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Day 14 Assignment
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Lori Delivers Irony!
What I learned from this assignment is that irony is an excellent way to create intrigue. Thinking about irony caused me to look deeper into my characters’ reasons, motivations, and identities.
Insight – It’s okay to move on after someone close has died.
Irony – Thomas doesn’t want to celebrate Christmas this year after the death of his wife. However, when questioned what his wife would want him to do, he says, “She’d say, Thomas, don’t be silly. Christmas isn’t about me.” (reasons)
Irony – Though Thomas is trying to avoid Christmas celebrations, he tries to give a family in need the perfect Christmas he wishes he could have. (win/loss)
Irony – Thomas makes Miriam feel guilty, but that’s the last thing he’d want. (identity)
Irony – Thomas continually tries to write a sermon about hope when he feels there’s no hope. (motivation)
Irony – Thomas has to help at the play practice, which shows the ideal family Christmas, something he believes he can no longer have. (win/loss)
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What I learned doing this assignment is that there are some natural places to add irony into my script.
Insight: Death has a finality, closed adoption has no finality.
Irony – Margie loses her fiancé in an accident, Ros loses her child to the process of adoption. Margie comments that losing Pete was easier for her than Ros losing her son, because Pete’s death has a finality to it, wheres the loss of her son will leave Ros wondering for the rest of her days.
Insight: There’s more than one way to lose your child.
Irony – Matt’s adoptive parents who ‘chose’ him as a playmate for their natural born son have little interest in him after another ‘miracle’ son is born. They see Matt as different and hurl an accusation that he’s probably gay – (pure anathema to them). Their oldest (natural) son is gay and knows he can’t reveal this.
Insight: Sometimes we choose whether we gain or lose.
Irony – Matt is petrified he will lose his own first child to adoption. His pregnant girlfriend’s parents are supportive. His parents disown him. Her parents gain two grandchildren, his lose enrichment.
Insight: Things are not always what they seem.
Irony – Dave accuses Ros of preventing pregnancy while they were married. When his second marriage is childless we can guess that it’s not Ros’s ‘fault’ that there was no baby.
Insight: Words can come back to haunt you.
Irony – Dave receives a letter that forces him to realize that the words he used with Ros apply also to his own, adored, Mother.
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Jeff delivers irony……I learned that irony is a big challenge for me. I thought it would come to me as I went through the assignment but having a challenge. It’s tricky to me.. I know it when I see it in movies but can’t really explain it. Opposite doesn’t do it ……
A loss that is really a win….
Dude knocks on door but gets a loud resounding get outta here.
Einstein asks him if he wants to quit but Dude rethinks it and attacks the customer differently
Its a lot of work but he turns it around and wins much bigger.
Insight
Dudes dad talked to him just like that customer did and dude chose to keep going.
no dreams to big dreams……
Dude says I don’t do dreams and you want me to dream big ?It’s all too much
insight
Dude never had dreams
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Karen Tolliver Delivers Irony!
What I learned doing this assignment is having an Insight and finding two opposites to deliver the Irony was easier than I thought. I love the Wow factor it gives your film and makes an audience scratch their heads.
1. Insight: Don’t make a man the only source of your happiness.
Irony Opposites (A): Sharon makes Steven the center of her world gives him a lot of attention, then she catches him cheating on her.
(B) Sharon doesn’t make Steven the center of her world gives him no attention, then he cheats on her.
2. Insight: Team work makes the Dream work.
Irony Opposites (A): Sharon and The Girls confront Steven and his mistress in Aruba, working together and win the fight.
(B) Sharon and The Girls confront Steven and his mistress in Aruba, don’t work together and Steven wins the fight.
3. Insight: Find out what makes you special and Do It.
Irony Opposites (A): Andrea and Carol argue about responsibility.
(B) Andrea and Carol don’t argue about responsibility.
4. Insight: Too much competition can mean you’re self-absorb.
Irony Opposites (A): Steven gets jealous of Sharon winning Awards, steals from the company and makes her the fall guy.
