BWTV-AI Module 3 – Lesson 1: Pilot Big Picture Components

[Bob Creager]

Bob’s Big Picture Components

What I learned: I had all of this information in the bible or framework so I only had to pluck it out.

1. Give us the basic Series Info:

TITLE: ROGUE WARRIOR

SERIES INFO:

· World: The violent world of Marine Special Operations and extraterrestrial infiltration.

· Main mystery: Finding the common element behind all the disappearances.

· Impossible Goal: Initiate a rescue mission for Leisa’s brother without the Marine Corps knowing.

· Main Conflict: Leisa will be court martialed if she does. Her brother will never be rescued

· Second Mystery: What do the aliens want?

· Season 1 Arc: When her brother is kidnapped, she builds a team of retired warriors to rescue him. When found, she learns that her brother was not kidnapped, but recruited to help the aliens.

· Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From being abandoned by her ex, the government, and losing her brother to finding her brother and parents that she thought were dead and establishing a partial relationship with her ex.

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info:

PILOT INFO:

· Pilot Conflict: Leisa must build a team without the Marines knowing.

· Characters Introduced: Leisa, Sergio, Sky Queen, Bird Dog, Connie, Capt Carl, Nathan

Inciting Incident of Season
1: Nathan is kidnapped and Leisa decides to save him.

[Michael Jones]

Mike’s Big Picture Components

I learned to simplify —not focus on every intricate detail to just distill the ideas down into an overall big picture.

SERIES INFO:

• World: The mysterious world of a historical artifact as a catalyst for utopian goals.
• Main mystery: The artifact and the personal struggles of Atticus and Morrigan.
• Impossible Goal: Find the artifact and use it’s power to advance utopian agendas.
• Main Conflict: Atticus must find the artifact before all the rival secret societies.
• Second Mystery: Atticus’s missing brother and its ties to the artifact.
• Season 1 Arc: Atticus goes from a struggling university graduate to becoming immersed in a search for an artifact that can have the power to change the world.
• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From a struggle to survive to becoming a major factor for the future of the world.

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: Atticus hunts for the artifact while volunteering on an excavation.
• Main Characters Introduced: Atticus, Morrigan, Atticus’s friends, Dr. Mortimer.
• Inciting Incident of Season 1: Atticus and friends must protect the artifact from other rivals and avoid being killed in the process.

[Jeff Chase]

Jeffrey Alan Chase’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is that most of the elements of this exercise could be pulled from my BW Framework. I found the other elements I needed in my pitch deck/bible.

TITLE: The Backpack

GENRE: One-hour serialized Christian Thriller

SERIES INFO:

World: The inspiring world of Christian redemption through the experiences of a homeless Army veteran as he deals with his personal demons and the rogue Army C.I.D. agent who wants to arrest him for war crimes.

Main mystery: Who created the backpack and why?

Impossible Goal: Always find an item in the backpack that can in some way help each person that Noah encounters to become born again.

Main Conflict: Good versus Evil.

Second Mystery: Why was Noah chosen to discover the backpack?

Season 1 Arc: Noah goes from being a man angry at being forcibly “voluntold” to take on an unwanted challenge to a conflicted evangelist who is convinced there is a world greater that what we can see but isn’t yet ready to re-accept a merciful God is in control of our lives.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From a one-time-believer-turned-sceptic to someone who is obsessed with finding the answers to his spiritual questions.

PILOT INFO:

Pilot Conflict: Noah must stay one step ahead of Kane, who wants to arrest, or worse, execute him.

Characters Introduced:

Noah

Kane

Abel

James

Catherine

Gino

Mary

Father William

Inciting Incident of Season 1: Noah discovers a battered backpack in an abandoned warehouse.

[Lee Tidball]

Lee’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this lesson is quite a breakthrough—a whole new and more intriguing way of telling the story of Season 1.

