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Emmanuel’s Solved Character Problems!
What I learned doing this assignment is the lead character must be in 90 percent of the scenes. Creating and maintaining 3-dimensional lead characters can be difficult in screenwriting. Another issue is making sure the characters don’t sound the same.
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Lee’s Solved Character Problems
What I learned doing this assignment is…is that I’ve got a good handle on what problems my characters might have even just sitting here writing about them without actually going through the script. This will be a good guide as I make the next draft.
Character Problems
A. Weak protagonist or antagonist – I think Milly is an interesting and fun protagonist. She is supposed to be withdrawn and timid at first—it’s where her journey starts to being assertive and making full use of her unique gifts and talents.
The ANTAGONIST needs to be more fleshed out. Right now, he’s just bad, but we don’t know why. I think, in his mind, the aliens that he’s had to work with for years at Area 51 are a danger to the world. If they ever got “out of control,” they would certainly try to take it over. So rather than observe them and study them as is done now, he just wants to get rid of them all. He also has no time for magical people for the same reason. He uses sorcerer Marcus’s unique ability to make things small, then turn them back to full size, to smuggle a nuclear device into Area 51, and thus he’ll destroy all aliens for good.
B. Protagonist too good or Antagonist too bad. – I think Milly could have perhaps something that she does that’s annoying, or something that makes her seem a bit more human than she is now. I think maybe I’ll have her get mad or be more impatient than she is now.
As noted above, I’ll try to articulate the Antagonist’s reasons for what he does a bit more, so that he seems more human and perhaps more “sympathetic”, at least to a certain type.
C. Weak character intros – I think I’ve done a pretty good job of making all of these dynamic (at least after writing my PLACEHOLDER scenes), but I’ll check as I go through the first part of the script.
D. Characters not in action – Right now, there’s so much action in this that it probably needs to be toned down a bit to make it more budget-friendly.
E. Protagonist Journey not strong – I think Milly’s journey is very strong, but I also think she needs more obstacles, perhaps more harassment from Janus, less help from Granny Sue and/or Justin, etc. I just feel like maybe she’s not being challenged quite enough in the first half of the script.
F. All the characters seem the same – I need to check on this, especially in dialogue, but I think each is pretty unique compared to each other.
G. Lead characters not present – This is definitely not a problem at this time—Milly, Justin, Janus, Marcus, and Granny Sue are in virtually every scene either together or individually. I think we need to see more of Janus though. I’ve put in some PLACEHOLDER scenes for him.
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Ed Solved Character Problems.
What I learned doing this assignment was improving the main characters ,protagonist and antagonist. I further developed what drives them and what they fear. The rewrites delivered additional drama and emotion to the story. My protagonist, I believed is more relatable/likeable. The antagonist now has another dimension to her motivations, hopefully make’s her more relatable.
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