishments of my life.
What I learned from doing this assignment is it’s going to be a challenge whittling down this story and supporting characters into a 90-minute screenplay.
Supporting Characters:
1. Arlene
2. Jose
3. Ralph
4. Otis
5. Dr. Nussbaum
6. Nurse Jodie
7. Dr. Williams
8. Bob
9. Nurse Rita
10. Dr. Porter
11. Patty
12. Taylor
Background Characters:
1. Aubrey
2. Dr. W.
3. Susan
4. Gail
5. Bobbie
6. Animal shelter volunteers and staff
7. Dog park dogs and people
8. Pet store dogs and customers
9. Hospital nurses (surgery)
10. Hospital doctor and nurses (remove filter)
11. Office people at Allen’s job
12. Grocery story cashier and customers
13. Obedience trainer
14. Dance instructor
15. Editor for Allen and Linda’s books
Support 1:
Name: Arlene
Role: Friend and nurse
Main purpose: Helps Allen with working through medical
system; Linda’s bestie and confidanteValue: window character for Linda; advises Allen on
questions to ask hospital nursesSupport 2:
Name: Jose
Role: Allen’s best friend at work
Main purpose: support at Allen’s office
Value: helps Allen keep his job with medical insurance;
a good listenerSupport 3:
Name: Ralph
Role: Vice President of company where Allen works
Main purpose: keeps pressure on Allen to perform at
workValue: Adversary–doesn’t like Allen but their failing
company needs his services to keep clientsSupport 4:
Name: Otis
Role: Radio Host for “Dog Time”
Main purpose: Interviews Allen and Linda about their
new booksValue: Bookend radio interviews provide background for
extraordinary experiences in Allen and Linda’s unusual story and
philosophiesSupport 5:
Name: Dr. Nussbaum
Role: Neurosurgeon
Main purpose: performs brain surgery on Allen
Value: gives information about the insanely delicate
procedure, risks, and possible outcomesSupport 6:
Name: Nurse Jodi
Role: Dr. Nussbaum’s nurse
Main purpose: liaison between Dr. N and Allen
Value: gives exposition about Allen’s blood clot to the
lungs, etc. and is called to emergency at the hospital during his brain
surgerySupport 7:
Name: Dr. Williams
Role: the surgeon for removing Allen’s blood clot
filterMain purpose: removes filter
Value: adds drama and humor with pop rock music he
plays during surgerySupport 8:
Name: Bob
Role: Allen’s best personal friend
Main purpose: confidante and shared spiritual
understandingValue: comfort and support with spiritual value from a
shared dreamSupport 9:
Name: Nurse Rita
Role: Head Nurse, Neurosurgery Unit
Main purpose: Help people having brain surgery survive
Value: Pivotal in ensuring Allen gets best hospital
care; comic relief with Allen and Linda bringing her a basket (bribe) of
their animal booksSupport 10:
Name: Dr. Porter
Role: Leaf’s veterinarian
Main purpose: medical care for Leaf
Value: real information on what Allen and Linda are
facing with Leaf’s emotional issuesSupport 11:
Name: Patty
Role: Leaf’s groomer
Main purpose: grooms Leaf under worst conditions
Value: represents animal-services people who interacted
with Leaf; adds the element of what love and patience can do for healing a
broken dogSupport 12:
Name: Taylor
Role: Allen and Linda’s dog before Leaf
Main purpose: shows their love for pets as family
members; pivot point for starting their journey of writing books about
animalsValue: portrays the devastation of pet loss
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Veronica Turowski’s Supporting Characters
My Vision: I want to be a successful writer who writes several scripts a year and sells them to producers who are eager to make my vision a reality by bringing my scripts to completion so everyone can watch my movies on the big screen.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that the supporting characters must have a purpose. If they do not add to the story, then they should be removed.
Supporting Characters: Clover, Neta Kestner, and Palmer McKee
Background Characters: Cops, doctors/nurses, the ministers and people mourning at funerals, ghosts in the cemetery, kids/ice cream patrons, Hayden’s victims
Support 1:
Name: Clover
Role: Psychic
Main purpose: She advises Eppsa to do whatever it takes.
Value: Clover’s the only living person who talks to Eppsa. Eppsa uses Clover to try to contact her husband but is unsuccessful. She tries to help Eppsa find Hayden. Clover is another person who guides Eppsa to the truth.
Support 2:
Name: Neta Kestner
Role: Hayden’s Wife
Main purpose: To show Hayden’s loving side.
Value: She is Hayden’s calming voice when he gets angry. In the 3rd Act when Neta believes Hayden is a serial killer, he confesses to her and explains that it runs in the family. Now, she must protect Hayden and Evren.
Support 3:
Name: Evren Kestner
Role: Hayden’s son
Main purpose: To show his bond with his son like the bond he had with his dad.
Value: Throughout, Hayden gives clues to Evren regarding his son’s future as a serial killer.
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Micki’s Supporting Characters
My vision: Be recognized as a writer that will work with the industry and would do what it takes to be that WRITER.
What I learned from doing this assignment is important to have supporting and background characters with a reason to be in the script.
Title FIREWORKS
A script that’s contained at a lake house.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:
Grandma Mae Tanner
Papa Hank Tanner
Brody Riley
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS (MINORS ROLES)
Brody and Blake Riley’s children:
Madison Riley
Anna Riley
Colton Riley
Minster Allen Harper
Guests attending wedding
Support 1:
Name: Grandma Mae Tanner
Role: Grandmother who raised the sisters
Main purpose: To help to end the feud. She offers life advice and wisdom to others and some humor.
Value: With her wisdom and advice to the sisters in hopes of ending the feud and having peace in the family.
Support 2:
Name: Papa Hank Tanner
Role: Grandfather helped raise the sisters.
Main purpose: He makes sure everyone is having a good time celebrating the 4th.
Value: He accidentally sets off the fireworks that might cause a small fire.
Support 3:
Name: Brody Riley
Role: Blake enduring husband
Main purpose: Taking care of the children while his wife is settling a feud with her sister.
Value: He is there to help with the children and help put out the small fire and support for his wife, Blake.
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Tracy’s Supporting Characters
I’m really great at creating purpose-driven supporting characters.
I will do whatever it takes to become a successful author and screenwriter with multiple successful movies produced.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that supporting characters must serve a purpose or they should not be included in the script.
2. Tell us your supporting and background characters.
Supporting
Characters: Rhoda, Christopher Ludwick, Congressman Benjamin Harrison,
Thomas Stone, Betsy Stone
Background
Characters: Anna’s mother, Anna’s brothers, other servants, Anna’s
children, Hessian soldiers, people she meets along the road, Continental
soldiers at Valley ForgeSupporting Characters:
Name: Rhoda
Role: Friend/Protector
Main Purpose: She becomes Anna’s surrogate mother when she is placed in an indenture
Value: She teaches Anna what she knows of herbal remedies and healing, which sets Anna on a course for her adult life. Also, Rhoda protects her from an attempted assault by their master’s son, at great risk to herself.
Name: Christopher Ludwick
Role: Protector/Teacher. He is a spy for the Continental army.
Main Purpose: He rescues Anna from some highwaymen and accompanies her on part of her journey.
Value: He teaches her skills and some spy craft that enable her to survive and thwart her pursuer.
Name: Congressman Benjamin Harrison
Role: Specific role to accomplish a story purpose.
Main Purpose: Asks her to carry the secret message to General Washington, which sets her on the course for the dangerous part of her journey
Value: His request increases the tension and the danger Anna faces.
Name: Thomas Stone
Role: Brother-in-law
Main Purpose: Sounding board for Anna when she contemplates going to Valley Forge.
Value: Thomas has always been a conniving practical joker, and butted heads with Anna’s husband, who is his younger brother. But the way he thinks is valuable to Anna, and he sincerely likes her even though he often makes jokes at Benjamin’s expense.
Name: Betsy Stone
Role: Sister-in-law
Main Purpose: friend who cares
Value: Betsy is bold and outspoken; by associating with her, Anna has become less shy over the years. Knowing she has a steadfast advocate and a guardian for her children should she perish on the road gives Anna courage to go to Benjamin’s aid.
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Pat Fitzgerald’s Supporting Characters
My vision: I have the courage, conviction and talent to create contest winning screenplays and will go on to have my scripts optioned and produced.
What I Leaned: There is no reason for supporting characters unless they bring value and purpose to the plot.
Support 1:
Rochelle Buran
Role: Jaki Sue’s adult daughter
Main Purpose: Rochelle is an antagonist, in a volatile relationship with her mother, though they both grudgingly depend on each other for support and are each others’ only family.
Main Purpose: She antagonizes Jaki Sue into becoming a better person.
Value: To give Jaki Sue a reason to prove her worth to her daughter and to herself.
Support 2:
Douglas Rodis
Role: Judee Rodis’ adult son
Main Purpose: He loves Judee unconditionally.
Value: He sets an example to Judee by working his way through college and being a single father to his son.
Support 3
Hank
Role: Jaki Sue’s burgeoning love interest
Main Purpose: He is attracted to Jaki Sue and wants her to understand that he has no hidden agenda – he just likes her.
Value: Jaki Sue finally realizes all she’s ever wanted is to be loved.
Support 4
Abby
Role: Assisted living resident
Main Purpose: Abby strikes up a friendship with Judee and convinces Judee to give dance lessons to assisted living residents.
Value: She is the impetus for Judee to realize that she’d make a great assisted living caregiver.
Background Characters:
Jaki Sue’s grandson and Judee’s granddaughter. Assited living home residents, their adult children and caregivers.
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Peter’s Supporting Characters
Vision: My scripts are so good they could be published on their own and William Goldman wants to write the introduction.
What I learned in this exercise is that it wasn’t so easy for me to conceptualize a host of supporting characters without having a better grasp of the story. Some of these choices feel arbitrary, but others do feel genuinely relevant and connect with the story I think I’m trying to tell.
Supporting Characters: military attaché; fiancé, brother, ex-boss, CIA buddy
Background Characters: hired fighters, government bureaucrats, underground radicals
Support 1:
Name: Rebecca Lourdes
Role: David’s fiancé
Main purpose: resistance to David’s mission to prove he was wronged
Value: forces David to justify every decision and increases the personal stakes
Support 2:
Name: Alex
Role: Brian’s brother
Main purpose: conduit to the radical underground
Value: provides access to a lunatic fringe w/ violent tendencies
Support 3:
Name: Lynn O’Rourke
Role: Jennifer’s ex-boss
Main purpose: greases the path for Jennifer’s political ambitions
Value: makes it possible for Jennifer to succeed in her plan
Support 4:
Name: Edward DiSantis
Role: Jennifer’s right-hand man
Main purpose: does most of the dirty work
Value: keeps Jennifer out of trouble
Support 5:
Name: Gordon Jeffries
Role: David’s friend in the CIA
Main purpose: help David find out what really happened
Value: gives legitimacy to David’s mission
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Kelly’s supporting characters
Vision; Vision: I want to be an empowered writer who consistently produces salable scripts.
What did I learn: I learned that just filling in the blanks with supporting characters and background characters really helped me see the story more clearly. Just going step by step and literally thinking about a name for the character, their role and what the story needed was super helpful. I never created a cast of characters like this before. I usually have a very vague idea of my characters but dividing it into supporting and background was insightful. It forced me to think about why they were there and what they’re doing.
Supporting Characters: Amelia, Taytum, Noah, Oliver, Jaclyn, Evander, Kylon
Background Characters: campers, camp counselors
Name: Amelia
Role: fellow camper
Main purpose: endangered ally, sounding board, antagonist
Value: love, authenticity, kindness
Name: Taytum
Role: camper
Main purpose: antagonist rival, competitor
Value: power, admiration
Name: Noah
Role:camper
Main purpose: love interest antagonist, endangered ally
Value: courage, strength, winning
Name: Oliver
Role: camper
Main purpose: love interest antagonist, endangered ally, sounding board
Value:loyalty, intelligence,
Name: Jaclyn
Role: camp counselor, alien henchman, sounding board
Main purpose: she brings suspense, intrigue, and danger
Value: power, intelligence, ambition
Name: Evander
Role: counselor, leader of aliens
Main purpose: rival to Darius
Value: power, admiration, intelligence, ruthlessness
Name: Kylon
Role: counselor, alien henchman loyal to Darius
Main purpose: brings danger, intrigue, mystery
Value: power, his race, winning
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Rebecca’s Supporting Characters
Vision: My success from this program will lead me to be the go-to writer for producers looking for incredible scripts for successful movies enjoyed by a vast viewing audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that Support Characters need to do just that, support the main characters, the story, and the concept.
Supporting Characters
Support 1:
Name: Ervin
Role: Ragman’s brother
Main purpose: He gets Ragman involved in building barracks. His death deeply affects Ragman.
Value: Ervin gets Ragman involved with the strike. His arrest prompts Ragman to bust him out of jail and incites Bucholtz’ wrath. His death pushes Ragman to a confrontation.Support 2:
Name: Albert
Role: Ragman’s radical youngest brother.
Main purpose: To aide Ragman in protecting Ervin and breaking him out of jail.
Value: His work with organizing the miners protest inspires Bucholtz’s plan to kill him and the others. When Ragman learns the plan, he knows he must kill Bucholtz.Support 3:
Name: Betts
Role: The love object of Ervin and Albert.
Main purpose: Ragman worries that the romantic triangle will cause more problems for the family.
Value: After Ervin’s funeral Ragman brings Betts to visit a very sick Albert. He hands Betts a letter addressed to her from Ervin where he shares his interest in a young nurse at the hospital, mentions the value of their friendship, and frees her and Albert to pursue their romance. Betts stays a few days to take care of Emma (also sick) and Albert. Near death, Albert recovers with hope for a future.Support 4:
Name: Stan Walasky
Role: Ragman’s father-in-law and business partner.
Main purpose: Sounding board for Ragman. Their conversations move the story along.
Value: Ragman and Ervin accompany Stan to mine office to complain about eviction notice when he paid his rent every month. This motivates Ervin to offer his talents to the union to teach the mine families on how to build their own shelters. Bucholtz whips Ervin to near death to stop his project. Ervin asks Ragman to finish the project, thus involving him in the union fight, something vowed not to do.Support 5:
Name: Riese Walasky
Role: Ludie’s 14 year old sister
Main purpose: To share her sister’s secret of the rapes.
Value: Ragman confronts Bernard, Riese’s boyfriend about the girls pregnancy and learns that Bucholtz raped Ludie.Support 6:
Name: Ben Walasky
Role: Ludie’s younger brother
Main purpose: Provides an excuse for Ludie’s depression. His crush on Bucholtz provides and excuse to attack the family.
Value: The day Bucholtz’s thugs vilified Ben, Bucholtz raped Ludie, and ordered Bernard to rape Riese. The women blamed their hysteria on their concern for Ben.
