Jaelle Dragomir
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Jaelle Dragomir
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Jaelle’s Beat Sheet Draft 1
My Vision: My vision: I’m an award winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
In 1831, Helena is christened amongst a raging fire, a sign of psychic abilities. Her psychic abilities and her fierce temper haunt her in childhood and throughout her life. Helena leaves family and Russia and travels the world looking for the Divine Truth. In Tibet, Masters Morya and K.H. teach Blavatsky esoteric teachings of the Adepts.
She meets Olcott and Sinnett and they form the Theosophists Society in NYC. Elliott Coues tries to collude with Blavatsky to gain notoriety and wealth but she refuses.
The Society grows in popularity and opposing forces gather strength. Spiritualists speak out against Theosophists philosophy. Vsevolod Soloviov enters the inner circle of the Society and worships Blavatsky. Reverend Patterson denounces the Society as devil worshipers, and witches. Scientists meet with the Society arguing that their claims are preposterous. The Society meets with Christians and Spiritualists to resolve misunderstandings.
Rumors intensify and members of the Society start to leave in droves. Olcott and Blavatsky disagree about the Society and almost dissolve their relationship. Coues vindictively attacks Blavatsky in an op ed in The Sun in NYC. Blavatsky files a libel lawsuit and resigns as the head of the Society.
The Theosophical Society begins to crumble in NYC and headquarters move to India.
Blavatsky becomes seriously ill and almost dies, but the Masters save her.
The Society for Psychical Research hires an investigator, Hodgson, to go to India who sides with the Christians and writes a damming report.
Coulomb, a trusted Theosophist, spreads lies and the Theosophists board expels her from the society. Coulomb creates a counterfeit letter from Blavatsky showing damning evidence of fraud and the Reverend Patterson publishes the letter. Blavatsky decries it as a fake.
Vsevolod Soloviov becomes Blavatsky’s bitter enemy and denounces her. Sinnett and Olcott start distrusting Blavatsky. Loyalty for the Founders disintegrates at the Society’s center. Blavatsky again almost dies, leaves India, and moves to England.
The Society for Psychical Research report comes out and condemns Blavatsky as an imposter and a Russian spy.
Once again on her death bed, Blavatsky moves to London.
Dubbed the Blavatsky House, young students learn theosophy from Blavatsky.
In 1891, Theosophists celebrate its almost certain defeat of Elliott Coues and The Sun.
Madame Helena P. Blavatsky dies thus terminating the lawsuit for libel. The Sun retracts the articles by Coues as unsupported by factual evidence.
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Jaelle’s Deeper Layer!
My vision: I’m an award winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
Surface Layer: Blavatsky is confident, wretchedly truthful, bold, brilliant
Deeper Layer: deep fear of not being enough, not wanted, not desired
Major Reveal: Father tells her she’s a failure; sister doesn’t trust her
Influences Surface Story: Blavatsky is sick often, nearly dying; gets married, but refuses to have sex; doesn’t follow through on some things; resorts to anger easily and makes enemies.
Hints: her anger overrides sensibility; she breaks down when alone; maybe she is a fraud after all
Changes Reality: She resigns from the Theosophist Society and doesn’t solidify her dream.3. Add the rest of the structure to the characters to the script. Try to get to the point as we’ve done in the Iron Man example above. WHERE IS THIS?
Beginning: Seance with a small group.
Inciting Incident: The Sun posts the oped by Coues calling Blavatsky a fraud.
Turning Point 1: She starts the Theosophist Society
Act 2: Meets Olcott andSinnett
Turning Point 2 / Midpoint: Attacked by Scientist, Spiritualists and Christianity.
Act 3: Theosophical Society begins to crumble.
Turning Point 3: Blavatsky is betrayed by members of Society.
Act 4 Climax: Court case is a sure win for Blavatsky and the Society
Resolution: Blavatsky dies, terminating the suit; The Sun retracts Coues’ story -
JAELLE’S Character Structure
My vision: I’m an award winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
Protagonist: Blavatsky
Beginning: Seance with a small group.
Inciting Incident: The Sun posts the oped by Coues calling Blavatsky a fraud.Turning Point 1: She starts the Theosophist Society
Act 2: Meets Olcott andSinnett
Turning Point 2 / Midpoint: Attacked by Scientist, Spiritualists and Christianity.
Act 3: Theosophical Society begins to crumble.
Turning Point 3: Blavatsky is betrayed by members of Society.
