Lesson 8

[Claudia OBrien]

Subject Line: Claudia’s Supporting Characters.

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: the importance of thinking through exactly why each character appears in the script. There should be nothing extra or gratuitous.

Tell us your supporting and background characters.

· Supporting Characters: Grace’s parents and deserter brother, her love interest as she tries to forget Booker, the racist and misogynistic commanding officer, a nurse friend.

· Background Characters: Various patients, doctors, nurses and soldiers.

Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.

Support 1:

· Name: Liam Connelly

· Role: Army Captain

· Main purpose: Grace dates him to try to forget Booker. She gets pregnant – and discovers he is playing around.

· Value: His personality provides a sharp contrast to Booker’s; his actions cause Grace to rethink everything she thought she knew about doing what is expected of her.

Support 2:

· Name: Samuel Grey

· Role: Army Major in command of the medical team

· Main purpose: A racist (and misogynist), he objects to “wasting” scarce resources on Black soldiers.

· Value: He brings the opposite POV from Grace and Ann, and serves as their primary antagonist in the effort to treat all soldier patients equally.

Support 4:

· Name: Patrick O’Malley

· Role: Grace’s brother, Army deserter

· Main purpose: Grace is secretly trying to find out where he is hiding in France, after the family disowned him.

· Value: His desertion is the reason there is so much pressure on Grace to be perfect and conform.

Support 5:

· Name: Siobhan O’Malley

· Role: Grace’s mother

· Main purpose: She and Conor place continued pressure on Grace to conform.

· Value: Grace’s fear of losing their approval is a major obstacle to her achieving her goals.

Support 6:

· Name: Conor O’Malley

· Role: Grace’s father

· Main purpose: He and Siobhan place continued pressure on Grace to conform.

· Value: Grace’s fear of losing their approval is a major obstacle to her achieving her goals.

Support 7:

· Name: Mary Schneider

· Role: Nurse, friend of Booker

· Main purpose: A jew, and therefore also an oppressed minority, she is the only White with whom Booker will associate.

· Value: She provides a countervailing POV to Booker and his disillusionment with America.

[Tony Scott]

Tony J Scott Supporting Characters

My true vision as a writer is to fall in love with writing and stay motivated to write from the love of writing and not as a chore and then hoping others will love my creations and become well known as a top writer in the screenplay community.

2. Tell us your supporting and background characters.

Supporting Characters: Winston Josiah Civil
War Cpt. Stanley/Cpt. Stanton Bishop Deardon
Background Characters: Members of the
household, party goers, soldiers Plantation slaves/owners

3. Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.

Support 1:

Name: Winston
Role: Uncle to Najah
brother to Horace.
Main purpose: Advise
Najah her aid in the time traveling.
Value: He helps Najah
find her way through the past and present.

Support 2:

Name: Josiah
Role: Grandfather
Main purpose: He calls
Najah to the past and helps her discover her roots and who she really is.
Value: He helps her
discover her destiny In the future.

Support 3:

Name: Stanley/Stanton
Role: Spy for Horace and
Civil War Captain/vampire hunter dual roles
Main purpose: He’s to
feign feelings for Najah to keep an eye on her for her father. He’s the
descendant of the vampire hunter trying to kill Josiah on the plantation.
Value: In both roles he
is an antagonist trying to bring harm to Najah while trying to gain her
love.

Support 4:

Name: Bishop Deardon
Role: Inside man with
the Vatican.
Main purpose: Keeps
Horace informed about Local Vatican decisions and the war front efforts.
Value: Bishop Deardon is
in cahoots with Horace about the human food processing plant. Horace has
promised him eternal life.

[Will Jennings]

Subject Line: Will Jennings Supporting Characters

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 how the background and supporting characters bring so much fun to the party.

Tell us your background characters:

· Alisa, the head fairy

· 3 Sprites

· Miss Marion, the teacher

· Harley, the boy fairy

· Queen

· Chaz, Brandi’s boyfriend

· Uncle Wally, You don’t want to know about this guy

· Motorcycle gang members – Poison, Tequila, and Margarita

· Student 1 and 2

· Classmate 1 and 2

· Secretary

· Principal

· Jailer

· Brandi’s clique lackeys

Focusing on those supporting characters, fill in the basic profile for each.