Ragman confronts Bernard, Riese’s boyfriend about the girls pregnancy and learns that Bucholtz raped Ludie.Support 7:
Name: Emma
Role:n Ragman’s Mother
Main purpose: Someone to seek for advice and comfort.
Value: Emma sells Ragman the dream house being built in a river town so he can get Ludie to a safe modern home far away from Bucholtz.Support 8:
Name: Anthony Gentile
Role: His parents lived next to Ragman and after their death, Anthony quit engineering school to work at union headquarters.
Main purpose: Serve as a co-conspirator and backup.
Value: Ragman asks Anthony for help to stop Bucholtz. Together they plot to kill Bucholtz before he can massacre the mine families.Support 9:
Name: Rube Dembaugh
Role: Township Counstible, the law in the township except on private company property.
Main purpose: To warn Ragman to control his temper.
Value: Rube arrests Ragman to save from being strangled by Bucholtz.Support 10:
Name: Dr. Dickey
Role: Company Doctor
Main purpose: To keep Ervin out of the hospital. Advises Ragman and Albert.
Value: He makes house call and advises Emma on how to care for her son so not to send him to the hospital.Background Characters:
Second in Command of Coal and Iron Police
Coal miners
Miners’ wives
Clerk in Mine Office
Clerk’s Boss
Secretary at United Mine Workers dristric office.
P.T. Fagan, assistant to Phil Murray, second in command to John L. Lewis.
Coal and Iron Police
Mrs. Branzet
Louie Branzet
Breaker Boys
Trevellini
Mrs. Gentile
Tony Gentile
Simonetti
Speaker at Union Meeting
Company Mole
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Claudia’s Supporting Characters
Vision: To become such an excellent writer that I know every script I write will be well received by the industry, that my scripts will sell and be produced, and I’ll live the life of my dreams. To also become so empowered that fear is to be laughed at, instead I relish and look forward to pitching, meetings and much more.
What I’ve Learned Doing This Assignment:
Mapping out the role and purpose of the Supporting Characters helps to solidify the way they will play out in the story and support the leading character’s journey (for good or bad). It also helps you look at whether or not a character is truly necessary.
2. Tell us your supporting and background characters.
Supporting Characters:
Rosa/Aracelli
Father, Mother & Brother
Major Client & her husband
Therapist/Aunt
Background Characters: Maids, Little League kids, clients
3. Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.
Support 1:
Name: Rosa/Aracelli
Role: Lead maid who hates that Abby has been brought in to take over the business
Main purpose: Force Abby to take over her job
Value: Show Abby another side of life; force Abby out of her comfort zone
Support 2:
Name: Father
Role: Abby’s father
Main purpose: To guilt/force Abby into taking over the business while he recuperates.
Value: To help Abby get out of her bubble and take on life, germs and all.
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Leona Heraty’s Supporting Characters
My Vision: To be the best family comedy screenwriter in the industry and have my screenplays produced into fabulous movies, making audiences laugh a lot and making me independently wealthy!
What I learned from doing this assignment is…how to find out if my supporting characters have a purpose in the story for the protagonist’s journey and if the character provides value to the story. If they don’t have a purpose or value, they’re out!
Title: Termo-Lytes Attack!
Genre: Comedy (Sci-fi)
Concept: A teenage tour guide with an extreme fear of bugs takes a wrong turn and leads her group to an abandoned country club overrun by giant mutant termites.2. Tell us your supporting and background characters.
Supporting Characters:
–Ruth
–Mel
–Kurt
–Clare
–MaxBackground Characters:
–Tour Guides/Garden Club Officers
–Garden Club Members3. Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.
Support 1:
Name: Ruth
Role: Member of Tour Group/Garden Club Members
Main purpose: The real owner of the abandoned country club and the inventor of the green goo that awakens accidentally awakens the Termo-Lytes.
Value: Ruth is the reason the Termo-Lytes exist, and fighting the Termo-Lytes and winning is Tara’s goal.
Support 2:
Name: Mel
Role: Tara’s Mom
Main purpose: Mel pressures Tara into being the tour group driver for Ruth and her grandson, Davy. This is the inciting incident.
Value: Tara’s Mom is trying to help Tara read a map and get her confidence back and she gives Tara the challenge of leading the tour group.
Support 3:Name: Kurt
Role: Tara’s Dad
Main purpose: Kurt also pressures Tara into being a tour driver and he is helping his wife, Tara’s Mom, organize the annual Spring Garden Club Tour. He’s trying to figure out who owns the old abandoned country club because he wants to purchase it and donate it to the Garden Club. He’s also part of the inciting incident.
Value: Kurt adds intrigue when he says he’s investigating a new location for the expanding Garden Club and he may have found the perfect place…if he can track down the buyer. He tells Tara it’s time to get over the trauma from her childhood and move on, and this adds mystery.
Support 4:Name: Clare
Role: Tara’s best friend.
Main purpose: She tries to talk Tara out of being the tour guide so the two can attend a senior class party together.
Value: Clare presents Tara’s dilemma…should Tara do the right thing and agree with her Mom’s request to be the tour guide driver, or give into Clare and go with her to their senior party?
Support 5:
Name: Max
Role: Clare’s cousin and classmate of Clare and Tara.
Main purpose: Tara has a crush on Max, but he doesn’t know it. He thinks she just likes him as a friend. Max encourages Tara to join them at the Senior party and he even offers to drive the tour for Tara if she doesn’t want to do it.
Value: Max also presents Tara with a dilemma…should she let him do the tour group driving for her, so she doesn’t have to risk getting lost? Tara is afraid the tour will take all day and into the night, to tour all of the house gardens, and she’ll miss the Senior party, so she’s in a dilemma…to say yes to her parent’s request to lead the garden tour or say no and go to the party.
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Jeffrey Alan Chase’s Purpose Driven Supporting Characters
My vision: I am the best screenwriter I can be – an “A” list writer who is praised for high concept ideas, great execution, a string of successful movies and is always ready to share his knowledge and do what he can to help another writer on the way up.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: It really helped me to understand the motivation and purpose of all my supporting characters more clearly. There must be a real good reason for these characters to exist in my script.
Title: Shards
High Concept Logline: A woman with no childhood memory is involved in a cat and mouse game with a cunning hypnotist not knowing the man is responsible for both her amnesia and the death of her treasure hunter father.Supporting Characters:
Young Sarah Cole
Johnny Benally
Frank Benally
ShamanBackground Characters:
Navajo Police extras
Sarah’s Friend at work
Sarah’s Boss at work
Eddie, horse stable manager
Stable handsSupport 1:
Name: Young Sarah (at age 6)
Role: Sarah Cole at age 6
Main purpose: She is the catalyst for older Sarah to remember events from her childhood
Value: provide major obstacles for March and critical help to Sarah to help her remember what she needs to and to reclaim her true spirit.Support 2:
Name: Johnny Benally
Role: Tribal Police officer who was laid off and now works as a back country trail guide.
Main purpose: His creates intrigue, heightens the suspense and creates conflict between Sarah and March.
Value: He creates a triangle of conflict with Sarah and March.Support 3:
Name: Frank Benally
Role: Johnny’s father and Chief of Tribal Police
Main purpose: To conspire with his father (the Shaman) and force Johnny to lead Sarah and March into the desert where he will discover which path he will take in life.
Value: He forces Johnny into a position where he must decide if his duty is as a police officer (and arrest March for the 20-year-old murder of Sarah’s father) of as tribal Shaman and right the spiritual wrong created by the Shaman 20-years-ago. Or maybe both…Support 4:
Name: Shaman
Role: Shaman of the Navajos and Johnny’s grandfather
Main purpose: to conspire with his son (the police chief) and give Johnny a cause that is bigger than himself and in so doing, remedy a spiritual mistake the Shaman made 20 years ago.
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Joe McGloin’s Supporting Characters
Vision: I am a talented, highly regarded, efficient, relaxed, happy, WGA screenwriter
What I learned from doing this assignment is how to support the main characters in ways that help the story unfold naturally by placing necessary characters in key positions.
Support 1:
Name: Fish
Role: Superior
Main purpose: Help Jean rise through the political
ranks
Value: Help Jean with her mission to clean politicsSupport 2:
Name: Scruggs
Role: Office Manager
Main purpose: thwart Max’s efforts to protect Jean
Value: Cause Max to realize the value of letting life take its courseBackground 1
Name: Marnie
Role: field worker
Main purpose: update Fish with voter data
Value: help Jean prepare bills that catapult her
careerBackground 2
Name: Belle
Role: Jean’s landlady
Main purpose: Sounding board for Jean
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Ian Greenham’s Supporting Characters
Vision: Completing this program will significantly enhance my screenwriting skills.
Doing this assignment I learned the importance of profiling supporting characters.
Supporting Characters
· Nurse Jenny Levitt
· Medical Technician Ben Nevers
Background Characters
· Diane, Aly Silvers’ Assistant
· Dr. Blair
· Nurse Norden
· Criminal Court Judge
· Prison Guards
· Albert, Blood Bank Administrator
· Troy, Prosecutor
· Tim, Blood Bank Technician
· Greg, Medical Technician
· Miriam, Nicki’s foster mother
Supporting Characters
Support 1:
Name:
Jenny Levitt
Role:
Nurse at the Blood Bank
Main
purpose: Collecting blood donations.
Value:
Orchestrates the meeting of the twin sisters.Support 2:
Name:
Ben Nevers
Role:
Medical technician
Main
purpose: Testifies on behalf of Nicki as to the defectiveness of the
respirators at St. Mary’s hospital.
Value:
Provides the testimony that exonerates Nicki.[WIM: Module 3, Lesson 8: Purpose Driven Supporting Characters – July 1, 2022]
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BOB SMITH’s SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
<ins cite=”mailto:Robert%20Smith” datetime=”2022-06-25T15:53″>My vision for success after this program: </ins>
<ins cite=”mailto:Robert%20Smith” datetime=”2022-06-25T15:53″>I want to become a great writer who delivers entertaining, informative, and uplifting movie scripts that sell and get produced. </ins>
<ins cite=”mailto:Robert%20Smith” datetime=”2022-06-25T15:53″>What I learned from doing this assignment is…?</ins>
That the discovery process below the surface of characters makes characters and story effective.
ASSIGNMENT
2. Tell us your supporting and background characters.
Supporting Characters
Carlo Vizzini
Sam Levinsky
Sherrie Falco
Lisa Rizzo
Oleg Oransky
Zoey Platt
Background Characters
Michelle Ippolito
Dave Moore
3. Focusing on thse supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.
Support 1:
Name: Carlo Vizzini
Role: Age 30. Although he is the killer of Lou and the object of Lou’s salvific
mission to get him into Witness Protection, the story is Lou’s story and his
mission to Carlo and so I classify Carlo as a support character.
Main purpose: He is the subject of Lou and Rabbi Solomon’s mission to get him
and Sam to quit the mob and join witness protection. . Carlo’s resistance to Lou adds tension to the story.
Value: Carlo’s being stuck between the life of the mob and life outside of it
mirrors Lou in his being stuck between the world on earth and the World
to Come which he would like to acquire – but it all depends on getting
Carlo unstuck from the La Cosa Nostra which is frustrating to Lou and
Moves the story along.
Support 2
Name: Sam Levinsky (called Shmley by his father, Rabbi Solomon Levinsky).
Role: Late 20’s. Carlo’s best friend and a mob associate. His father hopes that a
collateral good of Lou’s getting Carlo to leave the mob is that Sam will
join him in doing so..
Main purpose: He is a skeptic about Carlo’s seeing the ghost of Lou Tasca which
highlights Carlo’’s insistence that he had seen Lou. Sam becomes Tony
Rizzo’s hitman to kill Carlo, until Carlo warns him that Tony ordered Sam
to kill Carlo, just as Tony ordered Carlo to kill Lou Tasca, and because
Tony wants to rid his crew of both Carlo and Sam for drug dealing, that
means only one thing: Tony set Sam up to kill Carlo so that Tony himself
has only one wise to kill, i.e., Sam. This precipitates the climax of the
story in which Carlo and Sam are renewed in their brotherly friendship
and together they quit the mob and join Witness Protection.
Value: As a Rabbi’s son (Solomon), he leaves Judaism and joins the mob but
then returns to Judaism after he quit the mob “which made Rabbi Sol very
happy.” This makes Sam a valuable character who carries the thread of
the moral issues in the story.
Support 3
Name: Sherrie Falco.
Role: Late 20’s. Carlo’s fiancé.
Main purpose. She is a stripper and pole dancer at Tony Rizzo’s Playhouse
Gentlemen’s Club. She wants Carlo to quit the mob. For this reason, and although she doesn’t realize it, she is an asset for Lou Tasca to get Carlo to quit the mob.
Value: Sherrie also carries the moral thread of the story: In her role, she
demonstrates the destructive nature of mob life upon individuals and
relationships: At her wits’ end, she breaks her engagement with Carlo,
which becomes a further incentive for Carlo to quit the mob. She is an
asset to Lou. When Carlo quits the mob, Sherrie resumes the engagement
and stands by him as he quits the mob and surrenders to the FBI and enters
the Witness Protection Program.
Support 4
Name: Lisa Rizzo.
Role: Early 40’s. She is Tony Rizzo’s wife.
Main purpose: She also despises the mob life and wishes that Tony would leave
it. She becomes an FBI informant She has long suffered with Tony’s sex, alcohol, and gambling addictions and the lame cover-ups of the fact that he has a mistress – this makes lighter, comic moments in the story. She is also the mother of her’s and Tony’s (unnamed children) one of whom wants to go to college, the other is a paraplegic. In the end, she reveals to Tony that she is an FBI informant and she lays out every good reason to Tony that to “turn rat” and join Witness Protection is a good thing for Tony and his family. Because of Lisa’s reasoning, Tony goes along with Carlo and Sam, surrenders to the Feds and joins the Witness Protection Program.
Value: She also carries the moral thread of the destructive nature of mob life and
what it has done to twist the person of her husband. She also stands by Tony in his joining the Witness Protection Program.
Support 4
Name: Oleg Oransky.
Role: Late 50’s. Russian Mafia Boss, nicknamed “The Czar of Brighton Beach.”
Main purpose: He and Tony are partners in a lucrative gasoline bootlegging
racket and he has become a confidant and ‘father confessor’ to the
younger Tony. He also has his henchmen (former KGB) surveil Carlo and Sam to see if they really are dealing drugs on the side; twice they come up empty, but Tony isn’t convinced , and goes ahead with his plan to have them assassinated.
Value: To assist the FBI in their war against the Cosa Nostra, Oleg becomes an
informant and assists them in finding Carlo and Sam to warn them that
their lives are in danger which hastens the climax of the story in which all
the hoods (Carlo, Sam, Tony) surrender to Witness Protection.
