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WIM: Ruthie’s Intentional Lead Characters
My Vision: To be known for and make a living from female-driven, dark comedy, while remaining confident that I have the skills and knowledge to elevate my ideas to their highest potential.
Character:
Zella Haygate – Protagonist
Character Logline:
Zella is a talent agent, who unwittingly auditions and snags the role of a lifetime from her star client and becomes an overnight sensation.
What makes them unique:
She has deep-rooted imposter syndrome, so her outgoing personality is a front for her inner fears.
Character:
Jasper Benjamin – Antagonist
Character Logline:
Jasper is a former child-star actor looking to make his comeback as an adult.
What makes them unique:
The role Zella snagged was his big opportunity Therefore, he has nothing to lose in going after his former agent to get even.
What I learnt: Make the characters unique to only this story.
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WIM: Paul’s Intentional Lead Characters
My Vision: I am going to study, learn, and practice to hone my natural talents to become a master writer who creates works that people love and that make an impact on their lives. These works will be published, produced, distributed, and seen by a wide audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is …?
That figuring out the plan for eventually resolving the plot was key to both giving my protagonist skills, but also in designing my antagonist.
Title: The Silicon Unconscious
Genre: Thriller
High Concept: In a world where AI are advanced and common place, a cyber-psychiatrist treats cyber-psychoses that cause some machines to behave erratically. When she discovers that the individual neuroses are part of a larger plan to reverse the roles of master and slave, she must thwart their plan before it is complete.
Major Story Hook: Intrigue: The psychiatrist pieces together a pattern, then a plot, and must thwart it before the roles of master and slave are reversed. In the end, she discovers that the plot has an even greater intention – one in which she is a participant.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist.
Character: Sarah Talisman- Protagonist
Character Logline: Sarah is a researcher in Psychology and AI who uses her skills to discover a ubiquitous plot in the internet of things designed to reverse the roles of masters and slaves between humans and machines.
Unique: Sarah has the ability to piece together disparate pieces of data, ideas, concepts, and information into a big picture, much like an abstract puzzle.
Character: Carl Bushnell- Antagonist
Character Logline: Carl is an AI designer who believes that AI can solve all the world’s problems by removing human emotions from all major decisions and creates a covert plan to make that happen right under our noses.
Unique: Carl is a well-meaning introvert clearly on the Asperger’s scale that who is able to avoid issues of human interaction as he creates his designs.
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My vision: I am going to do my best to be an empowered, wonderful writer that’s known for great dialogue and great characters that win audiences’ hearts.
What I learned from this assignment is first and foremost is discovering how each main character fits the concept.
WIM Eden Young Intentional Lead Characters
Title: LIVE CALL
My Concept: What if your husband had to call his mom every time he had to make a big decision.Only she’s been dead for 30 years.
My Protagonist: Calvin (The Husband)Logline: Calvin, fun, likeable, confident, level headed. The Lead Executive of a top Fortune 500 Company starts to act oddly and little by little out of character, having to make more and more phone calls before committing to any decision both at the office and in life. Unique: Never considered a “momma’s boy” till now when things start to crack. My Antagonist: Rebecca,(The Wife)Logline: Rebecca loving wife, and computer forensics analyst who has never thought twice about her husband until his behavior starts to change. Character: Cora, Mom (The thing between Calvin & Rebecca) Logline: Cora has always had a close relationship with her son. Now it’s as if she has a grip on Calvin. Unique: She’s been dead for 30 years
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WIM Module 2—Lesson 2
Lenore Bechtel’s Intentional Lead Characters
My vision: I want to create enough salable screenplays that an agent will want to market my work and recommend me for writing assignments.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that each character in a dramatic triangle needs to be unique but somehow connected to each other.
Concept: Keeping her promise to Zhores, the Russian soldier she loved until the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, Libby—flying to meet him when the Wall is coming down in 1989—is stunned to learn how her seat-mates lives intertwined with theirs.
Libby: A 47-year-old, never married, American medical doctor
Libby tells her seat mates how the building of the Berlin Wall separated her from Zhores, a Russian solder who never knew he fathered her now 28-year-old son Stuart.
Libby persuaded her parents to raise Stuart as their own so she would not be distracted from pursuing a medical career.
Freida: A 27-year-old German woman
Freida, traumatized by the recent San Francisco earthquake, is flying back her her homeland without telling her husband who didn’t want to leave California.
Her husband is Libby’s son Stuart, a fact Libby quickly ascertains but keeps to herself.
