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Day 2 Assignment
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Joseph Savage Day 2 Profound Premise Three Questions
The Profound Truth: People can be much more than they appear.
Audience change: To be more understanding that people may have far more depth than appears on the surface.
Vehicle: A nit-picking and entitled medical student finds meaning in life from learning to sew from a nursing home resident.
Synopsis: A nursing home resident falls and has to get a stitches on her forearm. The medical student assigned to sewing her up is gruff while she tries to make conversation. She looks at the result and it’s poorly done. She asks him what he wants to do in his training, and he says he wants to be a surgeon. She asks if he thinks he will actually get in if he suturing looks like that. He gets angry, but she says she can teach him. He blows her off, but later hears behind his back some of the attending ER doctors talking about his laceration repairs as hack jobs. He decides to at least apologize. He calls, and he finds out she is in a nursing home. He discusses his purpose of talking to her to the nurse, who strongly suggests he makes his apology in person. Then there are intrigues – she knows surgical knots, then she teaches him to sew with surgical instruments, etc. She explains her father was a surgeon. He learns about her. She is in the nursing home because she has terminal cancer. She gave up her fortune to build a hospital system in her native Senegal. Through her tutelage and by watching her suffer her illness with dignity, he becomes a compassionate and skilled doctor. He is accepted to Yale’s surgery program. He comes to show her the letter of acceptance, but as he walks in, all the nursing home residents stare at him and are in a buzz. He rushes to her room, knowing she has died. There is a media flurry outside her room and he bewildered. He learns she is not only alive, but has won a Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for her pioneering work in endoscopic surgery.
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What I learned doing this assignment is:
I hadn’t thought about how Walter Camp’s life and the story of how he influenced the development of American Football (I’m writing a miniseries bio pic–on episode 2 now–entitled “Gentlemen of the Gridiron” on the “Father of American Football”) might have an impact on people today.
Birgit’s First Three Decisions:
1. What is your profound truth?
“It doesn’t matter if you win or lose, it’s how you play the game–whether the game is football or life.”
2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
It doesn’t matter if you are a “star football player,” a “big man on campus,” or a “captain of industry” as long as you live your life playing by the rules, act like a “gentleman” or “lady,” and act like an all-around good sport.
3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
The embellished as-it-happened conflict.
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(Mark Smith)
Standing up for fairness may bring major change.
Fairness empowers everyone, not just a few select or chosen few.
THE EMBELLISHED AS-IT-HAPPENED CONFLICT
The assignment helped me step back and take a broad overview of my screenplays structure and plot…and hopefully will lead to a better, comprehensive beginning, direction, and end.
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Profound truth – all fear is in the mind.
Change – To believe anything is possible.
Entertainment – Embellished (a little bit) As It Happened – sharp-witted mother of three kids juggling life with her marriage, her kids, and her work whilst trying to escape definition as a one-dimensional person.
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What I have learned from this assignment is – There is layering that needs to go on to get to the best version of my story. And to not hold on doggedly to an idea, let it develop through this process.
The Profound Truth: It doesn’t matter if you are a movie star at the height of your career or a Cambridge-educated scientist changing the war with your inventions. If you are a female in that field in the 1940s your voice is silent and your work is unrecognized.
The change for the Audience. To understand that women scientists in the1940’s were not taken seriously or given equal recognition for their achievements
Entertainment Vehicle: Two women form an unlikely friendship, one is a movie star at the height of her career, the other a hidden Cambridge scientist. Even though neither of them will be recognized for their accomplishments. Both will change the world profoundly with their inventions
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Frank Jordan’s First Three Decisions (Day 2 Assignment)
In today’s assignment I learned I need to keep looking deeper and deeper for the Profound Truth (message) I am trying to get across; that Audience Change, not character arc, is what makes a film profound, and that the Vehicle I choose and Entertainment value are critical for success.
1. Profound Truth: Some things worth fighting for in life are greater than self. Love. Honor. Liberty.
2. Audience Change: Inspired to treat others with dignity, regardless of skin tone. Action speaks louder than words.
3. Entertainment Vehicle: Embellished True Story set in the Jim Crow south and Western Front during the First World War.
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Frank Jordan’s slight modification to Decision #3
Entertainment Vehicle: Embellished as-it-happened conflict set in the Jim Crow south and Western Front during the First World War.
