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Lesson 10 Assignments
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What I learned doing this assignment is that with some brainstorming of titles for our episodes and season titles, we can find more intriguing and interesting titles for our TV Pitch Bible.
Jack Young’s) Episode Titles for “STREAM”
I have brainstormed titles and added those to the originally titled episodes and season titles below:
EPISODE I: Michael Crosses Over
Conflict: The Bill’s Come Due
Journey: Michael Crosses Over
Dilemma: Jail or Heaven
Issue faced: All Roads Lead to the Stream
Irony: Things Aren’t Quite Working out for Michael
Threat to hero: Michael Must Die
Discovery: Michael Faces his Destiny
As a child, Michael almost drowns and has a vision of the mammoth sacred seals. At work, as Michael repossesses the home of an old woman, she pulls a gun from her purse and shoots herself right in front of him. Michael gets word that the FBI has issued a warrant for his arrest for an illegal stock deal. Michael breaks off an affair with his secretary while his headaches intensify. Michael has visions of the Stream and Professor and discovers that he has terminal brain cancer. Michael meets the Professor and Thomas who want to stop his heart and send him into the Stream. Michael dies to enter the Stream and begins his journey.
EPISODE II: The Sorcerer’s Dark Story.
Conflict: Light Versus Dark
Journey: A Sorcerer’s Discovery
Dilemma: Good Prince, Bad Prince
Issue faced: The Dark Ages Cometh
Irony: A Brothers’ Love
Hero’s challenging situation: How to Kill a Sorcerer
Threat to hero: The Evil Begins
Discovery: How to Capture a Soul
During the dark ages, a king sends his sons to investigate the darkness that looms over his kingdom. His sons find the Sorcerer summoning evil and creating soulless creatures that has thrown the kingdom into the Dark Ages. The Sorcerer is killed during the fight and is thrown into the portal that leads to the planet of Sacred Seals. During the chaos, the elder son kills his brother over an affair he had with his wife. Upon his return, the king kills his traitorous son for killing his favorite son. Again, with the Sorcerer vanquished the darkness parts for sunshine over the kingdom.
EPISODE III: An Alien Invasion Fails
Conflict: Alien Vs. Pure Evil
Journey: A Long Way From Heaven
Dilemma: You Should Have Stayed in Your Own Galaxy
Issue faced: You’re Way Out of Your League
Irony: And You Thought It’d be Easy
Aliens arrive on the planet of seals. The Aliens discover the seals are a source of strange/dark power. Aliens discover it is evil and try to escape but find that they are trapped on the planet. Evil infiltrates the ship and causes the pregnancy of the human and other specimens resulting in new kinds of evil/dark creatures being born.
EPISODE IV: Cronus is Born
Conflict: Cronus Rises to Power
Journey: And Then There Were Skins
Dilemma: City of Seals or Bust
Issue faced: Lift The Seals and Unleash The Evil
Irony: Where’s the Union Rep When You Need One
Threat to hero: Michael’s Nightmare is Realized
Cronus is born of a female human and grows to take control of the aliens. Cronus discovers the body of the Sorcerer near the Seals. The Sorcerer’s body is reanimated and becomes aid to Cronus. Cronus develops a plan to raise the 6 Sacred Seals using slave labor from other planets. The Sorcerer helps the Aliens to bring human workers to the planet through a wormhole. Tired of the limitations of the human body, the Sorcerer and Aliens develop the Stream to steals souls for synthetic slave workers. The City of Seals is built around the seals.
EPISODE V: The Professor’s Stories of the Astral World
Conflict: An Anomaly in the Astral Plane
Journey: The Stream
Dilemma: Stolen Souls
Issue faced: Give Those Souls Back
Irony: So Much for Having Fun in the Astral Plane
Hero’s challenging situation: The Professor’s Discovery
Threat to hero: One Piece of the Puzzle Revealed
Discovery: We Found the Problem and it’s Trying to Steal My Soul
A group of college students experiment with astral projection. Professor Darlington becomes aware of their astral activities. The Professor mentors them on Astral Projection and recruits them into an Astral team. The Professor reveals his introduction to and dark secrets of Astral Projection. The Professor and students discover the “Stream” in the Astral plane. The Professor believes that the Stream is connected to no-birth and is ridiculed by science community.
EPISODE VI: Am I in Heaven?
Conflict: Michael Dies and Gets a New Skin
Journey: Journey to the Other Side
Dilemma: Now That You’re Dead, Now What?
Issue faced: Dying is Not So Hard
Irony: Am I in Heaven?
