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Tony J Scott Character Profiles Part 1
2. With each of your lead characters, first tell us the following:
A. The High Concept. With the Vatican/Vampire peace talks failing, a
young black woman must time travel to a slave plantation in Savannah 1863
to alter her family history.· B. This character’s journey. Internal journey: from a sickly defiant girl who hates who she is to a strong proud and confident world leader.
External journey: From time traveling to kill her ancestor to protecting him and joining him to kill his enemies and bringing peace to the future world.
C. The Actor Attractors for this character. Protagonist Najah Blackman.
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
· Najah is a young black woman who on the night of her 21<sup>st</sup> birthday celebration she is to commit to living her life as a vampire. She is outspoken, disobedient and her family traditions repulse her. She refuses. Najah becomes deathly ill because she refuses to drink human blood. She evolves into a true hero and defender of her family heritage and dynasty leading the Vatican and Vampire worlds into a peace agreement.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
· In the present she is weak and sickly but also defiant and determined, troubled black history major who gets firsthand experience of how her family history evolved when she time travels to the past. In the past she is strong, healthy and becomes a courageous protector of her family patriarch.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
· She discovers how to prevent herself from becoming a vampire. She has to kill her ancient ancestor, the vampire patriarch of the family, while he is lying in a century long sleep. She steals away to the family mausoleum to kill him but is caught by her uncle. She time travels to Savannah Ga 1863 where the same elder ancestor is a slave with intentions of killing him in the past.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
· A young black woman refusing to conform to family norms travels back in time intent on murdering her elder ancestor. She thinks she has to lie and deceive everyone she comes in contact with to find the person responsible for her torment in the future only to come to love him in the end and must save his life for her to have a future.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range?
· From empathy to compassion concerning the treatment of humans, to anger and embarrassing to depression when it comes to her father.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
· In the present she is scheming to kill her elder while he sleeps, in the past she is hiding who she is so she can find her elder and kill him. To in the present scheming to make sure her father never becomes the family head of state to in the past making sure the vampire hunters don’t kill her elder.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
· She is in conflict with the way her father is running the family and the war and wants to do everything she can to have him removed from power. In the past she’s intent on killing her elder but ends up loving and respecting him and willing to die for him. In the present she has respect for her uncle and thinks he should run the family to end the war. She has a love interest of sorts but he is devoted to her father and is the spitting image and descendant to her enemy in the past which begins to affect her feelings for him in the present.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
· She is a defender, protector and conscientious objector to the war but at the same time hates what she is and plans to kill her elder ancestor to free her from the curse.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
· Her outspokenness, her sympathies, her anger and determination, her empathy for humans, her defiance, and her ability, with all of her empathy she wouldn’t hurt a fly but is willing to kill her ancestor to be free from the curse.
3. Brainstorm the first 6 parts of the profile for each of your lead characters.
Role in the Story: Protagonist Najah Blackman
Age range and Description: 21, Light Skinned black woman,
athletic build, short hair
Core Traits: Brave, Haunted, Intolerant
Motivation; Want/Need: She wants to live as a human, she needs
to kill her ancestor
Wound: Witnessing her mother and other humans being processed
for food in her father’s plant.6.
Old Ways.
· Likability: Before the ceremony her uncle visits her in her room. She looks at a picture of her and her mother together when she was a child and wishes her mother was still around for her big night.
· Relatablility: She has always been of a free mind, disobedient, stubborn. She really misses her mother and asks her uncle why she left her all those years ago.
· Empathy: During the ceremony, Najah has a traumatic memory triggered seeing her mother sealed in a plastic bag and hanging from a hook in the secret food processing plant owned by her father.
New Plan
· Likability: Preferring to live her life as a human, she’s determined to kill her grandfather and end the curse.
· Relatability: The more Najah denies who she is meant to become the sicker she gets.
· Empathy: She is willing to die rather than become a Vampire like her Father.
Newer Plan:
· Likability: Najah discovers that she can time travel.
