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Day 1 Assignments
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Ian Greenham’s Title, Concept and Character Structure!
Vision: I am confident that completing this program will significantly enhance my screenwriting skills.
Doing this assignment I learned the rationale for outlining.
Title: Sisters in Time
Concept: Doctors seeking a bone marrow donor for a promising young defense attorney diagnosed with leukemia discover a twin sister she never knew she had, on death row for a murder she claims she did not commit.
Character Structure: Buddy Movie
[WIM: Module 2, Lesson 1: Great Outlines Make Great Scripts! – May 30, 2022]
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WOW, interesting concept. I look forward to watching this come to life.
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Jaelle’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My vision: I’m an award-winning screenwriter, sought out by people in the industry, who creates movies that change lives and creates a vision for a better world, and I’m richly rewarded.
WHAT I LEARNED: deciding the character structure at the beginning sets the script on a path that makes sense.
Title: Madame Blavatsky’s Perfect Human
Concept: A spiritualist recreates the perfect human to save humanity, but he’s far from perfect, so she now has to destroy him.
Character structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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I love this idea! I would buy a ticket!
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Lori’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision: I want to be a professional screenwriter recognized by the industry as the go-to for family-friendly scripts and have multiple successful movies produced.
Genre: family comedy
Title: NEW MOM
Concept: When a family hires an AI to help around the house when mom’s away for work, the AI wants to take mom’s place permanently.
Hook: Fatal Attraction as a family comedy
Character Structure: Protagonist vs. Antagonist (Family vs. an AI)
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Love the concept Lori – maybe it’s just me, but I can easily see this as a HORROR/Comedy!
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Hi, Lori!
Like Bobby Sachar, I also like your concept and see it as a potential Horror/Comedy. Good Luck.
Bob Smith
Robert R. Smith
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Lori,
I love the hook!
Gisele
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(WIM) Renee Brown’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure
“My scripts are the cream that rises to the top: I am an A-list screenwriter.”
What I learned with this assignment: To commit to the concept and title that excites me most.
STARCROSSED SUMMER
With a little help from a magical stone, star crossed lovers find their way back to each other after decades in a small Montana town that keeps big-hearted secrets.
Feature Drama / Dramatic Triangle
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Concept reads well, title fits and you have a lot of visuals living in the Big Sky country. I lived outside of Missoula (Potomac) for a number of years. Great sky in summer. Looking forward to more. Enjoyed it!
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This is going to be great can’t wait to read it.
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Tina’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My writing enables me to live an exuberantly creative and productive life in prosperity.
I’ve learned that one small decision at a time will lead me to write an incredible movie script.
ARGUS’ EYES
A teenage girl has her disfigured face reconstructed at a beauty clinic in the Black Forest, only to discover that her new face is just a mask and she is now the livestock for a blind demon who has stolen her eyes for himself.
Horror/ Dramatic Triangle
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Vision: I have the courage and confidence to write contest winning screenplays and will go on to have my scripts optioned and produced.
What I learned: Taking the time to create an outline is a practical first step in writing my screenplay.
Title: THE HOME STRIP
Concept: Planning to bilk geezers out of their money two aging strippers book a tour in nursing homes, where they discover true love for the very first time.
Character Structure: Rom-Com
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OMG, I love this concept. I assume it’s a comedy because it’s hysterical!
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I like it, Pat. And I can identify, being over 65. Looking forward to watching it develop. This is my first Romcom. Excited about the possibilities.
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Love the title! Concept is very interesting, looking forward to see how you play out the old strippers. Unique, especially for mature actors to play.
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Really fun!!!!
Gisele
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John T’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision: I would like to become an industry new face known for reliable box office successes and concepts that intrigue and delight audiences the world over.
What I learned doing this assignment is that gut instinct comes in handy when deciding on a concept but that an outline affords flexibility if things change.
Title: Diversion
Concept: An FBI agent tracks an airline pilot suspected of killing young women in cities across America only to discover that he’s being tracked by the real killer.
Character Structure: Protagonist vs Antagonist.
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CJ’s TITLE, CONCEPT, and CHARACTER STRUCTURE!
Vision: I am a confident and empowered writer who embraces challenges and changes and writes highly sought-after projects with fresh and exciting ideas. I will be produced and hired to write projects that get produced.
WIL: It was good to work through the character structure and determine the approach I wanted to take with this story.
Title: MEMORY HUNTERS
Concept:
In a future with technology to retrieve memories, a Memory Retrevalist, caught in the mind of a psychopath struggles to find a way out before he destroys her mind and kills her.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Wow! Interesting!
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Claire’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
MY VISION:
I have a fabulous career as a screenwriter working in both TV and film, and I have tremendous creative, financial, and personal success.
WHAT I LEARNED: I love the character structure breakdown. Not all stories are one character against another, and many screenwriting models assume that to be the case. I realized that both of my stories are dramatic triangles.
NOTE: I have two concepts I love and can’t decide which one to take through this class. I will take both of them (I’m retired, I have time!) unless one of them jumps out at me as my favorite. Then I would focus on that one.
Concept 1:
Title: YOU ALWAYS KILL THE ONE YOU LOVE
Genre: Horror/Thriller
The ghost of an evil psychiatrist murdered by a lesbian patient, possesses the lesbians on an isolated movie set and forces each woman to kill her own wife.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
Concept 2:
Title: RESCUING LOVE
Genre: Thriller
A daring, clever lesbian CIA agent must find and rescue her fiancée who has been kidnapped and forced into heterosexual conversion therapy.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Claire, both are interesting concepts. :0)
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Thanks, Natalie!
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Viva Tomlin’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: I will be a sought-after, trusted writer/collaborator for movies or TV series for a new Sci-Fi genre based on imaginative inspiration from spiritual and physical scientific understanding of and speculation about the reality of the universe, and our emergent Earth world.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that just committing to the Title for now, my still not sufficiently reduced Concept, and the Character Structure, was unexpectedly creative as well as giving peace of mind. I valued the description, ”Outlining is a combination of discovering parts of your story, filling in puzzle pieces, and making simple choices.” I trust that through more processes, making the choices will become simple because I know I see and think in too complex a starburst way, and It takes too long to see in steps.
Title: Emergent Earth
Concept: (Genre: Science Fiction/Drama)
Advanced beings from an older universe, together with those of this one, seek the source of the new laws of reality they think enabled their earth friend as a child to traverse time, space and universes as a result of pure yearning for friendship out among the stars, but if their lifelong friendship and at last the interest of some physicists should be betrayed, and proves not to be a confirmation of prophecies and welcome, but a test of obedience to the laws of the new universe they don’t yet know, they, the Earth and their friends face unbearable loss of nearness to all they long for. (italic is at least one part I feel I maybe should leave out of too long concept sentence)
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Jeffrey Alan Chase’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My vision: I will do whatever it takes to become the best screenwriter I can be – an “A” list writer who is praised for high concept ideas, great execution, a string of successful movies and is always ready to share his knowledge and do what he can to help a writer on the way up.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: How hard it is to pick my next project. I was torn between 4-5 different strong (in my mind) concepts. I threw them all at about ten friends and Shards came out way on top. I’m passionate about Shards. IT WILL be a great script.