Hero’s challenging situation: A New Skin
Threat to hero: Welcome to Heaven, or Not
Discovery: So This is What Heaven Looks Like
Michael revisits the highlights of his life as his soul leaves his body and he enters the Astral plane. The Astral team, guided by the Professor, ensures that Michael enters the Stream and is on his way to the other side. Michael arrives in the Ocean of Souls (Heaven). Michael is plucked from the Ocean of Souls and is given a new “Skin”. Michael is assigned work in the Black Forest.
EPISODE VII: Keeping the Body Alive
Conflict: Body on the Run
Journey: MIT Didn’t Prepare Me for This
Dilemma: No Body, No Return
Issue faced: Dead Bodies Can be Complicated
Irony: Thomas is On the Way
Hero’s challenging situation: If Only Michael Knew
Threat to hero: Hurry Home, We’re Keeping Your Body on Ice
Michael’s wife escapes with Michael’s preserved body. Thomas steals equipment to maintain Michael’s body. Police implement a wide area search for Michael’s wife. Thomas is killed. He finds himself in the Ocean of Souls.
EPISODE VIII: The Professor’s Secret Soul Experiments
Conflict: Soul Man
Journey: City of Seals and the Trouble With Harry
Dilemma: Is Everyone on the Same Page Now?
Issue faced: There’s Something Very Evil afoot Here
Irony: The Stream is Only a Symptom
Hero’s challenging situation: I guess I’m All in Now
Threat to hero: We Know Your Secret, Now Run
The Professor has a breakthrough discovery on human soul/body connection. Police confers with FBI on Professor’s work. FBI hones in on the Professor’s research and assigns the case to Homeland Security agent (Harry Miles). The Professor flees with his team. The Professor succeeds with a test of is new device. Michael travels to the City of Seals and sees the seals for the first time.
FIVE SEASONS DESCRIPTION:
SEASON I: The Death of Michael
Conflict: Can Things Get Any Worse?
Journey: The Life of Michael..and Death
Dilemma: You Want to Stop My Heart?
Issue faced: Maybe This is What I deserve
Irony: I Almost Had the Brass Ring
Hero’s challenging situation: I’ve Been Here Before..it Doesn’t End Well
Threat to hero: Heaven’s Just a Heartbeat Away
Michael finds himself in a journey to see what exists on the other end of the Stream that is creating the no-birth epidemic. Michael is dying, being pursued by the government, and dealing with forces that are trying to stop him from entering the Stream. Can Michael get to the other end of the Stream and stop it? Michael is plucked from what appears to be a version of Heaven and finds himself in a synthetic skin on a strange planet.
SEASON II: There’s a Much, Much Bigger Problem…
Conflict: Welcome to the City of Seals
Journey: Skin Central
Dilemma: What Can I do, I’m Just a Skin
Issue faced: Where Have All The Babies Gone?
Irony: Keep the Light On, I have My Work Cutout for Me in Skin City
Threat to hero: A City of Stolen Souls
Discovery: Michael May be More Than Your Ordinary SKin
Michael discovers that a bigger problem than the Stream stealing souls exists after arriving on the Planet of Seals. A whole city has been built on the planet around 6 mammoth Sacred Seals buried in the ground. Hundreds of thousands of humans and millions of “Skins” have been imprisoned on the planet and employed as workers to raise the sacred seals. According to an old man they call the “Seer” the removal of the seals will plunge the universe into the age of evil, with Cromus at the helm. Michael searches for answers about the Stream and Seals while the Professor visits the Ocean of Souls looking for his deceased wife. The government steps up its investigation of the professor, convinced he’s responsible for the no-birth epidemic. Can Michael find the source of the Stream and shut it down? On Earth, Thomas gets killed while protecting Michael’s body and finds himself in the Ocean of Souls. The Homeland Security preps their team of Army Rangers to journey into the Stream to shut it down.
SEASON III: Ocean of Souls
Conflict: An Army of Skins
Journey: The Rise of Michael
Dilemma: One More Seal and Game Over, Man!
Issue faced: How Do I Kill The Evil Sonbitch
Irony: Pieces of God
Hero’s challenging situation: The Battle for the City of Seals
Threat to hero: Michael’s Faith
Thomas searches for Michael as a revolution builds against Cronus where Michael hesitantly accepts his role as leader. Cronus steps up crushing dissidence and removing the final sacred seals. War is on the horizon. Will the revolution succeed and will Cronus remove the final seals? Michael falls onto the seals and isn’t immediately disintegrated like others. He accepts his destiny that he has been chosen. Michael consolidates his armies along with Harry and his men who have come to Michael’s aid to destroy Cronus and the Stream.
