Day 11 Assignments

[Bob Rowen]

Bob Rowen’s Turning Point 1 Scenes

What I learned doing this assignment is how important it is to apply the 20% axiom so I can keep moving forward.

Opening scene introducing Forrest, supporting character

BEGINNING: Forrest Williams enters and is introduced to Virgil

MIDDLE: Forrest discusses what he’s heard about Virgil (ex-military, wants to get into the nuclear unit, and nuclear energy is safe)

END: Forrest tells Virgil nuclear energy is not safe, clean, or economical

COLD INSTRUMENT SHOP – LUNCHTIME

Their conversation is interrupted, as the Unit 1 door swings open with a bang.

MCCREA

Virgil, I’d like for you to meet FORREST WILLIAMS (early 30s). You two guys have a lot in common.

FORREST

How so?

MCCREA

You’re both ex-military and you both want to get into the nuclear unit.

FORREST

Only because that’s going to get me a bigger paycheck. So what’s your story, Virgil?

VIRGIL

I believe nuclear energy is the power source of the future and I want to get in on the ground floor of it.

FORREST

What branch of service were you in?

VIRGIL

Marines. How about you?

FORREST

Navy. I was on a sea rescue tug in the Pacific Proving Grounds during the mid-fifties where we were blowing up islands in the South Pacific. And what makes you think nuclear energy is the power source of the future?

VIRGIL

It’s safe, clean, and economical and we’re running out of fossil fuel.

FORREST

Yeah, sure, that’s the Company’s bullshit propaganda line! It’s actually none of those things.

OUTLINE OF ACT 1 TURNING POINT.

BEGINNING: Forrest accompanies Virgil to University library to research biological effects of radiation exposure.

MIDDLE: Forrest compares what PGE has claimed in the Company’s radiation protection training manual to their research findings.

END: Virgil realizes the Company and the AEC are lying to the employees and plans to do something about it.

WRITE ACT 1 TURNING POINT

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY – NIGHT

Forrest and Virgil are busy using the card catalogues, going to the shelves, and stacking books on the table. Forrest flings his brief case on the table along side of the assembled books.

FORREST

You’d better get your note pad out and start taking notes.

Virgil responds. And the two of them start feverishly going through the books.

VIRGIL

Hey, listen to this. Here’s a professor at Columbia who says, “There is no minimal or safe dose of radiation below which no injury occurs”. That my friend runs counter to PGE’s claim that our occupational limits are safe.

FORREST

Yeah, and the AEC backs them up!

They continue to scan the books moving them from one stack to the next. Suddenly Forrest pulls his copy of PGE’s Radiation Protection Training Manual out of his brief case.

FORREST (CONT’D)

Ha, ha. You’ll love this one. This Bowman Gray School of Medicine textbook says, and I quote: “Exposure to radiation over the total body shortens the life span. This is true whether the exposures to radiation are given over short or long periods of time.” Now PGE says on page 25 of its Rad Protection Training Manual that “There is no evidence that shows that continuous low-level irradiation contributes any appreciable amount to life span shortening.

VIRGIL

Are you telling me PGE is lying to its employees?

FORREST

Yep. Here’s the most blatant lie of all. PGE says, “The body has the ability to recover and repair damaged parts. It is capable of replacing cells which are damaged by radiation in the same manner as those damaged by mechanical, heat, or chemical injuries.”

They spend more time browsing the books. Forrest shoves a book over to Virgil.

VIRGIL

What’s this?

FORREST

Go to page 46 and read it to me.

Virgil is puzzled but turns to page 46 and starts reading to himself.

FORREST (CONT’D)

Read it to me.

VIRGIL

Okay. “One of he strangest and most perplexing aspects of radiation is its ability to leave its imprint on tissue in such a way that injury may become manifest after a long period of time known as the latent period,” Is that what you wanted me to read?

FORREST

Go on down to where it starts “The very fact…”

VIRGIL

Here it is. “The very fact that cause and effect are so widely separated in time makes it difficult to enforce strict rules about radiation safety. Frequently men who overexposure themselves develop a cavalier ‘I can take it’ attitude, based upon the lack of immediate ill effects, only to learn years later that they were not immune to damage.” I’ve got the feeling you’ve already perused these books.