Title: Shards
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Concept: A woman with no childhood memory is involved in a cat and mouse game with a cunning hypnotist, not knowing the man is responsible for both her amnesia and the death of her treasure hunter father.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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YAY! I look forward to watching this idea blossom into a fabulous script!
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Kelly’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision: I want to be an empowered writer who consistently produces salable scripts.
What I learned; I learned to select a character structure for my screenplay. Once I selected the character structure I could start visualizing what the story would be. Its’ going to be the protagonist battling against the antagonist scene after scene Until the climax. This selection gave me a sense of what’s in the movie and what is not. .
Title: Blood Moon Lake
Concept: A troubled teenager is taken to a boot camp to change her behavior but learns that the camp is run by aliens who create copies of them then kill the teens. (Contained Horror)
Protagonist Antagonist Character Structure Protagonist versus Antagonist.
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Kelly, this sounds like fun!
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Chilling! And original. I like this!
Gisele
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Leona Heraty’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: I’m going to do all I can every day to be the best family comedy screenwriter in the industry and have many of my scripts produced into successful movies.
What I learned from doing this assignment is…outlining my script in advance will save me lots of drafts and time in the long run!
Title: Escape from the Buggy Club!
Concept: A bumbling teenage tour guide leads her group in the wrong direction and they end up at an abandoned country club overrun by giant termites.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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This sounds funny, Leona! I laughed out loud when I read it! Can’t wait to see it come to life.
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Sandra’s Title, Concept and Character Structure
Vision: I am doing what I love to do as a writer with several successful produced movies.
What I learned doing this assignment is how important it is to know the character structure before starting the outline process.
Title: Smugglers Journey
Concept: The adventures of a young sea captain lured into the dangerous, terrifying world of crude oil smuggling, where he faces a firing squad if captured.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Rebecca Sukle’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My vision for my success from this program is to be the go-to writer for producers looking for incredible scripts for successful movies enjoyed by a vast viewing audience.
What I learned from this assignment is the importance of the concept in choosing the correct character structure for the script outline.
Title: Ragman’s War
Concept: To prevent coal and iron police from massacring men, women, and children working a picket line, a WWI Silver Star recipient must, without detection, execute the rabid commander who violently dominates their community.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Claudia’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision: To become such an excellent writer that I know every script I write will be well received by the industry, that my scripts will sell and be produced, and I’ll live the life of my dreams. To also become so empowered that fear is to be laughed at, instead I relish and look forward to pitching, meetings and much more.
What I’ve Learned Doing This Assignment: I always thought it was important to outline, I basically would do an in depth beat sheet… but I had forgotten Terry Rossio saying that it would save us 2-5 drafts. That’s enough to make me commit to outlining for the rest of my life! Lol
Title: Clean Sweep
Concept: A germaphobe Martha Stewart wannabe must take over her family’s cleaning company while her father recuperates from a heart attack and meets the love of her life, who happens to be the world’s biggest slob.
Character Structure: Romantic Comedy
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Looks funny and promising, Claudia. This is my first Romcom, so I’m busy researching the genre. Looking forward to seeing your Romcom develop.
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Thanks! I look forward to seeing yours develop as well!
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Claudia,
Funny!!! Love it.
Gisele
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Pete Symons’s Title Concept and Character Structure
Vision: My life path is to tell the best stories I can and success will follow.
What I learned is just to trust the process and keep moving forward.
Title: Hearse aka Meat Wagon
Concept: Carlos is a reformed gangster who takes a night job driving a hearse—a tough job by any measure – made supernaturally challenging because the body in the back is his…
Character Structure: Protagonist v. Antagonist
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I’m so happy you are in this class, Peter. And this sounds like a very interesting story. Looking forward to its development.
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Peter,
Great intrigue! I’m in!
Gisele
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[WIM] Caroline’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: I will perfect my process of writing great scripts and be recognized by the industry as good at what I do and have successful movies produced.
What I learned: I just came up with another great title, which I am going to use.
Title: Deniable
Concept: An MI6 agent on a visit to the U.S. doesn’t know who to trust when his friend’s wife is kidnapped.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Good premise for a spy thriller.
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Terrie’s Title, Concept and Character Structure
What I learned from this assignment is that the Rom Com genre is right for this film. I’ll probably need some thriller elements to add suspense and heighten what the characters are going through.
Vision: I write screenplays that get turned into crowd pleasing successful films using a process that allows me to enjoy my equestrian hobby.
Title: You gotta’ be ex-ing
Concept: A US Marshall is charged with getting a conspiracy theorist into witness protection, but it’s her ex and his crazy theories are true.
Character Structure: Rom Com.
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Teresa, this looks like it could be lots of fun! I’m looking forward to seeing it come to life.
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Thriller elements in a Romcom sounds very interesting Theresa. This is my first Romcom and looking forward to developing it from nothing, as Hal said.
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Holli’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My vision: I am going to do whatever it takes to write amazing, resonating, award-winning movies so I am respected in the professional writing world and can quit representing derelicts and perverts for a living.
What I learned doing this assignment is this seems like an easier way to write, and I’m still generating ideas for a title because I’m not sure everyone knows that rookies are called boots in some police departments.
Title: Designer Boot
Concept: To get her job back after being fired for letting a suspect escape, a pageant girl turned police rookie pursues the top 10 most wanted criminals, and makes a deal with number 10 to help her catch the first nine.
Character Structure: Buddy Movie
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Hi Holli! Wow. Seriously cool concept 😎 I want to see this movie nooooooooow! I’m sure you’ll find a title that does justice to your idea.
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Hope McPherson’s title, concept, and character structure
Vision: To be a working, trusted screenwriter who supports herself by writing smart films that are produced and enjoyed, while also working on a host of paid writing assignments for other industry professionals.
What I learned from this lesson: That this script could go either way at this early point – romantic triangle or dramatic triangle. That makes the upcoming outlining lessons super important and I explore the possibilities.
Title: A NOVEL REVOLT
Concept: One week before her wedding, an author’s characters escape her book and insist on rewriting her life.
Character structure: Romantic triangle (75% sure)
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Oh my goodness Hope! I love your concept!!! So excited to see you develop it!
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OMG, Hope, this sounds hysterical. Looking forward to it!
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Peter Field’s title, concept, and character structure.
Vision: My scripts are so good they could be published on their own and William Goldman would want to write the introduction.