(B) Steven doesn’t get jealous of Sharon winning Awards, doesn’t steal from the company.
5. Insight: Grow up and be independent.
Irony Opposites (A): Steven lives at his girlfriends moms house.
(B) Steven tells his friend grow up and stop living at his moms house, live on his own.
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Dale Delivers Irony!
What I learned doing this assignment is that, although I didn’t think I could find an example of each form of irony, by really thinking it through, I did. Which was cool.
Antonia discovers amazing details in her analysis of the stellar photos that enables her to create a more exact and nuanced classification system, BUT… Her boss, Edward Pickering, does not accept her system, but instead throws his support behind a simpler system created by her colleague, Annie Jump Cannon. (WIN/LOSE)
INSIGHT: Intelligence and capability alone do not always win the day.
Antonia throws herself into her task of calculating binary star orbits and even discovers a new binary on her own, but she only gets minimal credit for the work. (CREDIT)
INSIGHT: Being a woman doing science in the 1800s means you might not always get reconized for your contributions.
Antonia stops the work on her classification system and leaves the observatory. (WRONG THING/RIGHT REASON)
INSIGHT: Sometimes you have to made a radical decision to get people to pay attention to your needs.
It takes years for Antonia to get her long overdue credit – a deep want she has had. But she does rediscover her passion for astronomy by throwing herself into the study of a mysterious binary. (WANT/NEED)
INSIGHT: Let your passion lead you.
Antonia has struggled during her life to get the love and approval of her aunt. In the end she asserts her own identity and pride in who she is, despite the aunt thinking otherwise. (IDENTITY)
INSIGHT: It is more important to please yourself than to please others
Antonia gives up on her classification system ever getting recognized, but 30 years later, not only does it become the adopted system, but she even gets the Annie Jump Cannon award (that being the ultimate irony!) (DEALS)
INSIGHT: In the end, the truth will have its day.
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Lauren Delivers Irony!
What I learned doing this assignment:
Irony can be tricky to set up. But, utilizing this process of beginning with the insight and delivering it through an opposite experience, can create interesting and intriguing ways to present the new ways.
Insight: Life can change in an instant.– MOTIVATION: Getting your “need,” but losing your “want.”
Want: to be part of a loving family
Need: to destroy the organization1: She and her brother are reunited and have the opportunity to be happy after a lifetime of questions and heartache. She gives up her want/lifelong dream. She must sacrifice herself and destroy the organization to stop their hellish reign within the child trafficking world.
Insight: Our life’s purpose is usually right in front of us our entire lives.
– REASONS: Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons:
2: The woman discovers one of the children she kidnapped has had most of his organs removed and is slowly dying. He begs her to kill him. She suffocates him to end his suffering.
Insight: Death and sacrifice can bring life and renewal.
WIN/LOSS: a loss that is really a win:
3: The woman’s only friend within the organization tries to escape the compound. During the escape, he is trapped and the woman attempts to help him but he dies in the process. The woman makes the discovery which reveals the weakness of the organization.
Insight: Life can be truly unfair. But there’s usually a reason.
– CREDIT: Do something amazing, but the credit goes to another:
4: The woman saves the life of one of the children. Her rival takes the credit and blames her for something he did. She is reprimanded and sent to solitary. The child disappears. Her rival is promoted within the ranks of the organization. The woman learns from the haughty rival that the children aren’t being placed with wealthy families, they are being sold. This begins her vow to stop the organization.
– CREDIT: Getting credit for something amazing that you didn’t do:
5: An explosion rocks the compound. Some of the higher ups die/are injured in the blast. On the news, her brother Asher and his group are reported to be responsible for the explosion. In the news broadcast, she is seen talking with Asher on the street. She is beaten and interrogated by the organization regarding her knowledge of Asher’s group. They think she is in some way connected to the explosion. She has no prior knowledge of the attack. She didn’t believe Asher was hunting traffickers and searching for her. Now she realizes Asher is telling the truth.
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