He is also a fun character and an actor attractor: Russian accent, intimidating attitude, sophisticated, continental manners – quite the opposite of Tony Rizzo.
Support 5
Name: Zoey Platt
Role: Mid-30’s. She is known as Zoey the Psychic Stripper.
Main Purpose Zoey is Sherrie Falco’s friend and pole dance partner at Tony’s
Playhouse Gentlemen’s club where she does psychic readings among her
extra services in the VIP Room. She’s been a stripper in places as far-
flung as a funeral (yes!) in Taiwan to Pussycat Alley in Tel Aviv (her real
name is Chayah Plotkin). She learned about spirit mediumship in Egypt at
a Luxor-area village near the Valley of the Kings. Sherrie asks Zoey to do
a Séance that would expel Lou Tasca out of Carlo and Sherrie’s
apartment. Sherrie says that Zoey, is well-read and well-travelled. Carlo
calls her ‘a ditz.’ Rabbi Solomon and Lou see her as an interloper in their mission and scare her away from obstructing their mission to save Carlo through an act of spirit possession by Lou. Zoey not only quits her inteerferencee with the mission, but quits the strip club but not before telling the other girls about what happened at the Séance which is heard by some of Tony’s crew and starts making more problems for Tony that pushes him further to murder Carlo and Sam.
Value: She is an actor attractor: A ditz but smart. As a spirit medium she has to
control a heavy traffic jam of spirits at the séance she conducts. She has
lots of personality and is funny. . Speaks several languages, including
Colloquial Egyptian Arabic (transliterated and translated in the
script.). With her séance a failure and Zoey neutralized from interfering
with their mission to Carlo, Lou and Solomon now continue in earnest to
save him. Carlo is also transformed by having been spirit-possessed by
Lou Tasca.
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS
Backgroud 1
Name: Michelle Ippolito
Role: Lead FBI agent, a handler of FBI informant Oleg Oransky (see above,
Support 4). She’s smart, sharp, professional.
Main Purpose: To close out the story arresting Carlo, Sam, and Tony.
Value: An Actor-attractor. Small part for a good actor. Has fun dialogue with
Oleg.
Background 2
Name: Dave Moore.
Role: Partner of Michelle Ippolito. Second FBI agent, and handler with Ippolito
of FBI informant Oleg Oransky.
Main Purpose: Assists Michelle
Value: Voices skepticism about ‘this talk about ghosts.’ He’s an actor attractor with funny dialogue with Oleg.
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Module 3 — Lesson 8: Purpose Driven Supporting Characters
Bill kellas sssWhat I learned is you can’t hit a grand slam without three others on base.
2. Tell us your supporting and background characters.
Supporting Characters: joy Ann Molly and momBackground Characters: joy Ann is the twins sister, Molly their love interest,and mom
3. Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.
Support 1:
Name:Joy Ann Role:sister Main purpose as a sounding board bring the brothers together :Value:United they stand
Support 2:
Name:MollyRole:love interest Main purpose: separates the boys and influence TroyValue:changes Troy’s relationships with his brother
Mom is the scientist who teaches Troy how to to build the 21 st century man
Sounding board
Guiding light
Supply’s values and central family relationships
Etc.
4. At the top of the page, tell us your one-sentence vision for your success from this program.
5. Under your vision, answer the question, “What I learned from doing this assignment is…?”
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Bobby’s Supporting Characters
What I learned doing this assignment is… VERY helpful to consider from the start the POINT of each character being in the script. Will obviously need to revisit this…
MY VISION: A writing life that is mine to do with as I please. Independently wealthy, always creatively engaged, sought after, and utterly fulfilled.
MOVIE: JASON VS THE ZOMBIES
HIGH CONCEPT:
A tormented, aspiring serial killer is forced to join forces with the bullies that were his intended victims, when the cabin they’re partying in is attacked by zombies from the nearby Civil War graveyard.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
NOTE: as this is a horror script, I’ve included their “victim role” as well…
#1: NAME: Carl
ROLE: Jason’s Dad
PURPOSE: Abuses and mocks Jason, takes side of the bullies
VALUE: Shows us how isolated and trapped Jason feels; shows why he sees violence as the only solution, and the only way to gain respect and “power”
#2: NAME: Jack – LEADER
ROLE: LEADER of the group
PURPOSE: Jason’s main adversary (he thinks); Lucy’s boyfriend
VALUE: Jason’s “boogeyman” in his dreams, who turns out to be not such a bad guy; makes the thematic point that we all need to look past stereotypes (Jason learns this, and so does Jack)
#3: NAME: Lucy – LOVE INTEREST/MORAL ONE?
ROLE: Jack’s girlfriend; Jason’s love
PURPOSE: The love interest/ultimate goal for Jason
VALUE: Lucy brings Jason back from the edge; also his only defender in the group at first
#4: NAME: Vinnie – MONSTER BAIT
ROLE: Bully by default; new to the group – never did anything to Jason
PURPOSE: Jason’s first attempted victim, taking a piss in the woods/zombies’ first victim
VALUE: Jason, with opportunity to kill, CAN’T do it (lets us keep rooting for him); First victim of Zombies!!
#5: NAME: Astrid – SACRIFICIAL LAMB
ROLE: Lucy’s BFF – none too bright
PURPOSE: First “house victim” of zombies (yanked through window as group laughs at Jason’s claims of zombies)
VALUE: Convinces everyone Jason’s not lying; Major shift in plot – starts the War
#5: NAME: Maggie – REBEL/THE CARRIER
ROLE: Jack’s older sister – housesitting with her obnoxious stoner boyfriend
PURPOSE: Breaks all the rules, letting party get out of control; first to turn zombie (after swimming in toxic lake with cut on leg)
VALUE: Shows Jack’s reasonable side, as they argue; brings battle inside house when she turns zombie
#6: NAME: “Top” – OBNOXIOUS/OUT OF CONTROL
ROLE: Maggie’s long-time boyfriend – total douche, druggie
PURPOSE: Top actually bullies Jack; Hack uses him to sow chaos in group
VALUE: makes group realize just how obnoxious bullying is (Top does to Jack what they’ve all done to Jason)
#7: NAME: Alan – VOICE OF REASON
ROLE: Everyone’s friend; points out bad behavior as he sees it
PURPOSE: Makes group (including himself) confront their own issues; Astrid’s BF
VALUE: The conscience of the group
#8: NAME: Ellen
ROLE: Astrid’s younger sister (by one year) – COMPLAINER
PURPOSE: immediate conflict in the group, as no one wants her there; judges them for their partying
VALUE: Someone EVERYONE’S “okay with dying” – comic relief…?
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CJ’s Supporting characters
Vision: I am a confident and empowered writer who embraces challenges and changes and writes highly sought-after projects with fresh and exciting ideas. I will be produced and hired to write projects that get produced.
WIL: I found that learning the “purpose” and the “value” and how they can help move the story through their nuances invaluable.
Title: MEMORY HUNTERS
Concept:
In a future with technology to retrieve memories, a Memory Retrevalist, caught in the mind of a psychopath struggles to find a way out before he destroys her mind and kills her.
ASSIGNMENT
Tell us about your supporting and background characters.
Supporting Characters: Freddie Detten<div>
Terry Sullivan
Mya’s Sister – Stella Ortega
Mya’s friend – Jeremy
Background Characters:
Technicians
Coffee shop
Others having memories hunted – families
Criminals hiding secrets / money
Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.
Support 1:
Name: Terry Sullivan</div><div>
Role: Lead Memory Hunter Technician and CEO’s lover
Main purpose: To set Mya up at CEO’s request to hide their underhanded dealings
Value: Important to story
Support 2:
Name: Freddie Detten</div><div>
Role: Psychopath – responsible or Mya’s wound and working with CEO
Main purpose: To terrorize and kill Mya
Value: Important to eliminate Mya as a threat and make it look like an accident
Support 3:
Name: Stella Ortega</div><div>
Role: Sister and worries about Mya
Main purpose: A source of frustration for Mya
Value: Provide more background on Mya’s condition
Support 4:
Name: Jeremy</div>
Role: Friend and possible love interest in Mya
Main purpose: Sounding board for Mya
Value: Adds some comic relief in tense moments
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Kevin Cunningham’s Supporting Characters
My Vision: By making my high-quality writing and speaking known in many venues (the Industry, Youtube, podcasts, books), I will create a reputation as a profoundly powerful, thoughtful, and skilled writer, and be sought after for new and rewrite activities at the highest levels.
What I learned from doing this assignment: This was easy, and it clarified which characters are really essential to the telling of the human story, and which are more procedural characters. I know that, in the telling, many of the Background Characters will have their moments in the story, but it is clarifying to know who’s part of the central story – directly impacting Mukki’s, Mr. Fox’s, and Jessie’s journeys – and who is just needed to keep the actions going in the fictional world.
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Title: Going Native
Supporting Characters:
Mr. Fox’s Wife Elizabeth Fox
Mr. Fox’s Daughter Alison Fox
Mukki’s Grandfather
Jessie Masnubic’s Husband
Background Characters:
Mukki’s Mother
Town Historian
Powwow Princess
Mr. Fox’s Tribal Conspirator
Town Meeting Members
Progressives
Right Wingers
Moderates/Centrists
Town Moderator
Select Board Members
Town Legal Counsel
Town Administrative Staff
Mukki’s Classmates
Mukki’s Tribes People
Other Tribes
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Supporting Character Basic Profiles
Support 1:
– Name: Elizabeth Fox
– Role: Mr. Fox’s Wife, also Chair of the Town Finance Committee
– Main purpose: Mr. Fox’s loyal wife, whom he wants to do good by – his love for her motivates his actions
– Value: provides financial information in the story, and provides play-by-play on Town Meeting
Support 2:
– Name: Alison Fox
– Role: Mr. Fox’s Daughter, also classmate of Mukki
– Main purpose: becomes ally of Mukki, supporting him when others are contemptuous; also love interest
– Value: supplies a focus for Mr. Fox’s love, and also his conduit to Mukki through a non-political avenue
Support 3:
– Name: Nixkamich
– Role: Mukki’s Grandfather, tribal leader
– Main purpose: places Mukki in charge of the town as the tribe representative, and monitors his progress
– Value: stands for Mukki’s growth as a person, and teaches him invaluable lessons from tribal lore
Support 4:
– Name: Mr. X
– Role: Jessie Masnubic’s Husband
– Main purpose: to present an existential challenge for Jessie: a husband who wants a sex operation
– Value: he provides a human face that contrasts with the abstract causes that Jessie supposedly champions
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Paul Mahoney’s Supporting Characters
Vision: My vision is to be a successful full-time writer with a good steady income, who constantly learns, enjoys life, creates employment for others and brings joy, fun, fulfilment, health, happiness, inspiration & an attitude of gratitude to my partner and others.
What I learned in this assignment is taking some time to think about other characters that can add value to the script.
Support Actor 1:
Name: Roo Boy Role: <div>
Best Friend of Dan.
<div>
Main purpose: Support for Dan.
Value: Shows
Support Actor 2:
Name: Dr. Jammal </div><div>
Role: Kyla’s psychiatrist.
Main purpose: Provides advice to Kyla
Value: A mirror image of Kyla, as she also has inappropriate feelings for a patient – Kyla.
Support Actor 3:
Name: Jemma</div><div>
Role: Inmate at the psychiatric ward.
Main purpose: Dan convinces her to smuggle her unswallowed prescriptions to him, so he can overdose.
Value: A comedic character who provides some humour with Dan.
Support Actor 4:
Name: Danica</div><div>
Role: Ted’s ex-girlfriend who is also an influencer. She outs him as the world’s worst lover.
Main purpose: Pushes Ted’s buttons, causing him a world of shame.
Value: Causes Ted to try suicide.
Background Character 1:
Name: Mr. Devlin</div><div>
Role: Drama Teacher
Main purpose: Teacher who is actually the devil.
Value: Antagonist to the antagonist Mrs. Wagner
Background Character 2:
Name: Gordon </div><div>
Role: Nurse in the psychiatric ward who keeps his eye on Dan.
Main purpose: Keeps Dan under pressure.
Value: Causes Ted to try suicide a 2<sup>nd</sup> time.
Background Character 3:
Name: Scratcher </div><div>
Role: Guy with ring worm.
Main purpose: Comedic.
Value: Comedic.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Other <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Background Characters – Students, Psychiatric Patients, Teachers.
</div></div>
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Andrew Kelm’s Supporting Characters
Vision: I am going to do whatever it takes to be a great writer of TV and movies who is sought after by people I respect within the industry and has multiple successful TV series produced.
What I learned doing this assignment is… how to keep supporting characters purposeful and in line with high concept.
FATEMONGERS; a psychic with a blind spot for abusive men uses subtle manipulations to murder a sexual predator who seduces her to get to her sons.
Support 1:
- Name: Gilbert
- Role: A minister; Roy’s benefactor, boss and fellow child abuser
- Main purpose: pull Roy away from Daphne
- Value: expands context of conflict to witchcraft vs. church
Support 2:
- Name: Christine
- Role: Daphne’s mother
- Main purpose: warn Daphne away from Roy and expose his flaws
- Value: Her controlling pushes Daphne to run away with Roy
Support 3:
- Name: Samson
- Role: Politician who gets advice from Daphne
- Main purpose: protect Daphne from legal consequences
- Value: makes repercussions of Daphne’s unraveling political
Support 4:
- Name: Carl
- Role: Daphne’s first-born son
- Main purpose: sexually tempt Roy
- Value: provides the spark that puts Daphne’s plan to murder Roy into action
Support 5:
- Name: Abraxas
- Role: Daphne’s second son
- Main purpose: rat on suspected sex between Carl and Roy
- Value: provides the spark that puts Daphne’s plan to murder Roy into action
Support 6:
- Name: Terry
- Role: Daphne’s gay friend she hangs out with when abandoned by Roy
- Main purpose: sounding board for Daphne
- Value: Brings out more facets of Daphne’s character and illuminates her decision-making process
Support 7:
- Name: Steve
- Role: Daphne’s abusive boyfriend she turns to after Roy
- Main purpose: to provide a way of getting rid of Roy
- Value: Increase the intrigue
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Jack P’s Supporting Characters
MY VISION: I will do whatever it takes to write a script that is recognized by the industry and leads to multiple successful movies.
