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Emmanuel’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment is after deciding the story title and concept or logline, the next part should be the start of the story puzzle, which includes the genre, the antagonist and protagonist role, and the primary character’s profile.
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What I learned doing this assignment is…once again, that keeping my focus just on the task at hand really helps move things along when I don’t distract myself with other details.
Protagonist – Milly Johnson
Milly is a VICTIM who loses her father to kidnappers and has no idea what to do, especially when no one of any authority seems to know anything about him, or even that he existed at all.
Antagonist – As yet unnamed
A former government official, perhaps, who is a PREDATOR who knows of Dr. Johnson’s special abilities and wishes to use them to incite a revolution, take over the world, etc.
Other Characters
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Milly’s friend who helps her and provides comic relief. <div>
The Predator’s co-conspirator.
Milly’s Grandma, who she breaks out of prison for her help.
MINOR ROLES
Other kids at Milly’s schools </div><div>
Guards at the prison where her Grandma is held
Henchpersons of the PREDATOR
BACKGROUND CHARACTERS
Kids and teachers at school </div><div>
Guards at the prison
Lackeys of the antagonist
Extras in other settings
Genre
Sci-fi/Fantasy (one or the other) </div><div>
Action/adventure
Character Profile info
MILLY
Role in story – Protagonist
12-13, an “only” child who is sharp and intelligent, but lacks confidence. Physically smallish and unremarkable. </div>Internal Journey – from zero to hero
External Journey – rescues her father from kidnappers, saves the world???
Motivation – is the only one who believes her father’s been kidnapped, therefore the only one who can save him.
Wound – Milly is an “only” child, and also adopted by her father. She has no idea who her mother is/was, etc.
Mission/Agenda – Milly feels as though she MUST find her father, and soon. If she doesn’t either bad things will happen to him, bad things will happen to others, or both.
Secret – Milly knows that her father, a scientist, invented secret things for the government, and that he has a secret collection of “toys” that look like miniature weapons. He’s also told her that one day she’ll do great things, but she doesn’t understand that at all.
What makes Milly special – Though quiet and shy, Milly has a deep sense of what is good and right, is highly intelligent, and defiant in the face of what she thinks is wrong.
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30 DAY SCREENWRITING CLASS – Lesson 2
Type of role Protagonist plays & how they will fulfill that role.
Victim: Fran will become a victim of the new government and has to fight to escape and save her daughter form the antagonist.
Type of role Antagonist plays & how they will fulfill that role.
Authority: Sandy follows rules, has to meet deadlines, believes metrics even if dubious or outright wrong. Sees the word in black/white even if everything is in gray.
What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: best friend, daughter, ex-husband
Minor role: daughter’s boyfriend
Background characters: workers at the farm, residents who take over her home in suburbia
Pick your genre:
Comedy (satire/ dark comedy)
Lead Character Profiles:
Protagonist: Fran
Role in the story: Heroine
Age range and Description: late 50’s/early 60’s, slightly overweight, African/American, suburban Socialist, retired social worker or therapist, divorced, white husband supports her through business buyout, former hippie, vegetarian, anti-gun, pro-choice, hates conservatives
Internal journey: passive to aggressive
Enneagram: Giver/Helper, possessive, generous, people-pleasing, fear being unloved and unwanted; doesn’t acknowledge own needs
External journey: Accommodating liberal to activist libertarian
Motivation: to save daughter and grandchild (love) – escape to other state
Wound: Held up at church by gun-toting druggie but saved because he died. Hates guns as a consequence.
Mission/Agenda: Escape from farm, rescue daughter and flee to other state.
Secret: Was a hunter as a child OR tried to abort daughter but went awry (forced into birth by evangelicals)
What makes them special? Complete pacifist – wouldn’t hurt a fly, an animal a person.
Antagonist: Sandy
Role in the story: Cadre commander who wants to prove “they” are up to imposing cultural revolution and equity.
Age range and Description: mid to late 20’s, thin, white, trans, asexual, spiteful, cruel, heavily tattoed, dresses in all black.
