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Day 4 Assignment
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Emmanuel Sullivan’s Five Episode List Rough Draft
What I learned doing this assignment is it provides a more detailed look at each episode so that you can quickly start an outline. Like lesson 3, I was able to think of more plots and conflicts.
Episode 1: A politician’s wife is having an affair with a campaign staffer.
· Mark is caught off guard by the revelation of a sex tape.
· Andrew’s son’s friend filmed the sex tape.
· The friend is now blackmailing the politician.
· Mark needs the politician to win so he can get back into the political game.
Episode 2: The foundation is under pressure to fund the new facility.
· Andrew goes behind the foundation’s board to authorize risky funding.
· The foundation comes up short paying bills, Andrew uses a vice to shore up finances.
· The foundation’s CEO quits amidst senior mismanagement.
Episode 3: The foundation is placed under IRS audit.
· The CFO hides the audit information, but it is discovered by the press.
· Mark uses his power and influence to squash the audit.
· Andrew asks the development team to increase funding and the method surprises him.
Episode 4: The foundation’s funding sources are questionable.
· Nearly all of the foundation’s senior management pitch in to find funding, most of it is sketchy.
· The press digs deeper after finding faults in the annual financial statements.
· The FBI starts an investigation into the foundation’s business partners and funding sources.
Episode 5: The entire foundation’s board resigns.
· Andrew and Mark face pressure from the board to come clean about the foundation’s finances.
· The pair’s offspring continue to fight for the CEO position that causes further division.
· Mark’s second family is demanding more of his time.
Episode 6: The foundation’s new facility is taking shape but it’s a slow process.
· Mark suggests hiring more construction crewmembers.
· Andrew hires a team that is not authorized to work.
· The new construction crew completes incorrect and hazardous work.
· The new crew is fired, the damage is corrected, but US immigration is now involved.
Episode 7: The former first lady’s squabble over the new facility design that further delays opening.
· Sarah Cason is having an affair with her husband’s former VP.
· Molly Brice discovers the affair and uses the revelation to blackmail Sarah.
· Sarah fires back making a public announcement that she has an open marriage.
Episode 8: The foundation’s management, the former president’s offspring, assert more dangerous control.
· Senior management, a group of 5 siblings from both families, begin to hire friends and associates with no experience.
· The foundation is sued for discrimination, sexual harassment, financial misconduct and wrongful termination.
Episode 9: Mark loses interest in the foundation as campaign season picks up.
· Mark’s campaign is picking up steam, but he is losing key staff members.
· The campaign is accused of violating federal campaign finance laws.
· Mark’s pick for a running mate pleads guilty to wire fraud and now he must scramble to find another.
Episode 10: Andrew is approached by an organization interested in secession motives.
· An alternate nationalist movement is shaping up and has targeted Andrew to come on board.
· The group is pro America and clashes with Mark’s globalist agenda as set forth within his ideology of the foundation’s mission.
Episode 11: The new foundation grand opening celebration turns sour when the secret service loses control of managing Mark’s second family.
· Both families celebrate a festive opening of the foundation’s new facility.
· During the festive occasion, Mark’s secret family shows up unexpectedly.
· Andrew accuses his family of being RINOs.
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Daniel Melin’s Episode List Rough Draft
What I learned doing this assignment is how brutal it can be to grind it out. My feedback session brought up a lot of great suggestions, but implementing them has substantially changed the direction of my show and created a lot of inconsistencies that I will have to iron out as I go. This was the most grueling lesson to do, mostly because of that. Most lessons I was able to keep the perfectionist mindset at bay, but there were large segments of time where I just wanted to throw everything out. The best thing I can say about this rough draft is that it’s done.
Episode 1: A werewolf attacks someone in Levi’s hometown of Athens, Minnesota.
· Levi goes to Clarence’s Cigar Shop to sit and read a new book he bought.
· He goes outside to go to his car.
· He hears a struggle.
· He goes to grab Miguel, who shoots a wild dog savaging a fellow customer.
· When they go over to the dog’s body, they find that it is actually a teenage boy.
Episode 2: Levi meets a newcomer at Clarence’s who has just moved into Eddie Halvorson’s old house.
· Levi reads about the boy’s identity in the newspaper.
· Levi goes to Clarence’s and meets Mark
· Mark invites Levi to his house.
· Levi learns that Mark’s new house is where Eddie Halvorson used to live.
Episode 3: Mark shows Levi how to sneak into Everlasting Summer without Lizzie knowing.
· Mark tells Levi that he is a magician too and agrees to teach Levi on condition that he not use his library without permission.
· Mark tells Levi about Everlasting Summer, a magical kingdom that houses great danger.
· Mark shows Levi how to create a doorway into Everlasting Summer without Lizzie, Everlasting Summer’s Queen, knowing.
· Mark goes into Everlasting Summer.
Episode 4: Levi learns about the deer that Lizzie has been hunting and how it has escaped the forest.
· Inside Everlasting Summer, Levi blends in with the crowd of people dancing in the hall of Everlasting Summer.
· He sees Lizzie release a pack of wolves and joins the hunting party that follows them.
· He learns that Lizzie is hunting a deer.
Episode 5: Levi breaks into Mark’s library.
· Levi argues with Mark about using the library.
· Levi uses the same spell Mark taught him to sneak into Mark’s library.
· He skims the books and eventually finds one about the court of Oberon and Titania, which be begins to read.
Episode 6: Levi learns that Lizzie and her husband took over Oberon and Titania’s fairy court years ago.
· Levi reads the book and learns about a magician named Louis who, along with his wife, Elizabeth became powerful enough to take over the fairy court of Oberon and Titania, and then moved the court to America.
· Levi takes the book and leaves Mark’s library.
Episode 7: Levi learns that he actually discovered Everlasting Summer when he was thirteen and has been going there since.
· Levi starts interrogating one of the servants at Everlasting Summer about where Lizzie keeps her wolves.
· The servant tells Levi that he ought to know. He has been coming there for years.
· When Levi says he doesn’t understand, the servant says that Levi first came to Everlasting Summer when he was thirteen.
Episode 8: Levi interrogates Robby and finds out that he has been working for Lizzie.
