Day 1 Assignment

[Elizabeth Appell]

Mod 3 Lesson 1 BIG PICTURE COMPONENTS

What I learned: I thought the inciting incident was the murder of Christian Savage. No, I don’t think so. I think it is his desperate need to support his family which pushes him to take the job at the girl’s school. And that’s where things fall apart.

SERIES INFO:

• World: A posh girl’s school that has an underlining darkness, especially after the fatal shooting of one of the students.

• Main mystery: Who killed the history teacher, Christian Savage.

• Impossible Goal: Protect the daughter of Lane and Marta Baer from being accused of the murder.

• Main Conflict: Marta Baer turns herself in as the killer. If Lane protects her from the accusation, he may be accused.

• Second Mystery: How will Lane Baer be able to write his second novel which morphs into a murder mystery without implicating his daughter?

• Season 1 Arc: The Baer family go from being a quirky close little family to that of a family in which nobody trusts each other.

• Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From being a failed mid-list writer to one willing to do whatever it takes to land as a bestseller author.

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info:

PILOT INFO:

• Pilot Conflict: Lane Baer has two months to meet his publisher’s deadline while at the same time he must deal with the murder of Christian Savage.

• Characters Introduced: Lane Baer, Marta Baer, Paige Bare, Leylah Hafez, Margaret Gilgood, Christian Savage, Detective Pearl

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• Inciting Incident of Season 1: Lane Baer financially strapped takes the job teaching literature at the posh girl’s school in which he becomes deeply embroiled with the murder of the history teacher.

[Tracy Cheney]

Tracy El Pueblo Pilot Big Picture Components

I already know that I’ve chosen a challenging structure following five characters simultaneously, but I’m interested to see if this can be done. It would be ideal if I could create dovetailed incidents for each one that are held together by the theme (the impossible goal). That remains to be figured out…

SERIES INFO:

World: Spanish Colonial Los Angeles (nicknamed El Pueblo)
obsessed with blood purity and skin color castes that predetermine fate. <div>

Main mystery: Why does American Joseph Chapman leave paradise in the <st1:place w:st=”on” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”><st1:placetype w:st=”on”>kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st=”on”>Hawai’i</st1:placename></st1:place> to join the pirate attack
on Spanish California?

Impossible Goal: Each character wants to control their own
destiny.

Main Conflict: The village allows two combative foreign enemies
to jump ship and live among them against all rules of their king, the
Inquisition, and common sense.

Second Mystery: Why does Joseph Chapman jump ship in Spanish
California where he is considered a dangerous enemy with no escape, and
most likely death by firing squad?

Season 1 Arc: Father Diego Perez and Lucas Polanco land in El Pueblo, fueling Antonia’s belief that she has more choice over her future
than the limited outlook of her caste. The pirates land at the Russian fort just north of California territory.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: Antonia steps out from
her good-girl image to make decisions on her own that could endanger her prospects as a desirable marriage commodity.

PILOT INFO:

Episode 1. Destiny

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it…

Pilot Conflicts: In El Pueblo, Antonia Moreno de la Cruz
rejects a good marriage prospect, which infuriates her grandmother who
brokered it. Each of the “outside” men begins his journey
towards unlikely El Pueblo without realizing it. </div>

Main Characters Introduced: Heroine living in Los Angeles,
Antonia Moreno de la Cruz 17; Lucas Polanco 19, pro-royalist student at
the University of Mexico City; Father Diego Perez 28, pro-revolution
Catholic priest from northeastern Mexico; Joseph Chapman 25, Yankee ship’s
carpenter in Boston; Thomas Fisher, 23, fugitive slave from South Carolina turned mercenary sailor in
Buenos Aires.

Inciting Incidents of Season 1: <u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Antonia rejects arranged marriage;
<u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Father Diego visits insurgency instigators in jail after his
ordination in eastern Mexico; <u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Lucas argues for the loyalist
position at university in Mexico City;
<u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Joseph pressed aboard a whaling ship in Boston; <u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Thomas
in Argentina signs up for world voyage against the Spanish with a
notorious sea captain.

[Janeen Johnson]

Janeen’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is that I already knew this stuff. Yay!!

Series Info

World: Midwest farmers will play an outsized role in climate change remediation, but farmers are land rich, cash poor, and caught between giant multinational ag companies that control the supply chain and markets. The rest of America will meet these climate saviors in their small town world of college educated, technology savvy farmers and skilled craftsmen. <div>

Main Mystery: How/why did Mike and Mindy really die? Did Jim kill them and Molly too?