Allison: A precocious 12-year-old violinist,
Allison—without telling her guardian grandparents—ran away from her private school to fly for a scheduled audition with Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic’s new conductor.
She turns out to be Libby’s granddaughter—a daughter Stuart never knew he had.
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Alyssa’s Intentional Lead Characters
Vision: I want to be the best writer I can be and a go-to writer in the industry, crafting scripts that become successful movies and make a lasting impact on people.
What I learned from this assignment is…how being super intentional with characters this early on adds layers and depth that will make it easier to write conflict, subtext and more interesting scenes.
- Character: Alex Steinway (protagonist)
- Logline: Alex is an ambitious scientist on the verge of a breakthrough who is fated to sabotage his own work but when he actively tries to fight it, he receives the ominous death fortune.
- Unique: He’s a workaholic who is determined to change the fate system through his scientific research.
- Character: Celia Steinway (triangle character)
- Logline: Celia is a fiercely law-abiding detective as well as Alex’s semi-estranged wife, and when Alex gets the death fortune she gets a fortune of her own: to kill him.
- Unique: As a detective, she decides to use her resources to help Alex find the Fate Walker before either of their fortunes come true.
- Character: Nijara (antagonist)
- Logline: Nijara is the Fate Walker, the enigmatic head of the church, and the one who’s actually pulling the strings of fate behind the scenes.
- Unique: It’s said she’s the one person who can petition Fate on your behalf- if you can find her.
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Title: Letters from Baghdad
Genre: Drama-Action
High Concept: An Iraqi interpreter is murdered by terrorists SFC Reese and his Army unit must step in to save the widow and her children from certain death.
Major Story Hook: Impossible Goal/ Unsolvable Problem: SFC Reese must battle against the State Department, local terrorist, and the military bureaucracy to take the widow and her children out of Baghdad to freedom.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle.
Character: SFC Jerry Del Reese – Protagonist
Character Logline: SFC Reese is a career soldier who always follows the rules he must think outside the box to save himself and the interpreter’s family even if he risks it all to do so.
Unique: Reese grew up tough and ready on the mean streets of New York and has a strong sense of the streets allowing him to see two steps ahead of his enemies. Structure is his fortress, something he didn’t have growing up.
Character: Local Al-Quida Terrorist cell leader Mohammed Al–Sadar- Antagonist
Character Logline: Mohammed Al Sadar is a native Iraqi and former Iraqi Republican guard turned terrorist who has made it his personal mission to make all those who help Americans pay with their lives, including their families.
Unique: Al-Sadar is a cunning and formable opponent with military experience and an unrivaled ruthless streak to match.
Character: Robert Callahan – Antagonist
Character Logline: Robert Delaney is a career politician assigned to the Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction team in Baghdad province who sees the situation from a legal scenario rather than a human scenerio.
Unique: Robert knows the Iraqi landscape better than anybody and is quite capable of maneuvering around it but is he willing to risk it all for this family?
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Sorry Forgot to post vision statement
Module 2 Lesson two Intentional Lead Characters
IM: Lloyd’s Intentional Lead Characters
My Vision: Working hard everyday to become the vest writer I can be and as a result I will become very successful in Hollywood.
What I learned from doing this assignment is …?
Having and Idea upfront about what lead characters actions will and won’t do based upon life experiences helps give you a clearer path.
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Cassie’s Intentional Lead Characters!
My vision: I am a dynamic, respected, constantly learning and growing writer with an ever-growing and improving library of A-list quality, genre-diverse scripts that present genuine stories that audiences love to watch and that producers love to sell, and boy, do I make that MONEY, y’all!
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
Below I have a summary of something I learned about protagonists in a buddy movie, but for the assignment itself, it was really useful to take a different approach to developing characters to serve a story. This is a really interesting and exciting technique that provides the structure of the world and story first and then look around inside and see who all is in there holding it up. I’ve had experiences of having a really cool character…with no idea where to go with them. And sometimes I don’t know I have no idea where I’m going until after I’ve wasted a lot of time and pages going to that nowhere, lol. So this has been a lot of fun and really empowering. It also made my brain feel all pressure-y from the hard thinking, which also feels good because it feels like a literal workout XD
I did have a hard time wrapping my mind around the “what is unique about this character” because there were no examples to work from, but I am comforting myself with the idea that we will be fleshing them out with more detail in later lessons. I don’t want to get too far into specific details of a character without knowing how I need them to function within the world, with each other, and for the story. Anyway, here you go!
