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Jonelle Berment’s Relationship Map

What I learned in doing this assignment is that all my colorful tables I made for the assignment don’t carry over 🙁 but all jokes aside, I learned how to map out relationships so that the characters become relevant through multiple episodes and seasons.

Assignment #1

Revenge

Emily & Nolan
Relationship Surface: Co-conspirators

Relationship Common Ground: Both wealthy & smart
Relationship Conflict: Nolan wants to be involved in Emily's plan for revenge but Emily wants him to have no parts of it.
Relationship History: Nolan worked for Emily's father, and her dad invested in Nolan's 1st company
Relationship Subtext: Indifference

Relationship Arc: From working for her dad to helping her carry out her revenge plot.Co-conspirators

Emily & Victoria

Relationship Surface: Adversaries

Relationship Common Ground: Powerful women who are used to getting their way.

Relationship Conflict: Emily is dating Victoria's son, Victoria doesn't trust Emily and wants to destroy their relationship and Victoria is the one who set up Emily's Dad.

Relationship History: Victoria was dating and in love with Emily's father

Relationship Subtext: Deep Hatred

Relationship Arc: From her father's lover to her sworn enemy.

Emily & Amanda

Relationship Surface: Former cellmate

Relationship Common Ground: Both are extremely strong willed and ambitious

Relationship Conflict: Amanda is inadvertently thrown into the revenge plan and has now decided to remain in the Hamptons and live the life she's always wanted.

Relationship History: They looked out for each other in the juvenile detention center they were serving time and Amanda agreed to switch identities.

Relationship Subtext: Major disdain

Relationship Arc: From Friend to Foe

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Jónelle Berment’s Character Emotions

What I learned doing this assignment is that it is fun to create the layers that your characters have in order to keep them relevant throughout the show.

Assignment #1
Revenge

Nolan:
A: Hope – To gain friendship /Fear – To have no friends

B: Wants – To be liked / Need – Companionship

C. Base Negative Emotion – Worthlessness / Public Mask – He’s an important person

D. Weaknesses – Socially Awkward

E. Triggers – Not being in the loop, FOMO

F. Coping Mechanism – Flaunting his money and buying friends

Emily:
A: Hope – Fulfill her purpose / Fear – That her plot is discovered

B: Wants – Justice for her Dad / Need – Revenge

C: Base Negative Emotion – Vengeance / Public Mask – Girl Next door, philanthropist

D. Weaknesses – Hatred

E. Triggers – Anyone connected to her Dad

F. Coping Mechanism – Manipulation, deceit

Assignment #2
The Commission

Michaela Johnson-Black

A: Hope – To exact revenge on husband’s killers / Fear – Failure

B: Want – To take over her husbands underworld businesses / Need – Respect

C: Base Negative Emotion – Insecurity / Public Mask – Boss Bitch, Type A personality

D: Weaknesses – Anxiety, fear and doubt

E: Triggers – lack of control

F: Coping Mechanism – Her religion (prayer, meditation and marijuana)

Gianna Isabella Napoli (Ginni)

A: Hope – To leave the mafia world / Fear – She’s stuck in that lifestyle forever

B: Want – A “normal” life / Need – Loyalty

C: Base Negative Emotion – Shame / Public Mask – Hard Ass defense attorney

D: Weaknesses – Her father and family

E: Triggers – Threat of being disbarred

F: Coping Mechanism – Cocaine

Oksana Babakova

A: Hope – To create a family with her husband Alexy / Fear – She will be killed before she can

B: Want – Control / Need – True unconditional love

C: Base Negative Emotion – Deadly Ambition / Public Mask – Vapid Woman

D: Weaknesses – Quick Temper

E: Triggers – Feeling disrespected

F: Coping Mechanism – Murder

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Jónelle Berment’s Intriguing Character Layers

What I learned in doing this assignment was that it is crucial to create layers for your main characters and even let the “good” characters do some bad things.

Assignment #1 REVENGE

Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke

Role – Hamptons NewcomerHidden Agenda – Destroy the lives of the people who framed and killed her DadCompetition – with Victoria GraysonConspiracy – With Nolan Ross to bring her fathers killers to justiceSecrets – She created an entire alter egoDeception – She must protect her alter ego if she wants to see her plan come to fruitionWound – Losing her father to a lie and never seeing him againSecret Identity – she is Amanda Clarke

Assignment #2 The Commission

Character Name: Michaela

Role: Leader of the group of women plotting revenge

Hidden agendas: Secretly wants to eliminate Oksana and their business

Competition: Oksana

Conspiracies: Works with Gianna to push the Russians out and claim their business

Secrets: She had a child at 14 that she never told anyone about, nor did she tell who the father of that baby was.

Deception: Deceiving the other ladies except Gianna on working to steal the Russians business

Wound: Witnessing the death of her husband

Secret Identity: Queen Pin

Character Name: Gianna

Role: Confidant and defense attorney for Michaela

Hidden agendas: Secretly wants to eliminate Oksana and their business

Competition: Oksana, and the other ladies

Conspiracies: Works with Michaela to push the Russians out and claim their business

Secrets: She wants to reveal that she is bi-sexual and attracted to Valentina

Deception: Deceiving the other ladies about her sexuality.

Wound: Witnessing the death of her husband and rejection from Valentina.