Enneagram: Perfectionist, fastidious, afraid of making mistakes, critical, resentful and impatient.
Internal Journey: from weak to strong
External journey: from neophyte revolutionary to proven commandant
Motivation: power play/control through suffering
Wound: Mother disowned “them”
Mission: Confiscate homes in suburbia, resettle inhabitants to farm and impose re-education and hard labor – resettle illegal aliens to suburbia
Secret: Afraid of blood? Went to a military school? Was a computer nerd at school?
What makes them special: Shows no emotion. Sociopath.
What I learned doing assignment: Moving forward even if you’re unsure of what you’ve come up with gives you something to work with.
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What I learned doing this assignment is that I needed to fill out other aspects of the lead characters to make them more believable.
Making Amends
David Sterling (protagonist)
Role in the story: Fighter/ Dreamer, Loving, yet alcoholic father dies, and wants to return to earth to be with his kids and be a better man.
Age range and description: late 20’s/ early 30’s, in shape, attractive but not like a model
Internal Journey: From feeling weak and helpless, remorseful for not being there for his kids, to fighting to find them so he can be their loyal companion and protector.
External Journey: Abuses alcohol and dies from alcohol poisoning. Has to go back as a dog and suffer the same abuse and neglect he caused his kids for not fulfilling his role as a father before he can be with his kids
Motivation: Wants to be with his kids again
Wound: remorse for not being there for his kids
Mission/Agenda: to find his kids and be their protector and companion
Secret: His failure as a father
What makes them special?
He’s a dog who has human memories, but can’t communicate as a human.
Mayla Sterling (antagonist)
Role in story: Predator, Abusive wife of David, and mother of two kids, was neglectful of her two kids when her husband was alive, and abusive to them after he dies. Doesn’t want to be a mom anymore.
Age range and Description: late 20’s, beautiful model-like
Internal Journey: no change
External Journey: Gets more abusive to her kids after her husband dies, neglecting them more and more, going out and bringing home strange men
Motivation:wants to punish her kids for being a burden and resents David for leaving
Wound: lost her husband, always felt abandoned ever since she was a kid.
Mission/Agenda: to have her freedom back, no matter what
Secret: she abuses her kids
What makes them special? No one at her church thinks she abuses her kids. Wise con artist.
Supporting Characters:
Kai Sterling
age 10, Older brother of Dana, and son of Mayla and David.
Dana Sterling
Age 6, younger sister of Kai and daughter of David and Mayla.
Minor Roles:
Shelter owner
Veterinarian
Mom, dad, and daughter (5), who adopt David as a dog
Spirit Guide(s) who tell David he can’t go back to see his kids, unless he returns as a dog
Judge, who emancipates Kai and makes him the guardian of Dana
Puppy that Kai and Dana almost adopt
Background roles
People who mistreat David on the streets
People at the animal shelter
People at the park, playing with their dogs
Genre: Drama
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30 Day Script Lesson 2: Kimbal Thompson’s Who Are We Traveling With? 09.08.21
What I learned doing this assignment is the myriad of directions this could take.
ASSIGNMENT
1. Empowerment.
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that
role. Likely a combination of these:
Explorer: taking on a project for which he will push his bounds of knowledge
Runner: must accomplish this project to advance
Fighter: must become such to survive and the challenge of the conflict
Dreamer: must imagine the future rewards in accomplishing this project for the future..
3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that
role.
Villain: a real villain
Change Agent; is the change agent
Predator; is such
4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters:
Parents
Fellow scouts assisting with project
School Principal
School Custodian
Scout Leader
Project Advisor
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Minor roles:
School students
Background characters:
School students
Other Scouts
5. Pick your genre.
Action
Drama
Thriller
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Protagonist
Age range and Description: normal bright athletic 14.5-year-old teen male
Internal Journey: from feeling reluctantly required to perform a scout rank task to knowing he took
the lead in solving a long-time community mystery (and pride in completing the project).
External Journey: from questioning why he was doing the project manipulated by his parents to
bring down a notorious outlaw. :
Motivation: To finish the project enabling him to get his driver’s license.
