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.

There once was a boy named corey who all he wanted to do was get rid of commercials. He loves to watch tv but he cant stand those pointless commercials trying to sell things no one will ever want to buy. He is a small and skinny kid that is not involved with sports he is more of a movie maker than a sports guy. He also is not the most popular guy in the world. But there are people in this world that will never let the thing that he hates most stop showing in between his favorite show which is barney. These people are selfish and trying to get rich, they wear suits all the time, they are bigger and smarter than he is. they never listen to anyone especially little kids but corey has motivation to rid the world of the most pointless things called commercials.

protagonist antagonist screen write

scene 1: "sweedish fish"
setting: inside a friends room
mood: happy then serious and tense

doorbell rings and he opens the door
Friend 1:how have you been man? haven't seen you in a while.
friend 2: i've been good man what have you been up to for the past few weeks?
friend 1: you know just chilling around not doing much how about you?
friend 2: my life has been crazy with school and soccer and trying to work i never have any tie for myself anymore.
friend 1: that sucks man but how are you and your girlfriend doing?
friend 2: we are okay it is just hard because i never get to see her anymore the only time i actually get to see her is when we skype at night before she goes to bed.
friend 1:man I'm sorry it seams like your life has sucked over the past few weeks.
friend 2:yea i guess so but it is okay I'm managing it but wh what's this doing in your room? as he holds up a box of sweedish fish.
friend 1: uh thats not mine as he starts to sweat a little bit with a little nervous tone in his voice.
friend 2: then what is it doing in your room?
friend 1: i have no idea how it got in here
friend 2: uh huh sure you don't i think your new friends you've been hanging out with got you on this stuff AGAIN.
friend 1: how did you know i've been hanging out with new friends?
friend 2: because i've noticed how you've been acting lately and you haven't been yourself you have been down a little bit and i saw you walking suspiciously into a group of people i've never seen before. is that why your doing this stuff again? because you are feeling a little down you need to do this to yourself again?!?!?!
friend 1: i dont know what your talking about im not doing anything to myself that isnt mine.
friend 2: fine if you want that stuff so badly then leave me out of it i dont want any part of it as he leaves his house.
end scene 1

protagonist antagonist project ideas

Best friends fight:

Setting: living room then moves outside

Mood: happy then serious

Two friends sitting on a couch relaxing and talking about how they both need to find a girlfriend to go to homecoming with. They talk about some girls that they think they can get together with but are not really excited about any of them. So the friends go outside to play basketball and a girl walks by and says she is new to the neighborhood and would like to make some friends. So right there it becomes a competition between them to get the girl. They both try very different things to impress her like opening the door for her and taking her out to dinner and being friendly. Then they both ask her to homecoming and say she must pick one. This girl starts to ruin their friendship. But it turns out that she chooses neither of them and she chooses a different guy to go to homecoming with and they both end up not going and just hanging out with each other instead to try and save their friendship.

“Mashed potatoes”

Setting: inside a house

Mood: happy

Two friends are hanging out in one of their bedrooms and one of the friends finds a box of mashed potatoes in his room. So he asks his friend what is this doing in your room? The friend replies a little nervous saying that he doesn’t know how it got there. But his friend doesn’t believe him and asks him if he was doing mashed potatoes. His friend getting more nervous and starts to perspire a little bit says no. But his friend notices that he is sweating and that he has a nervous tone in his voice and says tell me the truth if you are or not. His friend starts to sweat bullets and takes a paper towel and wipes his forehead with it then wrings it out as sweat makes a puddle on the floor because he is perspiring so much and finally admits to it. His friend says you need help and I can help you if you would like. His friend says he will stop. But then a few weeks later he finds three mashed potato boxes in his room and tells his friend either it’s the potatoes or me pick one because I cant be friends with someone that is doing that kind of thing all the time and he walks out. His friend takes a few days and finally he tried to do mashed potatoes again but he couldn’t because all he was thinking about was how they were controlling his life and how they were costing him his friendship. So he goes outside and his friend is sitting on his porch and they talk and he says he is done with mashed potatoes for good because he would rather have a friend than mashed potatoes in his life.