Act 4 Climax: Court case is a sure win for Blavatsky and the Society
Resolution: Blavatsky dies, terminating the suit; The Sun retracts Coues’ storyAntagonist
Beginning: tries to collude with Blavatsky
Inciting Incident: writes an OpEd to The Sun, a popular newspaper in NYC.
Turning Point 1: Tries to enter the Society.
Act 2: Coues takes Soloviov under his wing.
Turning Point 2 / Midpoint: Breathes new life into fraud case
Act 3: Uses Soloviov to betray Blavatsky
Turning Point 3:
Act 4 Climax: Court case is a sure loss.
Resolution: Coues is defeated and shamed -
Jaelle’s Supporting Characters
My vision: I’m an award winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
Support 1:
Name: Anna
Role: Sister
Main purpose: challenge Blavatsky’s belief system
Value: provides family history, bonds, and Blavatsky’s exclusion from familySupport 2:
Name: Sinnett
Role: helps to establish the Theosophists Society
Main purpose: supports Blavatsky but eventually questions her
Value: through his questioning of her methods, Blavatsky begins to question herself and begins to ultimately defend herself.Support 3:
Name: Soloviov
Role: inner circle member of Society
Main purpose: worships Blavatsky and then betrays her
Value: by betraying Blavatsky, the Society starts to crumble, bring hardships to allSupport 4:
Name: Coulomb
Role: works for the Society
Main purpose: knows the inner workings of the Society and spreads what seems like credible evidence against Blavatsky
Value: once again betrayed, this turn creates an even more determined Blavatsky to succeed in her mission. -
Jaelle’s Character Profiles Part 2
My vision: I’m an award winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
A. The High Concept. When a psychic is accused of being a fraud by a ruthless con man, she creates a perfect society to prove she’s authentic, however the con man infiltrates the society to bring her down.
B. This character’s journey. From psychic to nomad to world renowned visionary.
C. The Actor Attractors for this character. True story; Blavatsky is a woman ahead of her time (late 1800s); wide range of actions and emotions from kind and generous to wildly unpredictable and angry.Role in the Story: Russian psychic that even though all of society’s forces against her, founds the Theosophist Society.
Age range and Description: mid to late 50s; heavy set Russian woman with a bucket of blond hair
Core Traits: precise, correct, and competent but degrades into self-indulgence, and self-absorption
Motivation; Want/Need: to save humanity, found and build the Theosophist Society; to be worldly and intelligent
Wound: rejected by father for not being “smart”
Likability, Relatability, Empathy:Likability: ahead of her time, extremely intelligent;
Relatability: she wants to help people and does; she goes above and beyond helping others.
Empathy: she almost dies more than once and has many enemies. Called a fraud, is rejected, and betrayed by those close to her, but stays on her path to spiritual awareness to build the Society.A. The High Concept.A psychic founds the Theosophy Society in hopes of saving humanity, but the forces of society try to tear her down.
B. This character’s journey. Cautious, credulous, gullible and a poor observer to profound leader of the Society.
C. The Actor Attractors for this character. Worldly, journalist that sees all, hears all, and understands the ways of the world.Role in the Story: supports Blavatsky, although sometimes obtuse, and angry with her.
Age range and Description: Mid to late 50s. Tall, 6’5”, thin, balding with a beard down to his waist.
Core Traits: honest, strong moral principles, critical perfectionism, and judgmental intolerance
Motivation; Want/Need: help Blavatsky create and build the Society.
Wound: wants to be loved, be lovable
Likability: honest, upright, authentic,
Relatability, questions life, and why him, and what is the truth
Empathy: can’t get past MB tough exterior to be the love of his life -
Jaelle’s Character Profiles Part 1
My vision: I’m an award winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
A. The High Concept. A psychic founds the Theosophy Society in hopes of saving humanity, but the forces of society try to tear her down.
B. This character’s journey. From psychic to nomad to world renowned visionary.
C. The Actor Attractors for this character. True story; Blavatsky is a woman ahead of her time (late 1800s); wide range of actions and emotions from kind and generous to wildly unpredictable and angry.Role in the Story: Russian psychic that even though all of society’s forces against her, founds the Theosophist Society.
Age range and Description: mid to late 50s; heavy set Russian woman with a bucket of blond hair
Core Traits: precise, correct, and competent but degrades into self-indulgence, and self-absorption
Motivation; Want/Need: to save humanity, found and build the Theosophist Society; to be worldly and intelligentWound: rejected by father for not being “smart”
Likability, Relatability, Empathy:
Likability: ahead of her time, extremely intelligent;
Relatability: she wants to help people and does; she goes above and beyond helping others.