WHAT I LEARNED: Supporting characters have a critical role in revealing the subtext and background for the leads.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Lina: Kayline, Mari, Sophie
Jay: Ex-wife, daughter, son
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS: Father, mother, uncle, aunt, kids
SUPPORT 1:
NAME: Sophie
ROLE: Lani’s daughter
PURPOSE: Reveal rape secret, resolve mother/daughter separation
Value: Lani’s chance to leave her irresponsible past behind and become a parent; Sophie is Jay’s mom reincarnated
SUPPORT 2:
NAME: Kayline
ROLE: Cute girl at the swim-up bar
PURPOSE: Reveal Lani’s bisexuality
VALUE: Show the “other side” of Lani (drunk, lesbian)
SUPPORT 3:
NAME: Mari
ROLE: Lani’s former lover and best friend
PURPOSE: Reveal Lani’s past, discuss love for Jay
VALUE: Show Lani’s past and set up for conflict and resolution of relationship with Jay
SUPPORT 4:
NAME: Flora
ROLE: Jay’s ex-wife in US
PURPOSE: Show Jay’s relationship betrayal
VALUE: Reveal Jay’s relationship wound
SUPPORT 5:
NAME: Michele
ROLE: Jay’s adult daughter
PURPOSE: Show Jay’s path through a child’s addiction-recovery
VALUE: Reveal the subtext of addiction, resolve by showing recovery can be life-changing
SUPPORT 6:
NAME: Jameson
ROLE: Jay’s adult son
PURPOSE: Show Jay’s path through a child’s addiction tragedy
VALUE: Reveal the subtext of Jay’s loss of a child, reveal reincarnation and soulmate journey
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Lori’s Supporting Characters
Vision: I want to be a professional screenwriter recognized by the industry as the go-to for family-friendly scripts and have multiple successful movies produced.
What I learned: This is really the first time I’ve given much thought to supporting and background characters. I found this assignment to be fun. All supporting characters should have a clear role, purpose, and value. I’m beginning to see much more of my story by figuring out these characters.
Support 1:
Name: Hannah Logan
Role: oldest child in the family
Main purpose: She’s Mary Ann to Alex’s Ginger. Initially, she looks up to Alex and hopes they can be friends. She will have to turn against Alex if she wants to remain loyal to the family.
Value: As the oldest, she carries some of the burdens of ensuring the younger children are safe and cared for.
Support 2:
Name: Gavin Logan
Role: middle child in the family
Main purpose: He gets the opportunity to spy on Alex and make a plan for her downfall.
Value: He’s a nerdy middle child under everyone’s radar and adds humor to many scenes.
Support 3:
Name: Grace Logan
Role: youngest child in the family
Main purpose: She keeps Alex on her toes and constantly tests her skills and patience.
Value: As the youngest child, she requires the most care and gives Alex a chance at filling the role of mother.
Support 4:
Name: Jason Aarons
Role: engineer at AI, Inc.
Main purpose: He discovers Alex’s secret and warns his boss but gets fired.
Value: He shows the audience its first glimpse of the AI Alex and what she might be capable of.
Support 5:
Name: Mr. George Stellar
Role: evil CEO of AI, Inc.
Main purpose: He authorizes the use of AIs in homes.
Value: He ignores the warnings and focuses on gaining power and prestige.
Background Characters: employees at AI, Inc. headquarters, neighbors, teachers and students at school, possibly Brad’s and Claire’s coworkers
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[WIM] Caroline’s Supporting Characters
My Vision: I will perfect my process of writing great scripts and be recognized by the industry as good at what I do and have successful movies produced.
What I learned: I really enjoyed this exercise and found it very helpful.
Supporting Characters: Gabrielle Copley, Bridget Terry, CIA Supervisor, Arms Dealer, MI6 colleague
Background Characters: Party goers, airline personnel, tourists
Support 1:
Name: Gabrielle Copley
Role: Aaron’s wife
Main Purpose: To get kidnapped by the arms dealer
Value: Her kidnapping spurs Callahan into action
Support 2:
Name: Bridget Terry
Role: Callahan’s wife
Main Purpose: To die by the hand of the arms dealer
Value: She is the reason that Callahan feels guilty
Support 3:
Name: CIA Supervisor
Role: Aaron’s boss
Main Purpose: To run interference and refuse to help Callahan
Value: Makes Callahan feel guilty
Support 4:
Name: Arms Dealer
Role: Bad Guy
Main Purpose: He is the bad guy, does bad things and spurs the action
Value: His actions cause Callahan to morph into super spy and Aaron to become a criminal
Support 5:
Name: MI6 colleague
Role: Friend of Callahan’s
Main Purpose: Helps Callahan from afar
Value: Supports Callahan and gives him someone to trust
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Eclipse Neilson supporting characters
VISION:I want to be a great award-winning writer, known for my new genre, who creates the most beautiful films that inspire others to feel deeply, pause, and ponder ways to make the world a better place.
“What I learned from doing this assignment is I need more time to weave the pieces together but figuring out their purpose is so important.”
2. Tell us your supporting and background characters.
Supporting Characters:
ATHENA
FATHER SINCLAIR
THE OLD WOMAN
DAVID WHITEMAN
Background Characters:
Congregation,
Council of Universal Beings,
Crowds,
3. Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.
Support 1:
Name: FATHER SINCLAIR
Role: The minister of the church who becomes a ghost after the 1st act.
Main purpose: To make sure Sister Anne saves the church from closing down and the people from becoming lost souls.
Value: We get to see how Father Sinclair cares about Sister Anne and struggles with the rules he followed all his life as he seeks redemption now as a ghost.Support 2:
Name: ATHENA (17)
Role: Lunea’s niece whose parents were killed in Ukraine ( I might change this to an inner city foster child)
Main purpose: To bring out the gentle mothering side of Lunea
Value: She believes there needs to be more kindness in the world and befriends the OLD ONE who will help Lunea and Sister Anne carry out their mission.Support 3:
Name: Old One (a native woman) (96)
Role: Helps guide Lunea in moments of doubt and is connected with the Council of Universal Beings.
Main purpose: To make sure the mission is accomplished helps them to time travel to find the secret.
Value: Strength and wisdom come to women of age.
Support 3:
Name: David Whiteman (17)
Role Athena’s schoolmate a trouble teen with possible psychosis and represents the problem with the town discrimination.
Main purpose: To make sure the miracle Sister Anne must perform happens by carrying out a shooting at the church.
Value: Witches are evil
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Hope McPherson’s supporting characters
Vision: To be a working, trusted screenwriter who supports herself by writing smart films that are produced and enjoyed, while also working on writing assignments for other industry professionals.
What I learned: Interesting way to give closer thought to who’s needed in a script and why as the protagonist goes on her journey. Also useful to consider how the antagonist will be interacting with them, as well.
Supporting characters: David Lancaster; Dean Curtis Elred; Krissy Lipkind
Background characters: students; florist; caterer, clergyman
Support 1:
Name: David Lancaster
Role: Marta’s fiancé
Main purpose: To show Marta is still living in the cycle of her parent’s addiction. And when Cyrus realizes that David is addicted to gambling, and he first tries to “edit” Marta’s fiancé choice because he’s conning her. Later, it’s because he’s falling in love with Marta himself.
Value: David shows Marta is still affected by her addicted parent and falling into the same pattern; breaking off her engagement at the last minute will be when she’s completing her character arc.
Support 2:
Name: Dean Curtis Elred
Role: The faculty member who decides which of the assistant professors will be hired and who’ll be fired: Marta or Andrew
Main purpose: Dean Elred, is the protag’s and antag’s boss. He determines who’s hired and who’s fired.
Value: Dean Elred creates and accelerates the tension between Marta and Andrew, as they both try to win him over and sabotage the other. He also knew Marta’s well-known mother, who Marta is trying to live up to.
Support 3:
Name: Krissy Lipkind
Role: Wedding planner
Main purpose: Keep the wedding pressure on Marta
Value: Cyrus aims much of his “editing” at choices Marta has already made with Krissy, which makes the tensions between the women and then also the fiancé escalate.
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Amechi’s Supporting Characters
MY VISION
I am going to be a top 1% action/comedy writer in the industry who writes major action films.
What I learned doing this assignment is to flesh out my supporting characters and make sure they are essential to the plot. The difference between main purpose and value.2. Tell us your supporting and background characters.
• Supporting Characters: Mars, Kanaan’s mother, The Mayor, The Mayor’s Aide, Kanaan’s Teacher
• Background Characters: Criminals, The rest of Kanaan’s family, Kanaan’s neighbors, Victims, Kanaan’s landlord, Kanaan’s classmates, Kanaan’s teacher’s son, Civilians, cops
3. Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.
Support 1: Mars
• Name: Mars
• Role: Blackout’s assistant and helper, and Kanaan’s mentor.
• Main purpose: Provide Kanaan with goals, obstacles, and purpose, and support Blackout.
• Value: Helps to train Kanaan, keeps the group together, and his death pushes them to unite.
Support 2: The Mayor
• Name: Harriet Straw
• Role: Fake Opponent/Focus of investigation
• Main purpose: Voice the fear of the public and appeal to oppression.
• Value: To show that the city values greed and individualism over unity and justice.
Support 3: The Mayor’s Aide
• Name: Dennis Suarez
• Role: Secondary Antagonist/The person who is behind the plot to kill Blackout.
• Main purpose: Trying to find a way to destroy Blackout so Mayor can stay in power with more oppression.
• Value: Increase the attacks on the superheroes through covert means.
Support 4: Kanaan’s Teacher
• Name: NASH
• Role: Kanaan’s martial arts teacher.
• Main purpose: To say what people are thinking about the city. Someone who Kanaan needs to stand up to on his journey.
• Value: Holding Kanaan back and has him living in fear and feeling weak. Contributes to the atmosphere of fear. -
Renee Brown’s Supporting Characters
“My scripts are the cream that rise to the top: I am an A-list screenwriter.”
What I learned: Some major plot points clicked into place with this exercise, and the Theme of my story became crystal clear to me. Super exciting.
GLOW AGAIN
High Concept: A magical stone reunites two star-crossed lovers decades later in a small Montana town that keeps big hearted secrets.
Supporting Characters:
Lauren:
Role: Alley’s best friend – has been since childhood. Was there for the breakup long ago.
Purpose: Holds a mirror to Alley when needed
Value: Helps her remember herself.
Charlie:
Role: CJ’s best friend – was there for the breakup and accident long ago.
Purpose: Rock climber – Helps CJ do some dangerous grand gesture stuff near the climax.
Value: Helps CJ remember he is not alone.
Brenda:
Role: Owns a bakery in Soaking Springs.
Purpose: Brenda sells cookies that only Alley and Lillian know how to make.
Value: Leads Alley to know her grandmother is/was here.
Tom:
Role: Current owner of Lillian’s Resort Motel.
Purpose: He knows where Lillian is now but is sworn to secrecy.
Value: CJ ultimately convinces him (somehow) reveal where to find Lillian.
The Second Chance Stone:
Role: (I know, it’s a rock. But still…) Acts out the theme: “Opportunities show up in every important moment. It is our perspective and our choices that lead us to Joy, or to Despair.”
Purpose: The stone glows when the seed of happiness is waiting in the owner’s choice but then dims when they chose poorly.
Value: Represents the mystical guidance of the divine.
Background Characters:
Alley’s coworkers, People living in Soaking springs, Parade goers in Normandy, Lillian’s family, Lillian’s husband, Antique shop dealer, nurses at rest home.
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Terrie’s Supporting Characters
I write screenplays that get turned into crowd pleasing successful films using a process that allows me to enjoy my equestrian hobby.
What I learned doing this assignment is that I have A LOT of work to do on my supporting characters.
Supporting characters:
Dale; Owen, Retired chief of police; Bob head of whatever fringe group James/Jason is testifying against; Noah, inside man.Background characters:
Other US Marshalls, other members of fringe groups
Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.
Support 1:
Name: Dale
Role: Paige’s date in opening scene
Main purpose: a humorous foil for Paige’s wit
Value: Paige’s opening scene
Support 2:
Name: Owen
Role: Retired chief of police, rural community
Main purpose: who they turn to when they are on the run
Value: allows us to get some backstory about Paige & James/Jason’s relationship. He hates James/Jason. Sounding board for Paige.
Support 3:
Name: Bob
Role: head of fringe group
Main purpose: goes after James/Jason to protect his group
Value: put Paige and James/Jason in danger and suspense
Support 4:
Name: Noah
Role: Inside man of the fringe group
Main Purpose: set up a double cross
Value: gives a twist when we find out there really is an inside man, that James/Jason is right! Build tension and suspense.
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VISION FOR SUCCESS: I will deliver delicious, surprising, seemingly effortless work, that is constantly in demand and causes people to recommend me for original and rewrite projects without hesitation.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT IS that this is an amazing and necessary and easy list of things to brainstorm and know!
TITLE: Cousin Mitch
HIGH CONCEPT: On graduation day, a petulant cynic goes back in time to change the event that he thinks ruined his life and when he returns, he meets his worst nightmare – himself.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:
SOPHIE/NEW SOPHIE
ROLE: The girl the Mitch once loved, but cannot face.
MAIN PURPOSE: To petrify Mitch/To show Mitch the whirlwind of romance and passion he’s missing BUT capable of…
VALUE: Mysterious/Throw caution to the wind! You only live once! Poop does not matter!
ROBBIE/NEW ROBBIE:
ROLE: Mitch’s best friend / Simon’s BF.
MAIN PURPOSE: To be subordinate to Mitch but think he’s crazy./To make Mitch regret the way he was.
VALUE: Live hiding / Live free and you be you
SIMON/NEW SIMON
ROLE: Mitch’s bully / Robbie’s boyfriend
MAIN PURPOSE: To humiliate Mitch beyond belief / To make Mitch jealous of his relationship with Robbie.
VALUE: Making fun of others instead of being yourself / Be yourself and love everyone
MOM:
ROLE: Mom / Mom-servant
MAIN PURPOSE: To worry about Mitch and raise his anxiety / To worship Mitch and give him incredible sense of ego and confidence
VALUE: Blame yourself / Go for it
TEASCHER:
NAME:
ROLE:
MAIN PURPOSE:
VALUE:
ARGOS:
NAME:
ROLE:
MAIN PURPOSE:
VALUE:
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Tina’s Supporting Characters
My Vision: My writing enables me to live an exuberantly creative and productive life in prosperity.
ARGUS’ EYES
A teenage girl has her disfigured face reconstructed at a beauty clinic in the Black Forest, only to discover that her new face is just a mask and she is now the livestock for a blind demon who has stolen her eyes for himself.
Supporting Characters:
Name: Luzi
Role: Val’s friend from the orphanage
Main purpose: Comes to the clinic as outsider, believes the crazy stories, that Val sees the gauged out eyes. / In the orphanage Luzi is the only one Val doesn’t see as a threat, still she steals from her.
Value: Her trust in Val brings Val to start believing that maybe it’s not everyone for themselves, that friends and family can support each other
Name:
Role:Guard
Main purpose: He tries to hurt Val to show her he’s in charge. Then his hands get cut off in a freak accident.
