Day 1 Assignment

[Dimitri Davis]

Day 1 here.

[Emmanuel Sullivan]

Emmanuel Sullivan’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is listing the main components in a series and in the pilot provides a high-level view of the project. Provided you write each item as succinctly as possible. It’s almost like a 1-sentence logline.

[Daniel Melin]

Daniel Melin’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is the value of going back and revisiting the Framework and TV Pitch Bible. Approaching them with the pilot in mind already brings up several areas for improvement in each document, and updates I hadn’t even realized I hadn’t made after doing some of the most recent work. The Framework in particular still had a lot of older ideas that working on the Pitch Bible has since elevated.

SERIES INFO

· World: The city of Athens, Minnesota and the hidden fairy realm of Everlasting Summer.

· Main Mystery: How did a werewolf get into Athens?

· Impossible Goal: To lift Titania’s curse and disenchant the werewolves.

· Main Conflict: Titania will enchant or kill Levi if she finds out what he is up to.

· Second Mystery: Who is the deer that Titania is hunting and why does she want it dead?

· Season 1 Arc: From only practicing magic in the confines of Everlasting Summer to using magic openly to lift Everlasting Summer’s curse.

· Season 1 Protagonist Inner Journey: From a purposeless zombie to a powerful magician.

PILOT INFO

· Pilot Conflict: To close the portal he unintentionally opened to Everlasting Summer.

· Characters Introduced: Levi, Titania, Mark, Miguel.

· Inciting Incident of Season 1: Levi must become Mark’s pupil in order to lift Titania’s curse.

[Sherri Coffee]

Sherri D. Coffee Module 3 Lesson 1

Series Information:

World: Finding love late in life and navigating money, power, family secrets and unfinished business.

Main Mystery: What happened in the past life that places Grace in the current danger?

Impossible Goal: Grace wants to see Sam before he dies.

Main Conflict: Carlton will do anything to prevent Grace from seeing Sam.

Second Mystery: Why is it so important to Carlton to keep Sam and Grace apart? What does he have to hide?

Season 1 Arc: When Grace Is separated from Sam and ousted out of their home, she launches an investigation with a seedy political operative.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From heartbreak and anger at separation to fear of being killed to embracing the curious adventure of her past life to find the truth.

PILOT INFO:

Pilot conflict: When Grace launches an investigation to find out why Carlton ousts her from Sam’s life, she experiences threats and attempts on her life.

Main Characters introduction:

Grace: 50year old lobbyist in a relationship with Sam.

Sam: 70 year old retired physician divorced in a relationship with Grace.

Carlton: Hedge fund manager on Wall Street in successful firm. Estranged from his father.

Carlton’s mother Lillian: suffered a bitter divorce with Sam and blackmails Carlton to get her money.

Harmony Rose: Grace next door neighbor is a reluctant psychic.

Wilson: A seedy very effective political operative hired to investigate Carlton.

Mia: Sam and Grace housekeeper.

Inciting incident of Season 1: When Sam slips into a coma, his estranged son Carlton arrives and takes control of his affairs and ousts Grace from his life. Grace launches an investigation that results in threats and attempts to kill her. She is saved by the psychic next door who transports her to her past life to find the answers.

Pilot Act:

Teaser

· Essence: High level VO on the journey to find love late in life.

· Turning Point: Grace meets Sam.

Act I

· Essence: Grace and Sam are getting their affairs in order as they plan a vacation to Europe to celebrate their 5^th year anniversary.

· Turning Point: Sam falls into a coma.

Act II

· Essence: Sam’s estranged son Carlton arrives to take control of Sam’s affairs.

· Turning Point: He gains control and evicts Grace.

Act III

· Essence: Grace hires Wilson, a seedy political operative to investigate Carlton.

· Turning Point: Wilson uncovers some leads and meets with Grace to warn her of danger.

Act IV

· Essence: The psychic next door accidentally receives a box from Mia meant for Grace.

· Turning Point: Wilson travels to NYC and Grace receives threats.