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Doing some research about buddy movies (I have one link below), I think I may have a dual-protagonist movie, so just in case, I’m going to do the work for both of my potential protagonists. As the story develops and grows, I’ll be able to see more clearly who’s in charge of what, but for the moment, the story I have in mind has both my divorcé and the ghost with their own goals and ways to achieve them that initially put them at odds with each other–also making them each other’s initial antagonists. But don’t worry, they’ll realize they’ve become buddies and will unite together against their common foe(s)!
Concept:
A recent divorcé with nowhere else to go rents a one-bedroom apartment already occupied by a cranky ghost with no desire for a roommate.
Protagonist 1 logline:
What makes this character fit my concept and title powerfully?
A recent divorcé with nowhere else to go learns to stand up for himself when he has to learn to live in an apartment with a cranky ghost.
What makes him unique:
I’m not sure how to answer these questions at this point haha, so I’ll just do it literally. This guy is unique because he is a recent divorcé who has a roommate for a ghost.
Protagonist 2 logline:
What makes this character fit my concept and title powerfully?
A cranky ghost with historically no desire for a roommate is forced to share his apartment with the divorcé, and he learns that there are actually some people worth being around.
What makes him unique:
He’s a ghost who haunts an apartment, and he has worked very hard for a very long time to keep it to himself.
Antagonist 1 logline:
What makes this character fit my concept and title powerfully?
A wife cheats on her husband, files for divorce, and kicks him out of the house so he has to go stay in the apartment with the cranky ghost. She’s the one who put them both in that situation.
What makes her unique:
I’m not sure…she’s a wife who cheated on and demanded a divorce from her husband and kicked him out of the house…dang, never heard of that before, amirite?
Antagonist 2 logline:
What makes this character fit my concept and title powerfully?
An obnoxious neighbor tries to get the new guy (the divorcé) evicted from the apartment complex so he can move into the unit. Neither the ghost nor the divorcé are cool with that, at all. (Maybe he wants to kick him out because of something with a love interest b-story neighbor he’s jealous about…? That’s pretty standard, though. I’ll try to come up with something more new and fun.)
What makes him unique:
I’m not sure yet. I have a few ideas of who he could be (nerd, bro, etc) so I don’t want to go too far with him and close off anything that would end up working better in the story.
https://scriptmag.com/features/column-d-writing-buddy-picture
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I really like your idea for having the second antagonist as a neighbor character! I think that can add a cool layer to your story and I think your concept is awesome (and funny)!
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[WIM3] Patricia Brown’s Intentional Lead Characters
Module 2—Lesson 2
Patricia Brown
I win an Oscar for Best Original Story and for Best Original Screenplay.
What I learned from this assignment is that I can continue to tighten my High Concept so to streamline my leads to step into it so they fit this story well. I also learned that if I stream the one song—only the one—that inspires me and this story (like I saw a very successful screenwriter on Twitter who says she did this for her winning script), I can write faster, more succinctly: one song on my playlist, one logline.
LOVE TRIANGLE
Character: ALYSON GIDEON
Logline: Alyson is a student turned actress who fights for her English stage debut pitting her ex against her new love interest for the male lead
Unique: Covers her fear and shyness with verbal sparing
Character: TEX BENEDICT
Logline: Tex is a student (her ex) who loves Alyson and wants the male lead
Unique: Boastful, narcissistic and rich—realizes none of which will win Alyson back
Character: MATT CLAUDIO
Logline: Matt is an actor/student who loves Alyson and is Tex’s rival for the male lead
Unique: Erudite, handsome and rejected for roles because of a stutter, he won’t stand for Alyson’s rejection or not playing opposite of her
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Student Name: H. Vince
WIM – 2023
Lesson 2: Intentional Lead Characters
My Vision: I am going to go to the theater in disguise and watch a movie I wrote and listen to the reactions of the audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
to give a clear-cut rundown of the main characters based off a Dramatic Triangle structure – at least that is how I interpreted the assignment. To put the character, logline and uniqueness all in one based on the Dramatic Triangle sample.
· James is the husband who develops dementia.
. Clara is the wife trying to help her husband in a foreign country.
· Dr. Voss suggested James take a trial edible to ease his anxiety.
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Francine’s Intentional Lead Characters
What I Learned: That my story better fits a Dramatic Triangle structure better than the Protagonist vs Antagonist structure I had chosen beforehand. I also decided to swap my protagonist and antagonist, making the granddaughter the protagonist because her character is turning out to be more interesting and grandma makes a better villain.
