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Storytelling
Course: Storytelling > Unit 2
Lesson 2: Character- Introduction to character
- Warm up activity
- Internal vs. external features
- Activity 1: Internal & external features
- Wants vs. needs
- Activity 2: Wants vs. needs
- Obstacles
- Activity 3: Obstacles
- Character arc
- Activity 4: Character arc
- Stakes
- Activity 5: Stakes
- Advice on characters
- Glossary: Character
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Activity 2: Wants vs. needs
Thinking more about wants and needs...
Part A: Return to the main characters from your three favorite films. Identify a want and a need for each character.
For example: In Monsters Inc. Sulley wants to be the best scarer but he needs to be a father figure.
Part B: Try to identify one of your own wants and needs.
Part C: Return to your character idea from the previous exercise. Brainstorm answers to the following questions:
- What do they want most?
- Who do they want to become?
- What might they need in order to succeed?
Want to join the conversation?
Part C:
- He most wants to be free of any obligations, to have a day off, or to conquer several systems for his people so that they are no longer in danger of being conquered themselves
- He wants to become the strongest soldier in the United Systems in any given method of combat, so that he can ensure safety for the people he wants to look after
- He needs to protect his loved ones, even if that means sacrificing all of his time and energy, and perhaps even his life(33 votes)
Simba wants to be free and live his own life
He wants to become king
He needs to put his past behind him & be brave to face his uncle and take his place as king.(26 votes)
Darth Vader wants power but need love.(23 votes)
Absolutely! Thanks for saying that.(0 votes)
Echo Just like us when we don't wanna be some wear he just wants to go home
Peter Parker is sort of at mixed feelings he wants to stop being a hero but at the same time the uptown manhattan area can't save its self
and Wall-e he's a robot that doesn't want to have feeling but later he learns to understand these feelings(11 votes)
A rat wants to be the a chef but needs respect from humans(20 votes)
So if they want some thing they need or don't need it .(10 votes)- And to further what Lyndsay said, they can want something that they need, but they need something more.
To spin off Lyndsay's last example:
They want peace and quiet, but they need to fight for what's right.(8 votes)
winnie the poo wants honey but he needs help getting it(11 votes)
From the movie up Carl wants really bad to accomplish his wife dream of being beside the waterfall, but he really needs is to start a new happy life again(8 votes)- Film 1 : Harry Potter, he wants to have a ¨normal¨ life, but he needs to kill Voldemort *(SORRY FOR THE SPOILERS)*
Film 2: Sweet Home Alabama, Reese Witherspoon wants to marry the fancy guy from upstate, but truly wants/needs the country boy she fell in love with when she was in high school(4 votes) 
Elsa from Frozen 2
Wants: I think Elsa wants to find out why she is the only one who can hear the calls and why they are coming to her only.
Needs: Elsa needs to find the truth about her and Anna's past to free the Enchanted Forest and right the wrong.(4 votes)- For instance you may really want to get a bicycle, but you need the money for food.(4 votes)