Lesson 4

[J.R Riddle]

What I learned from this lesson was phenomenal, as I wanted to deepen some of my characters – this class helped by making me see them in different situations with different goals and changing the relationships already written. This breakthrough inspired me to do all my characters with this analysis below.

A. Joe’s Role: Father of only daughters, trained them to be independent but not of him.

B. Core Traits: Overly protective, loving, old fashioned, celibate, tough and determined

C. Motivation: Wants to know his family will be safe

D. Flaw/Wound: Flaw is his Fear of living full out; wound is his guilt

E. Secret/Hidden agenda: Deifies the daughter’s mother in spite that she cheated on him. His F. Hidden Agenda: To control everything and everyone in his life, even though he says the opposite.

G. Internal Dilemma: Wants his daughters to be financially independent, physically and intellectually, but emotionally he won’t cut the umbilical cords to let them fail or succeed without his meddling control.

H. Why Joe’s the perfect father: Joe deeply loves his daughters in that unconditional way, while his spoiled daughters continue to argue and create havoc in his life and their own.

[Rhonda Burnaugh]

Character Profiles:

1. Create Character Profiles for each of your lead characters by filling in the blanks for these eight questions.

A. Name: Michael

B. Role in the Story: Protagonist.

C. Core Traits: Stoic; underneath kind, sensitive.

D. Motivation: Want/Need: He wants to beat cancer and be loved.

E. Flaw/Wound: Abusive childhood; fear of abandonment

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: afraid someone will realize how vulnerable he is; find out his secret regarding testicular cancer surgery.

G. Internal Dilemma:trying to decide what is the right thing to do: go back to Gloria, the mother of his daughter that he doesn’t love or seek out Seraphine, his soulmate.

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Michael is a successful musician with an adoring fan base, but cancer has made him vulnerable, especially to Gloria’s blackmail. Plus, he doesn’t want to hurt Rose (daughter), because he realizes the importance of feeling loved and secure, since he missed that in his own childhood.

2. Answer the questions to improve the Character Profiles.

A: Are there any parts of the profile that you could improve? Michael lives a life that most of us will never have: gorgeous, rich, famous. He needs to find a way to give back in order to leave behind a generous legacy

B: Can this character fulfill their role in the story more effectively? Accepting his fate with grace, helping those around him accept that he can’t survive.

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A. Name: Seraphine

B. Role in the Story: Michael’s true love;

C. Core Traits: She is the gentle breeze of compassion and understanding that helps Michael come to terms with his illness and possible death.

D. Motivation: Want/Need: Her heart has always been with Michael, even though he disappeared for years due to living in foster homes. She wants him back.

E. Flaw/Wound: She doesn’t know if she can fit into his elite world now.

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: She lives with Russell, who proposes to her.

G. Internal Dilemma: Russell explains that they can have a future together, have children- all the things Michael may not be able to give her.

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Her love is pure, unselfish. She is there for Michael, no matter what the outcome.

2. Answer the questions to improve the Character Profiles.

A: Are there any parts of the profile that you could improve? More conflicted about what to do: Leave Russell or go with Michael.

B: Can this character fulfill their role in the story more effectively? Show her as unsure about fitting into Michael’s world; a bigger flaw or wound.

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A. Name: Gloria

B. Role in the Story: Antagonist

C. Core Traits: possessive, financially driven; manipulative; dramatic. Ego driven.

D. Motivation: Want/Need: She wants to be Michael’s arm candy. Loves the security of money. She also wants him to step up and be more of a father to Rose.

E. Flaw/Wound: Insecure. A little neurotic. Needs a guy to provide for her princess lifestyle.

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: She had a boyfriend to try and make Michael jealous. When that doesn’t work, she decides to blackmail Michael and tell the world about his cancer and surgery.

G. Internal Dilemma: How to get her own needs met and be a mother to Rose.

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? She is the storm that threatens to rain on Michael’s happiness. If mama’s not happy; nobody’s happy.

2. Answer the questions to improve the Character Profiles.

A: Are there any parts of the profile that you could improve? Make it clearer that her BF was only to make Michael jealous.

B: Can this character fulfill their role in the story more effectively? Show her mothering Rose.

