Protagonist vs. Antagonist Brainstorm Writing
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You will write details about six characters; three antagonists, three protagonists.
Begin with one character, a protagonist. Write down their name. Write their current desires and motivations in life. Write down their childhood/backstory. These are the most important pieces.
Now write down their physical description, physical quirks, personality flaws. This is secondary to the motivation and backstory. It’s the icing on the cake, and it’s still important.
Now write that character’s nemesis using the exact same process (desires, backstory, physical ing onionsand personality quirks, etc). Think about why and how they are blocking the protagonist from achieving their goal. Is it malicious? Accidental?
Repeat this with two other sets of characters.
NOTE: You do not have to use all or any of these characters for your video if you don’t want to. It is an exercise to get you thinking about character building. On the other hand, this may trigger some brilliant thought that leads to a wonderful video project. You won’t know unless you put your heart and head into it.
Protagonist- Sarah is an average senior at her local school, she has a lot of friends, but feels as though life is getting in the way of her true desires. Right when sarahs beginning her path as an artist and entering into festivals she draws up a character that begins to talk to her.
Antagonist-Malcom is an animated character drawn by sarah. Sarah draws up this character and then looses her train of thought where she wants to go with it, she decides to go to bed a little annoyed. She comes back the next day to find that her main character malcom isnt on her notebook page anymore. She begins turning through her notebook and finding that malcom has destroyed all of her other art pieces. Malcom begins telling her that her drawings arent good enough and they're going to get her no where. Malcom begins animating his on set of drawings and putting sarah name on it. Before sarah even knew it her notebook was emitted into the animated festival and accepted. Sarah feels as though she will never be good enough to create her own self fulfilling artwork.
Protagonist 2- Kathy is a new girl at her school, after transferring from another state she found that people at her new school arent as friendly as she thought. Kathy misses going to the movies and hanging out with her old friends. She likes music, bowling, and writing.
Antagonist-
Monday, October 15, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Screen Treatment
Scene one: Sarah is walking home from her first day of school, getting ready to encounter her mom who will ask how her day was. Sarah before steeping into the house takes a deep sigh then opens the door.
Scene two: She walks up to her room slowly and quietly, mostly trying to avoid her mother and siblings. Soon enough as sarah is putting her book bag down her mother opens her bedroom door and begins asking how her school day was. sarah replies and tells her that it was alright nothing new than what shes use to, except theres an animating contest and the final product is due tomorrow. Sarahs mom asks if she is going to try and enter something in? Sarah says yes but she hasnt gotten any ideas yet. Her mom says alright honey and leaves the room.
Scene three: Sarah begins wandering about her room, sketching an assortment of things trying to come up with the perfect character. This scene is a little agonizing for Sarah because she cant quite figure out where she wants to go with her animation. She looks out the window every hour still mindless of what she wants to do and before she knows it, its dark outside.(the sky going from light to dark over a period of a day)
Scene four: Sarah finally draws up a character she likes and puts the name Malcolm under it, and circles him. Before going any father she puts her pen down and walks out her room to grab a cup of coffe.
Scene five: Sarah goes downstairs and gets a glass of coffe.
Scene six: When sarah gets back to into her room she notices that her notebook isnt the way she left it, she left it open with her pen on top, but when she returns her pen is nowhere to be found and the notebook is closed. Sarah gives a strong look of confusion and wanders over to her notebook. As she flips to the page that she had just drawn Malcolm, he is no longer on it. The surrounding setting of where he was at is still there but the character is gone and there are little footprints trailing off the page. She flips the page again and theres still little animated foot prints. She flips some more and jumps back for Malcom says to her "HEY THERE."
