[Sherry Lloyd]

What I learned from this assignment is to break down your characters on a deeper level to help the audience understand and relate to those on the screen.

Role of the Protagonist:

Hero/Fighter – Garvin will save the Student from being killed. He
has military experience and retired as a General. Although all seems that
he retired on good standing, the truth is much different.

Role of the Antagonist:

Villain/Authority: New General (NG) will do anything to keep his “experiments”
for the government under wraps. He knows Garvin well and replaced him when
Garvin “retired” since NG set him up.

Other characters:

Main Supporting characters:

1) The Student who is kidnapped from the classroom after what he saw while driving by an army base.

2) 2 graduate students who have been through basic training. They know the military “lingo”.

Minor roles:

1) The NG’s soldiers

Background characters: Many extras

Genre: Drama/Action

Lead character:

Role in the story: Professor Garvin <div>

Age range and Description: mid 60’s, proper posture, tall, intimidating

Internal Journey: Trying to adjust to retirement without his wife. Has
PTSD and relives some times in war when a certain noise is heard. For
example, a car backfiring will trigger gunfire in his head. He feels like a
“fish out of water” when trying to defend his student.

External Journey: Garvin puts aside any doubts as a General while
the situation unfolds and saves the student and brings justice to the NG
since the truth has been exposed.

Motivation: To prove he still can complete a mission successfully

Wound: His PTSD

Mission/Agenda: To save the Student

Secret: TBD

What makes them special? His ability to take control of a dire
situation and remain calm

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[Sherry Lloyd]

Hi everyone! My name is Sherry and I have written 4 screenplays in 10 years. I did take a lot of time away from writing to get my bachelors degree in healthcare. What I am looking forward to in this class is keeping me writing and not making excuses.

Hope you have a great day! 🙂

[Sherry Lloyd]

What I learned doing this assignment is to define the arc of the characters including their internal and external struggles and triumphs.

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

Internal
Journey: Professor Garvin misses his wife of 35 years. He also is
suffering from PTSD from his time in the military. <div>

External
Journey: Professor Garvin and 2 other students come up with a plan to save
another student from “disappearing”.

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What are the Old Ways and New Ways?

Old Ways: Garvin feels lost and cannot see past the current situation. He feels that he’s not good enough to save his student.

New Ways: Garvin uses his military experience to outsmart the new General and his troop.

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[Sherry Lloyd]

“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.

[Sherry Lloyd]

Sherry Lloyd

I agree to the terms of this release form.

GROUP RELEASE FORM

As a member of Writing Incredible Movies, 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, through social media, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, videos, 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.