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Day 2 Assignments
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Rob Bertrand’s 3rd Act Structure
What I learned: I learned the industry standard for a 3rd act structure. Now that I’ve studied it closely, I see it in every movie that I watch.
1. What is it that fascinates you about this story?
What fascinates me is the idea that no one is really who they seem to be. Everyone has something to hide.
2. What is the main conflict of the story?
The main conflict is the lack of communication between Annie and Jack. Both blame each other for the death of Nora.
3. What is the main goal/need of your protagonist?
Annie’s main goal/need is to live her true self. (Come out to her father)
4. What is the character arc of your main characters?
Annie Andrews goes from a depressed teenager, ashamed of her sexuality to a fiercely confident, self-assured young adult.
Jack Andrews goes from an alcoholic in denial, whose unable to connect with his daughters, to a recovering alcoholic with 12 months sobriety and a willingness to open up.
5. How do you want this movie to end?
I want the movie to end with the hint that Danny is still out there, hiding. Maybe in your walls.
Give a short description of how each of these structural steps
will occur in your script.1. PLOT POINT 2 —
It is revealed that the house is not haunted by Nora Andrew’s ghost. Danny Laplante has been living inside the walls, faking the paranormal activity.
2. CRISIS — The decision point.
Annie must decide if she’s going back into her house to find her father, or go for help. She decides to face her fears.
3. CLIMAX —
Annie must face off against Danny, who’s taken on the identity of Nora Andrews and is holding Jack Andrew’s hostage.
4. RESOLUTION —
Danny Laplante is arrested. Annie confronts Danny in the hospital and forgives him. Annie also comes out to her father, who’s accepting. Jack reveals that he went to rehab and is now one year sober. Annie finally cries over the death of her mother. (she hasn’t until this point.) Danny disappears.
5. FINAL PAGE — The final minute of the movie.
The film ends with a new mother and her two kids entering their house with groceries. Furniture has been moved around. Food on the counter. Hints that Danny Laplante has found some new victims. Seeds for a sequel.
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C. What I learned: I overcomplicated this storyline with too many characters. Outlining the ending a bit helped me figure that out. I don’t need that many to get the point across but it would good to sprinkle in some role players to move the story forward.
A. Answer the 5 questions below so you have a good understanding
of the foundation that needs to be considered as you create your
ending.
1. What is it that fascinates you about this story?
Dehumanization through the means of sport and competition.
2. What is the main conflict of the story?
A Mexican mother must protect her two sons from a gangster trying to collect a debt. But to get them safely across the US border, they must avoid the drones that are being controlled by a drug smuggler secretly working for the border patrol to avoid prison time.
3. What is the main goal/need of your protagonist?
Protect her son from the underworld in their hometown and illegally cross the border to get them to safety.
4. What is the character arc of your main characters?
Irma has always had poor luck so she always plays it safe and tries to maintain control over her sons but she learns to take risks and realizes that her sons will need to one day learn to live without her.
Part to be changed: Irma being overly protective and careful of her children. Never taking risks.
Biggest fear: Her two sons being taken to work for the gangsters that are after them.
Completion of arc: Irma realizes the only way to save her sons is to sacrifice herself and let her sons go.
5. How do you want this movie to end?
Irma realizes she is the main target so she distracts the drones so that her sons can make it safely to Texas. Since, they are without a guardian, the US government have no choice but to take care of them until they are of an appropriate age to be deported. Because she spoils the drug smugglers operation, she is killed and he is caught and charged by authorities.
B. Give a short description of how each of these structural steps
will occur in your script.
1. PLOT POINT 2 — The men that are after them are actually intentionally leading them towards the border patrol so that they get sent back. But while the thugs are after her sons, she realizes that the drones are after her. They find a drone charging station and destroy as many as they can. With no drones after them, they have a chance to make it across undetected.
2. CRISIS – After running out of food and water, Irma and her sons have no choice but to make a move towards the border. They are soon discovered because the poker chip that Sapo gave to Antonio is a tracker.