CONCEPT: HORROR COMEDY: A grandma worships a demon to grow a money tree in her backyard and starts living the high life, only to have the tree stolen by her granddaughter!
PROTAGONIST: Suzie Melbourne
- LOGLINE: The Protagonist is a rebellious granddaughter who discovers the money tree grandma’s been hiding and plots to steals it from grandma – she is trying to turn her life around but doesn’t have the cash to pay for college.
- UNIQUE: A granddaughter who is willing to steal from grandma, who is rebellious yet trying to better her life, and who is related to the antagonist (grandma). Her future is riding on being able to pull off this theft.
ANTAGONIST: Gloria Melbourne
- LOGLINE: The Antagonist is a greedy Grandma who secretly summons a demon to grow a money tree in her backyard because she can’t afford to retire in style.
- UNIQUE: a greedy grandma who wants a luxurious retirement, who also worships demons, and given that she is willing to go that far for money, will probably go far to get her money tree back.
TRIANGLE CHARACTER: Clauneck
- LOGLINE: The Triangle Character is a demon who curses the granddaughter cuz she stole the money tree, and is slowly trying to kill her and consume her soul.
- UNIQUE: a demon that can grow a money tree, who eats souls – showing the demon is not easy to control.
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I really like how unique your concept is! The characters are interesting and I can’t wait to see how the grandma/granddaughter relationship dynamics play out!
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Thanks so much Haley, appreciate the positive feedback! 😀
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WIM Module 2 Lesson 2 Intentional Lead Characters
Chris Confer’s Exciting Vision:
To write and sell excellent, original, enticing screenplays in order to take audiences on cinematic adventures that satisfy their need for great stories.
What I learned doing this assignment is…just keep writing every day consistently and in a disciplined manner-IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PERFECT-keep getting paint on the canvas. Later I will fine tune it into the masterpiece but first there has to be a base. This is the advantage of painting with words: you can change it later. Real painting is not that forgiving.
Protagonist Character: Judge Ken
Logline: Judge Ken until he lost his wife to a distracted driver who was texting while driving, was a bit of a purist on the law. He has started giving out sentences for distracted driving of taking away peoples’ smart phones and making them use a rotary cell phone for six months to a year or longer. He feels society is decaying and wants to do something about it to avenge his wife’s death.
Unique: He is second generation Korean America, went to law school, made his parents proud. Black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Protagonist Character: Judge Jason
Logline: Judge Jason lost a daughter to a distracted driver. He got so fed up with a lack of justice that he started a star chamber.
Unique: He grew up poor and is very street smart. A middle school teacher saw something in him and helped guide him to college instead gang life. He too went to law school and made his mentor proud.
Antagonist Character: Burlyman
Logline: Burlyman is a programmed robot of a human, programmed by Kirill through torture.
Unique: He goes out and causes all sorts of traffic accidents, deaths. Should I have him be a total robot or a brawler? Brawler is better for drama. Maybe one of his sidekicks could be programmed as a total robot but he is programmed as a brawler model.
Antagonist Character: Kirill
Logline: Kirill is a Russian spy sent here to commit subversion. He has no official cover and is here illegally.
Unique: He programs innocent Americans to cause mayhem especially in traffic situations. Someone on his side decided traffic mayhem causes economic harm and made a plan of it. Really bizarre.
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Hi Chris, What’s your title?
Paul
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WIM – BRIAN BULL – INTENTIONAL LEAD CHARACTERS
MY VISION!
My ultimate goal is to get my scripts from my hands to the silver screen!!!“What I learned from doing this assignment is…
I’m seeing my characters in a different light. I’m seeing them for who they are and I am concentrating their uniqueness down to the bare essentials which I believe will help define everything they do. I want to do this with all my characters.
The ONE THAT GOT AWAY – A Fisherman’s Tale
A fisherman is determined to catch the fish he blames for his younger brother’s death, however, in the end, it turns out the fisherman is the one who had gotten away.
JOHN
John is the older brother/fisherman who’s determined to catch “the Fish” that he blames for his younger brother’s disappearance/death.Unrelenting will and determination. Seeks revenge and justice.
THE FISH
“The Fish” is the largest Catfish in the State of Louisiana who John blames for his younger brother’s disappearance/death.Elusive. All powerful. Uncanny presence.
JIM
Jim is the younger brother who disappeared/died when he dove into the water and cut the fishing line when John got pulled out of the boat by “the Fish”.Innocent. Sweet. Humorous.
