Lesson 2

[Kathi Wahed]

Lesson 2:

Till Death Do Us Part…and Beyond

Genre: Serious with comedy

Logline: A grieving, insecure widow wants to start over so buys an old house only to discover it needs major renovation. Unbekownst to her, she faces the meddling of her incompetent angel, the ghost of her husband and an angry neighbor who wants her gone until she resolves an old conflict with her husband and discovers a confidence she thought she’d lost.

Theme: Becoming your true self.

Main Conflict: To renovate her new home.

Stakes: She’ll have to sell the house at a loss if she can’t fix it and move in with her kids.

Transformational Journey: Kat develops confidence in her abilities after addressing her dependence on her husband.

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[H.B. Faulkner]

H. B. Faulkner’s Intentional Lead Characters

VISION:
H. B. Faulkner is a household name and at the top of every great producer’s wishlist to partner with in making dream stories and epic movies come to life, which audiences worldwide love and crave, and buy tickets to experience, then continue to talk about their whole lives.

What I learned from doing this assignment is that characters are expected to be written with depth in screenwriting, as they are in all other forms of writing.

• Character: Deanna Bertram
• Logline: Deanna is in her second year of stagnant widowhood, from her 24-year marriage, that she can’t seem to break free of.
• Unique: She’s trapped in an emotional bog but takes a honeymoon by herself and becomes an expert on moving forward in life. Deanna’s grief isn’t just about missing her husband—it’s about realizing she never fully defined herself outside of him. Her initial reluctance to embrace adventure makes every step of her transformation more rewarding. Her dry humor and independence set her apart from the typical rom-com protagonist, allowing for sharp, comedic dialogue and heartfelt introspection in equal measure.

• Character: Liam O’Conor
• Logline: Liam is a bitter Irishman, renovating a dilapidated cottage, who becomes a reluctant innkeeper and tour guide for Deanna
• Unique: He’s an overachiever workaholic who’s bitter from being left by a wife (who later died). He doesn’t even know if he’s a divorcee or a widower but keeps himself too busy with work to even care. Having never grieved for losing his former wife (in marriage or death), bitterness is his grief, so actually Liam is also, in a sense, stuck in grief. Unlike the usual rom-com hero who simply needs to “loosen up” or “fall in love again,” Liam has been hurt to the point of actively rejecting love.