3. CLIMAX — Irma lets go of her sons and leads the drones away from them to help increase their chances of making it across the border undetected. The final drone is being controlled by the drug runner working with the BP. He has no choice but to follow her because their are bets placed on her success. If she loses, he wins big. But if the sons cross the border, he goes to prison.
4. RESOLUTION — Irma dies in the process of leading the drones away. The boys make it safely across and are take to a detention center where they are clothed and fed.
5. FINAL PAGE — Frank is exposed for his crimes after it is revealed that he is running a gambling ring on the dark web. Irma is martyr and a national hero in Mexico but none of the news makes it to the states. Without a guardian boys are taken care of by the US government. They are fostered by Mexican American citizens who know their story. Frank goes to prison. Sapo continues running the casino.
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I understand every screenwriting structure ever written about, but I can’t apply them properly to my project and that is what I must do now, no matter how frustrated I get.
1. What is it that fascinates you about this story? Originally I was fascinated with the personification of rocks, something that doesn’t work in a film, but is part of my Green activism and belongs in the three novels. Then I was fascinated and appalled by the massacre of aging especially with neurodegenerative diseases. Then I was fascinated with how Jake could offset this suffering with fitness and wellness. Then I was appalled by the behavior of serial killer/rapist/arsonists. I put these two stories together in a tandem-competitive narrative via the Profound course for Jake and the Pro series for Leo/BB/Betty’s serial killing and sex change. Linda Aronson likes tandem competitive narratives and they work well with some novel adaptations. Note that I have complete drafts of the first two novels, but this last novel is making me crazier than COVID.
2. What is the main conflict of the story? STEMGARCHS versus EE and the people. Not sure Green activism exists in the film except as part of human health in the challenges of pandemics, diseases, and aging. I tried to keep the genre pure and clean but it didn’t work. I must combine the serial killer secrets with the transformational drama especially because I am so bad at suspense. Hence, comedy, drama, fear, and suspense are all needed.
3. What is the main goal/need of your protagonist? To survive.
4. What is the character arc of your main characters? Jake wants to be healthy as long as possible to help others and especially his extended family and for that he needs the STEMGARCHS Brain Buffet, Ibrahim wants to depopulate the world via STEMGARCHS with him on top, Betty wants to hide her crimes, and after the sex change, wants to keep them hidden but she loves killing, Litonya wants to save the earth.
5. How do you want this movie to end? I don’t know. I am looking at the world’s worst endings as well as the best to get ideas. I can make an arbitrary decision, but I am overwhelmed because the most important thing is finishing my third novel so I can publish my trilogy. The last chapter of my trilogy is a medley among all the rocks, the second last chapter would be a conclusion after the screenplay has ended with the natural deaths of the main characters from the first novel, and the third last chapter, Chapter 23, would be the end of the screenplay. Instead of 2060, I think the screenplay must end in 2040 or 2035 but no earlier. The screenplay should end on the boat although the parting shots may be at All Souls church or on the cliffs of the Palisades.
B. Give a short description of how each of these structural steps will occur in your script.
1. PLOT POINT 2 — A major twist that sends the story towards
its final destination.PP2 comes when Jake and his kids suspect Betty’s past after historical research, Jake’s mother dies of Alzheimer’s, Jake’s Parkinson’s is worse, and Litonya and Ibrahim secretly marry.2. CRISIS — The decision point. After Jake confronts Betty with her crimes, they agree to poison Ibrahim and give everyone the Bright Space Brain Buffet as hush money.