Forrest smiles

VIRGIL (CONT’D)

These revelations changes everything.

[Robert Springfield]

Rob Springfield’s Turning Point 1 Scenes

What I learned doing this assignment is how there is no going back for the protagonist when the inciting incident and act 1 turning point occur.

OUTLINE OF ACT 1 TURNING POINT:

INT/EXT. SOFTWARE LABORATORY/STREET – DAY

BEGINNING: Mark sees a car parked across the street from the laboratory and gets suspicious.

MIDDLE: Mark investigates the matter. When he gets closer to the car he realizes that it is John Stein talking on the phone. He uses the app to disguise himself to get closer, without being noticed.

END: As he walks by the car he overhears John’s plan to steal the app and kill Dr. Green.

INT. SOFTWARE LABORATORY/OFFICE – DAY

BEGINNING: Mark hurriedly tells Dr. Green that John Stein and his crew are on their way to steal the app and kill if necessary.

MIDDLE: Mark tries to get Dr. Green to bolt asap. Simultaneously, the crew breaks into the building.

END: Dr. Green shows Mark an escape hatch in his office that leads underground. Mark leaves with the app.

EXT. STREET – DAY

BEGINNING: Mark almost exits a manhole, but one of John’s thugs stops him and they fight over the app in the street, as cars swerve past. Mark uses the app to regain contol but….

MIDDLE: John’s crew come from everywhere and surround Mark. He’s outnumbered…

END: EEEERRRRK….Jeff’s car SCREECHES up and levels several men. Mark jumps in, Jeff floors it, and they vanish with the app.

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[Harley Grant]

Assignment 11

Harley Grant’s Turning Point Scenes

What I learned doing this assignment is that I didn’t realize what a turning point scene was and now I can’t stop thinking of them in my favorite movies!

INCITING INCIDENT

INT. HOUSE – NIGHT

BEGINNING: Priyanka hears her front door smash open. She tells Sia to hide under the daybed and not to come out until she comes back.

MIDDLE: Priyanka encounters two masked invaders in her kitchen. One ties her to a table while the other searches for Sia. The invaders want to take Priyanka’s daughter for her ex-husband.

END: While tied up in her kitchen, Priyanka slips free and grabs a gun from one of the invaders and kills him. Then the other invader comes rushing toward her and she shorts him.

REACTION TO THE TURNING POINT

INT. HOUSE – NIGHT

BEGINNING: Priyanka stands shaking with the gun in her hand. She puts it in her purse and then goes to Sia’s room and gets her from the daybed.

MIDDLE: They quickly pack their bags.

END: Priyanka puts Sia in the backseat over her car and place a blanket over her. Priyanka pulls the car onto the street and siphons some gas. She walks back into the house, pours it all over her house, and sets it on fire. Priyanka runs back to the car, checks on Sia, and the house burst into flames as she speeds away.

[Arial Burnz]

Subject: Arial Burnz’s Act 1 Turning Point Outline

What I learned doing this assignment is…I think I’m finally getting the fast writing techniques. 50k-foot view. And that the turning point is that point of no return for the character.

AYLEN’S BEST FRIEND ENTRAPS HER

INT. VON ABEL ESTATE – NIGHT

BEGINNING: Aylen has just escaped custody and is now seeking help from her best friend’s father, Cormyn von Abel.

MIDDLE: When Aylen arrives late in the evening at the von Abel estate, she awakens her friend Kylantha asking for Baron von Abel’s help. Cormyn, however, is away on business, so he is unable to help Aylen, but Key asks what happened. In a flurry of information, Aylen tells her the story. Although it appears Key will help, instead Aylen’s best friend entangles her in a web spell. Aylen has no magic, so is unable to defend herself, but pleads with her friend to tell her why she is entrapping her. Key is finally honest about her contempt for Aylen, which she has kept hidden since they were children. Aylen’s engagement to Dylan – the man Key always thought she was going to marry – was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

END: Kylantha lets the city prefects take Aylen away to prison.

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