GMC Chart
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| GMC | |||
| Heroine: Virginia | Hero: Rock | ||
| INTERNAL | EXTERNAL | INTERNAL | EXTERNAL |
| GOALS: | |||
| To achieve financial and emotional security. | To get a promotion to partner at the architectural firm where she’s employed. | To be a success in the eyes of his family. | To get a promotion to partner at the family architectural firm. |
| MOTIVATION: | |||
| As a child of a hippie, she never had security. She doesn’t know who her father is, leading her to trust issues (take care of yourself because men cannot be trusted). | She’s worked hard and deserves it. She needs the money a promotion will bring because her mother just borrowed the last of her savings. | His bossy mother always told him he’d never amount to anything. His measure of success is partner in the family business. | His family thinks he’s a screw-off. He’s embarrassed because he works for family company yet hasn’t made partner. |
| CONFLICT: | |||
| She needs to achieve EMOTIONAL security as well as physical and that means allowing a man to get close to her when she has trust issue. | The grandson of the company founder is in competition for the same position and deserves it because of raw talent. | Although he’s attracted to heroine, she’s bossy like his mother and stands in his way to the partnership. | The heroine is competition for the same position and deserves it because of her hard work. |
Logline/theme statement: The laid-back hero and anal retentive heroine are forced to share a hotel suite and collaborate in order to win the promotion for which they are in competition. Will their rivalry turn to dislike or to something more lasting—and sensual?