3. CLIMAX — Bring the Protagonist face to face with the
Antagonist to face his biggest fear. But when Litonya and Jake arrive, Ibrahim and Betty aren’t really dead, although sedated, and Betty shoves Jake and Litonya into the lower deck, their no-exit crucible. The climax ends when Anahu and Aanadi, Kisele and Delphine, Orhan and Nikos arrive to save them.4. RESOLUTION — After the informal trial of the psychopath Betty and sociopath Ibrahim, Betty opts to finish him off without a trace, professionally, and to poison herself with delicious food so she can rock gently to sleep on a boat, arguing that this is a happy ending to a violent life. Is she sorry for her crimes? She says the BBBB could correct APD if used properly. She gives her body to NYU Langone for research on APD. Could Ibrahim fuel the world with an endless supply of Brain Buffet drugs while giving Ted Talks? What about his marriage to Litonya? Or should they all have a physical fight so that Ibrahim can accidentally fall overboard? None of them want to be caught killing him especially because of STEMGARCHS. But who will get the Brain Buffet drugs from STEMGARCHS if Ibrahim is killed? Kisele?
5. FINAL PAGE — The final minute of the movie. It could be Betty rocking on the boat supered over a baby rocking in a womb but I need final images for the rest. Could they be climbing the Palisades rocks as a family? Litonya and Jake on the seesaw. Kisele giving the Brain Buffet to everyone at All Souls church. I still haven’t decided how Ibrahim will die because they need a constant supply of the Brain Buffet and he is the only one who has it. But his death is essential for others to live well.
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Janeen’s 3rd Act Structure
What I learned doing this assignment is I need to rearrange some of the events in my final act to support the structural steps.
FIVE QUESTIONS:
1. What is it that fascinates me about this story? Exploring whether mind control and intentional medicine techniques are legal and ethical now that they have been scientifically proven to work. <div>
2. What is the main conflict of the story? Daniel’s abuse of his wife Amber is escalating. With a restraining order against Morgan, can she help Amber escape before he kills her?
3. What is the main goal/need of your protagonist? Morgan needs to find her place in the world. With an extremely successful husband, her trophy wife status simply isn’t enough. She wants to leave her own mark on the world.
4. What is the character arc of your main characters?
Amber goes from totally hopeless abused wife to woman willing to kill to protect herself and her kids.
Morgan goes from lost trophy wife to powerful advocate for abused women and practitioner of mind control and intentional medicine to help the abused.5. How do you want this movie to end? I want Amber to be exonerated for killing her abusive husband, to be strong, capable, and providing for her kids. I want Morgan to be good at her mind control/intentional medicine techniques and to feel at liberty to help anyone she sees in need without fear of legal retribution.
B. Short description of how they will occur in the script.
PLOT POINT 2 — Amber kills her abusive husband in a premeditated, calculated way. </div>
CRISIS — Amber is prosecuted for murder and Morgan is prosecuted as an accessory to murder.
CLIMAX — Amber and Morgan are on trial.
RESOLUTION — Amber is exonerated (self-defense) and Morgan’s “work” is deemed to be as blameless as “thoughts and prayers” — she’s exonerated too.
FINAL PAGE — Another woman approaches Morgan about her neighbor’s spousal abuse. Morgan smiles and says about all you can legally do is “thoughts and prayers” and smiles — we know she is going to continue to try to save women from abuse.
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Jodi’s 3rd Act Structure – Day 2
It makes you sort through what’s important and how to cut through and get to the important things at hand.
1. What is it that fascinates you about this story?
It fascinates me how many people try to control the reproduction rights of women, even if it causes suffering and destruction. Don’t tread on me.
I can go into a much more in-depth answer about this, but I know we’re only supposed to keep it to one sentence.
2. What is the main conflict of the story?
Pam sees the hypocrisy of many people. She’s the little guy fighting the system even though the real statistics are that the majority of people in this country want some form of pro-choice, but very aggressive legislatures in states like Texas are creating systems that are turning citizens against each other in order to ban female reproductive rights.
3. What is the main goal/need of your protagonist?
Pam wants to win the election to start reversing the destruction the ban has caused for hundreds of thousands of children and women and the abuse, neglect and poverty it has catapulted onto them. Of course white males are doing better than anyone in any other demographic in the country as they have held on to their superiority and power for the time being by creating this law. She also needs to be accepted again into her family. She has a very different religious belief than they do, but that should not separate them.