Sarah startled as can be replied with hello? and then gives herself a little tap across the face wondering if it was all a dream. Malcolm answers her thought and replies "no this is no dream my friend, im here to stop you from entering a disaster into your school art show. You want to win the prize right?" Sarah looks around her room to make sure no one will see her talking to a piece of paper and replies "Are you sure im not dreaming?" Malcolm ensures her that this is no dream and begins walking across the paper back in forth. He begins showing her what it takes to win this art show, by having her flip the next page. She asks him where her pen is, because shes had it ever since she was a little girl. He replies "your pen is no longer here, i am your pen now" sarah replies "No that cant be, i've had that pen as long as i can remember" he ensures her that she will not find a pen anywhere in her house, for he has taken all of them and that if she wants to win this art show and actually become someone at her school, she must quit wondering where her pen is and listen up. he tells sarah that he wants her to go to sleep and rest up for her big showing tomorrow, and to leave everything to him. Sarah already tired, passes out.
Scene seven: She wakes up the next morning and flips open her notebook, it is filled with artwork that is completely different than what she had expected. Malcolm asks her "Are you ready for your big day?" she replies "will seeing as i have no other choice, sure." Sarah puts her notebook and all her school supplies into her book bag and begins her walk to school. When sarah gets there, she drops her notebook into art show submission box and walks away...
Scene two: She walks up to her room slowly and quietly, mostly trying to avoid her mother and siblings. Soon enough as sarah is putting her book bag down her mother opens her bedroom door and begins asking how her school day was. sarah replies and tells her that it was alright nothing new than what shes use to, except theres an animating contest and the final product is due tomorrow. Sarahs mom asks if she is going to try and enter something in? Sarah says yes but she hasnt gotten any ideas yet. Her mom says alright honey and leaves the room.
Scene three: Sarah begins wandering about her room, sketching an assortment of things trying to come up with the perfect character. This scene is a little agonizing for Sarah because she cant quite figure out where she wants to go with her animation. She looks out the window every hour still mindless of what she wants to do and before she knows it, its dark outside.(the sky going from light to dark over a period of a day)
Scene four: Sarah finally draws up a character she likes and puts the name Malcolm under it, and circles him. Before going any father she puts her pen down and walks out her room to grab a cup of coffe.
Scene five: Sarah goes downstairs and gets a glass of coffe.
Scene six: When sarah gets back to into her room she notices that her notebook isnt the way she left it, she left it open with her pen on top, but when she returns her pen is nowhere to be found and the notebook is closed. Sarah gives a strong look of confusion and wanders over to her notebook. As she flips to the page that she had just drawn Malcolm, he is no longer on it. The surrounding setting of where he was at is still there but the character is gone and there are little footprints trailing off the page. She flips the page again and theres still little animated foot prints. She flips some more and jumps back for Malcom says to her "HEY THERE."
Sarah startled as can be replied with hello? and then gives herself a little tap across the face wondering if it was all a dream. Malcolm answers her thought and replies "no this is no dream my friend, im here to stop you from entering a disaster into your school art show. You want to win the prize right?" Sarah looks around her room to make sure no one will see her talking to a piece of paper and replies "Are you sure im not dreaming?" Malcolm ensures her that this is no dream and begins walking across the paper back in forth. He begins showing her what it takes to win this art show, by having her flip the next page. She asks him where her pen is, because shes had it ever since she was a little girl. He replies "your pen is no longer here, i am your pen now" sarah replies "No that cant be, i've had that pen as long as i can remember" he ensures her that she will not find a pen anywhere in her house, for he has taken all of them and that if she wants to win this art show and actually become someone at her school, she must quit wondering where her pen is and listen up. he tells sarah that he wants her to go to sleep and rest up for her big showing tomorrow, and to leave everything to him. Sarah already tired, passes out.
Scene seven: She wakes up the next morning and flips open her notebook, it is filled with artwork that is completely different than what she had expected. Malcolm asks her "Are you ready for your big day?" she replies "will seeing as i have no other choice, sure." Sarah puts her notebook and all her school supplies into her book bag and begins her walk to school. When sarah gets there, she drops her notebook into art show submission box and walks away...
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