More Story and Audience exercises

In the Story and Audience module which I just finished, we did a day on 'character driven' story lines.

We got into small groups, created a strong character, and then pointed that character at a story.

We (Dan Monks, Matt Bartlett, Dave Timperley) then spent the afternoon filming a short piece around this character.






We used the Maslow Pyramid pictured here...
... as a guide to human needs, but with a final layer added to the top. Cosmic awe, which is a fav of Steve Spielberg.

My partner and I decided that if it's good enough for Steve, then it's good enough for us.
We went with 'cosmic awe,' so we created a guy who's most important relationship is with his god.
The driving desire of this character is to have a direct relationship with his god.
Currently for him it's a bit one way. Our character chats to his god all the time. Usually under his breath, cause he has noticed, that other people have noticed.
As we have all found, a one sided relationship is eventually a bit empty, which means our hero has to die.
Problem is, that he can't kill himself, or get someone else to do it. These direct routes to a more personal relationship have been given the 'thumbs down' by his god.
So he spends his life doing good deeds, which he carefully notes down, and then places himself in terminal situations.
Things like traveling into epidemics to help out, rescuing people from fires, etc.
To everyone around him, he is a super hero, but they can't work out why he is so unsatisfied.