· Levi returns to Mark’s house to find that he is missing and finds signs of wolves.
· Levi hunts down Mark’s fairy familiar, Robby, and asks him what happened.
· Robby tells Levi that Mark is an alias, and that Mark is actually Louis, Lizzie’s unfaithful husband.
· Robby tells Levi that he has been working for Lizzie, and he has delivered Mark back to her.
Episode 9: Levi uncovers the tragic origins of Lizzie’s quest for revenge.
· Robby continues his story telling how Lizzie became pregnant with her and Louis’s child.
· Lizzie is in their house alone, when she goes into labor.
· Louis is out, and Lizzie has to try and make it to the doctor herself, but soon gives birth in a winter storm, and her child dies of exposure.
· Robby tells Mark that one of Louis’s mistresses was Levi’s great-great-great grandmother, and that he is actually a descendant of Louis.
Episode 11: Lizzie lures Miguel’s son Nick away to her pack so she can finally hunt down Mark.
· Lizzie goes to the house of Levi’s boss, Miguel, and lures Miguel’s son, Nick to join her pack of wolves.
· An enraged Miguel confronts Levi, who tells him what has really happened.
· With Miguel’s help, Levi finds Oberon’s staff buried in the basement of Louis’s house.
Episode 12: Levi confronts Lizzie and ends her enchantment. Someone new in town buys the Halvorson house.
· Levi uses Oberon’s staff to turn Lizzie’s wolves back into young boys.
· He realizes that he can’t force Lizzie to do the right thing, but hands over the staff to her and begs her to let Louis go.
· Lizzie does so and Everlasting Summer crumbles.
· A few months later, a strange man buys the Halvorson house.
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Donna Stockwell’s Episode Ideas
What I learned doing this assignment is outlining each episode is really starting to bring the show alive, and some scenes are quite vivid in my mind.
THE CHEAT SHEET
1. Beginning……………………………………………………….Season End/Cliffhanger
Question A: What is the Beginning of the season and the End of the season? Struggling security camera salesman comes home to demanding wife who complains he is late for dinner and daughter brought home a guest.
Question B: What possible cliffhanger could be in that last scene of the season, thus demanding that we watch the next season? Patrice leaves note that she left, Ben cries on stairs with daughter comforting him, then eyes of how he will feel power in his life.
2. Season 1 Mystery Set up…………………..…………………Season 1 Mystery Solved
Question A: What is the mystery? How will Ben cope with his wife’s increasingly demanding attitude?
Question B: How could the mystery be set up? What parts will be left out that must be solved?
Question C: What it the ultimate solution that the characters must work to discover?
3. Journey begins……………………………………………………….Journey peaks, but continues.
Question A: Where does the Lead Character journey begin and end for this season?
Lead characters are in a traditional family with seemingly average every day squabbles, but don’t act in a positive way to correct attitudes and actions for a better life and ultimately leads to each person fending for themselves with no family trust or loyalty.
Question B: Think about where this character goes in future seasons. That might give you an idea also.4. ……Layer….…Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer……Layer
Question A: What layers have you already discovered in your BW Framework?
How will Patrice show Celeste how to treat her boyfriend?
How will Ben cope with Patrice’s constant beratement and avoidance?
How will Luc accept Patrice’s encouragement and constant attention?
How will Ben show his powerful manhood?
How will Ben cover his rapes and murders?
How will Celeste react to her mother’s flirting with her boyfriend?
How will Jasper explain his extra hours at the cemetery?
How will Jasper cover for his brother’s constant stream of dead women?
Question B: Are there any other layers that you could think of?
5. Make a list of the Major Story Lines.
Question A: What main characters have story lines that affect everyone else? Ben, Patrice, Jasper, Celeste
Question B: What are the most important story lines of this show?
Patrice unhappy in marriage and has affair with daughter’s boyfriend which leads to divorce.
Ben controlling and pushes Patrice away while he controls other women.
Jasper is Ben’s conscious and trusted right hand man, until he loses his mother.
Celeste learns to distrust her upstanding and righteous mother, and trusts her criminal father.It is important to know that you don’t need all of these answered perfectly. If you have 60% of the questions answered, you can create an amazing show.
Episode 1: Introduce the normal life of this extended family – digging up grave to hold mother, next day introduce traditional family, and reference to Jasper’s night. Conflict between Patrice and Ben about absence and house jobs not done.
Episode 2: Patrice leaves for girl’s get together, the loneliness angers Ben, who picks up hitchhiker on way home and starts his vision to control women. Jasper still holds mother every night.
Episode 3: Controlling women is out of control.. uses Ben to dig graves. Jasper refuses to bury Ben’s mistake until he holds mother. Celeste starts to date Luc and brings him home to meet the family
Episode 4: Patrice notices makeup missing, accuses Jasper, Ben allows mixup, and continues even further. Patrice asks Luc to start doing jobs around the house, and spending more time with him.
Episode 5: Patrice gets friendly with Luc, and tries to show Celeste how to take control of the relationship.
Episode 6: Celeste finds Patrice with Luc, and creates more distance between the two women and closer relationship between Celeste and her father. Will Celeste discover her father’s secret?
Episode 7: Grave-robbers steal mother. Jasper out of control, and jeopardizes Ben’s extracurricular affairs. Will Jasper disclose Ben’s secret?
Episode 8: Mother is found, and Ben resumes his extracurricular controlling life. Luc and Patrice take a weekend together.
Episode 9: Patrice finds Ben has been stealing her makeup and follows him.
Episode 10: Patrice and Luc plan their future. Ben notices Luc is not completing projects around the house.
Episode 11: Ben and Jasper are close to getting caught burying a body when a family comes to move their relatives grave to a closer cemetery.
Episode 12: Patrice finally finds out Ben’s affairs, but doesn’t notice there is more to his secret life.
Episode 13: Patrice elopes with Luc. Everyone else is left behind. -
Renee Brown’s Episode List Rough Draft
What I learned from this assignment is to keep it messy right now. And boy o boy, is it messy.
