Ultimately the characters are probably best left to the scriptwriter, but from the plot it sounds like this is a film about how different people react to sudden fame.
As such, it might be a good idea to use the different characters to explore the different ways that fame can affect people. You might even use them to show all the ways that fame can destroy a person's life.
For example:
-The celebrity who becomes obsessed with their own image, using every moment to train themselves for their media career.
-The celebrity who tries to ignore their fame and live a normal life, but keeps running into problems caused by fans.
-The celebrity who becomes paranoid because they don't know who really likes them as an ordinary person.
-The celebrity who becomes the victim of a stalker.
-The ex-celebrity who loses fame but still thinks they're somehow more important than others, who still expects to be treated as a VIP even when they're not.
-The celebrity who thinks they are a guru that can know and do everything, even though they're actually pretty talentless.
...you can find examples of all these kinds of people in the life stories of singers, actors, politicians etc.
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I think this is a good start. You have hit the nail on many parts. If we can get a few people giving ideas on this site and me/you guide the storyline a little bit we can come up with something brilliant.
I would like to sprinkle in the Beatles rise to fame storyline a little bit. Not event for event but enough for some to see similarities and be familiar. Plus the Beatles are a good hot word for description and marketing AND it goes along with the storyline.
I am really looking forward to this. We just need to get it active.
A friend on FB, and a fellow writer asked me to explain the project to her a bit more, after she saw the post. Here's what I told her
"I think there's an inciting event, and there's definitely a premise, but I don't think we have anything close to a story or plot just yet, though it looks like there's plenty of options and promise in the character descriptions and premise. I think that's kinda gonna be my job...
So far, it seems like a group, perhaps a collective or some kind of communal situation. There's the dead girl, which really has promise, b/c she gets to start out perfect, unlike the rest of the gang, who are still alive and can easily showcase their flaws. With the dead girl, you have to wait to learn her flaws through flashback and/or anecdote, and if you pair that with her posthumous rise as an artist, it makes my mouth water a little as i think about how the other five choose to deal with this accidental legacy that is left them and the events that it can work as a catalyst for.
The theme seems to be something along the lines of fame, its fickle nature, and how it affects this group."
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