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Day 2 Assignment
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Julia’s First Three Decisions
What I learned doing this assignment is that I can build this story like a puzzle, starting with the profound truth, as long as I’m not too attached to the story/details I have in mind now. Also, I will probably discover a deeper profound truth underneath the one I have to guide/focus the story. I love how this assignment breaks this process down for us.
1. What is your profound truth?
Your real life is more beautiful than the life you imagined/planned/wanted.
2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
Inspired to see beauty/meaning in the boring/disappointing parts of our own lives.
3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
Right now, I’m thinking “Pick a World” = senior citizen center or community center. I was excited about this until I saw the more-entertaining examples. Room for improvement here?
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Christopher Carlson’s First Three Decisions
What is your profound truth?
– When real love beckons, do not fear it — embrace it.
What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
– The film will remind the audience that spiritual love is the most enduring love, as opposed to superficial love based on physical attributes or appearance.
What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
– The As-It-Happened True Story.
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What I learned doing this assignment is reminding myself that I’m writing this screenplay not just for my own benefit, but rather I’m trying to connect my story to an audience – don’t forget the audience!
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Cindi’s First Three Decisions
What I learned doing this assignment is that there is a difference between the character’s arc and the audience’s transformation. I also enjoyed learning that even if we think we have the “right” answers now, they will continue to grow and evolve with each lesson. Liberating!
1. What is your profound truth?
While Alzheimer’s is a horror, it also can be a pathway to meaning, presence, and love. Or, love doesn’t require memory.
2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
All negative events offer possibilities of healing and love if you are willing to stretch and grow.
3. What is the Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
Embellished As-It-Happened Conflict. Contained horror or drama.
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What I learned or was reminded of was the need for the audience or in my case, the reader, to transform, not just characters.
Profound truths are that beauty, love, happiness, and insights exist in dying, in hospices, and in climate catastrophes. I am writing the third novel of a trilogy with adaptations so characters are dying. The entire trilogy goes from 1998 to 2060 in NYC, New Paltz, and the Hudson River with evolving characters and three kinds of rock narrators, sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.
It is hard to make the end of life entertaining so I was researching fitness classes in hospices since a main character Jake is a fitness instructor who gets PD as his father is dying of ALS and his mom of Alzheimer’s, locked in and locked out. As a trainer and massage therapist, I treated all these diseases and my dad died of Alzheimer’s. So I created kids and grandkids to curb the catabolism. There will be disasters but I don’t want dystopia or apocalypse at the end.
My main character Jake’s optimism is challenged by magma rocks of the Palisades as co-narrators, and they are metaphors of the death angel because they are fiery rocks.
My first two novels are okay in terms of structure and are written in submission drafts, but this last novel is a mess so that is why I am trying to clarify it with screenwriting structure. My market is global and literary so everything doesn’t have to fit in the Hollywood paradigms but they are useful.
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Give us your three decisions.
1. What is your profound truth?
2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
4. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” (place at top of your work).Answers:
1: Your “family” can be anyone not just someone who shares your blood.
2: The audience will: look on others around them as part of their “family”.
3: The EV is the embellished-as-it-happened conflict.
4: What have I learned: I learned a true story is not necessarily a “true” story and I shouldn’t be worried so much about that if I need to make the story work. (And be interesting)
The original theme was not what I thought it was – it may not even be this one, so don’t sweat it. Yet.
Just write all the scenarios you see in your minds eye and figure the whole journey out later.
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Cara Rogers’ First Three Decisions
1. Profound Truth – Together we can overcome all obstacles.
2. Audience Change – Appreciate and focus more on strong family relationships to define success.
3. Entertainment Vehicle – Pick a World
4. “Cause as background” – we accept the profound truth as reality because it isn’t preached at us.
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