SERIES INFO:

• World: The virgin West, 1846
• Main mystery: Why was James Reed in such a hurry to get to California?
• Impossible Goal: To get to California alive
• Main Conflict: Survival, man against nature, and interpersonal conflicts on how best to do that.
• Second Mystery: Who will survive, and how, and who will not.
• Season 1 Arc: James Reed, George Donner and their families leave Illinois in April, 1846, headed for new lives in California, but due to Reed’s eagerness to get there, they decide to follow an untried new short cut created by unscrupulous adventurer Lansford Hastings, which leads to cascading misfortunes that eventually leave the party trapped in unfathomable snow on the wrong side of the pass through the Sierra Nevada mountains. Reed, banished from the group earlier, is their only hope of rescue, which, much to everyone’s surprise, he does.
• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: James Reed starts as the supremely confident, some say arrogant, and unfazed leader of the Donner Party, but is increasingly reviled by all as things go from bad to worse to catastrophic for the group. Banished from the group for killing a man in self defense, he’s humbled, but his family challenges him to get over the mountains and come rescue them. He takes this up, and eventually rescues not only them, but many of the others who so disdained him.

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info:

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: After being defeated by snowstorms from getting over the summit of the Sierra Nevada, members of the Donner Party return to a lake below the pass and build cabins, griping about their situation, assigning blame, etc. James Reed is much reviled, especially since he’s not there. His wife and kids are finally given shelter—reluctantly—by the Graves family.
• Characters Introduced: Virginia Reed (series narrator), Margret Reed, her mother, Charlie Stanton, the Graves family (William, wife Elizabeth, adult daughters Sarah and Mary Ann, Sarah’s husband Jay), others.
• Inciting Incident of Season 1: After being told by his friend James Clyman, a mountain man, that Lansford Hastings is a liar and his “cutoff” hasn’t even been blazed yet, James Reed tells him that the Hastings Cutoff is a “nearer way” and he’ll take it anyway.

[Eclipse Neilson]

Eclipse Neilson -Big Picture Components (

What I’ve learn to continue to simplify a very complicated TV series.

THE HEART WHISPERER

SERIES INFO:

• World: Magical universal patterns , time portals and mystical beings around Mother Earth, contrasting with Robyn’s adopted family’s high society culture and rules.

• Main mystery: Finding the Heart of Humanity- where all comes together and realigns with the soul of the universe.

• Impossible Goal: Find the common thread within the Heart of Humanity and all beings throughout history.
• Main Conflict: Hatred, war and discrimination destroying the vulnerable ones who have no voice in the world.
• Second Mystery: Robyn and Wing’s ancient love story and how it must play out when kept apart from each other on this cosmic mission.
• Season 1 Arc: When Robyn realizes it is her guardian Mother Earth she must save first before she can accomplish her destiny to help save humanity.
• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: from a broken hearted young war orphan -a stranger in a strange land to accepting her cosmic destiny as The Heart Whisper to find the Heart and Soul of Humanity.

• PILOT INFO:

  • Pilot Conflict: Robyn loses everything -birth mother, home and her soulmate as she confronts hatred around her and rescues the broken hearts of the Lost Ones
  • Main Characters Introduced: Robyn Stir , Om Ma (Mother Earth), Winthrop, Frances, Wing , Walter Burdock
  • Inciting Incident of Season 1: Robyn loses her mother to war and is tasked by the Council of Universal Beings to find the Heart of Humanity, only to discover that it is the broken heart of her beloved guardian, Mother Earth, that she must save first.

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[Kristina Zill]

KZ’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is… all the work on the BW Framework and Pitch Bible paid off.

Title: PACKRATS

Format: One-hour comedy

Concept: Two feuding sisters compete with an archaeologist and a phony decluttering expert to find the treasure rumored to be hidden at the heart of their deceased hoarder mother’s mansion.

SERIES INFO:

• World(s): Compulsive hoarding, Treasure hunting, Social media influencing
• Main mystery: What is the Treasure at the heart of the hoard?
• Impossible Goal: Find the Treasure before anyone else
• Main Conflict: Avery and Regan fight each other (and others) over their dead mother’s house and hoard
• Second Mystery: Who is the corpse found in the hoard, and did the mother kill him on purpose?
• Season 1 Arc: From every man for himself to uneasy alliances
• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: The sisters go from doling out advice to others to realizing they have their own self-help to administer.

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: Avery, Regan, Augustus, Roget and Eunice fight each other for the Treasure
• Characters Introduced: Avery Frazer, Regan Frazer, Augustus Argyll, Roget du Pape and Eunice Dubes
• Inciting Incident of Season 1: Gladys Frazer dies without a will, setting off a hunt for the treasure rumored to be hidden at the heart of the hoard.

