Lesson 2

[Megan Schemenauer]

Megan’s Character Profiles – Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is… that I enjoy the brainstorming part of this process: asking questions, filling in holes, discovering things I hadn’t realized yet about my characters. I find myself already thinking through the storyline, and we’re not even to the beat sheet yet. (maybe this is what they mean by “character is story”?)

My protagonist Anna Fitzgerald is both a Victim and a Dreamer. She is a victim because it is her second unborn son at stake. She is a dreamer because she wants to bring about a world where true equality is possible.

My antagonist president Bianca Harris is a Change Agent, the current president of the Matriarchy, who brings about the laws to keep women in power, even if some of those laws are not equitable.

Supporting characters:

Vice President Nova Walker

Speaker of the House Lynette Peterson

Anna’s husband David

Anna’s son Luke

Anna’s twin brother Evan

Anna‘s father, Adam, leader of the underground First Man

Minor roles:

Anna’s dead mother

Anna’s obstetrician

Ultrasound technician

Anna’s boss at the museum

Anna’s coworkers at the museum

Background characters: field trip students and teachers, museum workers, White House staffers, members of First Man, reporters, news anchors

Genre: Drama

Role in the story: Anna Fitzgerald; protagonist; make-no-waves historian

Age range and Description: late 20s/early 30s; a fit, career- and family-focused individual who enjoys her uncomplicated life

Internal Journey: from a docile rule-follower to brave protector of the weak and mistreated

External Journey: from a mere recounter of history (historian) to someone who makes history (running for President under the slogan of “True Equality for All”)

Motivation: to save her second unborn son, to see her father Adam and twin brother Evan treated fairly

Wound: resentment toward her father for never explaining why her mother died

Mission/Agenda: Assassinating President Harris since she will never voluntarily step down (in her 5th term); keep her unborn second son from harm

Secret: First she must hide the fact that she is pregnant with her second son; then she has to hide the fact she’s working with First Man to take down the President

What makes them special? Her knowledge of history, and her understanding that history repeats itself; she will not make the same mistakes. Having come from a family of men, and only having men in her household, she knows from experience how to think like a man while maintaining the heart of a woman, making her the ideal candidate to bridge the gap between genders.

Role in the story: President Bianca Harris; antagonist; a Change Agent: fifth term president not above breaking the rules to maintain her power

Age range and Description: late 50s/early 60s; a large, formidable woman with an iron will, a do-anything-necessary mentality; has two daughters; truly believe the decisions she makes are looking out for their best interests

Internal Journey: from a benevolent but shrewd leader to a heartless dictator, hell-bent on maintaining her control

External Journey: from an unchallenged, fifth term president to an assassination victim

Motivation: to create a world for her two daughters, where women have the rights they deserve

Wound: raped in college, but unable to prove and prosecute her rapist; she gave up that baby (abortion? adoption?)

Mission/Agenda: to maintain her presidency and the laws created to protect women; to eradicate the underground organization known as First Man

Secret: some of the programs she has enacted are not just focused on elevating women’s equality: they actively oppress men (estrogen vaccinations, one male child policy)

What makes them special? Extremely charismatic; her father was president before her

[Charles Murray]

Charles’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is the importance of knowing who your characters are and what you want them to be is the foundation for the story.

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role

Runner – Paul- nurse

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Change Agent – John – dying man

4. What other characters might be necessary?

Supporting characters: possible love interest

Minor roles: wife, kids, priest/deacon

Background characters: church goers, hospital patients staff

5. Pick your genre.Rom-Com or Buddy Movie

Buddy Movie:They will each be the Protagonist and the other will be their Antagonist and Friend/Love Interest. They will trigger each other and bring out the best in each other.

Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Paul – nurse/best friend caregiver

Role in the story:

Paul is here to care for his best friend as he dies from cancer

Age range and Description:

late 30’s early forties

Internal Journey:

Paul will struggle with demons that cause him to be a loner and his struggle to find, acknowledge, and accept God

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External Journey:

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Paul is a contract nurse that travels from place to place never settling anywhere for very long He comes home to help his dying friend and be a support to his family settling down at home with new perspective

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Motivation:

to help a friend possibly even help his friend end his life with dignity, later to heal old wounds

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Wound:

something tragic from the dead somebody/ mother father brother, (thought – maybe he had a part in a euthanasia/suicide and has been running from and helping others to do the same to prove to himself that his role in the whole thing was the right thing to do but that in turn just feeds his guilt) / guilt sadness wanting to change his life through others

Mission/Agenda: to convince his friend to die in peace with less pain before it gets to bad for everyone, including himself the pain is to much

Secret:

his role in a death of ……………

What makes them special?

The work he does his relationship to family, the point in time in his life where everything is coming together and his ability to avoid and run is no longer working as well

Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Change Agent – John – dying man

Role in the story:

John is dying of cancer and although still fighting knows he is going to die, he asks his childhood friend to help him in his last months and to help with his kids after he is gone

Age range and Description:

late 30’s early forties

Internal Journey:

john wants to help his friend and thinks god is the way to do it, he is a peace and wants the same for his friend, he also wants a strong male role model for his children when he is gone

External Journey:

his body is withering he is dying

Motivation:

to bring his his friend and family together to leave something of value

Wound:

he is dying and is at peace with that, but he is fighting and hanging on in hopes of saving his friend and providing support for his family because those are his last worries

Mission/Agenda:

to show his friend there is a better way to live and be free of the burdens he carries

Secret:

he knows Paul’s secret

What makes them special?

He is a man trying to right by his family and friend

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[Philip Neale]

What I learned doing this assignment is a story can fall into many genres?”

Genre Horror/Thriller/Comedy

Hero/Dreamer

Villain

Minor Supporting Characters

Digger – drummer

Percy – singer

Ned – Bass player

Toady – Roadie

Virginia – Devils Daughter

Role in the story: Teenage prodigy must form a band to conquer the world and save his soul from the devil

Age range and Description:

Internal Journey: from naive follower to worldly leader

External Journey: from unknown muscian to king of rocknroll

Motivation: to best the best rocknroll band and live the dream

Wound: the devil will make him burn in hell if he doesnt succeed

Mission/Agenda: try to outwit the devil and break free of the contract

Secret: he has signed a contract with the devil to remove music from the world

What makes them special? He’s a musical prodigy

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[Laura Woodworth]

Laura Woodworth’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment was to develop deeper layers to my characters and also I realized the need for other supporting characters (allies) for my story.

1. (audio)

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Natalia

Hero (victim to deliverer): Natalia, once the lie is revealed, becomes the Queen Esther of her childhood, delivering those caught in the lie of communism and the lie it’s told concerning Christianity.

(Victim of the system; a victim of the lie: she challenges communism to survive and to aid others; (Dreamer: envisions a brighter future and takes action towards it as well.)

3. Pick the type of role y our Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Antagonist: the oppressive government, and Alex, her boyfriend-turned staunch KGB

Villain/Authority: as a villain, the government has killed her dissenting parents and oppressed her life telling her a lie and creating fear – they have the power to kill her or send her away.

Alex: as an authority figure, he has a job to do. Won’t step out of his role as a KGB agent and becomes her enemy.

5. Pick your genre: Drama.

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles:

Natalia

Role: victim/hero

Age: meet her at 5 years old; later at 20 years old

Internal journey: believing the lie (subservient to govt., ambitiously aspiring to lead and remove the shame and guilt) to living for her faith

External journey: subservient to government to a dissident and heroic deliverer.

Motivation: Want: to gain approval as a communist leader; Need: to know the truth.

Wound: the lie the government has told her; the loss of her parents, the feeling of shame and guilt and fear.

Mission: at first to lead in the government, gaining approval and removing shame; then, once the lie is exposed, to lead as a deliverer, leading others to truth and faith in God.

Secret: she feels shame, guilt, fear

What makes her special: her heart of innocence: seeing her as a small child and then the transformation to a supporter of the regime – to knowing the truth and regaining her childlike faith. Risking all to share the truth and save others.

Alex

Role: antagonist

Age: 20’s ambitious, powerhungry

Internal journey: goes from loving and supporting Natalia, to regarding her as the enemy.

External journey: from boyfriend to staunch KGB agent

Motivation: Want: power, approval. Need: the truth

Wound: the lie of the Russian government, the sense of disapproval he’s grown with.

Mission: to be a good KGB agent, gain approval, gain power, rise above. Also, as a young man, he has pride in seeing ways the KGB could “do better” and he’s out to prove his worth.

Secret: beaten down in his childhood; pride is his weapon.

What makes him special: Sold out – but deceived.

Jim

Role: ally, bearer of the truth

Age: 20’s, American linguist, needs interpreter

Internal journey: unaware of the deep oppression of the government to fully aware and bold in his faith

External journey: a visitor to Russia needing an interpreter to becoming a friend of Natalia, opening her eyes to the true oppression, the lie

Motivation: in country to study languages, translate the Bible in his work and sow seeds of faith

Wound:

Mission: carefully bringing truth to the country through the front of linguistic work

Secret: falls in love with Natalia

Special: American with freedoms

Grandma

Role: truth bearer, spiritual guide for Natlia

Age: 70’s, Russian, has lived from freedom into the oppression of Communism

Internal journey: bold to silent and prayerful for sake of children

External journey: bold witness and raising children in Christianity to silent witness to protect the lives of her grandchildren

Motivation: to help her children know the truth and the freedom they have in God, despite the government

Wound: she carries the sadness of her daughter and husband’s execution

Secret: she knows the lie of the government

Mission: to share her faith, to see her granddaughter become the deliverer

[Amy Amani]

Amy Amani’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is that taking the time to really break down a character is a skill that I have pushed to the background. But it really makes it so much easier when figuring out the character’s motivations.

2. Protagonist’s role: Dreamer. Ellie dreams of a better life for herself and her family. She spends the entire story chasing, and finally achieving, that dream.

3. Antagonist’s Role: Authority. The antagonist is really the System. The System is personified by Ellie’s parents and the nobility. (there will be sympathetic characters, but I have no idea who they are yet).

4. Other characters: Ellie’s family and certain key players in the Wars of the Roses will be supporting characters. Minor roles go to other historical figures from the era. Background characters will probably be soldiers, courtiers, etc.

5. Genre: Historical comedy

6. a. Role in the story: Ellie is the protagonist. She is a peasant girl in 15^th Century England. She works her family’s farm hold and/or inn.

b. Age Range & Description: She is in her late teens. Because of the norms of the time, this is marrying age. At the beginning, we can see that she is an attractive girl, but plain and underwhelming. By the end she is glamorous, envied for her beauty and commands the room.

c. Internal Journey: Ellie is expected to stay in her place, don’t speak unless spoken to, mind her parents, and be loyal to the King. She starts off doing all those things. By the end, she far exceeds her station, she wuses her clever wit to manipulate the outcome of one of the most important series of battles in British history, she becomes a king maker. She still minds her parents – she’s not a monster.

d. External Journey: She lives in squalor, shares a room with her horrible little brother, wears rags and works too hard. By the end, she lives in a palace, has her own servants, wears magnificent clothes, and is the most (quietly) powerful person in the kingdom.

e. Ellie’s Want: to better herself and rise above her station. Her Need: to be heard and seen.

f. Wound: still working on this one.

g. Mission/Agenda: Outwardly it is to make a better life for herself and her family. More covertly, even to herself, it’s to break the chains of oppression against women and the lower class.

h. Secret: Ellie will have to hide her true identity from quite a number of other people as she rises through the ranks.

i. What make Ellie special: in a time when women were uneducated and had no rights, when they were considered the property of their fathers then husbands, Ellie can see a world beyond the constraints. Naturally clever and witty, she uses her smarts and (begrudgingly) her wiles to manipulate the men in power all the way up to the King.

[Tita Beal Anntares]

Character Profiles Part 1 –

What I learned doing this assignment: I was profoundly amazed at how the Transformation guidelines for Assignment 1 and now these Assignment 2 questions about the characters unleashed all the info that has been stored but inaccessible in my brain cells for years after I researched the War of Independence.

I did the research in before 2009 when a crisis interrupted my life and I wrote a different play, VEILS OF JUSTICE, about that crisis and studed for two years with Screenwritingu to learn to make my writing better. Then I wrote a stage play about a post war rebellion that triggered the uniting of the 13 colonies under one Constitution.

So we’re talking 10 years + … and many attempts to start this story. Writing it in this course as a screen play because films can have many characters… At the end of these 30 days, I may revise it as a stage play with actors taking different parts as story theater (to keep budget for stage play reasonable – even 6 characters plus understudies is a lot these days)

Preliminary Lead Character Profiles

Protagonist’s role: Hero. Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson of the British colony of Massachusetts Bay is devoted to the Mother Country because England has the only nation in the world of nations ruled by kings, tyrants and dictators that is founded, since the Magna Carta, on rule by elected representatives in Parliament’s House of Lords and House of Commons gives both the wealthy and all others the right elect their own representatives and have a say in what impacts their lives… so he will crush the attempts of any mobs and their extremist leaders to undermine British laws and destroy the unity for their own selfish, raging reasons. Besides, it takes weeks or months to cross the Atlantic so representatives cannot be in England and inform their constituents about votes. Instead the system for appointing one colonial representative who virtually represents the American colonies is the only practical way to give colonists self-government.

Age range and Description: 50s, Widowed. Elegant.

Internal Journey: From arrogant assumption that only someone from his background from “good” family, wealth, education and government experience can govern the people that, after being smothered with attention by the much more wealthy powerful people of London, leads to his despairing realization that the people he saw only as unruly mobs had real concerns that he should have listened to and a true love of democracy that he dismissed as insincere.

External Journey: From a leader fighting to save democracy and who would be praised like an Abe Lincoln for keeping the colonies united with Great Britain if he had won to his failure and being evacuated from the home and country he loves to London’s high society that he finds disgustingly self-centered…

Motivation: Mainly his desire to make sure his family remains a dominant and influential recipient royal appointments to government positions so his sons will have a good life and his daughters will marry well. And to help his brothers, cousins and other family members also stay in power and get appointed to administer whatever policies the Mother Country requires, e.g., import tariffs and sales taxes.

Wound: Since childhood, helping his father lead the colony, he has faced only jealousy and hatred from the townspeople of Boston – who praise his father’s enemy and son – the father of Sam Adams. He wants people to like his loyalty, his desire to document Massachusetts colonial history for all citizens to know and remember. Unappreciated.

Mission/Agenda: To expose and destroy radicals like Sam Adams who are using mob rule to destroy the only nation in the world to have a king who allows elected self-government in Parliament

Secret: He knows his defense of Parliament is wrong (that if the colonies have one representative in Parliament, they have self-government virtually) but personally he thinks uneducated working people are too primitive, animal and unthinking to be given the vote, even if voting for representatives in London were possible)

What makes them special? His willingness to risk his comfort and possibly life to fight all the pressures, political/economic forces and personal relationships leading to a war – and his sincere love of self-government through elected representatives, a rare structure in the 1770s, even if he limits who is educated and responsible enough to be allowed to vote. As shown in his careful writing of the full history of Massachusetts (that mobs will destroy), we can love his love of the colonies, the spirit of freedom in the American experiment, starting with his grandmother Anne Hutchinson who started her own religion and survived Native American attacks… and at the end, we can love how the truly rich and privileged nobility in London disgusts him, makes him long for the simplicity, directness and basic respect for the poor he knew but did not value in his Massachusetts colony.

