[Barbara Dolny-Bombar]

Assignment #1 – Module 1, Lesson 2

Show: LOST

3 Circles of Characters

A. Main Characters Circle:

I’m still trying to figure out who else will emerge as a main character – I want to find out by watching, not looking it up. 🙂

So far I have:

Jack, the Doctor

Kate

Sayid

B. Connected Circle

A few of these characters may move into the main character category as I watch more episodes.

Charlie

Sawyer

Hurley

John Locke

Asian couple (don’t know their names)

Boone & sister

Man and his son, Walt (w/ dog)

C. Environment Circle

The rest of the crash survivors

Whatever is in the forest

[Barbara Dolny-Bombar]

TV Show: LOST

What I learned doing this assignment is each scene escalates the action or moves the story forward in a way that brought a lot of questions, but right now, not many answers. It held my interest.

I watched LOST as it seems to be the closest on the BW list to my concept – and I really have never seen it before. It’s a two-part pilot, but I only watched the first part because it was the first show of the series (Part 2 is 2nd show).

1. Big Picture Hooks – So much going on here, but the big questions are will the plane crash survivors be rescued – and what the hell is happening in the forest?

2. Amazing and Intriguing Character – There are quite a few characters right now, so I’m not entirely sure which of them will be main characters (I have a vague idea from photos of the actors I saw when it was on the air – don’t know who they are as characters yet), but Jack seems to be the lead, when he found the others, he started helping them right away, thinks rationally, and takes charge. Kate got stronger toward the end of the first show – she may be an equal to Jack.

3. Empathy/Distress – Seeing the crash victims, their fear, sorrow, hope, confusion. Also, when Jack talks about botching a surgery and being afraid, but knowing he had to deal with it – he was afraid, but didn’t back down (which is what’s happening now).

4. Layers / Open Loops – Who will survive? Will they get rescued? Will they stay and start a new community? Will they work together or against each other? Are there other people where they are? What is the danger in the forest?

5. Definitely piqued my curiosity, although I’m not sure I care about any of them – yet. Show is in constant motion, lots going on and so many unanswered questions.

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[Barbara Dolny-Bombar]

Hi All,

I’m Barbara, worked in the television industry a long time, some of it early on was commercial, the rest public TV. I wrote a bunch of things for broadcast (more in the public tv arena) and publication, but never a full dramatic series. This course came up at a rather interesting time for me and I took it as a sign that I should be here – so here I am.

I have taken quite a few of Hal’s courses and can’t say enough good things about the quality of classes offered at ScreenwritingU – and the people.

Had some computer issues, so I’m playing catch up these next few days. Looking forward to going on this journey with all of you.

Cheers!

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