[Sunil Pappu]

Sunil Pappu’s Big Picture Components

“What I learned doing this assignment is…to look at the big picture components of season 1 to identify the inciting incident for the season to write the pilot outline”

Title: Hawala Heist

Format/Genre: One-Hour Heist Thriller Series

Concept:

A rookie RAW agent joins a crew of international thieves to penetrate an underground banking network to retrieve a ledger that can crash the financial world.

SERIES INFO:

• World: Illegal ancient banking system called Hawala

• Main mystery: What is the ledger? How does one find it?

• Impossible Goal: Retrieve a ledger to dismantle the Hawala network and expose it’s true architects.

• Main Conflict: A team of international thieves need to break into the impregnable world of Hawala with RAW agents hunting them while each hides their secret connections to the Hawala; Hawala will protect the ledger at all costs even if innocent lives need to be sacrificed.

• Second Mystery: What are ‘ghost nodes’ and what do the coded messages mean?

• Season 1 Arc: From infiltrating the Hawala network to stop a terror attack to decoding messages to retrieve a ghost ledger that controls the entire Hawala operations to joining a heist team that suspects a mole amongst them.

• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: from a genius student / devoted daughter to a rookie agent to a suspected mole.

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: Rookie agent, Priya joins a heist team to decode messages to stop a terror attack that is used as a distraction for the sale of a ledger on the Hawala market

• Characters Introduced: Priya, Priya’s father, Heist teammates – Arjun, Mandeep, Meera, Sofia, Lina; Raghav and Hawala couriers; RAW agents.

• Inciting Incident of Season 1: The heist team retrieves only a piece of the puzzle to locate the ledger that contains not just financial transactions and political secrets but is the key to revolutionising illicit finance and crashing the current financial world order.

[Barbe LaPierre]

Barbe’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment including the analysis of the teaser of the example show – is every pass revealed something new. Once you take the time to describe what you are seeing the more depth you find.

SERIES INFO:

• World: The Kayleum Sector of the Scaltaria Galaxy / The Destiny / The Syndicate
• Main mystery: Where is Noren’s son?
• Impossible Goal: To destroy The Syndicate
• Main Conflict: The battle between the interplanetary syndicate’s dark forces and the visionary efforts of Noren and Nika.
• Second Mystery: What does the artifact say? And where does it lead?
• Season 1 Arc: The discovery of an artifact that leads to the location of Noren Amsala’s son with The Syndicate in pursuit and the final confrontation in the Black Rift.
• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: Noren Amsala comes face-to-face with his hidden past and is compelled to re-examine his ethics and his goals when his world is threatened, and he is forced to kill.

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: Sabotage, assassination attempt and cave-in perpetrated by the expanding grasp of The Syndicate.
• Characters Introduced: Noren Amsala, Nika Krilan, A’Lyx
• Inciting Incident of Season 1: An ancient artifact reveals a prophecy – in which Noren plays a part.

[Janeen Johnson]

Janeen’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this lesson is that I don’t have enough conflict in the pilot. I need to add some.

Assignment 1:

SERIES INFO:

• World: In Overton, an isolated Iowa farm town of 1,000, everyone is related to someone else in town.

Getting along with others despite political, wealth, and religious differences is required to survive, but keeping secrets is extremely difficult.

Small farm towns like Overton survive if they have a manufacturing or construction business to employ non-farmers, a local grocery store, and a school. Without all of those, the town dies.

• Main mystery: Who is stealing the team’s products?
• Impossible Goal: Gain financial stability after the accident that killed Zane’s parents and crippled Adrianna’s husband.
• Main Conflict: Someone is betraying them, but who?
• Second Mystery: Where does Zane go?
• Season 1 Arc: The team comes together in the pilot to solve their financial problems and at the end of the season, things are worse for all of them.
• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: Adrianna is furious with her cheating husband. He is crippled in the accident and she feels even more angry since now she has to keep up their charade of a marriage and provide fore the family. She resorts to her old illegal ways of making money and in the end, the stress gets to her and she takes a pill — an old addiction has been triggered.