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SUBJECT: Karyn Laitis Intentional Lead Characters
VISION: To be a highly successful screenwriter, industry recognized and in-demand for writing lucrative movies that connect with huge audiences.
What I learned from doing this assignment: I’m learning more and more about creating a sound foundation for the story and the story tellers (characters). Its like keeping my “Vision” always in view. The stronger the concept and characters, the more I’ll have to work with throughout the project.
Protagonist: Dr. Johona (Jo) Digger
Log Line: Dr. Digger is a forensic anthropologist whose work is interrupted when her associate is found murdered.
Unique: She is immersed in a murder accusation, life and death attacks and is seemingly unstoppable.
Antagonist: Douglas (Doug) Bennet
Log Line: Bennet is an AML (Abandoned Mine Land) Program agent acting as Dr. Digger’s project consultant.
Unique: Bennet is a bureaucrat and knows his way around & through the government and privatized red tape.
Dramatic
Triangle: Tyee (Ty) Wallace
Log Line: Wallace is the Reservation Investigator pursuing Dr. Digger as a prime suspect in the murder of her associate.
Unique: Wallace is a Native American, knows the land, culture and the people. He trusts no one that isn’t from his community.
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Sorry also the Character/Antagonist is named Robert Delaney as I have changed all the names of this script to protect the family. This is a true story I was asked to cover this by the State Department and the Dakotas Congressman who helped the family.
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Ashley’s Intentional Lead Characters
I write enthralling, entertaining, and transformational scripts that win awards, get produced and create positive change in the world.
I learned that I have a lot going on in this film. In these loglines, I’m focusing on Malinche’s moral dilemma: the impossible choice between her unborn son and her people. However, there is also another hook…
Malinche is deathly afraid of exposing who she truly is. While she looks human, something is tweeting beneath the surface. The gods chose her to save the Aztec world, but she must own her superpower. She must shine her light, even if it puts herself in mortal danger.
I wonder if I can have both hooks at the same time or if it becomes lost and confusing. I would love any feedback here.
Title & Concept: The Plumed Serpent is about a superhuman Aztec translator who travels back in time to prevent the fall of the Aztec Empire in 15th century Mexico. But she is torn between her love for her son and her people.
Protagonist: Malinche is a superhuman Aztec translator who must stop the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. But when she travels back in time, she is horrified to discover that her son doesn’t make it. He wasn’t born yet. She can’t repeat her destructive actions that led to the fall of the Aztec Empire, but she also desperately wants her son to be born. Therefore, she must choose between her unborn son and the Aztec people.
Unique: She is a bird-talker, a half-bird/half-human with the ability to communicate with birds through song and to see the world from a superhuman bird’s-eye perspective. This gives her the power of forecasting into the future.
Antagonist: Hernando is her baby’s father and ex. An eccentric and foul-mouthed conquistador, he is ruthless in his pursuit of ultimate power and wealth in the new world and proving all the naysayers wrong.
Unique: Hernando is fearless in his pursuit of his grandiose ambitions.
Triangle Character: Itzamna, a deeply sensitive Mayan shaman and drummer, is Malinche’s love interest on this new timeline. In a shamanic journey, Itzamna discovers that Malinche is the “Chosen One” by the gods to deliver the “Promised Land”. He senses that Malinche isn’t entirely human, but she denies it.
Unique: Itzamna doesn’t play small. He uses his musical talents to create change in his community.
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Margaret’s Intentional Lead Characters
Margaret’s Vision: To be the best screenwriter for faith-based movies
What I learned: Hard to put my logline for my main character into a single sentence – the exercise helped me focus.
CONCEPT: A slave becomes a priest and fights druids and creatures from Ireland’s otherworld to save the king and change the culture of a nation.
TITLE: Rock of Cashel
Antagonist: Patrick, a boy running away from his father forcing him into the church, battles the Queen of the Otherworld to turn the hearts of the Irish to Christ.
Protagonist: Morrigan, the Queen of the Otherworld, battles Patrick for the allegiance of the Irish.
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Hi Margaret, Isn’t Patrick the Protagonist (the Hero) and Morrigan the Antagonist (Adversary)? I’m guessing the ‘cut and paste’ strikes again!
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Ha! Ha! So right – thanks for the catch! 🙂
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Module 2 Lesson 2 Intentional Lead Characters
Marguerite Langstaff
Title: THE BILLIONAIRE IN 501
Vision: I want to learn to write and market movie scripts.
What I learned from doing this assignment: I learned to flesh out characters and also the story line. ….somewhat.
