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Visions Statement
Working Hard to become the best writer I can be and as a result I become the best writer in Hollywood.
What I learned from this assignment is…by delving into the characters motivations, wants and needs we create a stronger better layered script that will work on multiple levels.
Lloyd Shellenberger BWTV Module 1 Lesson 5 Depth of Emotions
Assignment 1 Show Profile
Title: Breaking Bad
WALTER PROFILE
A. Hope: Walter hopes to make enough to pay for the Cancer treatments / Fear: Arrested, shamed or dead.
B. Want: To be the man that is respected but will never be in the real world. / Need: To provide for his family for self recognition that he has never received.
C. Base Negative Emotion: Anger, indignation, and pride / Public Mask: Meek family man and teacher
D. Weaknesses: He has led an isolated life therefore he would not be street smart but he does make up for it in genius and intuitive abilities. He is woefully ignorant about the bad people and their intentions in the beginning, in the end he is no different than the bad guys.
E. Triggers: Being bullied, threats to his family and security he has provided for them.
F. Coping Mechanism: Family: Lying and evasion. He completely changes from an essentially good person to a really bad and despicable person. The transformation is stark.
SKYLER PROFILE
A. Hope: Hopes to takes care of her family and keep a secure and loving home. / Fear: Walter is dying but also the lifestyle she and Walter have built may be going away as well.
B. Want: To keep things as they have always been, to keep her family intact / Need: To control to stop whatever bad is happening around her but she cannot.
C. Base Negative Emotion: Weak or inadequate / Public Mask: Warm mother and wife, unaware of the impending doom that awaits her and everyone in the family.
D. Weaknesses: Powerless, need to control, believes the lies Walter has told her rather than putting an end to what he is doing.
E. Triggers: Being lied to. When her family is being threatened, primarily her sister whom she loves very much she does not handle that well.
F. Coping Mechanism: Manipulation. Lashes out at Walter Confronts Jesse to protect him. She even throws Walter out in an attempt tout an end to his enterprises.
JESSE PROFILE
A. Hope: to enjoy a productive life and prove his parents wrong that he is not a loser. / Fear: Arrested or killed because of the company he keeps and the lifestyle he has chosen.
B. Want: Drugs and money. / Need: Love and validation from his parents and society he will never receive.
C. Base Negative Emotion: Not worthy of love and acceptance/ Public Mask: Low key gangster and underachiever in every aspect
D. Weaknesses: Drug user, weak mental fortitude, coward.
E. Triggers: Being disrespected, challenges to his mental and cognitive abilities that are not very formable. He also realizes in the end he is a good person who is also a loser and the guilt is too much for him to take.
F. Coping Mechanism: Shut down/avoid/use drugs/run to his low life friends for comfort.
ASSIGNMENT 2: My Show
Compiled Profiles for Benjamin Greene
Title: Benjamin Greene
Characters name: Col Benjamin Greene
Character Role: Protagonist/ Commander of Special Operations Unit US Army
Episodic TV
A. Situational: Hope / Fear
1. Col. Benjamin Greene’s greatest hope is also his greatest fear. He basis his self worth and feelings of accomplishments upon the successful completion of each mission. His greatest fears are grounded in the failure of the mission as well.
2. He hopes to set aside a considerable nest egg from the black bag money he steals from the Puzzle Works for an exit strategy for himself and his son.
3. His greatest fear is being exposed, arrested, killed and his son going down with him.
4. Each situation or mission is meticulously planned and executed to leave nothing to chance. He is detail oriented and misses nothing but that is also one of his fears that he might miss something.
B. Motivation: Want / Need
1. He wants to keep one step ahead of the FBI, other agencies, and prying eyes to stay free and operational. He needs to be in control at all times of his resources, crew, and life in order to do that.
2. He wants to have an exit strategy in place should this blow up in his face or if the Puzzle Works suddenly sees him as a liability. He needs money and anonymity to do this. He is motivated by his need to protect himself, his son, and his crew from the Black suits and the FBI.
3. Col Greene wants power but not for power itself but to effect change. He does have a need for the love and approval of his son and the soldiers under his command. This is tied to his self-esteem. He knows this road he is on will end badly but he motivated by the desire to serve his country and the people he helps.
4. He wants respect and admiration but what he really needs is a sense of humanity he lost when his wife passed away. No amount of money or accomplishments can buy this. She completed him.