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: How did the accident happen? How will Adrianna finance her family? How will Zane run the construction company?
• Characters Introduced: Adrianna, Zane, Sabra, Bettina, Zane’s handlers, Adrianna’s kids, Sabra’s parents.
• Inciting Incident of Season 1: The accident happens and they have to make money via Overton Ventures.

[Denice Lewis]

Denice’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is that with all the decisions of previous lessons, it was much easier for me to hone in on the specifics of this one. The story becomes an integral part of you.

SERIES INFO:

• World: The unpredictable and dangerous world of dreams and their effects on reality.

• Main mystery: Can Maya find her kidnapped father?

• Impossible Goal: Evading lies, deception, and dangers in an unknown world to

  find her father.

• Main Conflict: Surviving—her grandmother, a new school, a new world

• Second Mystery: How will she find and defeat the powerful, unknown Dream Forgers causing the bounty on her head and the prophecy of her death?

• Season 1 Arc: Acceptance of her destiny as the next Dreamweaver.

• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: from self-centered insecure, and immature to caring about others, and accepting responsibility for her actions and emotions.

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: Grandma Sophia keeps Maya’s father’s whereabouts a secret and expects obedience when she moves Maya to a new school with a new identity.

• Characters Introduced: Maya, Blake, Sophia, Lysandra, Zander, School kids

• Inciting Incident of Season 1: Maya’s father, Blake, is kidnapped by a monsterand disappears in flames.

[Renee Miller]

Renee’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is how important it is to make sure you know your show in order to create an outline that will lead to an incredible pilot that producers will love.

World: the mysterious world of a malevolent cult through the eyes of their “lost followers” who have escaped the cult.

Main Mystery: Why is the cult so interested in Veronica.

Impossible Goal: infiltrating the mysterious cult and unraveling its sinister history.

Main Conflict: Veronica battling a dark ancient force threatening to reshape the world.

Second Mystery: Who is Samuel?

Season 1 Arc: From Veronica finding the mysterious symbol tied to the cult to witnessing a horrific ritual and discovering the prophecy and her role in it.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: from not trusting anyone to forming an alliance with Samuel, Dr. Stone, and Father Malachi.

Pilot Conflict: What does the mysterious symbol mean and why is it on her mother’s grave.

Characters Introduced: Veronica, Samuel, Father Malachi, Dr. Stone, Emily, and the police detective.

Inciting Incident of Season 1: Veronica finds a cult symbol on her mother’s grave.

[Suzanne Frank]

SERIES INFO:

• World: female-centric behind the scenes dark fairytale
• Main mystery: who is the serial killer
• Impossible Goal: a deathless queen must stop Cinders/save people/save prince in three days before her “secret” is revealed
• Main Conflict: Cinders hates the queen — and why
• Second Mystery: why is this world the way it is? 100 year war; magic illegal;
• Season 1 Arc: from deluded but functioning world, to sleeping spell (as main characters flee to another country)
• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: from beleaguered queen to savior, to hunter

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: Cinderella takes the prince hostage for the Queen’s public death.
• Main Characters Introduced: Cinders, Marie-Claire, Queen, Witch
• Inciting Incident of Season 1: kidnapping from the ball/death of the Witch

[Lenore]

BWTV-AI Module 3—Lesson 1Lenore Bechtel’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is I may have to change Episode 1 because it doesn’t introduce Bernadine Dione. I’m going to try to get her in one way or aother.

1. Give us the basic Series Info:

SERIES INFO: Hypnotized by Hope

• World: The hypnotic world of Hypnotherpist Joshua’s office in Tulsa’s Travelers Tower, which also has Dr. Dan’s office, a bank, shops, a cafeteria, a spa, and a nighclub frequented by past life regressors.
• Main mystery: Can Lilly keep scandal reporter Quinten Quebeck from discovering the many zany treatments Joshua has prescribed, including the one arranged for Timothy Graves, who thinks he’s invisible?
• Impossible Goal: Get good national publicity for the book Lilly has ghosted for Joshua, not the kind Quinten is looking for.
• Main Conflict: Sally Singleton, Joshua’s inept new hire, helps Quinten uncover things that could damage Joshua’s reputation.
• Second Mystery: Maudie Patterson, a fake-fatty in Joshua’s weight control group, causes catastrophe as the subject on Joshua’s TV show.
• Season 1 Arc: When Quinten discovers enough to ruin Joshua, he hypnotizes him to write only good things, resulting in Sally gaining fame but being responsible for Lilly’s book getting published and Joshua having a successful book tour.
• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: Lilly maneuvers the entire Quinten escapade while also dealing with Kathy—her transgender ex-husband who used to be Kevin and now wants to be her best friend and roommate, and Shay—a teenager who pretends to be doing research but truly wants to investigate Lilly, his birth mother who gave him up for adoption.

