Learning how to develop characters

                     Types of characters

Today I watched a podcast which helped me learn how to develop a character, the reason for this is to give my characters in the film opening project a proper script to fully have them as their own person.

Type 1: Cling to a set of rules/principles. Rules = peace. Correct inappropriate behavior.

Selectively picks specific spots to manage anger flow

Positive growth: BREAK UR OWN RULES & GET HANDS DIRTY.

Type 9: Harden to tolerate complex. “There is no ladder up I js have to get used to this”

U give them a ladder and they cant see it bc theyre convinced theres no way up. Who

am I?

Repress anger

Positive growth: TAKE INITIATIVE AND CLIMB OUT OF PIT

Type 8: Have to shut off to emotion, vulnerability = death. Pursue power.

Let anger flow freely

Positive growth: LEARN TO BE VULNERABLE. SURRENDER URSELF TO A

PERSON OR CAUSE

Head (deep anxiety/fear within them)

Type 7: Crave distraction & stimulation to escape what they fear.

Escape & run from fear

Positive growth: STOP RUNNING AND FACE THE UNCOMFORTABLE.

Type 6: Afraid of the world and looks for something external to latch themselves onto.

Us vs them.

Seek objective safety from labelled external threats

Positive growth: LEAVING THE SOURCE OF SAFETY. THINK FOR URSELF AND

TRUST URSELF. BE ALONE AND EXPOSED.

Type 5: I must become personally competent to manage scary outside world. I must

have everything figured out.

Create safety within themselves from the scary unknownPositive growth: ITS OKAY TO NOT KNOW. TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH. LET CHAOTIC

WORLD IN.

Heart (feel deep sense of inadequacy)

Type 4: Become the darkness to avoid having to uncomfortably deal with it. If u can't

beat ur problem, learn to love it. “The problem is who I am.”

Think the grinch.

Yes, I AM inadequate and thats just who i am and its beautiful!!!

Positive growth: DO SMT GOOD FOR URSELF. FIX THE PROBLEM! ITS OKAY TO BE

OKAY!

Type 3: Feel they have to earn the right to love themselves. Attach their self-esteem to

their hustle. Want to win by EARNING it. Reverse 4, I want to be cooler and awesomer

then anyone else! Care abt validation.

Seek success to feel adequate

Positive growth: BE SATISFIED WITH YOURSELF AND BE AUTHENTIC. STOP

CHASING SOCIETY’S DEFINITION OF SUCCESS.

Type 2: Help and give love to ppl so u can get love back and feel adequate. I need

love/connection from others for self-worth. Wants to be wanted. People-pleaser.

Seek love to feel adequate

Positive growth: DO SMT PURELY FOR YOURSELF