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Bingeworthy TV, Module 1, Lesson 5: Creating Emotional Characters
What I learned in this assignment is: Thinking below the surface can create more connections between the characters in the show and create themes.
My Example Show: Big Little Lies:
Madelaine: Situational: Hope – Hope is to be successful as a drama teacher and an influencing creative force in her community, Monteray, California.
A: Fear: Is that she will be controlled and stymied by politics and conservative views on the school board and city council.
B: Motivation: Wants the play to be successful. Need: To be recognized in the community.
C: Mask: She feels threatened, insecure. Public Mask: Confident: assertive, and almost aggressive at times, Passionate.
D: Weaknesses: She wants her children to excel and can be picky and pushy and times instead of letting some minor things go. A bit of a drama queen and self-absorbed. She doesn’t pay enough attention to her husband’s needs.
E: Triggers: Her ex-husband, anything that challenges her as being an inadequate mother.
F: Coping Mechanism: She plots to get revenge. She lobbies/rallies behind the scenes to get what she wants.
Celeste: Situational: Hopes that she can resolve the issues with her husband. Fear: She will lose her marriage.
B: Motivation: Wants: To save her marriage. Need: Needs validation and fulfillment in her previous career as a successful lawyer.
C: Mask: She’s troubled by their abusive relationship. Public Mask: They’re a perfect couple with a husband who’s crazy about her.
D: Weaknesses: She’s afraid to tell her husband the truth about her need for a career because he will see it as a threat to their marriage and his need to be in control all of the time. She is ashamed of their sexual behaviour behind closed doors.
E: Triggers: Violence and aggressive behaviour.
F: Coping Mechanisms: Avoidance, Evasive of expressing her true feelings. She complies with her husband to avoid an argument, even though she doesn’t want to.
Jane: A: Situational: Hope – Hope is to raise her son properly. Fear: That her ex may find her and she has a secret that could be revealed that has severe consequences.
B: Motivation: Wants to lead a normal life for her son. Needs to belong and fit into a community.
C: Mask: Base Negative Emotion: Fear in many areas including her son may be psychotic like his father.
Public Mask: Everything is normal. She’s a happy, regular single mom raising her child.
D: Weakness: She’s a little naïve, worries a lot, insecure, overly stressed.
E: Triggers: Anything that threatens her or her child.
F: Coping Mechanism: Jogs a lot to relieve her anxiety attacks. She also carries a gun for protection.
Renatta: A: Situational: Hope – Hopes to be a good mother despite the demands of her successful career. Fear: That she isn’t a good mother and her daughter will suffer for it.
B: Motivation: Success. Needs: To excel in every area of her life. It’s like she’s trying to prove something.
C: Mask: She worries about her status in the community and appearances. Public Mask: Rich, successful women.
D: Weakness: Perfectionist, buys her way around town.
E: Triggers: Anything that reflects negatively on her as a mother.
F: Coping Mechanism: She drinks a lot. Uses her influence and schemes behind the scenes to get things done her way.
Assignment 2: Off Your Rocker
Stuart — A: Situational: Hope: To find a cure for M.S.
Fear – That he will be so debilitated by M.S. he won’t be able to lead a successful life and die young.
B: Motivation: Love of science and discovering things. Needs to find a cure to prolong his life. Wants to be a good husband some day and father, grandfather.
C: Mask: Embarrassed about his divorce, losing his house and having to live in a retirement home at his age. Public Mask: He is going to find a cure and get himself out of this mess/predicament. He may try and become
D: Weaknesses: Stuart may be overestimating his abilities in medical science concerning humans. He can be self-absorbed, too detailed and has difficulty relating to seniors and sometimes others who are not as well educated as he is.
E: Triggers: Anything about his wife and Frank, who betrayed him or about not being a good father/family man bothers him. Academically, he may feel challenged in this new medical/science community that would annoy him.
F: Coping Mechanism: He may try to over-compensate in his professional life, by trying to influence and instigate more changes in his home environment – Cuckoo Valley.
Boris: A: Situational: Hope: He will be reunited with his family. Fear: He won’t be able to make this happen and they may end up in jail for protesting the Russian government.
B: Motivation: Want – He wants to be a good family man. Needs to fulfill this and sees it as his purpose in life.
C: Mask: Base Negative Emotion: He’s a broken man, disabled and not able to work like he used to. He has a secret as a former KGB agent that defected.
Public Mask: Carefree and jolly most of the time. Is trying to leave his past behind him.