· Relatability: She wants to discover her family’s roots
· Empathy: When she returns to the present, her and her uncle bond over what she’s learned from the past. They can research the archives together to help her with her quest.
Newer Plan:
· Likability: Najah discovers that her grandfather’s life is in danger from the Vampire hunters.
· Relatability: She tries to help her grandfather fight them off but he is losing to them.
· Empathy: She has to bite a soldier and become a vampire to save her grandfather’s life.
7. Character Subtext: After her memory is triggered she finally realizes why she doesn’t want to be a vampire and why she hates her father.
8. Character Intrigue: Her unspoken wound is what has always driven her to be who she is and why she despises vampires. She is secretly time traveling. Her uncle is the only one who knows her secret.
9. Flaw: She believes all vampires are evil and corrupt because of her father.
10. Values: She values human life over vampire lives.
11. Character Dilemma: Choosing murder over family tradition.
2. With each of your lead characters, first tell us the following: Antagonist Horace Blackman
A. The High Concept. A. The High Concept. With the
Vatican/Vampire peace talks failing, a young black woman must time travel
to a slave plantation in Savannah 1863 to alter her family history.B. This character’s journey. Internal Journey from an angry
betrayed husband to a corrupt power hungry family leader to planning the
execution of his own father.
C. The Actor Attractors for this character.:Movie Title: IN THE BLOOD Antagonist Horace Blackman
1. What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it?
· He thinks of himself before anyone else but comes off as considerate of others. He won’t hesitate to order someone to death while making a jest about it. He is the interim ruler who rules by fear but claims he rules out of duty and love for the people. He believes his kingdom is as devoted to him as he is to himself. A truly selfish dictator who secretly wants to rule all the vampire clans and believes he has full support.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story?
· In the opening scene he as someone sent to the sun room. The only voice he needs to hear is his own. It’s his world everyone else exists because he allows it. He chooses to see things the way he wants and doesn’t consider there is any other way to perceive things.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script?
· He has one of the towns leaders executed and holds his young son as captive. He has one of his generals spy on his daughter while pretending affections for her. Even though the vampires are clearly losing the war with the Vatican he refuses to acknowledge and in fact lies to the opposite. In the past he had his human wife preserved in the food processing plant and lied to his daughter about why she left the family.
4. How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor?
· He’s the egotistical current head of the main Vampire clans who is totally upending centuries of peace with the humans established by his father who is currently in a deep sleep. He’s stealing money raised for the war effort to secretly build an even larger human food processing plant.
5. What could be this character’s emotional range?
· From the cock on the block because everything is in some way about him to a hurt puppy when in the end his father, the true king is awakened and assumes the throne.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
· But what is this saying about me?
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have?
· His relationship with his brother Winston, who is very close with Najah, is one of self worship. He thinks his brother worships the ground he walks on. Even when he takes his brothers advice he’ll think his brother is only looking out for him. He despises Winston because he knows he had a long going affair with his wife. His relationship with his daughter is fire and ice but he thinks he can fix her. He knows that Najah is not his daughter but keeps the secret out of shame for himself. The relationship with his elder father, the patriarch of the family, Josiah, he knows better than his father about what needs to be done about the humans in this century.
8. How will this character’s unique voice be presented?
· He only hears the sound of his own voice because he is the sitting ruler.
9. What could make this character special and unique?
He can come off sounding like he has the good of the kingdom at heart but is really only thinking of himself because he’s the ruler.
3. Brainstorm the first 6 parts of the profile for each of your lead characters.
Role in the Story: Antagonist, Najah’s father, Interim Vampire
Head of Family’s
Age range and Description: African American, 50’s, ageless
Vampire
Core Traits: Corrupt, hateful, power hungry
Motivation; Want/Need: Wants to be the One Ruler of all Vampire
Clans, needs to kill his father.
Wound: Witnessing his father being captured by slavers,
witnessing his wife’s affair with his older brother.Antagonist: Horace Blackman
· Likability: He misses his dad when he was younger only.
· Relatability: Competed with his older brother as kids. Loved his father.
· Empathy: His happy childhood changed when he witnessed his father being captured by slavers.