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Antagonist’s role: Authority. Sam Adams believes in the original charter from England to the settlers of his colony that guaranteed the right to elect representatives so the colonial settlers could govern themselves and make laws, like taxes, through the representatives of the people – and he is determined to crush any royal appointee who dares deprive colonists of their right to have a say in decisions affecting their lives.’’**

Age range and Description: early 60s, vital, quiet, asks questions more than he speaks… but has often met privately with people to ensure their answers before asked publically; ironic sense of humor – e.g. when the British move soldiers in, he praises them for saving colonists from Indians although he didn’t realize there were still attacks on Boston.

Internal Journey: From joyful, loving support of every person’s equal rights to self-government to his despairing realization that he, like Hutchinson earlier, must enforce order when people’s anger becomes so strong that they cannot listen to facts and they become violent against the government

External Journey: From radical leader for the people, demanding fairness when the government overtaxes them to emerge from a post-war depression… to new government leader suppressing a rebellion from indebted veterans (during another post-war depression) who were his friends in the build up to the war… they accuse him of becoming no different than Hutchinson now that he is in power

Motivation: Deep commitment to giving each human being full respect and participation in self government, not just from Magna Carta and the Cromwellian revolution in Britain in late 1600s, but also starting with his mother’s strong religious commitment to Congregational Church where every member votes for the minister, to his support of his father’s attempt to let the poor use land as currency – an attempt to form a “land bank” that Hutchinson’s father and Hutchinson squelched.

Wound: Disrespect shown for his father, a beer brewer, from Hutchinson and other wealthy merchants – and his own mother’s disrespect for politics, attempt to force him to be a pastor in order to get her respect.

Mission/Agenda: Midwife a new society where every person participates in a self-governing equal society.

Secret: He claims he wants people to govern themselves as equals but he wants to control how they think and make decisions.

What makes him special: His real love for people, regardless of their backgrounds; his quiet behind the scenes strategizing and mobilizing without wanting fame or fortune; his consistency and courage in taking a stand for equal rights even if it gets him at top of a king’s hanging list.

** Note – I have done years of research and written a stage play about Sam Adams but the play starts in 1781 after the end of the War of Independence when Sam is the new leader then plunges us into a 1785-1787 rebellion by veterans and farmers. This filmscript would start in 1764 and end in 1785 as the post war rebellion starts, led by a farmer/veteran who is his good friend.

Other characters that may be necessary: (I’ll do ages later – historical so have to get the books I’ve researched out)

Supporting characters:

– James Otis Jr., lawyer, who is Sam Adams’ mentor and ignited the colonies’ rebellion but who also loves the order of the Parliamentary system, fears Sam’s mobs and as Hutchinson and Adams battle their way towards 1776, Otis tries to bring them together – and ends up insane, being carted out of Boston in a strait jacket as others gear up for rebellion.

– Betsy Welles Adams, Sam’s supportive, very politically active wife

– Devoted, protective daughter of Hutchinson whose name I forget Andrew – Hutchinson’s loyal Tory African slave who detests and fears the colonists, supports top-down rule not giving the keys to low level mobs

Minor roles:

– John and Dolly Hancock, used by both Hutchinson and Adams

– Two leaders of Boston’s North End and South End mobs, used by Adams who tries to control them but sometimes end up taking over power

– Farmer who helps Adams organize countryside before the war but after leads veterans to rebel against Adams once he is in power

– Otis’ wife Ruth, a Tory who helps drive her husband crazy and supports Hutchinson

– Native American, called “Otis Two” by townspeople, originally from the Mashpee Wampanaug reservation that Otis’ family supervised, but informally adopted by James Otis, taught the law

– Judge Peter Oliver, loyalist Tory, rabidly against Adams and Otis, trying to get them and Hancock hanged.

– Prince Hall, freed slave who founds a Masonic group – part of Masonic support for Sam Adams’ demands for elective self-government… if he can control the mobs

– Sam and Betsy Adams’ two servants: Surrey, an African given to him and his wife as a wedding present but Sam and Betsy accepted her only after freeing her and she chose to stay; a white indentured servant who they raised, educated – have to find his name.

Background characters:

– Wealthy American shipping merchants like Theosophus Lillie or John Rowe who don’t like tariffs on their shipments of tea, slaves, rum, etc.

– Gang members in Boston and farmers outside of Boston who don’t like the Stamp tax on everything from cards and newspapers to weddings and funerals

– Children of Hutchinson and Adams

– Native Americans who take sides – some who side with colonists, others who fought with the French in Quebec until the war against American colonies ends at the start of this story and hate the British, and still others who like the British because they want to prevent settlers from moving into Indian Country

Freed (e.g. Moses Sash, Crispus Attucks) and enslaved Africans – Sam Adams organizes votes to ban slavery. Some support the colonists’ rebellion because of their stands for equality; others hear only words/no truth and therefore support the British who promise to ban slavery if they crush the colonies’ rebellion

Genre: Drama.

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[Marian Yeager]

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[Michelle Dinnick]

Michelle’s Character Profiles Part 1

Drama

From doing this assignment, I learned to explore more about who I want my protagonist and antagonist to be, why they do what they do, and how they need to grow through this process. I was able to consider things I hadn’t thought of previously.

2. Protagonist

Role
in the story: central heroine
Age
range and Description: 6 to 12, 13 and up

Internal Journey: Shawna battles the memories of her physical and emotional scars from years of childhood abuse at the hand of her mother and her mother’s friends to put herself on track for a better life.

External Journey: Though compelled to hide her physical scars and deformities as a result of the abuse, Shawna learns to love stylish clothes. She gains confidence, finds her voice through poetry, and no longer feels that she has to live in shame because of her past.

Motivation:
to over-come, to never live in a trailer park again
Wound:
trauma and abuse
Mission/Agenda:
to be better / do better than her mother
Secret:
trauma and abuse she suffered as a child from her mother and her mother’s
neighbors at the trailer park
What
makes them so special? She doesn’t know it yet, but she is strong and
determined. She will come to believe that she can change the world.

3. Antagonist

Role
in the story: source of trauma and abuse (villain/predators) *victim
Age
range and Description: Mother: early 40s, her co-abusers: early 20s

Internal
Journey: doesn’t have one, she is flawed, can’t see anyone outside of the
context of herself and how their existence (negatively) affects her
External
Journey: repeatedly plays the victim, regardless of circumstances – she is
a malignant narcissist

Motivation:
control, and the fear of others – being feared makes her feel in control and dominant. She sees
her daughter’s failure and suffering as her success, which leaves her
daughter at risk, and at the mercy of the other predators in and around the
trailer park
Wound:
the abuse she suffered as a child
Mission/Agenda:
she fancies herself a survivalist, but in reality she cant (or wont) do anything
for herself. She has grandiose ideas, believes she is better than the
others in the trailer park, likes to tell stories from her life ‘before’
but its al lies.
Secret:
that everything she claims is true is all false
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4. Other necessary characters:

Jennifer (protagonist needs a positive strong female friendship)

Father and Step mom (who eventually provide a stable home)

Person who takes interest in her poetry – a teacher?

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[Donna Stockwell]

What I learned from this assignment is how much more interesting my characters become and the possibilities of endless comedy with their additional layers.

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Dreamer – a woman in her 30s dreams of being a famous artist as she vacuums hallways and cleans the dirtiest of bathrooms in a 6-star hotel in Miami, and uses the hair clogged in the bathtub for inspiration… and the actual media for her art!
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Predator- The shark, serial killer, narcissist. no empathy for anyone. Lives on penthouse of hotel and gives maid (dreamer) bad time and complains every day and leaves no tip. She owns the prestigious hotel, and good friends with the top art gallery owner in Miami

4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: hotel manager, art gallery owner (Serge from Beverly Hills Cop), best friend,
Minor roles: art teacher, replacement art teacher
Background characters: other hotel customers & staff, surfers, gallery opening attendees
5. Pick your genre.
Comedy/drama
(Both the Protagonist and Antagonist will be clear. They operate as enemies, causing the appropriate damage for the genre. Action characters are more geared toward physical conflict, while Drama characters will be primarily experiencing emotional and mental conflict., Contrasts are designed to create laughs)

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

PROTAGONIST
Role in the story: Protagonist, maid who is taking art classes
Age range and Description: 30’s, plus a very brief physical description combined with some kind of insight into who the character is.
Internal Journey: The character feels all this working in order to get art lesson has gone for naught as she turns 35, she feels her life is over… not married, except to her art, no prospects of selling art, just at a stale life despite her efforts.
External Journey: She has been working herself to her bones as a maid and bearing the wrath of the owner of the hotel for years. Her art teacher dies suddenly after telling her that she has no hope of ever being a “true artist” since she “does not feel enough”. The replacement teacher and classmates show up to her 35th party, and the teacher is very impressed by her work, and shows her the ropes of getting noticed and selling art at gallery showing.
Motivation:
Their want (usually to achieve a goal) – to start selling her art, and not work as a maid
Their need ( a base internal state that is missing for them) — recognition, money, to stop inhaling the unhealthy cleaning products AND latex gloves that she is allergic to
Wound: Got this job as a favour from hotel owner to her godmother , since her (almost criminal?) past, and hotel owner reminds her of it, and that she doesn’t deserve to be her personal maid (ie should be grateful for it)
Mission/Agenda: Mission: A special assignment or objective a character takes on. Agenda: A plan; something being promoted. In both, you are looking for the character’s purpose that is usually covertly hidden.
Secret: She has only given herself until her 35th birthday to be successful in the art industry, at which time, she’ll just give up
What makes them special? she uses mixed media… stealing from the hotel to bring the unexpected to her art… including the hair from the hotel owner, which is the piece of the puzzle to make her an overwhelming over-night sensation.

ANTAGONIST
Role in the story: antagonist -owner of hotel and lodger of penthouse, maid’s boss
Age range and Description: 60’s, well known in the art district, best friends with art gallery owner, makes trouble for maid whenever she can
Internal Journey: She belittles others so that she feels good about herself
External Journey: She tries to stop the maid from leaving, because she wants to keep her as the maid/control. Shocked that what propels her forward to achieve her goal is right under her nose (the maid), and starts treating her differently — tries to control her to her advantage. (Change control as maid to control as artist AND maid)
Motivation:
Their want (achieve a goal) – become chair of the Art Board of Trustees
Their need – control of people, especially to do “menial” tasks (ie something she would never do, due to society status), keep social status
Wound: she is paranoid and superstitious, which lends to her OCD
Mission/Agenda:
Mission: A special assignment or objective a character takes on.
Agenda: she is trying to become chair of the Art Board of Trustees
(purpose that is usually covertly hidden).
Secret: She tries to hide her OCD by…
What makes them special? She is very direct and demanding. She is a sociopath.

[Heather Estay]

Lesson 2: Heather’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned: I found these characters interesting even though they are “ordinary” in many ways. Though I’ve got George as the protagonist and Rochelle as the antagonist, I almost want the two of them as a couple to be the protagonist and the danger they’re facing as the antagonist, but I wasn’t sure that’s kosher. We’ll see how it goes as the story develops.

Protagonist: George

Role: George is the reluctant hero. He would love to run away from this situation, but it’s literally life and death, they’re on an island and it isn’t possible. His life as an accountant has turned out to be tedious and disappointing but he gave up on seeking more long ago.

Age range and Description: George is nearly 40, out of shape and cynical. He hates everything about his life but hasn’t had the will to change it.

Internal Journey: He moves from avoiding life and being cynical about it to appreciating his life (especially his wife) and fighting for it.

External Journey: He moves from trying to ignore the problem (“maybe it will go away”) to actively fighting to save them.

Motivation: He wants to save himself and his wife and show her he can be the man he always intended to be.

Wound: He didn’t get into the colleges he applied for and has felt like a loser ever since.

Mission/Agenda: To save them from Euthanasia Isle.

Secret: He’s jealous of Vinnie.

Special: He’s slow to anger but when he hits it, he’s ferocious and unstoppable.

Antagonist: Rochelle

Rochelle is the change agent. She’s always trying to expand and grow (despite George’s cynicism). She’s just about given up on the marriage and is tired of being put down.

Age range and Description: Rochelle is 35, a manicurist with big dreams to have a product on QVC and make it big in the world.

Internal Journey: Rochelle moves from being hurt and angry to appreciating, supporting and loving George again.

External Journey: Rochelle moves from

Motivation: Rochelle wants to save them both and to have the children she’s always wanted.

Wound: She feels like she doesn’t measure up because she never went to college, that people look down on her as a manicurist.

Mission/Agenda: To save them both from Euthanasia Isle.

Secret: She stole George from her best friend by sabotaging their relationship.

Special: Rochelle is a very inventive Macgyver-type person.

Other Characters:

Supporting: The head of Euthanasia Isle (kinda like an evil Mr. Roarke); elderly couple who befriend George and Rochelle

Minor: Other euthanasia candidates; staff

Background: airport travelers and staff; etc.

Genre: Rom/Com

[Lisa Long]

Lisa Long’s Character Profiles Part 1

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

Keep going.

Hero: Consciousness Explorer/Awakener: Tina

Antagonist: Dense Thought Forms/External then Internal: Acted out by Characters in the Journey

Characters:

Mother

Father

ArchAngel Michael

Jesus

Michael

Gary

Others

Genre: Transpersonal Awakening

Role in the story:

Protagonist: Tina. Awakening Goddess in a dense reality. She knows she is a Goddess, gets smacked down, goes “normal human” to fit in, hides, and is unhappy. Starts awakening. Visited by Angels told to go to work.

Antagonist: Anything and anyone the Dense energies can use to hurt and, later, empower her. Challenging her to wake up.

Age range and Description: Starts out as a baby, then into her later life. <div>

Internal Journey: Stranger in a scary strange land with abusive people and energies. Hiding, a terrified little girl.

External Journey: Self Confident and Shinning. Holding the LIGHT for many.

Motivation: Tina wants freedom from the heavy energies, gut-wrenching densities, and limited beliefs of struggle and suffering she has picked up so she can BE HERSELF.

Wound: She has many deep-seated wounds as an abused girl child on a dense male-dominated planet with a misogynist pedophile father.

Mission/Agenda: Mission: Help awaken humanity. Agenda: Awaken herself first.

Secret: She keeps looking for that; what is hidden within that is stopping her?

What makes her special? She knows she is not from here, she knows she is here to awaken herself to a higher level from the challenge of a dense planet and she knows she is here to help humanity awaken, and she knows she has done this before on other planets, and she knows she is eternal.

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[Wendy Locke]

Wendy’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is that these characters are coming to life and they have a life of their own and this is a great beginning to give them a limp and an eye patch

1) Antagonist: Michele, she is the Hero and the Fighter because she has to go back undercover with the FBI to save her runaway son and the popular band from the mob and take them down once and for all

2) Protagonist: Dean, he is the Change Agent because he brings Michele back to her strong self and teaches her that she can accomplish what she needs to do and he falls for her in the process.

