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Day 6 Assignments
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Lois Stacks Intrigue
what I learned …the opening scene (teaser) does not need to be connected to the rest of the story.
1. Present the first draft of your pilot Acts.
Teaser:
Before every episode – a tour through town showing all the skunk establishments.
Essence: Kamali Parker sneaks past Skunk Farm skunks (talking sweetly to them) and steals a piece of red and black meteorite. She delivers it to Villain Howland Mann.
Intriguing World: Why does this town have skunks everywhere?
Hidden agenda: why is Kamali stealing a rock from the farm?
Strange behavior: What is the villain up to?
Turning Point: Villain scrapes from meteorite into into a test tube marked OWL. He swirls the tube, injects himself. He starts to shrink and grow feathers.
Act 1:
Essence: Coach punishes Meff for lack of team spirit – orders him to pick up garbage after school, and be late to his 11th birthday party.
Intriguing World: On billboard visible from baseball field: ad for Skunk Beauty Pageant entries.
Mystery: Why doesn’t coach like Meff?
Intrigue: Why does walking on his hands matter to Meff?
Strange Behavior: Aunt Abigail is one of Meff’s favorite skunks. Why would she spray him?
Turning Point: Meff is finally nearing home and he gets sprayed by a skunk. He becomes a skunk.
Act 2:
Essence: Skunk who sprayed Meff invites him to a skunk party in the cave
Intriguing world: What’s a skunk party?
Secret: Why do these skunks know so much about Meff?
Secret identity: who is Aunt Abigail?
Turning Point/Midpoint: En route to the cave, an owl swoops down. Meff runs toward the hen house. Other skunk runs to cave.
Act 3:
Essence: Meff finds his sister Polly collecting eggs and his mom milking a goat. Polly pets Meff and talks sweetly to him.
Intriguing World: Meff is now a skunk on his own skunk farm
Intrigue: What is Skunk Mind?
Turning Point: Meff is both embarrassed to be petted, and he loves it.
Act 4:
Essence: Another skunk enters the hen house and gives Meff a rotten egg. Polly holds her nose. Meff gobbles it up.
Intriguing World: And why does Mom keep rotten eggs in the henhouse?
Strange Behavior: Why would a skunk want a rotten egg?
Turning Point: Meff becomes human again.
Act 5:
Essence: Meff learns that some members of his family are were-skunks. The family celebrates “Today you have become a skunk.”
Intriguing World: Meff’s family includes were-skunks. Meff is one of them.
Secret Identity: Aunt Abigail is Meff’s aunt who chose to live her life as a skunk.
Hidden layer: The skunk farm has a gift shop where they sell skunk spray for hunters.
Lock In: Meff is afraid of becoming a skunk again. He decides to work indoors at the family store. A hunter comes in to buy skunk-spray and sprays him. He’s a skunk again. Kamali Parker comes into the store and starts petting him.
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Lisa Stacks intrigue
What I learned doing his assignment is that I need to quit being afraid of not doing it right or not being “good enough” and just do it, because I would’ve just dove in and gotten it done, I would be a lot further along than I am, but it’s okay. I’ll catch up sooner or later.
I added a few layers and intrigue and a couple conspiracies to the outline, so its coming along.
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SU Bingeworthy
Module 3 Lesson 6
Griff Stacks Intrigue
What I learned: This seemed like a re-hash of Lesson 5, but as I got into it I found that I came up with some fresh angles on motivations with this stacking technique.
ACT 1
Essence: Stephanie struggles to balance a job and manage her two teen boys.
Intrigue: Stephanie has missed a deadline for her parenting advice column.
Mystery: There is no father around.
Secret: Stephanie and the boys’ father had agreed to separate amicably.
Secret Identity: Randy sees himself as a jock.
Wound: Randy is angry at the world, causing him to be a bully.
Hidden Agenda: Randy wants to prove himself to Marcey.
Hidden Layer: Todd is secretly helping out by making lunches and being ready to leave on time.