· Likability: He admires his father’s accomplishments.
· Relatability: He falls in love with a human even though he hates them.
· Empathy: He witnesses his brother is sleeping with his wife and is heartbroken and believes Najah isn’t his daughter.
· Likability: He tries to help Najah forget seeing her mother hanging dead in the food processing plant.
· Relatability: No matter what he does he can’t get Najah to like him.
· Empathy: Horace had Najah hypnotized to help her forget what she saw.
7. Character Subtext: He secretly fears how evil humans really are and is afraid to trust the Vatican because of a memory he thinks he has where his father was captured and taken to America as a slave.
8. Character Intrigue: He has a secret human food trafficking ring and food processing plant and needs to keep control of the family from his peace seeking father.
9. Flaw: He’s afraid to admit that the Vatican is actually winning the war.
10. Values: He values his own opinion and decisions.
11. Character Dilemma: His fear of being betrayed by humans or losing the war.
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Subject Line: Claudia’s Character Profiles Part 2.
My vision: To become the best screenwriter I can be, and to find success in the industry.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: how the character subtext and intrigue informs the flaws, values and dilemmas that will elevate the script.
Grace O’Malley
· 7. Character Subtext: After a lifetime of deferring to the expectations of others rather than pursuing her own dreams, Grace falls in love with a completely unsuitable man – a Tuskegee airman.
· 8. Character Intrigue: Secret: Her brother was a deserter and her family expects her to restore their family honor by being completely above reproach.
· 9. Flaw: Grace undervalues herself, doing what she is told rather than what is right.
· 10. Values: Family and duty.
· 11. Character Dilemma: Love versus duty.
Ann Wahl
· 7. Character Subtext: A closet lesbian whose family disowned her when they discovered her sexual orientation, Ann hides her fear of rejection under a brash, “don’t give a shit” exterior.
· 8. Character Intrigue: Hidden agenda: To make Grace fall in love with her.
· 9. Flaw: Desperately afraid of rejection, Ann goes on the attack at the slightest hint of criticism.
· 10. Values: Professional excellence, saving the lives of the soldiers in her care.
· 11. Character Dilemma: Selfishness versus sacrifice.
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Subject Line: Will Jennings Character Profiles Part 2
My Vision: I will write movies that are extremely funny and entertaining and bring a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment to a world starving for true enjoyment.
What I learned from doing this assignment is the difficulty of bringing out the hidden feelings and emotions of your characters.
Gwendolyn
Character Profile
Role in the Story: Dual Protagonist
Age range and Description: Teens
Core Traits: Spirited, Cheerful, Loyal, Sarcastic
Motivation:
Want: To make oppressed girl’s lives better.
Need: To be everyone’s best friend.
Wound: Having strict parental control, she wonders if she can ever loosen up.
Likability: She’s nice, everyone loves her.
Relatability: They all crave her never-failing loyalty.
Empathy: Her quirky sense of humor is out there but a lot of fun.
Character Subtext: She hides behind her sarcastic wit due to her lack of confidence.
Character Intrigue: Sent on a mission to help earthlings from her Queen mother in Fairyland.
Flaw: Undervalues herself – She never sees her own attributes. She always downplays her intelligence and never claims credit and can never say “no.”
Values: She’s the ultimate team player, the one who is always ready to lend a hand.
Character Dilemma: She is the local tomboy who secretly wants to be the junior prom queen.
Abigail
Character Profile
Role in the Story: Dual Protagonist
Age range and Description: Teens
Core Traits: Meddling, Impulsive, Undisciplined, Fun-loving.
Motivation:
Want: To make oppressed girl’s lives better.
Need: To have her enchanting stardust land on everyone.
Wound: Having little parental control, her parents loved her spontaneity and let her inspire other children into mischief. Thanks a lot!
Likability: Her meddling is fun but annoying.
Relatability: Her zany antics are a riot to watch.
Empathy: A hippie chick stuck in today’s world of complete losers.
