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Day 2 Assignments
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Lois Finished Act 2
int. Xerxes Laboratory – day
HOWLAND MANN (
He’ s aristocratic, wiry, 50ish, with a full head of graying hair and bushy eyebrows. There’ s something of the horned owl about him: greedy, conniving, and hungry.
He wears a white labcoat that flaps around him like giant bird wings. The lab bench before him has a giant steaming vat, a rack of test tubes. One tube is labeled OWL.
HOWLAND MANN
Leave it here, Miss Parker!
He points to a spot on the nearby counter.
Kamali complies. Howland puts the rock into a mortar and slams it with a pestle as he speaks.
HOWLAND MANN
You’re just time to witness my triumph! He stirs the vat. Fog billows. Mann’ s lab coat flares out like gigantic wings.
KAMALI PARKER
(making groupie eyes)
You’ re my Mr. Wizard! She smiles encouragingly, adoringly at Mann. He sprinkles the red powder into the vat.
HOWLAND MANN
I’ ve got it this time! I’ m sure of it! I’ m going to fly like a bird. . . . !
KAMALI PARKER
(admiringly)
I’ m sure you can do anything you set your mind to – – but you can’ t be serious!
Mann dips his ladle into the dark purple liquid beneath the fog. He scribbles in his notebook. Then, sets a timer.
HOWLAND MANN
Now leave! You stink like a skunk.
Kamali turns, her muddy high heels clacking against the lineoleum floor as she heads to the exit.
EXT – school baseball field – day
Skunk Hollow Elementary Baseball Team of 5th and 6th grade students, mostly boys, stands behind protective fence. Catcher squats in front of fence, tapping his mitt. MEFF POLECAT is wearing a black and white spotted beanie. Meff has Tom Sawyer good looks, but he’s BAD like Huck Finn, a loaner looking for a cause.
RAMOS, his accident-prone but ever-forgiving friend, wears red Skunk Hollow beanie.
catcher
Stinker. Stinker. Stinker.
Meff stands on his hands and hand-walks toward home plate. Team behind fence laughs, giggles, points, jokes.
team mate
That’s some beauty walk.
Several Team Mates
Skunk-Boy! Skunk-Boy!
RAMOS
(laughing)
We’ll show you stinker.
COACH strides toward Meff picks him up by one foot and carries him off the field. Meff struggles without effect.
coach
Bescumber, Meff! That’s not a winner’s spirit!
Meff
I’m primed.
Coach sets Meff on his feet. Grabs him by the ear.
coach
To the principal’s office. Now!
Meff
It’s my birthday. I’ll be late to my party.
coach
Grow some team spirit.
Ext – Edge of skunk Farm – day
Stream on the left. Bushes on the right. Meff walks along the road carrying a trashbag in one hand and a pick-up stick in the other. The trashbag is bulging and heavy. Meff is picking up a pizza box with his stick. He comes to the Skunk Farm sign, and smiles up at it. He’s home.
A striped skunk, with a question mark on her forehead, sticks her nose out from between bushes. Meff smiles at the skunk, and squats down to pet her.
Meff
Hi, Aunt Abigail!
The skunk chitters, then turns her tail toward Meff, and sprays. He stares at her in shock. He drops the pick-up stick.
Fur grows on his hands. His arms. He starts to shrink. The trash bag falls from his hand.
He becomes a spotted skunk, half the size of Aunt Abigail.
Meff and Aunt Abigail chitter to each other. Meff angry. Aunt Abigail excited.
Aunt Abigail / Skunk
Congratulations, Meff! Today you have become a skunk.
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Lisa’s finished Act 1 Draft
What I learned doing this assignment is that it’s easy to stat writing when you have good outline.
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Act 1
I followed the outline and realised that some of the sequences didn’t flow, so I adjusted them as I went along.
I also realised that perhaps my outline is a bit too brief and that I may need more details for each scene to flesh it out to 6 pages or more.
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