[Rhonda Burnaugh]

Character Profiles:

Cont:

A. Name: Father Joe

B. Role in the Story: Befriends Michael in the hospital

C. Core Traits: Catholic background, disillusioned with faith and life choices, well meaning, caring.

D. Motivation: Want/Need: He has never wanted to be a priest. What he wants is someone to love and to have a family.

E. Flaw/Wound: Guilt. Hiding behind his collar.

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: He caused the death of someone and views the priesthood as his penance.

G. Internal Dilemma: Whether to leave the priesthood and follow his dreams.

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Joe is in love with Anni, a nurse, who Michael spirited away to his home in Maui. While Joe thinks he is helping Michael, Michael challenges everything Joe believes.

2. Answer the questions to improve the Character Profiles.

A: Are there any parts of the profile that you could improve? Joe is a perfect nemesis for Michael.

B: Can this character fulfill their role in the story more effectively? Joe is a strong character, who finally decides to leave the church. Later, he realizes Michael was behind the scene orchestrating a new life for him and Anni.

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A. Name: Anni

B. Role in the Story: Michael’s private duty nurse; Joe’s love interest.

C. Core Traits: sarcastic (like Michael), feisty Italian; guarded. Independant. Not religious!

D. Motivation: Want/Need: Since she cares for everyone as a profession, she would like to have someone she can depend on; someone who is there for her.

E. Flaw/Wound: Her mother was murdered by a lover when she was 5 yrs old and, like Michael, was raised in foster care.

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: She was married before and pregnant. The baby died in her 8th month. Her husband left her when she couldn’t get past her grief.

G. Internal Dilemma: Risking to love again. (vulnerable)

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? She also has feelings for Joe. More like Michael in personality, she resonates with him. She carries the heavy load for others and balances Joe.

2. Answer the questions to improve the Character Profiles.

A: Are there any parts of the profile that you could improve? Adding her loss of a child helped round her out and give her more depth.

B: Can this character fulfill their role in the story more effectively? Yes. Michael gave her an assignment early on, to record the last year of his life, which she shares at the end. She also breaks free of her fear to commit and accepts Joe’s proposal.

What I learned from this assignment is that I have done a lot of homework on developing these characters and their arcs. I can still add some more, but I feel I know each of these characters and what makes them important to the story.

[Katherine Davis]

Day 4_ASSIGNMENT _ Five Character Profiles

Subject: Katherine Davis Character Profiles

Logline

Mary must find her boss’s killer before anyone suspects she tried to kill her boss.

REQUIRED:

1. Character Name_ Mary Colston

Role – Protagonist_The Secretary

Determined – gets what she wants even if it means someone may get too sick to continue work. It’s possible the person may die.

Character Subtext Logline _ Mary is proficient at reading people which makes her the perfect secretary. She has no issues with what other people will do to get what they want… except when they hurt/damage children.

OPTIONAL:

Flaw

Want/Need

Mission/Agenda_ To find out who killed her boss.

Character Arc (if any)_She falls for Chief Walker. Someone she cannot control.

World View

Life Metaphor/Identity

Secret_She killed her stepfather. Blames her mother for bringing him into their home.

Something they don’t want to admit about themselves: She wants to be loved by a man as strong as she is.

What makes this character unique? Men who hurt children must be punished in a way that will hurt them, and she doesn’t mind being the one to do it.

Improve at least one item on each character profile. How it improved the
character and what it might do for your story.

Change_ Something they don’t want to admit about themselves: If she understood that she just wanted a man as strong as she was, she would not have wasted all her time on Richard. She would not have put herself in a position as suspect because she never would have tried to get rid of Liz.

2. Character Name_ Mayor Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Stone

Role – The Victim/Deceased

Determined – She is an ambitious politician. She wants to run for State Representative.

Character Subtext Logline _ Liz has two sides. One, she is in charge of a city she is determined to get the best for its citizens. She is so hard in this endeavor, they call her The Stone. She will use her connection and history with the Atlanta Mayor to make that happen. She will blackmail criminals she cannot get convicted to make that happen. Her other side mentors other women in politics and girls who could have a career in politics or community service.

OPTIONAL:

Flaw

Want/Need_While she is a visible person in the community, she also yearns to be just a wife with a husband that loves her.

Mission/Agenda_ To find out who killed Chief Walker’s daughter.

Character Arc (if any)

World View

Life Metaphor/Identity

Secret

Something they don’t want to admit about themselves:

What makes this character unique?