Value: We see Val has no fear even the consequences of her sassy mouth are brutal. Then the power of her amulet she gto from her grandmother, it protects her by mutilating Val’s attackers – instant Karma.
Name:
Role: Facility director
Main purpose: The bureaucratic side of things can be as brutal as the actions of an evil person. When he blocks Val’s way out, her independence, he gets killed in a freak accident.
Value: We know that he can do anything to Val until she is 18. When he dies Val is a the point of no return, she will be bamed for the accidents and end up in prison.
Name:
Role: Bike group in the black forest
Main purpose: they start harassing Val but stop when they see the amulet.
Value: We know here the rules have changed, people won’t try to hurt her because they know what will happen.
Background Characters:
Name:
Role: The clinic patients
Main purpose: They suffer from the false face and the demon feeding on them. They all display various forms of exhaustion, irratic behaviour
Value: We see the consequences of the demon, yet no one knows that anything is wrong. It’s just normal to be tired and crying.
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Claire’s Supporting Characters
MY VISION:
I have a fabulous career as a screenwriter working in both TV and film, and I have tremendous creative, financial, and personal success. I specialize in female driven projects, and I am the go-to-girl for writing lesbian stories.
What I learned: I love this tool for supporting characters. It really helps me focus in on why this character is in my story, which will help me with the character and with the story.
THRILLER SCRIPT
Supporting Characters: Debbie, Eve’s girlfriend, and Henry, Eve’s father
Background Characters: Patrons at club when Eve and Debbie are on a date, Police, FBI agents in investigation, kidnappers
Support 1:
Name: Debbie
Role: Eve’s girlfriend who gets kidnapped
Main purpose: She is the pivotal character in the story. She is the character who forces Eve to change. When Debbie is kidnapped, Eve goes on her journey to rescue Debbie
Value: She shows us that Eve is loveable and then demands that Eve be a good partner. She pushes Eve to be her best self.
Support 2:
Name: Roger
Role: Eve’s father
Main purpose: To provide Eve’s backstory so we understand what happened to Eve as a teen and why Debbie’s kidnapping brings back Eve’s wounds
Value: Provides a major twist. We think he is working against Eve, but he gives Eve crucial information to find Debbie and helps Eve escape.
HORROR SCRIPT
Supporting Characters: Six other women on the movie set, the woman with the disabled car, the Entertainment News Anchor
Background Characters: None
Support 1:
Name: Audrey
Role: Psychiatric Consultant on the movie
Main purpose: To create conflict with Maeve. She disagrees with Maeve’s assessment that there is an evil spirit on the set. Also, she is secretly having an affair with Maeve’s wife.
Value: She provides the traditional POV of a psychiatrist.
Support 2:
Name: Alison
Role: Actress in the movie playing the evil psychiatrist.
Main purpose: To create conflict between Maeve and Sybil. She is Audrey’s wife, and she suspects Audrey and Sybil are having an affair.
Value: Provides general chaos in the horror story so it is difficult for people to band together and fight the ghost.
Support 3:
Name: Regina
Role: Actress/comic who plays the murderous patient in the movie.
Main purpose: She knows everyone’s secrets. She can provide exposition.
Value: To provide comic relief in this horror story
Support 4:
Name: Libby
Role: Actress. Plays the nurse in the movie.
Main purpose: Supports Maeve’s position. Acts as a sounding board.
Value: Does not know anyone’s secrets so will ask questions. Exposition.
Support 5:
Name: Zora
Role: Director of photography.
Main purpose: To try and get Sybil to listen to Maeve.
Value: The only one Sybil will listen to.
Support 6:
Name: Diana
Role: Caterer on movie.
Main purpose: Gets Maeve to stand up to Sybil and tell what she feels.
Value: Maternal woman who is kind to everyone, so we immediately like her. She is the first to die and we are upset because we like her.
Support 7:
Name: Marilyn
Role: Woman in disabled care that Maeve helps
Main purpose: To show us that Maeve is kind, and to warn Maeve not to go to the movie set in the abandoned mental hospital because it is haunted.
Value: Gets us to both like Maeve and be concerned for her.
Support 8:
Name: Bethany
Role: Entertainment News Anchor
Main purpose: To interview Sybil on Skype and provide background.
Value: Allows us to see why Sybil is passionate about this movie.
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Sandra’s Supporting Characters
Vision: I am doing what I love to do as a writer with several successful produced movies.
What I learned doing this assignment is how to create supporting characters with purpose and value.
Supporting Characters: Mary, Joseph, Nancy
Background Characters: police officers, ship officers and crew, bartender and bar patrons, waiter/waitress, bank tellers, receptionist
Support 1:
Name: Mary
Role: Sloane’s alcoholic mother
Main Purpose: Role model for many of Sloane’s beliefs, values and behaviors.
Value: Creates tension and shows us Sloane’s wound from childhood.
Support 2:
Name: Joseph
Role: Sloane’s father
Main Purpose: Sloan’s role model for integrity and a strong work ethic. However, he’s absent from home a lot as he travels too much for business.
Value: Shows us another side and POV of the family dynamics and influence on Sloan’s life.
Support 3:
Name: Nancy
Role: Good wife (Sloane’s second marriage)
Main Purpose: Sloane’s love interest who is calm, caring, honest, and makes good decisions.
Value: She gives Sloane support and motivation for leaving crime and creating a new life.
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Module 3 (Lead Characters That Attract Actors) Lesson 8: Purpose Driven Supporting Characters
KEVIN PATRICK GOULET’S – Purpose Driven Supporting Characters
…My vision: Develop successful screenplay writing method > yields completed screenplays > viewed as PRO/story-telling level quality > sales (compensation) > production > more screenwriting opportunities > Rinse and repeat, many times over.
…what I learned: Supporting Characters vs. characters with a line or two of dialogue… (when I think of ‘background’ characters, I think of ‘extras’ who have no dialogue). The script will be leaner if I can keep the number of supporting (‘speaking’) characters to a minimum. But they are fun to create.
FINDING DOCTOR FUNK – – <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Supporting Characters
Supporting Role 1: Lee Mendelson
Role: Producer of the PEANUTS Television specials
Main purpose: He finds Vince Guaraldi. Creates opportunity for Vince to then compose the PEANUTS ‘Sound’ (LINUS and LUCY, etc.), enabling each to forever be linked to The classic Charles Schulz Cartoons.
Value: He completely changed Vince Guaraldi’s life.
Supporting Role 2: Gretchen Katamay
Role: Girlfriend of Vince Guaraldi.
Main purpose: The woman who Vince spent the most time with, outside of his Mother.
Value: She became the glue in Vince’s Life- after his Divorce from wife Shirley.
Shirley Guaraldi
Role: Spouse (Vince’s Wife) of 15 years.
Main purpose: Helps reveal things about Vince he won’t reveal on his own.
Value: underscores many of Vince’s flaws…
Charles M. Schulz
Role: Creator of PEANUTS Comic Strip.
Main purpose: Accepting of Guaraldi’s unique sound.
Value: Very staunch supporter of Guaraldi- after initial critical bashing from CBS tv Brass about Cartoons soundtrack.
Jerry Granelli
Role: Drummer – Vince Guaraldi Trio.
Main purpose: Also Vince’s ‘Partner in Crime’; He bought a Porsche right after Vince bought a Porsche; they would ‘race around’ the city/hills of S.F. Bay area, always looking out for pretty ladies.
Value: His drumming in the Trio, close friendship with Vince.
Bola Sete
Role: Brazilian Guitarist, member of the VG Trio. Collaborated on 2 studio albums with Vince.
Main purpose: Each other’s male version of a ‘muse’.
Value: Gifted guitar player, friendship with Vince. Oddly, Bola spoke no English when they first me but learned English because of Vince.
Cal Tjader
Role: Vibraphonist, Vince’s (first professional gig), band/leader/mentor of sorts.
Main purpose: Musical inspiration for Vince’s eventual formation of his own trio.
Value: Adds ‘Cred’ for Guaraldi (he was not first choice for PEANUTS musical scoring/composition opportunity) as both Tjader and Dave Brubeck had regrets later for passing on the gig.
Brothers Max Weiss & Soul Weiss (Fantasy Record Label)
Role: President & Vice President of record Label.
Main purpose: Ruthless ‘tyrants’ who took far more record sales compensation from Vince/other musicians than was fair.
Value:Opportunity for Vince to sell records.
Ralph Gleason
Role: San Francisco Chronicle JAZZ Columnist.
Main purpose: Puts Vince together with Bola Sete on Bay Area PBS Television Special, “Jazz Casual”.
Value: Knew Bola’s presence would help build International appeal of Vince’s music.
Bill Melendez
Role: Animator of PEANUTS Characters for television specials, Voice of Snoopy.
Main purpose: Bring Charles Schulz Comic Strip characters to television.
Value: To give life, personality to PEANUTS CHARACTERS.
David & Dia Guaraldi
Role: Offspring (Vince’s Guaraldi’s Children).
Main purpose: Love, mutual adoration.
Value: Opportunity for Vince to be a better father to them than His Father was to him.
Miles Davis
Role: Legendary Jazz Trumpeter.
Main purpose: was inspired by Vince.
Value: Adds credibility for Guaraldi; mentions creating/working together on some original work.
Dave Brubeck
Role: Legendary Jazz Pianist.
Main purpose: Turned down offer to score PENUTS Specials.
Value: Adds ‘Cred’ for Guaraldi (he was not first choice for PEANUTS musical scoring/composition opportunity) as both Tjader and Dave Brubeck had regrets later for passing on the gig.
Douglas MacArthur
Role: Army General.
Main purpose: Encounters Vince playing Mess Hall piano in Korea.
Value: Expedites Vince getting back home to America.
David Benoit.
Role: Professional Jazz Pianist, composer.
Main purpose: As youngster and Post-script Testimonial (?)
Value: Inspired as a kid (after seeing Peanuts TV specials, hearing Linus and Lucy’ Jazz for the first time) to play piano like Vince Guaraldi.
George Winston
Role: Professional Jazz Pianist composer.
Main purpose: As youngster and Post-script Testimonial (?)
Value: Inspired as a kid (after seeing Peanuts TV specials, hearing Linus and Lucy’ Jazz for the first time) to play piano like Vince Guaraldi.
Wynton Marsalis
Role: Professional Jazz Trumpeter, composer.
Main purpose: As youngster and Post-script Testimonial (?)
Value: Inspired as a kid (after seeing Peanuts TV specials, hearing Linus and Lucy’ Jazz for the first time his Dad also knew VG) to play Jazz (trumpet) like Vince Guaraldi.
JAZZ Club OWNERS, 3 (TBD)
Role: Operate San Francisco area Jazz Clubs.
Main purpose: Offer work opportunities to musicians.
Value: Increased visibility, notoriety of musicians careers.
Background Characters: (B.G.) = I understand ‘background’ to mean ‘Extra’ (no lines of dialogue). Not focusing on background extras at this time.
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Linda’s Purpose Driven Supporting Characters
My Vision is: I will do whatever it takes to be a sought-after profound writer with many successful movies produced and an Oscar on my mantel.
What I learned doing this assignment is thinking through which supporting characters are necessary to tell the story can cut back on the number of extraneous characters I’ve added in the past and then had to eliminate in later drafts.
Supporting Characters: Dying cartel drug lord. Joaquin’s wife, daughter and son. Secondary competitor who Arturo conspires with to kill Joaquin. Community member who supports and pushes Joaquin. Director of border patrol.
Background Characters: Other competitions. DEA.
Support 1: Rodrigo Espinoza
· Role: Dying cartel drug lord
· Main Purpose: Creates and drives the competition for his successor.
· Value: Played a part in Joaquin’s wound. Protects Joaquin as a promise to his father, which increases the conflict between Joaquin and Arturo and requires the conspiracy.
Support 2: Camila Vega
· Role: Joaquin’s wife and love interest of Arturo.
· Main Purpose: The love interest of Arturo who tries to stop the conflict knowing one of them is going to die.
· Value: She dated Arturo before marrying Joaquin, which set up their conflict years ago.
Support 3: Isabel Vega
· Role: Joaquin’s daughter.
· Main Purpose: Arturo uses her and her brother to lure Joaquin into the competition.
· Value: Fear for her safety and freedom is what ultimately pulls Joaquin into the competition.
Support 4: Tomas Vega
· Role: Joaquin’s son
· Main Purpose: Is being recruited by Arturo to join the cartel.
· Value: Creates flashbacks for Joaquin to the conflict with his father before his death.
Support 4: Galo Leon
· Role: Secondary competitor
· Main Purpose: Conspires with Arturo to kill Joaquin.
· Value: Increasing the conflict and action.
Support 6: Dante Herrera
· Role: Low level Falcon / community leader.
· Main Purpose: Encourages Joaquin to take on the fight.
· Value: Supports Joaquin, but also gets him in this bind.
Support 7: Maritza Montoya
· Role: Director of Border Patrol
· Main Purpose: The target that could win Joaquin the competition.
· Value: A high points target and a twist.
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Erik’s Supporting Characters
My vision is to achieve true excellence as a screenwriter which causes me to be a consistently working writer, with actual movies made from some of my scripts, and to become wealthy as a screenwriter, develop relationships in the movie industry where I am recognized as a truly original writer, and to become indispensable in the market in which I want to write.
What I learned doing this assignment… This assignment was very helpful in allowing me to articulate just what value these characters have–and frankly it was a small joy. Each one has to serve the high concept and the journeys of the three lead characters, and I was pleased to discover that they do that. Just simply writing out the purpose and value helped to ‘birth’ these characters and make them more concrete. (Sometimes I found that the purpose and value blend and blur with each other.)
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:
Headmistress of the orphanage, DAPHNE
Rich, boozing lady who takes Penny in, AMANDA
Sarah’s mother & father
Sarah’s fiancé
“Third orphan”, JESS
Orphanage chef, DANNY
Subterranean person or animal or monster-type thing
Possibly some on the trolley system
Fancy-restaurant staff
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS:
Various mall employees or people
Fancy-restaurant staff
Mall security staff
Assorted on the trolley system
DAPHNE
Role: Orphanage headmistress
Main purpose: To embody in one person the opposition that Penny & Mara face when the whole outside world is perceived as the opposition. Also to show that Penny is not just imagining a sense of opposition by showing that Daphne’s objective seems to be to keep the girls securely within the confines of the orphanage.
Value: Among all the other sources of antagonism to the girls’ journey, Daphne is a real form of opposition to Penny’s ( and later Mara’s) goal, however exaggerated it might seem to Penny.
AMANDA
Role: Wealthy lady who lives in the mall’s luxury apartments section and takes in Penny
Main purpose: To show that Penny wants Mara’s friendship more than she wants a parental figure (that is, a very flawed one) with a plush house.
Value: Right now, I cannot distinguish between the value and the purpose above.
