The Future of storytelling: storymooc creative task 3
Task: Last week we have dealt with character profiles for characters that already exist. This week we build on exactly this task by using your knowledge about how to create fictional characters to create a new fictional one.
Character Name: Patrick Pulleman (12-06-1988)
www.facebook.com/patrick.pulleman
Patrick Pulleman is good looking young guy (25) living in a small village in the Netherlands. He loves soccer and plays in the highest team of the biggest amateur soccer club. Every weekend he is going out with his soccer friends and his girlfriend (in that order) to the same pub in his hometown. He went to school in his hometown and at the moment studies economics at the University of Tilburg. His choice for Tilburg was to be able to keep living with his parents, see his friends and go out to his favorite pub.
Patrick is very popular among his friends and everyone he knows in his hometown. He is really a “local hero” and seen as very successful: at soccer, with the ladies and he will definitely have a terrific career also. He loves his hometown because there he is the hero.
Patrick’s desire is having a very successful live (career, family, social live) so he is admired by his friends. But his deeper desire is to leave it all and live a much more adventured live. He feels stuck in the image people have of him.
However he is afraid of anything that is new to him. Therefore he has chosen the university nearby, to be able to stay in his hometown. He also hates to go on holiday, even to go to Ibiza with his friends to see Tiësto. His mother still buys his clothes and picks his clothes to wear every morning. His dressing style therefore is a little outdated. He always goes to the same pub, the same snackbar, the same friends, everything always the same. He often fantasies about doing totally stupid and irresponsible. When Patrick was 10 he went with his aunt Renie to a city in the US where is aunt lives. On a day aunt Renie left Patrick alone with her (American) neighbors so she could do some shopping. Patrick panicked because he was in a strange environment and could not understand anything they said. He ran away and later was found on the street behind some bushes.
Relationship/Family status: has a girlfriend but still lives with his parents. Social/Ethnic Background: Dutch Education: Studying for a master in economics Hobbies: Soccer, Ajax, going out with the ‘group’ Special Skills/Talents: soccer
Online presence: Online Patrick only is on Facebook where he mainly speaks Dutch. Patrick doesn’t blog or Twitter. He is totally not a frontier on the internet.