Act V

· Essence: Sam wakes from the coma and is told Grace has left him. Carlton takes his phone and instructs nurses to drug him. He orders someone to take care of Grace.

· Turning point: The psychic next door Harmony Rose rescues Grace from being shot and reluctantly transports her to a past life to find the answers. 1884 NYC.

What I learned doing this assignment is I need to elevate my story as I outline and provide some structure.

[Barbara Gilmore]

What I learned…I found myself fine tuning what I’d already written. At the same time wondering how I can continue to make characters and plot more intriguing.

My Pilot Green Lake (working title) – I’m thinking of changing the title following on from Hal’s Audio 12 in Module 2 what a great lesson that was.

SERIES INFO

World: A sleepy vacation town where everyone flocks to in the summer. Crime is low, but is it really? as locals, vacationers, big oil, and illicit activities collide against a backdrop of extreme weather events.

Main
mystery: The gruesome double murder of a young married
couple and the disappearance of their friend.

Impossible
Goal: Jess must solve the recent double murder and the
disappearance before the killer strikes again and a wildfire destroys any
evidence.

Main
Conflict: Jess believes that Sherriff Linda Moore
botched the investigation of her brother’s disappearance in similar
circumstances five years before and is determined to solve both cases with
or without Captain Anderson or the Sheriff’s help.

Second
Mystery: Will Jess find her brother, Adam, alive after
his disappearance in identical circumstances five years before.

Season 1
Arc: From having her big city ambitions thwarted
to solving the double murder and becoming the next Sheriff Elect of Green
Lake.

Season 1
Protagonist Internal Journey: 1. From having her big
city ambitions thwarted to becoming Sheriff of Green Lake and cleaning up
the town’s illicit activities. 2. From being Sarah Watson’s ex-best friend and lover to reconciliation and a future relationship.

PILOT INFO

Pilot
Conflict: Jess uncovers Sheriff Moore’s little black
book of actual crime statistics which leads her to uncover the Town’s
illicit activities including a Trafficking network.

Main
Characters Introduced: Jess Pearson, Sheriff Moore, Sarah Watson,
Captain Anderson, The Johnson Twins, Jane and Bill Smith.

Inciting
Incident of Season 1: Jess Pearson returns to Green Lake where
she used to summer vacation with her family to help the local Sheriff
solve a double murder and disappearance identical to that of her brother’s
disappearance and before the killer strikes again.

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[Renee Brown]

Renee Brown’s

Aliens’ Earth

Big picture components

From this assignment, I learned that I must continue distilling the complicated aspects of my show into a clear, and understandable outline.

Series Info:

World: The hidden places where Earth Aliens dwell.

Main Mystery: Where did the planet that has appeared between mars and earth come from, and why is it here?

Impossible Goal: Earth Aliens, with the help from a few humans, must cloak the planet from humanity while keeping the delicate balance between their own factions.

Main Conflict: The Skyflier overlord, Dauntus uses the chaos to dominate humanity while the other alien factions are trying to keep peace.

Second Mystery: Why haven’t one of the alien factions tried to conquer earth before, and why is Dauntus going rouge now?

Season 1 Arc: from planetary chaos, through massive coverup, to addressing long buried interspecies grudges. Then a new alien arrives on earth, and they can’t be managed.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From reclusive and lonely scholar to being reunited with an entire planet of his kind, to questioning long held beliefs about a rival alien faction on earth.

Pilot info:

Pilot conflict: Earth goes nuts when a new planet appears in the sky.

Characters Introduced: Tallas, Saltar, Anauk, Dauntus, Steelman.

Inciting incident of season 1: The alien factions must manage a rouge overlord while hiding themselves and the new planet from humanity.