Character Subtext: She tries to hide the fact that she is completely impulsive and rarely thinks before she speaks and sometimes hurts feelings.
Character Intrigue: Sent on a mission to help earthlings from her Queen mother in Fairyland.
Flaw: She is meddling and uncontrollably drawn to interfere, regardless of the wishes of her victims.
Values: She is sincere and not conniving because it is so much easier to be honest and truthful.
Character Dilemma: She fears showing her serious and intelligent side because of her zany and crazy behavior.
Brandi
Character Profile
Role in the Story: Antagonist
Age range and Description: Teens
Core Traits: Intolerant, Short-tempered, Egotistical, Arrogant.
Motivation:
Want: To have everyone put her on a pedestal.
Need: To gain complete respect from each and every one of the lesser people or else.
Wound: I was raised by two idiots without any sense of morality and my future looks even worse. I’m doomed!
Likability: Big girl on campus and don’t you forget it.
Relatability: Follow my lead if you want to stay on top.
Empathy: She survived her parents and still made juvenile detention parole.
Character Subtext: She is constantly plotting to get things done. She sees no need to change her abrupt behavior for political correctness.
Character Intrigue: Conspiracies: She is from a family that has roots in organized crime and everyone fears them.
Flaw: Her Overconfidence turns a lot of people off. But no matter, life is too short to worry about the little people.
Values: This is a woman who is always confident and constantly knows where she is going. She comes up with a plan and makes it happen.
Character Dilemma: She thrives on accomplishing her goals and agendas and fights off any feelings of emotional guilt.
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Anna’s Character Profiles, Part 2
My personal vision: to get my writing mojo back.
What I learned from this assignment: I banged out a few more character traits. They’re beginning to “speak to me”, but I’ve got a lot more work before they’re ready to put down onto the page.
Title: La Sirène (The Mermaid)
Concept: A Coast Guard maverick suspects that his wheel-chair-bound oceanography professor, who holds the fate of his career in her hands, is involved in a series of terrorist attacks against poachers by killer dolphins.
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Character: Jacob Staats
Character Subtext:
Luring / Seducing – Jacob intends to figure out who is behind the dolphin attacks on the boats – and doesn’t have a problem with leading the people he is investigating down a merry road in order to elicit information.
Character Intrigue:
Unspoken Wound: Jacob desperately wants a large family, just like the one he grew up in. But his wife keeps miscarrying, and there is no guarantee she’ll be able to carry her current pregnancy to term.Unspoken Wound #2: his father died in a coal mining accident, buried alive. Its his greatest fear, the thought of the earth trapping him, which is why this Appalachian boy was drawn to the ocean.
Flaw:
Overdoing things – Jacob’s not just heroic, he’s a hero’s hero among a profession filled with risk-takers and daredevils, and sometimes that gets him into trouble.Undervalues themselves – despite all his bravado, Jacob undervalues his intellectual abilities. He still thinks of himself as a “dumbass hillbilly” even though he’s self-taught.
Values:
FamilyDutyCourage
Character Dilemma:
Family vs. Duty
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Mahee’s Character Profiles Part 2
My Vision – I want to be a great writer who is well-respected and recognized in the industry, with successful books published and blockbuster movies produced. I want to create a successful movie franchise that audiences all over the world will love, rave about, look forward to, and continue to enjoy many years from now.
What I learned from doing this assignment is discovering what is under the surface for my lead characters.
Character: Trevon Campbell (Protagonist)
High Concept: When a prominent black historian studying an ancient tribe is brutally murdered, his son must must embark on an interdimensional journey to find the assassin.
This character’s journey: In the pursuit of his father’s assassin, Trevon must rebel against Reverend DuVernay, find his way back, and realize his purpose.
The Actor Attractors for this character:
1. Why would an actor WANT to be known for this role?
He’s an intelligent kid with a bright future but going down the wrong path influenced by an evil man. A search for his father’s murderer takes him on an interdimensional journey into a parallel world helping him re-discover his purpose.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in the movie?
He’s a young man on the verge of breaking apart and wasting away the productive years of his life before realization hits him and puts him back on the right track.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead takes in the movie?