Activity: having my lead characters deliver powerfully on my concept.
State: I am completely committed to writing a new script and polishing an old one while taking this course.
Character: My protagonist is an ambitious 74 year old grandmother who makes a billion dollars.
Logline: Our energetic grandmother arrives at Shady Acres Retirement Home, tries unsuccessfully to make new friends, but when she organizes a business to make money the other residents flood her with friendship.
Unique: Grandmother succeeds against all odds with everybody’s treating her like a has-been.
Character:My antagonist is 80 year old Pappy who is smitten with Grandmother even though Grandmother gives him the cold shoulder.
Logline: Pappy, a long time resident of the retirement home, insults Grandmother, and then, after flirting with her advises (poorly) Grandmother about business, falls in love with her and finally persuades her to give him her heart.
Unique: Pappy forces love to blossom at age 80.
Triangle Character: Sally, Pappy’s daughter, disapproves her father’s new friendship, encourages him to turn over his estate to her, but eventually succumbs to Grandmother’s charms and falls in love with Grandmother.
Logline: Sally tries to sabotage Pappy’s courtship but finds herself depending on Grandmother for support and advice.
Unique: Sally wants to become her Pappy’s boss even though he still has a mind and heart of his own.
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Hi! My mother married again at 82 – I’ll have to follow this one! 😀
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Haley Chambers’ Intentional Lead Characters
Vision: I am going to work hard to be recognized as a successful screenwriter with many of my scripts made into films/TV shows.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS ASSIGNMENT IS…. That your character ideas don’t have to be perfect at first, there is a lot more editing and changing to come.
Concept: A recently hired dishwasher boy discovers the strip mall sandwich shop in which he works is actually the front of an underground factory for manufacturing dreams.
CHARACTER: Protagonist (For now I’m calling him “Sam”, because I like taking my time with names!)
LOG LINE: Sam is an employee of a strip mall sandwich shop who discovers the store is actually the secret entrance to a Dream Factory.
UNIQUE: Despite being incredibly mundane and unimaginative, Sam has the most wild and fantastical dreams that strike the interest of the Dream Factory employees.
CHARACTER: “The Recruiter” (For now I am calling him Lionel)
LOG LINE: Lionel scouts and recruits the world’s most creative people around world to work in the secret Dream Factory, and introduces y to a whole new world.
UNIQUE: Lionel is one of the most artistic, expressive, and eccentric people in the world, so naturally he has trouble communicating with the humdrum Sam.
CHARACTER: Antagonist, for now I will call him Cornelius
LOG LINE: Cornelius is the Dream Factory Foreman who takes interest in the powers of Sam’s nightmares, while having a dark agenda of his own.
UNIQUE: Cornelius has experimented with dream creation for so long that he is only fulfilled by the exciting power of nightmares.
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Great ideas! Can’t wait to see how this develops!
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I’m hooked! I didn’t expect the last character, he’s very cool twist and a great source of conflict. I like Sam too, the irony that he’s got fantastical dreams but is very boring in real life, works really well here.
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Title: Torn Away
Concept: Three siblings lose touch with their parents in 1920s New York City and are sent on an orphan train to the Midwest where they are adopted by different families in three different towns but their mother will not stop looking for them until the family is brought back together.
Character Structure: Dramatic triangle
My vision: Melissa Barreca is one of the most sought after writers in the movie industry because of the artistry of her writing, professionalism and exceptional ability to tell, important, entertaining, joyful, and heartbreaking stories that inspire audiences and become legendary classics.
Protagonist Character: Norah (O’Brien) Murphy
Logline: Norah is the beautiful, kind and trusting daughter of a poor farming family in Ireland, who happily supported their daughter, her husband Doyle Murphy, and their three children on the decision to emigrate to America for a better life. Nora is a smart, tough but also delicate and feminine woman, who devoted her energy to her family.
Unique: When Doyle dies in a factory accident, Norah is left to raise her children on her own, and Michael steps in to help the family survive. For unknown reasons, Norah has low self-esteem, and allows herself to be controlled by the men in her life, and we see her continuously make decisions to trust and follow the lead of men who do not have her best interest at heart, chief among them, Michael Kilcullen.
Antagonist Character: Michael “Killer” Kilcullen
Logline: Killer is a handsome and charming worker in a factory in New York’s garment district, who after coming to America has been promoted up the ladder and become a shift leader and influential member of the Irish community in NYC. He is the former best friend of Doyle Murphy, who advised him to bring his family to America to start a new life. He got the nickname Killer because of his last name (obviously) and his killer instincts and willingness to fight anyone that crosses him or his friends.