What I learned from this assignment is to keep plugging away, little by little. Incremental effort leads to big changes.
Title: COLD DAY IN SEOUL
Concept: A retired mercenary tries to rescue an old flame from a military uprising at a world peace conference, only to discover she’s the one trying to undermine it.
Action/Thriller
Character Structure: Protagonist/Antagonist (quite possibly Dramatic Triangle)
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Natalie’s Title, Concept & Character Structure
My vision is to create and produce award winning stories that make an unforgettable emotional impact on a worldwide audience.
What I learned from this assignment is that I am super excited to work on this project that has been put aside for some time.
Title: BLOODHUNTER
Concept: An amnesiac survivor of a mysterious cult must relive her traumatic experience following clues drawn under a hypnosis to save their next sacrificial victim, thought to be her missing child.
Character Structure: It’s a little difficult to decide at this point because this is a mystery thriller feature where the protagonist tries to puzzle out the antagonist whom she believes is her love interest, where in reality the real antagonist is revealed at the end when she finally figures out who he really is.
Choice 1: Protagonist vs Antagonist
Choice 2: Dramatic Triangle
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This sounds good, Natalie. And to me it sounds like a Dramatic Triangle, the protagonist, the antagonist and the love interest. Have you taken the Thriller class? I’m writing my first thriller and finding the class useful. Looking forward to seeing this story develop.
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Hi, Claire, thanks for your comment. Yes, I’ve taken Hal’s Thriller class, as well as few other folks’ Mystery Thriller classes. I am debating between those two because the real antagonist acts beneath the surface until the end. The love interest appears ambiguous, as we are continuosly mislead to believe that he is the antagonist, then we’re proven wrong, and so back and forth until the end. It’s complicated. :0)
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Eclipse Neilson
Vision: I want to be a great award-winning writer, known for my genre, who creates the most beautiful films that inspire others to feel deeply, pause, and ponder ways to make the world a better place.
What I’ve learned is this is important to be as clear as possible especially if the script has a great deal of subtext.
Title: THE NUN AND THE WITCH
Genre: Sci-Fi (fantasy)/ drama )
High Concept: A dedicated Nun destined to become a saint, bonds with a Witchy healer to achieve a sacred ancient task to heal humanity- but all hell breaks out in the village.
Major Story Hook: Sent by the council of the Universal Light Beings, two powerful souls, a nun, and a witch join forces to heal a centuries-long battle in a small village that has been taken over by evil forces reflective of the world at large.
Character Structure Drama/triangle or a Buddy
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Sounds very interesting Eclipse! : )
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Jenifer Stockdale’s title, concept, and character structure
Vision: I will write every day, not only producing high volume but high quality scripts that will ultimately be made into great movies and television shows.
What I learned doing this assignment is that it is great to get on the forums!
Title: SPLICED
When a former patient’s badly mutilated body is found after he visits her home, a psychiatric nurse is haunted by the evidence of his death and his ghost and has to fight to maintain her job, her family, and her sanity.
Thriller
Character structure: Protagonist vs. Antagonist
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My Vision: I will do whatever it takes so that I can write full-time creative and emotional blockbuster movies and TV series like my writing heroes and be in constant demand.
What I learned from doing this assignment: I learned that there is a simple way to creating an outline that does not demand instant knowledge or perfection.
Title: Black Time
Concept: A memory scientist, haunted by the disappearance of her twin brother, discovers he has been hijacked to a mirror dimension, while his doppelganger rages in this world planning to unleash everyone’s shadow self.<div><div>
Genre: Sci-fi Thriller
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
I share credit with 2 other writers on this project.
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MY VISION: I will make my living as a screenwriter by selling my own narrative scripts and successfully fulfilling writing assignments.
By doing this assignment, I learned to think about character relationships in a very broad way. The Character Structures are very simple and I sometimes find myself delving into details too soon. This is a nice way of seeing my characters at the 30,000 foot level.
Title: Not a Clue!
Concept: In this parody on tea cozy murder mysteries, a Poirot-like character and a Miss Marple-like character compete to prove which of them is the greatest detective only to discover that a murder has happened and that one of them is the next victim.
Character Structure: Rom-Com/Buddy Movie with Two Characters Owning the Story.
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This sounds like fun, Jane. I look forward to watching it come to life!
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Title: Marple Poirot? ;0)
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Veronica Turowski’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: I want to be a successful writer who writes several scripts a year and sells them to producers who are eager to make my vision a reality by bringing my scripts to completion so everyone can watch my movies on the big screen.
What I learned from doing this assignment is I have four concepts I love. I finally chose one to do in class and one to do on my own. Having the right character structure is important so that each layer we create can be strong while I build onto my outline.
Title: Justice from the Grave
Genre: Thriller
Concept: While at a funeral, a professional mourner has a vision of the deceased being murdered, but when no one believes her, the mourner must find and stop the serial killer before he kills his next victim, only to discover she is a ghost and is the mother of the serial killer.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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This looks interesting, Veronica!
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Suspenseful surprises in store here! Professional mourner…?! Love that character description. Looking forward to reading more, Veronica!
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Erik’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure
My vision is to achieve true excellence as a
screenwriter which causes me to be a consistently working writer, with actual
movies made from some of my scripts, and to become wealthy as a screenwriter,
develop relationships in the movie industry where I am recognized as a truly
original writer, and to become indispensable in the market in which I want to
write.What I learned doing this assignment… This is what it feels like to make the momentous decision of what to write.
Title: PENNY & MARA MOVE TO THE MALL
Concept: Two orphans escape from their orphanage during a
fire and move into the country’s biggest shopping mall where they decide to
find parents, realize that they only need each other, and face losing each
other forever when back at the orphanage one of them is going to be adopted.Character structure: Buddy movie
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Micki’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My vision: Be recognized as a writer that will work with the industry and would do what it takes to be that WRITER.
What I learned from doing this assignment is choosing which character structure this will belong to. It falls into two different ones, with this screenplay, it is clear that it is a protagonist versus antagonist. I am EMPOWERED!
Title: FIREWORKSCharacter Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist.Genre: Comedy
High Concept:
Let the fireworks begin; a worn-out family is fed-up with the sisters’ feud; so they plan to lock them up until the feud is over during the holiday.
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MY VISION: I am going to be so disciplined in the daily writing process and become such an adept writer that my successful screenplays will launch me into a full-time writing career.
What I learned from doing this assignment is the importance of claiming my title and concept. While I have a title, concept and character structure, I had a couple other concepts that I liked equally as much. For now, however, I am just committed to the process to become a better writer instead of questioning my final choice.
Title: IVORY COAST
Concept: An environmentalist kills poachers using the same means as they killed their game.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonists
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Amechi’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
MY VISION
I am going to be in the top 1% of action/comedy writers in the industry who writes major action films.