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Chris Cornelius’ First Three Decisions
“What I learned doing this assignment is: that I need to re-inspire myself every now and then with the story of this movie. So now I just need to make it do the same for everyone else.”
1. WHAT IS YOUR PROFOUND TRUTH?
Life is an odyssey………. not a guided tour.
My dream has always been to be an old lady with entertaining stories to tell.
Gravestone, “She squeezed all the juice out of life.”
2. WHAT IS THE CHANGE YOU WANT AN AUDIENCE TO MAKE?
To leave inspired to find something, uniquely theirs, to do with their life that will make them feel the way motorcycling has made me feel.
3. THE ENTERTAINMENT VEHICLE IS: THE EMBELLISHED AS IT HAPPENED.
The various stages of a woman’s life story told through her motorcycle travels.
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What I learned doing this assignment is: You must dig deeper and keep exploring your profound truth and other areas of your screenplay.
Three Decisions:
The Profound Truth: The spirit of Christmas brings love and joy to any age.
The Change for the Audience: Love can overcome any obstacles. Want to fall in love.
Entertainment Vehicle: Special Event – Road Trip – Business
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“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”
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What is your profound truth?
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You can take control of your destiny and change the narrative.
What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
You can break the control of a bully and live life on your own terms.
What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
As a Metaphor and a Thriller.
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Joshua Doerksen’s First Three Decisions
WHAT I LEARNED DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT:
I learned that my story is fluid and flexible to be told within several genres without losing its core message.
PROFOUND TRUTH:
True success, self-worth, and legacy cannot be bought.
CHANGE MOVIE WILL CAUSE WITH AN AUDIENCE:
Character Arc: William “Bill” Bishop shifts from a self-made billionaire, genius industrialist; unapologetic and unrelentingly driven in the pursuit of wealth and leading his field, to an afflicted, aging man in a sanitarium; under observation for senility and mental fitness at the insistence of the board of directors of his own company, conflicted with his past, facing the impending loss of everything he built and wanting to leave a different legacy of good.
Audience Change: The Audience now believes that money alone does not buy happiness and that change is possible in all beings, through all acts large or small.
ENTERTAINMENT VEHICLE:
Metaphor – Life on Earth is a beginning – a practice for what’s yet to come, and more importantly, it is the opportunity we all are given to learn.
World – Historical events (aligned) with particular attention to Business and Law.
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Paul’s First Three Decisions
What I learned doing this assignment is that there are several entertainment vehicles that can be used to tell any profound story.
1) What is your profound truth?
You can save someone’s life by donating your organs.
2) What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
The change for the audience would be to consider organ donation and discuss your wishes with your family/next of kin, so that they are aware of your wishes.
3) What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
The As-It Happened Conflict by adapting a true story novel into a script.
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Brenda Lynn’s First Three Decisions
What I learned doing this assignment is that it can be difficult to consolidate down the profound truth of a story. But once you find it, it will help guide the story as you bring it to fruition.
1. What is your profound truth? Being spiritually satisfied can lead to a fulfilled life.
2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?: To look beyond superficial expectations to find the deeper meaning of life.
3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through? THE EMBELLISHED AS-IT-HAPPENED CONFLICT
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Learned from Assignment: I need to keep asking myself “what’s underneath that” to arrive at a deeper and truly profound truth. Feel like I haven’t gotten there with my story yet because it sounds too generic.
1. Profound truth: Develop your voice because no one is going to speak for you.
2. Change for the audience: Be curious rather than judge people who seem “different” from you. Empathize with others because you don’t know they’ve suffered.
3. Entertainment Vehicle: Embellished True Story.
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Scott Richards’ First Three Decisions
Profound Truth: Addiction, in any form, is destructive.
Audience Change: Look at where you can curb your own addictions to make life better.
Entertainment Vehicle: Pick a World; Addiction Recovery. facing the past and yourself in a tech-happy world.
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