Empathy: she almost dies more than once and has many enemies. Called a fraud, is rejected, and betrayed by those close to her, but stays on her path to spiritual awareness to build the Society.A. The High Concept.A psychic founds the Theosophy Society in hopes of saving humanity, but the forces of society try to tear her down.
B. This character’s journey. Cautious, credulous, gullible and a poor observer to profound leader of the Society.
C. The Actor Attractors for this character. Worldly, journalist that sees all, hears all, and understands the ways of the world.
Role in the Story: co-founder of the Society; supports Blavatsky, although sometimes obtuse, and angry with her.
Age range and Description: Mid to late 50s. Tall, 6’5”, thin, balding with a beard down to his waist.
Core Traits: honest, strong moral principles, critical perfectionism, and judgmental intolerance
Motivation; Want/Need: help Blavatsky create and build the Society.Wound: wants to be loved, be lovable
Likability: honest, upright, authentic,
Relatability, questions life, and why him, and what is the truth
Empathy: can’t get past MB tough exterior to be the love of his life -
Jaelle’s Likability/Relatability/Empathy
My vision: I’m an award winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
WHAT I LEARNED: having empathy for the antagonist is more difficult
Protagonist: Madame Blavatsky
Likability: she’s bigger than life, smokes cigarettes that she rolls, thus she’s ahead of her time,
Relatability: she wants to help people and does; she goes above and beyond helping others.
Empathy: she almost dies more than onceAntagonist: Coues
Likability: has a good sense of humor; charismatic
Relatability: he knows what he wants and goes after it
Empathy: he truly believes what he’s doing is right, even though he’s on a mission to destroy MB -
JAELLE’S Character Intrigue
My vision: I’m an award winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
WHAT I LEARNED: gotta know your characters
For each of your main characters, use this list to brainstorm one or more Intrigue items that might apply. You don’t need all of them; just one or two.
Character Name: Madame Blavatsky
Role: protagonist
Hidden agendas: become even more world famous to create the perfect human and save humanity
Competition: with the Spiritualists and Christians
Conspiracies: create the Theosophical Society
Secrets: married to two men at the same time
Unspoken Wound: didn’t do what father wanted, to be a good wife; he considered her incompetent, silly, ineffective, and unworthy, not to mention not attractiveCharacter’s subtext might show up in movie: she’s married but never consummates the marriages; she always wants to be competent, never make mistakes, and free from the emotions demands of others, when she fails, she overcompensates, becomes aggressive towards others, and hides out, so her mistakes aren’t exposed.
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Jaelle’s Subtext Characters
My Vision: I’m an award-winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
What I learned: give the lead character a wide range of behaviors and personality traits.
Lead Character Name: Madame Helena Blavatsky
Role: Protagonist
What about this role would cause an actor to want to be known for it? Blavatsky is a highly controversial person in real life that wrote about women’s rights and psychic ability.
What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in your story? She’s tough, very intelligent, hard to know what she’s thinking, to being obsessive, controlling, and aloof.
What are the most interesting actions the Lead could take in the script? Bring Masters back to life. Fight for her status.
How can you introduce this role in a way that could sell it to an actor? She does a seance and in enters two of her Masters, who stun those in the audience.
What could be this character’s emotional range: from gentle, kind, loving, giving to tearing limbs off and beating people about the head with the limb.
What subtext can the actor play? Acting like she doesn’t care that she’s being called a fake.
What’s the most interesting relationships this character can have? The one with the teenager that gets embodied by Maitreya.
How will this character’s unique voice be presented? She brash, almost tactless, fearless, yet is a marshmallow when she sees the harshness of humanity.
What could make this character special and unique? Ahead of her time; cigar smoking lady that doesn’t take anything from men. -
Jaelle’s Actor attractors for The Unforgivable
My Vision: I’m an award-winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
What I learned: ya gotta make characters that are incredibly interesting and show it.
Movie Title: The Unforgivable
Lead Character Name: Ruth Slater
1. Why would an actor WANT to be known for this role? Multi-dimensional woman who is strong, yet vulnerable; who has accepted the shooting of a man she didn’t kill to save her sister.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in the movie? Most interesting because she’s learned to be tough, yet she’s kind and gentle. She takes risks, learns the hard way, never gives up. Ruth Slater is trying to find her sister. She’s convicted of killing a cop, spent time in prison and survived; son of cop out to get her.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead takes in the movie? Stands up against one of the sons of the cop who is going to kill a young woman. Protects young sister. Shows how good she is as a carpenter. Shows cell mates they can’t mess with her. Gets beat up by a fellow worker. Destroys her carpenter work.