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I learned doing this assignment is I really need to focus on creating a
great outline to save myself from having to do extra drafts.</div><div>TITLE: SUPER FAN
CONCEPT: An obsessed fan of a Superhero works his way into the superhero’s life and clashes with the superhero’s sidekick.
I will be using a DRAMATIC TRIANGLE structure.
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Amechi,
Great title and fun concept.
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Vision: I am a talented, highly regarded, efficient, relaxed, happy, WGA screenwriter
What I learned from doing this assignment is I am still tweaking the title, and otherwise am ready to move forward. Looking forward to lots of creativity, from myself and fellow screenwriters.
Title: Will This Angel?
Concept: A future female president has a guardian angel who abandons his mission when he falls in love with her.
Character Structure: Romcom
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VISION FOR SUCCESS: I will deliver delicious, surprising, seemingly effortless work, that is constantly in demand and causes people to recommend me for original and rewrite projects without hesitation.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT IS that I’m ready to work on this project. My brain is itching to get inside it.
TITLE: Mitchwich
CONCEPT: On graduation day, a petulant cynic goes back in time to the first day of high school and changes the event that he thinks ruined his life and when he returns, he meets his worst nightmare – HIMSELF.
CHARACTER STRUCTURE: Buddy Comedy – between a guy and himself.
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Bob DeCarli’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: To master my craft to the point where I’ve earned a reputation as the screenwriter top producers, directors, and actors can call on when they need someone to save the day, and get paid handsomely to do that.
What I learned: Or maybe what I hope I’ve learned – that I can use the Dramatic Triangle character structure to craft a great thriller.
Title: LEST YE BE JUDGED
Concept: A judge is set up for a crime he didn’t commit, and his only hope for clearing his name is the criminal he just sentenced to death.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Bobby’s Title, Concept and Character Structure!
VISION: A writing life that is mine to do with as I please, because success is all around me. I am in control, relaxed, and utterly content – and constantly searching (happily so) for the next world to create. Independently wealthy, always creatively engaged, and utterly fulfilled
Title: JASON VS THE ZOMBIES
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Concept: An aspiring serial killer is forced to join forces with the high school bullies meant to be his victims, when the cabin they’re partying in is attacked by zombies from the nearby Civil War graveyard.
Character Structure: PROTAGONIST VS ANTAGONIST
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Hi, Bobby!
I like your concept andtitle which is a parody on the mythic “Jason and the Argonauts.” I love horror, comedy, and I’m a Civil War buff – lots of potential fun here so I am looking forward to how you develop your project.
Good Luck.
Bob
Robert R. Smith
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Glad to hear you’re a Civil War buff! I may lean on you for some trivia, starting with:
What state(s) is/are most likely to have both UNION and CONFEDERATE cemeteries nearby? Guess I’m looking for those states split during the war? (Pennsylvania, I think? Maryland?)
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Yes, Maryland. Pennsylvania was pretty solidly Union.
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Valeriya’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: I am a masterful, ahead-of-the-game, and out-of-the-box writer full of ideas and creative energy. My writing is fresh, impactful, iconic, beautiful, and effortless, and my projects deliver outstanding commercial and artistic success. I create a lot, it’s fun, quick, and easy. My whole life is that way.
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
– My attitude to the creative process has changed and keeps changing – I realized I used to dabble at these small steps so that I don’t have to suffer disappointment. Those breaks on my creativity, engagement, curiosity, playfulness, and self-expression were so unnecessary.
– I’m about to create the first super solid outline in my life.
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Sci-Fi Buddy Movie
Robots became too human and people start a dehumanization program to get rid of them. Can a girl brought up by a robot prove that she isn’t one before she and her robot get killed?
WHAT DOESN’T KILL ME
Horror (Anti) Buddy Movie
Following her therapist’s advice, a woman brings an “under-the-bed monster” that doesn’t let her lead fulfilling life out into the light to learn how to live with it. But the monster has plans of its own.
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So glad you are in this class, Valeriya! These are great concepts. I love the horror one the most because I love horror. Looking forward to seeing how your ideas develop!
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Hi Claire! So great to see you toooooo! Watched Top Gun yesterday –– this class feels like screenwriters’ Top Gun academy! Many of us here are from MSC. More, there are three of us from Pro Series 25 I took (2008!!!!!). It’s amazing that we can follow each other’s progress on the way to success. Thank you – I’ll see where the monster takes me, I’ve never thought of writing horror, but here we are, out of the box! Let’s have fun. (by the way, I sent you an email about our movie)
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Andrew Kelm’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision: I am going to do whatever it takes to be a great writer of TV and movies who is sought after by people I respect within the industry and has multiple successful TV series produced.
What I learned from doing this assignment is… How my characters relate to each other. In a sense it is a love story, but one is the protagonist with the other the antagonist. And there is a third person who could be a point on a triangle, but his story is peripheral.
Title: FATEMONGER
Concept: a psychic with a blind spot for abusive men uses subtle manipulations to murder a sexual predator who seduces her to get to her sons.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist.
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BOB SMITH’S TITLE , CONCEPT, and CHARACTER STRUCTURE
CONCEPT SELECTION
My vision for success from this program:
“I want to be a great writer who delivers entertaining, informative, and uplifting movie scripts that sell and are produced.
What I learned from doing this assignment is…?
Clarity in ougtlining tests the viability of a concept before you write the story.
TITLE: “Angels in Gangland.”
GENRE: Gangster Comedy.
CONCEPT: A slain Cosa Nostra mobster (Lou Tasca) cannot get into the World to Come because of his life of crime. His only hope to redeem himself is to do an act of nearly impossible supreme good, namely, persuade the wiseguy who killed him (Carlo Vizzini) to quit the mob, trash his oath of silence about mob activity, surrender to the FBI and enter the Witness Protection Program.
CHARACTER STRUCTURE: Protagonist vs Antagonist.
Protagonist: The spirit of the slain mobsert (Lou Tasca), tasked to convince his killer
(fellow wiseguy Carlo Vizzini) that it is a good thing “to turn rat” and join the Witness Protection Program.
Antagonist: Mob culture, in which Carlo is stuck, and his boss, Tony Rizzo, is ready to
kill Carlo whom he suspects of insanity (with his ghost story of Lou’s viaitations) and “turning rat.”
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Love this concept, Robert! Imagining one gangster haunting another sounds hysterical! Good luck with it!
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Thank you so very much, Bobby. Really appreciate the encouragement.
Bobby Smith
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Great concept, Robert! Makes me think of MARRIED TO THE MOB – tons of opportunity for absurdity here!
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loved the pitch in toastmasters today glad to see you are in the class.
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Kristin’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
REX APPEAL: Comedy — The true story of a small-town paleontologist who sues the government after the feds seize his T. rex, the largest in the world.
