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Day 13 Assignment
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Lori Delivers Insights Through Conflict
What I learned doing this assignment is to look deeper. Conflict is a vehicle that can bring insights into my characters and their situations.
Conflict to express insight-
1. A plan goes wrong:
Thomas tries to give a family in need the perfect Christmas but causes problems for them instead.
2. Conflict uncovers a secret:
Thomas continually struggles to write his Christmas sermon about hope because he feels all hope is lost.
3. Conflict brings out the true nature:
Thomas feels awful when he turns down Miriam’s gift. He truly cares about his town and congregation. He would never want to hurt someone’s feelings.
4. A plan goes wrong:
The Christmas play that shows an idyllic family celebration throws Thomas into depression.
5. Falsely accused:
When Thomas upsets a little girl at play practice, she accuses him of not liking Christmas.
6. Stakes are raised:
With every passing day on the calendar, Thomas is one day closer to facing his worst fear.
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Jeff delivers insight through conflict.
What I learned from this assignment is a lot. There’s opportunities throughout my script for revealing insights. I feel a breakthrough has happened in my writing and I am so excited to see this and learn this.
A fight
Gamelgard is starting a fist fight and Einstein turns the fight into a game where gamelgard is forced to reveal his huge issue.
Stakes are raised
Jen gives possible customer a “I doubt it” shows her the filth that lurks in her home
Plan goes wrong
You are knocking on the wrong door dude. I don’t have money and don’t need your services. Don’t knock on my door again.
Later dude knocks on door and delivers insight.
Verbal abuse
Young boy gets an earful from someone who doesn’t want to be disturbed without saying anything this boy delivers insight into why he never talks to adults
I have a couple of these in story already but didn’t know what I was doing but looking through script there are dozens of opportunities.
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What I learned doing this assignment is that some ‘incidental’ events/conversations in my play need their own scenes, and some scenes have too much dialogue and not enough action.
Insight -Sometimes we need to write a new page for ourselves to appreciate that life is beautiful.
Conflict is that Ros’ flatmate has moved her engagement ring to her right hand a year after her fiancé has been killed at work.It’s a small town in the 1950s and Margie out and about socially is angering her dead fiancé’s family of multigenerational townsfolk.
Conflict to be delivered with conversation between Margie and her fiancé’s upset sister who feels Margie must have forgotten her fiancé.
Insight -Violence of any sort is abhorrent, and sexual violence is not in a separate category.
Conflict delivered by Ros’s non-consensual pregnancy.
Conflict is delivered by Ros choosing not to report her rapist at a time when Courts proceeded with the view that somehow a girl provoked rape, or had a sexual history (so she definitely provoked the assault ) in a society with an atmosphere of ‘Boys will be boys.’
Insight -There’s no ‘one size fits all.’
Conflict is the doctor delivering Ros’s baby referring to ‘You girls’.
Conflict delivered by the doctor telling the nurse not to provide pain relief to Ros and the nurse quietly delivering what her job allows in terms of relief, after the doctor has left.
Insight -Tremendous devastation and havoc can destroy lives when a few words are spoken out of turn.
Conflict is someone recognizing Ros from her pregnancy days 13 years prior.
Conflict is delivered when the woman tells her husband who in turn tells Ros’s husband (his new boss) and the marriage ends somewhat violently.
Insight -Every challenge is a chance to learn something new.
Conflict is Matt knowing his schoolgirl girlfriend is pregnant.
Conflict is delivered when Matt tells his parents that he and Louise are to marry, with her parents’ permission and blessing, and wants his parents to accept Louise’s parents invitation to dinner for the two sets of future grandparents to get to know one another; and the total reaction is to demand Matt’s disconnection from the family.
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Dale’s Delivers Insights Through Conflict
What I learned doing this assignment is that although argumentation is generally my “go to” form of conflict that there are other kinds of conflict to explore.
INSIGHT – You must stand up for your own worth and integrity.
Antonia stands up for herself with her aunt in the following ways:
Through action – by wearing her normal clothes to dinner, rather than changing to suit her aunt’s demands.
Through argument – by calling her aunt out on being “old school” – on thinking an intelligent woman must hide it, and stand behind the man, rather than on her own.