Strange Behavior: Todd could wake up his mom and Randy to get to school on time, but he doesn’t.
Accusation: Randy accuses Todd of only making himself lunch, which turns out to be untrue.
TP: Stephanie gets the boys to school late. Again
ACT 2
Essence: Neighbor Brad and his daughter Marcey are more than what they seem.
Intrigue: Neighbor Marcey disappears for days at a time, which worries her father, Brad.
Mystery: Where does Marcey go?
Secret: Brad is a former rock star keeping a low profile.
Deception: Marcey plays the Party Girl while secretly helping migrants cross the Arizona border.
Conspiracy: Marcey keeps the truth from Brad.
Secret Identity: See deception.
Wound: Marcey’s mother died of a drug overdose.
Hidden Agenda/Layer: Brad has been talking about getting the old band back together.
Strange Behavior: Stephanie begins to monitor Marcey’s comings and goings.
Accusation: Marcey thinks Stephanie is spying on her.
TP: Stephanie confronts Marcey about her lifestyle. Marcey warns her to mind her own business.
ACT 3
Essence: Randy tries and fails to get picked for team sports.
Intrigue: Todd, younger but bigger, gets invited to try out for football even though he’s only a freshman.
Mystery: Why did Brad walk away from Rock-and-Roll at a peak of success?
Secret: Brad blames himself for Marcey’s mother’s death by overdose.
Deception: Marcey thinks Brad will worry about her less if she’s just a Party Girl.
Conspiracy: Marcey and her friends seek to save the lives of migrants crossing into Arizona.
Secret Identity: Marcey and her girlfriend Harmony are lovers (sorry, Randy!)
Wound: Randy is infuriated that Todd got recruited by the lettermen.
Hidden Agenda: Brad offers Todd some self-defense instruction to protect himself from Randy.
Hidden Layer: Todd has found a new interest in martial arts.
Strange Behavior: Todd begins to spend more time at Brad and Marcey’s.
Accusation: Randy accuses Todd of taking an interest in Marcey.
TP: Social workers visit the home
ACT 4
Essence: Stephanie’s job unravels as she focuses on the immigration story involving Marcey.
Intrigue: Pushback from one of Stephanie’s podcasts angers her employers.
Mystery: Social worker questions about the boys’ father get conflicting responses.
Secret: Stephanie is still married to the boys’ father, and he does something “shadowy.”
Deception: Todd seems big and slow, but he hides a sharp intellect from Randy (for fear of further abuse.)
Conspiracy: Todd throws Stephanie under the bus during the social worker interview.
Wound: Todd feels overlooked at home, and blames his mother for the father’s absence.
Hidden Agenda: Stephanie suspects Marcey holds the key to a story that could launch her career as an investigative journalist.
Hidden Layer: Randy remembers his father enough to miss him, but Todd hardly knew him.
Strange Behavior: Randy, usually the bad actor, behaves himself during the home interview.
Accusation: Marcey accuses Stephanie of interfering in her life.
TP: Stephanie follows Marcey to the desert and almost gets her busted by Border Patrol.
ACT 5
Essence: Home life unravels.
Intrigue: The boys find out there is a chance they will be taken from the home by authorities.
Mystery: Why can’t Dad be a part of the family?
Secret: Dad has a dangerous job and doesn’t want the family worrying all the time.
Deception: Marcey tries to throw Stephanie off her trail.
Secret Identity: Stephanie wants to expose immigration corruption at the border but needs Marcey to do it.
Wound: Marcey thinks Stephanie is using her and putting her at risk.
Hidden Agenda: Not so hidden, Stephanie wants to make a splash using Marcey’s activities.
Strange Behavior: Stephanie and Marcey’s argument in the street is way beyond what anyone can understand.
Accusation: Marcey accuses Stephanie of trying to ruin her life.
TP: The police break up the neighborhood argument and send everyone home.
Lock in: In the morning Stephanie and Marcey are both missing.
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