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info: Lilly must keep Joshua’s zany treatments secret from scandal reporter Quinten, while writing their details in the book she’s ghosting to make them both famous. She’s miffed at Joshua’s secrecy about new client Tyrell and more miffed about incompetent Sally. The treatment he plans for Dr. Dan’s patient who thinks he’s invisible, scares Timothy so much he flees, announcing Joshua is crazy. Quinten’s ears perk up, Lilly’s hopes zoom down, but Joshua remains his usual cheerful self, telling a distraught Lilly “Timothy will come back” and welcoming a smirking Quinten to drop by anytime to sit in on his weight control and/or stop smoking sessions.

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: Lilly tries to keep client info hidden from Quinten, but Quinten observes Timothy, who thinks he’s invisible, announcing that Joshua is crazy.

• Characters Introduced:
• Joshua Hope, hypnotist extraordinaire
• Lilly Brandon, his girl Friday and secret wannabe paramour Timothy Graves, his invisible client
• Dr. Dan, the psychotherapist who referred him
• Vicki, Joshua’s cousin and receptionist
• Tyrell Black, Joshua’s secretive client and former prison cellmate
• Sally Singleton, Joshua’s inept sexy new hire

• Inciting Incident of Season 1, entitled Buffoonery for a Book
• IInciting incidents: Sally exercise class gets her promoted to be on Joshua’s TV show. Maudie is exposed for pretending to be fat and requiring her TV episode be refilmed. Bernardine recognizes Timothy from a previous life.

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[Jerry Robbins]

Jerry Robbins Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is that having the Framework and pitch deck helps to clarify the path to setting up the main components I need to do the outline.

BASIC SERIES INFO:
World – the future world of 2045 with science having advanced in various ways.
Main Mystery: – Finding out who may be organizing a riot in the underbelly of the city.
Main Conflict – Lexia can’t get anyone to talk to her when she visits the Quantum Nexus, the underground AI hub controlling the robotic life of the city, but she does meet Cipher.
Second Mystery – Who is Cipher? Why does he want her to leave the area and go back to the surface?
Season 1 Arc – Lexia investigates rumors of a riot, meets Cipher, and teams up with him to stop a rebellion of the robots.
Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey – Lexia, who grew up with her grandparents, reconciles with her father, who she thought was dead, and finds common ground with Cipher, one of her father’s robot creations.

PILOT INFO:
Pilot conflict- growing tensions between humans and bio-robot, called robobs.
Main Characters introduce – Lexia, Cipher, Dr. Black, Mara Vossheimer, Nat Chambers.
Inciting Incident: Lexia and Cipher discover a hidden network advocating rebellion and holographic pictures that lead to Dr. Black.

[Kimbal Thompson]

Kimbal Thompson BWAI M3 L1 Pilot Big Picture Components
What I learned from doing this assignment is the necessity in bringing together all of the Binge‐Worthy
framework into a unique and conducive way.
INDIA SLATE OUTLINE
SERIES INFO:
 World: Legitimate Business vs. International Smuggling
 Main mystery: The suspicion of architect Kai as a drug dealer by a DEA agent.
 Impossible Goal: Prove Kai as a drug smuggler.
 Main Conflict: Other crimes under the nose of the DEA agent.
 Second Mystery: What will happen to the DEA agent?
 Season 1 Arc: How DEA agent can tail Kai from Hawaii to India through Asia.
 Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From well-intentioned architect to
discovery of a less well-intentioned world.
PILOT INFO:
 Pilot Conflict: DEA agent Slate believes architect Kai to be a drug dealer and
requests agency permission to tail him.
 Main Characters Introduced: Architect Kai Kindall, Stone dealer Bo Bosely and
DEA agent Slate Johnson.
 Inciting Incident of Season 1: Bo invites Kai to India, Slates is initially turned down
on his request to tail Kai, then allowed to follow Kai to India for reasons he is

[Art Blum]

I learned that every time I go over this, I get many more ideas.