Renee Brown’s. Ancient Earth
Episode 1: The strange planet arrives
Anauk’s brother accidently switches off the cloak
The newly arrived planet the Skyfliers have been cloaking is revealed
Dauntus arrives and beats Anauk / breaks wing
Dauntus decides chaos is perfect to try for world domination.
Anauk can’t get to Tallas (in underground isolation)
Anauk gets to Saltar- downloads- says she has to get to Tallas
Saltar goes to Tallas.
They do some martial arts – lots of sexual tensions
Deepers and Longheads are now ready for Skyflier coup.
Tallas gets to Steelman. Just as Steelman understands….
Dauntus shuts down all viewing devices on earth
Cliffhanger: Dauntus comes on all and declares he rules earth.
Episode 2: The Skyfliers try to take over the world
In combination with the planet showing up, Dauntus declaration causes worldwide chaos.
Humanity is a sitting duck.
Anauk flips the communication switch back and humanity can mobilize again.
Steelman takes action
Propaganda machine goes to work
Coordinated worldwide PSA’s
Planet was an elaborate hoax
Try to sell: Man on the screen was the hacker in costume playing star trek
Plants an actor in costume being taken into custody.
Steelman flies to Skyflier city to manage Dauntus.
Dauntus shows Steelman the Planet- withholds who is on it.
Message come in about DSOM Alien UN emergency meeting.
Episode 3: The propaganda machine meets Suzanne
Suzanne argues with her colleges on campus.
She and Louie show footage from their research telescope – impossible to hack
They laugh her out of the room
Suzanne goes to big networks with her footage.
They try to debunk her. Each according to their political leanings.
Steelman is watching
Tallas summons Steelman
Steelman travels into underground world (first good look at world) to meet Tallas – asks where is Spector
Tallas and Anauk take Steelman to DSOM base – the alien UN is gathering
All ships wait at Skyflier cloak portal to be granted access to DSOM
Tense moment. Dauntus concedes grudgingly
Episode 4: Black Market mission to the new planet
Tallas disguises Steelman as a Longhead
Travel to DSOM – show cloaked ships from under earth.
Meet with ships coming out of the water – The Deepers.
They attend the Alien UN meeting.
Heated. Skyfliers are threatened with Banishment from UN
Dauntus concedes but hints to something bigger he has in play
UN demands Skyfliers uncloak communications from Planet to UN
First visuals come on screen. It is a Longhead.
Tallas stands forth.
Episode 5: The One is chosen
Emotional ancestorial reunion.
Tallas arranges to fly to the planet
Steelman spots Spector (she is Longhead). Pulls her into a hall.
Reveal: Spector is Steelman’s alien lover.
Passion
Reveal: Spector is pregnant with Steelman’s child.
She has been banished to the DSOM base to have the child and leave it there.
On the planet, Tallas meets with high counsel to download the state of things
Tallas must tell them about the prophecy – that it is fabricated, and he is still faking it. Exposition.
Agreement that new planet Longheads will stay on new planet until they can figure out how to work the prophecy
Tallas declares this is the time of the One… and therefore must pick someone to be it.
Episode 6: Two murdered mothers
In cloaked city, Dauntus makes a cut at Anauk: You’re just like your mother.
Anauk bristles
Dauntus reveals he killed Anauk’s mother.
Dauntus starts at him, but his broken wing…
Anauk takes a ship and leaves…. teased by other Skyflier about his wing
Flies ship into deep ocean trench world (first good look at world)
Hangs out with Saltar. Sexy. She is trying to get open access to DSOM
He shares about his mother and Dauntus.
She plays innocent. Shares about her mother’s murder.
They watch feedback of humanity chaos happening up top.
Says she can fix his wing with her Biotech
Episode 7: Academic no more
Suzanne gets fiery brick through the window with death threat.
Louie and her face the mob. Reporters present
Kidnapped by a group of “Scrappers”
Scrappers turn out to be black ops.
Suzanne and Louis are disappeared into Steelman’s world.
Steelman educates Suzanne and Louis about the 3 species (exposition)
They have trouble believing it’s real.
Steelman takes them underground to meet Tallas.
Suzanne recognizes him from her childhood visions.
She’s like: You’re real.
He’s like: Are you ready to begin?
Episode 8: Blowing up the moon base
High level meeting Steelman learns elite humans plan to blow up base
They detected unannounced trip without humans to UN – Steelman was there
Fear alien unification
Steelman rallies leaders to show up in war room when the finger is on the button
Tallas, Saltar and Dauntus talk them down – tells them humanity does not have the tech to pull it off
Humans installed dead man’s switch in base for just such an occasion
Makes humans believe they would not kill the head of the snake, but start a war they can not win.
Crisis averted. Steelman fears for Spector.
Episode 9: The Steelman legacy and the lost beauty
Steelman talking with Suzanne about history
She’s making small talk – pries into Romanic past
He dodges her questions
Flashback to 1990’s
Steelman’s dad dealing with some coverup
Setting some trap
Young Steelman and wife show up
Dad and Steelman get into some Top secret conversation
Wife wanders around killing time,
Steps into trap set for other – gets killed
Explains tenuous relationship with Dad – were strictly business.
Episode 10: Little orphan Ephyra
Saltar history. Opens on her in her sea farm with happy hatchlings.
Leader of Reptilisander summons her to council
Forces Saltar to take over her Mom’s leadership
Saltar resists
Council starts killing her hatchlings by sea banishment.
Youngest one sent out to sea – can’t survive by herself…
Saltar takes up leadership to save the rest.
Sea farm dies
Little hatchling makes its way into Tallas’ cave
Tallas leaves it for dead then comes back, picks it up.
Ends up nursing it back to health. Names her Ephyra.
Now Tallas has a secret he can hold over Saltar when the time is right.
Episode 11: Dad’s here, and he brought company
Saltar gives Steelman and Suzanne a relic – the smoking gun to exonerate Deepers
The relic is one-half skull with a chunk of ancient tech lodged in it.
The skull was intentionally cut apart ages ago.
Saltar: If Steelman and Suzanne can find the other half of the Skull, they should find the other side of the tech
The tech is the equivalent of the black box of the Starfinder.