Protagonist vs. Antagonist
VISION: “I want the personal, professional, and financial freedom and joy that come from writing so well that I’m in demand, selling beyond my wildest dreams, and making worthy projects—on a big scale and with my active, collegial participation.”
WHAT I LEARNED doing this assignment is that it’s weird to “say it out loud.” I had no idea if Hal or anyone was reading what we were sending in for Module 1, but it’s a very different thing to post this publicly. This story has been in my life for years (I co-wrote the book that was the source material for a documentary)…and taking the story to this other level has been on my wish list. My mission is to make it something fun instead of tragic (although it was tragic)—and to experience it in a new way, after time has passed. This moment is exciting and scary!
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Linda Anderson’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision for your success from this program:
Audiences around the world view and love my meaningful screenplays—one of the most satisfying and energizing accomplishments of my life.
What I learned from doing this assignment is I didn’t know there was a Buddy Movie character structure. It’s perfect for my movie.
Title: Ticket to Live
Concept: An ex-cop with PTSD and an abandoned dog with BIG issues team up to bring light into their darkest places—based on a New York Times bestselling memoir.
Character Structure: Buddy Movie with Two Characters Owning the Story
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Linda I love this concept! Can’t wait to read more!
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Tracy’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure
I will do whatever it takes to become a successful author and screenwriter with several successful books published and movies produced.
I am really good at creating an outline that turns into an amazing story!
Title: Revolutionary Anna
Concept: A woman bringing supplies to her husband at Valley Forge agrees to carry an urgent message for General Washington. Now an assassin is hunting her, trying to get the message back.
I’ve chosen the Protagonist v. Antagonist structure.
What I learned doing this assignment is that a powerful title doesn’t have to say everything about the story.
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Oooooooo! I like the sound of this, Tracy. Looking forward to watching this come to life.
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David Scott Smith’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
MY VISION: I am going to do whatever it takes for me to become a legend in both the filmmaking community and popular movie culture, so much so that audiences will stand in lines around the block to see my movies the way I did for Star Wars, ET and Raiders, and I will be buried with the 5 Academy awards given my work, and a tombstone that reads, “Awesome as fuck!”
What I learned from doing this assignment is: That I’m excited to learn more about character structure!
Title: Connect the Dots
Concept: The true story of the only man in the military who believed in a signals intercept trainee and helped her expose the largest network of Soviet spies ever uncovered – ultimately answering the question, “Who really brought down the Soviet Union?”
I’ve chosen the Dramatic Triangle character structure.
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This sounds good, David. Looking forward to seeing how it unfolds.
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Title: VISION: To sell my script or limited series with future spin-offs to a great producer.
Jamie’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Title: WITHOUT RECOURSE – A True Story
Concept: With no recourse to sue, two women battle with the FDA and AMA when one has a life threatening medical condition and her doctor and attorney are part of the medical mafia.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
What I’ve learned: Deciding the character structure I’m not real sure of. I am going to lead with Protagonist versus Antagonist but, I think this will change to a Dramatic Triangle at some point, even at this stage. I am allowing myself to explore the options right here, right now.
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Tom’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Title: ONCE ISN’T ENOUGH
Concept: What if when a man’s friend is killed during a war, but when the wizard father restores his son to life, he claims it was the man who killed him.
Vision: “When I discuss my script with producers, my vision is I come up with excellent alternatives quickly.”
Doing this assignment, I learned by using this method I save many hours of fretting.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Concept reads well, title fits and you have a lot of visuals living in the Big Sky country. I lived outside of Missoula (Potomac) for a number of years. Great sky in summer. Looking forward to more. Enjoyed it!
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Aaron’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
VISION FOR SUCCESS: By the end of this class I will have written a script that is ready for the market and will be a calling card for the type of writing I am capable of producing.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that by picking out the character structure, I am designing the major conflict of the story at a very high level.
TITLE: BLACK JESUS
CONCEPT: A black tow truck driver gets out on probation after being setup by a dirty Sheriff and begins to expose years of corruption and racist murders committed by the lawman, things he will kill to keep hidden.
CHARACTER STRUCTURE: Protagonist vs. Antagonist
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Subject Line: Jill Clifford’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: I am going to become skillful enough as a screenwriter that I can to get my scripts into the hands of producers, and ultimately get one or more into a produced feature film.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that there are a lot of different character structures for movies. In this case, although there are many people involved in this story, including a love interest, it is a protagonist versus an antagonist character structure – it boils down to one good man versus one evil man, with some support from others, both good and bad.
Title: Illegal Rescue
Concept: An undercover INS agent’s life depends on the help from the same illegal immigrants he was planning to deport.
Genre: Thriller
Character Structure: Protagonist Versus Antagonist
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· Kevin Ash’s Title Concept and Character Structure!
· Vision: I will be living in paradise, writing prolifically at my leisure, respected and sought after for my interesting and thought provoking films.
· What I learned from doing this assignment is I don’t think these structures fit my film, but I will try to fit it into one.
· Title: Design Your Mind
· Concept: The true story of my cousin’s son who battled addiction for years and won, inspiring all those around him, only to tragically die just when it all comes together.
· Character Structure: Protagonist vs. Antagonist
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Kevin – sounds great, and I LOVE the title. In terms of the wording of the concept, be careful though: because it’s a true story, that can short-circuit the process of designing a truly compelling High Concept! Can you get more specific about the protagonist (think of him as “fictional” for a bit) – how old? What KIND of a kid? What were his dreams? Why did he turn to … alcohol? You’ve given a great CATEGORY for this kind of story. Get more specific, if you can?
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Paul Mahoney’s Title, Concept and Character Structure!
Vision: My vision for this program is to become a successful writer who writes full time. I am going to achieve a successful writing career that enables me to constantly learn and brings myself and Solange joy, fun, fulfilment, health, happiness, inspiration, awards, a very good income & an attitude of gratitude.
What I learned was doing this assignment gave me another way to look at my feature comedy project.
Title: Sexless in Sydney
Concept: A guy’s childhood wish to become the world’s fastest at something becomes a curse when he becomes the world’s fasted ejaculator and he struggles to find a cure.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Michelle Damis’ Title, Concept and Character Structure.
VISION: I will be a prolific writer that is sought out because of my ability to truly touch people and create memorable stories and I will have financial freedom and time with my family as I travel the world.
What I learned from doing this assignment…that I’m sooo ready to write this one!
TITLE: Chelsea Handler: It’s all your fault. (aka Mom Hangover)
Genre: Comedy
High Concept: When a famous
comedian cancels her show last minute, two middle-aged sisters find
themselves having a wild night they’ll never forget.
Major Story Hook: Would your mom
survive a “say yes to everything” night?<div>CHARACTER STRUCTURE: Mostly Protagonist /Antagonist with a dash of Buddy because they are twins/sisters.