Series Info:

World: The Secret world of Hermes where kidnapped psychic children are forced to use their abilities to locate enemies. And high school, where an escaped psychic kid from Hermes tries to fit in, but sticks out like a sore thumb.

Main Mystery: Who are they, the aliens contacting Hermes? Or even, are they aliens? What’s their connection with Ryan Gordon?

Impossible Goal: Just being a normal teen when a secret government agency is hell-bent on reacquiring you. And the kids in the school are growing more and more suspicious because Ryan’s weird.

Main Conflict: Ryan can run but then his classmates and new girlfriend will remain prisoners of Hermes. He can save the ethereal children but only at the expense of his classmates. Or Ryan can leave the ethereal children in a limbo state forever.

Second Mystery: Season 1 Arc: How is Ryan going to accomplish anything when Seth, a rogue agent who helped him escape in the first place, is somehow using him, manipulating him for his own objectives?

Season 1 Arc: From living in hiding and covering up to overcoming the soldiers hell-bent on keeping him a captive to running away from the government and hoping transparency, telling the story of his captivity to the press will make Ryan and his cohorts free for life.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey.

Pilot Info: From a loner teen in hiding to a leader trying to save his followers from the clutches of the very people who enslaved him as a teen.

Pilot conflict: Characters introduced: Ryan, Seth, Dr. Blaine, Indigo, Hermes agency, Kids,

Inciting incident of Season 1: After a kid takes a picture of Ryan and sends it to a friend, Hermes supercomputer discovers it. Now the secret government agency knows where he’s hiding.

[Deanne]

This lesson taught me I needed to find a concise way to phrase the pilot’s main conflict, which helps me focus on the essence of that episode as it builds to the inciting incident for the series.

[Margaret]

Margaret’s Big Picture Components

What I learned: My stakes were not high enough

SERIES INFO:

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[Gayla Betts]

Gayla Betts Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment was how nice it was to have the answers basically come from the framework and bible!

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[Joan Macbeth]

Joan Macbeth’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is… one way to empower myself – I have substituted a different project of mine that is much more fully developed because the project I’ve been working on in Modules 1 and 2 just isn’t ready yet to start an outline. I’ll try to switch between the two projects eventually, but what’s needed for the substitute project is a rethink on the pilot.

I originally wrote the previous pilot episode for “Parlor Games” the first time I took the Bingeworthy class. It received mixed results from the pitches that I did, and one producer in particular spent a lot of time with me on notes and suggestions. Basically, he said the pilot I wrote would be excellent as an episode, but it was not quite exciting enough to be the series pilot. And so:

1. Give us the basic Series Info:

SERIES INFO:

• World: The life of a female swindler in the late 1800’s – true life character Baroness de Pallandt van Erde, also known as May Dugas, from the lumber town of Menominee, Michigan.

• Main mystery: How did a destitute girl from a Michigan backwater end up travelling the world to find her place in high society, as a Baroness welcome in Europe’s royal households.

• Impossible Goal: Can May evade arrest by the persistent Pinkerton Detective, Reed Dougherty, who dubs her “the Most Dangerous Woman in the World?”

• Main Conflict: Dougherty vs. May

• Second Mystery: Will May succeed with her desires for fortune and happiness?

• Season 1 Arc: Pregnant from rape, May escapes gossip and ruin in her small hometown, to follow her dreams in the big city – but Chicago has its own pitfalls.

• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: …TBA

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info:

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: The pilot is a flash-forward to Introduce the main conflict between May and the Pinkerton detective, Reed Dougherty.

• Characters Introduced: May Dugas, Reed Dougherty, May’s friend Claude Montcrief, May’s beau Dale, Dale’s father – a banker – and Dale’s uncle, a ne’er-do-well. Plus some girls from the whorehouse.

• Inciting Incident of Season 1: May and Reed deceive each other, setting off a cat-and-mouse chase across three continents.