Tallas Delivers Ephyra to the oldest Deeper Caves – Under Antarctica.
Hands her over to high priest mothers to train her mind in the Longhead traditions.
Steelman finds out his father lead the plan to destroy the moon base
He confronts his father at the Elite Human HQ.
But his father has brought company — The leader of the Greys.
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What I learned from this assignment is that this is a very rough draft…
I’d also like to do 5 seasons of 7 episodes each.
Green Lake
Season 1: Welcome Back
Episode 1 It’s Not Pretty
Jess arrives in town to help Sheriff Moore solve a murder and disappearance case similar in MO to that of her brother’s five years earlier.
Episode 2 Important Reconnections
Jess reconnects with the town and Sarah.
Episode 3 The Antisocial Network
Jess’ secret hacking skills uncover a trafficking network that may or may not be connected to the current case and the one five years ago.
Episode 4 In The Dark
Jess works to find out who is behind the trafficking network.
Episode 5 Now I Know Why
Jess uncovers the Sheriff’s and Captain Anderson’s history.
Episode 6 Green versus Black Gold
Sarah clashes with the local oil producers who are pushing back on her green energy initiatives.
Episode 7 A New Chapter
After weeks of tension, Jess and Sarah spend the night together.
Season 2: Case Almost Solved but Will Never be Closed
Episode 1 Frenemies
Jess, now fully re-established in town, becomes over-confident, and makes new enemies.
Episode 2 Predictable?
Jess pursues both cases and delves deeper into the trafficking network with some surprising results.
Episode 3 Busted
Jess is heartbroken again as Sarah splits up with her after failing to forgive herself and Jess over her parents death.
Episode 4 That Day
The day that Sarah’s parent’s died.
Episode 5 Workaholic
Jess throws herself into work and uncovers Sheriff Moore and Captain Anderson’s involvement in the trafficking network.
Episode 6 The On Off Switch
Sarah and Jess clash as Sarah ramps up her green ambitions.
Episode 7 I’m Sticking Around for Now
Jess’ love hate relationship with the town becomes even more complicated.
Season 3: Unmasked – Finally!
Episode 1 Two Down Four to Go
Jess solves the recent double murders, but Luke Smith and Adam Pearson are still missing.
Episode 2 The Real Unknown
Jess seeks the Twins help during a séance.
Episode 3 The Twins and The Whirlpool
The Twins and their beloved Charles.
Episode 4 Why Shouldn’t I?
Sarah ramps up her Senate ambitions.
Episode 5 There’s a Joke In There Somewhere
The Investment Banker and the Oil Producer.
Episode 6 I know
Jess suspects that Adam and Luke are still alive.
Episode 7 Memories
Jess’ parents return to Green Lake for a vacation.
Season 4: A Homecoming to Remember
Episode 1 Three Down Three to Go
Jess finds Luke alive, but her brother, Adam, is still missing.
Episode 2 Uncomfortable Truths
Jess revisits the day that Adam went missing and his two friends murdered.
Episode 3 Four Down Two to Go
Jess solves Charles’ (Peggy’s grandson’s and Adam’s friend’s) murder from five years ago.
Episode 4 The Minnow in An Even Bigger Lake
Jess takes down Captain Anderson and the Trafficking Network.
Episode 5 The Confession
Sarah confesses: it’s all my fault!
Episode 6 A New Beginning
Jess is on a high after being elected to Sheriff after Linda Moore decides to retire.
Episode 7 The Only Option
Jess kills the blackmailer.
Season 5: I Don’t Remember I Can’t Remember
Episode 1 That Was Then This Is Now
Jess takes a vacation.
Episode 2 It’s A Win Win
Sarah runs for Senate and wins.
Episode 3 Closure
Adam turns up. The final murder is solved.
Episode 4 Ambiguous
All is not as it seems.
Episode 5 Goodbye
Sarah goes to Washington DC.
Episode 6 On My Own Terms
Jess is alone.
Episode 7 We Won
Jess and Sarah reunite.
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Sherri D. Coffee Module 2 Lesson 4 Episode Rough Draft
Episode 1: Grace and Sam find love late in life but when he slips into a coma his estranged children appear and oust Grace from his life.
-Grace and Sam out to dinner with friends discuss family and future.
-Sam prepares a box of documents and hands to the housekeeper to provide to Grace if something happens to him.
-At a MD appointment, Sam slips into a coma and is taken to the hospital with Grace by his side.
-Sam’s estranged son arrives the next day to evaluate the situation.
-While Grace is at a business meeting, Carlton works with an attorney and produces documents to evict her from their apartment.
-Grace counters but ultimately is forced out and moves to another home.
Episode 2: Grace finds another home and launches an investigation.
-Grace launches an investigation into Sam’s estranged son and his sisters.
-Carlton has placed 2 guards at the hospital door and taken possession of Sam’s cell phone.
-Carlton is being blackmailed by his sisters to remove Grace from the will.
-Sam is semi lucid and is told by Carlton that Grace has left him.
-Grace reviews any legal avenue to let her see Sam.
-Grace finds out key information about Sam’s children that places her in danger.
Episode 3: Carlton has the will change and orders Grace to be killed.
-Carlton discovers through his hired detective that Grace has discovered some information that may be incriminating.
-Grace continues to work with her attorney on the investigation.
-Carlton gets Sam to sign papers removing Grace from the will and placing his sisters as beneficiaries.
-Once Carlton secures the papers, he orders the investigator to take care of her.
-Grace narrowly escapes being killed.
-The psychic next door saves Grace and transports her to her past life.
Episode 4: Past life journey for Grace to heal her facilitated by the psychic next door.
-Grace lands in 1884 Brooklyn at the home of a dying politician who is married to her mother. (the psychic)
-The politician dies and his son inherits the money and auctions off the home contents.
-Grace and her mother are left with very meager provisions and move to a flat in NYC.
-Grace is an actress and secures a role in the Augustin Daly Theatre ensemble.
Episode 5: Grace is an actress in 1884 and faces challenging society rules and customs.
-Grace works with theatre group under Augustin Daly who has long rehearsals and a strict set of rules to prepare for opening night.
-Grace’s mother is very watchful of her daughter in the theatre world.