4. What is the character arc of your main characters?
Pam Karras: Learns how to take public command. She has always cared about others, but has found convenient ways to walk away because it’s been too difficult to stand up and be in the spot-light to be grilled or favored. She learns how to do this, and that she won’t die if people don’t like what she has to say. She also learns how to be more respectful of hearing others speaking, she wasn’t very good at that before.
Elizabeth Bailey: Learned how to be strong. She finally found her voice with her support group and a way to heal. She realized the road she took was the wrong one, once knowing that, she freed herself up to finding better ways to live and work with her pain of the loss of her Daughter.
Thomas Welles: Learned how to accept his Daughter with her differences. He was tested as a Pastor with a lamb closest to him in his flock. She strayed. He let her. He found his crook. They found each other again.
5. How do you want this movie to end?
I’m actually still tossed about this one. On one hand I want Pam to win the Governorship by a landslide which shows ‘hope’ to women of this nation that their reproductive rights will not be tampered with, messed with, taken away by (mostly) white conservative men (Supreme Court, Senate, State Legislatures). On the other hand, in these bible belt states the conservatives usually win, so maybe I should have Pam lose and some how have some form of greater activism waiting for her. Or, the ebb and flow of underhanded and diabolical unethical voting shenanigans and she wins by a razor thin edge. I’m still sitting on the fence on this.
B. Give a short description of how each of these structural steps will occur in your script.
1. PLOT POINT 2 — Pam’s Dad’s conscientious objector status is threatened to be exposed.2. CRISIS — She wants to help her Dad but also wants to fight for all women’s freedom of choice, she decides to continue in the fight for all women of the nation.
3. CLIMAX — Shenanigans behind the scenes at local voting booths. Tallies are off. Recounts are demanded. Pam’s Dad is with his Daughter to support her, not his beloved Governor in the end.
4. RESOLUTION —
Pam wins the election, everyone is happy.
Chloe and John hook up and Thomas has his congregation back.5. FINAL PAGE — The Governor’s Daughter Madison exits a care
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Amy’s 3rd Act Structure
What I learned doing this assignment is that even though my ending my not have been great already, I can make it better and go back and change the rest of the script to match.
1. What is it that fascinates you about this story? Being torn between family obligations and a career
2. What is the main conflict of the story? Andrea finds her identity in her career, but she is sacrificing her family in the process.
3. What is the main goal/need of your protagonist? Goal: To become a network anchor. Need: To realize that she is enough.
4. What is the character arc of your main characters? Andrea goes from being selfish and focused on her career to being focused on her family and putting them first.
5. How do you want this movie to end? With Andre and Josh back together and Andrea deciding that she is going to put her family over her career.
B. Give a short description of how each of these structural steps
will occur in your script.
1. PLOT POINT 2 – Andrea is given a chance to show her stuff to the network through a national breaking news story, but it’s all happening at the same time as her daughter, Chloe’s dance recital.
2. CRISIS – Something happens before the dance recital. Chloe needs Andrea.
3. CLIMAX –Andrea exposes Meagan (she started the fire at the lab) on air. She then proclaims that she’s signing off to watch her daughter’s dance recital causing chaos at the TV station and the network. She doesn’t get the network anchor job, but she gets her family back. Josh realizes that Andrea was right about Meagan all along.
4. RESOLUTION – Andrea shows back up at the lab back to present day. She realizes that the present and the future have merged and that her relationship with Josh and her kids are the same as she left them in the future.
5. FINAL PAGE – At Benjamin’s baseball games, he gets to pitch and strikes the hitter out. He looks back at his mom, beaming. Andre and Josh kiss.
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PS 80- Michelle Damis 3<sup>rd</sup> Act Structure
What I learned doing this assignment is that I have a hard time thinking my creativity fits in the proper boxes, that’s why sometimes it would be helpful to get to ask questions to see if I’m really doing what I think Im doing.
