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Day 12 Assignments
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Dawn’s Level 3 Action Emotions
What I learned doing this assignment is to take the audience on an emotional ride through action.
SETUP: Hero and partner obtaining needed equipment in large container yard.
Max parks nose of large truck against cement wall. AC watches as she climbs onto the hood. (Suspense)
Max: “C’mon!” He shuffles out of his seat. “We don’t have much time,” Max says as she bends over with her hands cupped for him to step into. (Anxiety)
“I don’t need…” AC starts to say. Max exhales heavily. “We really don’t have time to play this game.” AC steps into her hand and she tosses him up onto the wall. AC struggles to lift his feet over as a blur passes over him and hits the ground. As he gets both legs over and peers down, he sees Max standing there waiting with her arms up. “Well? Let go!” AC drops to the ground beside Max purposely missing her outstretched arms. He gets up rubbing his shoulder. Max rolls her eyes and starts off. AC follows.
Max and AC jog up and down the rows of containers. She stops at the back of a dusty, dark green one. Rubbing the dirt from a small area, Max presses her finger against it. It lights up. She bends to let it scan her face. The back door of the container open with a slow cringe (Suspense). They climb in while booted gunmen spread throughout the yard (Danger).
“It’s empty,” AC says feeling the walls around him. When he turns back to Max, she’s gone (Surprise). “Max!” Suddenly her arm appears grabbing and pulling him through a digitil wall (Surprise). “It only looks empty. It’s like a really big screensaver,”Max says as she opens several lockers hidden behind the fake wall. She grabs a backpack and hands AC a second one. “Guard it with your life,” she tells him. “But I,” he starts but she shooshes him. (Adrenaline)
Max hears crunching gravel outside. The back door jiggles and then opens. Sunlight beams through. Two gunmen peer into the container. Max and AC hold their breath. (Danger)
Gunman: Empty! He closes the door. Max and AC let out breaths. (Relief)
Max pulls a tablet from her bag. A green screen displays with occasional blips popping up and quickly disappearing. “No way to tell how many are out there. They’re rotating shielding won’t let me get a lock,” Max informs AC.
“Rotating sheilding?” AC questions.
“It’s in their suits. Mine is in my blood. Little harder to maintain,” Max answers. She pulls a small patch from the bag and slaps it on her shoulder. She closes her eyes and breathes deeply. “Mmmm…better,”she moans.
“We can’t stay here,” AC warns. “I know that, but I can’t tell what’s waiting for us out there,” Max explains. (Anxiety)
“Well since your tech isn’t working. We’ll just have to do the old fashioned way. Go look,” AC says swinging the backpack over his shoulder. Max adjusts hers as well. They walk through the digital wall. Pausing at the door Max says, “I can’t hear anything.” (Suspense)
They step outside and start back to their truck. They’re almost there. “I don’t like this,” AC says shaking his head (Suspense).
Gunfire breaks out from above (Danger). Several gunmen atop the containers are firing. Max kicks on the containers. The vibration send the gunmen tumbling (Shock). “Split up! I’ll draw their fire. Try to get to truck!” Max instructs. The two run in opposite directions (Adrenaline).
AC dives into the old truck laying across the seat. He searches for keys. Then rips out the wires underneath the steering wheel and hotwires the engine. (Excitement)
Max fights off three gunmen, whirling around them before they can even realize her position (Excitement). She lays them out easily. Above a helicopter approach (Surprise). She runs. She’s met by half a dozen gunmen with the helicopter at her back (Danger). She scans the area looking for a way out. She spots a small yellow truck barreling toward her from behind. It’s AC (Surprise). He watches in shock as Max hurls the bag she’s carrying into the bed of the truck, runs up the side of a containter at and angle using it as a jumpoff to grab the leg of the helicopter rocking it back and forth to strangle it to the ground and then hauling it into the gunment clearing the way like bowling pins (Excitement). She cartwheels into the passenger seat of the truck next to AC as he continues to speed out of the container yard his wide eyes darting between Max and the road (Shock).
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The climax of my story seems like a good opportunity for danger, excitement and adrenaline. It is a battle scene where the protagonist and her army are way out numbered and lacking in weapons compared to the enemy. They must win by virtue of guerilla fighting in a terrain that is their home but unfamiliar to their enemy. They are fighting for the survival of everything and everyone they care about, so we watch a small, poor, incredibly motivated army headed for apparent slaughter manage to pull out a victory with inspiring leadership from our protagonist.
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Kay’s Level 3 Action Emotion
What I learned doing this assignment is a lot of my ideas are visual & not easy to put into words.”
Danger The group talks about alternative ways to take on Mac. They discuss very violent torture but then agree that is not their nature. Each relates memories of mental torture (from drugs, trauma, etc) and they decide to develop a mental torture to subdue Mac & force him to dissolve his fentanyl empire.
Excitement. As they relate memories & have flash backs they get excited of ways to use these mental actions.
Adrenaline.
They brainstorm & each offers unique ideas for the mental action they will
use on Mac. Each has skills that will
help. Larry will hypnotize with his voice. Maurice & DeVon will use
movement. Lee & Rose will engage
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