Support 1:

Name: Evelyn a Fairyland Lady-in-Waiting

Role: Legal guardian to the twins

Main purpose: To help the girls protect their identity
and advise them on the mission.

Value: To be a big sister and an inspiration in giving
kindness and hope in a teenage world of angst.

Support 2:

Name: Sir Daniel a Fairyland Knight-in-Armor

Role: Legal guardian to the twins

Main purpose: To protect the twins from any earthly danger
on orders from the Queen.

Value: When the going gets tuff, he makes all defensive
and tactical decisions.

Support 3:

Name: Brandi’s Mom

Role: Leader of the motorcycle gang and big-time badass.

Main purpose: To corrupt everyone into doing bad things
for weird pleasure.

Value: She is the driving force that shuts down the development
of the good force.

Support 4:

Name: Brandi’s Dad

Role: A former cop who got fired for taking too many
bribes, now is a rent-a-cop.

Main purpose: To find new scams to steal money while supporting
the gang.

Value: Having criminal connections, he can influence
any public official.

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[Anna Burroughs-Merrill]

Anna’s Supporting Characters

My personal vision: to get my writing mojo back.

What I learned from this assignment: I have a lot of characters whose roles I haven’t decided whether they will be supporting or background. I also need to come up with additional characters for Jacob’s classmates, some of whom will be suspects and red herrings.

Title: La Sirène (The Mermaid)

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Support 1:

• Name: Hannah Staats
• Role: Jacob’s highly educated, high-risk pregnancy wife.
• Main purpose: she’s the reason Jacob took a “mundane” job close to shore.
• Value: Katie believes in her husband, even when he doesn’t believe in himself.

Support 2:

• Name: Lewis Griffin
• Role: Coast Guard rescue swimmer
• Main purpose: Jacob’s best friend, but he’s a constant reminder of what Jacob gave up to be close to shore.
• Value: Yo! The dude will jump out of a Jayhawk into 30 foot seas in a hurricane to save your life! Has an ego that he carries in a suitcase, a hopeless womanizer, and as loyal as a Saint Bernard.

Support 3:

• Name: Quequequanachet “Quinn” Gomes
• Role: Fisherman
• Main Purpose: Gomes is a Portuguese / Wampanoag fisherman and “elder” in the tribal council
• Value: Gome’s people have had a symbiotic relationship with the merfolk for thousands of years.

[Mahee Sanapareddy]

Mahee’s Supporting Characters

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 creating purpose-driven supporting characters.

Support 1:

Name: Professor Cedric Campbell

Role: A prominent black historian studying an ancient tribe. Trevon’s father.

Main purpose: He’s urging youngsters to not get carried away by corrupt leaders preaching hatred and violence. He’s trying to spread the ultimate truth that black people were destined to do great things but have been kept suppressed from progressing for thousands of years.

Value: His murder provides the biggest cause for Trevon to embrace his father’s ideas and realize his true purpose.

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Support 2:

Name: Extraterrestrial Entity FALLAG (Professor Campbell’s alter ego on Planet X)

Role: A noble man who has been kept imprisoned by the evil warlord 1ONTAE

Main purpose: He must lead the rebellion to fight against the evil 1ONTAE and take back control of their planet.

Value: He’s the one who hatches a plan to bring Trevon into their world. He had been using a trusted agent and stayed in contact with Professor Campbell in the past.

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Support 3:

Name: Extraterrestrial Entity TALIYA (Trevon’s alter ego on Planet X)

Role: He’s the mirror image of Trevon on Planet X. But fighting for the dark side.

Main purpose: He is lured into a coalition to join the rebellion to bring down the evil 1ONTAE.

Value: He gets lured away from the powerful and evil warlord 1ONTAE by Trevon. He realizes his purpose as he helps Trevon realize his.

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Support 4:

Name: Dr. Alekzander Sklar (The Hypnotherapist)

Role: He’s the creator of the AI program that helps in astral projection and interdimensional travel.

