[Harry Lauture]

Harry L’s Characters for Horror

What I learned doing this assignment is to outline the characters and their roles.

1. Concept: Last Reflection and the Group: Social Group

2. Dying pattern: 6 to 8 characters together, and killing them off one by one

3. The Carrier: Unbeknownst to Gabriel (Claire’s husband), he brings the horror to everyone.

Lovers: Zane and Laura (Zane is Gabriel’s best friend). Zane purchases Gabriel’s car and uses it to take Laura on a date. Zane’s and Laura’s actions draw unwanted attention.

Rebel/Rule breaker: Sasha has many vices. She takes Madison (Troy’s sister) under her wing. Her attitude will be her undoing, taking Miguel as a casualty.

Innocent: Madison looks up to Sasha. She will be the cause of her brother’s death.

Rescuer: Troy is the typical protective older brother. He rescues his sister, but pays the ultimate price.

Introvert: Miguel is a loner and likes Madison. He will do anything to win her heart, but it will cost him his life.

Moral One: Claire (Gabriel’s wife) notices the pattern and the common denominator. She has to decide how to deal with the cursed object.

[Harry Lauture]

Harry Lauture’s Terrifying Monster

What I learned doing this assignment is how to flesh out my monster.

Their Terror: A spirit filled with anger and hate. Will attack and kill current owner and/or passengers. It will attack without provocation and randomly from a rearview mirror installed in a vehicle. It causes the victim(s) to die in horrific ways, like mimicking the exact manner of its death: the same weather and road conditions and replicating sounds like radio static, screams, injuries or crashes. You don’t know when it will strike.

Their Mystery: Why is it attacking?

Their fear-Provoking Appearance: It appears as an angry, dying, badly injured burning crash victim.

Their Rules: To be rid of it, you need to install the mirror in someone else’s car or it returns to the previous owner with vengeance.

Their Mythology: The spirit was a driver left to die in agonizing fashion, a unbelievable pain and to slowly burn to death from a hit and run.

[Harry Lauture]

Insidious Horror Conventions
What I learned doing his assignment is how to outline the main parts of my horror idea.

Title/Concept: Insidious
Terrorize the Characters: Characters are terrorized by ghosts and demon and they don’t know why.
Isolation: They follow the family.
Death: Son is haunted because is soul is missing. If his soul does not return to his body, another entity will take hold.
Monster/Villain: A demon that want to possess the son’s body.
High Tension: Strange noises, unfamiliar voices, ghostly appearances, things moved around
Departure from Reality: A son that astral travel in his sleep gets lost and find his way back. His father needs to rescue him.
Moral Statement: Don’t be judgmental and quick to dismiss people.

[Harry Lauture]

1. Harry Lauture.
2. I agree to the terms of this release form
3. Please leave the entire text below to confirm what you agree to.

1. Your name.
2. The words “I agree to the terms of this release form.”
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GROUP RELEASE FORM
As a member of this group, I agree to the following:
1. That I will keep the processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class available to anyone who is not a member of this class.
2. That each writer’s work here is copyrighted and that writer is the sole owner of that work. That includes this program which is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that idea.
I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.
3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.
4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea prior to the beginning of the class. If Hal deems them to be the same idea or close enough to cause harm to either party, he’ll request both parties to present another concept for the class.
5. If you don’t present proof to Hal that you have the same idea as another person, you agree that all ideas presented to this group are the sole ownership of the person who presented them and you will not write or market another group member’s ideas.
6. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.
This completes the Group Release Form for the class.

[Harry Lauture]

1. Harry Lauture
2. I have written 2 scripts.
3. I hope to become a better horror screenwriter.
4. I write for horror podcasts and working on first horror novel.