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Day 5 Assignment
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Emmanuel Sullivan’s Layers and Reveals
What I learned doing this assignment is layers and reveals can be successfully applied to each act and probably each scene in each act. This process makes you think, high level and broad, which is a great process to dig into more possible plots.
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·Daniel Melin’s Layers and Reveals
What I learned doing this assignment is the value of the creative processes. I’ve normally just used one or two processes, and usually with more specific prompting from the assignment. As I’ve continued, I get overwhelmed more easily thinking about all of the changes I have to make, or start to second guess things as I’m doing them. For this assignment, I skipped around the different prompts whenever I got stuck for too long, and forced myself to come back to things later. Eventually things started to take shape, and I got over the paralysis.
Surface: Levi lives in a magical kingdom called Everlasting Summer.
· Layer Beneath: Levi only goes to Everlasting Summer at night. He spends the rest of his time in the ordinary world.
· How Revealed: Levi wakes up to the sound of a normal alarm clock.
· Surface: Everything is going as normal in Everlasting Summer.
· Layer Beneath: The audience learns that one of the most famous fixtures in Titania’s court is missing.
· How Revealed: Puck doesn’t show up to perform tricks as he normally does.
· Surface: Levi will have a low-responsibility position at his new job.
· Layer Beneath: Levi finds out he will have to work longer hours at his new job than he anticipated.
· How Revealed: Miguel’s foreman doesn’t show up for work, and it turns out has tried to poach another job from Miguel.
· Surface: Everlasting Summer is always under a full moon, and nothing can change that.
· Layer Beneath: Levi learns that Everlasting Summer is now at the mercy of time, which it wasn’t before, thanks to his opening the portal.
· How Revealed: When Levi returns to Everlasting Summer, he finds that the moon has waned.
· Surface: A wild dog appears in Clarence’s one night.
· Layer Beneath: Levi learns that the wolf was a werewolf.
· How Revealed: Levi shows up at Clarence’s and finds the place damaged.
· Surface: There is a stranger at Clarence’s who wants to introduce himself to Levi.
· Layer Beneath: Levi learns that the stranger, Mark, from Clarence’s is actually a fellow magician.
· How Revealed: Mark shows Levi the painting, which he has commandeered.
· Surface: There was just a dog that accidentally got shot at Clarence’s.
· Layer Beneath: The cop who shot the young man is actually a friend of Levi’s and the other regulars.
· How Revealed: Levi asks where Bill is, and the other regulars tell him that he is under investigation and has been suspended.
· Surface: Levi thinks that the wolf is the only thing that got out.
· Layer Beneath: Levi learns that not only one of the wolves, but the deer is now loose in Athens as well.
· How Revealed: The huntsman shows up and informs Levi that the hunt will continue in Athens.
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Sherri D. Coffee Module 3 Lesson 5 Layers and Reveals
What I learned is to elevate the story and connect the layers, reveals and coverups. A work in progress on the learning curve!
Layer: Sam receives phone call with some bad news.
Reveal: At dinner, he reveals the news to Grace.
Layer: Grace is a lobbyist focused on women’s health issues.
Reveal: She is pragmatic and ruthless to get results. She fires a coalition leader and replaces her to get results.
Cover up: Who is the financial guy that Sam watches in the morning?
Reveal in Act III – it is his estranged son Carlton.
Layer: Carlton arrives and befriends Grace.
Reveal: Carlton is using her to gain information that he can use to remove her as executor.
Cover up: Carlton hides the ongoing financial threat from his ex-wife.
Layer: Sam is a successful retired physician.
Reveal: He is very engaged with his investments and money.
Cover up: Sam invests money with Carlton during his divorce to hide offshore and Carlton lost the money. But did he?
Layer: Carlton’s mother and Sam’s ex-wife threatens to reveal Carlton’s hidden money unless she gets the rest of Sam’s estate.
Reveal: Grace’s investigator discovers some improprieties that do not make sense. Can he find?
Layer: Grace’s psychic neighbor is a reluctant psychic content with living her hippie life.
Reveal: When she accidentally receives the box meant for Grace, she must get involved.
Grace was her daughter in a past life.
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What I learned was that the clarity of this creative process really helped me structure the surface, layer, reveal.
Act 1
Surface: Jess is a BIg City Detective.
Layer: Is also a crack hacker.
Reveal: Judge throws out her department’s high profile case due to evidence obtained illegally but the details are not revealed publicly.
Act 2
Surface: Sheriff Moore is one of the best Sheriffs in the state and Green Lake is a low crime rate town.
Layer: Sheriff Moore was unable to solve the murders of 2 friends and the disappearance of Jess’ brother, Adam five years ago.