Main purpose: Although he is pursued by the US Armed Forces to provide his technological research to them, he tries to keep his experiments more focused on academics and help people realize their true potential and purpose.

Value: Trevon and Sean must use the AI program he had constructed to embark on their interdimensional voyage to Planet X.

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Background 1:

Name: Extraterrestrial Entity 1ONTAE

Role: The most powerful, ruthless, sadistic, and evil warlord in the Sirius Star System.

Main purpose: He is notorious for sending out his soldiers as agents/assassins to distant human-inhabited planets to spread violence, corruption, and hatred and assassinate anyone who stands against them.

[Ron Johnson]

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Support 1:

Name Gibson(Gibby)

Role co worker and drinking buddy

main purpose Eddie’s sounding board

value He brings out the inner thoughts of Eddie, his true feelings and thoughts

Support 2

Name Tracee

Role Damsel in distress

main purpose story catalyst

value Tracee’s life if threatened by Ducassi and triggers Eddie’s trauma’s response and then she’s the one who provides Gibby the fentanyl laced drugs that kills him. She also threatens to expose Eddie’s duel life.

Support 3

Name Ducassi

Role Drug dealer

main purpose catalyst that propels Eddie into the drug world

value It’s Ducassi’s drugs Eddie spills and he forces Eddie to pay for the drugs with an extremely short deadline. In his fearful rage he threatens Tracee with a gun that causes Eddie to shoot Ducassi.

Support 4

Name Special agent in charge Warren

Role Det Taylor’s field supervisor

main purpose Runs uncover ops without having done the job himself. Pushes for unrealistic results so he can stand in front of the media with successful pressers

Support 5

Name Jones

Role 3 letter agency man

main purpose directs Taylor for the agency’s needs

value pressures Taylor with unrealistic goals

value The agency is tracing tainted drug routes and could be running their own supply line to fund other projects. Taylor is being blackmailed by his own on the job mistakes by the agency.

support 6

Name Stroud

Role Middle man for cartel/govt drug smuggling ring

main purpose Eddie during his forced drug dealing uncovers the ring

Back Ground

New Guy at Eddie’s work. Eddie helps him get acclimated on the job, shows Eddie’s helpful side

Victim the person Taylor helps to make ends meet.

3 Letter agency Guy, adds pressure to Taylor

FBI/DEA guy from Chicago or Mpls field office. Tells the office already knows about him, who can he trust?

Drug enforcer #1 Beats down Eddie during a drug buy, then ends up working with Eddie

Drug enforcer #2 Beats down Eddie during a drug buy

Cartel liason monitors drug deliveries and provides element of fear

[Tully Archer]

N: Deepika.

R: Kavish’s mom.

MP: to explain why he’s like this.

V: keeps Lacy longer. galvanizes Kavish; gives him permission to be brave, via new insights into their past.

N: Sanjay.

R: Kavish’s step dad.

MP: to show how scared, distrustful, and protective Kavish is. (because Sanjay is simply wonderful but Kavish still doesn’t like him LOL.)

V: keeps tone in check by being so pleasant, helps the kids investigate.

N: dunno, need like three each of these:

R: Lacy’s relatives, and Kavish’s roommates at the start.

MP: start the movie; their living situations are bad enough for them to both want to do something new.

V: we’re excited to see these people get pranked.

N: dunno.

R: landlord.

MP: lock them into the story. he won’t budge.

V: gives important info for the investigation, and something early for our lovers to agree on (that he’s a dick). also an early theory on the supernatural: “I figured he’d just gradually fade away. I’m sure he still will!”

N: Brian.

R: the murderer (of Matt the ghost’s wife, all those years ago.)

MP: created the whole thing, really.

V: gives us an act three, adventure and a common goal for our then broken up couple. brings us resolution for Matt.

N: ? and ?

R: racist neighbors (an old couple).

MP: light info on Matt.

V: Kavish and Lacy’s interactions with them show how in sync they are on day-to-day stuff. their nonverbal communication, comedic timing, and instant back-you-up instincts.