Lesson 3

[Mark Wakely]

Mark Wakely's Right Characters!

What I learned doing this assignment is the need to create compelling characters who are the right ones for the story hook and keep the audience engaged.

The characters I created for my story hook are the right ones because even though there appears to be harmony among them at first, an unexpected, deteriorating situation brings out their true nature, which creates even more conflict and tension leading up to a shocking twist at the end.

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[Tom Freyer]

Tom’s Right Characters

I learned crafting each character to uniquely fit the hook up front will improve the storybuilding process.
Each of my characters, although seemingly random, turn out to have a strong relationship to the hook and a future dilemma.

[Paul McGregor]

Paul's Right Characters!

5. What I learned from doing this assignment is that it forced me to re-examine my High Concept and even consider changing it. But I have decided to stick with it, and mold the characters to meet that Concept. I think doing this exercise (even if not fully successfully) does inch the script forward and will improve the final product.

2. Fitting characters with the Hook:

Real-estate agent: Elegant, well-spoken, fits the role of real-estate agent, but is that her real job? Also, physically tough. Able to beat the Man to submission. Cold. Determined. On a mission for revenge.

Husband: Self-absorbed, leading him to be unaware of real dangers. Slow to wake up to threats. Hiding a past.

Wife: Also hiding a past which, once revealed, puts her in deadly conflict with her husband.

At most, only one of them can come out of this alive.

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