1. What is it that fascinates you about this story? I’m fascinated by things not being as they seem, in finding out the hidden reason and on turning the idea/concept of good and evil on its head. Also the “grass in always greener” concept and how people can change when they experience something new.
2. What is the main conflict of the story? The main conflicts are that Osgood is a Vampire with no meaning to his existence and thinks he has done everything, there is nothing new. The other conflict is the reason why Nina is so awful to her mother.
3. What is the main goal/need of your protagonist? Osgood needs to find something to live/exist for, but he of course doesn’t know he does.
4. What is the character arc of your main characters?
The Vampire: Osgood goes from a lonely, uncaring, vampire with disdain for humans to wishing he was human again so he could be part of a family.
Nina-The Daughter: goes from an angry, mean daughter with a chip on her shoulder to confessing a secret, forgiving her mother and finding peace.
Jim-The Dad: The gentle man that wouldn’t hurt a fly to being willing to kill to save his family and Ted.
Marin-The Mom: Marin goes from being confused and hurt by her daughters treatment of her, to understanding, forgiving and confessing her own deep secret.
5. How do you want this movie to end?
I want this movie to end with Osgood finding purpose but also finding potential closure to his exisence, and Nina and Marin coming to an understanding.
B. Give a short description of how each of these structural steps
will occur in your script.1. PLOT POINT 2 — Marin and Nina are kidnapped by the Council of Vampires
2. CRISIS — Osgood and Jim must save.
3. CLIMAX — They are all in danger, they realize just how special Jims blood is and the Nun is revealed and her major twist.
4. RESOLUTION — They escape the vampires only to find Osgood in danger of the sun. They say their heart felt goodbyes to him….but…then the family uses their bodies for a full day to keep him covered until it is night again.
5. FINAL PAGE — The audience learns that Osgood has continued on as a steward for the family and the planet, and he has a vile of Jims blood that will allow him to peacefully die when he is finally ready.
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Elizabeth’s Third Act Structure:
What I learned: to—after I “re-thought” this from a high level using an entirely blank page—go back to those earliest exercises Hal had us do, find forgotten nuggets, then integrate them into a new iteration.
Hal’s Questions:
What fascinates you about this story: Narcissism is a form of blindness. Freud’s narcissism blinded him to the joy of the communal. What if: we’re all (no matter our age) an integral part of an intricate tapestry/symphony of matter/energy, and while we can much better understand ourselves by digging internally, we’ll never begin to fully grasp the meaning/joy/hope that can only be seen when we look out of ourselves and see how our particular infinitely unique threads and notes fit/harmonize with everyone else’s in the tapestry/symphony of the universe. What if: even our traumas and pain help us incarnate and sing what we’re meant to (Freud’s grief leads to psychoanalysis). What if: the harmonies of the universe are emergent properties of infinitely singular events (of love and work) that become a Rejoicing when we: Sing, Dance, Play, Create…
What’s the Main Conflict: In Freudian Terms: Inborn Universal Life Instinct versus the Inborn Death/Destructive impulses. More accessibly: Humans versus their particular defenses that protect but also blind/keep them from living their lives to the fullest. For Ed: instinct/desire to maintain his avoidant/obsessive/sublimating (but also narcissistic) defenses that shield him from pain versus the instincts/desires of a universe (that necessarily includes Ed) that needs him to incarnate and sing his part. Simplified: is Ed going to finally dig into himself, as he’s trained to do, to face what keeps him from living? Then for other ensemble characters: will Ed be able to help them see what they’re missing so they can help Ed and others do the same…Ad infinitum.
Ed’s main goal/want: initially to maintain the defenses that have kept him ‘comfortably numb’ until he’s able to rest/join Susan in death. After the call to deliver Susan’s box to her son, Ed’s goal is to, as he did in his professional life, get all the ‘needs’ that keep popping up ‘managed enough/tucked in bed,’ so that he can get back to bed (i.e. back to his initial goal). Ed’s want/goal is to not change. What Ed needs: is to change. What forces this change is that, to get Grace “tucked” he needs to answer her question—that he can only answer by answering it for himself, first.