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Marianne’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision: To empower myself to smile at today’s writing challenge and have fun solving it. Why? Because that’s how I’ll craft screenplays industry insiders are itching to read and produce. That’s how I’ll get my movies made.
What I learned doing this assignment… How to have both siblings own the story. And just take this one step at a time.
Title: Ticking Time Capsule
Concept: Feuding twins must team up to honor their terminally ill father’s wish — finding the family’s treasured time capsule — before his time ends
Character Structure: Buddy Movie
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Lauren’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My vision: I am a wildly successful, prolific A-list writer, creating profound bestselling, blockbuster, award-winning projects. I write, finish, and manifest projects in the world with lightning speed and ease.
What I learned from doing this assignment: to shape my concept and title to wed to each other.
Title: PHOBIA SHMOBIA
Concept: A therapist who’s dismissive of her patients has her device for eradicating fears malfunction leaving her paralyzed by everyone’s phobias.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Lauren, this is fabulous. It could work well as a comedy or drama, but from your title, I’d say this is a comedy. Love the title, by the way. Looking forward to seeing it unfold.
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Teresa Rodriguez’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
– MY VISION: I will become a highly respected and influential writer/producer with my own successful production company that I can leave as a blessing to my children and many generations.
– What I learned from doing this assignment is that it is wise to choose your character structure and do an outline before starting the script.
– Title: Lily White and the Seven Dwarfs
– Concept: Snow White’s great, great-granddaughter, Lily White, runs away to America to escape her perfectionist fairytale life.
– Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Susan Arnout Smith’s spectacular vision: I co-create with God projects that are produced, win awards, heal hearts and bring me financial abundance and time to explore the world with family and friends.
What I learned doing this assignment is: I’m so excited to find out what this story has to tell me—and the world.
Title: Esme Cooper and the Prophesy of Doom
Fantasy/Adventure
Concept: A young girl is spirited off-planet after an ancient curse reveals she will cause the destruction of her world, not knowing that her being off-planet is what creates her world’s end.
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Subject Line: Veleka’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My work is respected and produced, and I am rewarded with success and great wealth.
Bill Martell talks about Intentional Lead Characters, and I’m very interested in learning what Hal will share about how to do this.
Veleka’s Title and Concept to claim ownership of it:
Madhouse Manor
“A retired psychiatrist, scammed out of his life savings, is forced to hide this from his wife and move her into a former asylum owned by his family, only to discover ancestor ghosts in the attic who demand therapy, or they will haunt the hospital.”
Veleka’s Character Structure: Ensemble Cast (since I already have the actors for this project cast)
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This sounds very funny, Veleka!
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Jack P’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure
VISION: I will do whatever it takes to write a produced script that is recognized by the industry and leads to multiple successful movies.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS ASSIGNMENT: That my script will be a Rom-Com with the two lead characters owning the story.
TITLE: Waiting on a Friend
CONCEPT: A young lesbian and old man fall in love and discover they have shared multiple lifetimes as soulmates.
CHARACTER STRUCTURE: Rom-Com
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Kevin Cunningham’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: By making my high-quality writing and speaking known in many venues (the Industry, Youtube, podcasts, books), I will create a reputation as a profoundly powerful, thoughtful, and skilled writer, and be sought after for new and rewrite activities at the highest levels.
What I learned from doing this assignment: This is always an interesting exercise when I have a complex society as the setting: there are many obstacles to the hero’s journey, and many enigmatic forces at work supporting him and hindering him – sometimes simultaneously. But it makes sense to have a focused villian to give structure to the story.
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Title: Going Native
Concept: A woke New England town votes to give their land back to the Native American tribe they stole it from centuries before – putting leadership of the town in the hands of a clueless slacker native teen
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist. The hero is the slacker Native teen who’d rather just play video games than honor his culture, the villain is the nefarious rich townsfolk who are manipulating the land turnover so they back a new casino and get even richer. Of course, there is also a romantic triangle (the hero is enamored of a white girl, and loved by a “princess” back home) and a dramatic triangle (the hero wrestles with his own family).
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Oh God I love this, Kevin! Soooo much opportunity to poke fun at, well, everyone! (Have you seen THE HUNT? If not, definitely worth checking out – does a great job of mocking the “woke left”, while not excusing the hard-core conservative right either!)
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Thanks, Bobby. I’ll check it out. I’m certainly aiming to be an equal-opportunity satirist.
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if a good movie series: could encourage blue planet bipeds to not extinctish all life as Happened on Mars
RomCom/Divine Fi
Creator sets up romantic experiment of total opposites to see if there are parable lessons to keep free will bipeds from nuking their blue planet to extinction as previously happened on red Mars.
“Romancing vs Extinction” or “Romancing Blue Planet vs Extinction”
like strategy of pitch is Plato’s Idea of the Good which everything else flows
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MY VISION: Develop a successful methodology for writing screenplays that yields the following: completion of this and other screenplays which ‘read’ at a PRO, story-telling level, provide me fair compensation -and most of all, lead to more screenwriting opportunities.WHAT I LEARNED: Going with my gut. After reviewing my concepts, I came up with:
a.) this concept kept nagging at me (…friends my age -who also grew up with the ‘subject matter’- were universally curious about my Protagonist too),
b.) It is ‘the’ concept I’ve most wanted to bring to life,
c.) It is the story I want the world to experience through characters I will give voice to -and the screenplay idea that’s been roiling around in my brain for the longest time.
TITLE: FINDING DOCTOR FUNK
CONCEPT: Bio-Pic/drama – Story of legendary Jazz Pianist Vince Guaraldi.
CHARACTER STRUCTURE: Protagonist vs. Antagonist(s)… (‘Outside Forces’ working to prevent our Protagonist from realizing his dream).
Thank you.
Kevin Patrick Goulet
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NOTES: Not to bury the lede here too much but- GUARALDI’S musical scores for 1960’s PEANUTS Cartoons, *‘A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS’, ‘IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN’ are universally known… legendary.
GUARALDI’S Jazz Christmas ‘album’ compositions ‘Linus And Lucy‘, ‘Christmas Time Is Here‘, ‘Skating‘ (most notables from the cartoon soundtrack)- introduced Jazz to millions of kids without them really being aware of it. I’ve always liked that cultural side effect.
Between 1965 and right up until his untimely death in 1976, VINCE GUARALDI scored music for 17 PEANUTS animated Television cartoon specials in total. Of the many TV specials he scored, best knows *A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS’ and ‘IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN’ remain a staple of annual television viewership for children of all ages since first debuting on the CBS Broadcast Television Network in 1965.
But what series of life events led GUARALDI to that opportunity? How did the ‘PEANUTS’ producers find their guy, ‘Doctor Funk’? What ‘sound’ would he bring to the finished project that very nearly caused it be canceled by CBS before it even “Aired”…?!