Impossible Goal: Cara must become a skilled farmer before Randi succumbs to Alzheimer’s.

Main Conflict: Cara wants a man and Randi needs her to stay on the farm to take over because of her Alzheimer’s.

Second Mystery: Whose son is Hunter? (Mike or Jim?)
Season 1 Arc: From learning what she signed up for on the farming part of Mike/Mindy’s will to figuring out that Randi has Alzheimer’s.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From grieving the loss of both her best friend and her soulmate to realizing she is probably going to have to become a farmer and take on there kids and their mother/m-i-l.

2. Basic Pilot Info

Pilot Conflict: Will Cara move to Iowa as Randi insists and Mike/Mindy’s will implies? </div>

Characters Introduced: Mike, Mindy, Randi, Cara, Lily and Liam

Inciting Incident of Season 1: A. Last scene of Pilot — Cara realizes she will have to move to the farm and become a parent/guardian and a farmer. B. Mike and Mindy die in the opening scene, looking at each other in a panic and shouting “Molly! — what does it mean? Who is Molly?

[Jack Sherry]

Jack’s Amazing Inciting Incident

What I learned from this assignment is to plan ahead for the pilot to be binge worthy by structuring it as the seasonal inciting incident.

Intriguing Concept: Parents who had children with surrogate mothers discover they have been raising the wrong children because the mothers’ eggs were switched.

Act 1: Two professional women of opposite pedigree meet, become lovers and decide to freeze their eggs.

Midpoint: Gene editing, embryo enhancement and cloning of humans are actually happening today.

Lock In: The professor of the lab where the eggs are frozen who has been excommunicated from his English Druid community wants to steal eggs of a royal-blooded woman to create a child who will allow him to return to former glory in England.

[Jack Sherry]

Jack’s Big Picture Assignments

What I learned from this assignment is to outline the pilot before writing it

World: The story has an international feel, bringing the audience into the rarified air of England’s high, blue-blooded society via a hedge fund manager who manages some of the royal family’s wealth. Her portfolio includes investments in gene-editing cryogenics laboratories, one of which, in Buenos Aires, clones the polo ponies she rides for her championship team. In America, her lover is an environmental lawyer suing to save the Everglades from sugarcane pollution. These three worlds from different parts of the globe collide when the accounts of the hedge fund manager are hacked and the ransom demand is not money, but political lobbying and espionage.

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Main
mystery: What will happen when two women’s frozen eggs are switched?

Impossible
Goal: Discover who has stolen the royal family’s wealth and get it back

Main
Conflict: A woman switches her eggs for another’s, and the woman who is not aware is attempting to recover from her accounts being hacked and her funds stolen

Second
Mystery: What will happen with the proposed sale of Hitler’s genes in the U.S.?

Season
1 Arc: A confident hedge fund manager becomes desperate to fulfill impossible demands of hackers

Season
1 Protagonist Internal Journey: A hedge fund manager who is a mathematical genius but has few social skills must learn them in order to accomplish her impossible mission

PILOT INFO:

Pilot
Conflict:
Main
Characters Introduced:
Inciting
Incident of Season 1: </div>

Two women freeze their eggs in a cryogenics lab. The professor of the lab where the eggs are frozen, who has been excommunicated from his English Druid community, plans to steal some of the eggs of one of the women, who is royal-blooded, to create a child who will allow him to return to former glory in England.

[Sharon Scherle]

Jean’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is that it’s important to lay down a foundation starting with the big picture. The details can come later.

SERIES INFO:

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World: the dangerous world of tampering with the
past for a covert time travel agency
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Main mystery: the true nature of the entity behind
Vault Agency and Sharra’s connection to it.

Impossible Goal: discover Sharra’s nemesis and
stop him from killing her and destroying Vault Agency.

Main Conflict: He’s a rogue agent who wants to
destroy the agency. She’s naive and inexperienced loner who is destined to
save the agency.

Second Mystery: How is Sharra going to accomplish
this when she knows nothing and no one knows who the rogue agent is.