Ed’s character arc: from being able to love and work (professionally only), to: able to love, work—and play/experience joy—in all aspects of his life. By addressing their particular (each different) defenses, each of the other ensemble characters adds the piece of the Living Whole Trifecta they’re missing. Mike = Work. Grace = Self Love. Christopher = Love.
Ends: everyone helps others love, work and play betterPlot Point 2: After Ed realizes Mark may be his son, as well as Susan’s, and Mark’s finally makes peace with his loner/vagabond personality by seeing (in Susan’s box, that she was the same exact way)—Mark dies. And we suddenly learn that: Mark was only in Grace’s life for the past 2 weeks. And that he had terminal cancer.
Crisis: Ed, exhausted—and with a new symptom he believes to be of a terminal illness—has decided his final obligation to this family is getting through this wedding. But at the wedding, this threshold Susan’s never been able to cross, she, at “reads” into the numerous preparation disasters the penultimate “sign” that she’s not to get married.
Climax: Jewels sees an engraving in Susan’s box she knows has some kind of meaning, probably for Ed. When he reads it, “Un-screw us both,” he first thinks literally—the ‘screwing’ that made Mark, and knows, without a paternity test that he is Mark’s father. But then he finally digs deep inside himself where he finds the ability to think OUTSIDE himself enough to recollect that Susan was a wonderful singer/dancer who was too afraid of humiliation/failure to do either outside of her “box,” which was Ed’s bedroom. Ed unscrews and removes the tiny dancer and closes the music box. Jewels asks what’s still in the box and he answers “my fears of losing what I love.” Then he opens the box back up and gives it to Jewels. Ed then finds Grace swinging in a playground. With his newly-faced understanding, Ed’s finally able to answer Grace’s question: how can you manage your terror that you won’t be able to cope with losing someone, if you let yourself fully love them? You look up (on the hill above the park are scores of other people waiting for the wedding). There will always others who need/can love you. Grace and Ed head back to her wedding where they discover the musicians are stoned, and Pat tells Ed he needs to “just play.” So Ed calls up his Hendrix-style rock group and they play acid-rock versions of the wedding music to get Grace and Mike finally married.
Resolution: Series of Shots (not in order): Grace and Mike: on a truly adult honeymoon—no kids in 11 years. Ed and others place flowers on Susan’s grave—then on neighboring Jimi Hendrix’s. Ed and Jewels with the kids in Disneyland, Ed jots book notes as they joyfully take rides. Ed and Jewels putting the kids on a plane to Seattle before getting on another plane. Kids getting picked up by Pat at the airport, then playing with residents at the retirement home. Ed dictating his book into his phone as he and Jewels visit sites in Europe, scattering some of Mark’s ashes in each place. Grace and Mike try drunkenly to scatter ashes from a ziplock into a fountain in Las Vegas, get chased by cops when the wind blows them everywhere. Ed taking a toke from Jewels’ joint. Linda at Sister Mary’s bedside: 3 shots, spread over the rest—Linda talking, then crying, then listening. Mike directing (via Zoom from Las Vegas, then at the retirement home) the new start up in an unoccupied unit at the retirement home. Walt, Wade and Judy and others demonstrating balance, etc. exercises for Mike to put into video-game mock-up and Christopher to code. In wheelchair and VR gear from the start-up office, Walt virtually assists several Millennial/Gen X, Z-ers with home projects. Adam-Eve and Kristian doing their playful kid things, including bike wheelies with Pat. Kristian pooping in the potty, talking. Linda doing something attentive to the kids. Lauren and Christopher together.
Final Image: Other shots to show the start-up in love/work/play-action, lastly with increasingly large number of smaller and smaller shots of people around the world doing gaming physical exercises and older-people helping (strangers) younger people talk about their relationships (Judy & Wade) and with household projects (Don) on screens all over the office’s walls—the way you see in large game-making companies.