Reveal: Jess finds Sheriff Moore’s book of actual crime statistics while searching through files in the basement.
Act 3
Surface: Sarah Watson is a local Architect and Artist out to green Green Lake.
Layer: Is a serial cheater.
Reveal: Is dating Steve Beresford but receives a sexy message from someone calling themselves Starman.
Act 4
Surface: Steve Beresford is a local, popular Environmental Activist and dating Sarah Watson.
Layer: Steve Beresford finds the bodies at the Trail Head and is brought in for routine questioning.
Reveal: He knows that Sarah is cheating on him, but he doesn’t know who with.
Layer: Starman is Luke Smith who has disappeared.
Reveal: Jess hacks Steve’s phone and is able to identify Starman.
Act 5
Surface: Bill Smith is a Retired Investment Banker.
Layer: Is head of a global Trafficking Network.
Reveal: His son, Luke Smith is missing, and he calls his colleagues to a meeting at night in a Trail Head Car Park.
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Renee Brown’s layers and reveals.
In this assignment I learned that even a seemingly nondramatic aspect can be turned dramatic by the way it is presented.
Teaser:
New info reveal with father son fight.
Character reveal – Dauntus’ hidden agenda
Act 1:
Deep layer reveal: Tallas is uncomfortable teaching about the prophecy because down deep he knows it’s a fake.
Act 2:
Character Reveal: Anauk is conspiring with the other Alien factions.
Character Reveal: Secret history revealed. Saltar knows a secret way into Tallas’ world.
Act3:
Character Reveal: she has done this many times before.
Act 4:
Plot layer reveal: ongoing conspiracy: Steelman sends his guy to the Whitehouse to lie to the president.
Character Reveal – deception: Anauk crams everyone in his ship to sneak them into Dauntus’ palace.
Act 5:
New info reveal – there’s an organization ruling over the Alien factions.
Character reveal – Saltar seems ruthless but is caring. – Bandages Anauk’s wing.
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Molly McNeal, Carrington Manor Layer and Reveal
What I learned doing this assignment is this makes it very concrete and specific. I also learned that I think I have the pilot done in my head but I am far from it, right now changing it to match what I have put below. I did not integrate it into the scenes as I did not understand how to accurately do it as things are shifting.
Teaser :Cops arrest someone for something,
Reveal the rest of the scene in the last episode (book end it).
Layer: The orientation video the Manor is presented as majestic as it was in the 90’s. (Maybe start with this scene of the old orientation movie going and Gwenn at the table?)
Reveal: Carrington Manor is an old falling apart building, and the patients are incapable of rehab
Layer: Terry shows up as gay by hitting on all of her employees
Reveal but portraying being married to her “partner.”
Layer: Spirit presents as capable intelligent and eccentric,
Reveal: Through phone calls from her and Adult Protective Services to Gwenn it is clear she is demented.
Layer:Gwenn is moving back to Portland to help her mother
Reveal: But is really in need of her mom’s book money to pay off student loan debt.
Layer: Abigail is an angel sent from God himself, well liked by the patients
Reveal: she is self centered, selfish and controlling, and hates Terry for a reason no one really knows.
Layer: Earl is all natural and does not subscribe to modern medicine which is what is used in the building he works at, he says
Reveal: he is helping patients by illegally sneaking them herbs and oils.
Layer: Sally is a single mom and totally grossed out by Dr Roger who is involved with every nurse in the unit
Reveal Sally takes home any man she can.
Layer:Roger is married
Reveal Roger is having affairs
Layer: Karly White has made her way up from CNA to HR Rep
Reveal: But is it because she is an illegal immigrant or because she is married to the administrator?
Mandy is the best nurse there
Reveal Mandy is clearly addicted to drugs.
Carrington Manor is all about helping patients
Reveal: (not really) and making their employees commit medicare fraud to do it through nagging about billable minutes with each patient.
I may come back and edit this! UGH!
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Donna Stockwell’s Layers and Reveals
What I learned doing this assignment is picking the most extreme reveals gives three separate scenes and gives ideas how to leave intriguing hints in each scene for the other scenes.
Surface: Ben is Home security salesman
Layer beneath: Looking for solace in prostitutes, but takes it too far
How Revealed: burying a bodySurface: Patrice is wife/mother/home makeup retailer
Layer beneath: Looking for love in all the wrong places
How Revealed: Ends up kissing daughter’s boyfriendSurface: Barbara is boss of home-security org
Layer beneath: She is former prostitute and her John is the real boss, who is blackmailing her clients
How Revealed: Barbara insists that Ben sells to certain customers with political backgroundSurface: Jasper is close to Ben
Layer beneath: He may be the leak in Ben’s secret life
How Revealed: He sees Ben dragging a body next to mother in the vault
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