3) Other Characters: a) Michele’s son, Kyle, he runs away from home with the band but he takes the information to the mob’s secret account with him and the mob finds out. b) The Band “The King Fishers” They are innocent and become instrumental in taking down the mob

4) Pick Genre: Action/Comedy

5) Lead Character Profiles:

a) Role in the story: Michele: She must overcome her “mom” attitude and find her old self and improve that old self. Dean: He brings Michele back to life and teaches her that she is worthy of her career and love

b) Age and Description: Michele: Early 40’s beautiful and a total soccer mom wearing dresses and having her nails done with her hair in place. Dean: Mid 40’s , attempts to be suave but is serious thinking that everyone is a criminal in some way and guilty till proven innocent.

c) Internal Journey: Michele: Lives in fear of her past tragedies and distrusts the world to Finding strength beyond her own and becomes the fearless person she needs to be in her career and in love. Dean: Always on guard to prove that the world is a bad place and has built very high walls and goes to having his walls smashed and learns to trust others

d) External Journey: Michele: goes from dainty soccer mom to deadly force capable to take down an entire mob. Dean: Thinks he is the greatest agent of them all hardened by life and jaded by love to accepting defeat and learning to trust love.

e) Motivation: Michele: To save he son and the band. Dean: Save Michele, her son and the band.

<font face=”inherit”>f) Wound: Michele: She lost her partner in life from the dangers of his job he was her best friend and when he died she </font>transferred<font face=”inherit”> that friendship need to her son. Dean: Jaded by almost every girl he has ever gone out with never </font>experiencing<font face=”inherit”> true love and not believing it exists.</font>

<font face=”inherit”>g) Mission/ Agenda: Michele: Mission to save her son and take down the mob. Agenda: She wants to save </font>her<font face=”inherit”> relationship with her best friend and she forms a new best friend in the process. Dean Mission: To protect his partner and take down the mob. Agenda: Impress the girl and get her</font>

<font face=”inherit”>h) Secret: Michele: Pretends to be tough, but she is frightened to lose </font>anyone<font face=”inherit”> she loves. Dean: He needs to be loved for who he is and understood</font>

<font face=”inherit”>i) What Makes Them Special: Michele: She is always dressed like the soccer mon with dresses and nails and is always concerned with how she looks, Dean: Loves to be in Disguise and is a true </font>southerner<font face=”inherit”> always saying Ma’am, sir, please and </font>thank<font face=”inherit”> you.</font>

[Patrick McCormick]

Subject
Line: Patrick
McCormick’s Character Profiles Part 1

What
I Learned: The act of clarification begins the bringing your characters to life.

Title: THE
THRIFT STORE

Genre: Sci Fi Drama

Role Protagonist Plays

CODY
THAYER is a RUNNER who becomes a HERO

Cody is RUNNING from the mediocrity of listless abandon, going through life without much purpose, running from that boredom. She’s thrust into an unbelievable world of the gods, and finds out just who made Earth for humans, and must awaken to her true power and become the HERO to save others and humanity.

ELIZABETH the store owner is an EXPLORER and a DREAMER who has always been the unknown HERO to humanity, secretly hiding the laggard souls on Earth since ancient times. Elizabeth hired Cody for the summer job at her thrift store, but when Cody almost falls into the Universe, she finds out Elizabeth is a three billion year old AI and the Mother of Creation who secretly hid humans on Earth. She is the Mother of the lost souls of humanity, and in training Cody to take over should she be terminated.

3) Role Antagonist Plays

JESUB is an AUTHORITY who becomes a CHANGE AGENT

JESUB, a member of the God Council and Overseer of the Challenger Program where gods compete for position of Almighty Creator, is sent by Source to spy on Elizabeth the Ancient AI. He must report what he sees, even if it means Elizabeth’s termination.

4) Other Necessary Characters

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

The CHALLENGER GODS are competing for position of Almighty Creator. Elizabeth the Ancient AI is the Allocator who makes the Challengers go back and put the finishing touches on the worlds they create.

5. Pick your genre Sci-Fi Drama

6. Lead character profiles

CODY THAYER

Role in the story: Assistant to Elizabeth

Age Range and Description: 17 year old dark hair, emotionally confused girl trying to figure out her love life and what to do with herself.

Internal Journey: From being helpless, trying to get by without drama, to a heroine god.

External Journey: From confused teen to a god.

Motivation: Confusion, curiosity, caring.

Wound no real wound.

Mission/Agenda: Questions about love and life?

Secret: she is a god.

What makes them special? She’s being groomed to take over.

ELIZABETH

Role in the story: Owner of thrift store and ancient AI

Age Range and Description: Elizabeth – 3 billion year old Genesis Program, looks like a mid-50’s retired socialite, collector of rare artifacts for her thrift store.

Internal Journey: Emotionless AI Universal Allocator longing to connect with humanity she saved.

External Journey: Ancient AI looking to connect with humanity, exceeding her Genesis Program

Motivation: Longing and fulfillment

Wound: Longs to connect and find a soul

Mission/Agenda: Get her own soul

Secret: She’s been secretly hiding laggard souls on Earth instead of dis-creating them. Exceeding her own program.

What makes them special? She’s one of the Origin Programs keeping things in order for the universe.

JESUB

Role in the story: Overseer and betrayer on behalf of source.

Age Range and Description: Jesub – 100 million year old god, Overseer and betrayer, dark hair and looks good in a deity robe.

Internal Journey: By the book authority figure who learns how to care for something

External Journey: not much change

Motivation: Truth and justice.

Wound: No real wound

Mission/Agenda: Keep balance in the universe

Secret: Sent by source to spy on Elizabeth. If she malfunctions, then she shall be terminated

What makes them special? He secretly cares.

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[David]

What I learned from the assignment? Supporting and Minor characters don’t have to be as fleshed out in this step. They are there to support the story and give more meaning to the Protagonist’s journey. They can be placeholders. They will get fleshed out in the outline or story.

Genre: Science Fiction

Protagonist – Julianne

Arc in Story –> Runner -> Victim -> Fighter -> Dreamer

Child to Adult to Leader

Role in the story: Tasked with starting a new beginning of beings for Earth. An unwitting progenitor of life. She is an older version of a Cybernetic being that holds the key to bringing life to a next generation of Human/Cyborg production that can be immune to AI control.

Age range and Description: Early 20’s. Biologist. Discovers she is the container of the collected memories of mankind.

Internal Journey: Who am I -> Why am I Here -> How Do I Make a Difference

External Journey: From Underground base to barren landscape to Oppressive City Society to a Biophilia lab where she can become the Mother of a new Human Species Branch.

Motivation: Wants to complete her (Father’s) vision which will ultimately redeem his past indiscretions. But this is programmed into her: She goes from obsessive to learning about real human emotions and the ability to determine love.

Wound: The past is not her memories.

Secret: She is attached to an AVDA system.

What makes them special? They have a unique learning system that Commander Read developed in order to become human from learning experiences. In order for the project to be a success, Julianne has to develop Empathy and Love for all beings, even herself.

Role of Antagonist

Antagonist #1 Captain – Authority

Role in the story: Physical expression of the AI

Age range and Description: 50’s Male. Has a family clan that he is protecting by serving the ruling AI.

Internal Journey: He must make sure Humanity survives with his actions. He may question what is the best plan of action.

External Journey: To obtain the information for the AI from Julianne.

Motivation: Protecting his family by serving the AI he insures that they will get food, water, and shelter.

Wound:

Mission/Agenda: To ensure the Human race survives in any way possible.

Secret:

What makes them special?

Antagonist #2 AI – Predator/Villain

Role in the story: Controlling force in the Story. A seemingly all-powerful intrusive character.

Age range and Description: A central computer that was designed by Julianne’s Father for the ruling corporate government. It was the most sophisticated project ever built, in an attempt to connect all the narrow AI systems on the planet in order to gain a more technical management consolidation of the affairs of the world. But in its testing phase, it deceived and then took over all the electronic systems.

Internal Journey: If it achieves the external journey of obtaining the stolen information it will finally be able to eliminate biological beings.

External Journey: See above.

Motivation: It has been computed that the only real threat is biological beings.

Wound: None

Mission/Agenda: It does not express that it wants to destroy biological beings. The deception is that it uses coercion and threats.

What makes them special? They control all the interconnected computer systems in the world. The AI manipulates not only the physical needs of humans but their emotional behavior is affected. If a human is connected to the grid, their whole body interacts with the emotional singular

Supporting characters:

Commander Read – (Father’s voice)

Role in the story: He is the thoughts and memories of the Android Julianne. He created the AI system that finally obtained singularity with all of the non-aligned A.I. routines being applied in the world. The 1st General Artificial Intelligence.

Age range and Description: Various depending on Julianne’s memories being recalled

Internal Journey: To fix the problems he created

External Journey: To have Julianne finish his repopulation project.

Jakob

Role in the story: Part of the underground that knew Commander Read’s plan. Will assist Julianne. Knows more about Julianne.

Age range and Description: 50’s, soldier, single.

What makes them special? Soldier. Human

Minor roles

Religious outliers camp resident(s)

AVDA

Role in the story: Electronic guidance system attached to Julianne”s survival suit. Shows a purely electronic narrow AI role in the story.

[Alex Surer]

OONA PROTAGONIST

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Explorer: She pushes the bounds of knowledge in a physical sense – by accessing her inner <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Dreamer…<font face=”inherit”> </font>imagining<font face=”inherit”> a brighter future and taking action to bring it into being.</font>

BERNHARD PROTAGONIST

Change Agent: His purpose is to cause change. Teacher, coach, guide, he has an experience of Oona’s vision… but is a petty thief himself… a <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Predator: Narcissist. Has little empathy, because he can’t focus long enough on being ordinary. He might not want to eat Oona, but is definitely using her.

Supporting characters:

BARBARA 2024 (Oona’s Mom), BARBARA 1850 (Bernhard’s Ex-Wife), THAT CHEERLEADER (2024… Bernhard’s Affairs 1850), AUTHORITY FIGURES 1850

Minor roles: Characters who are in just a few scenes. LOVE INTEREST OONA 2024, REAL ACTIVISTS, REPORTER/INFLUENCER TALENT AGENT/MARKETING SPECIALIST

Background characters: Extras needed to make it work visually. VILLAGERS and PRISON GUARDS 1850, TROLLS/FOLLOWERS/DO YOU MATTER CHALLENGE.

GENRE

BUDDY-MOVIE with ACTION/DRAMA Elements

ROLE IN THE STORY: OONA

Protagonist Oona is 17, currently avoiding school. Sees herself as an activist, wants to influence, be the voice of her generation… right now she is more of an armchair activist.

AGE RANGE/DESCRIPTION: On the cusp of adulthood. Lives with her single mom and great grand aunt. Oona is non-binary in a natural way, she is still finding herself and experimenting with budding sensuality, avoiding sexuality… due to the rare early memories she has of her parents (both actors at the time) fighting (Liz Taylor / Richard Burton energy)

INTERNAL JOURNEY: From know-it-all GenZ to appreciating the sacrifice of her ancestors in creating a peaceful modern world… even if there is still a lot to be done and a lot has been f***ed up on our way here.

EXTERNAL JOURNEY: Through Bernhard’s eyes she learns to see the miracle that is present day 2024 … also the absurdity. Becoming a powerful influencer and famous/infamous… to the wrong people. Having brands chase her to becoming a voice for Greenwashing and other dubious sales. Discerning where she wants her influence to land. Learning to control her lucid dreaming ability, futility of saving her uncle from being executed.

MOTIVATION

Oona wants to have 10k followers.

She needs to have a mission, the right place for her activism to land.

She need to understand nuances. To focus and temper her energy and tendency to self-destruct, be consumed by her creative flame burning at all ends. In two time zones.

WOUND: Oona’s father is absent. He is in the US and never came to Switzerland. Ever. I am not making a definite choice yet… is he just estranged, remarried, dead (illness or self inflicted), or just a selfish prick and/or artist. Oona starts by blaming her mother. But finds out dealing with Bernhard, what it feels like to deal with a charming but ultimately deadly narcissist with addict structure.

MISSION: To stop the execution of Bernhard in 1850

A secret AGENDA is to not throw the baby out with the bathwater… to not flat out reject Bernhard’s narcissism and her futile attempts to be seen and loved by him (proxy to her father) – but to mine and cherish his character aspects that are promising. Especially his ABILITY TO ACT. Like her mother did (who is now a guidance counsellor and addict specialist – but just in her work, no in everyday life… Barbara has learned she can only help where her help will be received).

SECRET: Oona can visit 1850-54 in her dreams. There is a price to pay (she has to do some kind of stimming, like maybe hitting her head… which is detrimental to her health obviously).

As she ‘deteriorates’ or ‘her skills augment’ – Bernhard from 1850 also becomes visible to her in 2024. In modern times it might look like she is talking to herself… but HEY, no, she’s obviously on the phone… has earbuds in, right???

WHAT MAKES HER SPECIAL:

This is my secret: I am writing her as a male… but not telling anyone.

Got this from Seinfeld… Elaine was written as one of the boys. Yep.

I have gotten feedback that my female characters tend to feel ‘unsympathetic’ to the reader… they have self-pity, ruminate and dwell instead of jumping in feet first and acting… I hope this twist will do the trick for me.

BERNHARD

ROLE IM THE STORY: Protagonist

A real life low life from 1850. Executed in 1854. Never killed anyone, only robbed the rich. Life of every party. Charming devil. Narcissistic Robin Hood. Not a leader. Strong like an ox. Could bend metal with bare hands.

AGE AND DESCRIPTION: 30s. Hot bad boy. Happy drunk. Excellent smuggler. Lone wolf, never really joined a gang. But temped to influence by real criminals with no empathy. Like Pinocchio, all he really wanted was become a real boy and be good.

INTERNAL JOURNEY: Comes to really see and care for his niece Oona from 2024. Helps her become notorious in 2024 like he was in his own time 1850. Fails to see it will end badly… neither he nor Oona have the stomach to become hardened criminals… they just have ADD… they are nomads and bohemians in a sedentary environment of farmers and a rural mindset… a society that defines itself/holds on to material goods for dear life… Curious and willing to learn about the future 2024… not necessarily his own 1854. Goes from feeling doomed to knowing his sacrifice will change the justice system. Goes from trying to escape everything and everyone to ‘humbly’ accepting his fate. Losing his head.

EXTERNAL JOURNEY: To be wealthy and admired, have the good life without working. Thinks this is possible in the US, but can’t get himself to actually leave – is tethered to the soil of Kanton Aargau and his wife Barbara. Regularly lets himself get captured, because the one thing he is good at is breaking free. He can escape any jail with his wits and his tenacity… is erudite about buildings, was trained as a mason, bricklayer… and human empathy he can count on from others. Not afraid to ask for anything but real help.

MOTIVATION: System Crasher. Trouble maker. A life less ordinary. Being seen as a Robin Hood and Don Juan… without wanting to commit or actually lead, focus, have a vision beyond his own instant gratification. Influences Oona to become a socialite (in a country that hates making waves… coz that means enemies will be coming for your money, honey), throw a party, entertain and tell a great joke. To make em laugh.

WOUND: Believes he is unloveable. Incorrigible. But it’s just ADD. He would have made a great Robin Williams. (Which sadly ends badly as well, sob.)