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Armand 3rd Act Structure
ASSIGNMENT
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A. Answer the 5 questions below so you have a good understanding of the foundation that needs to be considered as you create your ending.
1. What is it that fascinates you about this story?
The possibility of a second chance.
2. What is the main conflict of the story?
A ghost who was murdered needs to step to prevent his grimly fate to repeat itself.
3. What is the main goal/need of your protagonist?
Save the new batch of college kids/make amends with the love he lost.
4. What is the character arc of your main characters?
From selfish to caring.
5. How do you want this movie to end?
The ghost moves on to the after-life, along with the girl he loved.
B. Give a short description of how each of these structural steps will occur in your script.
1. PLOT POINT 2 — A major twist that sends the story towards its final destination.
One of the main college kids is killed despite Tyler’s efforts.
2. CRISIS — The decision point.
The ghost realizes he needs to stop the killer, for good.
3. CLIMAX — Bring the Protagonist face to face with the Antagonist to face his biggest fear.
The killer is the ghost’s half-brother.
4. RESOLUTION — Show the effects of the climax and tie up loose ends.
The final girl dies saving the rest of the college kids. The main college kid that was killed, survives.
5. FINAL PAGE — The final minute of the movie.
The ghost and his love move on to the after-life together.
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Budinscak 3rd Act Structure
Day 2
What I learned doing this assignment:
o How to answer all questions and setups for an ending an audience will enjoy.
o What’s needed to meet and exceed an audience’s expectations.
o How to write the final act and have the audience leave with the message and emotion you want them to experience.
A.
1. What is it that fascinates you about this story?
The story is based on an actual trip I took cross-country in a Cadillac with 5 aunts and uncles traveling from upstate NY to Burbank, CA. My uncle was the ‘black sheep’ of the family and I still have fun memories of that trip all these years later. It’s an homage to family and a family tradition.
2. What is the main conflict of the story?
The main conflict is between a rogue uncle and his two pesky, preteen nephews.
3. What is the main goal/need for your protagonist?
The main goal is to deliver a package on time to a destination in Burbank to save his restaurant from being burned to the ground.
4. What is the character arc of your main characters?
Characters: Uncle Jack and nephews Puck and Sal.
Jack – evolves from selfish, me-first/me-only type to becoming a caring uncle and person.
Puck – changes from an intimidated nerd afraid of life to experiencing life.
Sal – goes from a sneaky kid to finding his life’s passion.
5. How do you want this movie to end?
I want it to end on a fun note, upbeat and have the audience remember the ending.
B.
1. Plot Point 2 – A major twist that sends the story towards its final destination.
It happens in Las Vegas where Jack loses most of his money, he’s shaken down by the FBI to work for them, they steal the rest of his money and they’re left with nothing.
2. Crisis – The decision point.
When the boys suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning, Jack promises God he’ll change and be the uncle they want.
3. Climax – Being the Protagonist face-to-face with the Antagonist to face his biggest fear.
After making the delivery in Burbank, Jack is separated from his nephews and realizes he may lose the restaurant. The nephews trick their captor and take his gun. They rescue their uncle and free him from his captor, Don Vito.
4. Resolution – Show the effects of the climax and tie up loose ends.
After their successful escape, they trio takes a red-eye to JFK to pick up Jack’s sisters (and the nephews mothers). The moms question Jack on the ride home (where’s your Cadillac) and the boys come to his rescue. It’s obvious enough that the mothers notice it. When the arrive at Carmine’s, their restaurant, a picture is taken and posted on the wall of pictures inside. The picture triggers a time change from 1988 to present where we meet all our characters in today’s terms – and it’s the 30+ year of the “family RE-union”.
5. Final Page – the final minute of the movie.
They see a happy celebration of family and friends.
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Emmanuel’s 3<font size=”1″>rd</font> Act Structure
The third act is often the most exciting because it brings the antagonist and protagonist closer together as they pursue their goals. It’s often the fastest and seems to be the shortest act in a script. If done well, the act should be a memorable moment.
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