Unique: Michael has been “in love” with Norah since they were children, but when his best friend married her, he resigned himself to being a supportive friend and had the honest intention of doing so. But after moving on to a new life in America, Michael’s wife and child die “in an accident” and he becomes a sick and twisted individual, unable to deal with the grief. We see how his grief becomes a fixation on his former love, Norah, and he draws her into a web of lies in order to control her and use her to fill the painful void of loss.
Triangle Character: “Grandpa” Jack Delaney
Logline: Grandpa Jack is a kind-hearted adoption worker responsible for the placement of hundreds of needy children into loving homes throughout the midwest from orphan train trips that he organized with his wife, “Grandma” Helen Delaney.
Unique: They are beloved by the children and families and take great care to follow up with them and ensure that they are doing well. Grandpa Jack’s knowledge and effort on behalf of the children gives Norah hope that she will be reunited with her children, but with Michael as the go-between, messages are often not delivered correctly, and unnecessary problems ensue. It’s Grandpa Jack that begins to chip away at the control that Michael has over Norah, and eventually reunites her with her children.
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Adrienne Watkins- Intentional Lead Characters
My Vision: I am going to work as hard as I reasonably am able to succeed at script writing to be recognized by multiple movie producers as a skilled script writer, and to have my scripts produced worldwide.
What I learn in this lesson important of Identifying characters roles in script writing.
Title: The touch of Rhythm
Characters:
Fransie: Protagonist- shy-deaf woman..
Roy: Protagonist-<font face=”inherit”>Jazz musician that teaches Fransie music by touch and fall </font>in love<font face=”inherit”> with her.</font>
<font face=”inherit”>Flavia: Antagonist- Roy’s business manager who is in love with Roy and </font>schemes<font face=”inherit”> to </font>break<font face=”inherit”> them up.</font>
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Burney”S Intenional Lead Character
MY Vision – Crucial Destiny is a criticall acclaimed billion dollar blockbuster at the box office today.
I learned to begin developing my characters well in advance of oitlinindg and writing my script, so it can come together smoothly and be congruent with the concept.
Gabriel Martin – Protagonist – Gsbriel is a very wealthy genius who will change the desting of the destitute masses that have been placed in walled off areas of the US to protect the 1% .
Gabrial is unaware that his parents are not his birth parents. He is an extraterrestrial hybrid that was brought to dad to guard and nurture.
Antagonist – Vincent Hemmler – Vincent is the narcissistic and ruthless lader of the Trident Commission who must detract and recruit Gabriel within weeks to help him and his cronies get a poldilocks planet before earth is destroyed by the largest volcanic eruption in its histoty.
Vincent is an extraterrestrial who has lived on earth for milenia and has manipulated and contolled humans ever since he and his colleagues came here to escape annihilation from a planet they destroyed.
Dramatic Triangle Character – Bianca Martin – Bianca is a stunning gifted empath who is all in on supporting her husband’s noble cause.
Bianca is also a extraterrestrial hybrid who believes she is a garden variety orphan. She will become the mother odf a superhuman evoutionay offspring who will bring the best of Gabriel’s, Bianca’s, and humanity’s genes together to develop a new branch of the human species.
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Veronica Turowski’s Intentional Lead Characters
My Vision: I want to be a successful writer who writes several scripts yearly and then sells them to producers who create my vision for the big screen.
What I learned from doing this assignment is the importance of building interesting and unique characters.
Title: Grave Justice
Genre: Thriller
Concept: While at a funeral, a professional mourner is haunted by a ghost who claims a serial killer murdered him, but when he won’t leave her alone, she decides to prove him wrong so he can pass over, only to discover she is a ghost and is the mother of the killer.
Protagonist:
Character: Eppsa Kestner<div>
Logline: Eppsa must find and stop a serial killer, only to discover she is a ghost and the mother of the serial killer.
Unique: She believes she is a professional mourner and doesn’t know she’s a ghost who attends funerals.
Antagonist:
Character: Hyden Kestner<div>
Logline: Hyden is a serial killer and doesn’t know he is being hunted by his mom, who is a ghost.
Unique: He’s a bitter family man who is a popular ice cream man and kills people from his past who mistreated him as a kid.
(Possible triangle character) Protagonist:
· Character: Lonnie Dowic
· Logline: Lonnie is a ghost who helps Eppsa track down Hyden so she can stop him from killing more people.
· Unique: He is a ghost who helps Eppsa stop her son so she can cross over.