Wound: Having to always depend on his parents.
Mission/Agenda: To complete the restorations, obtain the rank of Eagle and move on.:
Secret: :He really was not too excited about scouting.
What makes them special? His ability to discover more in the process of the project and pursue it.
Role in the story: Antagonist
Age range and Description: 50-something hardened convict out of prison
Internal Journey: from feeling confident he could find the cache of jewels he hid before prison,
discovering missing to whatever it takes to retrieve
External Journey: from discovering the missing cache to hunting down who took it.
Motivation: To retrieve his cache, cash it in and move on.
Mission/Agenda: find the missing cache and punish who took it
Secret: :How he came by the cache and how he hid it.
What makes them special? His lack of foresight in being able to pull off the “perfect” crime. -
Ying- Warrior Princess’s Character Profiles
What I learned in this assignment is that for this film to be an Action film, the antagonist has to be a Villain. I’m not sure I believe this frankly. I think this could be Buddy film where Ying’s Tutor is the Change Agent that allows her to defeat her enemy. This is similar to the approach of “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Bad Boys” that are both buddy action films… and there are many others. But, for this constrained approach this genre does not exist.
Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Fighter
After her father and uncle are lured into a deadly trap, a young Ying must successfully lead her tribe against Sun’s Army to survive.
Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
Villain: An expression of the Hero’s fears. The one who will challenge the Hero to their core.
Sun- Chinese Warlord put in charge of subjugating tribes by the emperor. Ying’s tribe is the strongest in the region. If he can exterminate her tribe, all the rest will fall in line.
<s>Change Agent</s>
<s>Tutor is a Chinese Han who has fled the wars of the north for the relative peace of the south. He is young but wise and teaches the tribe’s children how to speak Mandarin and traditional Chinese ways and philosophies. He prefers life with the tribe but believes much can be learned from the vast knowledge of the Chinese to help Ying defeat Sun’s army. </s>
What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters:
Tutor- educated Chinese teacher that opens Ying’s mind to new ways of thinking.
Ting- Ying’s older brother who is the physical manifestation of the traditional tribal ways and ways of thinking
Minor roles:
Feng Rong- Chinese Governor or Maoming who becomes an Ally
Lan Hu- young man from a rival tribe that falls in love with girl in Ying’s tribe leading to a tribal alliance
Ming- 9yo son of another rival tribe rescued from Sun’s army by Tutor that leads to the alliance of another tribe.
Long- Ting’s love interest
Background characters:
Many
Genre- Action
Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Protagonist
Age range and Description: Late Teens, tribal girls
Internal Journey: She is good enough to lead the tribe
External Journey: She defeats Sun’s Army
Motivation: Survival
Wound: Father murdered
Mission/Agenda: To defend the tribe
Secret: self-doubt
What makes them special? She uses kindness and inclusiveness to make loyal allies instead of through force and intimidation.
Role in the story: Antagonist
Age range and Description: Late 30s pure Chinese with important lineage
Internal Journey: None
External Journey: leader of superior army to defeated captive
Motivation: Power
Wound: He believes he deserves more due to his high Chinese lineage
Mission/Agenda: Destroy the Li tribe
Secret: He wants to become powerful enough to overthrow the emperor
What makes them special? Is good at manipulating people and situations to make himself stronger.
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WHAT I LEARNED: If I approach this character development with no preconceived ideas and just let my creativity flow I discover things I may never have know about my characters. Yes, this is fun.
Ivy Davies is a RUNNER, something she has skillfully kept hidden from her family and few friends for most of her adult life.
Antagonist: VICTOR BERTZYK, is a CHANGE AGENT, though possibly when Ivy re-encounters him she fears him as the Villain.
Supporting Character:
Lilly Miller, Ivy’s granddaughter, who thinks she might start her journalism career by solving the identity of the town’s bank robbers, who have achieved legendary status over the decades past the robbery.
Possibly, Daisy Miller, Ivy’s errant daughter who may occasionally throw a wrench into the plot.