Change Want/Need: If she admitted to wanting a career more than a husband and kids, she would not have gotten involved with Joe and pressured him into leaving his wife.

3. Character Name_ Mayor Lucas J. Bennett, III

Role – Suspect

Determined – Another ambitious politician. He wants to run for US Senator.

Character Subtext Logline _ Lucas is the perfect politician. Outrageously handsome, horrible upbringing by a crackhead mother, highly educated.

OPTIONAL:

Flaw

Want/Need_ To be free of the men behind his career success. One day they may ask something of him he cannot give.

Mission/Agenda_ To find out who killed Elizabeth.

Character Arc (if any)

World View

Life Metaphor/Identity

Secret_ Mayor Elizabeth Stone. Due to their history, she requires his financial support, sexual support and his support of her career.

Something they don’t want to admit about themselves: He cared more for Elizabeth than he could admit while she was alive.

What makes this character unique?

Improve at least one item on each character profile.

Secret_ Mayor Elizabeth Stone. He should have never made Liz a secret. Their relationship could have been open and he would not be in a compromising situation as he is now. If he had been open, their may have never been a sexual aspect to their relationship. There would have never been something to hide.

4. Character Name_ Elijah ‘Eli’ Walker

Role – Chief of Police

Determined – To find the mayor’s killer.

Character Subtext Logline _ Elijah is pissed. More at himself than the killer. He should have known someone would go after the mayor. If not the people she was blackmailing, it would have been one of the people she was about to put out of business when she voted no on the hospital project. He should have put an officer on her to guard her.

OPTIONAL:

Flaw

Want/Need_ He must find the killer. He never found the person who killed his daughter. He must find the person who killed Liz.

Mission/Agenda_ To find out who killed Elizabeth.

Character Arc (if any)

World View

Life Metaphor/Identity

Secret_ He collected the information for Liz to use as blackmail.

Something they don’t want to admit about themselves: He failed his daughter by not discovering who killed her. He should have been more of a disciplinarian.

What makes this character unique?

Improve at least one item on each character profile.

Secret_ He should have never collected blackmail information for Liz to use. He made himself a co-conspirator by doing so. And therefore, he made himself a crooked cop. True, he had no qualms about them getting some kind of punishment if the law could not get them, but what was he doing to himself?

5. Character Name_ Percy Montgomery, City Councilman

Role – Antagonist

Determined – Another ambitious politician. He wants to be mayor of the city.

Character Subtext Logline _ Percy is a pharmaceutical salesman who provides pills to young girls across the state so he can eventually have sex with them.

OPTIONAL:

Flaw

Want/Need_ To be seen as important by everyone.

Mission/Agenda_ To one day become mayor of the city.

Character Arc (if any)

World View

Life Metaphor/Identity

Secret_ Yes, he likes young girls who are not yet sullied by life through other boys or men. He likes to be their first so he can show them what a real man is like.

Something they don’t want to admit about themselves: That he is a pedophile. The girls love to do everything he loves to do to them. How could that be wrong?

What makes this character unique?

Improve at least one item on each character profile.

Want/Need_ If Percy did not want so desperately to be seen as an important man, he may have questioned other decisions/actions in his life which eventually led him to commit murder.

[ZhiMin Hu]

This is one of the most important steps for me. It was the roadblock, now it’s clear, the rest is easy.

I found their personalities among the 16 personality types. It was easy for Sarah and Cassie, but Jade is most difficult one, because the trauma has an impact on her.

· Name: Sarah

· Personality type: INTJ

· Role in the story: Protagonist, search her real identity and unearth the family secrets.

· Core Traits: Pessimistic, arrogant, dismissive of emotions, independent

· Motivation:
Sarah wants to unearth her identity and the family secrets.
Sarah needs a motherly love to grow.

· Flaw/Wound:
Flaw: Sarah fabricates an image to hide her problems. She is pessimistic and always sees the negative side of everything. She keeps a distance from everyone, and she doesn’t believe that anyone would care for her.
Wound: Sarah was neglected during her growing up. She never experienced the physical closeness with her mother.

· Secret/ Hidden Agenda:
Secret: She suffers chronically depression.

Hidden Agenda: To find her biological mother and the motherly love that she craves.

