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Day 9 Assignments
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Subject line: Ben’s Setting Up The Future
What I learned doing this assignment is
Setups for future episode is like a bait for the audiences. Once they get a hold of it, they will not let go and make the decision at the end of the pilot to watch the entire series. They could become fans of the show from this point on.
This is another skill that increases pilot interest level.
ASSIGNMENT:
Go to your TV Pitch Bible: Look at the future episodes, five seasons, and character descriptions. Go to your BW Framework: Look at all the info there.
SETUPS FOR FUTURE EPISODES
– Nora enters the dangerous underworld of magic.
– Will Nora get caught?
– Will the disguise kills Nora before she learns magic?
– Will Nora learn magic?
– Will Mo take over Terra’s position?
– How will Terra deal with Mo betraying him?
– Will Nora change the rule?
– Why is magic taught to the pretty ones?
– Why is Terra helping Nora?
– Will Zin finds the evidence and exposes Mo?
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Tim Barley’s Setting up the Future
What I learned from doing this assignment is that putting the questions about the series open loops and mysteries really caused me to put finer points on the pilot to set up why this should is binge-worthy.
Event/character reveals/under-the-surface info setups: (bold+italicized included in pilot)
Alex being finally told what he is.
Learning about the “real” history of the world and how it’s come to the point now.
Figuring out how the characters are all related.
Who’s watching Alex from the shadows?
Will Alex and Edris ever meet?
How can Alex learn to control his power?
Will the “No Things” attack him again?
What is the organization of the world and how does his family’s company fit into all of it?
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Assignment #9
Wendy Weising’s Setting Up The Future
What I learned doing this assignment is that many things are linked, but you have to dig for them.
1. List of things that could be set up in the pilot.
Polly’s mother is killed.
Dr. Jones surprises Dr. Zyn by announcing that she has chosen him as a mate
Dr. Jones decides to use Polly’s brain even though she promised she wouldn’t.
Dr. Zyn tells her that she isn’t in a hospital but in a facility run by aliens, who must partake of the human brain for a chemical that helps them survive.
Polly is able to draw a map of the hospital maze from memory.
Polly hotwires the vehicle.
Dr. Jones holds up Jane’s live embryo and says, “Did you forget something?”
They are no longer on Earth but on Cerebros.
Ava finds her mother in the dead pile.
Ava no longer wants to live without the drug now that her mother is dead. She exchanges herself for the two boys.
Dr. Jones has made a few gene enhancements to Jane’s child and wants to watch her grow up to reach her full potential.
It’s Jane’s husband, Dan, who is really one of Dr. Jones’s hitmen. The man whom she thought was her husband was also hired as a hunter.
Dr. Jones tells Jane that Jane is an alien whom she hired to go to Earth, hunt, and capture humans for experimentation.
And the father of the baby? Dr. Jones tells her that it’s someone in that room—Dr. Zyn. She can’t remember her kids because her memory was wiped and she was given human memories before going to Earth.
2. Going to use these
How does Polly know how to do so many things? Show her with a book, fixing the refrigerator just before she takes out food and serves it.
Dr. Jones made enhancements to Jane’s child. Show her adding liquids to Jane’s living embryo.
Jane took Polly as a baby. Her parents were killed in brain mining later. When Jane takes Polly, Polly is crying and reaching for something in her crib. Jane gives a pink teddy bear to Polly. Polly gives this same teddy bear to Jane.
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Elizabeth Dickinson’s Setting Up The Future
What I learned doing this assignment is that I think I made things harder than they were. Most of the future episode set-ups are already in place from other lessons.. Keep thinking it should be more complicated.
Future lifetimes absolutely set up
What regrets will Celt set up for next lifetime?
Not all past lives think Oversoul knows what it’s doing (tension between Oversoul and Abbess)
Animal companion’s reincarnation into various lives
Not all deities agree with Taranis’ manipulation/offer to Celt
Prefiguring of Celt’s becoming a bestiarus set up by reponse to Roman’s capturing of animals
Prefiguring of Celt’s eventual adoption of Roman ways by fascination with Sirius’ map
Prefiguring of Celt and Rudhek tensions
How will Rome change Celt and Piran?
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ASSIGNMENT:
5. Answer the question, “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.
With years of crafting, this pilot which comprises 11.69% of the first book and a chapter from book 2, setups important plotlines that spread across 2 books (seasons 1.0 and season 1.5). My engineering mind excels at setups.
The teaser sequence the class inspired me to come up with sets up the finale sequence of season 1.5 and telegraphs that this series is not just about politics.
1. Go to your TV Pitch Bible: Look at the future episodes, five seasons, and character descriptions. Go to your BW Framework: Look at all the info there.
2. Make a list of events/character reveals/under-the-surface info that COULD be set up in the pilot. Just use the obvious ones. You don’t need to create the entire season right now.
3. Decide which you are going to include in the pilot.
The teaser sets up the entire finale sequence of season 1.5 with a few misdirects and having the information this early causes a lot of open loops and mysteries in less than 2 pages of the script.
The intruder sequence introduces a major character (Zelda) that we won’t realize is the intruder until a reveal at the end of season 1.0. There will be an extra layer added at the beginning of season 1.5 that will show the intruder sequence in a new light.
Another character we assume is Renquist’s henchman, but later realize he’s another villain with his own Russian cabal.
The missing katana is a major clue later in the book and is used against Maria in the climactic finale of season 1.0. A dagger reforged from a piece of the broken katana is a token used in season 1.5
The pilot sets up the overall subplots of the book:
James and Maria try to get control of their company.
Maria keeping Renquist from getting all the copies of the surveillance tapes.
Maria doesn’t want a physical relationship with James, but still sabotages his romantic relationships.
Maria as the warrior and James as the creative thinker.
It introduces the high concept of season 1.0, i.e. using a viral video with name change to None of the Above to win an election.
It introduces another character (Rick Slater) that will popup in season 1.0 and season 1.5.
It introduces the two main characters and both villains.
Thelma is a dead man’s switch and ends up getting killed for helping Maria mid season 1.0
It shows a mix of genres to give readers/viewers an idea of the series and the unconventional nature of it. None of the Above, is not just a character name, but represents the mission of the series to be unique and memorable, like none of the above.
4. Fill those into the Outline and tell us which ones you are going to use.
Already in the outline
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Avi Kapurala’s Setting Up The Future
What I learned doing this assignment is: It’s tough to not think that you’re missing a lot more I could do in terms of setups. But the key is to keep moving.
Pilot Setups:
– Did Viktor kill Claire?
– Why was Claire killed? In the way she was killed?
– Viktor and Jacob are rivals.
– How did Viktor get into boxing?
– How did Viktor get his tattoo?
– what is Viktor’s past?
– What is Maya’s past?
– What is Jacob’s past?
– Maya and her family’s estrangement. Will they reunite?
– Will Derek the mole be caught? What damage will he cause before?
– Jacob and his father’s relationship.
– Maya and Viktor’s relationship.
– Will Jacob expose Viktor with the evidence he has?
– How will Viktor recover or destroy the evidence Jacob has?
– Will Viktor be caught?
– Will Viktor kill again? Has he killed before this?
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