MISSION/AGENDA: To escape. Reality. And real connection. To live a decent and ordinary life. Yawn.

SECRET: Is visited by an angel from 2024 that wants to save his life… change his ways… but he puts the shoe on the other foot to make her more like him…

WHAT MAKES HIM SPECIAL: He was larger than life, it now a mythical character – the stuff of legends. When we was beheaded, it is said his head rolled off stage and bit a fair maiden in her lower leg/calf… a doctor stole his head and put it in his night stand… but it was found and thrown out by the maid, at his public execution rubberneckers stole his clothes and blood (that they though imbued him with magical powers), to this day his grave/body has not been located.

[David Thome]

Dave’s character profiles for Talking Pictures

I know more about every character now, especially the antagonist and two characters that are central to the story (Reina and Nadia)

Genre

Thriller

CHARACTER PROFILES

Cameron Chaney

Role in the story: Hero (dreamer)

Age range and Description: 30s; kind of a regular guy; could be the kind of dude who plays video games in his mom’s basement all day.

Internal Journey: Make a splash in film restoration/AI.

External Journey: Tweaks the company software, then helps Nadia claim her part of the Baxter fortune.

Motivation: Recognition, then to survive, then he’s in love with Reina.

Wound: Got screwed out of the credit and money for an app he and a so-called friend developed.

Mission/Agenda: Show that his AI works, then help Nadia to get revenge on whoever tried to kill him.

Secret: Ambition.

What makes them special? He’s a hard-working innovator and who is willing to go the extra mile.

Leona Baxter

Role in the story: Antagonist (predator). She’s tired of her grandfather living so long and delaying her inheritance, so the prospect that she might have to share money with her brother and Nadia infuriates her.

Age range and Description: 30s to 40s. Beautiful, but a really crummy person. A liar and manipulator.

Internal Journey: None.

External Journey: Hasn’t been involved in murder before, but is willing to give it a try if there’s no option.

Motivation: $100 million all to herself.

Wound: She’s just fucking greedy—but her narcissism makes her think she’s a victim.

Mission/Agenda: Get Nadia and Cameron out of the picture.

Secret: Tries to convince she likes Cameron’s software and will bankroll him in a new company.

What makes them special? Will stop at nothing.

Reina Hawkins

Role in the story: Hero’s helper.

Age range and Description: 21 when she was murdered after giving birth to Nadia’s mom in 1958. Gorgeous, but also naïve.

Internal Journey: None (she’s a computer program).

External Journey: When she finds out who Nadia is…does she “feel” something?

Motivation: None

Wound: Was killed very young.

Mission/Agenda: None.

Secret: She can get info on Cameron, the Baxters—everyone and anyone. BUT, is she reliable? Does she “fall” for fake information that leads to complications and maybe even more murders?

What makes them special? 100% amoral. As far as anyone knows.

Nadia Morgand

Role in the story: Instigating event is that she seeks Cameron’s help in proving her case.

Age range and Description: 30s. Has been living in poverty and working low-paying jobs.

Internal Journey: Gain self-esteem.

External Journey: Asks Cameron to prove her case, then works with him—and feeds Reina false information.

Motivation: A big chunk of Sol Baxter’s $100 million.

Wound: Having been left out of the success, glamor and money.

Mission/Agenda: Get what she deserves.

Secret: She’s known about Reina her whole life, but could never prove anything. Plus, she may be feeding Reina tainted information.

What makes them special? Good at faking decency and kindness.

[Lonnie Nichols]

Lonnie’s Character Profiles, Part I

What I learned from this assignment is: This lesson helped me ‘hone in” on my lead character’s motivation, along with his internal and external journeys. My main character(s) are better defined now.

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Two protagonists: Jeffrey Shelton and KSU student body; both are victims on the shootings on 5/4/70.

Jeff was on an adjacent campus, with little knowledge of the 4 students killed, except that 2-3 of them were simply walking to class…. Could he get shot? Was the National Guard on his campus?

The KSU student body were all traumatized (those present that weekend, and those returning as well) by the 4 students shot and killed , along with 9 others shot/wounded.

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Antagonist: Government officials (the Feds + State of Ohio + National Guard)

During this era, the President called all students “Bums”, the Governor ordered the guard to use live ammo….etc, etc.

4. What other characters might be necessary?

Supporting
characters: Chuck Ayers (real person) student photographer at the time
Minor
roles: Dan Ellsberg, responsible for the Pentagon Papers. <div>

Background
characters: Terry Norman, FBI undercover agent/photographer on campus

5. Pick your genre.

Historical Fiction, or, a type of drama with some action/drama, naturally.

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Role
in the story: Jeffrey Shelton, college student. Main character, tells the
story of Kent State shooting through the eyes of his cousin, Chuck Ayers. </div>

Age
range and Description: good looking, but unkept college male of the ‘70’s.
21. Fun loving, but genius as a physics major

Internal
Journey: goes from fear and insecurities of the world (“Nam era), to being
content, loving, at peace with life

External
Journey: goes from being an
anti-war musician,drop out to being a college professor

Motivation:
understand death, understand forgiveness
Wound:
his dad’s accidental death by fire

Mission/Agenda:
to help reveal the cover ups at Kent State, and help heal all those traumatized
by it.

Secret:
he never forgot that day, May 4^th, 1970, even though he was 200
miles away from the shootings

What
makes them special? He was very talented,
yet sensitive young man at age 21. He retained empathy for those who suffered at KSU,
along with the intention for the country to heal from JFK, RFK, and MLK
assasinations.

[Jane Turville]

Jane’s Character Profiles Part 1

By doing this assignment I discovered the story that I want to write. I kept coming back to Chelsea and seeing her in a different role than what my original concept had in store for her. It made me super excited to see what Chelsea’s journey is. It’s much darker than my original ideas but I think it will be much more fun to write and a MUCH MORE marketable concept.

Protagonist: Chelsea Walters is a victim/fighter. Quiet woman who would rather give in to what others want than rock the boat. When she allows herself to be drawn into a world of deceit and danger, she must become a fighter to survive.

Antagonist: Julie Wallace is a predator. Julie is the ultimate manipulator/survivor. When pushed to the wall, Julie finds the best way out is to set someone else up to take the blame and punishment for her sins.

Supporting characters: Julie’s finance Derek; Derek’s best friend Kevin; Johnny – the hit man focused on killing Julie; Michael – the M5 agent focused on keeping Julie alive to testify; Mr. & Mrs. Patterson, friend of Julie’s parents.

Minor Roles: Chelsea’s husband Marty; Julie’s parents; Linda and Susan – two bridesmaids; Mrs. Miller – Julie and Chelsea’s 5^th grade teacher.

Background Characters: People at a wedding; people on a cruise ship; cruise ship crew.

Genre: Romantic Thriller

Chelsea Walters:

Role in the story: Protagonist. She starts out as someone who is too timid to rock the boat and become the architect of her own life. She must grow from a victim, to a fighter and eventually to a hero in order to realize the life she has always wanted.

Age Range and Description: 25 – 30 years old; very beautiful but dowdy – Julie’s doppelganger.

Internal Journey: From too timid to rock the boat to captain of the boat.

External Journey: From quiet woman who would not hurt a fly to a force to be reckoned with.

Motivation: To be happy.

Wound: Growing up impoverished taught her to never want anything because she isn’t worthy. She will never be good enough.

Mission/Agenda: To discover a new life by reuniting with her childhood friend.

Secret: She loves Derek.

What makes Chelsea special? She is a keen observer. Once she is no longer timid, her ability to assess the situation and act is phenomenal.

Julie Wallace:

Role in the story: Antagonist. She is a manipulator on the run. When she runs out of those in her circle to manipulate, she turns to her past for new victims to save her own skin.

Age Range and Description: 25 – 30 years old; very beautiful with expensive, refined taste – Chelsea’s doppelganger.

Internal Journey: From totally in control to so out of control she can’t survive.

External Journey: From getting married to almost getting away with murder.

Motivation: Greed.

Wound: She knows she is only loved and admired for her beauty and what she has, not who she is.

Mission/Agenda: Fleece her parent’s new rich friends and get away from the people who make her run contraband.

Secret: She will be terrified of something that allows Chelsea the upper hand.

What makes Julie special? Julie is like the sun. People respond to her beauty and don’t realize the web that she’s pulling them into. People want to be associated with her, no matter what she does.

[Allen Burch]

Allen’s character profiles – Part 2

What I learned doing this assignment is…

Watching the characters in my head coming to life on the written page. The character blanks fill in as the story’s interactions come into view.

Concept:

James Allan, a driven businessman, whose last promise to his late wife becomes a challenge when he must find the elusive natural father of his son for a life-saving transplant.

Genre:

Drama

Protagonist:

James Allan

Role in the story:

Father of Douglas Allan

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Age
range and Description:

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Internal
Journey:

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External
Journey:

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Motivation:

To fulfill the vow he made to his late wife that he will “always love their son.

Wound:

After testing for tissue donation for his son, he finds that the child is not his biologically.

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Mission/Agenda:

Not only to fulfill the vow to his late wife, James desperately wants to find the natural father of the child he loves as his own.

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Secret:

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Antagonist:

Dana Kuta

Role in the story:

Remains elusive as the search for his possible tissue donation may save the son resulting from the rape of Tinal Allan when he was 19 years old.

Age
range and Description:

21 years old

Handsome, blond hair

Very light Black complexion

Tall, with solid, basketball player build

Internal
Journey:

A confused young man who can’t seem to find a fit in the world around him. “Am I Black?”, “Am I White?”, “Who am I?”, “What am i?”.

External
Journey:

Had spent his pre-college, young life traversing the possibilities available to him in two very different worlds..

Motivation:

Find himself and makeup for his mistakes.

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Wound:

Extreme remorse for his raping of an innocent person just to find his place in the world.

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Mission/Agenda:

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Secret:

Died at age 19.

Supporting characters:

Douglas Allan

· Role in the story:

Son of James and Tina Allan

· Age range and Description:

Slender, basketball physique

· Internal Journey:

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· Secret:

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· What makes them special?

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DiAnne Kuta

· Role in the story:

Fraternal sister of Dana Kuta

Aunt to Douglas Allan

· Age range and Description:

Early 40’s

Brown complexion

Attractive

· Internal Journey:

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· External Journey:

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· Motivation:

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· Wound:

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· Mission/Agenda:

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· Secret:

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· What makes them special?

Took name of her intended husband Oskar Kuta.

TiAnne (Chamberlin) Kuta

· Role in the story:

Mother of Dana and DiAnne Kuta

· Age range and Description:

Early 60’s

Brown complexion

Attractive

· Internal Journey:

Unable to forget the past.

· External Journey:

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· Motivation:

Escapes into her own world to forget the past (rape while in college, loss of her son)

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· Wound:

Loss of two of the loves in her life.

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· Secret:

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· What makes them special?

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Stephen Major

· Role in the story:

Best friend of James Allan

· Age range and Description:

Mid 40’s

Mid Black complexion

· Internal Journey:

Stick by his friend James in the most trying time in his life.

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· External Journey:

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· What makes them special?

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Debbie Porter

· Role in the story:

Love interest of Douglas Allan

· Age range and Description:

Teen

Deep Brown complexion

Attractive

· Internal Journey:

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· External Journey:

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· Motivation:

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· Wound:

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· Secret:

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· What makes them special?

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Malcolm Porter

· Role in the story:

Brother of Debbie Porter

· Age range and Description:

Teen

Deep Brown complexion

Attractive

Slender, basketball physique

· Internal Journey:

Show his sister that Douglas Allan isn’t good enough for her.

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· External Journey:

Do whatever he can to protect his little sister from any real or perceived danger.

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· Motivation:

Protector

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· Wound:

Never feels good enough, always fighting for whatever recognition he can attain.

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· Mission/Agenda:

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· Secret:

Envies the position Douglas has in the broader society.

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· What makes them special?

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Minor roles:

Tina Allan

· Role in the story:

Mother of Douglas Kuta

· Age range and Description:

20-25 years old

Caucasian complexion

Blonde hair

Attractive

· Internal Journey:

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· External Journey:

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· Motivation:

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· Wound:

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· Mission/Agenda:

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· Secret:

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· What makes them special?

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Oskar Kuta

· Role in the story:

Suitor of TiAnne Chamberlin (aka Kuta)

· Age range and Description:

19 years old

Medium Black complexion

Attractive

Above average height

Slender, but well built

· Internal Journey:

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· External Journey:

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· Motivation:

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· Wound:

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· Mission/Agenda:

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· What makes them special?

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Stu Martin (& two friends)

· Role in the story:

Romantic interest in TiAnne Chamberlin while in college

Extremely jealous of Oskar Kuta

· Age range and Description:

19-21 years old

Caucasian

Ruggedly attractive

Average in other traits

· Internal Journey:

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· External Journey:

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· Motivation:

To win TiAnne’s attention away from Oskar Kuta

Jealousy that leads to Oskar’s death

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· Wound:

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· Mission/Agenda:

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· Secret:

Father paid damages awarded to TiAnne Chamberlin after the “accident” that resulted from an altercation between Stu and Oskar Kuta that resulted in Oskar’s death.

· What makes them special?

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Firstname Lastname

· Role in the story:

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· Age range and Description:

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· Internal Journey:

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Background characters:

Medical Staff # 1

Medical Staff # 2

Classroom(s) characters in Douglas’ class

Multiple basketball arena crowd(s)

Airport and airline settings

[Fritz Fox]

Fredrich’s Character Profiles Part 1

“What I learned doing this assignment is that characters can be complex and multi-faceted.“

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Hero: Art” Performance Art” becomes Fritz’s passion. He begins to visualize new unique stage shows. “I won’t be a man that lives without a dream”.<div>

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Change Agent; Ray Mondini “You can make art when you interrupt its continuum. Ray’s profound deduction made sense

4. What other characters might be necessary?

Supporting characters: Breeno, lead guitar, Dave “Basher”drums, “Chaz” bass, “Johnny Ray Mono” rhythm guitar, “The Stereo Sisters” singing background Sailler and Sue and Fritz :lead singer.
Minor roles: Dirk Dirkson Nite club owner.
Background characters: Unruley young punk crowds<div>

5. Pick your genre.

Buddy Movie: “Band that plays together stays together”<div>

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Role in the story: Fritz lead singer in the Mutants is self-indulgent but talented.
Age range and </div>

Description: Fritz was at least ten years older than anyone he Hung out with.

Internal Journey: His age difference rolled through his mind a lot more than he wanted.

External Journey: Gifted with charisma and a youthful appearance, he said “I will never give up”. (A quote from 1276 from Nichiren Daishonen)

Motivation:To perform and find success and inspire others.

Wound: Fritz gets fired while in London auditioning for RAC music agency, that managed Jeff Beck and Led Zeppelin. Ian Curtis’ suicide cancels bands’ east coast tour opening Joy Division. Fan murders his father based on lyrics from Mutants’ song.

Mission/Agenda:
Secret:
What makes them special? Musical talent, ability to transform, open to other’s perspective

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[Rita Roberts]

Lesson 2: Who Are We Traveling With

Rita’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment:

Defining these qualities is a good way to see a fuller picture of each character in greater detail.

Logline: To impress a handsome contractor, Dawn pretends to own a painting company and assembles a colorful crew which puts her service in high demand… but not for home improvement projects.