-Grace is the new actor in the ensemble and is confronted with jealousy.
-Opening night, Grace forgets her lines but is saved by a stage man.
-When the curtain falls after the first act, the crowd calls her back.
-Sam and his father Carlton are sitting in the box above the stage.
-Sam and Carlton make their way backstage to meet Grace but are discouraged from any interaction by her mother.
-Grace recognizes Sam.
Episode 6: Grace and Sam courtship.
-Sam is the oldest son of the wealthiest but most hated man in New York.
-Grace is a rising star in the theatre with review to show.
-Sam has a fondness for actresses and quite a past history of broken engagements.
-Grace’s mother is wise to men like Sam and implements dating rules to protect her daughter.
-Sam who is accustomed to getting everything he wants, tries hard to win both their approval.
-Grace’s mother reluctantly agrees to allow Sam to court her daughter and he proposes without ever getting his family approval.
Episode 7: Grace and Sam come from different worlds that want to keep them apart.
-Grace shares her engagement with all her fellow actors and they laugh.
-Augustin Daly theatre is scheduled to appear in London, Paris, and Berlin for the 1886 season.
-Grace’s mother continues to doubt Sam’s sincerity since the families have never met.
-Sam pleads with his father and mother to let him marry Grace.
-Sam’s mother will not allow her son to marry an actress and damage prospects for her other children.
-Carlton, Sam’s father employs his wealth to link Grace with other suitors; report their engagement is a sham; and dispel any rumors of the relationship.
-Grace is aboard the ship to Europe accompanied by her mother and waits desperately Sam who never shows up.
Episode 8: Sam desperately wants to be with Grace but cannot overcome his family’s objection.
-Grace and Mother arrive in London a week prior to the Theatre engagement.
-All of London is anticipating the first American Theatre company’s appearance on stage.
-Sam has cabled Grace at her hotel.
-Grace’s mother is careful to provide her daughter the response that must be necessary to prevent any stain on her reputation.
-The Theatre group performance is attended by the Prince of Wales who is smitten by Grace.
-The Prince of Wales invites her to dine with him and sends her flowers.
-The news of the Prince of Wales invitation and interest reaches the American papers.
-Sam, seeing the headlines, rushes to tell his mother and father that he is sailing to London to marry Grace.
-Sam boards a ship and Grace takes to the stage.
I learned to use the format to outline each episode using the start, middle and cliffhanger questions.
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NORENE SMILEY – MOD 2 – LESSON 4 – EPISODE LIST ROUGH DRAFT
What I learned doing this assignment: I find I just can’t whip through this, even though it is a rough draft. Find I have to stew over possibilities. This certainly helps with thinking how the story moves, pointing out spots where I need more interest, being open to new directions and plot points.
EPISODE CHEAT SHEET for FIRST SEASON
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Beginning: Scrap and her guardian Bardo in the Keep, a hidden refuge collecting lost and found items and the last remaining artifacts of the natural world
Ending: Scrap and Toodie resisting capture by Agrippa Chafe and her robotic henchmen
Cliffhanger in last scene of season: The street opens up and hands snatch the children into the underbelly of the city, Turbine.
2.
Mystery: why is Scrap important and why is everyone after her?
Mystery Set Up: attack on the Keep by machines
What still needs to be Solved: what does Agrippa need Scrap for?
Ultimate solution needing to be discovered: why does disruption and chaos follow Scrap?
3. Journey Begins: Scrap’s journey begins in the Keep
Journey Ends: snatched into the subterranean Turbine
Where does character go in following seasons: Turbine, the Institute, Central Control, the Resistance camp
4.
Layers from BW Framework:
Bardo hiding the secret of the prophesy from Scrap, sworn to contain her power
Bardo gave Scrap a mechanical heart to save her
Agrippa planning machine domination
Agrippa poses as motherly nurturer but actually using children to fuel machines
Nancy is Agrippa’s son
Toodie is spy for Agrippa
Fidget is more than a pet
Scrap’s destiny is tied to an ancient prophesy
Bardo and Fidget are shape-shifters
Agrippa once an Engine grub, adopted and raised by the Regulator
Scrap needs to trust other to succeedOther possible layers?
Is Scrap the salvation of the natural world?
Scraps need for safety and love
the seduction of holding power
why are humans in such a trance-like state? How did this happen?5.
Main Character Major Story Lines that affect others in order of importance:
Scrap is destined to fulfill prophesy as the embodiment of Chaos
Bardo and the guardians assignment to contain the prophesy at all costs
Agrippa’s plot to overthrow the Regulator and establish machine supremacy
The Regulator’s ambition to be ruler of other cities on the planetEPISODE EVENTS:
EPISODE 1: The Keep
• Scrap and Bardo tending the lively collection in the Keep with the help of midges, scurries
• Signs that the wards and charms protecting the Keep are failing
Scrap forgetting to reenforce charms
Scrap secretly inventing Fidget (part cockroach/part machine)• Machines attack the Keep, Scrap and Fidget blown into the Outside
EPISODE 2: Outside – the City of Tranquil
• Scrap and Fidget navigate this pristine alien world, trying to find their way back to the Keep
machines do all the work to a rigid schedule
feckless humans in Pleasure Domes• small mishaps plague Scrap as she traverses the city
street waif, Toodie, tries to steal Fidget from Scrap
Toodie takes Scrap to shelter with blind elder Sorry, while night crawlers patrol the streetsEPISODE 3: Disorderly Conduct
• Scrap temporarily joins the Shades, a group of shadowy vagrants using her agility to survive
Scrap bringing her new allies bad luck and she is ejected their shelter
alerted by disruptions in the normally smooth-running city, machine patrol invades the shelter and hauls the vagrants away• Scrap and Toodie evade capture, chased through the streets by machines
• Scrap and Toodie saved by the motherly Agrippa Chafe
EPISODE 4: The Institute of Child Protection and Mother
• Scrap enticed by the comfort and easy living offered to children in the Institute
the children in the Institute; the bully Nancy
Toodie distrusts ‘Mother’ and wants to leave
children mysteriously disappearing
Toodie gone in the morningEPISODE 5: The Mechanized City
• Agrippa treating Scrap more favourably than the others.