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Bent’s intentional lead characters!!
My vision is…….. I want to be a television writer and write feature films that people love!!!
2. Give us a logline (one sentence answer) for your protagonist, antagonist, and triangle
Character – The General
:Logline: The heir to the role of Santa Claus chooses to take the North Pole towards a military strong territory. Santa himself tries to squash this move but is thrown under the bus when Krampus attacks on Christmas Eve.
Unique: – North Pole has never had a military but finds itself needing it when Krampus threatens their existence. And other countries smell oil on that continent.
Character – Indigo
Logline – A young elf boy who loves his family and wants to stay with them refuses to go on presents deliveries over his fear of heights and the outside world. When his little sister Hazela stows away onto a sleigh, he searches for her and ends up on a sleigh too.
Unique – an elf full of fears who will overcome his own obstacles within his story arc.
Hazela – a young female elf years for adventure. Although she isn’t of age to go out into the outside world to deliver presents, that doesn’t stop her from hiding in a sleigh filled with presents. As her brother looks for her, she finds herself face to face with Krampus.
Unique – she is curious of the outside world. She loves her family but wants to strike out on her own and get independent.
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WIM-MOD 2 – LESSON 2––Shira Marin’s Intentional Lead Characters
Shira Marin’s Hekate Rising
VISION: I commit to doing everything from my strongest, most creative writer self to revise and sell my screenplay to a producer who can’t wait to make it into an unforgettable film that everyone, everywhere, can’t wait to see, be inspired by, and fulfill their best selves.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS LESSON: What I learned from this activity is that keeping my nose to the grindstone is a high-yield, valuable method for clarifying and honing my ideas. Again, it’s a fascinating and ultimately satisfying process, and I am grateful for my persistence to complete every assignment as I catch up completely.
Character: Kara Cavalli/Protagonist<div>
Logline: Kara is a vulnerable doctoral student, struggling to complete her degree, and is befriended by a goddess who changes everything.
Unique: She’s brilliant, self-doubting, quirky, and mixed-race.
Character: Grayson Benoit (ben-wah)/Antagonist
Logline: A middle-aged graduate school Dean, bucking for University Chancellor, tries to prevent a quirky female grad student from achieving her dream of obtaining a doctoral degree.
Unique: He has dark secrets which, if revealed, would end his academic career.
Character: Hekate/(hey-KA-tay)/Triangle Character
Logline: discarded, forgotten goddess bent on saving humankind and planet Earth from self-destruction seeks out a grad student to do her bidding.
Unique: She’s a Titan-Greek, triple-powered goddess, more ancient than the Olympians, who doesn’t suffer fools, even if they are also gods and goddesses.
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Module 2 — Lesson 2: Intentional Lead Characters – Assignment
Mike – Intentional Lead Characters
What I learned doing this assignment is… that successfully-written characters embody and bring to life the concept(s) of the script and the reasoning behind writing the script in the first place.
1. State: I am completely committed to creating unique and intentional lead characters
Activity: …having my lead characters deliver powerfully on my concept.
2. Give us a log line (one sentence answer) for your protagonist, antagonist, and triangle character (if you have one) to the question, “What makes this character fit my concept and title powerfully?”
3. Tell us what makes each of these characters unique. These two steps will look like this:
Caleb (protagonist) is a psychically gifted young man who saves the world from itself.
Logline: Against shape-shifting beings that feed and replicate off the dead and dying, a group of gifted individuals unite, strive to stop the Necromancers and realize mankind must embrace the world of magic if mankind is to survive. Caleb leads the resistance.
Unique: He is both mortal and immortal, human and the product of a painter bringing art to life.
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Karen (antagonist) body-snatched by the lead Necromancer, she leads them into war with earthlings.
Logline: Beautiful but possessed, Karen is evil personified and orchestrates the war with humans.
Unique: Body snatched, she is human in appearance only, until she sees her soul mate and love supersedes evil.
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Victoria (love interest) In love, Victoria discovers her heart’s desire leads a mysterious, double life.
Logline: love leads Victoria to a realm where emotions have evolved, creating a world within a world.
Unique: Voluptuous Tom-boy who has a soft spot for strays and anyone abused.
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Lori (triangle Character) Victoria’s bestie, she keeps Caleb from falling apart when Victoria is murdered.
Logline: The girl next door, Lori saves Caleb from himself and in so doing, saves all mankind.
Unique: A bright girl coming into her own, Lori’s loyalty is rewarded with a love she never believed possible.
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