SARAH’S MOTHER
Role: Mother of triangle character
Main purpose: Her aim of controlling her daughter’s life shapes her daughter’s values (to the opposite) as well as creating mental conflict about those values. This mental conflict drives Sarah’s feelings for Penny and Mara.
Value: Bringing into the story a set of character values that are drastically different from everyone else’s.
SARAH’S FATHER
Role: Father of triangle character
Main purpose: (Same as mother)
Value: Bringing into the story a set of character values that are drastically different from everyone else’s.
DANNY
Role: Chef at the orphanage
Main purpose: He clandestinely gives Penny cash as well as slipping her extra food. He is basically Penny’s buddy in the orphanage and boosts her physical well-being.
Value: Showing a ‘humane’ side to the orphanage and showing that Penny can actually trust adults.
JESS
Role: Orphan whom Mara bonds with after her and Penny’s experience in the mall
Main purpose: To create a source of conflict that promises to be potentially heart-breaking for the audience!
Value: When a barrier is thrown up between Penny and Mara, the introduction of Jess seems to portend that all is lost between the two girls!
SARAH’S FIANCE
Role: Triangle character’s fiancé
Main purpose: To complicate Sarah’s life even further, even though that is not his intent.
Value: He adds another source of complication in Sarah’s life because he pressures her about having children when she is determined to resist the wishes of her parents.
SUBTERRANEAN PERSON OR ANIMAL OR MONSTER-TYPE THING
Role:
Main purpose: Company for Mara when she is alone for a while that also gives her a deeper connection to the outside world
Value: A source for Mara’s more meaningful connection to people other than Penny and mall people
FANCY-RESTAURANT STAFF
Role:
Main purpose: Objects of Penny’s & Mara’s foils. Comic relief.
Value: The restaurant staff help to bring out Penny’s and Mara’s street skills and sense of mischief.
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Jenifer Stockdale’s Supporting Characters
Vision: I will write everyday, producing not only high volume but high quality scripts that will ultimately be made into popular movies and television shows.
What I learned doing this lesson is that it really helps to understand the “whys” of having a character so that you can have the smallest number of actors to tell the story that you need.
Support 1: Patient
Name: ?
Role: Supporting
Main purpose: Cause trouble
Value: Gives Dacey purpose at work, allows her to show her adeptness
Support 2: Patient 2
Name: ?
Role: Supporting
Main purpose: Fearful, manipulated by patient 1 and creates issues that Dacey has to resolve
Value: Allows Dacey to show her kind and nurturing side at work
Support 3: Daughter
Name: Lana
Role: Supporting
Main purpose:to lead the younger children in being angry with Dacey, siding with father
Value: creates animosity at home even after husband leaves
Support 4: 2nd daughter
Name: ?
Role: Supporting
Main purpose: “in the middle” tries to support mom but is pulled the other way
Value: shows a back and forth that creates a desire for Dacey to do the right thing
Support 5: Son
Name: ?
Role: Supporting
Main purpose: “the baby” who is the “all is lost” when Dacey loses him
Value: brings the problems to a head when he doesn’t want to see her
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Farrin Rosenthal’s Character Profiles Part 2
Farrin’s Vision: To do what it takes to become a highly paid A-List Hollywood writer whose produced movies will entertain audiences around the world.
What I learned doing this assignment is how supporting players and background actors need to bring value and have a purpose in the story, otherwise we shouldn’t include them.
Title: TRAPPED
Genre: Thriller
Concept: Claustrophobic and trapped in an underwater grave for stealing $3.6 billion in Bitcoin from the Russian mob, a Los Angeles retail store manager has just 60 minutes to prove his innocence and save his family.
Support 1:
Name: Ivan
Role: Dmitriy’s brother
Main purpose: Helps with kidnapping plot. Hidden agenda and wants to be boss.
Value: Having affair with Tom’s wife and together they framed Tom.
Support 2:
Name: Susan Carter
Role: Tom’s wife, iFit personal fitness trainer
Main purpose: Can’t stand Tom’s penny-pinching ways. Is kidnapped and threatened.
Value: Having affair with Ivan and together they framed Tom.
Support 3:
Name: Emily
Role: Tom’s 17-year-old daughter
Main purpose: Cheerleader who is kidnapped and threatened.
Value: Motivation for Tom to escape and save her.
Support 4:
Name: Daniel
Role: Tom’s 15-year-old son
Main purpose: Football star player who is kidnapped and threatened.
Value: Motivation for Tom to escape and save him.
Background Characters:
Wedding guests, players and people at football game.
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Jane’s Supporting Characters
MY VISION: I will make my living as a screenwriter by selling my own narrative scripts and successfully fulfilling writing assignments.
By doing this assignment I was able to flesh out the world that this story will happen in. It has to be isolated but also have enough people inhabit the world in order to have a healthy number of suspects, and a few potential murder victims. This was fun!
Supporting Characters: In any good tea cozy who-done-it, the detective always has a sounding board confidant as well as a cadre of suspicious characters whose secrets have to be uncovered. As such, there will be about 4 – 6 supporting characters who have secrets that may or may not involve murder. There are usually at least two to three red herrings that derail the sleuths.
Background Characters: Other residents at Shady Acres; Shady Acres staff including chef, nurses, delivery folks and maids. Rich lady whose pearls are stolen. An annoying American who want to be friends with everyone. A police detective in charge of the death who will conclude that the death is a result of a very sad accident, not murder. Members of the Shady Acres Darts Team.
Support 1: Name: TBD
Role: Murderer
Main purpose: The primary antagonist for our two sleuths.
Value: Provides a foe that forces June and Percival to work together to stop another murder.
Support 2: Name: TBD
Role: Physical Therapist at Shady Acres
Main purpose: To be murdered
Value: Provides the catalyst for the mystery
Support 3: Name: TBD
Role: June’s niece
Main purpose: Friend and confidant
Value: Provides June with a link to the outside world and Scotland Yard
Support 4: Name: TBD
Role: The Major – elderly military man recuperating at Shady Acres
Main purpose: To be Percival’s friend but held at arms length and have a hidden past
Value: Provide a red herring
Support 5: Name: TBD
Role: Dotty lady living at Shady Acres
Main purpose: To be a victim of crime as well as a suspect
Value: Provide a red herring
Support 6: Name: TBD
Role: Elderly neighbors of Shady Acres who constantly get in the way
Main purpose: To throw June and Percival off the track of the real murderer
Value: Provide a red herring
Support 7: Name: TBD
Role: Gardener
Main purpose: A suspect
Value: Provide a red herring; provide access to poisons
Support 8: Name: TBD
Role: Shady Acres Administrator
Main purpose: A suspect
Value: Provides barriers to June and Percival’s investigation; hiding something
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Joaquin “Ibn Gray’s” Supporting Characters
My vision for the completion of this class is to write A plus intriguing screenplays that will be produced into extremely profitable movies, which I will cash large checks from.
What I learned doing this assignment is how to limit the number of characters in a screenplay and bring everything into focus with defining roles.
Supporting Characters: Brewfords wife (I don’t know her name yet), Brewford Jr, Thelma, Background Characters: Towns people,
Support 1:
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Role: Live with Brewford and raise their children.
Main purpose: To push Brewford to become active
Value: Family first
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Role: become a captive.
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Main purpose: to push the plot forward
Value: courageous
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Role: live as part of the Dickson family.
Main purpose: to emotionally connect the audience to the family.
Value: Family first
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Peter’s Supporting Characters
MY VISION: I am going to write incredible screenplay and streaming content for the horror genre.
What I learned doing this assignment supporting characters shed light on aspects of the main characters that they don’t reveal otherwise.
Support 1:
• Name: Dani
• Role: Wife
• Main purpose: To show Carlos that he’s a good man
• Value: Her relationship to Carlos raises the stakes in his world; she is his hope and light – when that light is snuffed out, he returns to his world of darkness.
Support 2:
• Name: Ángel
• Role: Gang member
• Main purpose: Forces Jude’s hand
• Value: He forces Jude to live up to his role as gang leader and carry out on his promise to kill Carlos and his family. He’s also competition to Carlos.
Support 3:
• Name: Sykes
• Role: State trooper
• Main purpose: To shed light on how badass Carlos really is
• Value: He’s a racist asshole who shows us that Carlos really is a changed man when he’s arrested for smuggling drugs in his hearse.
Background 1 – Gangster
Background 2 – Gangster
Background 3 – Gangster
Background 4 – Old woman parishioner
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Jaelle’s Supporting Characters
My vision: I’m an award winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
Support 1:
Name: Anna
Role: Sister
Main purpose: challenge Blavatsky’s belief system
Value: provides family history, bonds, and Blavatsky’s exclusion from familySupport 2:
Name: Sinnett
Role: helps to establish the Theosophists Society
Main purpose: supports Blavatsky but eventually questions her
Value: through his questioning of her methods, Blavatsky begins to question herself and begins to ultimately defend herself.Support 3:
Name: Soloviov
Role: inner circle member of Society
Main purpose: worships Blavatsky and then betrays her
Value: by betraying Blavatsky, the Society starts to crumble, bring hardships to allSupport 4:
Name: Coulomb
Role: works for the Society
Main purpose: knows the inner workings of the Society and spreads what seems like credible evidence against Blavatsky
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Jamie’s Supporting Characters
What I’ve learned is: first, this will all change as we go through the lessons. The background characters will grow or lesson depending upon the how the story plays out. Not worried about that. The supporting character could also change. But, this is a start.
VISION: To sell my script or limited series with future spin-offs to a great producer. And made!
Concept: WITHOUT RECOURSE
With no recourse to sue, two women battle with the FDA and AMA when one has a life threatening medical condition and her doctor and attorney are part of the medical mafia.
Support 1:
Name: SARAH HENDERSON
Role: Justine’s mother
Main purpose: Death is inevitable, teaches Justine about living her own life.
Value: Shows the seriousness of the subject, medical system, being proactive. Her death moves Justine to visit her sister in Oregon.
Support 2
Name: SADIE
Role: Justine’s sister
Main purpose: Shows how the medical system has failed her. Cancer victim goes into hospice when Justine arrives to help her. Shows a family relationship and sisters.
Value: She helps drive Justine into taking care of herself and living out her dreams. She also shows the difficulty in her transition.
Support 3:
Name: GRACIE WYATT
Role: Justine’s daughter
Main purpose: She pushes her mother’s buttons; she must help her mother move forward and won’t let anything go unnoticed. Always reminding her mother the meaning of family, and abandonment issues.
Value: She adds compassion and rage throughout the story. She causes Justine to take a deeper journey in herself. We see how she changes and grows up when Justine leaves her to care for her sister and her friend Julia.
Support 4:
Name: NATHAN MILLS
Role: Gracie’s significant other
Main purpose: He helps Sarah while she is dying.
Value: He shows that a stranger is able to help in the smallest of ways but is courageous. He supports Gracie in her journey.
Support 4:
Name: Dr. T.
Role: Justine’s primary doctor
Main purpose: He guides Justine through her medical issues and the journey she is taking. He gives Justine the truth about the medical mafia.
Value: He gives merit that a GOOD doctor does exist.
Support 5:
Name: PETER COOK
Role: Lauren’s ex and attorney who is executor of her trust
Main purpose: He is not to be trusted. He uses Julia throughout the story for his own gain.
Value: Attorneys are difficult to trust. Be careful who you hire.
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS
JANE – GRACE HAMMOND
MARILYN – MARSHA BLANCHARD AKA – MS. M.
MEDICAL OFFICE WORKERS – DR. T’S OFFICE
ATTORNEY # 1 PETER COOK – CHANGE NAME
ATTORNEY #2 PARTNER
SURGEON #1(Lauren)
SURGEON #2 (Lauren)
SURGEON # 3 (Justine)
HOSPITAL PEOPLE
NEIGHBORS IN ARIZONA
BARBARA – ONE WHO CARES
MARYJANE – DAVID IS LOOKING AFTER
JUDGE #1 IN NEVADA
BYSTANDERS AT ACCIDENT
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Natalie’s Supporting Characters
My vision is to create and produce award winning stories that make an unforgettable emotional impact on a worldwide audience.
What I learned from this assignment: I love creating supporting characters who add additional layers to the story.
Supporting Characters:
Support 1: Lady Winslet
Role: Emily’s dying grandmother, Hagan’s father’s sister who holds his will to the estate
Main purpose: Initiates a fight within the family for the estate
Value: Controlling, snobbish aristocrat who represents family values, carries out plot points and serves as a decoy in the final scene pushing Emily to commit murder. Humiliates Hagan by cutting him off from the estate and keeps his daughter, Hunter, which sets Hagan off on his journey.
Support 2: Detective Mike
Role: Corrupt detective who investigates Hagan’s father’s murder.
Main purpose: makes a deal with Hagan to find a family records book, interferes with Walter’s plan, maybe appears at the showdown which complicates things, and potentially covers up Lady Winslet’s / Walter’s murder.
Value: Serves as Emily’s sidekick to get her into the tunnel
Support 3: Cherimoya
Role: Hagan’s night club manager, Walter disguised as a black crossdresser woman
Main purpose: Part of Walter’s plan to be in the know
Value: Misleading character who seems to be carrying out Hagan’s orders and his murder weapon in a scene with Lady Winslet when Cherimoya tries to get info about the will, which results in Lady Winslet’s death, later revealed.
Support 4: Evans Kingsley
Role: Emily’s grandfather
Main purpose: Hunter’s up-bringer, old chapel’s keeper
Value: ties up loopholes in Emily’s memory and fills in missing information
Support 5: Susan
Role: Emily’s psychiatrist
Main purpose: Appears in Emily’s flashbacks as a V.O. where Emily explains what happened, answers to, agues with or asks for an advise
Value: Story development/ questions filler
Support 6: Teresa Moore
Role: Emily’s childhood friend, works as a barista at Hagan’s night club
Main purpose: Shapeshifter, Walter’s girlfriend
Value: Serves as a connection between Walter and Emily, plays on his side
Background Characters:
Lady Winslet’s Lawyer — brings Hagan’s father’s will and Hunter’s custody papers
Lisa — Hagan’s girlfriend who works in a hospital’s lab to reveal Hagan’s origin
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Gisele Frazeur’s Supporting Characters
My vision: I am going to work diligently to become a brilliant, reliable screenwriter who is sought after, regularly produced, highly paid, and awarded. Artistic fulfillment and financial freedom will result from the achievement of this goal!
What I learned doing this assignment is: supporting characters are not mere window dressing. Their purpose is to propel the story forward.
Supporting Characters:
Leff-T, Leighton August, Pookie, Dave Roesch
Background characters:
Audience at FiFi awards, waiter, police officer, picketers/protesters, alanon attendees, people at the dog park, tabloid journalist.
