Day 1 Assignments

[Lois Wickstrom]

Lois’ Big Picture Components

What I learned… I think I have enough pieces to make this work.

SERIES INFO:

World: Small town where everybody loves skunks and participates in the Skunk Beauty Pageant

Main mystery: Why did Meff turn into a skunk?

Impossible Goal: Hide Meff’s were-skunk identity.

Main Conflict: protect the skunks from the owl / protect the skunk farm from Howland Mann

Second Mystery: Why does Howland Mann want the asteroid on the Skunk Farm?

Season 1 Arc: Meff is terrified about becoming a skunk – to – Meff loves being a skunk.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: Meff finds that being a skunk can be fun as well as dangerous

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info: On his way to his 11th birthday party, Meff gets sprayed by a skunk and turns into a skunk. An owl swoops down to eat him. He narrowly escapes into the hen house. Then his sister starts petting him and wishes she could be a skunk.

PILOT INFO:

Pilot Conflict: Meff dislikes become a skunk. An owl tries to eat him. His little sister pets him and talks baby-talk to him.

Characters Introduced: Meff Polecat, Howland Mann (in owl form), Polly Polecat, Meff’s mother, Aunt Abigail (in skunk form)

Inciting Incident of Season 1: Meff becomes a skunk

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[Lisa Molenda]

Lisa’s big picture components

What I learned doing this assignment is that I need to just keep going and not get hung up on details. Still learning that.

SERIES INFO:

World: Jane, a vegan who is a PHD student and takes care of her sick mother. There are vampires in this world, but they’re not lke the usual folkloric vampires

Main mystery: Who else ar vampires? How much control do they have?

Impossible Goal: Jane must get blood ethically or die, also she wants to end the human farms once she discovers they exist.

Main Conflict: The vampires have all the control and want to keep it that way. Jane wants a world where there is equality and autonaumy for all creatures

Second Mystery: Where does the blood come from?

Season 1 Arc: Jane’s mom is deteriorating and Jane has to decide if she will turn her to save her, or let the sickness take it’s course, and she will lose her mom.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: Jane is conflicted with herself because she needs blood to survive, but wants to be ethical

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info:

Jane goes to a vegan activism event outside a slaughterhouse, and gets run over by a slaughterhouse truck. Marc saves her by turning into a vampire.

She wakes up on Marc’s couch. Marc explains to her what happened, and that she has to choose whether to drink blood, or die. Jane realizes she left her sick mother with her brother. She rushes home where her brother is furious.

She goes outside to feed the squirrels, but they don’t trust her anymore. She’s very tempted by them and chases one into a tree. Ammo stops by her house to check on her. She can’t control herself and feasts on his blood.

PILOT INFO:

Pilot Conflict: Jane gets turne into a vampire, and needs to consume blood or die, but she’s vegan

Characters Introduced: Jane, Marc, Mina, Lucy, Vlad/Brad, Bram, Elizabeth, Heather, Ammo, Dr. Berkwood, Jane’s brother

Inciting Incident of Season 1: Jane gets turned into a vampire after being nearly killed by a slaughterhouse truck

[Griffith Lambert]

Module 3 Lesson 1

Griff’s Big Picture Components

What I learned doing this assignment: I realized that I have to tell this story in flashback, that is, the pilot must set up the inciting incident, then most of the episodes of Season 1 will give the backstory as to how we arrived at the inciting incident in the pilot.

Series Info:

· World: Suburbia near the US/Mexico border with Arizona; the corrupt world of immigration policy.

· Main Mystery: Where has the single mother of two teenage boys disappeared to and what does the daughter of the neighbor have to do with it?

· Impossible Goal: The boys must elude foster care and find Mom themselves.

Main Conflict: Mom was more focused on breaking a big story for her magazine than keeping the boys out of trouble, so they ended up in foster care.

· Second Mystery: The neighbor’s daughter got into a bitter dispute with Mom right before she disappeared. The daughter is also missing. What’s the connection?

· Season 1 Arc: The boys must stop fighting each other and learn to cooperate in order to find their mother.

· Season 1 Protagonist Journey: Two brothers, already feeling neglected with no father at home, have to discover each other’s strengths and weaknesses in order to work together in a dangerous environment once they hit the road to find their mother.

Pilot Info:

· Pilot Conflict: Brothers Randy and Todd are constantly at each other’s throats and their mother, Stephanie, is having no luck controlling them.

· Randy Sherwood – 17, compact and angry. Todd Sherwood – 15, Randy’s younger but bigger brother. Stephanie Sherwood – the boys’ single parent struggling to work a job she hates while looking for a better opportunity. Brad Collins – across-the-street neighbor, nerdy music teacher, used to be a rock star. Marcey Collins – Brad’s daughter (and Randy’s crush) who appears to be an aimless party girl but is hiding a much more serious agenda.

· Inciting Incident of Season 1: After a big argument involving the whole neighborhood and a few cops, the boys wake in the morning to find Stephanie gone. She remains missing, along with Marcey.

[Brenda Clarke]

MODULE 3
Big Picture Components
Not sure if there is enough to grip the audience into binge watching this? At least it’s a start.

SERIES INFO:

World: 1830’s England/Australia & Criminal Underworld

Main mystery: The disappearance of a household maid

Impossible Goal: To find where she is

Main Conflict: Harriet enters the criminal underworld to find answers

Second Mystery: Elliot narrowly escapes arrest whilst is lover is not so lucky

Season 1 Arc: From having your lover suddenly disappear to getting involved

with criminals.

Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: Harriet discovers her dark side whilst

Elliot finds his back bone.

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Info:

PILOT INFO:

Pilot Conflict: Harriet crosses both social and moral boundaries when she is in a lesbian relationship with her maid.

Characters Introduced: Harriet, Rosie, Edward, Richard, family, servants

Inciting Incident of Season 1: Rosie the maid hasn’t returned from her day off,

where is she?