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Day 11 Assignments
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Lois’ Scene Requirements
What I learned – This is the same stuff as earlier lessons but it loses many of the key parts.
Teaser
Start: Kamali drives through Skunk Hollow
Challenging Situation: It’s a new and totally strange town
Conflict: She’s supposed to steal a rock
Action: She steals the rock
Finish: She delivers the rock to her boss.
Act 1
Start: Meff goofing off – walking on his hands to the batter’s mound
Challenging Situation: Coach blocks him
Conflict: Coach puts him on garbage duty, so he’ll be late to his own birthday party
Action: He’s almost done, almost home, when he gets sprayed by a skunk / his aunt
Finish: He becomes a skunk. His aunt congratulates him. “Today you have become a skunk.”
Act 2
Start: Meff is unhappy about being a skunk and missing his birthday party
Challenging Situation: His aunt offers him a skunk-party to replace his birthday party
Conflict: Owl swoops down on him
Action: He runs to the hen house.
Finish: He sees his mom order his sister Polly to leave rotten eggs in the nests.
Act 3
Start: Meff’s sister Polly picks him up and starts petting him. She loves skunks.
Challenging Situation: Meff tries to tell her “hands off” but all she hears is squeaks.
Conflict: Meff finds himself loving being petted and embarrassed at the same time.
Action: The more she pets him, the more he loves it.
Finish: He gives in to enjoyment.
Act 4
Start: Uncle Milton / skunk enters the hen house and takes a rotten egg.
Challenging Situation: Milton brings the egg to Meff
Conflict: Meff is grossed out about eating a rotten egg, but it smells good.
Action: Polly tries to keep him from getting it, but he succeeds
Finish: He eats the rotten egg and becomes a boy again. He stinks.
Act 5
Start: Dad explains that some of the family are were-skunks. Everybody congratulates Meff.
Challenging Situation: Meff learns that from now on – if he ever gets sprayed by a skunk, he will become a skunk.
Conflict:He decides to work in the skunk-supply shop, so he won’t get sprayed.
Action: A customer accidentally sprays him with skunk-spray-for-hunters. He’s a skunk again.
Finish: Polly sells him to Kamali, who came in to buy a pet.
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This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Lois Wickstrom.
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This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by
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Lesson 11 is empty, so I looked at the notes for audio 18 to see what I’m supposed to be doing
Lisa’s Scene Requirements:
What I learned doing this assignment is that I need to stop letting things build and become bigger in my mind. It was so much easier than I thought once I did it. Still learning.
EXT. FARMER JOHN’S- NIGHT
Start: a van pulls up to a location in the dark, and opens the door.
Challenging Situation: The houselesss people are told they will have housing and jobs, but it’s at a slaughterhouse.
Conflict: Protestors are outside holding signs about animal rights. Cop cars are at the scene.
Action: one of the protestors is telling an officer that they saw soemone get run over by the slaughtehouse truck.
Finish: cops try to locate a body, but there isn’t one, only remnants of blood. The cops try to block the crime scene from the protestors and new employees.
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Scene Requirements. Why is the AUDIO lesson posted AFTER the class?
Some scenes there may not be much “action” which indicates there is room for improvement.
TEASTER
INT. BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP – Day
Start: Harriet walks into Mr X’s dark workshop.
Situation: She must get information from him regarding the girls whereabouts.
Conflict: Mr X. reluctant to give away information for nothing, He wants something in return, to have Harriet perform a crime in order for him to trust her. She refuses.
Action: MrX. hammers away on the anvil, he grabs Harriets hand tries to force it into the flames of the fire.
Finish: Harriet eventually agrees to his terms. She must come back later to get the details.
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