Nancy’s jealousy and mistreatment of Scrap; Scrap’s retaliation scares him off
Scrap learns more about the workings of the machines
Scrap meets the Regulator and is forced to submit to a number of tests
does Scrap see Bardo on the street or is that just wishful thinking?• Fidget persuades Scrap to break out of the Institute
EPISODE 6: The Pleasure Dome
• Scrap accidentally rides into a Pleasure Dome on a supply trolley loaded with the mesmerizing drug, Juice
• Scrap is treated like a toy by humans who live in a constant state of delirious pleasure
• Scrap is lost in a daze in the Dome where nature, animals and plants are illusions
Scrap realizes, with Fidget’s urging, that she does not belong here.
Scrap is contacted by Bardo to join the resistance, planning to depose the rule by machinesEPISODE 7: One Disaster After Another
• Scrap, a runner for the resistance, still feels like an outsider; they are uneasy around her and she does not know who to trust
• bad luck escalates, causing great disruption in the city and putting machines on high alert
• Scrap’s presence puts the resistance movement in danger
• Toodie reappears to scout for the resistance
EPISODE 8: On the Run
• Scrap is now the #1 target for Agrippa and her machines
• She is a liability and infighting in the resistance ranks make her position there uncertain
• Scrap not only has to avoid the machines and enemies in the resistance ranks, she increasingly has to keep the poor that is seething within her under wraps
Scrap tries to save Toodie from gang of bullies led by Nancy
They are cornered in a dead end street where Agrippa and her henchmen are waiting• Just when all is lost, the street opens up and hands snatch the children into the underbelly of the city, Turbine.
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Carrington Manor, Molly McNeal
What I learned during this assignment is that I am not as inspired with this process. It feels to me like doing the books for a business, versus being creative in the flow. BUT WOW! It really helps me to organize my thoughts and look at the overall picture. What a great way to do it, even if I am lazy in my mind about it.
Module 2 Lesson 4
THE CHEAT SHEET
1. Beginning……………………………………………………………………….Season End/Cliffhanger
Question A: What is the Beginning of the season and the End of the season?
Beginning of the first Season is Gwenn starting to work at Carrington Manor and ends with her rescuing her patient from the FBI, or so it looks.
Question B: What possible cliffhanger could be in that last scene of the season, thus demanding that we watch the next season? Did Gwenn really save this patient and what happened to him?
2. Season 1 Mystery Set up…………………………………..………………Season 1 Mystery Solved
Question A: What is the mystery? Will Gwenn get her mom to sign over the POA? Will Gwenn hook up with Roger? How much of the security cameras catch what’s really going on, and will Gwenn be able to get a hold of the evidence?
Question B: How could the mystery be set up? Gwenns mom’s dementia always leaves people confused, Roger will be a mystery that everyone talks about but no one has met his wife, and Abigail will constantly be testing Gwenn about what she is REALLY doing while working with patients.
What parts will be left out that must be solved? Rogers wife, The key and the security cameras who has access to them did Gwenn hide the evidence?
Question C: What it the ultimate solution that the characters must work to discover? The ultimate solution that the characters will discover how much people need them even though what they are doing is fraudulent.
3. Journey begins……………………………………………………….Journey peaks, but continues.
Question A: Where does the Lead Character journey begin and end for this season? Begins with her dedication to her mother and ends with disappointment there so all efforts are dedicated to saving her patients instead.
Question B: Think about where this character goes in future seasons. That might give you an idea also.
4. ……Layer….…Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer……Layer
Question A: What layers have you already discovered in your BW Framework? Roger and his wife, Abigail and her father in jail, Terry with her unsure of sexuality, Karly looking for the key, finding the key and what it goes to, everyone feeling a bit desperate and out of control in their lives trying to control just one thing, the patients, that can never be controlled. And Earl fighting cancer, will he beat it with his voodu ways?
Question B: Are there any other layers that you could think of? The security cameras black and white bring both humor and mystery.
5. Make a list of the Major Story Lines.
Question A: What main characters have story lines that affect everyone else?
Roger and Gwenn romance, Abigail and Terry hate each other, Terry loves Gwenn but doesn’t know she is gay, Sally is a sex addict who is disgusted with Gwenn falling for the married DrEarl, fighting cancer, begins to decline at the end and his work is questioned.
Question B: What are the most important story lines of this show? Gwenn and Terry, Gwenn and Roger building for season 2, and Gwenn and her mother miscommunicating building for season 4.
It is important to know that you don’t need all of these answered perfectly. If you have 60% of the questions answered, you can create an amazing show.
OUTLINING PROCESS
As you are doing this process, allow yourself to fill in the things that come to you, and don’t stress about the rest. Once you have some answers filled in, many of the others will just show up.
1. Use all the above questions to mine the BW Framework for possible episode ideas. List out your answers.
2. From that list, brainstorm possible ideas for episodes (without fleshing them out).
3. Sequence the episode ideas into 8 to 13 episodes. You know where the season begins and where it ends, so those will be your Episode 1 and Episode 8. Then look to see what episodes might emerge in between 1 and 8.
Episode 1: (One sentence explanation) First day orientation, Gwenn shows up to her new work as a fill-in per diem employee at a terrible and dilapidated skilled nursing facility.
Episode 2: (One sentence explanation) Gwenn finds out how hard it is to get the patients to actually work with her, at the same time struggling to get her mom on the same page with her for the POA.
Episode 3: (One sentence explanation) Gwenn gets hired full time!
Episode 4:Work work and more work, how many patients can you see?
Episode 5: Gwenn gets fired!
Episode 6: Genn finally get’s paid, mom commits to signing POA
Episode 7: Work heats up with Roger, Earl is sick.
Episode 8: The patient of my dreams
Episode 9: Ready to go home.
Example:
Episode 1:
Gwenn is disgusted by what she sees
Gwenn reveals she desperately needs money
Gwenn meets her coworkers
Gwenn’s mom is confused
Gwenn gets chased by a dog out of the facility
Episode 2:
Patients appear dead,
mom is confused and won’t sign POA
Gwenn gets nothing done
Gwenn sees her moral shortcomings
But she helps anyways
Episode 3:
Gwenn reluctantly takes the job and
grabs the skeleton key from the desk.