· Internal dilemma:
Sarah wants to be looked at as a strong and independent person, but inside she is fragile and sensitive.

· What makes this character perfect for their role in this story?
She has the motivation and needs to investigate the family secrets.

· Name: Jade

· Personality type: ENFP

· Role in the story: Sarah’s mother, looking for a closure with her daughter Sarah.

· Core Traits:
Empathic, good-nature, perceptive, disorganized

· Motivation:
Jade wants to have a proper farewell with Sarah, and she wants to know if she is ok.

· Flaw/Wound:

Flaw: She suppresses her trauma memory, and she didn’t deal with her sense of shame and anger. She unconsciously lets these emotions ruin her relationship with Sarah.

Wound: She was raped. The presence of Sarah reminds her of the rapist and provokes her senses of shame and anger.

· Secret/ Hidden Agenda:

Secret – Sarah is the result of a rape.
Hidden Agenda: To bury her unspeakable past.

· Internal dilemma:
Jade looks happy and carefree, but inside she carries a lot of pain and anger.

What makes this character perfect for their role in this story?

Jade would do everything to bury the family secrets. She never faces and heal from her trauma.

· Name: Cassie

· Personality type; ESFP

· Role in the story: Sarah’s sister

· Core Traits: poor long-term planner, aesthetics and showmanship, entitlement, dependent

· Motivation:
Wants to own the house and get a bigger share of Jade’s heritage.

· Flaw/Wound:
Flaw: Cassie has problem of entitlement and dependence.

Wound: She is spoiled and overly cared.

· Secret/ Hidden Agenda:
Secret: Cassie feels insecure when she becomes pregnant and her boyfriend run away.
Hidden Agenda: revenge Sarah for her being cold and cruel to Jade.

· Internal dilemma:
Cassie seems like someone carefree and irresponsible, but inside she wishes to be someone who is competent and independent.

· What makes this character perfect for their role in this story?
Cassie is part of the family. Her existence shows Jade’s motherhood and her uneven care and closeness for two daughters.

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[Tita Beal Anntares]

Tita’s Character Profiles

What I learned:·

-Creating the profiles helps me sharpen my view of the story and ability to describe it more clearly· Confirmed I know the people – I was afraid I’d have to make up a lot·

-Looking forward to finding places in the script to build in or strengthen character·

-The role in story combined with why this character in the story really helped me clarify the character’s value, specially for when people tell me to cut the cast of this stage play down to 3-5

– Even a small additional detail about one of these and the other characters gives me ideas about how to strengthen that character’s impact in a scene

Pitch so far: Soon after two friends celebrate victory in the war for liberty they fought together, they are ready to kill each other, both sure they are saving their new democracy from the other.

Protag:

A. Name: Sam

B. Role in the Story: Turns a friendship into a life or death battle, then must decide if he will kill with his own hands

C. Core Traits: Listener, Strategist, Controller

D. Motivation: Wants leaders to give rights and liberties to the many so they can govern themselves through their elected representatives – free from control by the wealthiest and most influential few in ruling eletesNeeds to know when leadership requires repressing the rights and liberties of individuals to protect and free the many from control by the loudest, strongest few in mobsNeeds to learn to when an elected government to protect all people’s freedom to participate in self-government through elected representatives when individuals claim rights that will destroy other’s rights and liberties — and how to do that without destroying elected self-government– free from control by the

E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw: Offering freedom but wanting to retain control. Wound: Disrespect from people with wealth who crushed a program he and his father set up to help poor farmers

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret: His pride in being a leader of the people despite championing their right to lead themselves; Hidden Agenda: free the American colonies from British King and Parliament despite claiming he just wants rights of Englishmen…

G. Internal Dilemma: He wants to give people self-government and the right to make their own decisions but if he disagrees with them defensively wants to insist on what he thinks is best

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Sam helped forge self-government for the colony of Massachusetts then, when his friends and followers rose up against his new government, he sent out the army of Mass to shoot or arrest and hang them

Antag:

A. Name: Dan

B. Role in the Story: Leads a rebellion against his friend Sam’s new government

C. Core Traits: Compassionate, Loyal, Impatient

D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to help neighbors; Needs to find ways to use elections not guns to make government help people.