And how on earth did VINCE GUARALDI die -at a much too young 47- still doubting his work, still searching to create a musical composition worthy of ‘jazz standard’ status, unable to fathom he might have already created multiple, well respected works of art that would-one-day-be-crowned with that very ‘Jazz Standard’ legacy adulation he thought would forever elude him?
For me though, what makes the diminutive 5’6″ GUARALDI’S story most worthy of cinematic definition is- like other driven, complicated artists of the 20th century, GUARALDI (nick-named ‘Doctor Funk‘ by his music industry peers) was a complete original… and he had his demons too. “VINCE GUARALDI: The Peanuts Music Guy” (incidentally- one of my failed brain-storming session ‘titles’)… well that would have just been too shallow a title. ‘Peanuts music’ was just the tip of the iceberg. FINDING DOCTOR FUNK is His story -and I’m going to tell it. Looking forward to any feedback. Thanks.
Kevin
P.S.,
*On May 10, 2022 – the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified VINCE GUARALDI’S Jazz album, ‘A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS’ with QUINTUPLE PLATINUM status. In layman’s terms: Sales topping 5 million copies… and the sales just keep coming. (Already done tons of research about him. So many blanks to ‘fill-in’ about this guy… VG- one fascinating little dude!)
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I have the Charlie Brown Christmas album, Kevin, and love it.
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Hi Claire, It really is a great piece of music. I’m bias, but I find it timeless. It’s one of the most ‘purchased/listened to’ Christmas albums ever. Pretty difficult to go through ‘fall’ or ‘winter’ without hearing a Guaraldi track in a mall/store, a coffee shop, somewhere. Always brings a smile to my face!
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Reginald’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: I am going to utilize my talents as a writer to catapult myself to the A-list, causing people in this industry to consider my writing among the best in the business.
What I learned from doing this assignment is by creating an outline I am able to discover new parts of my story along with providing a great way for me to make big picture decisions.
Title: Burying The Hatchet
Concept: After multiple attempts to rid their neighborhood of a gang leader who continues to terrorize citizens, a member of a group that calls themselves the Vipers decides to strike back by bringing his own version of terror.
The character structure I’ve chosen is Protagonist versus Antagonist
My apologies for being so late to the party…
-RJ
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Sounds good, Reggie. Looking forward to seeing it come to life.
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Sassy Chan’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision: I am a respected, masterful, and in-demand writer, who is also an award winning A-list hit maker!
What I learned from doing this assignment is…. Deciding first, what goal structure would best fit my movie, is the beginning to a great outline.
Title: MARRAIGE NIGHT
Concept: A lowkey Seamstress must rescue her newlywed MMA fighter husband when he gets kidnapped on their destination wedding day/ honeymoon by terrorists, revealing her secret CIA skills previously unbeknownst to him.
Character Structure: Rom-Com/ Buddy Movie (might change to, Dramatic Triangle as I dive deeper)
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WIM – Michael L Harris – The Last Capone Connection – Romantic Triangle
My Vision: To create insightful, life changing stories that will endure for generations and which I can easily greenlight for self-production.
What I learned from this lesson: … Creating the great outline and help you find and fix bugs in your screenplay structure in the early stages of writing.
Title: The Last Capone Connection
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Concept: When the glamor of life as a Capone lieutenant’s wife ends Rio Burke must decide how to live the rest of her life.
Character Concept: Romantic Triangle
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savanna’s title, concept and character structure
“Link in Bio” is about a journalist/relief volunteer from a progressive part of the united states who returns to her southern hometown (which had been successful in integration in the 70s) to find her classmates and family have become racists and science deniers. When a super storm hits, she is left caring for them in a shelter
character structure is dramatic triangle, maybe more than one
what i learned from doing this assignment is how to choose character structure
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My Vision: I have no fear writing great scripts; top producers seek me out to keep producing my scripts. I Love my life as an award winning writer, while making great income, allowing me freedom to travel, have fun and take care of my family.
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David-Norman Gollob’s Title, concept and character structure!
vision: this program will contribute to my success as a screenwriter.
what i learned: outlining is key to successful screenwriting
Title: Pablo and Me
Genre: True life/DramaHigh Concept: The world’s most dangerous drug-lord is revered by his community and by a young woman whose life he saves.
Major Story Hook: A young Colombian woman is forced to choose whether to betray her boss/benefactor who spared her life after she kills one of his men.
Favorite Title ***Pablo and me
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Linda’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision is: I will do whatever it takes to be a sought-after profound writer with many successful movies produced and an Oscar on my mantel.
What I learned doing this assignment is to keep working the concept to make it come alive in a succinct and visual way.
Title: RISE OF THE FALCON
An Action Thriller.
HIGH CONCEPT: The head of a cartel is dying and puts his succession up for competition with a point system that rewards crimes based on the degree to which they promote his infamy. Will a low-level worker abandon his morals to beat the ruthless heavyweights and protect his family and community?
Character Structure: Protagonist v. Antagonist.
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Gisele’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure.
My vision: I am going to work diligently to become a brilliant, reliable screenwriter who is sought after, regularly produced, highly paid, and awarded. Artistic fulfillment and financial freedom will result from the achievement of this goal!
What I learned doing this assignment is: Structure is our friend!
Title: Nose-To-Nose
Concept:
A perfumer joins forces with a down-and-out detection dog to nose out her sister’s killer.
Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Laura Koons’ Title, Concept, Character Structure!
My vision: I am an Oscar winning Screenwriter known to elevate the careers of A-list actors and directors. I am financially abundant and have the flexibility to write wherever and whenever I want.
What I learned from doing
this assignment is I am building the framework for my story.Title: Lincoln Logs
Concept: A gifted architect
longs to follow in the footsteps of her father who she lost at the age of
twelve and subsequently found herself dumped on the doorsteps of an
orphanage by her estranged mother.Character Structure: Rom-Com
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Kelly’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision: I want to be an empowered writer who consistently produces salable scripts.
What did I learn: I learned that once I chose my character plot structure, I could start visualizing what my story was going to be. Such a simple decision but it defines the plot to some extent.
Title: Blood Lake
Concept: A troubled teenager is taken to a boot camp to change her behavior but learns that the camp is run by aliens who create copies of them then kill the teens.
Character Structure” Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Vision: I am a sought after writer, who creates memorable characters, whose scripts win academy awards, allowing me to dream for a living, (Spielberg is not the only one), providing an affluent lifestyle while living respected by friends, family, movie industry pros. I am consistently brilliant, writing the most important movies of our time.
What I learned doing the assignment:
Putting down quick lines : title, concept, character structure, make quick easy notes to keep on track and makes review easier.
Private Pirouette.
