online writting workshop.

This is an online workshop i took part in while writing my potential script and to find ideas for my character's motivation, i think this self direction workshop was very useful due to t helping me bring my character more dimensions and depth, and reliability. 

Workshop

Questions to ask yourself.

For five minutes, using a timer, write down every meaningful event in your life that comes to mind. Don’t stop for five minutes but also don’t stop until you get them all down. Write until you’re empty.  

Once the list in complete ask yourself:

• What emotions do you associate with each event?
• Can you describe a single powerful image that you remember from this time?
• And how did it affect you later on?
• What can you say about these events that are absolutely true?
• What do these events say about us in general as human beings?

What this means:

• You know what it feels like to have something that you wanted badly. 

1. What are her goals/ motivation that the audience can clearly link with? 

I think the audience will sympathise with her at the start 

• You know what it’s like to have something stand in your way (obstacles).
• You know what it feels like to succeed or fail and what you stood to lose or gain (stakes).
• If you lived it, you can write about it in a compelling way.

Writers spend hours and hours trying to imagine just what their characters are going through, when all the time, they have personal experiences that mirror everything they will ever ask a character to do, ready to be mined and used in a story.

Process:

1. Identify what your character is going through. 

• Francias is turning 18 and her aim is to get into to a good university. She's unable to find herself in life and she doesn't know what to become or how to get there. 
• She's a creative, an artist. She uses her dancing to escape her reality. She places her worth on her artistry. That's how she identifies herself, as an artist first. 
• I think she feels stuck and limited by her surroundings. I think she wants to leave and get to uni so that she could get out of this place of being lost. 
• As she thinks her life depends on going to uni, the fact that she is unable to  achieve  a route frustrates her. 

1. Find a similar event/emotion in your life.

• I think I'm very similar to this as i place my self as an artist first and i use my work to define myself, which . i recognised a while back is not so healthy. As it hurts your self worth when you are unable to achieve or cant strive to a certain standard. 

1. Get in touch with what it felt like

• It felt like i let my art and work influence my life when it should've been the other way around. My life should influence my art. 
• It felt frustrating because something would go wrong in my life and i would use my work to escape the feeling. But when i couldn't live up to that standard it felt immensely depressing as i didn't know who or where to turn too. An this was a hard time a sit took me a while to recognise the faults in this. 

1. Escalate, intensify.

• It has its positives as i was able to create a good amount of work and i pride myself in my creativity and i do identify with it on a deeper level as i use my art to express my feelings, emotions and viewpoint. Creating work brings me happiness as its ht ai want to do with my life and it brings me pure satisfaction . My creativity allows me to constantly grow as a person. 

• However, it has its negative as it can turn into an unhealthy obsession where you're constantly working on your project, where you're not getting any rest, food or sleep and your constantly in a delusional state. I was always striving to a standard that was unattainable. It can also turn into obsession, torment, inadequacy, paranoia, delusion.

What is my characters motivation? 

• She's motivated to become the best dancer in the studio as she identifies herself with her art /work. 
• When she cant become the best/ or nail a routine this spills into her personal life and cold create the downward spiral? 
• Her motivation to become the best makes her hurt others around her. 

What is her conflict? What are the opposites she has to choose between? 

• She doesn't now where to follow the pre- conceived notion others have about her until college is over or truly show her personality. Which i think she has lost along the way so she doesn't know what face to put on. 
• She's also stuck between girlhood and womanhood. 
• I think she find sit difficult to transition to the other extreme because she uses her lack of experiences in life as her inadequacies. 

What makes her go to the extreme? 

• I think there needs to be a point where she snaps. 
• Where she feels like theres nothing other than this to do. 

CHARACTER MOTIVATION.

Where does she start off? 

How are the audiences introduced to her?  

If she becomes the victim? 

•  Why would she become the victim?
• Why would others want to hurt her?
• What is their motivation for hurting her?
• Who will be the antagonist? 

If she victimises others? 

• I think it would be more interesting if she becomes the antagonist as she is the main focus of the film, the viewers will be bale to identify with her motives as they are following her character analysis throughout the film.
• She also has more to loose than the other potential characters 
• I think she believes by causing harm to others it will help her achieve the routine and make her look better. 

"Im trying to capture loniless

i never feel lonely

really, i always feel lonely

i think i'm just comfortable in my own space

maybe if i get irritated i get get lonely and shut  people off

i think sometimes i just wanna be lonely maybe its not even that

i get more lonely when im around others

its more painful i guess"