D: Triggers: Anything that negatively happens effecting freedom and democracy in Russia gets him worried. He feels for other people like himself he hears about in the news because of his own experiences. The sound of cars backfiring reminds him of gunshots.
F: Coping Mechanism: Drinks, goes to the shooting range when he can to left off some steam.
Likes to makeup stories.
Sandra Meade/Counsellor/Love Interest A: Situational: Hope – Hopes to find peace with herself and have a husband.
Fear: She fears she will always remain a middle-aged spinster.
B: Motivation: Want: Marriage. Needs: More sense of a personal life, family and to be loved, intimacy.
C: Mask: Base Negative Emotion: Sadness and loneliness. Public Mask: Optimistic, has it all together as a counsellor.
D: Weaknesses – too trusting, perhaps, can be taken advantage of because of her caring nature.
E: Triggers: Persons who were adopted like herself or lost their family due to a tragedy. (Boris’s situation is always a trigger for her) Children who grew up in foster care and had particularly bad foster parents.
F: Coping Mechanism: Deflects by changing the subject, pretends everything is fine, minimizes personal issues. Helps others instead of working enough on her own issues.
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Michael Kemp Plans a Great Pitch Deck! Lesson 5 Alternate Reality-TV
What I learned doing this assignment is copying and pasting selective elements from the internet to enhance my current project while explaining my core values for the series.
Special Note; I have completed the PowerPoint presentation, but cannot find a means to upload it here. I have also converted it to pdf. Suggestions?
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Michael Kemp Plans a Great Pitch Deck Alternate-TV Lesson 5.
What I Learned about this assignment is the ability to copy and paste internet items onto a PowerPoint presentation (which I apparently cannot present here other than this outline.)
• ERT-The National Championships (Title of series)
• America’s Greatest Resource
• Hosted by Randolph Mantooth, (celebrity host)
• Leeza Gibbons, and Heidi Collins (celebrity hostesses)
• America’s Greatest Resource (logline)
In a world where disasters strike, ordinary people volunteer and invoke the seven skills necessary to save lives, property, and the environment, while the clock is ticking, by training to reach their goal, challenging their goal, and achieving their goal through Team competition; for everyone has a family, and every family has a story.
• Introduction of the Series Content
Designed as a one-hour reality television series in quality, digital HD appealing to all major demographic factors, “ERT – The National Championship” presents a unique focus into an innovative, competitive-variety-educational concept that introduces the average television viewer to the extraordinary lives of certified, accomplished Community Emergency Response Team Members (CERT), and lesson tips to keep the public safe before, during, and after a disaster. It will spotlight and highlight the competing team’s unique abilities and activities throughout the various stages of their training to their entry into the ultimate competition of ERT-The National Championships. (Copyright, BICEPP, and Michael A. Kemp, all rights reserved 2009. )
In a speech from Jackson Square in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush highlighted emergency planning as a “national security priority.”
CERT became a national program in 1993. There are now CERT programs in all 50 states, including many tribal nations and U.S. territories. Each is unique to its community and all are essential to building a Culture of Preparedness in the United States. There are over 2,700 local CERT programs nationwide and more than 600,000 people have trained since CERT became a national program.
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Invitational gets its roots from the annual Emergency Response Team (ERT) Challenge that was held bi-annually by the Business & Industry Council for Emergency Planning and Preparedness (BICEPP http://www.bicepp.org).
• This Is Their Story (includes images of CERT Workers saving lives)
• Short Synopsis of the Entire Series
• For the Premiere Episode, Homeland Security Chief Introduction followed by the President of the United States and Citizen’s Corps President.
• Introductions to each episode by BICEPP President, city mayors and governors of each state.
• Each episode will have a competition between two teams, designated by city name and color. The pilot colors will be orange and blue. Episode One will have purple and green, and so on throughout the series.
• Teams will be represented in the form of cities and their own Team names; Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Phoenix, etc.
• Prizes and awards will be issued at the conclusion of each preliminary, regional, and final segment to winning competitors, escalating for each.
• Judges will be the Executive Board of the Business and Industry Council for Emergency Preparedness of Los Angeles, California. (BICEPP).
• Seven Lesson Tips per episode will be expressed with demonstrations by the Main Host in various categories over the run of the series.
• Entertainment will be provided by local High School bands and drill teams.
• Visual Flowchart of the Entire Series (in 40 Visio segments)
• Visual Flowchart of the Entire Series Page 2 (in 25 Visio segments)
• Visual Flowchart of the Entire Series Page 3 (in 28 Visio segments)
• Visual Flowchart of the Entire Series Page 4 (in 27 Visio segments)
• Visual Flowchart of the Entire Series Page 5 (in 24 Visio segments)
Brian and Cheryl: If you wish to view the entire Powerpoint Presentation please forward your email for me to send it.