Unmatched in physical skill, Alexis the world’s most elite ballet dancer, saves a navy seal team when she uncovers a plot to have them start war with North Korea.
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Joaquin “Ibn Gray’s” Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My vision for the completion of this class is to write A plus intriguing screenplays that will be produced into extremely profitable movies, which I will cash large checks from.
What I learned from doing this assignment is the different character structures used in writing screenplays.
Title: The Emancipation of 1865
Concept: The story of a Black American family that migrates from Georgia to Texas after the emancipation proclamation in 1863. Little did they know slavery would not be outlawed in Texas until June 19th, 1865, the day and fight of a lifetime.
Protagonist VS. Antagonist
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Farrin Rosenthal’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Farrin’s Vision: To do what it takes to become a highly paid A-List Hollywood writer whose produced movies will entertain audiences around the world.
<font size=”3″>What I learned doing this assignment is how outlining saves time. Do you build a house without blueprints? Maybe if you’re insane. So, why write a whole script without your blueprint, which is what an outline is. Outlining and going step by step allows you to create without stress or fear. Take one step at a time and you will get there.
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<font size=”3″><font size=”3″>Concept: Claustrophobic
and trapped in a box at the bottom of a pool for stealing $3.6 billion in Bitcoin
from the Russian mob, a Los Angeles retail store manager has just 60 minutes to
prove his innocence and save his family.</font></font><font size=”3″><font size=”3″>Character Structure: Protagonist versus Antagonist</font></font>
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Christopher Dalbey’s Title, Concept and Character Structure!
My Vision: To land representation that helps guide me to making a lucrative career from my writing and is deemed among the A-listers in the TV streaming market.
What I learned doing this assignment is that great outlines can save you from a few early drafts.
THE TRANSCRIBER
In the future, a top psychologist is assigned a transcriber with empath and supernatural abilities who puts herself in the shoes of the world’s deadliest criminals, covertly becoming their judge and jury.
Sci-Fi/ Dramatic Triangle
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My vision: I am writing multiple movies that I love and that I can direct, and that people want to invest in and want me to direct. And they are successful, and bring more success.
What I learned from doing
this assignment is…. that things can always evolve and change – and that’s ok! Ps: Outlines RULE OK.TITLE: The Trouble With Love
CONCEPT: Guilt
drives a medical scientist to try cutting edge theta brain wave therapy to help
her husband regain feeling in his body, except the healing he needs is not her
science but her love (SCI-FI DRAMA).CHARACTER STRUCTURE: Either Protagonist/ Antagonist or Rom-Com/ Buddy Movie
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Titika Stamouli’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
I will work consistently, and creatively towards my vision, which is to move to Hollywood as a produced, successful writer and live a happy life.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that outlines are very important and that there are certain ways of character structure that highly depend on the genre.
Title:
Ms. Exorcist
Concept:
The key to saving the world from demonic possession is a young woman, Ms. Exorcist, that turns out to be God’s daughter.
Character Structure:
Protagonist versus Antagonist
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Jacqueline Murphy Title, Concept, and Character Structure! July 16, 2022
WIM: MOD 2: Lesson 1: Great Outlines Make Great Scripts!
VISION: To empower myself to go for my dreams to be a great writer, actress and filmmaker who is “Admired”, recognized and sought after by the industry and has many successful TV & Film projects produced that make money, a difference and inspire others to go for their dreams.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that I was STALLED!!! Thank goodness on was able to speak with Hal on the Saturday class TODAY because I felt so behind and also was hung up on the fact that I had created this project during the Binge worthy TV class but had made the protagonist a force of magic that was hidden genetic talent. Hal encourage me to just get going, pull out the old to fill in the blanks, later go back with the “new” material and do the assignments in 5 mins! Well, I did that just that. I pulled out my concept that I’d worked on in MOD 1 and felt empowered and had a clearer eye looking at it and felt this way because I could see how I”d honed the concept and felt the title was working for me. YAY, I’m moving on to Mod 2 Lesson 2 now!
1. Start this assignment by empowering yourself using our State-To-Activity empowerment process. State: I am really good at…Activity: …creating an outline that turns into an amazing story!
2. Post your Title, and Concept to claim ownership of it.
Title: Hollywood Sorceress
Concept: A failed Actress meets a handsome devil who magically “time travels” her to 1940’s Hollywood as a movie star but she stumbles on her family’s genetic trait that allows her to create magic, time travel and make changes in any era!
3. Tell us the Character Structure you’ve chosen.
Protagonist versus Antagonist AND/OR . Dramatic Triangle
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Jon’s Title, Concept & Character Structure
My Vision: I am going to take everything I’ve learned from thirty years of filmmaking and focus on creating and crafting scripts that readers can’t put down. I’m going to develop my process and professionalism in writing so that I can become represented as a writer for hire and writer/director.
What I Learned: making foundation decisions at this stage is easier
Title: Blacktop Diamonds
Concept: An American couple<font face=”inherit”> meets a young South African boy who smuggles diamonds using carrier pigeons. They are pursuaded to become rookie diamond couriers while on holiday, but when their </font>identities are discovered,<font face=”inherit”> it becomes a life or death race back to Cape Town, pursued by the diamond mine’s notorious head of security</font>.
Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Brandyn Cross’ Title, Concept and Character Structure
My vision for success in this program is to develop and hone my skills to the extent that my screenplays will be produced and widely viewed.
What I learned from this assignment is a pretty cool means of determining the overall structure of the story. I’m actually pretty stoked about this because determining how to present the story is always a huge struggle. Yet this method made what could be an endless internal debate an easy decision over about a 2 minute debate.
Title: Ghost Writer
Concept: : A struggling children’s book author develops psychic abilities, enabling him to communicate with dead children, following a disabling accident in which his own son was killed.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Geoff Gwillim’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
I am a writer of popular and critically acclaimed films, enjoying and grateful for every aspect of my creative life, consistently writing what and as I choose wherever I choose to live in the world, loving the wonderful experiences my writing enables me to have.
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Concept A fireman with PTSD and other problems becomes ensnared in a Virtual Reality experience that begins to take over his life
Character Structure Protagonist vs Antagonist
What I learned from doing this assignment is ..
Learning to outline really well is an essential skill for great writing
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My vision is to do dramatic family films and comedic family films. What I learned doing this assignment is putting together an outline. I’ll using the Protagonist vs Antagonist character structure. Still deciding the title, but I’m working on a story about a single mother who unknowingly chooses an abusive man as a love interest.
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Daniel Turner’s Title, Concept and Character Structure
My Vision: is that learning to outline the story well will enable me to craft better and more cohesive stories and level up what I am able to produce.
TITLE: Blood Atonement
CONCEPT: A preacher turned police detective uncovers a secret sect, he must then decide if they are doing God’s work, or the Devil’s.
CHARACTER STRUCTURE: Protagonist vs antagonist
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