He’s an intelligent and well-educated kid who is influenced by an opportunistic and corrupt politician. The man puts him on a path of danger and destruction. His father’s murder gives him a wake up call. He must find the killer. More importantly, he must find himself. An interdimensional journey fulfills his goals and puts him on a path of self-realization. He needs to fight for a greater purpose. He runs against the corrupt politician and defeats him in the elections.
4. How is this character introduced that could sell it to an actor?
A high-strung, agitated young man must give up his rebellious ways to embark on an interdimensional journey to find his father’s murderer. But the journey takes him to a parallel world and puts him on a path of self-realization.
5. What is this character’s emotional range?
From a confused, agitated, and ignorant follower to a confident, knowledgeable and able leader.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
His interdimensional journey to a parallel world is a look in the mirror of the current state of his life.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character has?
His relationship with Sean Madden. Without his help, the path to self-realization may never happen.
8. How is this character’s unique voice presented?
Through his line – I fight for my people.
9. What makes this character special and unique?
He breaks down a big problem to smaller, more manageable ones. He always cuts to the chase.
Role in the Story: In his fight against Reverend DuVernay, Trevon embarks on an interdimensional journey searching for his father’s assassin.
Age range and Description: A young kid in his late teens, bright but rebellious, walks into a large packed conference hall with a gang of mobsters intent on destroying everything.
Core Traits:
– Aggressive/High-strung
– Never say die attitude
– Methodical and cuts to the chase
– Confident
Motivation; Want/Need:
Want: To find the assassin who killed his father
Need: To put an end to Reverend DuVernay’s political career and carry on his father’s purpose.
Wound: What they can’t face: His father has been brutally murdered.
Likability, Relatability, Empathy:
Likability: No matter how big the problem is, he is ready to face it head on. He’s methodical, calculated, and always cuts to the chase.
Relatability: A bright young kid, who has been taken advantage of and led down the wrong path, is now trying his best to find his way back as he searches for his father’s killer.
Empathy: He has lost everyone in his family and is now the only one standing.
Character Subtext: He is spiraling down the wrong path but is afraid to admit it. He’s scheming, plotting trying to link DuVernay to his father’s death before learning that the assassin is not of this world. In pursuit of the assassin, he embarks on a journey to an unknown world only to find his extraterrestrial alter ego with deep links to the dark side. He must help him attain enlightenment, as he himself secretly undergoes a transformation.
Character Intrigue:
Secret: He never believed in his father’s ideas, yet he supports and embraces them.
Hidden Agenda: He knows about Reverend DuVernay’s true identity but keeps it from exposing in public until the time is right.
Flaw: Easily influenced by hegemonic people, Unwilling to admit his shortcomings
Values: Stands for his people. Is very intelligent. Fights for his father’s purpose.
Character Dilemma: Activism vs Intelligence. Revenge vs Loyalty. Deception vs Honesty.
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Character: Reverend DuVernay (Antagonist)
High Concept: When a prominent black historian studying an ancient tribe is brutally murdered, his son must must embark on an interdimensional journey to find the assassin.
This character’s journey: To realize his ultimate political dream, he will ruthlessly bring down his opponents while shamelessly lying, using, and deceiving his followers.
The Actor Attractors for this character:
1. Why would an actor WANT to be known for this role?
He’s an opportunistic hypocritical pig and a rabble-rouser. His extreme fondness for bacon. He’s a typical perverted, power-hungry, two-faced politician.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in the movie?
He puts up a front like he’s fighting for others’ cause. He’s actually fighting for his cause.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead takes in the movie?
He ridicules Professor Cedric Campbell in front of his son. He pounds the table arguing that peace is an outdated concept. He instigates and takes advantage of his followers. He speaks good but does evil. He’s a notorious womanizer and is extremely vindictive.
4. How is this character introduced that could sell it to an actor?
A notorious power-hungry politician who enjoys taking advantage of his followers and supporters to move ahead.