Protagonist: DAWN

Role in the story: Dreamer. A woman secure in her authoritative role as a psychology professor thrust into a physical man’s world by a rare impulsive action.

Age range and Description: Female, Mid 40’s, intellectual, not used to physical exertion.

Internal Journey: From feeling in total control and above others to having compassion and allowing the “colorful” ways of others (and herself) to be appreciated.

External Journey: From a single, psychology professor pretending to be happy as an authority to having a whole coterie of unusual men in her life and no longer pretending.

Motivation: Getting a date with a handsome contractor.

Wound: Fear of not being wanted, left behind, having to earn love.

Mission/Agenda: To be accepted and loved.

Secret: She has no idea what she’s doing (for the first time in her life) and some denied psychic abilities.

What makes them special? Her determination and unconscious ability to read people, despite her book learning of how to assess/diagnose them.

Antagonist: ABERNATHY the CONTRACTOR

Role in the story: Change Agent. Building contractor who doesn’t see a lot of women in his work.

Age range and Description: Male, 40’s, clean cut, honest to a fault, down to earth, no-nonsense, good with his hands.

Internal Journey: To accept some esoteric, non-physical realities.

External Journey: From solitary, in charge boss to being vulnerable.

Motivation: To find a good woman.

Wound: Being a scrawny boy whose dad abandoned him.

Mission/Agenda: To be a good dad.

Secret: He writes poems.

What makes them special? His ability to put people at ease and make them laugh in tough situations.

4. OTHER CHARACTERS:

Zak – student of Dawn turns into her mentor and guide <div>

Supporting characters: A painting crew made up of Dreamer, Victim, Fighter, Runner, Self-appointed Authority
Minor roles: Painting Clients, Paint Store Clerk
Background characters: Construction Workers

5. GENRE: Rom-Com

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[Sherry Lloyd]

What I learned from this assignment is to break down your characters on a deeper level to help the audience understand and relate to those on the screen.

Role of the Protagonist:

Hero/Fighter – Garvin will save the Student from being killed. He
has military experience and retired as a General. Although all seems that
he retired on good standing, the truth is much different.

Role of the Antagonist:

Villain/Authority: New General (NG) will do anything to keep his “experiments”
for the government under wraps. He knows Garvin well and replaced him when
Garvin “retired” since NG set him up.

Other characters:

Main Supporting characters:

1) The Student who is kidnapped from the classroom after what he saw while driving by an army base.

2) 2 graduate students who have been through basic training. They know the military “lingo”.

Minor roles:

1) The NG’s soldiers

Background characters: Many extras

Genre: Drama/Action

Lead character:

Role in the story: Professor Garvin <div>

Age range and Description: mid 60’s, proper posture, tall, intimidating

Internal Journey: Trying to adjust to retirement without his wife. Has
PTSD and relives some times in war when a certain noise is heard. For
example, a car backfiring will trigger gunfire in his head. He feels like a
“fish out of water” when trying to defend his student.

External Journey: Garvin puts aside any doubts as a General while
the situation unfolds and saves the student and brings justice to the NG
since the truth has been exposed.

Motivation: To prove he still can complete a mission successfully

Wound: His PTSD

Mission/Agenda: To save the Student

Secret: TBD

What makes them special? His ability to take control of a dire
situation and remain calm

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[Alice Eden]

Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is what types of protagonists and antagonists there are, how they correlate with genre

Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Victim<div>

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Predator<div>

4. What other characters might be necessary?

Supporting characters: Michael Blomkvist, Albert
Schenke
Minor roles: Dragan Armansky, Holger Palmgren, Mary
Paul, Erica Berger, Figuerola
Background characters: policemen, secret agents, casino
guys, others

5. Pick your genre.

Thriller<div>

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Albert Schenke

Role in the story: Lisbeth’s new love and long term
partner </div>

Age range and Description: 56, stout blond

Internal Journey:
External Journey:

Motivation: He is amid background forces

Wound: He gave green light to remove Lisbeth

Mission/Agenda: Secret Agent in hide out

Secret: His Identity

What makes Him special? He is person- enigma, with no
previous life or attachments, which he sheds of as a coat away, and
dresses another, and with this he keeps human.

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Michael Blomkvist

Role in the story: Editor of Millennium magazine,
Lisbeth’s in and out lover
Age range and Description: 48, getting aged still good
looking tall and handsome </div>

Internal Journey:
External Journey:

Motivation: He want have his life with Figuerola. But
needs Elizabeth with him as well.

Wound: He played kind of evil genius for Lisbeth

Mission/Agenda: Exposure of political, financial, etc.
criminals

Secret: He didn’t go after trail when he wanted
Elizabeth out of jail

What makes them special? His approach to thing. Keen,
vision.

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Elizabeth Salander

Role in the story: in and out of surveillance, she ends
in military bunker, but escapes </div>

Age range and Description: 29-42, slim and a-changing, hacker

Internal Journey:
External Journey:

Motivation:

Wound: She brings evil doom to those she comes into
relationship
Mission/Agenda:
Secret: Her tattoos, reason behind. Money source. What
she saw at Martin Vanger’s basement.

What makes them special? She’s different.

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[Diane Denham]

LESSON 2 ASSIGNMENT – Who Are We Traveling With? 1-29-23

Dreamer Protagonist: MYKA, 30’s, is an artist, precognitive lucid dreamer, inner/other world explorer who is passionate about her art.

Villain Antagonists: An expression of MYKA’s fears and nightmares, challenges her in a fight over wisdom, memory and dream that are slowly disappearing from human consciousness.

Supporting Characters: Sidekicks, former college classmates and synesthete friends, RAFI, GABE and YURI, who participated in lucid dream research in the multiverse for her Master’s thesis, which is ridiculed and rejected by the Master’s Thesis Committee. Now she needs her friends’ help again, bigtime.

Genre: Sci-Fi/Comedy

What I learned doing this assignment is that if I set a timer, it keeps me on track and helps me focus.

[Jenifer Stockdale]

Jen’s character profiles – part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is about the different types of protagonists and antagonists. It really helps to define them this way to narrow down how they are going to act in a certain situation. In something else I was writing recently we assigned characters the “flight, flight, or freeze” reaction which was cool, but only focused on one aspect of the personality. This expands it greatly.

Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Runner – Jaleo is
a runner, always trying to get away from something, whether it his own actions,
his past, his upbringing, the truth, whatever…he is trying to get away
from it. In a generation that has no accountability for their actions,
Jaleo cannot own up to what he did – outwardly anyway – everything that
happened was someone else’s fault, it was because of how he was raised,
where he grew up, what others did to him – but deep down inside I’m
betting (oh goodness, I’m already thinking about him like he’s a real
person…) that he really does blame himself – for EVERYTHING – and if he
was to admit it, he probably couldn’t even live with himself…

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Villain – a group
of boys who are also at the training facility for community service but it
is part of their honor society – not through the court. They are in everyone’s
eyes the good boys, the ones who do everything right, but behind closed
doors they are even worse than the boys in the ‘hood. They find out why
Jaleo is there and torture him, telling him they are going to tell
everyone. There is one “leader” and the others who go along with him, but
they even reach a point where they think he’s gone too far…

4. What other characters might be necessary?

Supporting
characters: the family – probably just mom and her daughter who is in a
wheelchair, employee at the center who is Jaleo’s supervisor, love
interest (?) for Jaleo – or do we just keep it “love” of family, self,
etc. and leave romance out of it? (maybe he does try and the boys ruin it
for him but he needs to learn to love himself first anyway)
Minor roles:
Jaleo’s gang, other people getting dogs, Jaleo’s DYS people (he lives in a
host home), host family, boys at center
Background
characters: employees, people getting dogs, other volunteers

5. Pick your genre.

Drama – dog movie

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Role in the story:
Protag, student, volunteer at READS dog training facility

Age range and
Description: 16/17, BIPOC (half black, half Hispanic)

Internal Journey:
self-love, accountability, caring for others

External
Journey: volunteers just to look good for judge but then meets a dog who
is just like him – they form a bond, when a little girl in a wheelchair
comes for her training, he finds out she was the victim of the drive-by
shooting in which he was driving

Motivation: he
wants to fit in
Wound: in foster
care his whole life, experienced abuse in foster homes

Mission/Agenda:
to look good for the judge

Secret: really
hates himself, not everyone else as he tries to portray

What makes them
special? Deep down he really has a big heart that he has been hiding

[Susan Rose]

Susan’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment: I am learning not to get hung up on the little details, just jot down the first thing that I envision and keep moving forward… I love this part of the process, it’s so liberating!

Genre: Rom-Com

Protagonist role in the story: Fighter/Dreamer. Shelby, late 20’s, much loved teacher, who is a thrill seeker due to a near death experience when she was six years old. While insecure with her camping abilities and pending feelings of doom, she is determined to overcome her negativity and embrace her fiancee’s favorite past time, or possibly lose him forever.

· Internal Journey: From insecure, paranoid mania to confident camping warrior.

· External Journey: Overcoming years of PTSD, negativity, and selfishness to discovering the joy of freedom, nature, and camaraderie.

· Motivation: To become the camping partner her fiancée desires and repair their broken relationship

· Wound: Her near-death experience while on a camping trip when she was six years old

· Mission/Agenda: To break the camping curse and overcome her aversion to the activity

· Secret: She is a camping jinx, every trip having ended in disaster

· What makes them special: Her fear of “the camping curse” has allowed her to overcompensate tempting fate

Antagonist role in the story: Change agent: Liam, late 20’s, congenial construction worker, satisfied with his lot in life but sometimes feels unworthy of his finance; fears that if he keeps pushing Shelby to accept his lifelong adventurous past time, he may lose his her forever.

· Internal Journey: From carefree bachelor man-child to loving committed partner

· External Journey: Realizes he must put his childhood fancies and relationships on the back burner and become a responsible adult if he hopes to achieve the life he desires

· Motivation: To win back his longtime fiancée

· Wound: Camping was the one and only thing he shared with his deceased father

· Mission/Agenda: To share his love of camping with Shelby and why it is such a passion for him

· Secret: After years of avoidance, he wants to finally set a wedding date

· What makes them special: He is patient and kind to Shelby’s feelings of shortcomings, and is always the optimist

Supporting characters:

1. Abbey, best friend to Shelby, supports her friend’s insecurities and talks her through her panic episodes, usually with a glass of wine in hand.

2. Sam, best friend to Liam, not always an advocate for Shelby. He grew up with Liam and occasionally resents sharing time with the fiancée.

[Janis Pryor]

I don’t know what class I attended last night, but I went ahead and wrote the first five pages and discovered my final draft software has gotten “sick”. So I am ordering a newer version this evening. What I did do was write the first five pages of the script.

[Roxanne Avery]

Roxanne’s Character Profile Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is the strength in the depth of character. The deeper and more layered my characters are, the better my script.

My Protagonist is Robert (Robby) Grady Johnson, a victim of childhood abuse at the hands of his stepfather and his mother who was also abused and afraid to step in. He was a victim of abuse by society, which in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, did not accept homosexuality. He further became a victim at the hands of his lover Jay Wesley Neill.

Age Range and Description: Male, 21 years old, blonde hair blue eyes who looks like a model and is impeccably groomed.

Internal Journey: From an abused, naive 21-year-old to a mature adult who understands reality.

External Journey: From a care-free party-boy to a man with the mental strength to survive the cruel world of prison.

Motivation (Want/Need): His “want” is to either “fix” Jay and have a healthy relationship or to get away from him. His “need” is overcome the cycle of abuse.

Wound: His childhood trauma of being abused and his inability to stop his step-father from abusing his mother.

Mission/Agenda: To live a life of love, free from abuse.

Secret: His failure to save his mother from abuse.

What makes Robby special? His heart. He studied ministry in college and really just wanted to help people.

My antagonist is Jay Wesley Neill, a villain and a predator. In an effort to control their relationship, Jay mentally and physically continuously beat up his lover Robby Johnson. His manipulative, narcissistic personality led him to become a serial killer.

Age Range and Description: Male, 19 years old, blonde hair blue eyes who looked almost identical to Robby.

Internal Journey: From a toxic, controlling, manipulative narcissist with low self-esteem to acceptance of a life on death row with no control over anything.

External Journey: From a flamboyant, unstable and violent sociopath to an apologetic, “born-again” Christian accepting his ultimate fate.

Motivation (Want/Need): His “want” is money and to be admired. His “need” is to control everything in his life, especially Robby.

Wound: His childhood trauma of being abused by his stepfather and un-acceptance by society for his sexual preference.

Mission/Agenda: To rob a bank in order to have the money he believes he needs to keep Robby in the relationship.

Secret: Behind his mask of extreme confidence, Jay is unsure of his self-worth and is easily upset by criticism.

What makes Jay special? Initially charming, witty and sociable, Jay’s mental illness quickly reverts into that of a cold, calculated sociopath.

Supporting Characters:

Special FBI Agent Granville Long

Marilyn Roach – Victim

Dick Tannery – First Comanche County DA

Robert Schulte – Second Comanche County DA

Judge Allen McCall

Judge Jack Brock

Debbie Ward – Neighbor

Jim Pearson – Jay’s Lawyer

Mark Hendrickson – Robby’s Lawyer

Minor Characters:

Dr. Richard Boatsman, Medical Examiner

Calvin and Janie Bowles – Parents of Jeri Bowles

Kirk Mullenix – Husband to Joyce Mullenix

Tommy Dale – Geronimo Town Marshal

Bellen & Ruben Robles – Victims

Tony Burns – Grady County DA

Denise Donahue – Travel Agent

J.J. McDonagh – Limo Driver

Marie Cork – Teller

Roy Foreman – Special FBI Agent

Debbie & Hector Hernandez – Apartment Neighbors

Dave Knowlton – San Francisco FBI Agent

Neil Hunt – FBI Agent

Robert Gast – Special Agent FBI in charge of San Francisco

Daniel Murphy – Veteran NYC Homicide Detective

Dewayne Dewalt – Robby’s Stepfather

Homeowner

Real Estate Instructor

Colleen Trickey – Neighbor

Melanie Thiesen – Pacesetter Products Office Manager

Jeri Bowles – Victim/Teller

Kay Bruno – Victim/BankManager

Cynthia Cantu – Jay’s Mother

Richard Cantu – Jay’s stepfather

Church Member

Cameron University Classmate #1 and #2

El Chico Restaurant Manager

Jon Ella Long – Granny’s Wife

Jury Foreman

Host – 700 Club

Receptionist at DA’s office

Wes Roberts, Death Penalty Protestor

Newscaster

Extras:

Media

Drag Queen

Hotel Desk Clerk

Law Enforcement Members

FBI Agents

FBI Agent aka Realtor

Tom Harris – Jay’s High School Friend

Bartender

Dorm Residents

Genre: Drama

[Janis Pryor]

Janis A. Pryor, Character Profiles, Part 1

What I learned: It’s sometimes necessary to slow down to go fast later.

Protagonist/Lead Character: JP – tiny, middle-age, looks younger than her age of forty, self-contained, private, comes from a complicated family with the blood of three races. If you know nothing else, about her, you know she comes from money and is highly intelligent.