C. Base Emotion: Negative Emotion / Public Mask
1. Base Emotion: Fear of being exposed/ Public Mask: Competent leader
2. Base Emotion: Fears being alone./Public Mask: He desperately needs of approval from his son and crew/Confident and needing no-one.
3. Base Emotion: A killer with a cunning and formable intellect /Public Mask: Reserved and secretive. Quite Hero.
4. Base Emotion: Terror/ Public Mask: Allows in control and has the answers to every scenario. A brilliant leader
5. Base Emotion: Shame for his past he has kept from his son/ Public Mask: He has always been a soldier as far as his son knows. Col Greene’s past life with the CIA is buried and he would like to keep it that way.
D. Weaknesses
1. He has a secret that he will do anything to conceal from his son. This leaves him compromised and easily manipulated.
2. His greatest weakness and strength all at once is his son. He will do anything to protect him and that also leaves him vulnerable as well.
3. He has an ego and and arrogance about him that could lead to his downfall one day if he underestimates his opponents.
4. Everyone in Col. Greenes circle of influence will be hurt by him. He cuts a wide swath and no one is spared. This is one of his greatest weakness.
E. Triggers
1. When Col. Greene is stressed he slows down and performs at his best. He is the best there is at reading the room and coming up with solutions that cheat death if need be.
2. He loves his son and he promised his wife before she died he would always take care of Brian. Anything that threatens his son is subject to a wrath and punishment that is merciless.
3. Threats do not intimidate Col Green but what they tend to do is bring out the beast in him. He is an absolute killer who will gladly respond in a negative manner if pushed.
4. Challenges to his authority. Working for the Puzzle Works Col. Greene knows his orders must be carried out or it could mean the difference between life or death. His First Sergeant is experienced understands this as well and accepts nothing less.
F. Coping Mechanism
1. Manipulate, threat: Col Greene is a master manipulator who can engineer an outcome contrary to what should happen but when that fails he resort to threats and attacks back.
2. Alter their state: He drinks a bit to hide his pain but he is functional and never lets on to others about his use.
3. Distract: Changes subjects about what his circle of characters talk about and takes an interest in. Col. Greene influences them without them even knowing it. Lt. Greene and his girlfriend are the only ones immune to this manipulation and distractions.
4. Denial: Denial and plausible deniability are Col. Greenes stock and trade because secrets are never to be discussed and revealed.
5. Analyze: For a man who is so good at analyzing others and the situations Col Greene is remarkably unaware. He come from the older generation that believes you should just suck it up and move on.
Title: Benjiman Greene
Characters name: Lt. Brian Greene
Character Role: Protagonist/ Son of Commander of Special Operations Unit US Army
Episodic TV
A. Situational: Hope / Fear
1. Lt. Brian Greene’s greatest hope is also his greatest fear. He seeks approval from his father whom he idolizes. He hopes to be the best soldier on each mission. His greatest fears are grounded in the failure of the mission as well.
2. Like his father he secretly sets aside a considerable nest egg from stolen black bag money for a solid exit strategy for himself and his girlfriend.
3. His greatest fear is being exposed, arrested, killed and his father going down with him.
4. Each situation or mission is meticulously planned and executed to leave nothing behind. He is not as detail oriented as his father which can be a source of anxiety between he and his father.
B. Motivation: Want / Need
1. He wants to keep one step ahead of the FBI, other agencies, and prying eyes trying to turn him on his father and the unit. He needs to be one step ahead of everyone else in order to do that.
2. He secretly has an exit strategy in place knowing this will blow up in his face. The Puzzle Works sees him as a liability. He needs money and anonymity to do this. He is want to protect himself, his father and his crew form the Black suits and the FBI.
3. Lt. Greene wants power but not for power itself but to change the direction of the unit and take the bullseye off his father. He knows his father will never allow that.. He does have a need for love and approval of his father. Lt. Green knows this will all end badly. Lt. Greene wants to serve his country. He has a sense of empathy his father no longer possesses and protects that part of him at all costs.
4. He wants respect and admiration but what he really needs is a sense of security he lost when his mother passed. He truly admired her.