4. How is this character introduced that could sell it to an actor?
5. What is this character’s emotional range? Cut off, standoff-ish, to soft and loving.
6. What subtext can the actor play? Says she guilty but not why.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character has? With her sister, the lawyer’s wife, the son of the killed cop, her parole officer.
8. How is this character’s unique voice presented? She’s mostly introverted and closed off. Lots of nonverbal clues. Many flashbacks.
9. What makes this character special and unique? She grows from leaving the prison to finding her sister. Audience doesn’t know she’s innocent until the end.
10. Scene dead cop’s son is going to kill the young woman. Slate goes to see her sister for the first time in 20 years, gets a call, goes to save the young woman that he thinks is her sister. Slate shows anger, presence of mind, compassion for the son, and gets the young woman out of harm’s way.
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Jaelle’s Actor attractors for The Unforgivable
My Vision: I’m an award-winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
What I learned: ya gotta make characters that are incredibly interesting and show it.
Movie Title: The Unforgivable
Lead Character Name: Ruth Slater
1. Why would an actor WANT to be known for this role? Multi-dimensional woman who is strong, yet vulnerable; who has accepted the shooting of a man she didn’t kill to save her sister.
2. What makes this character one of the most interesting characters in the movie? Most interesting because she’s learned to be tough, yet she’s kind and gentle. She takes risks, learns the hard way, never gives up. Ruth Slater is trying to find her sister. She’s convicted of killing a cop, spent time in prison and survived; son of cop out to get her.
3. What are the most interesting actions the Lead takes in the movie? Stands up against one of the sons of the cop who is going to kill a young woman. Protects young sister. Shows how good she is as a carpenter. Shows cell mates they can’t mess with her. Gets beat up by a fellow worker. Destroys her carpenter work.
4. How is this character introduced that could sell it to an actor?
5. What is this character’s emotional range? Cut off, standoff-ish, to soft and loving.
6. What subtext can the actor play? Says she guilty but not why.
7. What’s the most interesting relationships this character has? With her sister, the lawyer’s wife, the son of the killed cop, her parole officer.
8. How is this character’s unique voice presented? She’s mostly introverted and closed off. Lots of nonverbal clues. Many flashbacks.
9. What makes this character special and unique? She grows from leaving the prison to finding her sister. Audience doesn’t know she’s innocent until the end.
10. Scene dead cop’s son is going to kill the young woman. Slate goes to see her sister for the first time in 20 years, gets a call, goes to save the young woman that he thinks is her sister. Slate shows anger, presence of mind, compassion for the son, and gets the young woman out of harm’s way.
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Jaelle’s Genre Conventions
My Vision: I’m an award-winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
What I learned: conventions help move the story along but my original concept has changed and I now see it, not as a high-concept, but rather, a television series. The concept is morphing as I dig deep into the research of Madame Blavatsky. Perhaps I should take another of my concepts; a different concept from Module 1.
Title: Madame Blavatsky’s Perfect Human: (An Unfortunate Misunderstanding)
Concept: Madam Blavatsky, a brilliant Theosophist, tries to recreate the perfect human to save humanity, but the perfect human creates an even bigger problem.
Genre: Drama
Act 1:
Opening: The world as it is; human destruction of planet.
MB studies large volumes of ancient texts and confers with other Theosophists, Annie Bessant and Leadbetter. Flashbacks to her birth; a fire she is born into, her psychic abilities as a child. She searches for the alchemy that will save humanity from total annihilation.
Inciting Incident: Turning Point: The “masters” that she evokes through her psychic abilities instruct her to fulfill her destiny to save all of humanity.Act 2:
New plan: Get media attention. Search for the symbolic philosopher’s stone, that transmutes the lead of human nature into the kingly gold of divine nature. Flashback to the ship she was on that sank.
Plan in action: She travels a world-wandering trail. She meets an Indian prince: a mysterious Hindu, and is told that she will find the philosopher’s stone, but not for another 30 or so years.
Midpoint Turning Point: contemplates suicide, but is saved by her Guardian.Act 3:
Rethink everything: She goes to India, the land of her destiny.