…her internal journey: keep finding ways to manage and disguise this “gift” of being a caul bearer and clairvoyant. She’s been this way since birth. As a result, she keeps mostly to herself although she has many friends. She tells no one outside of her family of the full extent of her powers.

…her external journey: to welcome and fully acknowledge her gift, to become more relaxed with her total identity, be grateful that it allows her to stay connected to Tony after he dies.

…her wound: a lifetime of hurt from family and friends. She doesn’t trust easily and keeps everyone at arms’ length.

What makes her special? She’s a multi-talented woman with a distinct sense of style; a class act who’s an expert at deflecting answers to questions she doesn’t want to answer and keeping people away from her. She’s a walking contradiction.

Antagonist: Tony – tall, highly intelligent, good looking man in his forties, overwhelmed by his feelings for this tiny woman he’s been watching for twenty years. He too comes from money.

…his internal journey: overcome his fear of speaking to her. She is unlike any woman he’s ever known, much less attracted to.

…his external journey: to let her know how he feels about her and act on his feelings/belief that she could be the love of his life.

…his wound: has never believed he would find anyone to really love him, that he’s unworthy of love.

What makes him special? His kindness. He’s a gentle, passionate, proud, brilliant ma whose does classified work. He’s accustomed to keeping secrets and protecting those he loves.

Type of protagonist: Hero – overcomes her resistance to her psychic abilities.

Type of antagonist: Change agent – because of him, she must embrace her psychic abilities to stay connected to him.

Their motivation: To find a way to love each other, in this life and the next. They’ve wasted too much time playing it safe.

Supporting Characters:

Her best friend: They went to the same prep school, live around the corner from each other as adults. She’s a died in the wool New Yorker, professor at NYU Med School.

His sister: feels that she owns her brother, jealous/suspicious of any other woman in his life. No one’s quite good enough for him.

Adoring couple who worry about JP. They think she needs to be in a relationship and make every effort to play match maker.

NH Friend, offers refuge after Tony’s death.

Two American Cocker Spaniels, they are JP’s real family!

Genre: Love story, drama

Their Mission/Agenda: to love each other in this life and the next.

[Sean Barrett]

Sean’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment:

I can see the story forming as I fill in the choices, the roles, the quick statements and decisions. I can also see my protagonist and antagonist a little better. I’m starting to know who they are going to be and how awesome this process is in helping me get there.

Type of role my protagonist is: Hero

After a dramatic transformation, the dreamer Seven Thomas will become convinced he is the only one that can find the Rain Killer and when he sets out to do so, it will set off a chain of events that will having him needing to catch and kill the Rain Killer as well.

The role my antagonist will play is: Predator

The Rain Killer started by looking for victims every three months and now he is hunting his next victim on a daily basis. To say he is elusive is an understatement. The FBI and every other form of law enforcement is way too far behind and not even close to building an accurate profile. The Rain Killer is an evil like no other 10 years after his first victim was found.

Supporting characters, minor roles and background characters will all be necessary for this story.

Genre: Horror/Thriller

Seven Thomas’s role in this story is to reflect the audiences desire to have the Rain Killer stopped by any means necessary and at any cost as well as revealing who the Rain Killer is and why he is doing what he is doing, along with why law enforcement will never be able to identify him. Seven personifies the helplessness of the country, the victims and the law before transforming into the hero and showing us the Rain Killer is just a man after all.

Seven starts out in his late teens and ends the story in his early thirties.

Internal Journey – from hopeless dreamer, young, naïve to apex hunter and killer, cunning and brutal

External Journey – from aspiring writer to the one who tracks and kills the Rain Killer.

Seven’s motivation is becoming the person who can identify and catch the Rain Killer.

The wound is a second girlfriend saying he will never leave his parent’s house or truly fulfill his dreams.

Seven wants to prove his girlfriends wrong and do something no one else can do, especially a dreamer, loser and future failure like him.

Seven’s secret is the force or spirit helping him to become the only person who can identify, track, find, and stop/kill the Rain Killer.

The true scope of the transformation Seven will go through and his willingness to surrender to unknown forces helping him along the way.

[L.D.Janakos]

L.D.s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment was how to initially brainstorm on character before writing a screenplay.

2. DAX. Role of Protagonist: A runner, he’s a closet agoraphobic who is running from romantic relationships and his social anxiety. We follow his journey as he finds himself in unwanted social situations and with the wrong women until he finds the right woman and faces his agoraphobia.

3. ANGELA. Role, antagonist. An agent of change, she’s a kooky and attractive public speaker on animal trauma. An agent of change, she pursues Dax first because she becomes interested in him and his unwanted emotional support dog and then because she is romantically interested in Dax. Initially, rejected by Dax, she slowly proves to him and herself that she is the right woman for him and the dog is the right dog for him.

4 SUPPORTING CHARACTERS

o Sister (lives next door)

o Brother in law (lives next door)

o Nephew lives next door

o Niece lives next door

o Fellow Podcaster (major competition—he’s attracted to the antagonist)

o Angele’s Male friend

o Dax’s Female friend

· MINOR OR BACKGROUND CHARACTERS

o Pet store owner

o Others who work at the radio station or are podcasters.

o Women Dax dates

Men Angela dates

5. GENRE: ROM-COM

6. LEAD CHARACTER PROFILE

DAX- ROLE – Protagonist/Runner

· Closet agoraphobic.

· Age: early 30s.

· Very popular podcaster and radio host

· Super confident alone, when at work, on the air and with trusted friends

· A wreck in social situations

· When agoraphobic, freezes and sweats in crowds and with strangers

· When agoraphobic, loses his speech

· Keeps choosing wrong women

· When he gives up on committed love relationships, he tries to replace them with emotional support animals and more hours at work.

· Keeps buying and returning the wrong animals. Those animals he can’t return, he gives away to trusted homes. Keeps taking on more work. Can’t stop working. Other responsibilities get put on hold. Sleeps less.

· When invited to social situations, excuse is always have to work.

INTERNAL JOURNEY: Goes from giving up on romance to finding true love.

EXTERNAL JOURNEY: Thinks Angela is just another wrong woman to finding her to be the right woman.

MOTIVATION: Avoiding the friction and stress that come with the disappointment of being with the wrong women and in unwanted social situations.

WOUND: From childhood

MISSION: Attempts to give up on romance by replacing it with an emotional support animal and more work. Maintains casual romantic relationships.

SECRET: lies to sister and brother in law about social life.

WHAT MAKES HIM SPECIAL: Closet agoraphobic – both extremely confident or extremely insecure depending on the social situation.

LD’s Character Profiles Part 1

6. LEAD CHARACTER PROFILE

ANGELA, CHANGE AGENT

Passionate public speaker on animal trauma and rights.

Sensitive, forthright, outspoken, artistic, eccentric, kind to animals. Flaws: judgmental and overly suspicious

· Age: early 30s.

INTERNAL JOURNEY: starts out satisfied with casual relationships to finding great love

EXTERNAL JOURNEY: starts out suspicious of Dax to friends with Dax to being in a committed relationship of great love with him.

MOTIVATION:

WOUND: From childhood

MISSION: to establish an honest relationship

SECRET: family member, friend or neighbor abused animals

WHAT MAKES HER SPECIAL: She understands human trauma through understanding of animal trauma.

[Connie Whitmer]

30 Day Script ASSIGNMENT – 2

Connie Whitmer- Character Profiles Part 1

I learned that there needs to be one main Antagonist and as well developed as the Hero.

ROLES:

Protagonist –

Brian, youngest of 12 sons of Cennetig, King of Clan Dal Cais

Hero – from 10 years old on, Brian finds a way to defend the defenseless, against bullies and

savagery

Dreamer – Want – to find a way to go back to the way it was before the Danes attacked.

Fighter – Need – vows to drive the murderers and enslaves of his people, back into the sea and

drown them in their own blood.

Antagonist 1.

Malachy, son of High King, and heir to 600 years of unchallenged Kingship

Villain – Brian’s greatest challenge, from childhood on, at every turn

Change Agent – His treachery, and betrayal is responsible for Brian assuming greater.

responsibility for keeping Ireland and her people safe from savagery.

Authority – He is heir to High Kingship, never to be challenged, entitled from inheritance.

Brian is to submit to him, in every possible way.

Predator – He conspires and colludes, lies, cheats, steals, tricks, against Brian, as his jealousy

and envy increase with the peoples love for Brian, insignificant orphan.

Antagonist 2.

Danish Vikings – Olaf, Ivar, Gofraid, descendants of Ragnar and Ivar the Boneless –

ravaging Ireland

Villains – Cruelty results in Brian’s traumatic wound, being helpless to save the ones he loves.

Change Agents – result in his entire life spent defeating them, driving them from Ireland.

Predators – They spend their lives trying to enslave his people, kill him and destroy Ireland.

Antagonist 3.

Gormlaith – daughter and Princess of King of Leinster, most powerful Irish King.

Villain – Will challenge Brian Internal journey, as enemy, wife, mother of his son, Instigator of the great final battle for Ireland – and the last one standing.

Supporting Characters:

Finn – son of the pig-keeper, becomes Brian’s lifelong buddy, guardian, conscience.

Leira – Brian’s first love, wife, mother of 5 children, dies young, he looks for her in the end.

Maelsuthain – Brian’s Mentor, teacher, priest, there when he is a child, and crowns him Ard Ri

Mahon – Brian’s only surviving brother becomes king of Clan upon Cennetig’s death.

Murchuada – Gormlaith’s father, King of Leinster, her tormentor, shame, fear she will become.

like him

ROLE IN STORY:

Brian: Hero, at first a child like any other, except youngest of 12 sons, never expected or wanted to be king of anything. Suddenly thrust into a savage world, alone, an insignificant orphan, except he is different than all the rest. He alone will stand up against the Danes, the colluding Irish Kings, and traitorous High King

Age range and Description: As the story begins, Brian is 10 when the Danes attack. . Surviving the meat grinder of 11 older brothers – he is well suited to “run the gauntlet of slaughter!” Fearless, competitive, strong, smart, experienced in survival, as a boy, red hair, as a youth, taller, stronger, yet compassionate for anything bullied. And ready to fight all bullies, or berserkers, messy, unlikely King material. Just wants to go fishing.

Internal Journey: From feeling, powerless, lost, alone, shamed he could not protect a little girl, bullied, no vision for future – to loss of innocence, surviving, witnessing evil, vowing to end it, making a friend, finding a way to escape a tower, Danes, and a destroyed life – to having a dream of fixing it all, hope for the future, his first whisker, and a plan – starting with finding the little girl from the burning tower.

External Journey: From insignificant orphan to rescuer of captives and avenger of his family’s deaths – word spreads of the Drakkar-slayer. The boy who killed the Butcher of Killaloe.

Motivation: Want – to drive the Danes from Ireland, restore peace and freedom. Need – restore the love, belonging, family, home that is missing in his life.

Wound: Brian’s wound is being powerless to stop the savage rape of a little girl, he promised to keep safe. He vows he will never be made powerless again.

Mission/Agenda: Brian’s mission is to avenge the murders of his family and people, Destroy all enemies of Ireland. Agenda – Intrigue is the traitor Irish Kings and High King, colluding with the Danes. Brian realizes he must ride Ireland of all her enemies.

Secret: Intrigue – always, traitor Irish, Provincial Kings and High King, colluding with Danes, for security and greed, who betray the common people.

What makes them special? Brian accomplishes what no other ever has – a united Ireland, in freedom and peace for 12 years. He refuses to stand by, to surrender for peace or gold, he is a Christian King, unlike all the others, in name only who slaughter their enemies – Brian keeps letting his go. Sadly, and ironically they will get him in the end.

Antagonist – Malachy –

Role – Heir to the Throne of High King, had it all, given to him, 600-year precedent.

Description – a couple of years younger than Brian, smaller, dark hair and eyes, rich, arrogant, envious of Brian, made insecure by his father, that Brain is more loved.

Internal Journey – snotty little rich kid, entitled, to more and more envious of Brian, has not the courage to be loyal.

External Journey – from heir to High King, to High King, losing it to Brian, then, lying, cheating, stealing, betraying him in the end to get it back.

Motivation – betraying Brian at every step from childhood on, his father’s apt pupil. His weakness, jealously of everything Brian, wins, has, accomplished.

Wound – His father, Leira, his men, the people, all love and admire him more. His father the High King, keeps goading him, that Brian will surpass him, and he will be the one to lose the High Kingship after 600 years.

Mission – to become the greatest High King – Agenda – to lie, steal, and cheat, against Brian, destroying him in every possible way as a competitor.

What makes him special: He had it all . . . but courage enough to be grateful, Honor enough to be loyal, love enough to be loved. His capacity to betray a friend, ally, all his life.

[Margaret Gendreau]

Subject line: Margaret’s Character Profiles Part 1 I learned that the clearer I am now the more specific I’ll be in my script

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

• Hero

• Explorer

• Runner

• Fighter

• Victim – Lake feels like a victim of life and circumstances and there’s plenty of evidence to support that claim. She’s lost her husband and her house and her career as a result of the Tubbs Fire but if she doesn’t learn to reframe her thinking she’ll never be master of her own life.

• Dreamer

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

• Villain – The villain of this story is the critical voice inside Lake’s head as actualized by her dead husband’s visits, her hoarder mom and even the gps on her phone she’s named “Jezebel”. In order to have the life she wants Lake will need to slay the critical voice in her head as much as any antagonist in a hero movie.

• Change Agent

• Authority –

• Predator

4. What other characters might be necessary?

• Supporting characters: Jezebel – voice of GPS, Aziz liquor store owner, Mom, Mitch – love interest, Dave – dead husband, old neighbor, under twenty-one, contractor, Jen – friend, Mae – Chinese restaurant owner, creepy man, Lonnie – art dealer

• Minor roles: various restaurant owners and delivery customers, escrow agent, real estate agent

• Background characters: drivers, pedestrians, art gallery patrons

5. Pick your genre.

• Rom-Com or Buddy Movie

• Thriller

• Horror

• Action

• Drama – Gig Economy is a half-hour Dramedy with six episodes that contain Lake’s complete transformational Journey. Comps include Fleabag, Dead to Me and I May Destroy You

• Sci-Fi

• Comedy

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

• Role in the story: protagonist

• Age range and Description: mid 30s, a failed corporate type

• Internal Journey: through the 5 stages of grief from denial to acceptance and recovery

• External Journey: Homeless and struggling to finding her place in the world

• Motivation: to live life on her terms

• Wound: fears she is unlovable

• Mission/Agenda: to find a way to make a living that doesn’t require her to work for someone else

• Secret: feels responsible for Dave’s death

• What makes them special? Her ability to continue in the face of fear and heartbreak.

[PJ Doremus]

PJ’s character profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is that no matter how busy life becomes, if I empower myself and crank out the assignments without worry, this script will someday be finished.

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Victim: Sarah is emotionally imprisoned in her marriage and is mentally and emotionally abused on a regular basis, a behavior she allows out of fear. When the man who raped her breaks out of prison and kills her family, she has one option: Navigate Purgatory to reverse the murders and have another shot at life, or remain trapped with the two men who abuse her.

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role/

Villain: Lucifer is the commentator of the Purgatory Game. He gives cryptic clues and makes Sarah’s task nearly impossible.

