Day 11 Assignments

[Terrell Harris]

Terrell’s Living Metaphors

What I learned doing this assignment is how to adjust my character’s gradient so the audience can accept the change. A lot of plotholes are getting exposed in the process.

John orders a fancy expensive drink that’s not available
Cyndi says he’ll have a beer
John turns his nose up at it at first, and as the evening gets more social he begins to drink it.

John tries to flex with his money but it’s not accepted, he is treated like family. “my family doesn’t treat anyone like this”
Whispers to Cyndi “aren’t these people poor.”
Cyndi says they just want to show you some love, it’s the culture down here
John is confused
Cyndi explains their world isn’t about money, ‘cause they don’t have any. It’s about what they do have. Love.
Takes John a long while to get it but it’ll sink in eventually, then he will act on love, himself

John ask if can spar Cyndi, says he trains a little bit.
Cyndi beats the crap out of him.
John says I thought you would take it easy, you’re the champ after all.
John training partners let him win all the time.
Cyndi, “I don’t give away wins, you got earn that from me

Cyndi is given an expensive pair of platinum stilettos with diamond straps as part of her disguise
She complains that she can’t fight or run in them
she is told is an elite gala she will infiltrate, not a fight or a track meet.
Complains she cant even walk in them
She has to practice walking in them (training montage)

Jocelyn corners Cyndi
Ask since she fights on the bagua circle if she’s familiar with I-Ching hexagram 54 and for her to know her place
Cyndi later finds out it’s a symbol of a lowly concubine
Jocelyn is ok with John indiscretions as long as Cyndi knows her place
Cyndi insists it not like that but Jocelyn tells Cyndi she is in her world now, you don’t tell me how something is I tell you

[andrea cabanas]

Andrea Cabanas, Living Metaphors.

I learned it’s a great way to see things from a point of view I haven’t seen before. It’s been a bit difficult for me to find other ways. Since the beginning of this course, my main character changed considerably. I’m in the process of rewriting scenes, changing them more than I thought I would.

Challenges – should work but doesn’t

Zoe goes on a date with a guy. She’s enjoying it until she sees a gay couple nearby (or someone else), gives an excuse, and leaves the guy behind.

Challenges – Living Metaphor

– Zoe finds a butterfly on the ground, where it can easily be stepped on, carefully places it in her hand and releases it in a safer area. A stranger sees it and says something about ‘let it free’, making Zoe think about her own life.

– Zoe sees the pastor of their church with a man and questions who’s the real sinner.