Antonia stands up for herself to Pickering in the following ways:
Through argumentation – by arguing for the importance of her classification system
Through action – by leaving HCO, thus leaving Pickering in the lurch.
Through refusal to comply – with Pickering’s demand to hand her work over to another HCO employee
Antonia stands up to the scientific community:
By presenting her system, despite her shyness, to an important scientific gathering
By refusing to give up on making a difference to science, despite setbacks (which she does, not only in her original area, but in others ).
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Karen Tolliver Delivers Insights Through Conflict
What I learned doing this assignment is once again I’m floored at the way to get my insights across to an audience. I didn’t know it was done so intentionally in a project. Thank you.
1. Insight: Don’t make a man the only source of your happiness. Learn to get it within yourself first.
Conflict: A fight.
Ways to Deliver: Sharon made Steven the center of her world then she catches him with his mistress in Aruba.
2. Insight: A secret is revealed.
Conflict: An argument.
Ways to Deliver: Carol tells Sharon and the girls, her husband David has cheated in the past.
3. Insight: Team work makes the Dream work.
Conflict: Physical confrontation.
Ways to Deliver: Sharon and the Girls confront Steven and his mistress face to face.
4. Insight: Find out what makes you special and Do It.
Conflict: Argument.
Ways to Deliver: Andrea and Carol argue about responsibility, they all end up talking about their careers and guide Andrea to find hers.
5. Insight: Too much competition could mean you’re self absorbed.
Conflict: Competition.
Ways to Deliver: Steven gets jealous of Sharon winning awards for her work, so he steals from the company and makes her the fall guy.
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Lauren Delivers Insights Through Conflict
What I learned doing this assignment:
The process of using conflict to reveal insight. Begin with the end / insight in mind and set up the conflict to deliver it.
1. With your list of the New Ways / Insights you want audiences to experience, go through these steps:
Step 1. What is the New Way / Insight you want to deliver?
Death and sacrifice can bring life and renewal.
Step 2. What kind of conflict could that insight show up in?
1 Falsely accused
2 Physical confrontation
3 Stakes raised
4 Argument
5 Power struggleStep 3. Brainstorm ways you might deliver the insight through the conflict.
Insight: Death and sacrifice can bring life and renewal.1: Falsely accused
The woman believes her family abandoned her and the organization kindly took her in. Asher tells her of her good upbringing and the love he and their mother has for her. The woman lashes out in a rage. Asher shows her a photograph of the three of them together. He tells her how their mother was murdered in an attempt to prevent her from being taken.
2: Physical confrontation
A little boy attacks a guard. It’s revealed his little sister is being raped by the guards. The boy dies during his punishment but it brings to light the abuse his sister has been enduring. The woman is able to better protect the little girl after the boy’s sacrifice.
3: Stakes raised
The woman is placed in solitary confinement for sharing some of her meal with one of the children. She escapes through a passage and discovers dozens of pregnant teenagers in this separate portion of the compound. They are chained to the wall. The woman finds some are near death. One teen calls the woman by her name. The woman asks how she knows her. She says she remembers the day when she took her from the street. The teen dies as she gives birth. A new little life in this terrible world. The woman holds the baby and is overwhelmed by the scene of so many young girls in this horrifying existence.
4: Argument
Asher and the woman have a yelling match over her decision to return to the compound to save to children instead of leaving with him. Both have sound points. But the woman wins out in the end telling him she’s lived her life. The children are merely beginning their lives. They must be given the chance to live a better life. She knows the compound better than he does and believes she can accomplish the rescue.
5: Power struggle
One of the woman’s rivals tries to outshine her in the number of children taken from the streets. He hates her because he feels she’s treated better than the other Collectors. He attacks her and is severely beaten and reprimanded. He tells the woman she will not live through the night. As he and the woman scour the city, in a fit of rage he grabs two children and runs down the middle of the street. The children’s father pulls a gun, threatens to shoot him, gives chase. The collecting vehicle is not there to pick up the stolen children. He continues running, the father shoots him in the head, dropping the children. The woman gathers the children from the busy street and their father points the gun at her. She releases them back into their father’s arm. The woman lives another day.
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