E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw: Quick to take action, even if reckless, once he makes a decision; Wound: As a farmer taking his produce to sell in Boston, he felt disrespected, put down by urban craftsmen, dockworkers, others

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret: Hates military action and guns because he saw too much violence in the war and just wants to live a quiet life; Hidden Agenda: Take up guns and command veterans’ protests to stop injustices fast so he can get back to normal life.

G. Internal Dilemma: Heal from the violence of war in a quiet family life but make sure the war was worth fighting by insisting on fairness for his neighbors… even if the only fast way to do that means arming himself and his neighbors

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? He is a peace-loving man who leads an armed rebellion

Other Key Pivotal Characters-

A. Name: Ruth Cunningham Otis,

B. Role in the Story: Widow of a patriot who triggered the calls for self-government

C. Core Traits: Elegant, charming, demanding, rigid

D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants comfortable life; Needs to learn to flex to people she disagrees with

E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw – intrusive; Wound – spoiled by her rich parents.

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret – she loathes the common people and more educated leaders who glorify them. Keep the colony loyal to the British Empire and set up an American aristocracy.

G. Internal Dilemma: Once loved her husband so doesn’t want to hurt him and still loves him when he agrees with her and does/says what she wants – but other times thinks he should be jailed.

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Shows the power of many Americans of any classes/backgrounds who, after the revolution, wanted an aristocracy and king to control the mobs

A. Name: Ebeneezer Mackintosh (Mac) – changes his first name to Alexander to become more respectable

B. Role in the Story: Private in Continental Army, a returning veteran who wants to protect the government from his rebellious peers… and gain the respect he wants to gain position and wealth

C. Core Traits: ¨Ambitious, aggressive, selfish

D. Motivation: Want/Need: Wants to be rich and powerful; needs to earn respect E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw – uses brute strength to win what he wants; Wound – angry he never had as many chances as wealthier people

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret – leads workers as part of his mob and later as soldiers but has no respect for the people he pretends he cares about; Hidden Agenda – Become just as respected and wealthy as any Lord in Parliament after he helps get rid of the Lords in the war for independence then help create an American Parliament

G. Internal Dilemma: Needs to act like a leader of the lower sorts when they disgust him… wants to be part of upper class but personally finds them disgusting too

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in this story? Represents post war veterans who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps but once rich, want to prove they are better than others, doesn’t believe that all men are created equal

Note – I’ve done profiles for all important additional characters but I’m the only one who needs all those details. And probably none of this makes sense in a vacuum

<b class=””>Ways to improve the Character Profiles.

A: Any parts of the profiles to improve? In script will be adding the above levels to the profile – no longer as much “on the nose”

B: How the characters can fulfill their role in the story more effectively: I will weave through the script more nuances — want but need, secret, unexpressed wound, etc.

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[Julie Dod]

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

I learned that you really have to know your characters well in order to create a fulfilling story.

Molly

A. Name: Molly
Dane <div>

B. Role in the
Story: Protagonist

C. Core Traits: Thoughtful,
Compassionate, nice

D. Motivation:
Want/Need: To be loved and appreciated

E. Flaw/Wound: Worries
what others think; Scared to ask for what she wants as this has always
failed—scared of rejection.

F. Secret/Hidden
Agenda: She wants a better husband/marriage – feels Jake is her soul
mate
G. Internal Dilemma: Needs
acceptance yet wants to be free and confident to be herself, who is different.
H. What makes this character
perfect for their role in this story?
Molly doesn’t try hard enough to be who she wants to be and instead
rushes into a relationship with Jake thinking it’s just her relationships
that she needs to fix.

2. Answer the questions to improve the Character Profiles.

A: Are there any parts of
the profile that you could improve? Show more of how Molly is
scared to be who she wants to be and say what she wants <div>

B: Can this character
fulfill their role in the story more effectively? More dramatic
interactions; more hesitancy with Jake – show the push pull that she feels
when she’s with him.

Dan

A. Name: Danny Dane </div><div>

B. Role in the Story: Danny is the Protagonist’s
husband, from whom she has become disappointed and frustrated with.

C. Core Traits: friendly, knowledgeable in his field,
devoted, know-it-all; avoids emotional, meaningful connections.

D. Motivation: Want = life to be easy. Need = to be
successful.

E. Flaw/Wound: Flaw = Lazy. Wound = lost Molly before
to Jake.

F. Secret/Hidden Agenda: Secret = knows it was his
fault Molly is unhappy in their relationship. Hidden Agenda = doesn’t want
to do anything hard as his job is hard enough.

