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Lesson 2 Assignments
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Mhmd’s Intentional Lead Characters
My Vision: I will keep creating constantly and effectively; in order to be the most demanded and influential glorified writer within the industry and with the audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is..
– Some steps requires commitment to be done well.
Title: conjoined twin 84
Concept: Shocking revolutionary actions escalate inside a labor colony of conjoined twins cut out of the will, underhandedly driven – with sudden and unexpected patterns- by a conjoined twin who has an impossible mutation.
Character: 84
Logline: A conjoined twin with two brains share in a single unified mind, who bases revolutionary actions inside the labor colony.
Unique: An impossible mutation, always unexpected.
Character: Spider
Logline: A Surgically modified supreme loyal agent, who is implanted inside the colony as a conjoined twin to thwart these action.
Unique: Highly skilled, will do anything to carry out his mission despite post-surgery complications.
Character: 3
Logline: The head of the secret religious and criminal sect “Children of the Holy Conjoined God”, who is trying to recruit Spider and exploit 84 for his own grand scheme.
Unique: He has a scheme to them both and more.
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Madeleine’s Intentional Lead Characters
Vision: I am going to do whatever it takes for me to be a writer of amazing stories with meaning who can move the audience and change the world resulting in financial, critical and audience success.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: I’ve learned that it’s better to do the assignment in a reasonable amount of time than do it perfectly.
Title: Menopausal dad
Concept: A professor of growth economics wants to become dean and gets confronted with his own natural limits.
Character: Alex
Logline: A professor for growth economics wants to become the new dean but starts to suffer from menopausal syndromes.
Unique: He cultivates bonsais.
Character: Corrie
Logline: Corrie is Alex’s wife who wants to fulfill her professional dreams to overcome her midlife crisis.
Unique:
Character: Eve
Logline: Eve is their daughter is torn back and forth between her parents but basically wants a stress-free family life.
Unique: She loves to set up risky experiments.
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Geoff Gwillim’s Intentional Lead Characters
My Vision: I am a writer of popular and critically acclaimed films, enjoying and grateful for every aspect of my creative life, consistently writing what and as I choose wherever I choose to live in the world, loving the wonderful experiences my writing enables me to have.
What I learned from doing this assignment is ..
Developing intentional characters to fit the story is interesting and enjoyable .. they have a backstory and a forwardstory, as do we all.
Character: Garrett (Protagonist)
Logline: Former submariner turned fireman, suffering from
PTSD and separated from his wife and family, barely holding it together when
he is recruited to join an exploratory submarine mission.Unique: Sees dead people
Character: Rob (Buddy)
Logline: Garretts’s former best friend, now deceased, who helps
Garrett find the necessary answersUnique: Was married (when alive) to Garrett’s estranged wife
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Raquel Solomon’s Intentional Lead Characters
My Vision: I want to go deeper into my writing to create screenplays where characters of depth are placed in compelling journeys with a fresh voice that Hollywood producers as well as independent film cos. know they must make!
What I learned from doing this assignment is to make sure that every main character serves to enhance and carry forward the concept of the screenplay.
Title: Death Fugue
Concept: A young Jewish Warsaw Ghetto violinist forced to perform outside the ghetto for Nazi officers will use this for an opportunity to join the resistance and smuggle guns and food for the uprising.
Character: Miri
Logline: A young humiliated Jewish violinist will turn the tables on her captors and use her music as a means to join the resistance.
Unique: Talented up and coming blues violinist before the war.
Character: Nazi Officer Wilhelm
Logline: Nazi Officer blackmails Miri into being his sexual partner and forces her to give concerts to Nazi officers.
Unique: Loves to yield his power over Jewish prisoners and Nazi soldiers as well.
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KZ’s Intentional Lead Characters
Vision: I am an empowered writer who can find the gem hidden within any idea and turn it into a saleable script.
What I learned – that I can’t think about two projects at once when they’re at the same level of completion. And since I’m trying to submit this horror fiction podcast in the next 48 hours, I’m going to focus on this one. More to the point… that choosing characters who fit the concept will make for a stronger story.
Title: TAP, TAP, TAP
Concept: An NYPD detective pursues a murderer who has been dead a hundred years.
Character: Honor Kalos (Protagonist)
Logline: Kalos is a no-nonsense detective who has rejected her mother’s spiritualism and moved to New York to get away from her and avoid “becoming her mother.”
Unique: Kalos is half Romanian, half Greek, and 100% Texan.
Character: Bella Farkas (Antagonist)
Logline: Bella is the long dead spirit looking for a weakened body to inhabit.
Unique: She’s unaware that she’s insane and domineering and believes that she is nurturing and reasonable (much like Kalos’ mother).
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Brandyn Cross’ Intentional Lead Characters
My vision for success in this program is to develop and hone my skills to the extent that my screenplays will be produced and widely viewed.
What I learned from this assignment is a fairly simple means of directing each character’s unique traits and motivations toward the unique concept of the story.
Character: Protagonist
Logline: Alex is a struggling children’s book author who develops the ability to communicate with dead children following a disabling accident.
Unique: As a children’s book author, Alex is uniquely suited to connecting children to their parents and families which, after developing psychic abilities, uses his talents to connect the ghosts of dead children to their parents, enabling both the children and their families to derive some closure.
Character: Antagonist
Logline: This is a dark entity that tries to keep Alex from connecting the ghosts of dead children from their families, and freeing them to cross over.
Unique: This entity has the ability to place barriers against Alex’s ability to connect child ghosts in limbo with their families.
Character: Triangle Character
Logline: Sandy is the ghost of a young dead boy, who helps connect Alex to the ghosts of other dead children.
Unique: This ghost has the inside info on child ghosts in need of connecting with their families so that both ghost child, and parents, can move on.
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Paul’s Intentional Lead Characters.
4. I want to write scripts that become movies that change people’s lives.
5. What I learned from this assignment is that it totally changed the profile of my protagonist.
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Character: Lilia. Protagonist.
Logline: A Mexican mother launches her own war on drugs when her daughter dies of an overdose, but quickly discovers that the cartels have a powerful ally – the DEA.
Unique: Her grief at the loss of her daughter arms her with the courage to risk her own life to unmask corruption in the DEA.
Character: José. Antagonist.
Logline: A DEA agent with a thirst for money, women and drugs discovers that a woman with a mortal grudge is about to call an end to the party.
Unique: Vicious but charming, he has to deploy both qualities equally to avoid being sent to jail or to his grave.
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KZ’s Intentional Lead Characters
Vision: To master screenwriting so that I can successfully turn all of my ideas into finished scripts, get them produced and get paid well in the process.
What I learned: That choosing characters who fit the concept will make for a stronger story.
Character: Wendy
Logline: Wendy is a cutthroat negotiator who must win at all costs
Unique: Wendy’s aggressive behavior is meant to hide her weaknesses
Character: Darvin
Logline: Darvin’s style is analytical, but he’s just as determined to win as Wendy
Unique: Darvin is insecure about his status
Triangle character: Myra
Logline: Myra is an earth-mother meditation instructor whose sole goal is to get to Nirvana
Unique: Myra is obsessed with financial security
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