[Donald Gates]

Dean’s Character Profiles Part 1

• This assignment taught me how to elevate my lead characters, improve them, and serve the story.

1. Listen to the 3-minute Empowerment Audio FIRST.<div>

• Done, I’m empowered!

2. Pick the type of role your Protagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

• Victim: In trying to help the homeless and hungry, Brooke becomes a victim of the system that feeds on them. She fights to save herself and the homeless. Once she discovers an insidious truth about how the system works, she will never be the same.

3. Pick the type of role your Antagonist will play and give us a few sentences on how they will fulfill that role.

• Villain: The villain is Brooke’s father, Mr. Hacker, and the people who work for him. They have created an evil and hidden system to solve homelessness and hunger problems. This system will unknowingly take Brook in as a victim.

4. What other characters might be necessary?

• Supporting characters:

• Protagonist:
• Friends of Brooke that come with her to help feed the homeless and then become fodder for the system.
• Other victims in the system that help Brook along the way.
• A member of the antagonist team that becomes an ally of Brooke.

• Antagonist:
• Underlings and associates that keep Mr. Hacker’s identity as the top villain hidden and carry out his plans.
• An ally of Brooke’s that turns out to be an enemy working for Mr. Hacker.

• Minor roles:

  Characters that help move one or two scenes along.

• Friends of Brooke that start on her journey and are killed by the system.
• Victims of the system that Brooke encounters.

• Background characters:
• Students at Brooke’s social events.
• Homeless victims that are on the street and processed through the system.
• Business people in Mr. Hacker’s office.

5. Pick your genre.

• Horror

6. Fill in whatever answers come to you about your lead character profiles.

[Donald Gates]

Dean’s Transformational Journey

• What I learned doing this assignment is the distance my character will travel from the beginning to the end of the story.

You send a Hero on a journey that the audience gets to live.

1. Listen to the 3-minute Empowerment Audio FIRST.

• Done. I am empowered!

2. Who is your Hero, and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?

• Hero: Brooke Hatcher

• Internal Journey: From idealistic and entitled to seeing reality and knowing that you can’t control everything.

• External Journey: From rebelling against the system of privilege and ease that her family built to being consumed by it.

3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?

• Old Ways: Rebelling against her entitled family and businessman father.
  Taking on virtue signaling causes to change the world, not knowing the possible negative results.
  Naively putting herself in harm’s way to prove her points.
  Not having hard challenges in knowing what she’s capable of.

• New Ways: Destroying her family.
  Being changed for the worse by taking on her causes.
  Fighting under and losing to the system she once rode on top of.
  Having to fight and being harmed in ways she can never reverse.

[Donald Gates]

Dean Gates

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