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Day 11 Assignments
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Marie’s Living Metaphors
What I learned doing this assignment is that I had some good metaphors in my screenplay that I axed, not realizing how useful they are until reading this lesson. I put some back in and brainstormed on new ones – love the newfound awareness and now conscious use of this rather intuitive tool.
– 5 Should Work, But Doesn’t challenges:
A) 1.Take an Old Way that has worked for them before: Kay expects her money to solve her legal problem. 2. Have them use that Old Way, expecting success: Kay tells judge “I’ll write a cheque”, expecting that to be the end of it. 3. It fails because it is time for the character to start using the New Ways: The judge wants Kay to do community service, in other words: help others, and so her offer of money is not enough and she must extend herself in other ways (caring).
B) 1.Take an Old Way that has worked for them before: Kay doesn’t expect to actually have to carry out her court order. If her agent can’t get her out of it, then she will just show up and pass the duty along to others, like she always does. 2. Have them use that Old Way, expecting success: Kay has handed the job to Eunice, but Eunice is doing it in a way that will reveal to the judge that Kay isn’t fulfilling the court order. 3. It fails because it is time for the character to start using the New Ways: The new way indicates she needs to start thinking about others not just herself.
C) 1.Take an Old Way that has worked for them before: Eunice’s holding power over townsfolk by including or excluding them from her big annual party. 2. Have them use that Old Way, expecting success: Eunice excludes Sandra from her party. 3. It fails because it is time for the character to start using the New Ways:
At first Sandra is distraught but this ploy adds up to Sandra actively turning against Eunice, signalling that Eunice better update her attitude towards her neighbours. As David Lynch said (Twin Peaks): “Fix your heart or die.”
D) 1.Take an Old Way that has worked for them before: Eunice’s position as a teacher has helped her wield power by treating everyone like a student that needs to be disciplined. 2. Have them use that Old Way, expecting success: She tries to bully the cast into knowing their lines. 3. It fails because it is time for the character to start using the New Ways: One former student has a tug-o-war with her using his script, which she is trying to confiscate; when he lets go she goes flying and lands on her rear.
E) 1. Take an Old Way that has worked for them before: Sandra thinks that treating Kay like a child will get the same “proper” behaviour results from Kay that it did when she was actually a kid. 2. Have them use that Old Way, expecting success: Sandra rewards Kay by giving her her favourite candy. 3. It fails because it is time for the character to start using the New Ways: Kay throws the bag of candy in the garbage and stands up to her mom (Sandra) when she berates her.
– 5 Living Metaphor challenges
A) 1. Select an Old Way you want to highlight: Putting on play by rote rather than creatively. 2. Brainstorm metaphors that could represent that Old Way: Diagrams that go up on the bulletin board that show where actors move on what lines, like a football game more than a creative endeavour. 3. Use that metaphor to reduce the hold of the Old Way: When Eunice tries to have actors follow the blueprint for blocking it turns into chaos; she herself falls flat on her butt while trying to implement the forced moves.
B) 1. Select an Old Way you want to highlight: Excluding people. 2. Brainstorm metaphors that could represent that Old Way: Sandra’s exaggerated heartburn episode, which gets her out of having to meet Emoke. 3. Use that metaphor to reduce the hold of the Old Way: Sandra uses this ploy but it backfires when Kay completely rejects her for having done it.
C) 1. Select an Old Way you want to highlight: Eunice’s bigotry. 2. Brainstorm metaphors that could represent that Old Way: The theatre’s lift in the trap room. 3. Use that metaphor to reduce the hold of the Old Way: Eunice is placed on the lift and descends into the trap room against her will; Jimi says: “Just wanted you to know what it feels like to be put down.”
D) 1. Select an Old Way you want to highlight: People’s insistence on a binary view of almost everything. 2. Brainstorm metaphors that could represent that Old Way: The name of Emoke’s bookstore is Love & Squalor, suggesting a binary with no grey area. 3. Use that metaphor to reduce the hold of the Old Way: Emoke paints a tagline onto her store sign, now it reads “Love & Squalor, & everything in between.”
E) 1. Select an Old Way you want to highlight: Sandra controlling her grown child with reprimands or rewards. 2. Brainstorm metaphors that could represent that Old Way: Candy. Especially orange jujubes. Whenever Sandra wants to control Kay she presents candy as the possible reward. 3. Use that metaphor to reduce the hold of the Old Way: Kay throws out a bag of candy her mom got her – it’s her favourite kind, so getting rid of it is a big deal and definitely reduces the hold of the old way.
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5 Ways That Should Work, But Don’t
1.) He should be able to talk Hassan into giving him the play. It doesn’t. His ability to charm is wearing off.
2.) He should be able to talk Daniella into going with him. She chooses to stay.
3.) He should be able to talk his collaborator into leaving Zoraida alone. It doesn’t work. Miguel’s speech here should mirror his speech earlier when he takes responsibility for the escape.
4.) Tries to accept responsibility for the escape. O’ Driscoll loses his head.
5.) He should be able to talk Hamad into helping him escape, but can’t overcome Hamad’s sense of duty. Only Hamad’s love for Zoraida can overcome his sense of duty. Which will challenge Miguel’s Old Way in regards to Daniella.
5 Living Metaphor Challenges
1.) Miguel Values his freedom more than anything. So does O’Driscoll. O’Driscoll loses his head.
2.) de Garza’s play. de Garza has based his character on Miguel. Miguel plays the Daniella character.
3.) Hamad chooses his love for Zoraida over his sense of duty to Hassan.
4.) Daniella’s Old Ways. Reliant on the whims of men for her life. Hassan has a concubine killed. Daniella stands up to him. Risks her life for the other concubines. Over Miguel’s objections.
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Kathleen’s Living Metaphors
What I learned in this assignment is to be sure to have them experience failure to help the audience feel empathy.
Should Work, but Doesn’t
1. The night before her first day at the Company, Cassie tried on her regular bulky, baggy clothes to hide her skinny frame. Nia tells her point blank, not to revert back to that 7 year old girls trying to hide in plain sight. She is a business executive and her old way is no longer appropriate.
2. At her father’s will reading, Cassie tried to be quiet and disappear into the crowd and not call attention to herself. It didn’t work. Rhonda took advantage of her as she had done in the past. After being maligned for a few moments. Cassie had a change of attitude and accepted the challenge.
3. Cassie came into the office building and went straight to her office, closed the door. She took solace in being along. Still the scared introvert. After Rhonda began rumors about her, she found that she was no longer good alone, but she needed a team to help her maneuver the business world.
4. Cassie became comfortable working with her team and ignoring Rhonda and her negative energy. Separating herself from negative people used to work, but the Board reminded her that according to her father’s will, the siblings had to work together.
5. Logan declares his love for Cassie. She withdraws out of fear of being hurt because men always have. This should have worked, but the pain of seeing him ignoring her in the office everyday was throwing her “off her game”. She decided to give it a chance and let him in.
Living Metaphors
1. Cassie’s bulky clothes was a metaphor for her hiding place so people couldn’t see the real Cassie. Mia helped her to see her true beauty with a new outfit and encouraging words.
2. Cassie hesitating to go through the door of her father’s company door. The door was the metaphor of a brand new life or keeping the old way.
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