[Sean Davis]

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch the next episode of your Example Show to see how the characters fit into these three circles:

A. Main Characters Circle: Walt, Jessie

B. Connected Circle: Walt’s son, Skylar, Hank, Marie,

C. Environment Circle: Steve Gomez, gus, gus’s henchman, tuco,

Give us a quick list for each circle.

Deadline: 24 hours

<hr>ASSIGNMENT 2:

3. I learned about more of my characters.

1. Create the three circles of characters for your show.

A. Main Characters Circle: Peebag, Dirty Wig, Old timer

B. Connected Circle: Hull, The Janitor, Travis, Young smoke

C. Environment Circle: Rodger, Chase, Marie Beth, Rafacon, Treystar

2. Give us a one sentence description of each of the Main Characters.

[Sean Davis]

Sample Show: Game of Thrones

Big Hook: The medieval, castle drama that involves not only typical knight-like characters you would normally see but has little people, kids, and even dragons pushing the story.

Intriguing Characters:

Daenerys Targaryen: former slave, Daenerys rises to power because of her psycho fixation on becoming the queen of the world. She’s likable because of her strong female prescence while at the same time being a badass. She’s kinda evil.

Tyrion Lannester: former hand of the king, Tyrion is really good at manipulating those who are less weak minded. It should be mentioned that he’s pretty smart, and has managed to survive in the dangerous Thrones world because of his wit, charm, funny jokes.

Arya: Youngest daughter of Eddard stark, Arya is also a badass but is empathetic and will help out those in need despite her rebelliousness and eventual murderous and vicious attitudes.

Jaime Lannister: A once hot headed kind of beautiful brute, Jaime starts off as your typical evil knight, looking for powerful and shitting on those below him. But he grows into a more empathetic person having been in captivity for so long and the people he meets and forms relationships with along the way.

Empathy/Distress:

The people in thrones are in distress because of the constant pain of lost ones and manipulation being done to the characters.

There’s empathy sometimes when a character dies, doesn’t get what they want, or is crippled for some reason.

Open Loops:

Which kingdom will rule the other Kingdoms?

Will Tyrion finally find a true love?

Will Daenerys come out on top or will someone else rule?

Inviting Obsession:

What I learned from the exercise: This show is binge worthy because there are so many likeable and interesting characters. People love the medieval castle drama shit so that will always be a hook if produced well with good characters. Part of the reason it’s binge worthy is the violence and sex, and Tyrion and Arya in my opinion carry the show with their strong and interesting personalities.

[Sean Davis]

1. Your name. Sean Davis

2. “I agree to the terms of this release form.”

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.

Thanks!

[Sean Davis]

1. Name? Sean

2. How many scripts you’ve written? A handful, writing more

3. What you hope to get out of the class? To make my character relationships stronger, and clearer premises.

4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I used to run down the hallways of my high school and scream gibberish and people would say “there goes that crazy white boy!”

Bye