Secret Identity: Swinger

Character Name: Oksana

Role: Rogue Member

Hidden agendas: Wants to take Michaela out and run the conglomerate business.

Competition: Michaela

Conspiracies: Works with former associates of her husband to plot on Michaela

Secrets: She was having an affair with Michaela’s husband.

Deception: Deceiving everyone due to affair and plot to get rid of Michaela

Wound: Witnessing the death of her husband and her lover

Secret Identity: Gambling Addict

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Jónelle Berment Engaging Characters

Assignment #1

What I learned doing this assignment was that there is a need to create layers to my characters for future seasons and also as the seasons unfold.

Revenge

Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke

A. Role in the show: Hero/protagonist set on avenging her father’s framing and death by following clues her Dad left behind.

B. Unique Purpose/Expertise: Leads the charge in destroying each persons life who was responsible for the framing of her Dad.
Expertise: Ultimate mastermind and strategist

C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface? She is not who she portrays herself to be. She’s a cunning woman.

D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing? She’s lying, committing fraud, insider trading and poisoning.

E. Unpredictable: What will they do next? With Emily you never know what she’s going to do next but we know it will be for further revenge.

F. Empathetic: Why do we care? Her father was framed and then killed in jail and she went into the system

Assignment #2

The Commission

Journey: Following the lives of the wives after the murder of their husbands, the revenge they seek and the businesses they now have to run.

Michaela Johnson-Black

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Jónelle Berment – Three Circles of Characters

Show: Revenge

What I learned doing this assignment is that it is important to think out the three circles of characters not just your typical main characters and supporting roles. I also learned from thinking of my own idea that you will add more environmental characters and possibly connected as you being to outline etc.

Main Characters –
Emily Thorne/Amanda Clark
Victoria Grayson
Conrad Grayson
Daniel Grayson

Connected Circle –
Nolan Ross
Ashley Davenport
Jack Porter
Declan Porter
Charlotte Porter
Lydia Davis
Bill Harman

Environment Circle –
Hamptons Socialites
Bar Patrons
Boaters
Townspeople

My Show

The Commission

Main Characters –
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Michaela Johnson-Black Successful Real Estate Mogul married to Kingpin Michael Black.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Tao Ming Li – Black belt housewife, born into the Triad life, unbeknownst to her. Her husband is Alex Li top general in the Triads.

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Gianna Aiello – Successful Defense Attorney for all her family’s associates, born into the Mafia and though she defied the odds of being a housewife she is loyal to her family. Husband is Johnny Aiello.

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Valentina Castillo Cortez – International Nightclub owner based in Bogotá Colombia. She is aware of her husband’s business but she separates her business from his. Husband is Juan Felipé Cortez.

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Oksana Babakova – Wife of KGB Commander Anatoly Babakova. She is a
trained assassin and works with her husband although she appears to everyone who knows her to be a housewife.

Connected Circle
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Michael Black – Deceased husband of Michaela Johnson-Black

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Alex Li – Deceased husband of Tao Ming Li

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Johnny Aiello – Deceased husband of Gianna Aiello

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Juan Felipé – Deceased husband of Valentina Castillo Cortez
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Anatoly Babakova – Deceased Husband of Oksana Babakova

Environment Circle
The respective children for each family
Street soldiers
Attorneys
DEA Agents
Bodyguards
Police Officers
Extras

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Revenge 5 Star Model

What I learned doing this assignment was how to really digest what is being por look at the different parts of a show and pinpoint just what they are.

Big Picture Hooks – The show opens with a Daniel getting shot on the beach, and his fiancee is a mysterious newcomer that appeared on the Hamptons Summer scene hell bent on avenging her father’s death.

Amazing and Intriguing Character –

Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke – Her intentions are clear that she wants revenge but we don’t know her plan. In the very beginning we don’t know that she is Amanda Clarke, that is something that was revealed towards the end of the first episode.

Victoria Greyson – She is the definition of an Ice Queen. It is clear that she wields power within her social circle. What we don’t know is the connection between Victoria and Amanda. We know that Victoria was having an affair with Amanda’s father but we don’t know why.

Empathy/Distress – We immediately feel empathy for Emily/Amanda for losing her father to first jail and then having him murdered right before she is released from juvie. We also feel a bit of empathy for Victoria when it is learned that her friend Lydia was the one whom her husband was having an affair.

Layers/Open Loops –
Who shot Daniel and why?
Why did the Greyson’s frame Mr. Clarke?
What made Victoria turn on David and ruin their affair?

Inviting Obsession – This pilot pulls you in because you must know more. I watched this show when it first premiered though I don’t remember every detail. You want to know what became of Amanda Clarke, who is this Emily Thorne persona she created? The first episode makes you want to keep watching.

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1. Jónelle Berment

2. How many scripts you’ve written? 1 feature (in pre-production) and one idea for TV 🙂

3. What you hope to get out of the class? I hope to create a binge worthy show

4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I completely was lost on this class and writing things in a notebook *facepalm* but I am very new to LA

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I Jónelle Berment agree to the terms of this class detailed below.

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 Binge Worthy TV class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, teaching a class, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the Binge Worthy TV 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 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. The easiest solution if you have similar ideas is to either not look at each other’s work or to agree to take your shows in different directions.

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.

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