C. Base Emotion: Negative Emotion / Public Mask
1. Base Emotion: Shame: Fear of being exposed/ Public Mask: Competent leader loyal to his father.
2. Base Emotion: Fears being alone./ Public Mask: After the loss of his mother he desperately needs the approval of his father and crew
3. Base Emotion: Victim: The loss of his mother deeply affected him/ Public Mask A bravado that is unlike his father. He is not a killer but he is in a man’s world where weakness will not be tolerated. Friendly and outgoing, personable Hero. Definitely a victim and activist for his father and unit’s well being. There is also a social activist side of him in keeping with his generation. It is often in conflict with his fathers world views.
4.. Base Emotion: Shame for the deception Lt. Greene must practice./ Public Mask Loyalty: Lt. Greene is actively deceptive to his father and others around him in order to protect him and fend off those seeking to undermine his father’s command. Lt. Green is a good man that does not like these deceptions and feels shame fro them. This is another reason for his complete hatred and dislike of the Puzzle Works.
D. Weaknesses
1. He has a secret that he will do anything to conceal from his father. This leaves him compromised and easily manipulated.
2. His greatest weakness and strength all at once is his father and sense of duty. He will do anything to protect him and that also leaves him vulnerable as well.
3. He has an empathetic and caring nature about him that could lead to his downfall one day if his opponents use this against him.
4. Everyone in Lt. Greenes circle of influence is very loyal to him to a fault. This is another area of manipulation availaible from his opponents.
5. Lt. Greene has a secret that could destroy him. When he was younger growing up in New York, he killed a gang member who killed his girlfriend. No one knows this and it is his greatest secret. The FBI Agent eventually finds out and tries to leverage this to force him to help arrest his father.
E. Triggers
1. In Lt. Greenes situation, stress is where he slows down and performs at his best like his father. He is good at reading the room and coming up with solutions, but he uses empathy and willingness to help others as his default character.
2. Lt. Greene loves his father but often questions his humanity because of this tension and disagreement often follow his fathers handling of certain situations.
3. Lt. Greene appears as though he can be manipulated but he is exceptional at the end game and plays life chess better that his opponents. Once this instinct is triggered he can be very lethal and precise.
4. Lt. Greene knows his orders are to be carried out since it could mean life or death to everyone but he actively searches for the weakness in their plans. He detest them puzzle works and is a foil when he can be. He is loyal to his men to a fault and will do whatever it takes to protect them.
F. Coping Mechanism
1. Manipulate, threat: Lt. Greene is also a master manipulator who can engineer an outcome contrary to what should happen but when that fails he must often resort to his father for help.
2. Alter their state: Lt. Greene often resorts to sex or there distracting behaviors when stressed. He also will drink but not to the excesses of his father.
3. Distract: Changes subjects attempt to focus his father on things he sees as a threat. He knows his father can be blindsided by the people he works with and recognizes their distractions so he will often throw smoke screens and false gaffes to help him .
4. Denial: Denial and plausible deniability are Lt. Greenes stock and trade because secrets are never to be discussed and revealed not even to his father.
5. Analyze: Unlike his father Lt. Greene is remarkably self aware of himself and others. This often creates internal and external conflicts that Lt. Greene cannot reconcile.
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What I learned doing this assignment is the amount of extra work that’s needed on characterization in serials.
DARREN
A. Situational: Hope / Fear: Hope: To have Linda back home and live a quiet normal life. Fear: Linda will find someone or some thing better and he’ll lose her.
B. Motivation: Want / Need: Wants: Linda to revert to be a content little housewife. Needs: to forge a partnership with Linda.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: Base: shame Mask: indifference
D. Weaknesses: Procrastination
E. Triggers: Mockery
F. Coping Mechanism: Alcohol
LINDA
A. Situational: Hope / Fear: Hope: to force the hidden powers to respect the “ordinary” people. Fears: that the big people will be too powerful to defeat.
B. Motivation: Want / Need: Wants: to destroy the people that have robbed, bullied, cheated her and hers. Needs: to win back her self-respect.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: Base: anger Mask: Christian values
D. Weaknesses: Won’t take advice
E. Triggers: Disrespect
F. Coping Mechanism: Control over others
WEE HENRY
A. Situational: Hope / Fear: Hope: to get rich with or without Linda. Fears: he’s doomed to remain a bottom feeder
B. Motivation: Want / Need: Wants: money and power. Needs: admiration of others
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: Base: poverty Mask: conspicuous consumption
D. Weaknesses: Low self respect
E. Triggers: Someone else has something he covets
F. Coping Mechanism: Showing off
ROARING CECIL
A. Situational: Hope / Fear: Hopes: to lead a powerful, well-attended church with a powerful voice in the community. Fears: the power of mammon is too much.