[Brian Bull]

BRIAN BULL – Big Picture Components

“What I learned from doing this assignment is…

I’m beginning the process of forming my Pilot

ASSIGNMENT
1. Give us the basic Series Info:
SERIES INFO:

World: The enigmatic Psychic Realm
Main mystery: Dr. Brown must utilize the Psychic Glasses to prevent a murder
Impossible Goal: Navigate the Psychic Realm without being killed
Main Conflict: Jezebel wants the Crystal Ball that she thinks Dr. Brown is hiding
Second Mystery: Dr. Brown’s Dad is alive but where?
Season 1 Arc: From having no future to being able to “see” the future
Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From having no love life to “seeing” the love of his life

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info:
PILOT INFO:

Pilot Conflict: Dr. Brown takes the crystal ball and makes a pair of glasses only to find out Jezebel is looking for the crystal ball and she will kill to get it.

Characters Introduced: Dr. Brown, Delores, Zelda, Jezebel, JoAnn Brown

Inciting Incident of Season 1: Dr. Brown “sees” Jezebel attempting to murder Zelda

[Sylvia Krawczyk]

BWTV-AI Module 3 – Lesson 1: Pilot Big Picture Components

Sylvia’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is…That I have the information, yet it seems to always grow and need adjusting.

My basic Series Info:

SERIES INFO:

· World: charity galas and hospital Pediatric Patients paranormal activity

· Main Mystery: What are these Ghostly Guardian secrets and their angry attitudes

· Impossible Goal: To prove to others, there are spirit guardians watching over the children in the pediatric ward.

· Main Conflict: The Spirit World versus the Ordinary World.

· Second Mystery: Charity galas and romantic mishaps intertwine with hospital paranormal mysteries. How are they connected?

· Season 1 Arc: A secret chamber has doors that lead to children, thought dead, are still alive in comas.

· Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: Emily finds strength in herself that she can make a difference in children’s lives.

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info:

PILOT INFO:

· Pilot Conflict: How can Emily help the children in the hospital when she’s banned from entering it?

· Characters Introduced:

Emily Montclair

A self-made socialite produces fundraising galas for a pediatric hospital. She now has the means and longs to reunite with her daughter and fix family ties. She gave up her daughter in her youth when her Pastor abandoned her. In her new found wealth and position, others exploit her endeavors and question her sanity due to jealousy hindering to reunification.

Lily Hastings

A nurse that bridges the world of charity galas and a pediatric ward’s supernatural mysteries. With the help of a doctor, admires Emily and distrusts Abigail in helping patients.

Abigail Montclair

Estranged daughter of Emily is a Journalistic Investigator. Uncovers family and hospital mysteries. She is a fish out of water as she tries to unravel what is happening to the children. This causes many misunderstandings and often dangerous situations for the patients as well as rivalry among her peers.

Dr. Daniel Whitman

He is a long time chief pediatric surgeon that has lost respect by his peers due his age and to unexplained paranormal hospital activity even though lives are being saved. He struggles with explaining his hospitals reputation of paranormal activity due to his years of science study.

· Inciting Incident of Season 1: Prove to Emily she has a gift of seeing ghosts when she sees a child that is thought to have disappeared and been dead at a gala.

[Nat Melvin]

Natalie’s Big Picture Components

WIL: Doing this assignment centered my attention around the main pillars of the show

1. BASIC SERIES INFO:

World: A mysterious realm where ancient gods from Hawaiian, Greek, Egyptian, and other diverse mythologies vie for supremacy, plunging both divine and mortal realms into perilous chaos

Main mystery: Sola’s relation to the pantheons of gods

Impossible Goal: reuniting warring pantheons of gods competing for supremacy

Main Conflict: an ancient curse affecting Gods’ powers

Second Mystery: How can Sola reinstate Gods’ power and bring peace to the realms

Season 1 Arc: From unleashing the curse to searching for its origins to bringing a temporary peace between the Greek and Hawaiian gods

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From Self-discovery, and self-doubt, to Embracing her Chosen One role

2. BASIC PILOT INFO:

Pilot Conflict: Sola’s inability to control her newfound godly power

Characters Introduced: Sola, Kama, Uliuli, Ku, Anteros, Hecate, Hera, Apollo, Zeus, Demigods

Inciting Incident of Season 1: Sola unleashes an ancient curse that diminishes Gods’ power and affects their ability to prevent chaos on Earth