New plan: Start the Theosophist Society
Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift; The world is in a greater mess than it was before. All is lost. Humanity will end.Act 4:
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: Start the Theosophist Society Resolution:
Resolution: A new society has greater knowledge. MB dies. -
Jaelle’s 4 Act Transformational Structure
My Vision: I’m an award-winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
What I learned: a lot
Concept: Madam Blavatsky, a brilliant Theosophist, creates the perfect human to save humanity, but the perfect human makes life miserable for everyone.
Main Conflict: Madam Blavatsky wants Maitreya to become the perfect human, however, Maitreya refuses .
Old Ways: Publicly wants to stand out, seeks attention of media, values self based on what others think
New Ways: is content to be her true self, understands her place in the universe is no less nor more than anyone else.
Act 1:
Opening: MB studies large volumes of ancient texts and confers with other Theosophists. She searches for the alchemy that will create the perfect human.
Inciting Incident: Turning Point: The “masters” that she evokes through her psychic abilities instruct her to find Maitreya.Act 2:
New plan: Get media attention. Search Asia.
Plan in action: the search is on
Midpoint Turning Point: the boy is found.Act 3:
Rethink everything: Maitreya is obnoxious; not the perfect Human.
New plan: Get rid of Maitreya and start again
Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift; The world is in a greater mess than it was before. All is lost. Humanity will end.Act 4:
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: Maitreya confronts Helena with his truth.
Resolution: Everything is actually fixed. -
Jaelle’s Subtext Plot
My Vision: I’m an award-winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates scripts that change lives to bring a new vision to the world, and I’m richly rewarded.
What I learned:
Concept: Madam Blavatsky, a brilliant Theosophist, creates the perfect human to save humanity, but the perfect human makes life miserable for everyone.
Subtext Plots : Layering and Competitive Agendas
Madam Blavatsky has a mission: save humanity, but when she chooses the perfect human and starts to train him in the ancient ways, he revolts (competitive agendas) as any good teenager would do. Everything he does makes her life miserable. When goes to out, every person he touches, whom Blavatsky believes the perfect human would heal them, has the opposite effect. However, the perfect human is actually doing exactly what needs to be done to heal the people he touches. (Layering)
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Jaelle’s Transformational Journey
My Vision: I am an award-winning screenwriter that is sought after by people in the industry, who creates screenplays that change lives and creates a vision for a better world, and I’m richly rewarded.
What I learned: Putting the puzzle together takes consideration of character’s hero’s journey.
Madame Blavatsky
Arc Beginning: well-known psychic that has to have public attention and admiration
Arc Ending: writer and activist that works for the common good of humanity.
Internal Journey: from suffering spiritual arrogance, doing whatever it takes including hurting people because she has a right to change other’s path to fit her vision to realizing that…
External Journey: her way isn’t the only way
Old Ways: Publicly wants to stand out, seeks attention of media, values self based on what other’s think
New Ways: is content to be her true self, understands her place in the universe is no less nor more than anyone else’s
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JAELLE’S INTENTIONAL LEAD CHARACTERS
My vision: I’m an award-winning screenwriter, sought out by people in the industry, who creates movies that change lives and creates a vision for a better world, and I’m richly rewarded.
What I learned: one of the best ways to fulfill the promise of the pitch is to make sure the characters can do exactly that.
Madame Blavatsky (protagonist) is a brilliant spiritualist and Theosophist, that tries to create the perfect human to save humanity.
Maitreya (antagonist) the created perfect human is far from perfect, and makes life miserable for everyone.
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Jaelle’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My vision: I’m an award-winning screenwriter, sought out by people in the industry, who creates movies that change lives and creates a vision for a better world, and I’m richly rewarded.
WHAT I LEARNED: deciding the character structure at the beginning sets the script on a path that makes sense.
Title: Madame Blavatsky’s Perfect Human
Concept: A spiritualist recreates the perfect human to save humanity, but he’s far from perfect, so she now has to destroy him.
Character structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Hi all,
I’m Jaelle Dragomir. I’ve written six screenplays and several theatrical plays that have won awards and been produced, one in Kathmandu, Nepal.
For this class, my goals are to write a screenplay that will get the attention of ‘A’ list actors, directors, and producers, and be well-received by a wide audience.
I’m a closet stand-up comedian, but a few years ago I performed at the Jon Lovitz Comedy club. I’m a professor that’s evaluated by students with highest compliments: “funniest professor ever!” I’m old enough to wave off wishful thinking as if it were the last black fly in Wyoming. I’m a happily complicated Homo Ludens with only one thing that actually annoys me: a painting hanging at an angle.
I look forward to taking this journey with like-hearted writers.
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Jaelle Dragomir
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