5. What is this character’s emotional range?
Calm and pious on the outside; violent, ruthless, and wicked on the inside.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
Smiling on the surface, vindictive underneath.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character has?
His dysfunctional relationship with Professor Campbell. He considers him as a threat and goes out of his way to discredit his theories and suppress his ideas.
8. How is this character’s unique voice presented?
His line – On your plate or on your bed, nothing beats a fine piece of bacon.
9. What makes this character special and unique?
In public, he’s a charismatic leader with a magnetic personality and a tremendous following. In private, he’s a perverted, ruthless, and hegemonic scumbag.
Role in the Story: A corrupt, immoral, and crooked politician, Reverend DuVernay will stop at nothing to achieve his goals in his pursuit to climb the political ladder.
Age range and Description: A forty-something politician, handsome with a magnetic personality, is standing in front of a town hall, giving a pugnacious speech to a large gathering of vulnerable, impatient, and agitated supporters.
Core Traits:
– Narcissistic
– Conniving
– Perverted
– Determined
Motivation; Want/Need:
Want: To sow the seeds of hatred, violence, and social disharmony among his young and innocent followers and feed off of their support to gain political power.
Need: To win the congressional seat in the upcoming elections
Wound: As a child, he grew up in a bad neighborhood, abused, beaten up, and sodomized by thugs.
Likability, Relatability, Empathy:
Likability: He is charming, well-spoken, clean-cut, and a devilishly handsome man.
Relatability: His unwavering focus, relentless desire, and unstoppable mindset to achieve greatness in life.
Empathy: He had lived a childhood of poverty, walked the harsh road, and ain’t going down that route ever again.
Character Subtext: He lies to his supporters and misleads his followers into thinking he’s fighting for them. He lures and seduces women to satisfy his sadistic ego.
Character Intrigue:
Secret: He wants the people around him to believe he’s working for them.
Hidden Agenda: He is using his loyal followers as pawns to propel him into political fame.
Unspoken Wound: He gets a personal gratification abusing the people who abused him as a child.
Flaw: Over confidence in his control over his followers. Afraid to look at himself in the mirror.
Values: Fame, being the best, and winning all the time.
Character Dilemma: Self-expression vs guilt. Winner vs Loser. Revenge vs Loyalty to his people.
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Character: Sean Madden (Protagonist)
High Concept: When a prominent black historian studying an ancient tribe is brutally murdered, his son must must embark on an interdimensional journey to find the assassin.
This character’s journey: To help Trevon in realizing his purpose, he puts his own life in danger.
The Actor Attractors for this character:
1. Why would an actor WANT to be known for this role?
He’s an interdimensional traveler and has mastered the ability to astral project to various galactic realms.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in the movie?
He puts up a front like his abilities are a blessing. Deep inside, he looks at them as a curse that he can’t get away from.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead takes in the movie?
His brain, sensitive to extreme interdimensional activity, gets an informational download during his sleep. This time it’s about the death of Professor Campbell. He tries to caution Trevon but it’s too late. Now he must help him realize his father’s purpose.
4. How is this character introduced that could sell it to an actor?
In an alien world, two silhouettes appear in the distance racing on a highspeed watercraft along a subterranean river. They are being chased by a dozen entities – good or evil, he doesn’t know. Upon coming into focus, we see the silhouettes as Trevon and Sean.
5. What is this character’s emotional range?
Calm and stable on the outside; fearful and uncertain on the inside.
6. What subtext can the actor play?
He has been forewarned of a prophecy of doom. Every action he takes is striking fear into his heart. It’s taking him closer to fulfilling the prophecy.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character has?
His conflicting relationship with Dr. Sklar – The hypnotherapist. His respect for Trevon’s intelligence. And his love for his long-time friend Jimmy.
8. How is this character’s unique voice presented?
His mantra – Fortune favors the bold.
9. What makes this character special and unique?
Whether it’s a blessing or curse, Sean has the ability to foresee events. He believes he’s the only one who can stop the event from happening, albeit his decision could end up straining his personal relationships.