Runs on to Earl on the jiggy machine
Runs into Sam talking dirty to a nurse behind a curtain?
Avoids Terry’s overtly sexual come ons
Episode 4
Gwenn confronts Terry about her full schedule and moral boundaries
Gwenn attempts to make Abigail happy but fails miserably
Abigail pulls Gwenn aside to tell her past drama about Terry
Gwenn gets a call from APS, her mother is in trouble
Episode 5
Gwenn gets questioned about her continuing education work
Turns out she has done too much
Company thinks she is taking advantage of them
Gwenn gets fired
Episode 6
Gwenn gets paid and rehired
Gwenn’s mom agrees to sign POA
Gwenn talks herself into her job
Gwenn and Terry have a heart to heart about her marriage
Episode 7
Roger pulls Gwenn aside to let her know she is really like by the patient
Earl starts slipping up with patients
Gwenn longs for a good patient
Sally and Abigail get into it
Episode 8
Gwenn meets a patient that can actual work with her
Roger confesses his feelings for Gwenn
Terry breaks down and tells Gwenn she is getting a divorce
Gwenn’s mother bakes a cake and burns down half the house
Episode 9
Gwenn prepares to take patient home
FBI come in to arrest him
Gwenn smuggles patient out
Viewers are under the impression that FBI gets the patient
Gwenn’s face and middle finger reveals more as patient transfers into her car.
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What I learned doing this episode is discoveries are never-ending on this journey and it gets better if you can stick with it. And by better, I mean, you can see your show getting stronger and although there are more moving parts, they work together whenever you get stuck.
EDGEMONT
1. Beginning: We drop down into this dystopian future where the inhabitants of Region 9 live without advanced technology. Region 9 is the dumping grounds for the other wealthier region’s garbage. King is trying to sell Edgemont Hotel so he can use the money to gain power in Region 26.
Ending: Senator Green sends his military from Region 26 to attack Region 9 to take Edgemont from King. His daughter, Simone, defends him and protects Edgemont. She decides to risk her life by going into Region 26 to assassinate Senator Green – her ex-lover and possible father of her twin sons.
2. Season 1 Mystery Set up: I Senator Green the father of Simone’s twin sons?
Mystery Solved: How will Simone get close enough to Senator Green to get his DNA?
Mystery 2: If not Senator Green, then who is the father?
Mystery 3: King is trying to sell Edgemont behind his daughter, Simone’s, back.
3. Journey begins with Simone trying to save Edgemont and ends with going back to being an assassin when she goes into Region 26 to kill Senator Green.
4. Layer: Simone running through the mountains with an unknown voiceover giving info about power.
Layer: King plans for Roman to run for Senator in Region 26.
Layer: Roman shares a toast with Mrs. Conners, they drink and this leads to them having sex for the first time.
Layer: Remy brings Johnny, a disconnect, from Region 26 to Edgemont in Region 9.
Layer: Simone trains the homeless kids living at Edgemont in combat.
Layers: Senator Green makes a re-election campaign promise to take down Region 9 once and for all.
Layers: Simone threatens the developers out buying Edgemont, but she knows they will return with force.
OTHER LAYERS:
Layer: Does Simone still love Senator Green?
Layer: Does King love Mrs. Conners?
Layer: Is Johnny a spy for Senator Green?
Layer: Can Simone train the kids in time to save Edgemont?
Layer: Will Remy follow his mother, Simone’s advice?
Layer: Will the power center that the mountain is, help in the battle for Edgemont?
5. Major Story Lines:
Episode 1: Simone discovers that King is trying to sell Edgemont and threaten the developers.
– Simone returns from her morning run to find King showing several unknown men around Edgemont.
– King refuses to tell Simone what the meeting is about.
– Her son Roman won’t tell her what’s going on, but Remy tells her King is selling Edgemont.
– Simone arrives in the meeting with Remy, guns drawn to break up the meeting.
– One of the developers draws a gun and is shot by Remy.
– The developers leave but threaten to return with more firepower.
– King and Simone are angry and stop speaking to each other.
Episode 2: King makes a deal to support his grandson, Roman, for a run at Senator in Region 26.
– King meets with Roman and tells him that he backs him running for Senator.
– Simone finds out and is against Roman running for Senator.
– Roman agrees to join forces with King to gain power.
– King tells Roman he needs his help selling Edgemont behind his mother’s back.
Episode 3: Remy returns with Johnny, a disconnect, from Region 26.
– Remy goes against Simone’s wishes and goes into Region 26.
– Roman tries to convince Simone that selling Edgemont is the best thing to do.
– Remy battles his way out of Region 26 with Johnny and arrives in Region 9.
Episode 4: Senator Green makes a re-election campaign promise to take down Region 9 once and for all.
– Senator is embarrassed on live TV when it’s announced that another citizen of Region 26 has escaped to Region 9.
– Simone gets word of Senator Green’s promise and is upset with Remy that he didn’t listen to her.
– King is happy as he believes this announcement by Senator Green with make Simone change her mind about selling Edgemont.
– Desperate, Simone and Remy recruit and prepare the homeless kids living at Edgemont to fight against Region 26.
Episode 5: Mrs. Conners and Roman become involved and scheme to gain power.
– Roman watches as King and Simone become more estranged.
– Mrs. Conners works both King and Roman as she schemes her way into a stronger position.
– Mrs. Conners uses sex to convince Roman to scheme against King and eventually take all the power.
Episode 6: The developers return and a battle ensues with Simone holding off the developers.
– A surprise attack by the developers catches Simone and Remy unprepared.
– Homeless kids are killed, but Simone lures the developers into a trap.
– The power of the mountain pushes against the developers when an avalanche occurs killing them all.
Episode 7: Expecting other developers to head up, Simone trains the homeless kids in the art of war in the mountains.
– Impressed by his daughter’s fighting and leadership, King tries to reconcile his relationship with Simone.
