Thursday 5 March 2015

BDM105 - Story Worksheet

The following is from a sheet to help us flush out our story.


Working title: Iron Heart

Log Line:


A successful corsair, Titus loses his wife and sacrifices most of his body, he now has to raise his daughter through learning how to rely and trust in others rather than just himself. 

What is your genre?

Action Drama


Who is your protagonist?

Titus Eirenheart


What is their goal? Does he achieve their goal by the end of the story?

His ultimate goal is to be a good dad, providing a good upbringing for his daughter


Why must he achieve this goal?

Without his wife, his daughter is all he has, and he wants to see his daughter become the amazing engineer that she could be.


Who is the antagonist?

His situation / his disabilities


What is the antagonist goal? Does he achieve their goal by the end of the story?

To stop him from being a good dad and living a fulfilled life


What course of action will the antagonist pursue to achieve his goals?

Torturing Titus through debilitation, humiliation and invalid status. Not being able to rely on himself, or have others rely on him, after being a captain of all things.


Why must the antagonist achieve this goal?

These disabilities were caused by scorned pirates, and so to preserve their bruised egos and to ruin him, his torture must succeed in ruining his life.


What does the protagonist want?

To see his family provided for, to be needed, to sail the seas once more.


What does the protagonist need to learn? What is his conflict? How does it conlifct with what the antagonist wants?

To be patient and learn to rely on others, he needs to learn to communicate instead of needing to do everything himself. 

The antagonist in it's essence is to stand in Titus' way and cause him to become more frustrated by his disabilities, and prevent him from being open minded to other options and to his daughter's abilities to look after herself and him.


What is the protagonist going to do in order to meet that need?

Listen and respect his daughter, and those that he counts as family around him.

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