Contact:
Michael A. Kemp
telephone number
email
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Brendan’s Pitch Deck
In this assignment I learned how to use PowerPoint. And on my phone. Looks nice and proud of the first couple slides and glad I learned an new tech savvy skill. I’m not sure how to upload it as a pdf here but anyway it’s done. So here my pitch deck outline:
Slide #1: Title page.
Slide #2: The premise.
Slide #3: Ideas for cuisines that could be a good match up on the show.
Slide #4: Fun facts about the show.
Slide #5: What kind of person would host the show?
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Laura Souders Plans a Great Pitch Deck!- Lesson 5
I learned that there is a different types of pitch decks and they are not geared to the intended viewer of the show.
Title Broken House, Broken Home
Can these people clear clutter and transform their home and will it be enough to save their relationship?
With Professional Organizer Laura Souders, author of the Amazon Best Seller, Organizing Her Life
A professional organizer helps desperate clients declutter to save their home and relationship.
Each episode in this half hour unscripted reality show, follows professional organizer Laura Souders as she helps a desperate couple reclaim their space and hopefully save their relationship.
Season 1
• Episode 1: Husband and wife are at a breaking point after the husband decided to sell his law office building and move his business into the home, since Covid. His wife also works from home and is tired of their dining room table being cluttered with his paperwork.
• Episode 2: Mother and adult daughter are living together again. Daughter just graduated from nursing school and moved back into her childhood home, because she can’t afford a place of her own with her college loans. Their relationship has been strained because mom feels she is taking over common spaces.
• Episode 3: Women life partners have spent several years living apart because of their careers, now one is retiring from her position as a college English professor and they are trying to combine into one home, with way too much stuff, especially Shakespeare books.
• Episode 4: Two guys who are life partners, one with a career in television, have very different ideas about how to use their home. One has overtaken the basement with memorabilia and the other one thinks the basement should be for entertaining guests.
• Episode 5: Girlfriend and Boyfriend live separately but have plans to marry. He and his mom are “savers” and he keeps bringing sports memorabilia to her apartment. She worries that it will get worse wen they move in together. Season 1 Continued
• Episode 6: Husband and wife are struggling to remain together because his “collections” are literally pushing her out of the house. She feels there is no room for her and leaves on trips for several months at a time, to get some space.
• Episode 7: Boyfriend and Girlfriend live apart, but can’t because her space is so full. He bought her expensive gym equipment and can’t even use it because her basement is stuffed with holiday decorations.
• Episode 8: Two women friends have shared a house for years, but one of them is fed up with her friend’s stuff creeping out into the living room. Seeing the mess stresses her out.
• Episode 9: Husband and wife had successful careers in education, but she has cancer and they both decided to retire. Now they realize they have neglected their house and may need to sell it and downsize soon, but both of them are overwhelmed.
• Episode 10: Girlfriend has her own home and her boyfriend moved in to save money. His 4 daughters have been spending time at the home and tempers are running high in this unorganized space, nothing has a home.
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TRANS ACROSS AMERICA
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Trans Across America Pitch Deck.pdf
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Trans Across America
(Season 1)
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Table of contents
Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 3
Audience and Marketability …………………………………………………………….. 5
Creator’s Statement ………………………………………………………………………….. 6
Host (Season 1) …………………………………………………………………………………. 7
Episodes (Season 1) …………………………………………………………………………. 9
Future (Subsequent Seasons) …………………………………………………………. 19
Team …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 20
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INTRODUCTION 1
Synopsis: Five Trans host from varying cultural, career and life backgrounds travel the far reaches of America, exploring what connects and divides us as human beings and the transitions we are all within.
The show focuses on both the drama and joy of those who lead double lives, who are in various transitions of their own and who intersect with the trans community.
Each Episode we will be traveling to vastly different environments across the US and will include make overs to help people visualize all different kinds of life transitions, discussions ranging from the deep and political to the lighthearted and nonchalant over various cultural culinary staples, shared cultural activities for communities to bond and learn from each other, as well as interviews and stories from the mouths of people who make up our country.
Comparisons: Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations meets Queer Eye.
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INTRODUCTION 2
Themes: LGBTQ+ (Trans Focused) stories, identity in an ever-changing world social-political ideologies and struggles, religious ideologies and struggles, cultural explorations (Traditions, Cuisine, Communities etc.), various kinds of life transitions and debunking various types of cultural generalizations/stereotypes.