– Roman and Mrs. Conners, threatened by King and Simone’s possible reunion, try to kill Remy to weaken Simone’s power.
– Mrs. Conners double-crosses Roman by trying to get Remy to kill Roman.
Episode 8: Senator Green and his military attack Edgmont.
– Simone disappears into the mountains to listen to the mysterious voice.
– Senator Green moves his military into place to attack Region 9.
– Simone receives the warning that danger is near and that she must return to Edgemont immediately.
– King realizes he must stop Senator Green from destroying Edgemont before there’s nothing to sell.
– Remy returns with more fighters.
– A scared Roman and Mrs. Conners disappear.
– King is shot by a sniper. He is worked on and returned to his bed.
– King makes amends with Simone and gives her advice.
– King calls Remy to his room and tells him about a superweapon hidden by his father many years ago.
– …but Simone uses her superweapon — the river.
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What I learned from this assignment is that fill-in-the-blanks work when I wanted to stop. Amazing.
Joe’s CHEAT SHEET and EPISODES
1. Beginning……………………………………………………………………….Season End/Cliffhanger
Question
A: What is the Beginning of the
season and the End of the season? Henry in his ordinary world, married, bored, but respected
father, husband, neighbor, friend—he gets a FB request from a young Dutch woman
who has a spectacular body; he’s surprised, hesitates but says yes, and
enters an alternate universe of sexting…… …………………………………….. His wife finds
the texts.
Question
B: What possible cliffhanger could
be in that last scene of the season, thus demanding that we watch the next
season? Henry has a cover
story: she’s a model who he’s going to interview for an article he’s
writing on young women in other countries contacting older men in the U.S.
Char walks him into her office, asks him to look down at the computer
screen. Henry looks down, is shocked, we only see his face…2. Season 1 Mystery Set up…………………………………..………………Season 1 Mystery Solved
Question
A: What is the mystery? It turns out that Romee is actually Henry’s
daughter.
Question
B: How could the mystery be
set up? What parts will be left out that must be solved? First, Henry gets kicked out of the house, then
to get money for her, commits crimes and ends up in jail. Later, when he
gets out, and he and Char reconcile, they travel to Amsterdam to rekindle
their marriage, and find out 25 years ago, Henry got a woman pregnant when
Char fell asleep at a pot party; they have a daughter. It’s Romee.
Question
C: What it the ultimate solution
that the characters must work to discover? When Char invites Romee to come live with them, and becomes her
lover, Henry is everlastingly tormented.3. Journey begins……………………………………………………….Journey peaks, but continues.
Question
A: Where does the Lead
Character journey begin and end for this season? It begins when he gets that FB friend request
from Romee, looks at her sexy body and says “Yes.”
Question
B: Think about where this
character goes in future seasons. That might give you an idea also. Romee is involved with a Dutch gang that
steals Nazi memorabilia, and using her for sexting and luring marks is
part of what she does; then she is kidnapped and trafficked and Henry
wants to go after her. And Henry is brought in to help them steal Nazi
memorabilia, and finds he’s scary good at it.4. ……Layer….…Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer……Layer
Question
A: What layers have you already
discovered in your BW Framework? Is Romee a man? No, she a woman who’s been trafficked. No,
she’s Henry’s daughter. Wait, Char knew about what Henry was doing from
the beginning. And she went along with it because… she wants Romee
for herself.
Question
B: Are there any other layers
that you could think of? Romee works for the CIA, and she was after Henry for his
involvement with X? Romee IS a man, and Henry meets the man who wrote the
love letters, and they have an uncomfortable cup of coffee.5. Make a list of the Major Story Lines.
Question
A: What main characters have story
lines that affect everyone else? Henry, married man, gets involved in a sexting relationship
with a young girl online; the young girl is actually a man; no, she a
woman who’s involved with a Dutch gang that steals Nazi memorabilia; Char
knew all along.
Question
B: What are the most important
story lines of this show? Henry, married man, gets involved in a sexting relationship
with a young girl online.EPISODES
Episode
1: (One sentence explanation) Henry gets involved online with a sexy young Dutch woman.
Episode 2:
(One sentence explanation) Henry starts texting her gift card codes that he buys with
money from his wife’s and his joint saving’s accounts.
Episode
3: (One sentence explanation) Romee tells Henry she loves him; Henry is beside himself; they
exchange their first sexy chat; she texts lovey-dovey phrases in Dutch.
Episode
4: (One sentence explanation) Romee asks for an Apple watch; he sends it to her and she says
her mother took it, demands another; when he finally sends another $200,
he asks to see the watch on her wrist in a photo; the one she sends has
been digitally inserted, he’s sure.
Episode 5:
(One sentence explanation) He asks Romee to do an actual on-camera sext but she tells him
her parents installed CCTV in her bedroom; this makes no sense.
Episode
6: (One sentence explanation) The gift cards are stolen; she needs more money; she asks him
to send it through Bitcoin; Henry racing around, trying to send her money.
Episode
7: (One sentence explanation) Realizes that Bitcoin takes a crazy percentage; Henry is
horrified; all of these scenes are comic.
Episode 8:
(One sentence explanation) Romee says she’s coming to Vegas to visit a girlfriend, (and
see him so they can have sex in person) asks him to pay for the rest of
the airline ticket; he does.Episode
9: (One sentence explanation) She sends him a photo of her airline ticket from Amsterdam to
McCarran airport in Las Vegas; Henry can’t figure out why it’s in black
and white; more suspicions.
Episode
10: (One sentence explanation) She checks into the Luxor; needs money; Henry tries to borrow
money from his AA sponsor; is roundly dressed down.
Episode
11: (One sentence explanation) Henry goes through paroxysms trying to arrange a motel room
using cash from his wife’s and his savings accounts; when she’s finally
coming, he cancels; he can’t go through with it.
Episode
12: (One sentence explanation) His sponsor says he has to block her; he does; She shows up on
his street (haunting image); he somehow gets a motel room, says he’s going
to get up to come have sex in the middle of the night; oversleeps. She’s
mad.
Episode
13: (One sentence explanation) Char finds the texts; asks him to come into her office and
looks down at her computer; Henry does; on his face… (cliffhanger).
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