Reverend Garafolo, Ivy’s church minister, who may not be as reverent as he portrays himself.
Background Characters: Assisted living residents and caregivers, where Ivy does volunteer work.
GENRE: Dramedy
Lead Character Profiles.
IVY DAVIES: Protagonist; late 60s, dare I push it to early 70s. Meticulously groomed, vocal in her politics, comes across as stern and has no interest in changing her ways.
INTERNAL JOURNEY: Living and almost believing the lies she tells others about herself to coming to terms with and publicly admitting to her criminal deeds.
EXTERNAL JOURNEY: A lower middle class secretive widow to local hero, albeit outside of the law hero.
MOTIVATION: To keep her life on an unchanging course, until Victor comes into her life, then her motivation is to claim her share of money from the bank robbery they committed.
WOUND: Her guilt for wounding an innocent bystander during the robbery.
MISSION/AGENDA: To keep her secret life secret. To pay back those who were affected by the bank robbery.
WHAT MAKES HER SPECIAL: Ivy has spent most of her adult life hiding in plain sight after the bank robbery, and she diligently does what she can to make life fun and easy for residents of an assisted living home, where some of the victims of the robbery now live.
VICTOR BERTYZYK: Antagonist, late 60s, great looking, but Botoxed. Considers himself a charmer, but he overdoes it. He’s arrogant due to a successful bank robbery that he committed with Ivy, and he subsequently parlayed the robbery’s spoils into a small fortune.
INTERNAL JOURNEY: Arrogant and over-confident to coming to terms with having cancer.
EXTERNAL JOURNEY: High-living and loves to gamble to setting up a charity to help indigent cancer patients.
MOTIVATION: Live the last days of his life to the fullest, if not in a very superficial way.
WOUND: His state of denial that he is capable of feeling any kind of wound, particularly his cancer.
MISSION/AGENDA: To make Ivy fall in love with him, as a way of keeping her from implicating him in the robbery, should she decide to finally confess.
SECRET: He robbed a bank in his 20s and got away with it.
WHAT MAKES HIM SPECIAL: He’s a charmer, but a phony. If he’d let down his guard, he could truly fall in love with Ivy.
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Assignment 2! Amelia’s Character Profiles (I don’t see where the “subject line” is to post this here).
What I learned: I have too many characters so need to pare down my story.
Protagonist: Blaze is: a Runner, with elements of Dreamer and Victim
Antagonist: At this point, the Antagonist is the Change Agent, her environment and the circumstances that come.
Supporting Characters:
A lover, a motherly type, a community,
Minor Roles:
Community Manager, Community members, Family members
Background:
People on in community and streets
Genre: Drama
Role in the story: Blaze – Protagonist
Age range and Description: 20’s – 30’s
Internal Journey: from feeling unloved and not accepted to being a part of something
External Journey: from detached from her world to coming into her own
Motivation: To survive
Wound: Unacceptance by family for her being non-binary
Mission/Agenda: Wants to succeed
Secret: Rape in high school, never told anyone
What makes them special? Will try and try again.
Role in the story: Flint – lover – supporting character
Age range and Description: 20’s – 30’s
Internal Journey: From feeling invisible to people loving her for who she is.
External Journey: An individual and wants everyone to know it while dealing with huge insecurities.
Motivation: Wants to be recognized as a person, not from wealth.
Wound: Always associated with her having an easy life due to wealthy family.
Mission/Agenda: Wants to be loved by people with no association to her family.
Secret: Comes from a wealthy family, has no financial worries.
What makes them special? She plays the drums
Role in the story: Linda – mother type – supporting character
Age range and Description: 50’s – 60’s
Internal Journey: trying to find purpose in her life, happiness
External Journey: from grief and pain to purpose.
Motivation: Always wants to grow.
Wound: Her only child died in a car accident when child was in high school
Mission/Agenda: To help struggling artists grow
Secret: She never divorced husband, husband and she still talks, she ran away to the art cooperative.
What makes them special? She is a successful artist.