Number of episodes 12 (Episodes 44 minutes each)
Locations: New Orleans for Pilot episode others will vary throughout the USA.
ARC: As the show progresses, we watch as the hosts and those they spotlight transition through assumptions and ideologies, as well as enrich their own lives through exploring the unknown.
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Target Demographic
· 20 to 30 yr old male, female, other LGTBQ+ and hetro
· Multi-Racial (hence the diversity of local hosts, stories, cultures explored per episode)
Marketability
One of the real joys of a show like this is that its an equal mix of being unique yet following in the footsteps like successful docu/travel/cultural series like Queer Eye and No Reservations. Our choice of diversity casting the hosts and focusing not only on Transgender and transition stories of life, love, and transition but also the same in the larger LGBTQ+ and Hetero communities across different races, religions, creeds, and cultures lend itself to a wide market net. Equal parts travel, culinary, makeover, debate, and documentary make this show built in binge-worthy!
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CREATOR’S STATEMENT
For years, society has perpetuated a fear of transgender people. That they are freaks and of subversive culture. They have gone far enough to say we want to “take over” and brain wash your children. However, this is far from the truth. People fear what they don’t know. I want to show the world who we really are and what we go through to survive in a cis-dominated planet.
There are very few positive news reports or even television shows that show transgender people in a favorable light. Very few transgender people have risen to the tops of their respective fields, and the vast majority are under-represented, under-valued, and unemployed. Now is the time to change the world. People need to see our issues as a “Human Race Issue” and help reframe a systemic outdated cultural framework that causes “othering” and marginalizes various communities at large. I want to use our voices to make a change. So how do we start a dialogue with the public about transgender issues? By showing the world we are not big scary creatures; seeing people interact with us just like anyone else. This will give us a powerful voice in a new way and inspiring more trans men and women to be open about who they are.
This series will have a lasting impact for exploring these somewhat subtle issues of the transgender experience though this is not a magic bullet, but a first step forward.
Sophie Marie White
(Writer Producer)
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MAIN HOST
SOPHIE MARIE WHITE
(Transgender Female)
Sophie spent many of her years in the heart of the rural deep south. She has always worked in traditionally high adrenaline Male oriented jobs. But now, as having decades of experience in the film industry behind the camera and in front of it, she sheds light on the entertainment industry and the Trans community within it. She, like many, has transitioned later in life… and did so while maintaining a traditional marriage with three children.
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JOANN GUIDOS
(Transgender Female)
At a young age she knew she was different. But she went to college married and raised two children. She started to transition in a time in which the Stonewall Riots and the Upstairs Lounge arson fire in New Orleans were fresh in the minds of the transgender community. She is firmly entrenched in the New Orleans bar industry opening her own place in 2004. Her motto for the bar is one simple rule “be nice or get the fuck out” we welcome everyone who needs a place to feel safe where no one cares about your gender identity.
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EPISODE 1: TRANS SCRIPTS – THE WOMAN
New Orleans Louisiana
Guest Host – Jazmin White
Milan Nicole Sherry
Teryl Lynn Foxx
Nadine Berenger
Jerek Edora
Tommye Myrick
Five trans women, a gay man, a Cis woman, and black lesbian director came together to put on play called Trans Scripts – The Woman The play is about seven transgender woman who explore their lives and experiences told in their own words. This episode explores the creators/performers behind the play, their experiences, struggles and its reception in New Orleans. Just like the play these women will give us a glimpse into what makes the tick. Why they transitioned and what is transgender.
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EPISODE 2: Walk Like a Man
(THE MEN)
Katy Texas
Guest Host – Black Trans Male
Transitioning from female to male is at the heart of this episode, as is the effects of traditionally toxic stereotypes and gender norms based on a society “systemically patriarchal”. All this against the backdrop of one most traditional rightwing areas of the country. Here we will explore the similarities and differences of transitioning from female to male vs male to female.