SEASON IV: Son of Cronus
Conflict: Just When You Thought It Was Over…
Journey: Evil Never Dies
Dilemma: Politics, the Perfect Vehicle…
Issue faced: Evil Rises
Irony: Why Does Politics Attract Demons?
Hero’s challenging situation: Michael is Called to Duty One Last Time
Threat to hero: Michael’s Dejavu
Cronus’ concubine returns to Earth carrying his child…the son of Cronus. Michael returns home, having destroyed the Stream. Babies are born again. The epidemic averted.
The birth of Cronus’ son has brought the evil back to Earth. What will the evil that was brought back to Earth do? The son of Cronus is elected as VP of the United States.
SEASON V: The Battle for Mankind’s Souls
Conflict: A World Seduced By Evil
Journey: Some Will Not Survive
Dilemma: The Dead Rise for the Occasion
Issue faced: The Son of Cronus
Irony: We’re Going to Need Bigger Skins
The son of Cronus gains power in the political world as a small group of rebels grows having perceived his evil intentions. Michael finds himself and family drawn into a new war against evil that he thought had been destroyed. The son of Cronus and his armies against the rebel force being led by Michael. Can the son of Cronus gain power over the world and will the sacred seals now be successfully removed by the son of Cronus? Newly designed “Military” skins guard the sacred seals on a foreign planet, forever guarding against the evil returning.
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Madeleine Vessel’s Episode Titles
Doing this assignment, I learned how to use title formats. Very helpful. I now have new titles for my Season 1 episodes and new titles for my five seasons. They tell a story. Amazing!
As always, this is a work in progress. Fun, fun, fun.
Here are my episode titles:
Episode 1: Frantic
Episode 2: Frightened to Death
Episode 3: Kidnapped
Episode 4: Rescued
Episode 5: Bodyguard or Villain
Episode 6: Outsmarted
Episode 7: All is Lost
Episode 8: Kill or Be Killed
Here are my new season titles:
Season 1 Title: The Hoard
Season 2: The Forgery
Season 3: The Restoration
Season 4 Title: The Negotiation
Season 5: The Trap
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Eric Humble’s Episode Titles
What I learned doing this assignment is: This was a really interesting lesson in that I was able to reexamine my episodes and seasons for the essence and the hooks and it really gave me some interesting breakthroughs as I tried to encapsulate them in succinct titles. I’m sure these will evolve as I go forward, but I like the way they tell the story even just in the short phrases themselves when sequenced out. I’ll be doing this exercise with my second concept when I get that one up to this step, and I’m excited to get another opportunity to try this technique out.
EPISODE TITLES
Episode 1: One Drop of Blood
Episode 2: Find the Girl
Episode 3: You Owe Us, We Own You
Episode 4: All It’ll Cost You
Episode 5: The Intimidation Game
Episode 6: Ghosting
Episode 7: Initiation
Episode 8: Old Bones
Episode 9: No One Lives Forever
Episode 10: Radiation Treatment
SEASON TITLES
Season 1: Hyperplasia
Season 2: Dysplasia
Season 3: Metastasis
Season 4: Malignant
Season 5: Invasive
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George Petersen – EPISODE TITLES
What I learned from doing this assignment is that there is always a better title, pretty much.
TITLE:
THE ART OF SECRECY
EPISODES:
Episode 1: THE RED BALLOT
Episode 2: A CITY IN CHAOS
Episode 3: THE GANGS OF BALTIMORE
Episode 4: BRING ME LINCOLN’S BEATING HEART
Episode 5: WHERE’S MISS DIXIE?
Episode 6: THIS TRAIN IS NOT COMING BACK
Episode 7: UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS
Episode 8: WILL THEY ATTACK THE CAPITAL?
SEASONS:
SEASON 1 – MOBTOWN
SEASON 2 -THE WAR COMES
SEASON 3 – END OF DREAMS
SEASON 4 – RISING FROM THE ASHES
SEASON 5 – HOME AT LAST
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Eloise Healey’s Titles
What I learned from doing this assignment is that episode titles can tell the story of a whole season in a glance – a reason to include them, even though I hate coming up with titles!
NO MAN’S LAND is a limited series, so only 1 season of titles are here:
EP 1 – No More Men
EP 2 – Banished
EP 3 – What is (Wo)man?
EP 4 – Mutiny
EP 5 – Turncoat
EP 6 – Never Again
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