Role in the Story: As a loyal and experienced interdimensional traveler and a good friend, he must help Trevon achieve his purpose.
Age range and Description: An attractive twenty-something young man wakes up from a nightmare, sweating profusely, his eyes filled with terror. He had just gone through another information download and a catastrophic event is about to unfold. Unfortunately this time he is in no position to stop it.
Core Traits:
– Risk-taker
– Deep-thinker
– Technophile
– Determined
Motivation; Want/Need:
Want: To help Trevon understand the intricacies and dangers of an interdimensional voyage.
Need: He must travel inter-dimensionally with the help of an AI constructed program to cure his condition of terrifying nightmares that constantly plague him.
Wound: A freak accident had badly impacted the temporal lobe in his brain triggering interdimensional information downloads.
Likability, Relatability, Empathy:
Likability: He wants to be an average joe, a software programmer who is passionate about his job, his woman, and football.
Relatability: His relentless struggle to live a normal life.
Empathy: He had lost both his parents at a very young age.
Character Subtext: His fondness for technology and his curiosity for the unknown.
Character Intrigue:
Secret: He wants to hide his capabilities of accessing information from interdimensional realms so people treat him as a normal person.
Unspoken Wound: Having lost both his parents at a young age, he secretly hopes to come across them during his interdimensional voyages.
Flaw: His over-dependence on technology. His quest for the unknown.
Values: Peace, love, intelligence, and knowledge.
Character Dilemma: Love vs duty. Excitement vs safety.
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My Vision: I want a space that is dedicated to writing, so I can have an entire wall for notecard storyboarding. I want my projects to advance in competitions and then be requested by the studios. I want to see those projects in festivals, in theaters, on streaming platforms. I want writing and producing to be my full time job.
What I learned doing this assignment was that as I put together these character profiles, the antagonist has a lot of good qualities that have been bent or distorted by the realities of crimes, so as he does his job, he appears to be evil when he’s been shaped by circumstances. The characters have more depth which makes for far more interesting stories and will make things tougher on both characters.
Eddie
Concept
After Eddie kills a drug dealer in self-defense, a dirty cop forces Eddie to take the Dealer’s place. Eddie does as he’s told and begins pulling on a thread that leads to corruption at the highest levels.
Character’s journey-a meek stay at home loner gets forced into a crime network and exposes a governmental conspiracy.
What subtext can the actor play? Compassion for friends and co workers, fear, anger, vengeance.
7. Character Subtext: hiding something<div>
8. Character Intrigue: Unspoken wound
9. Flaw: can’t look at their fears, or gives up easily(fear)
10. Values: honesty
11. Character Dilemma: safety vs risk
Det. Taylor
7. Character Subtext: luring/seducing</div>
8. Character Intrigue: conspiracy
9. Flaw: over confidence/over doing things
10. Values: duty
11. Character Dilemma: the rule of law vs results
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KAVISH MANDAL
9. can’t separate dad triggers from actual Lacy behavior. kind of being a communication hypocrite.
11. “do everything right” according to like, what the internet says girlfriends want, or keep this actual individual human woman who is his girlfriend?
LACY PETERSON
9. a bit infuriating to be around, having given up on what’s in HER control because of being broken down so bad by things that were NOT in her control.
11. keep the boy or ever be fulfilled?
(values are in no particular order, inside the sections)
VALUES – THAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON
1. trust
2. purposefulness
3. strength
4. teamwork
VALUES – THAT KIND OF OPPOSE
5. K: comfort, L: agility
6. K: home, L: freedom
7. K: certainty, L: risk taking
8. K: calm, L: excitement
9. K: safety, L: challenge
VALUES – REMAINING FOR KAVISH
10. authenticity
11. discernment
12. leadership
13. family
14. proactivity
15. growth
16. protectiveness
17. optimism
18. resilience
19. communication
20. dedication
VALUES – REMAINING FOR LACY
10. courage
11. impact
12. obstinance
13. vindication
14. abundance
15. boldness
16. logic
17. rebellion
18. tenacity
19. skill
20. ferocity
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