Season 1 Arc: from fleeing her assailant to
taking him out while navigating the uncharted waters to becoming a competent
agent.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: from an
inexperienced nobody to an independent and strong agent

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PILOT INFO:

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Pilot Conflict: Sharra’s boss tries to silence
her and she needs to disappear quickly
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Characters Introduced: Sharra, Lazarus,
Tanner, Faolan, Dash
Inciting Incident of

Season 1: Sharra must join
Vault Agency to get away and solve the mystery behind her parents’ death.

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[r. reid jr]

R. REID JR’S MOD 3 ASSIGN 1 Pilot Big Picture Components

“What I learned doing this assignment is how my assignment will be done in steps that will be needed to bring an audience to want to watch this entire season if don’t right.

1. Give us the basic Series Info:

SERIES INFO:

World: AN ALIEN SENT TO EARTH TO FIND SOME TECH OR HIS WORLD WILL BE DESTROYED, ONLY HE HAS A FOGGY MEMORY OF WHO HE IS AND A NEW WORLD AND WHO TO TRUST.

Main mystery: WHO IS THE WOMAN BEHIND THE TECH THAT IS CONTROLLING MINDS.

Impossible Goal: GET THE TECH AND NOT GET ATTACHED TO ANY ONE.

Main Conflict: WHO TO TRUST, AGENTS LOOKING OR HELP GIRL WHO IS VICTIM OF TECH

Second Mystery: CAN THE AGENTS BE TRUSTED ?

INTRIGUE-BRUCE MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO EARTH BEFORE

LAYERS: BRUCE HAS A FOGGY MEMORY OF WHO IS! IS THAT BECAUSE OF HIS SPACE TRAVEL OR SOMEONE DELIBERTLY MESSED WITH HIS MEMORY.

Season 1 Arc: BRUCE SLOWLY CHANGES AND ADAPTS TO EARTH AND THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM, EVEN THOSE TRYING TO KILL HIM.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: TRUST AND GETTING CLOSE TO SNOWY (1ST VICTIM)

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info:

PILOT INFO:

Pilot Conflict: A FISH OUT OF WATER IS SENT ON AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION TO RETRIEVE SOME TECH THAT CONTROLS PEOPLE’S MINDS AND BRING BACK TO HIS BOSS BEFORE A DEADLINE.

Characters Introduced: BRUCE (ALIEN), 2 AGENTS (GUY AND GIRL), MYSTERY WOMAN (WHO LAUNCHED THE TECH ON PEOPLE), SNOWY (FIRST VICTIM OF THE TECH), THE OLD MAN WHO ENCOURAGES BRUCE TO ENROLL IN A COLLEGE TO KNOW THE PEOPLE HE IS AROUND IN THIS NEW COUNTRY.

Inciting Incident of Season 1:

BRUCE IS ABOUT GRAB SNOWY WHEN THE AGENTS SHOW UP AND CORNER HER. SHE PUTS UP A FIGHT UNTIL SHE STOPS AND WE REALIZE WHAT HAS BEEN CONTROLLING HER HAS STOPPED. AND THE GIRL (SNOWY) HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF HER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. BRUCE REALIZES THIS IS THE TECH AND HOW IT WORKS IN REAL TIME.

[Rob Sutherland]

Rob’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment is the importance of having a very clear goal for the protagonist by the end of the pilot, a real “point of no return” that kicks off the rest of the season. I found I had to bring a major event (the kidnapping the Mirage’s confidante, Madeleine) from Episode 8 forward into the pilot to give the story more momentum from the beginning.

1. SERIES INFO:

World: An underbelly of demonic beings who prey upon humans and seek to bring the apocalypse

Main mystery: Who is the Mirage and where did he come from?

Impossible Goal: Rescuing Madeleine from the demons who have kidnapped her

Main Conflict: The Mirage and Julia battle demons, controlled by the Necromancer, Vincent Chamberlain

Second Mystery: What is Julia’s mysterious connection to the demons and to the Mirage?

Season 1 Arc: From the Mirage having no idea of who he is or why he exists to discovering the truth about himself, his past and his connection to the demons who have plagued him for centuries.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From an arrogant, angry, nihilistic loner to a person who forgives himself, lets go of the past, and allows others to help him.

2. PILOT INFO:

Pilot Conflict: The Mirage and Julia battle to find out why demons are trying to kill her

Characters Introduced: The Mirage, Julia Lockhart, Vincent Chamberlain, Detective Brendan White, Madeleine

Inciting Incident of Season 1: The Mirage and Julia must rescue Madeleine from the demons who have kidnapped her.