[Donna Stockwell]

Donna Stockwell’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is I am able to pinpoint highlights with clarity.
SERIES INFO:
World: control and all-knowing security systems
Main mystery: how to hide his uncontrollable desire to “conquer and command” women
Impossible Goal: control wife and family
Main Conflict: inner personality – selfish, works long hours, wants to feel important
Second Mystery: how will Ben hide all the bodies and keep his secret world secret
Season 1 Arc: When Ben gets lonely he controls women a little too much and gets his brother’s help to bury the evidence, meanwhile his wife Patrice is driven to run away with Luke, her daughter’s boyfriend.
Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: his inner desire to control women gets out of control and turns to desire to kill
PILOT INFO:
Pilot Conflict: Individuals in a family unit become obsessed with their own lives.
Characters Introduced: Ben, Patrice, Jasper, Celeste, Luke and Barbara
Inciting Incident of Season 1: Ben’s terrible day starts with a nagging wife and continues at work getting belittled by his boss.

[Cooper James]

Cooper James

Big Picture Components

I learned that the foundational work we’ve done with the BW Framework is the gift that keeps on giving… and it changes and gets better as you make “Big Picture” discoveries along the way.

SERIES INFO

– World: The dystopic dumping grounds of Region 9 where survival is day-to-day.

– Main Mystery: The history of Simone and Senator Green.

– Impossible Goal: Defeating Region 26’s military.

– Main Conflict: Simone must take down Senator Green before he takes down Edgemont.

– Second Mystery: How is Simone going to achieve this when she still loves Senator Green.

– Season 1 Arc: From single mother of twin boys and “mother” to all of the homeless kids to training and leading them as her militia to save them all.

– Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From disjointed relationships with her father and son to seek their counsel.

PILOT INFO:

– Pilot Conflict: Simone doesn’t want her father to sell Edgemont and cast off the homeless kids living there.

– Main Characters Introduced: Simone, King, Roman, Remy, Senator Green, Mrs. Connors, Owens.

– Inciting Incident of Season 1: Simone must kill the developers to save Edgemont.

[MARY Wells]

MARY JANE’S Three Circles of Characters

WHAT I LEARNED:

The value of keeping things simple and going back over all the bones so far – to ensure I was being unique and economical with my cast creation.

ASSIGNMENT 1:

A. Main Characters Circle: Lani, her flight mechanic BF, her NCO who trains her, Squad leader perpetrator.

B. Connected Circle: Lani’s brother, Army chaplain, flight surgeon, Master Sergeant, Commanding Officer, Pele

C. Environment Circle: JAG office, Battalion personnel, HI civilians who do and do not like the Military

Deadline: 24 hours

[MARY Wells]

ASSIGNMENT 2: Your Show

Mary Jane’s Character Emotions. What I learned doing this assignment is…THAT IF I WANT TO CREATE HEROES AND I NEED TO CREATE REAL PEOPLE FIFST

LANI PROFILE

A. Hope: GETS THE JOB . / Fear: GETS THE JOB
B. Want: FEEL SAFE, FREE AND INVISIBLE / Need: MONEY AND SECURITY
C. Base Negative Emotion: RESENTMENT / Public Mask: SUBSERVIENT/ AGREEABLE
D. Weaknesses: WONT SPEAK UP AND SAY HER TRUTH
E. Triggers: MISOGYNY
F. Coping Mechanism: DENIAL, EXPLOSIVE RAGE OR FURTIVELY DESTRUCTIVE

GABRIELLE PROFILE

A. Hope: SHE CAN HAVE FAM AND CAREER / Fear: HER HUSBAND MIGHT WANT HER TO GIVE UP CAREER WITH A BABY – OR THAT HE WILL LEAVE HER TO PURSUE HIS
B. Want: REALISED AMBITION / Need: RESPECT FROM PEERS ON HER OWN TERMS
C. Base Negative Emotion: / Public Mask: WORTHLESS
/ WARM
D. Weaknesses: COMPETITIVE FOR HER PLACE IN THE SUN WITH OTHER WOMEN, E.
E. Triggers: BETRAYAL
F. Coping Mechanism: SHUT DOWN

[MARY Wells]

MRY JANE’S Show Relationship Map

What I learned is that this was the most successful exercise in brainstorming!!