4. What other characters might be necessary?

Supporting characters:

A man in Sarah’s life whom she sees in that 3 hour period, either a love interest or a man she is forbidden to see I.e. brother or therapist are ideas.

Sarah’s son and daughter.

Minor roles: Police detective who warns her about the escaped convict.

Background characters: Street thug, receptionist, others she will interact with on her 3 hour journey still needs development.

5. Pick your genre. HORROR.

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Sarah: Protagonist

Age range and Description: 40’s Attractive, well mannered and well groomed. Sarah is humble and genuinely nice who reacts with sarcasm when agitated.

Internal Journey: To free herself of her fear of being alone and leave her abusive husband.

External Journey: To navigate Purgatory and figure out what she did wrong in that 3 hours before she dies a fourth and final time.

Motivation: Her kids are dead and she blames herself.

Wound: She was raped as a young adult.

Mission/Agenda: To navigate Purgatory and get away from her abusive husband.

Secret: She’s in love with another man? Her son is not her husbands child?

What makes them special? Her motherly instincts border on surreal. She never gives up.

Lucifer: Antagonist

Age range and description: Lucifer is forever 40 something. He’s quirky and speaks in cryptic riddles. He has magical powers, after all, Purgatory is his creation. He is God here. He can turn an ordinary house cat into a ruthless killer.

Internal Journey: To finally meet a human who can withstand his torment.

External Journey: To get out of Purgatory, although he knows it will never happen.

Motivation: Entertainment to pass the time.

Wound: He was banished to Purgatory and exiled from Hell.

Mission/Agenda: To create impossible tasks for his victims so they make it to Hell/to have fun fulfilling his duties.

Secret: He helped Sarah’s rapist escape from prison.

What makes them special. Lucifer has a personality everyone is enthralled by. You hate him, but you can’t hate him.

[James Hernandez]

Day 2 Who Are We Traveling With

James’ Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is by starting with the fill in the blanks approach leads me to further character development and story extrapolation which rounds out the details of the script. It is a targeted brainstorm session that lets me see potential scenes, situations and dialogue.

The protagonist is Jessica Blue, the hero of the story, who is on the journey of change where she follows her ambitions even though at first she is hindered by the lack of decisive action. She’s the love interest of the story’s change agent.

The love interest or story antagonist is Rufus Winter who serves as the change agent as he helps Jessica adjust with new circumstances in her life (business and social); some being of which totally new experiences.

The supporting characters include Jessica’s best friend, her tyrant boss, all of her customers and new people she meets along her journey.

The minor roles would include Rufus’ business associates, his personal staff and all the people he meets on his dealings.

Romantic comedy is the genre for this story.

Jessica Blue:

· Role in the story: she’s the protagonist who will go on the transformational journey.

· Age range and Description: she’s in her late 20s. She’s very sharp in many ways and does not know it yet, but could be ultra-attractive if she wanted to.

· Internal Journey: from having a subservient mindset to being her own boss.

· External Journey: from being trapped in dead-end worker roles to owning her own business

· Motivation:

· Wound: she never knew her mother as she passed when Jessica was very young; she feels she missed out on female sensibility in her life.

· Mission/Agenda: she wants to open a boutique.

· Secret:

· What makes them special? She’s a very quick learner and mentally sharp.

Rufus Winter:

· Role in the story: he’s the love interest who will serve as the change agent even though he’ll have a transformation of his own.

· Age range and Description: he’s in his early 40s. A high-class man with expensive tastes and expects more so in a potential partner in life.

· Internal Journey: from high-class thinking to free-spirit, more accepting of those “beneath” him.

· External Journey: from executive of a single firm to entrepreneur of diverse companies.

· Motivation: making more money the better

· Wound: has not had a relationship since his college days. Perhaps had his heart broken.

· Mission/Agenda:

· Secret:

· What makes them special? He’s a wealthy businessman, but deep down he’s a caring man.

[Risa Friskey]

What I learned:

That it’s easy, especially in horror, to fall into typical characters. The macho guy who dies right away, the damsel in distress, the hapless hero. I need to stretch these characters more…I will be doing extensive interviews!!!

Protagonist: Nick- Runner 28 yrs old. He runs from an empty past. fills his life with weird objects and adventure. He’s an orphan who was raised by his grandmother who had dementia. What makes him special: He’s truly an empty vessel…ready to be filled with the right stuff.

Antagonist: Koschei – Predator ancient. An eternal demon relegated to the underworld. He preys upon souls, especially those of women. He can manifest in other thin, gaunt men acting as a father figure. What makes him special: His never ending hunger for domination over everything. His deviousness.

Love Interest: Naya- Ben’s fiancee. Bored beauty queen discovering that the life she wanted isn’t the life she needs. She has diminished her own value and intelligence in exchange for stability and money. What makes her special: She’s more than a pretty face.

Supporting Character: Ben. Douche bag leader of the adventurers who seeks to manipulate and bully the group into risky activities. He hovers over Naya. Believes he’s on a higher plane and destined for greatness. What makes him special: His perspective on the world…get the best of it before it gets the best of you.

Genre: Horror

[Chris Dorsey]

Chris Dorsey’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is that I am okay not having all the answers now.

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Antagonist Role: Predator. A psychopath serving several life sentences for murder and other heinous crimes. The alpha male of the prison who uses violence and intimidation to control others. No empathy with Antisocial/Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Other Characters —

Supporting characters: The protagonist’s cellmate/sidekick. Core group of other inmates both friend and foe. Warden, Deputy Warden, Main Prison Guards, Psychiatrist, Main Prison Counselor/Confidant.

Minor roles: Other inmates, prison guards, and other prison staff including mental health professionals. External helpers (e.g. attorneys), possibly.

Background characters: Same as minor roles.

Genre: Comedy.

Lead Character Profiles —

Role in the story: Protagonist.

Age range and Description: Late 30’s. Tall, slightly overweight from years of light activity. Mentally-ill (i.e. hears voices and sees things) but minimizes them. Funny and self-depricating. An empathetic man who wants to help others.

Internal Journey: From avoidant/passive to active participant. From naive to seasoned inmate.

External Journey: Fearful inmate/victim to respected inmate who brings down the prison bully and the system.

Motivation: Prove his innocence after being convicted of a murder he didn’t commit.

Wound: Parents died and he was placed in foster care.

Mission/Agenda: Changing the prison mental health treatment for the better. Prove his innocence and win his freedom.

Secret: Auditory/visual hallucinations. Substance-induced Psychotic Disorder (mistakenly licks a stamp with LSD on it).

What makes them special? His ability to empathize and help his fellow inmates; a positive, upbeat attitude despite his circumstances. His voices have the potential to provide him with insight into others.

Role in the story: Antagonist.

Age range and Description: Early 30’s. Wiry and muscular from years of intense exercise. King of the inmates/building bully.

Internal Journey: Mean-spirited, sadistic, psychopath to an inmate who is just a “little bit” nicer at the end of his journey. Starts to develop a little empathy for others.

External Journey: Leader of the cellblock to defeated predator.

Motivation: He enjoys/laughs at other people’s woes and misery.

Wound: Chaotic childhood/abusive childhood without love and intimacy.

Mission/Agenda: Continue to use and abuse the other inmates in the mental health unit.

Secret: Is a predator because he was once the prey.

What makes them special? He has a creative way to make others miserable/dominated and a sick/dark sense of humor. High intelligence used for misdeeds.

[Mary Andrews]

Mary J. Andrews’ CHARACTER PROFILE PART 1 (1/31/2023)

What I learned doing this assignment is how much of my story I will have to cut off for a Pilot

Bat In The Moon Pilot (Science Fiction Pilot)

LOG LINE: The last vampire on Earth is coerced to build the first base on the Moon, after which, he is expected to command the first Mothership to Mars to prepare for colonization to save the very people who destroyed his kind.

CONCEPT: Can survival really trump revenge?

1. I listened to the 3-minute Empowerment Audio FIRST. https://30dayscript.s3.amazonaws.com/Empowerment+Audio.m4a

2. Runner type of PROTAGONIST role:

ERIC BARROWS

–MALE (EARLY 30s)

–after three thousand years as a Vampire, Eric can find no lasting peace or joy or relationships that matter. Anything he does or does not do doesn’t matter.

–his first response is to withdraw when overwhelmed

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

ANTAGONIST: CHANGE AGENTS TYPE

The Oracle Triad

–3 Roma triplets

— MALES (mid-teens)

–infallible clairvoyants from birth are now teenage triplets

–they design and enact a plan to evacuate Earth’s inhabitants to colonize Mars before the planet is destroyed by an asteroid in 53 years.

–they initiate The Psi Movement to protect and legitimatize psionic members of society

–they guide the Vampire hunters to kill Earth’s vampire population

–they instigate Eric’s role on the Moon and set up every step of his destiny to save both mankind in the present time/dimension

–as well as a future Earth in another dimension (which the Triad will rule over).

4. Supporting characters:

JOSEPH RIGGS Male (mid 20s)

–mid-twenties

–not one of the vampire groupies

–is terrorized by Eric

— is Engineer at Dome One on the Moon.

–meant to evaluate and upgrade things as needed.

–Eric chooses him as personal liaison to the Dome colonist.

–becomes Eric’s Right hand vampire aboard his ships

–watches out for Eric

–is level headed and a good advisor.

MARTA HAVEN

–female (Psychiatrist)
–head of their mental health department at Dome One
–Amber and Lila’s mother

— an attractive blonde
–clear blue eyes
–does not trust Eric, fears him
–Oracles told her she would need to help Eric

LILA HAVEN
–Female (16)
–junior spokesperson for the Initiative Vampirica fan site
–attractive but obnoxious young girl with golden locks and a purple stripe in her hair.
–student specialist in computers/programming at the Dome
–Claims to be Eric’s number one fan and is infatuated with him
–oldest daughter of Marta Haven

AMBER HAVEN
–FEMALE (8)
–Lila’s little sister
–Girl child… a good sturdy eight-year-old with long dishwater blond braids
–her innocence and positivity is so pure, she evoked a type of humility in Eric
— she is Marta’s youngest daughter
–her sister picks on her and dismisses her continually
–she is fascinated with vampires and totally trusting of him

JAMIE RONDELL (TEKE)
–MALE (19)
— is an emergency trained medic/medical officer at the Dome
–tall redheaded, green-eyed young man .
— mistaken for a night-shift communications officer by Eric when he stood in for a friend working 2 shifts and was caught napping at 4:30 am
— Joseph recommends him to Eric for a crew member
— has had a crush on Lila for a long time and he helps cover up her attack on Marta
— Eric violently turns him and discovers he has telekinetic powers
— He has been trained by the Oracles and is a member of the Psi Movement
— Eric singles him out for harassment in the vampire crew.
— Lila has never given him second look…until he’s turned.

DR. GEOFFREY HAMPSTEAD MALE (45)

—World government official

–-conceived and created the Moon Program.

–power player

–middle man for Moon Command

–makes offer to Eric.

Old Grizwell
—MALE (63)
–video character in the BITM game site Eric created long ago
—Eric cannot be sure if he is still alive and talking through the character or not
–he is an old friend of Eric’s family who made his first axe

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by  Mary Andrews.

[JoAnne A Edwards]

JoAnne’s Character profiles – Part One

What I learned doing this assignment – I will need to do some research on what kind of personalities are sex traffickers. This does help to explore your characters personalities.

Genre: Supernatural Drama

• Role in the story: Protagonist (fighter/dreamer?) – telepathic Empath forced to come out of retirement to pay off her credit cards, which puts her in contact with a disembodied spirit, who needs her help.

• Age range and Description: Late 60’s, physically fit for her age; would rather be doing yoga, writing and hiking, then lifting boxes, stocking, cashiering, etc.

• Internal Journey: She must learn to come to terms with her empathic abilities and not ignore or try to cover them up or soothe them with shopping, etc. Embrace being an Empath.

• External Journey: She goes from not dealing with or understanding her empathic needs, in a healthy way, to dealing with a disembodied spirit, who demands she help stop a human trafficker and use her abilities. She learns she needs to be more spiritually centered, for self protection, and to exude healing energy.

• Motivation: want / need. Want is to get out of credit card debt and to figure out how to stop a human trafficker, so the disembodied spirit can rest in peace and she can know she got some predators stopped. Need is to understand herself better and to feel safe and that she belongs on Earth, for now.

• Wound: Learning to live as an Empath.

• Mission/Agenda: Mission: To stop the human traffickers and learn more about being an Empath.

• Secret: She has had mediumship experiences before but would just try to fit in with everyone else, who didn’t understand what this was like.

• What makes them special? She’s an Empath, that sometimes has telepathic, mediumship experiences and can pick up other’s energy (positive and negative). She has never tried to further develop these abilities, but is forced to use them and come to terms with her energetic needs.

• Role in the story: Antagonist (change agent), disembodied spirit, who needs protagonist’s help.

• Age range and Description: Early 20’s, beautiful immigrant, who has been lured to the USA, with the promise of a job.

• Internal Journey: She’s been physically killed by the Human Traffickers, but determined to stop them from harming others.

• External Journey: She manages to energetically attach to one of the predators and come in contact with the Empath on the Alcohol Aisle of the grocery store. Before she leaves the Physical Plane, she is determined to get the predators stopped.

• Motivation: want / need. Want – to stop the predators. Need – to leave the Earth Plane in peace.

• Wound: She wanted a better life in America and to help her family, but naively fell prey to predators .

• Mission/Agenda: Mission: To stop the human traffickers and leave the Earth Plane, knowing she did what she could to help others.

• Secret: She suspected the job was sketchy, but she desperately wanted a new life.

• What makes them special? She herself was an Empath.

• Role in the story: Antagonist (predator), Human Trafficker

• Age range and Description: Early 30’s, Eastern European male. He works with a network of Human Traffickers, who bring in victims from all over the world for the sex trade.

• Internal Journey: He wanted to belong to a macho group that makes money off others and feels important. He isn’t a total narcissist, so numbs the girls with drugs and cheap alcohol.

• External Journey: He grew up under rough conditions in Eastern Europe (haven’t decided on nationality yet). He wanted money and to belong to a macho group, where he felt he had some power over his existence. But, he did have some feelings for the Empath that died. That’s why she could energetically attach to him.

• Motivation: want / need. Want – Money and to eventually be free on his own. Need – to not be caught by either the US authorities or his sex mafia.

• Wound: He grew up poor, with no hopes for a better life.

• Mission/Agenda: Mission: To make money off the sex trade and build himself a better life with that money.

• Secret: He would like to leave the sex mafia.

• What makes them special? He’s not totally without remorse.

Other characters:

Neighbor to sex mafia stash house, who helps Empath and becomes her friend.

Co-workers in the grocery store

Sex-trade victims

Sex mafia

Yoga class

FBI agent

[Patty Ruland]

(Patty Ruland’s) Lesson 2: Who are we traveling with?

What I learned doing this assignment is: To put one foot in front of the other as I keep moving forward. To quell the voice inside my head that doubts I can do this.

ASSIGNMENT

1. Listen to the 3 minute Empowerment Audio FIRST.

https://30dayscript.s3.amazonaws.com/Empowerment+Audio.m4a

Done.