Role in the story: Sandy – Blazes Mother – supporting character
Age range and Description: 50’s to 60’s
Internal Journey: from a need to be accepted by her friends / community to being ok with her decisions without her or outside judgement.
External Journey: from striving to being the perfect mother/spouse/parent to giving unconditional love
Motivation: wanting a relationship with her daughter
Wound: Her parents complete dissatisfaction with her choices
Mission/Agenda:
Secret:
What makes them special?
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Sassy’s Character Profile Part 1
What I learned doing this assignment…
I started thinking about this from day 1, so there is still hope for me to finish an entire feature screenplay in 30 days.
Also I realized that I am doing a Mean Girls/ Easy A type movie with adults in an office setting.
2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
My Pro will be a Victim, Fighter, Hero, and Change Agent. Also dreamer because he keeps coming up with ideas to improve his company. Victim of bullying and exclusion. Hero because he saves the Biz, and all his employees get to keep their jobs.
Hero
Explorer
Runner
Fighter
Victim
Dreamer3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.
My antagonist (s) will be Villian, Authority, and Predator. They will be the co-workers within the company sabotaging and keeping the Protagonist from succeeding in making his new tech/software idea into reality. Bullying in covert ways.
Villain
Change Agent
Authority
Predator4. What other characters might be necessary?
Supporting characters: Blind Girl from H.R. , CEO and best friend, Vet’s group.
Minor roles: Data entry clerk, janitor, Vet’s group
Background characters: office, military, special needs5. Pick your genre.
It’s a comedy for sure.
6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.
Role in the story: Protagonist and co-founder of an Accounting software company or some kind of TECH.
Age range and Description: He’s in his late 30’s and an Army Vet.
Internal Journey: Comes to terms with what happened to him overseas that took out his squad and left him disfigured. Learns that life isn’t all about money and looks (the exterior) Learns how to reach out for help.
External Journey: He discovers what has turned his company to take a major downfall. He falls for a co-worker who can’t see him (blind) —wait is this internal, too? Learns to embrace a public leadership role again, despite his stoic wounds during war.
Motivation: He doesn’t want to lose his company.
Wound: Used to be facially disfigured, and still feels ugly, judged, responsible for everything, including the loss of many men in his platoon back in the day.
Mission/Agenda: Infiltrate his own company undercover to find out the cause of their losses.
Secret: He got a face transplant, and no one in the company has ever seen him. He is a (silent) co-founder.
What makes them special? He co-founded the company and knows the ropes inside and out, or so he thought. He’s super smart, graduated at the top of his class at West Point, but he never talks about it much. Humble trait. -
Ed Lusk’s Character Profiles Part 1
What I learned from this assignment is how much (better) defined characters drive and create the story.
ROLE IN THE STORY –
PROTAGONIST – HENRY PELZNIKEL:
Explorer/Hero – A sheltered young boy & obscure Toy Social Media Influencer, unaware of life outside the devices. In pursuit of 10,000 followers. He’s lacks respect , spontaneously makes a online promise he can’t keep to save his family’s toy business. Sleigh “borrower” who finds himself mystified and challenged by unexpected ruthless North Pole Elf.
ROLE IN THE STORY –
ANTAGONIST – ALFREDA – ELF
Change Agent , Santa’s most trusted Elf and Influencer. Unwavering loyalty to the North Pole’s vision and mission statement. She’ll do whatever it takes shelter Santa from negative publicity while getting SC’s sleigh back and stopping Henry from ruining Christmas for all.
OTHER CHARACTERS:
Supporting:
Samwise – Henry’s accidental partner in crime , old reindeer handler elf 9 days from retirement
Rochelle – Henry’s neighbor and confidant , secret admirer
Natalie Pelznikel – Mother
Jack Pelznikel – Father
Minor:
Jack’s Pelznikel Toys Staff
Santa’s Staff – Dedicated , political back stabber -Let Alfreda self destruct
The Naughty List – assorted malcontents
Background:
Pelznikel Toy employees
Worker Elves
General Public /Social Media Posts
GENRE:
Action/Drama
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