G. Internal Dilemma: While blaming Jake for his
and Molly’s problems, he knows if he tried harder or tried to change, he
might have a chance or might not.

H. What makes this character perfect for their role in
the story? Dan’s personal struggles with success and failure make
him emotionally unavailable for Molly, and this drives the struggle
between him and Molly, forcing Molly to make a decision.

2. Answer the questions to improve the Character Profiles.

A: Are there any parts of
the profile that you could improve? I could try and show why
Dan is reluctant to have an emotionally intimate relationship with Molly. </div><div>

B: Can this character
fulfill their role in the story more effectively? Dan goes on
his own journey of change, which I could show more of.

Jake

A. Name: Jake </div><div>

B. Role in the
Story: Molly is happy when
she’s with him, and this gives her the courage to leave her marriage, as
her intention wasn’t to be disloyal.

C. Core Traits: charismatic,
likeable

D. Motivation:
Want/Need: Wants to be successful; knows he’s messed up in the past
and wants a fresh start

E. Flaw/Wound: He
can’t be honest with people.

F. Secret/Hidden
Agenda: He never intended his relationship with Molly to be long term
or permanent.

G. Internal Dilemma:
He does love Molly.

H. What makes this character
perfect for their role in this story?
Molly is desperate for an intimate connection and avails herself to
Jake even though she knows the relationship could end as it did in the
past. When she’s proved right, she
trudges through the sludge of loss and comes out her true self again.

2. Answer the questions to improve the Character Profiles.

A: Are there any parts of
the profile that you could improve? I could weave in some
flashbacks of their story, or show Jake on his own more, where we see he’s
not serious about Molly. <div>

B: Can this character
fulfill their role in the story more effectively? I’ll have to
think more on this one.

</div></div></div>

[birgit keil]

LOGLINE : A successful big city marketing executive is forced to return home to take care of her ailing parents and finds out she may not be able to get back to the job she loves.

CHARACTER NAME : Margot Janssen

ROLE : Caregiver to parents

CORE CHARACTER TRAITS :

– Take charge

– Workaholic

– Passive/Aggressive

– Rule follower

CHARACTER SUBTEXT LOGLINE : Underneath Margot’s confident persona, she is undermined by her insecurities.

FLAW : She doesn’t understand why she is alone.

WANT : To get back to her previous life as a marketing executive.

CHARACTER NAME : Marta Janssen

ROLE : Mother to lead female character.

CORE CHARACTER TRAITS :

– Uber-imaginative

– Consummate worrier

– Delusional

– Keeping up appearances

CHARACTER SUBTEXT LOGLINE : Despite Marta’s worries, sometimes the biggest problems are not a problem.

FLAW : Hates that her life didn’t turn out the way she imagined.

WANT : To get things back to normal.

CHARACTER NAME : Poppy Hill

ROLE : Neighbor of parents

CORE CHARACTER TRAITS :

– Airy

– Thinks her way is best

– Passive/Aggressive

– Keeping up appearances

– Take Charge

CHARACTER SUBTEXT LOGLINE : Self- described Janssen caregiver through

FLAW : Despite her easy attitude, underneath she is very controlling.

WANT : Wants to be in charge of the Janssen household.

CHARACTER NAME : Lewis Sullivan

ROLE : Margot’s work report

CORE CHARACTER TRAITS :

– Ambitious

– Snarky

– Underhanded

– Conniver

– Butt-kisser

CHARACTER SUBTEXT LOGLINE : Snarky and ambitious, he’ll do anything to climb the company ladder.

FLAW : Despite the obvious, he is afraid to “come-out”.

WANT : Wants to get Riley’s job.

CHARACTER NAME : Dieter Janssen

ROLE : Margot’s father

CORE CHARACTER TRAITS :

– Happy-go-lucky

– Tries to make everyone laugh

– Lovable

– Has dementia

– Has moments of brilliance

– Timing for inappropriateness

CHARACTER SUBTEXT LOGLINE : Lovable and sweet, but with the a lack of a filter.

FLAW : Between not wanting to wear a hearing aid and his memory loss, he always gets things mixed up.

WANT : Wanting to be loved.