B. Motivation: Want / Need: Wants:power in the community to return the people to the righteous path. Needs: to rediscover his faith in God.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: Base: fear Mask: good living
D. Weaknesses: Loss of his faith
E. Triggers: Pride
F. Coping Mechanism: His status as a leader of his church
BIG HEAVY
A. Situational: Hope / Fear: Hopes: to get out alive. Fears: that he’s too old, too slow, and people are sharpening their knives for him.
B. Motivation: Want / Need: Wants: to be feared, the power. Needs: to give up gracefully and retire to his fishing.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: Base: fear Mask: fears nothing
D. Weaknesses: His health
E. Triggers: Fear
F. Coping Mechanism: Hurting people
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What I learned doing this assignment is…understanding triggers and motivation will be key to creating dialog and responses to situations for each character.
ASSIGNMENT 1: Riverdale
Betty:
A. Situational: Hopes to be loved and accepted / Fears she’s inadequate compared to other kids.
B. Motivation: Wants to know the truth / Needs everything to be okay.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion inner anger and rage/ Public Mask- nice girl persona
D. Weaknesses-her rage sneaks up on her and pushes her to the edge unexpectedly.
E. Triggers- anger at betrayal
F. Coping Mechanism-denial
Veronica:
A. Situational: Hopes for friendship and fresh start / Fears judgement because of dad’s actions and her past
B. Motivation: Wants to be better version of herself, no longer a mean girl / Needs to be liked and accepted.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion feels unworthy/ Public Mask- confident NYC girl.
D. Weaknesses- quick to anger and seek retaliation and control.
E. Triggers – being lied to
F. Coping Mechanism – anger, manipulation
ASSIGNMENT 2: My PS
Lizzy:
A. Situational: Hopes for a fresh start and chance to be better person / Fears being found by the criminals she testified against and not using what she learned and making the same mistakes again.
B. Motivation: Want” Safety / Need: Acceptance
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – people would rather be interacting with anyone over her / Public Mask- outgoing and self-assured.
D. Weaknesses: She invests emotionally in people for who she thinks they could be, not who they really are.
E. Triggers- betrayal
F. Coping Mechanism- food, alcohol, secret sex
Sean:
A. Situational: Hope that he can live his life freely / Fears he’s constantly being judged.
B. Motivation: Wants to be respected / Needs to be in control/right.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion – scars of shame from family disowning him / Public Mask – confident, gay man.
D. Weaknesses- jealous of others’ successes
E. Triggers- being left out or deceived.
F. Coping Mechanism- alcohol, holding grudges, manipulation.
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BW Module 1 Lesson 5 Depth of Emotions
Lynn and Jack’s Character Emotions
What I learned about doing this assignment is…the puzzle is coming together but it’s still in development.
ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show is Breaking Bad
Watch the next episode of your Example Show and create an Emotional Profile for two or three main characters in this show.
Walter
A. Situational: Hope / Fear
Make the 2 million to leave behind before he dies.
B. Motivation: Want / Need
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask
Never, so far, letting on that he is selling illegal drugs.
D. Weaknesses: Hides that he has a second cell phone, getting caught with the second cell phone, gets kidnapped by Tuco
E. Triggers: Perception that he is not / has not provided for the family enough
F. Coping Mechanism: Lie
Skyler
A. Situational: Hope / Fear
Be a mom, take care of family / Losing Walt to cancer and to his evasiveness
B. Motivation: Want / Need
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask
D. Weaknesses
E. Triggers
Walt not letting her in emotionally
F. Coping Mechanism
Leaves the home to go “out” with no explanation just like Walt has been doing to her. Complains to her sister.