Name: Leff-T
Role: Televangelist
Main Purpose: Serves as obvious suspect – – thus deflecting hunt for real killer.
Value: Hank uses this character to fuel Darin’s rage. Leff-t incites Darin to take Pookie’s alarming behavior as a clue. Leff-T gets “street info” which incriminates Hank.
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Name: Leighton August
Role: Darin and Livie’s mom
Main Purpose: To punish Darin for the loss of her husband and for Livie’s death.
Value: Sends Darin back to the bottle.
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Name: Pookie
Role: Failed detection dog
Main Purpose: To solve the crime. To make Darin look at Hank as a suspect.
Value: Increases suspense. Gives Darin a lifeboat. Solves the crime.
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Name: Dave Roesch
Role: Darin’s boss
Main Purpose: To keep Darin compliant.
Value: To drive her further into crises. He contributes to her need to resume drinking. Helps further bottom her out and isolate her.
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Bob DeCarli’s Supporting Characters
My Vision: To master my craft to the point where I’ve earned a reputation as the screenwriter top producers, directors, and stars can call upon when they need someone to save the day.
What I learned: I’m really finding that focusing on the Supporting Characters’ value is helpful, particularly how they impact the Protagonist.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:
Name: Young Female Law Clerk
Role: YG’s Law Clerk.
Main purpose: She is his confidant at the court; the person he will rely upon to handle his caseload. He’s also attracted to her, but has not acted on the attraction.
Value: She’s the Antagonist’s main ally; YG thinks she is an ally but she betrays him.
Name: Chief Judge
Role: Chief Judge; the senior judge who oversees the court and makes key administrative decisions.
Main purpose: She is YG’s nemesis at the court, a political and philosophical rival.
Value: Part red herring – we initially think she may be behind setting up YG; she resents him for both his youth and politics, and her early treatment of him helps create empathy for him.
Name: YG’s wife
Role: The soon-to-be ex-wife of YG.
Main purpose: She has remained married to YG and presented a façade of a happy marriage to help him get his judicial appointment, since a separation or divorce would have hurt his chances.
Value: She creates relatability for YG (failing marriage). Someone else he can reach out to for help and not get it. Another possible red herring.
Name: Muckraking Journalist
Role: An investigative journalist.
Main purpose: He is initially focused on YG (and hostile to him), but then begins to suspect YG has been set up.
Value: Potential ally for YG; source of exposition; aid to YG discovering the source of his downfall.
Name: Custodian
Role: Elderly custodian at the courthouse.
Main purpose: He is a silent and effectively invisible observer of the intrigue at the court.
Value: Creates likability for YG; an unexpected (and indispensable) ally.
Name: Corrupt US Marshal
Role: Female US Marshal.
Main purpose: Another ally of the Antagonist. YG views her and the other marshals as sources of protection, who quickly turn against him when he becomes a criminal suspect.
Value: The ally of the Antagonist who presents a direct, physical threat to YG. Ruthless killer.
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS:
Other judges
Other US Marshalls
Other Criminal Defendants
Other Criminals (being taken to jail)
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Teresa Rodriguez’s Supporting Characters
VISION: I will become a highly respected, influential, and successful screenwriter and producer with my own highly profitable production company that I can leave as a blessing to my children and many generations to come!
What I learned from doing this assignment is to limit supporting characters and make sure they have a purpose in my script.
• Supporting Characters: Seven Dwarfs, Duke’s Assistant, The Queen
• Background Characters: Castle Staff, Townspeople, Prince’s Mother, Police
Support 1:
• Name: “Owl”
• Role: Dwarf #1, Head Dwarf
• Main purpose: He is the wise leader.
• Value: Helps Lily devise a plan to save the kingdom from her Evil Stepfather. His pet owl will help them in the fight when the lights go out.
Support 2:
• Name: “Sly”
• Role: Dwarf #2, Sneaky Dwarf
• Main purpose: He is sly and comes up with a sneaky attack to help Lily.
• Value: His pet snake creates tension and fear.
Support 3:
• Name: “Stripe”
• Role: Dwarf #3, Introvert Dwarf.
• Main purpose: He and his skunk know how to clear a room.
• Value: They will provide defense, holding off palace guards.
Support 4:
• Name: “Speedy”
• Role: Dwarf #4: A fast runner with a pet Cheeta.
• Main purpose: Will provide speed in a battle.
• Value: Will outrun the Duke’s chariots.
Support 5:
• Name: Dwarf #5, “Hammer”
• Role: DWARF #5: He’s a builder and fixer.
• Main purpose: He builds and fixes anything in the house.
• Value: Has a “hammer” personality, he speaks out anything he’s thinking, with no filters.
Support 6:
• Name: “Jester”
• Role: Dwarf #6 is the Funny dwarf
• Main purpose: He loves to make everyone laugh.
• Value: Provides comic relief in every situation.
Support 7:
• Name: “Elle”
• Role: Dwarf #7, The only female Dwarf.
• Main purpose: She provides a female brute strength and has a pet elephant.
• Value: Elle and her pet elephant will provide brute force to plow down castle doors. Also, provides some sisterhood compassion for Lily.
Support 8:
• Name: Winston
• Role: Evil Stepfather/Duke’s Assistant
• Main purpose: Helps the Duke carry out his evil plans.
• Value: Helps us see how the Duke is plotting and fulfilling his evil plans, creating tension and helping to escalate the stakes for the protagonist, Lily.
Support 9:
• Name: The Queen
• Role: Lily’s Mother
• Main purpose: She is the rightful ruler of the kingdom.
• Value: She relieved the secret mirror to The Duke starting his evil plots.
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Name:
Role:
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Value:Jesus
Role: biped culture interpreter/champion
Main Purpose: challenge Creator to do “right” by bipeds
And illustrate Major Teachings
Value: makes exercise/experiment in religious context
Saints
Role: case workers for Tanya, cheering squad
Main Purpose: urge and finagle Creator to help
Value: humor comic sidekicks
SPIRIT
Role: voice of change adaptation, Evolution rules
Main Purpose: champion life’s adaptations
Value: represents context of evolution life rules to win or lose
Victor
Role: Tanya’s Father
Researcher for hypersonic missiles and torpedoes
Main Purpose: invent non-defense weapon for Putin
Value: conflict for family moving to America
Ivan and Irena
Role: dramatic contrast couple vs George and Tanya
Role: Tanya’s ex husband and antagonist to George
Main Purpose: hate filled search leads to final confrontation
Value: represents destructive energy
Irena
Role: Ivan’s lover and partner who critizes Ivan’s blind hatred
Value: contrasts Ivan and is shredder set up threat later
TOLYA
Role: early teen son of Tanya and Ivan, “Bellamy”
Main Purpose: sounding board and questioner and critic of adults
Value: shows coming of age help from George and Mom’s alterego
Vincent:
Role: George’s right hand worker/friend for years, “Bellamy”
Main Purpose: sounding board, critic, and shows how Black needs help
Putin
Role: ruler
Main Purpose: global threat per hypersonic
Value: ULTIMATE ANTAGONIST
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Susan Arnout Smith’s Vision: <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>: I easily create powerful produced works that bring me financial abundance and professional respect as they heal the world, while providing me time to explore that world in comfort with my family.
What I learned doing this process: I’m learning things about my leads all the time, and this was a wonderful path to discovery.
ACTOR ATTRACTOR TEMPLATE
Lead Character Name: Esme Cooper
Role: (Protagonist)
What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
Like Harry Potter, this character is a kid we will watch transform through time into a great leader who saves her kingdom from evil. But she starts as a kid not even knowing what her magic is, and must grow into discovering who she is by making choices that can hurt and harm. Or great good.
What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
She’s a Halfling: half Earth, half Cantoria. She can fly and has a specialized gift of healing. She understands Cantorian, a language where colors communicate thoughts and feelings but can’t speak it. (She doesn’t turn colors to match her thoughts and feelings.) She speaks and understands English, but has little understanding of what a lie is and no understanding of subtext so is at grave risk for coming under the spell of those who wish to use her gifts for evil. When she’s ‘plugged in’ to her gift of seeing and healing, she begins to radiate light. The people who wish to find her and use her for harm use her Light as a beacon to find her and capture her.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
She flies. She’s able to see soul fragments. Through time, she’s able to reunite the fragment with its owner. She’s able to do something no Cantorian High Priestess would think of doing: she also is able to separate soul fragments from their bodies, so she is a tool that used in the right hands, could reunite peoples and kingdoms, or rip them apart. She comes to Earth mantled in the Gift of Forgetfulness, and the more she learns about herself, the more at risk she becomes, as her true self starts to radiate, which acts as a beacon drawing the Bad Ones to her.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
At a strictly proper function, she is goaded into fighting by her nemesis. She secretly fights back with her childhood enemy and suddenly takes flight to rain down stuff from a different angle. She’s shocked, she didn’t know she could fly. This brings her immediately crashing down to the ground where she accidentally smashes flat her enemy’s corpulent mother. She’s corralled and properly punished, but her gift brings with it grave risks and responsibilities, besides the shame she’s brought on her high-born mother by her misbehavior.
What could be this character’s emotional range?
She has the human hormones of a soon-to-be-twelve-year-old girl, which means she’s moody, needy, weepy, selfish and ‘turns on a dime’. She also is developing some of the traits of a Cantorian High Priestess, (her mother’s line), which means she has the power to see ruptures and reunites pieces, bringing the emotional range of a pure body of Light, bringing radiance, calm, poise and all-knowingness. So. She ranges from the human teen behavior to a being capable of uniting broken kingdoms. This gives the character lots of room to explore a wide range of emotions.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
She might not understand subtext, (a human trait she will have to learn, as she didn’t inherit it from her human father), but she lives in a constant state of delivering subtext. When her mother puts on her the spell of Forgetfulness, Esme is constantly at war with what she remembers and what has been forgotten. This tension creates moments where the words she speaks have more significance than she understands.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
Definitely with the antagonist. A kingdom is at stake.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
Youth has a specific voice: impetuous, easily wounded, enthusiastic.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
She’s the heir to a kingdom, but a kingdom that’s in terrible trouble. She’s required to grow into the role through a series of adventures, dangers and setbacks.
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Lead Character Name: The Queen, Her Majesty, the Most Marvelous Muchness
Role: (Antagonist)
What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
She’s fun, playful, over-the-top and lethal. She kills easily and often to achieve her goals. She’s relentless. And she has Esme squarely in her cross-hairs.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
Her backstory is tied seamlessly to her reasons for wanting to kill the island of Cantoria and everybody on it, and especially, to wipe out Esme and her family line.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
She is diabolical and clever. She gets around protective walls and creates avatars which seem helpless or kind or necessary, as a means of trying in a variety of ways to take out Esme. If something doesn’t work, she just tries something else.
How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
She’s going over with her chief of staff why the latest attempt to infiltrate Cantoria and destroy the High Priestess community ended in failure, while doing it in a way that makes him think he’s about to be promoted. He’s not. He’s killed. Efficiently.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range
From charming to brutally vindictive.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
In her mind, she is the hero who is righting ancient wrongs and healing her own people who have been blighted by the curse of living next to Cantoria.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
With Esme and her mother, Ilya.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
Through hyperbole morphing into cold, clipped rage, both sides equally terrifying.
What could make this character special and unique?
She uses magic to kill magic. She’s not against magic. Only against anybody having it but her. She is curious about how far she can take evil. She’s looking for the prize through all time of being the force which cannot be crossed and which neutralizes goodness.
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KRISTIN’S SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
VISION: “I want the personal, professional, and financial freedom and joy that come from writing so well that I’m in demand, selling beyond my wildest dreams, and making worthy projects—on a big scale and with my active, collegial participation.”
WHAT I LEARNED doing this assignment: That I have a lot of characters!! Maybe too many. I realize the story is complicated, and so this assignment will help me consider whether I need to whittle them down. Scared about trying to do that!
Support 1: Name: Protagonist’s brother/partner
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Role: A victim of events, like Pete, but also a liability; also illustrates the drain of the family. In the end, snaps under pressure and Pete sacrifices for him
Main purpose: To illustrate Pete’s Wound and to put pressure on him emotionally. Also, to be someone “to save”
Value: He shows some elements of the government’s case—he’s not as scientific; he’s sloppy; he’s self-serving; he’s volatile and emotional. He also manipulates facts.
Support 2: Name: Chief Preparator
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Role: A champion for the fossil who has a singular focus; unwavering in his support of truth; demonstrates and sets up public events; engages the media; is more “friendly” than Pete
Main purpose: To speak for Pete, defend independents in the job, and be engaging
Value: Underscore that Pete is telling the truth, even when his family undermines him
Support 3: Name: Ex-girfriend who lives on the edge
Role: She’s the gray area
Main purpose: She fulfills the role the prosecution blames on Pete (but Pete doesn’t know it)
Value: She nearly takes the house down
Support 4: Name: Office Admin
Role: Rational voice; “mother”; teaches them how to handle things; keeps the records
Main purpose: Provide emotional support / empathy
Value: When the prosecution tries to take her down on the stand, she is magnificent and the jury is crying
Support 5: Name: Judge
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Role: The hatchet man
Main purpose: Collaborating with the US Attorney’s office to take down Pete
Value: At first, we look to him to save the day, and he holds us under water; we realize we’re not safe
Support 6: Name: Some family members
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Role: To illustrate the family dynamic and put pressure on Pete
Main purpose: Add tension
Value: Cause Pete to make harder and harder decisions
Support 7: Name: Pete’s children
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Role: To show the unyielding pressure of the situation, as well as how cool this job is (they’re really good at it)
Main purpose: Add sympathy / empathy
Value: Help Pete to remember what’s important
Support 8: Name: Some staff
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Role: Help with investigation, media, and work
Main purpose: Show how dedicated these workers are; show how hard the work is
Value: Illustrate what commitment it takes to do this work
Support 9: Name: Newsman
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Role: Recorder, but he makes errors
Main purpose: To eventually report the “secret plea bargain,” which ruins everythingV
alue: To remove the last possible hope for a good outcome
Support 10: Name: Professional photographer
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Role: Neutral observer who becomes a fan
Main purpose: Shows the public what’s really happening
Value: Undermines the Antagonist’s (Prosecutor) plans to shut down public awareness
Support 11: Name: Landowner
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Role: Catalyst of the whole story
Main purpose: Set the government’s wheels in motion, and to be another bad guy
Value: Underscore Pete’s tendency to believe everyone
Support 12: Name: Jurors
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Role: Reveal strengths and weaknesses of the case
Main purpose: Verdict, and then information after the fact
Value: Illustrate “what happened” in the case—and also Bronc’s fatal flaw
Support 13: Name: Gov’t investigators
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Role: On the surface, bolster the case; in reality, illustrate government flaws
Main purpose: Testify—and in the process, look like idiots
Value: Underscore Pete’s expertise
Support 14: Name: At least one academic scientist
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Role: To be the brave “turncoat” who supports Pete
Main purpose: Show the difference between lemmings and free-thinkers
Value: Underscore Pete’s expertise
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Susan Arnout Smith’s Great Amazing Vision: I easily co-create with the Creator projects that are produced, win awards, heal hearts and bring me financial abundance and time to explore the world with my family and friends.