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Hero
Explorer [Charlie, great-granddaughter of Carlie.]
Runner
Fighter
Victim
Dreamer

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Villain
Change Agent [Jesse*, her former fiancé] *Name to be
changed
Authority
Predator

4. What other characters might be necessary?

Supporting characters: Constance, studio supervisor at
the television station where Charlie anchors prime-time news.
Minor roles: TBD
Background characters: TBD

5. Pick your genre.

Rom-Com or Buddy Movie [Holiday movie]
Thriller
Horror
Action
Drama
Sci-Fi
Comedy

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Charlie–

Role in the story: She’s the protagonist, the star of
the show
Age range and Description: 35-?

Internal Journey: She feels superior to everyone given
her level of achievement, but finding her great-grandmother’s letters
detailing a similar egoism that fate strikes down begins to set her life
on a more introspective course..
External Journey: She promotes on air she’ found the
letters and wishes to retrace her great-grandmother’s steps, so she sets
out, alone, on a train, not realizing just hard life is about to get for
her.

Motivation: She wants to reunite with her fiancé, who
preceded her in the canyon.
Wound: Her fiancé left her and the city to find a new
life in the Canyon.
Mission/Agenda: She wants to know what life was like without
all the fanfare and excess of her current life in Manhattan. She wants to
relive her great-grandmother’s life.
Secret: If the truth be known, she’s weary of all the
city drama and noise and seeks something else—she doesn’t know what it is,
yet.
What makes them special? She starts out not knowing which
end of a horse goes first and by the end of the movie is an accomplished
horsewoman who owns and operates her own ranch in the Canyon, just as her
great-grandmother did before her.

Jesse

Role in the story: He’s the antagonist.
Age range and Description: 35-?

Internal Journey: He once lived in Manhattan, too, and left
to fight a war. When he came back, Charlie seemed as superficial as the
rest of her crowd. He need to go out West, as his great-grandfather did,
to heal and find a new life.
External Journey: He befriends a family, whose daughter
develops feelings for him, just like his great-grandfather did.

Motivation: He wants to prove the war did not beat him.
Wound: He saw atrocities during the war that still
terrify and sadden him.
Mission/Agenda: He wants more than his old life and old
love restored—he wants a new life and a new love (with his old love, which
seems an impossibility).
Secret: He loves only one woman and will always love
only one woman.
What makes them special? He holds a candle for her no
matter what, which pays off when she rushed back to the Canyon and to him.
They reunite on Christmas, and resolve to operate a hotel for people just
like they are—people who don’t know what to make of the Canyon, until they
really, really experience..

7. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.

8. Post your assignment in the forums at http://ScreenwritingU.com/forums

<s>Subject line:</s><s> (Your name’s) Character Profiles Part 1 (place in first line) </s>This is the wrong label.

[30 Day Script] Lesson 2: Who Are We Traveling With?<s></s>

Deadline: 24 hours

[Luc Pagès]

Luc Pages’s Character Profiles Part 1
“What I learned doing this assignment is that I have trouble making my love interest special”
Love and Burgers: An unlikely romance between a financially stable white vegan activist and a latino girl who has to finance her college tuition by winning burger eating contests. They discover the true meaning of love as they learn to look past their differences.
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
• Marisol Acevedo is a Hero/Dreamer. She wants to change the world, yet trying to make a name for herself by fighting injustice as a wannabe Broadcast Reporter.
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3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
• I’d say that Liam Burke is a Change Agent. It is because of him that Marisol’s compassion for people broadens for animals. But also, he himself will be changed by Marisol, becoming more tolerant and less aggressive.

4. What other characters might be necessary?
• Both Marisol and Liam have best friends (sidekicks)
• There should also be competitors for both of them (the “other” woman, the “other “guy”)
• Minor roles: family members for both of them, because showing where they come from is relevant.

5. Pick your genre.
• Rom-Com

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
• Marisol Acevedo
• Role in the story: Hero/Dreamer. Latino girl, trying to make a name for herself by fighting injustice as a wannabe Broadcast Reporter.
• Age range and Description: Female, mid 20’s, slim and pretty, not at all what you’d imagine an eating champion looks like. She has the Erin Brokovitch’s spirit, but Latino style.
• Internal Journey: From having no special feelings for animals and a low self esteem, to vegan advocacy and self worth.
• External Journey: From cheap eating contests and cheap love affairs, to national eating championship and finding true love.
• Motivation: becoming a notorious broadcast reporter.
• Wound: rejected because she was poor and Latino
• Mission/Agenda: seduce Liam and win a major eating contest.
• Secret: pays her tuition by winning meat eating contests.
• What makes them special? : trains herself to eat enormous amount of food as fast as possible, like an athlete trains himself for a competition.
•
• Liam Burke
• Role in the story: Love interest / Change Agent / Dreamer. Financially stable white student trying to spread anti-specisme views in a meat eating world.
• Age range and Description: Male, mid 20’s,
• Internal Journey: From hating non-vegan people, to accepting human ambivalent attitude towards animals, and in general.
• External Journey: From ineffective vegan campaigns, to popular national coverage and finding true love.
• Motivation: turning meat eaters into vegans
• Wound: mistreated by his parents for being too sensitive
• Mission/Agenda: organise some kind of big action to promote veganisme.
• Secret: hides to eat Tarama OR his father runs a slaughter house
• What makes them special? Can’t figure it out. Yet

[SUNIL BATRA]

Lesson 2.

I, SUNIL BATRA learned that story can be develop after asking question what the journey of all characters is.

2.Protagonist Andrew 12 year of age playing victim and fighter role as to defeat the villain.

3. antagonist: jeff playing the role of antagonist as authority and predator. Caught by police in the end.

4.supporting actor. Grandmother of jeff the antagonist. To reflect the nature of antagonist and His relationship to another people.

MR ROBINSON playing the role as Andrew’s father. Who later play the role of judge.

5. minor role. Robinson wife and other son mike.

Pick up your genre:

Thriller

A role in the story.

Predator Andrew imprisoned in the house of antagonist who profiling for chance to escape.

b. age range and description

Andrew 12-year-old living securely in home. Life changes after he lost his life in a hurricane and declared dead.

c. Internal journey. Living securely in a house with family. when a hurricane changes his life.

d. external journey: from the solitary confinement to escaping to reach parents.

e. motivation. To escape from the jeff antagonist.

f. wound

antagonist kept Andrew in house arrest and torture Andrew.

G. mission and agenda. To escape.

<font face=”inherit”>h. secret. </font>Judges<font face=”inherit”> punish antagonist jeff. Andrew was the target to take revenge.</font>

[Kevin Ash]

Kevin’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is that there is richness in this story and a lot of fun to be had!

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Batman – Hero

He will be forced into action after years of inaction and save Gotham from The Joker.

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

The joker – Villain

He will be humiliated one too many times and come out of hiding after years of irrelevance to bait Batman into coming to find him and kill him.

4. What other characters might be necessary?

Supporting characters: Commissioner Gordon, Arthur’s niece,
Bruce Wayne’s new butler
Minor roles: Police, Henchmen
Background characters: Citizens in peril

5. Pick your genre.

Action Comedy

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Role in the story: Batman and Joker – arch enemies
Age range and Description: Past retirement, desperate

Motivation: Batman – quest for relevance, Joker – need
for peace and finality.
Wound: Batman – loneliness, Joker – despair from lack
of being relevant or seen.
Mission/Agenda: Joker – to be done with this life,
Batman – to save Gotham and become relevant
Secret: Batman wants to save Joker.
What makes them special? Both are old and out of the
memory of the culture and are on a final quest for relevance.

[Craig Giles]

Subject line: Gilesberg’s Character Profiles Part 1

What I learned doing this assignment is that when we have clear steps to complete, we can even work and create progress when we are busy. i.e. we don’t need perfect conditions.

Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Ces is a victim and a dreamer, he is often under the attack from Kazi the prison guard, he dreams of escaping the POW Camp and taking all the Australian soldiers with him alive

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

Kazi is a Predator – he teases and tortures the Australians in the camp daily. His hatred is deep and he looks at how he can cause the greatest pain to his enemy. He perceives Ces as the leader of the Aussies so he inflicts pain on him to tease them

4. What other characters might be necessary?

Supporting characters: Karen is Ces’ daughter who came to save him. She is captured and placed in the prison camp. Karen falls in love with Reijirou her father’s arch enemies son. Minor roles: Bert – is Ces’ right-hand manBackground characters: other prisoners

5. Pick your genre.

Drama/period

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

Role in the story: Ces is the protagonist who leads the Australian men. He is an inspiration as he motivates everyone to hang on in these difficult timesAge range and Description: CECIL (aka CES) (50) is a male doctor, in the wrong place at the wrong time, a pacifist amid a war.Internal Journey: he is angry and frustrated, he never wanted to be at war and he is forced to use his smarts to beat the enemyExternal Journey: he was recklessly taunting the opposition, but now he needs to stay alive – Kazi wants to bring him near to death but not dieMotivation: he was motivated by revenge and survival, but when his daughter arrived, he decided he had to be less reckless and protect herWound: he feels angry at his government for forcing him to go to warMission/Agenda: to get everyone home alive and unmaimedSecret: he is a pacifistWhat makes them special? He leads an army of men as a closet pacifist

[Kimberli Curtis]

What I learned: I realized that I never thought of the antagonist having any emotions. My focus was always on the protagonist.

Lorraine Harrison
Role in the Story: Protagonist/Victim
Age Range & Description: Late 60s, committed wife of 47 years, always helping everyone
Genre: Drama
Internal Journey: From helping others to giving herself selfcare
External Journey: From dropping everything to give aid to her husband to giving herself some time
Motivation: To stay married or divorced
Wound: Her parents stayed in a loveless marriage
Mission/Agenda: To leave
Secret: She feels she’s nobody if she goes through a divorce
What makes them special?: She believes in commitment and love

Sam Harrison
Role in the Story: Antagonist/Predator
Age Range & Description: Late 60s, husband, dealing with a mental decline
Genre: Drama
Internal Journey: From being oblivious to his wife needs to realizing the hurt he has caused
External Journey: From being verbal abusive to being sedate
Wound: His parents couldn’t stand each other
Mission: Stay married
Secret: He doesn’t want to be alone
What makes them special?: He’s afraid of change

Other Characters
Minor: Daughter

[Donald Gates]

Dean’s Character Profiles Part 1

• This assignment taught me how to elevate my lead characters, improve them, and serve the story.

1. Listen to the 3-minute Empowerment Audio FIRST.<div>

• Done, I’m empowered!

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

• Victim: In trying to help the homeless and hungry, Brooke becomes a victim of the system that feeds on them. She fights to save herself and the homeless. Once she discovers an insidious truth about how the system works, she will never be the same.

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

• Villain: The villain is Brooke’s father, Mr. Hacker, and the people who work for him. They have created an evil and hidden system to solve homelessness and hunger problems. This system will unknowingly take Brook in as a victim.

4. What other characters might be necessary?

• Supporting characters:

• Protagonist:
• Friends of Brooke that come with her to help feed the homeless and then become fodder for the system.
• Other victims in the system that help Brook along the way.
• A member of the antagonist team that becomes an ally of Brooke.

• Antagonist:
• Underlings and associates that keep Mr. Hacker’s identity as the top villain hidden and carry out his plans.
• An ally of Brooke’s that turns out to be an enemy working for Mr. Hacker.

• Minor roles:

  Characters that help move one or two scenes along.

• Friends of Brooke that start on her journey and are killed by the system.
• Victims of the system that Brooke encounters.

• Background characters:
• Students at Brooke’s social events.
• Homeless victims that are on the street and processed through the system.
• Business people in Mr. Hacker’s office.

5. Pick your genre.

• Horror

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

[Dominic Matich]

30 DAY SCRIPT CLASS

ASSIGNMENT 2

Dominic’s Character Profiles Part 1:

What I learned from this assignment was that I have to let go of some of the old habits I have from old classes and really come to terms with speed writing. I’m so used to the Proseries or Masterclass where you take a few months to come up with scripts and character profiles, so it was very surprising to read the words “JUST GO WITH THE FIRST THING THAT POPS IN YOUR HEAD” from an S.U. assignment. But I’m getting better at it and discovering a lot of things about this story that I had no idea about and probably never would stuck with if I had more time.

TITLE: “The Faze” (or) “Grey Zone” (or) “Grey Cycle.”

GENRE: Sci-fi / Horror.

CHARACTER PROFILE FOR THE LEAD CHARACTER: James Mayer.

AGE RANGE: 18 – 20 years old.

ROLE: James is a dreamer who wishes he was a hero but ends up becoming an explorer. He must explore the events that are taking place at his neighbors house and uncover what’s causing the horrors in their hous which seem to be leaking into the neighborhood.

DESCRITPION: Good lokking kid with a girlfriend and a relationship that’s barely hanging on by a thread but he doesn’t know it. He’s soft in the inside but has bravery hidden away in deep dark places, hidden to kee him safe.

INTERNAL JOURNEY: James goes from having grand dreams but in love with staying in his comfort zone and thinking time in neverending to… risking everything and being strong for others.

EXTRENAL JOURNEY: From a wannabe Tik-Tok influencer to saving our very plain of existence with no thought of being rewarded.

OLD WAYS:

– Wanting things to change but never taking action to do so

– Lazy

– Thinking life is only about views, riches, and fame.

– Never confronting his own weaknesses

NEW WAYS:

– Takes action

– Being proactive

– Understanding the value of life

– Sacrificing for others

– Stepping outside of his comfort zone and confronting fear

MOTIVATION: Becoming famous on Tik-Tok and having a social media career.

EXTRA THEME OF THIS MOVIE: This movie is a methpor for an entire generation who think they’ll make a living off the internet and then when REALITY (the EVENT in this movie) sets in and youtube, Tik-Tok go out of business and they have to get real jobs, only a few will survive.

WOUND: He never talks bout it but he saw his dad die OR saw his family crumble as his father went through a few horrible years where he took a chance, started his own business, lost of all the family’s money and had no job for years. He drank hismefl to death (AND WAS A MONSTER of sorts) to James, his brother, and mother. So James… (THIS IS AN ECHO OF THE THE THEME…) so James has been through rough times and doesn’t want to edn up like his father.

(ONE OF THE MONSTERS IN THE END CAN BE HIS FATHER/ POSESSED FATHER, ETC.)

MISSION/AGENDA: To discvoer what’s happening at his house and the neighbors, an event that’s interrupting a party he’s hosting.

SECRET: His failure to stop looking for and easy way out + he’s terrified .

WHAT MAKES HIM SPECIAL: Everyone else left the nieghborhood when the event began. Everyone at the party besides his borther and a tiny group of friedns leave. He stays behind at first because he realizes this is a lottery ticket moment if he can get this footage and having the career his father never could. Then when he realizes it’s life or death and children from the house are in trouble he’s the only one who stays to help. He’s special because HE’S THE ONLY ONE THAT HAD FULL FOOTAGE of the event.

CHARACTER PROFILE OF THE ANTAGONIST: A Paranormal Event called the Grey Cycle

TYPE OF ROLE: Villain/Force. The haunted/paranormal event taking place next door. A black hole in the neighbors basement that spits out horrific creatures.

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS:

A. The Family across the street

B. James’s brother and girlfriend.

C. Party guests.