Jesse
A. Situational: Hope / Fear
Make a lot of money from meth
B. Motivation: Want / Need
To be respected by Walt and not viewed as a burnout slacker.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask
Dread of contempt / Moves forward in order to keep moving forward
D. Weaknesses
Does not think strategically too much of the time
E. Triggers
Disrespect
F. Coping Mechanism
Smoking meth, smoking weed
ASSIGNMENT 2: “2rue Love” competing bars with lie detector theme
1. For each of your main characters, brainstorm an Emotional Profile, filling in the following:
Lynn
A. Situational: Hope / Fear
Make more money than Jack
B. Motivation: Want / Need
Grow a business better than she was allowed to in the corporate world.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask
Angst over feeling of being held back. Hides it and pretends everything is ok.
D. Weaknesses
Greed, lying
E. Triggers
Heavy handed boss, heavy handed husband who can be too critical
F. Coping Mechanism
Drinking, smoking marijuana, shopping
Jack
A. Situational: Hope / Fear
Make more money than Lynn and not get arrested for breaking the law in doing so.
B. Motivation: Want / Need
Make more money than Lynn / Have lots of money
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask
Pretends grace under pressure
D. Weaknesses
Punches walls when no one is around, so not so graceful under pressure
E. Triggers
Coming in second place. It’s like getting an F. First or nothing which is nuts because combined with Lynn they make over 450,000 per year. Who cares who makes more? Jack does.
F. Coping Mechanism
Work harder, cheat, do illegal things to make more money in his bar, lift weights
Sean
A. Situational: Hope / Fear
Run his speakeasy without getting caught, getting arrested for running his speakeasy.
B. Motivation: Want / Need
Make money, lots of it as a teenager.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask
Pretends grace under pressure
D. Weaknesses
He’s in ninth grade, he’s a kid.
E. Triggers
Accusation that he doesn’t have what it takes; that his business skills are poor when actually they are not.
F. Coping Mechanism
Smoking weed, having a robot do roles that call for a heavy or an adult regarding running his speakeasy for his high school mates.
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CJ’s Characters’ Emotions:
What I learned during this assignment was to search out a character’s “bad” traits and dig into them. Then twist the knife and dig some more.
Assignment 1: Mr. Robot
Emotional Profile: Elliot
A. Hope: peace of mind / Fear: insanity
B. Want: make world better via hacking / Need: to hack his own mind
C. Base Negative Emotion: disdain / Public Mask: distant, emotionless
D. Weaknesses: doesn’t even know his own life or mind so clueless about others and social situations, walled off from emotion
E. Triggers: bullying, injustice
F. Coping Mechanism: hacks into every part of enemy’s life and uses it to take revenge from a distance
ASSIGNMENT 2: My show, Patient X
Dr. Angela Rossi:
A. Situational: Hope she’s not actually dying/ Fear of abandonment—losing her mind to a disease would be the ultimate abandonment
B. Motivation: Wants love/ Needs self-esteem
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: Fear / Public Mask: uber-competent, fearless doctor who can fix anything
D. Weaknesses: trusts no one, so doesn’t let anyone close enough to find love; control freak, which can’t be if your mind is being destroyed; reckless
E. Triggers: anyone telling her “no, you can’t”
F. Coping Mechanism: jumps into problems before thinking–and before fears can stop her
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BRIAN BULL – Depth of Emotions
“What I learned from doing this assignment is…
Giving Depth of Emotions to your characters will help determine how they behave and react to situations throughout your script – this is important as it will provide consistency and a connection with the audience as they will get to “know” your characters.ASSIGNMENT 1
Watch the next episode of your Example Show and create an Emotional Profile for two or three main characters in this show.