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EPISODE 3: Stranger in the Mirror
(SUICIDE 46% ATTEMPT)
San Francisco California
Guest Host – Trans Lifeline
Psychology and Psychologists play a major part in how a Trans and
Non-Binary person experiences themselves and are perceived by
Society. Up until recently, the Trans and Non-Binary experience was
listed as a form of “mental Illness” by the DSM. What changed? Who
changed it? We will explore the support and hinderance of psychology
and psychologists being the “gate keepers” by defining/dictating what
is mentally healthy VS not throughout history. How has this both
stoked and nullified hate across different orientations and cultures? We will explore Sophie and Joann’s own battles with Suicide and the varying mental make ups of those who are Trans and Non-BinaryCard 11
EPISODE 4: COMING OUT
Holden Louisiana
Guest Host – John Schneider
When people think of John Schneider, they think of Bo Duke and the General Lee of Dukes of Hazard. John and his wife Alicia will walk us through their views on the trans community. They will share with us their thoughts and stories of Sophie’s own transition and her acceptance at Bo’s extravaganza. They will help challenge and educate viewers on what defines an “ally”. All while breaking bread and exploring the rich culinary culture that makes up the south as well as their views on why they support the rebel flag.
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EPISODE 5: TO DEATH DO US PART
(SPOUSES AND THEIR TRANSITIONS)
Middle America
Guest Host a spouse who stayed married
A spouse who divorced
When married couples face the realization that one of them is transgender their world can be rocked to the core. Thirty three percent of couples over the age of fifty and fifty percent of couples under fifty survive transition. This will be a heart wrenching look at what keeps couples together and what drives them apart when transition is involved.
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EPISODE 6: DR. JEKYLL & MR./MS. HIDING
(Dual Lives)
The Islands – Alaska
Guest Host – Elliot Page
There is much to be said at the mid-season finale and much we have covered – yet this episode takes us, for the first time, off the mainland and off the beaten path onto a desolate landscape; much like the inner landscape of those who live in hiding. Up to now we have yet to speak of all those who are in various transitions and leading double lives, lives in hiding. One person by day, another by night. It is here we will speak with those transitioning in and out of marriages, transitioning into motherhood or fatherhood for the first time, transitioning through illness; and leading double lives as actors, dancers, sex workers. Our makeovers will be used to help them see themselves for who they wish to be and hopefully will inspire them to make public who they truly are. We’d love someone like Elliot Page to celebrity host this episode and share his own stories of hiding and the courage he had to victoriously embrace who he truly is, publicly.
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EPISODE 7: TRANS GRESSION
(THOSE WHO HATE US)
Washington & Oregon
Guest Host – Someone who has been beaten
because they are transgender
A spotlight is shown, and a microphone is given to the people an organized groups who oppose the trans community. The Pacific Northwest has a history (much like the South) of being a home to such organizations. Is
activism and Technology an answer to not only combatting these groups but re-educating them? Is it the best way to reach the youth that are being groomed within their ranks? How about those on various reservations; where do they stand against the hate groups and in terms of the Trans community as a whole?Card 15
EPISODE 8: Under the Bridge
(Homelessness)
New England
Host Non-Binary
Accepting VS Excepting- The show takes an honest look at the price of being Trans and non-Binary in the national work force. What do both have in common and how are their experiences vastly different. Can social media and technology be an answer to safer and more readily available employment for Trans and Non-Binary due to its “remote” and non-public nature? Or is it also perpetuating the larger problem via a “Behind Closed Doors” policy? We also explore the necessity of Sex Work as a means of income for the Trans community. Additionally, New England being a hub for various Middle Eastern communities, we explore the illusory nature of identity as one: an immigrant and two: a trans immigrant in the U.S.- through the lens of the Refugee Middle Eastern Experience. How does religion intersect? All while breaking bread over New England coastal cuisine with our guests.
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EPISODE 9: PAINT IT BLACK
New York City
Of all the experiences in America – The Trans and Non-Binary Black
experience is one that has been presently and historically marked by peril and a high murder rate. This episode explores in depth the
New York City experience of one who is born both Black and Trans or Black and Non-Binary. We will also explore how NYC Stonewall, led by the Trans community, paved the rights for all LGBTQ+, yet Trans were left behind in the celebration. Stories after makeovers and over some of the staples of Soul Food and the NYC Queer nightlife scene will be on full display.
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EPISODE 10: Medea/Medea
Guest Host – Tyler Perry
Atlanta Georgia
Tyler Perry has been a paradoxical figure in both the Black and LGBTQ+ community; at once he has paved the way for wider and deeper inclusion for both communities in the entertainment industry, he has made marketable stories that appeal to both communities and convinced investors of their financial viability. He is even a stunning “rags to riches” success story. And yet he has also been criticized by some for stereotyping Black culture and appropriating LGBTQ+ culture in insensitive ways. In this episode we look to hear it in his own words: his story of homelessness to “having it all” as a pioneer of color, his beliefs, and his ideas for a better future for both communities with a focus on the arts and entertainment industry.
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