What I learned doing this assignment: Wow! This really helped open up the characters for me, when each of them had to justify their being in the script. And it also supported many of the choices I had already intuitively and intentionally made.
ESME COOPER AND THE PROPHESY OF DOOM
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:
Bodhi, Ilya, John Cooper, Brinn, Croom, Nurse, Ancient One.
Support 1:
Name: Bodhi
Role: A 13-year-old Bender. When he grows into his gift, he’ll have the capacity to bend time and events, but at a price. He’s a guard-in-training in Cantoria, Esme’s best friend.
Main purpose: Esme’s confidante who is willing to break rules for her, and eventually, breaks her heart.
Value: Teaches Esme through disloyalty the crushing and empowering lesson that she must rely on herself
Support 2:
Name: Ilya
Role: Esme’s mother, High Priestess of Cantoria, the only one capable of reuniting soul fragments with their bodies.
Main purpose: She has endangered the family line by falling in love with, marrying, and having children with an Outlier. Conveyor of family history to Esme, the model Esme desperately wants to emulate.
Value: She shows us what’s a stake if Cantoria dies, (her unique gift will die with it); her choices put her family in peril before the story opens.
Support 3:
Name: John Cooper
Role: Esme and Brinn’s dad, Ilya’s husband. He lives with the other Outliers in a restricted area on Cantoria. His wife and kids travel back and forth to see him.
Main purpose: He brings with him gifts from Earth (he’s a physics/science geek, and has taught Esme and her little sister, Brinn, English and some US customs.
Value: His story echoes the theme: loving well requires sacrifice.
Support 4:
Name: Nurse.
Role: Esme and Brinn’s nurse from the beginning, beloved confidant.
Main Purpose: Ancient, she’s on Cantoria to protect and guide Esme and Brinn, and has hidden powers of her own.
Value: She leads Esme to information and magical connections that convey important information Esme can use later to succeed.
Support 5:
Name: Brinn.
Role: Esme’s 8-year-old sister.
Main Purpose: She’s a catalyst. She causes a change in Esme; she’s the first person Esme starts to remember, and the chief reason Esme works hard to regain her memory completely. Remembering Brinn opens the gateway to Esme realizing that she has a bigger task then saving her beloved little sister and possibly her mother and father: she has the holy task of saving her world.
Value: Brinn represents the essence of the choice Esme feels she must make later on: between regaining and protecting her family, especially Brinn, or saving the world of Cantoria, at the expense of her family. Early on, Brinn—with love and innocence—puts Esme in grave danger by giving her as a gift the ability to see into her young and lively mind any shared past experiences from her viewpoint. It connects them, but puts both girls at terrible risk. The Queen and her group first track Esme by getting inside Brinn’s head to find her older sister.
Support 6:
Name: Croom.
Role: A very creepy Queen’s Hand.
Main Purpose: To carry out the Queen’s wishes when it comes to destroying Esme and after that, the entire world of Cantoria.
Value: He is willing to do whatever is necessary to secure favor, position…and save his own life. He represents the dark side of attachment. His presence is used over and over to create bigger dangers and risks for Esme. He shows us the stakes for Esme and is where we get the first experience of Esme stepping into her challenge.
Support 7:
Name: Ancient one.
Main Purpose: She who activates the prophesy ordered by the Queen, and builds in a terrible ‘backdoor’ price.
Value: She is conveys important and powerful information to Esme along her journey that may be the most crucial thing Esme can use to save herself and her world.
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS: Queen’s minions, people inhabiting Cantoria, the Outliers compound, Earth. (At most, am trying to keep their parts to 5-and-under.)
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Jacqueline Murphy Supporting Characters WIM MOD 3 Lesson 8 August 10, 2022
VISION: To empower myself to go for my dreams to be a great writer, actress and filmmaker who is “Admired”, recognized and sought after by the industry and has many successful TV & Film projects produced that make a difference and inspire others to go for their dreams.
What I learned from doing this assignment was that when I asked the question of what’s their value and purpose it helped me to see WHY they should be in the script and how necessary it was to create the drama going forward.
1. Start this assignment by empowering yourself using our State-To-Activity empowerment process. State: I’m really great at…Activity: …creating purpose-driven supporting characters.
2. Tell us your supporting and background characters. Supporting Characters: Background Characters
3. Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.
Support 1:
Name: Sam Meyer Role: MGM Studio head who can make or break Olivia’s acting career<div>
Main purpose: Sam can make or break Olivia’s acting career, increasing the tension, suspense, and is a possible romantic partner for her.
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Value: A power broker who can increase the stakes for Olivia “making it as an actress and also his “maneuvering stars, directors, mafia” he has the chess pieces in his hand at the studio causing the tension, suspense, and is a possible romantic partner for her.
Support 2:
Name: Davey Haze Role: Cicada Club Owner and Underworld Mafia BossMain </div><div>
Purpose: A player in his club, in the MGM Studio world and the dangerous Mafia World, Romantic aspirations for Olivia and wants to own her
Value: Davey is smitten with Olivia and wants to own her as he tries to “leverage” his power and position with Studio head Sam and make her his. Causes suspense, intrigue and anticipation with the “triangle” he creates between the 3 of them AND he’s very dangerous, a psycho at times so watch out~
Support 3:
Name: Wanda Fish the OH Dimension witch </div><div>
Role: An OH Dimension shape shifter-homeless woman, witch-Olivia’s “fairy godmother”
Main purpose: Searches for and Guides Olivia in the OH dimension, has knowledge of who her father is/was and of magic, how the world works and knows O’s true purpose
Value: A information giver in the story, we find out bits and pieces in a mysterious way as guides Olivia in this realm and creates anticipation. Wanda gives Olivia a “bigger” purpose in this realm encouraging Olivia to uncover her family but more than that her hidden talent for magic.
Support 4:
Name: Starlet Moore</div><div>
Role: An actress who competes for Olivia’s roles and tries to displace her
Main purpose: To get Studio heads “Favor”& win the lead roles and Oscar for herself
Value: Causes conflict, tension and competition-increases the “stakes” for Olivia
Support 5:
Name: Dolores Spencer</div><div>
Role: Olivia’s mother
Main purpose: The only “bridge” in the “real world” who knows who Olivia’s father is and gives the “gift” of the Kaliedoscope to Olivia
Value: Dolores knows where “all the bodies are buried” but keeps a lot of it to herself to “protect” Olivia and enable her to live in the “real world” without OH complications
Support 6:
Name: Norma Spencer</div><div>
Role: Olivia’s niece
Main purpose: Catalyst to cause Olivia to go back to the “dangerous” world of the OH Dimension
Value: This curious 19 year-old idolizes Olivia and peeks in on her “time travel” with the help of Mr. Z. Olivia tried the OH world once but when Norma sneaks through the portal and makes major inroads as a star their, Olivia feels responsible and must protect her.
Support 7:
Name: Billy Nightingale</div><div>
Role: Olivia’s boyfriend and singer in the Real world who sneaks via the portal
Main purpose: Billy creates havoc for Olivia and is always shaking things up.
Value: He has an addiction to sex, alcohol and gambling. His deep need and reliance on Olivia to “Fix” his messes puts Olivia in dire danger causing her to have to deal with Mafia Boss Davey Haze to take care of Billy’s gambling debts
Support 8: Name: Taylor Desmond
Role: Oscar winning top director in OH Dimension</div><div>
Main Purpose: Love interest but married
Value: Creates conflict for Olivia at the studio, her career at risk with PR and Studio head but also the “love of her life”. A deep romance like Bogey and Bacall but can he leave his wife.
Support 9:
Name: W. R. Cox</div><div>
Role: 50 year-old Rival studio owner and newspaper magnate
Main purpose: Powerful Hollywood player dolling out roles to starlets but falls for Olivia’s niece Norma who leads him around by the nose
Value: A foil for Olivia as she’d like his attention and he’s too old for Norma causing tension, conflict because his money and PR Person a Leda Hopper woman: Joanie can change to the story to their liking
Support 10:
Name: Virgil Fontenot</div><div>
Role: Manager of the Peacock a “secret members only club” with sex and drugs, specializing in the Elite of Hollywood and handles “dangerous” issues
Main purpose: Killer Henchman of Davey handling violent customers and bribes the police. Protects Davey and his love for Olivia
Value: Keeps the money rolling in and the club business private but the “situations” that arise at the club are filled with secrecy, tension and intrigue
SUPPORT 11
Name : Ruby Valentine:
Role: Olivia’s father the Keeper & Ruler of OH Dimension
Purpose: To keep the world intact as he created it
Value: Passes the knowledge on to the Witches and Olivia but his dodging and keeping his whereabouts secret causes confusion
SUPPORT 11
Name: Sir Lionel Olivia
Role: OH’s Revered Actor knighted by the Queen and father to OH Creator Ruby and grandfather to Olivia who she was named after
Purpose: Guard of the “Arts & Creative Power” shining actor who uplifts others to feel and he reveals and share with Olivia who her father was and her past.
Value: Stirs up emotions
OTHER GUEST ROLES
Corrine Sydney: Role: Cabaret Singer & Host at the Cicada Club
Purpose: To keep the “party” going no matter what happens and put on a “happy Face”
Value: A behind the scenes no it all, who wants to be Olivia, she’s just waiting her turn. That causes competition, cat fights and misalliance with her Boss Davey whose smitten with Olivia
Rhett Dabler: Role: A writer at the Studio
Purpose: Undercover snitch and mouthpiece who hangs out of the club who tells Sam and Davey what the 411 is.
Value: Fun to see how he “parlays’ what he sees and finds out into his scripts setting others off their game
Joannie Hartmen
Role: PR Hollywood Legend
Purpose: Works for WR Cox and puts out the “news” he wants the world to see.
Value: She can make or break you
Swift Eddie Fulsome:
Role: Olivia’s Agent
Purpose: Sharp power player, knows all the angels.
Value: String puller with Sam and Davey gives them a run for their money
NORMA’S friends:
Name: Tom Mackenzie
Role: Video expert
Purpose: His knowledge of “computers”
Value: causes static in both world.
Name: Elizabeth Short –
Role: Friend of Norma’s who slips through the portal and is forced to have an affair with Studio head for a role.
Value: She’s murdered and causes a big investigation.
Name: ROXY
Role: Street-smart urchin Norma meets in jail
Main Purpose: Teaches Norma the “ropes” of surviving in OH but also romantic relationship. Value: Romance that develops causing a cool Cox to go ballistic and allows Norma to manipulate him to get more of what she wants which is “ALL OF IT”
FINALLY:
NAME: MR X
ROLE: God in OH Dimension and Mr. Z’s father
Purpose: Terrorizes and makes the rules
Value: What he says goes until Olivia enters the picture
NAME: MRS. Y
ROLE: WIFE to Mr. X who can override him the OH Dimension gravitates to woman rulers. Purpose:to keep power mongers in check
Value: Guarding the kingdom
SMALL ROLES THAT HAVE FEWER THAN 5 LINES
MGM STUDIO EXECUTIVE , MR. MEYERS’ HEAD OF PRODUCTION, CICADA CLUB SINGER and HER BAND, TAYLOR DESMOND’S BUTLER, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WHO SEDUCES TOM, MR. COX’ MAID JULIE, OLIVIA’S ASSISTANT,PEACOCK CLUB DOORMAN, ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY PHELPS, HOSPITAL HEAD NURSE, HOSPITAL ATTENDANTS, NORMA’S MAID, MRS. DESMOND, TAYLOR’S WIFE, OLIVIA’S DRESSER, MONIQUE, DAVEY HAZE’S ASSISTANT, GENTLEMEN’S CLUB DOORMAN, GENTLEMAN’S CLUB BARTENDER, FIFI – LESBIAN FRIEND OF DIANA, DAVEY HAZE’S HENCHMAN, DAVEY HAZE’S WORRIED BOOKER
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Christopher’s Supporting Characters
Vision: To claim “screenwriter” as my primary profession and to be well respected and sought after in the industry for my scripts that are both memorable and ground-breaking.
What I learned doing this assignment is that supporting characters serve a significant purpose for the lead characters and to help move the story along. If they are not serving this purpose, they should be removed.
Supporting Characters: new world army top general, Dr. Dahl’s father, Nia’s husband, colleagues from the past, Jayla’s friends.
Background Characters: libertarian officers, incarcerated killers, new world bureaucrats, underground radicals
SUPPORT 1:
Name: Nia Coleman
Role: Dr. Dahl’s transcriber
Main purpose: to assist Dr. Dahl in understanding the elite line of killers so as to be better equipped for the pending war.
Value: Her contributions in Dr. Dahl’s evaluations are of significant value to both Dr. Dahls and and the rest of the old world.
Support 2:
Name: Dr. Hannah Dahl
Role: World’s top psychologist
Main purpose: to better understand these killers in her treatments while secretly aiding their take over.
Value: a huge asset to both the new world order and of the revolt.
Support 3:
Name: Jayla Coleman
Role: Nia’s daughter
Main purpose: help her mother secretly fight her battles in the alternate dimension.
Value: makes Nia’s battles more hopeful.
Support 4:
Name: Commander Helix Fox
Role: Commander of the new world order
Main purpose: To negotiate with Dr. Dahl to secure her place in the new world.
Value: has a direct line to the revolt in his communications with Dr. Dahl.
Support 5:
Name: Gordon Dahl
Role: Dr. Dahl’s father
Main purpose: to advise Dr. Dahl down the wrong paths.
Value: Dr. Dahl’s father complex puts her in an inferior position to him.
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Daniel Turner’s Supporting Characters
VISION: to become a produced, well regarded, and in demand writer.
What I learned from doing this assignment is to be strategic about the supporting characters and not just put them there randomly, they need to be there for a reason.
Support 1:
Name: Mary Maggie Lynn
Role: Colvile’s girlfriend and potential victim.
Main Purpose: Gives Colvile someone to care about.
Value: Gives the audience someone to worry about and engage them in the story.
Support 2:
Name: Captain Vernon Wells
Role: Police Captain/Colvile’s boss
Main Purpose: he directs the investigation, is a sounding board for Colvile.
Value: He helps to solidify the world that Colvile is in, makes it feel real.
Support 3:
Name: Detective Tony James
Role: Detective/Colvile’s new partner
Main Purpose: To make the story world feel real.
Value: The audience gets to discover the story world as Colvile introduces that world to his new partner.
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