RIVERDALE
ARCHIE ANDREWSHope: To be a respected musician / Fear: Failure
Want: To pursue his music career / Need: Approval from others
Base Negative Emotion: Not good enough / Public Mask: In control
Weaknesses: He’s not good enough
Triggers: When he is challenged / competitive
Coping Mechanism: Shuts down and loses his confidenceBETTY COOPER
Hope: To get together with Archie / Fear: To wind-up like her sister
Want: To know the truth / Need: She needs closure, a problem solver
Base Negative Emotion: Insecurity / Public Mask: Everything is okay
Weaknesses: Much to honest, her innocence
Triggers: Injustice, Being compared to her sister
Coping Mechanism: To get to the bottom of everythingVERONICA LODGE
Hope: A fresh start, to start over again / Fear: Not to be respected by her peers
Want: Friends, To be included; to fit in / Need: To be accepted by others
Base Negative Emotion: Insecurity / Public Mask: Confident
Weaknesses: InsecurityTriggers: Others being taken advantage of
Coping Mechanism: Confrontational, smooth things out quicklyASSIGNMENT 2
FORESIGHT
JIM BROWNHope: To find love / Fear: To die alone
Want: To fall in love / Need: Someone to share his life with
Base Negative Emotion: Getting hurt / Public Mask: Confident and intelligentWeaknesses: Makes mistakes, miscalculates
Triggers: People who think they know more
Coping Mechanism: Silent Payback – revenge, sarcasm
DELORES
Hope: To find love / Fear: Getting hurt
Want: To make it on her own / Need: To prove her self worth
Base Negative Emotion: Inadequate, low self esteem / Public Mask: fun, funny
Weaknesses: Easily persuaded
Triggers: Being lied to
Coping Mechanism: AggressionGLORIA
Hope: To be the best psychic in town / Fear: People will think she’s a fraud
Want: To be taken seriously / Need: Self confidence
Base Negative Emotion: Living in her sister’s shadow / Public Mask: Easy going
Weaknesses: Powerless
Triggers: Scared of the dark
Coping Mechanism: Shuts downJEZEBEL
Hope: To find the crystal ball / Fear: To be at the mercy of others
Want: To be powerful / Need: To be in controlBase Negative Emotion: Being taken advantage of / Public Mask: Confident
Weaknesses: Only cares for herself
Triggers: Not getting what she wants
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C A Holmes, Depth of Emotions, What I learned is how the mask covers vulnerability.
Module 1 Lesson 5 Depth of Emotions “The two main character’s emotional states do not mirror or even have anything to do with each other, they are not responding to each others emotions but to their own deep emotional needs?”
C A Holmes THE CRUX Character Emotions Eddies terror that Ginny is dying, Ginny’s surrender because she now knows she is dying.
ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show I decided to do the diplomat because I was getting so tired of the senseless violence in Breaking Bad, besides the Diplomat is what made me realize I wanted to do a binge worthy TV series. The Diplomat is a sophisticated group of people, more fun for me to watch after too many drug cartel moments.
ASSIGNMENT 1: The Diplomat
1. Emotional Profile for Kate Wyler:
A. Situational: Hope / Fear Kate first time diplomate hopes to do good by the people of Afghanistan who she has helped before. Fear: That her husband Hal will manipulate and lie to her, as always. She loves him, but can never trust him.
B. Motivation: Want to help others in the world less fortunate, to make a difference / Need: safety in relationships, to trust and be trusted, someone she can tell the truth to, who will be just as honest back to her
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion: anger at Hal / Public Mask: serious and responsible diplomacy, pretending a semblance of order
D. Weaknesses: she is unable to get rid of, or let go of Hal, but when ever he is close to her, drama lies and manipulations ensue
E. Triggers: Hal being in danger
F. Coping Mechanism: She tries to separate her work from him, to not include him in her work at all if she can manage it.Emotional Profile for Hal Wyler
A. Situational: Hope / Fear, The most powerful role he can play is his hope. Fear: that he will lose Kate.
B. Motivation: Want / Need, He wants to be president, VP or Secretary of State, give speeches, be admired in the public eye, be the smartest guy in the room. He needs Kate sexually and in every other way as a relationship, to be at his side, so he tries to do that for her.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask, Ambitious Chaos, with the Public Mask of a superhero
D. Weaknesses: Lies, Manipulates, endangers others, plays the hero while other people are killed and their lives destroyed because he isn’t wise enough to notice the course of his actions will do these things as well
E. Triggers: He instinctively knows power when he sees it and gravitates to whomever he thinks has it, and then manipulates the situation to his advantage.
F. Coping Mechanism Manners, good looks, being what someone wants him to be until it does not fit with his idea of himself and it all goes to the wayside. He may be one of the smartest guys in the room, but he does not have deep emotional intelligence.<div>Emotional Profile for Austin the Foreign Secretary
Situational: Hope / Fear He hopes to keep the country safe, he fears the Prime Minister will do something to endanger everyone.
B. Motivation: Want / Need He wanted to be Prime Minister, but he needs to learn how to fight against people who are manipulative, greedy, irrational, and maybe corrupt.
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask He is angry when people are not on the up and up, but does not know what to do about it, his public mask is integrity and dignity and a bit of an intellectual good guy.
D. Weaknesses: he is compassionate which is not a weakness at all, but can also be manipulated by a needy woman. He is an earnest knight in shining armor, with no street smarts.
E. Triggers: Authority he tries to obey, but does not know what to do when the person in authority is corrupt.
F. Coping Mechanism: politeness, patience, rules of orderASSIGNMENT 2: MY Show
1. Emotional Profile for Eddie:
A. Situational: Hope / Fear Eddie hopes to be the greatest American Writer, He fears he will remain poor, lose Ginny, and never be known or able to share his genius
B. Motivation: Want / Need He wants fame and fortune, but needs love
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask, He is angry, snippy, jealous but his public Mask is that he is a southern gentleman
D. Weaknesses Alcohol
E. Triggers Feelings of loss, or being put down
F. Coping Mechanism: He writes and pretends he is in another world.2. Emotional Profile for Ginny:
A. Situational: Hope / Fear Hopes to be a good wife and be creative like her husband is, fear is that she will die and never get to do any of it
B. Motivation: Want / Need She wants to love, but needs to be loved
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask, She is almost like a child so she behaves like one sometimes, her public mask is of a recluse
D. Weaknesses in denial about her Illness
E. Triggers goes into another world when Eddie tells her stories, she can then believe anything
F. Coping Mechanism: hiding, being quiet, being shy3. Emotional Profile for Mariah:
A. Situational: Hope / Fear Hopes to be a good mother and mother in law. Fear she will not be able to protect the people she loves
B. Motivation: Want / Need She wants to useful but needs to be in control
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask, She is almost like a slave to those she loves, Public Mask is that she is the Matriarch
D. Weaknesses does not really have a life of her own without taking care of someone, she is kind of at a loss when she is not in that caretaking position
E. Triggers: when anyone is ill or needs help she steps in and gives her very best
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John Duvall’s Character Emotions
“What I learned doing this assignment is” how to look deeper into my characters’ emotional lives and deeper personal motivations.
ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show
Watch the next episode of your Example Show and create an Emotional Profile for two or three main characters in this show.
Offred
· A. Situational: Hope to escape / Fears death, physical harm, being sent to colonies
· B. Motivation: Wants freedom & passion / Needs empowerment
· C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask: Compliance
· D. Weaknesses: Losing control
· E. Triggers: Being vulnerable; Seeing injustice to others
· F. Coping Mechanism: Shuts down Commander Waterford
· A. Situational: Hopes to procreate / Fear of impotence & infertility
· B. Motivation: Wants to be liked / Needs connection
· C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: Male authority
· D. Weaknesses: Uncomfortable in his role; fatalistic
· E. Triggers: Having his control threatened
· F. Coping Mechanism: Rationalizing his status
Serena Joy Waterford
· A. Situational: Hopes for a child / Fear of being childless
· B. Motivation: Wants a child / Needs fulfillment
· C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: Strong woman
· D. Weaknesses: Jealousy/Envy
· E. Triggers: Projects fear of failure
· F. Coping Mechanism: Manipulation
ASSIGNMENT 2: Your Show
1. For each of your main characters, brainstorm an Emotional Profile, filling in the following: Carolyn Woolf
· A. Situational: Hope live won’t be disrupted by war; Fear that it will
· B. Motivation: Wants to hang on to normalcy; Need a path to self-expression
· C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: devotion to husband & daughter
· D. Weaknesses: Lack of self-confidence, resistance to change
· E. Triggers: Loss of control over circumstances
· F. Coping Mechanism: Shutting down in face of change, drinking too much
Melba Walker
· A. Situational: Hope to survive setbacks; Fear of desperation & deprivation
· B. Motivation: Wants security; Needs more self-empowerment
· C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: Assertive – I’m in control.
· D. Weaknesses: Traumatized by racial violence of her youth.
· E. Triggers: Fatalism of others.
· F. Coping Mechanism: Gets angry, fights back
Rose Combs
· A. Situational: Hopes to find security; Fear of dependence on relatives
· B. Motivation: Wants to learn required skills; Needs to gain self-confidence
· C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: I’m a hard worker.
· D. Weaknesses: Stranger in strange land; insecure rootlessness.
· E. Triggers: Being overwhelmed by unmanageable challenges.
· F. Coping Mechanism: Alternates between depression and fighting back
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