Day 2 Assignments

[John Darbonne]

I learned a more streamlined way to build a character’s psychology to enhance the conflict.

Hero: JADA AMAYO [26; LatinX, Counter-terrorism Agent]

Unique Skill Set: Reckless. Violent. Often dismissed because of her small size but is highly skilled in a unique style of MMA fighting: Ground and Pound Capoeira style. Arm bars, leg lock submission holds. Drives a mean ass muscle car like a banshee.

Motivation: She is has a Temporary Resident status in America and wants full citizenship. This is at odds with her want to save her father. She feels like what happened to him is her fault. She owes him a debt she can never repay. He adopted her out of the slums of Juarez.

Secret: She turned her father in for a crime she committed. His wife, her adopted mother, was killed over it.

Wound: She feels a deep debt for what she did to her adopted family., but the father she remembers isn’t who he is anymore. He’s dangerous and being used to hurt immigrants. She begins to question why he saved her. He taught her things a father should never teach their children, how to kill. At what point does a daughter realize her father is a monster.

Villain: SENATOR VANILLA HAYES [62; smarmy beast, Politician with a God complex]

Unbeatable: Has a team of Government killers at his disposal. A GPS is embedded in Jada’s arm that he tracks her with. He is manipulating her memories. Erasing things that happened. Changing what she thinks happened. He is playing her like a puppet master.

Plan/Goal: To manipulate her father’s memories to have him blow up the International bridge, while manipulating his daughter into killing him to show the world that his new tech can solve the border crisis. He can make people not want to come. He can change people’s desires to unify us.

What he will lose if Jada survives: The border crisis will continue. People will continue to suffer. His crimes will be exposed, ruining his political career, and his new technology will be rejected.

Impossible Mission

Puts hero into Action” Either Jada can help Vanilla capture her father, or he will make sure she never gets or citizenship, deport her, and kill her father.

Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: While being continually tracked and attacked (think Atomic Blonde) Jada must evolve from being an impulsive fighter to a precision investigator and finds ways to solve a mystery without being able to remember what happened.

Destroy the Villain: Jada must make Vanilla think he is winning, stop her father, and have Vanilla expose his crimes to the world.

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[Mary Ellevold]

MARY ELLEVOLD

WHAT I LEARNED: I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE MORALLY RIGHT OR WRONG, OR ANY OF THIS INFO.

Hero- the Advocate, Rosie Saldana; the villain – abusive partners

Concept:

Hero Morally Right: The
Advocate, Rosie Saldana, is fighting to stop the abuse and get women to
safety.
Villain Morally Wrong: The
abusers use many diabolical methods to control their victims.

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set- Educator
with the Power Wheel, community support, strategy and experience.
B. Motivation-to save women and
children trapped in same situation she was in.
C. Secret or Wound-she lost a
child.

Villain

A. Unbeatable-the abusers
control finances, homes, etc….
B. Plan/Goal-to provide clients
with safe housing, jobs, financial & legal support
C. What they lose if Hero
survives-their families, their pride when truth revealed what they’re
doing

Impossible Mission-Rosie must provide resources, support, and education for many clients with different needs.

A. Puts Hero in Action-Each
client is in crisis or danger.
B. Demands They Go Beyond Their
Best: these women might not survive if they go back.
C. Destroy the Villain- by
empowering women to face the truth

[jeffrey jeff glatz glatz]

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” It is good to start building a story as components that build upon themselves. Starting with Hero and Villain, which should help guide the action of the story moving forward.

Subject line: Trevor Forbes (Hero) and Samuel Worthington (Villain)

Concept:

A thief and former Navy Seal is brought back into the CIA to stop a powerful cartel of businessmen who control terrorist groups to influence governments and economies.

Hero Morally Right: Save the world and the US President<div>

Villain Morally Wrong: Uses murder and terrorism to accomplish his mission

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Hero: Trevor Forbes: Cat Burglar, Philanthropist, Seal Team Leader

A. Unique Skill Set – Highly skilled Navy Seal, martial arts (Krav Maga), high-end Thief</div><div>

B. Motivation – Moral Compass, father and mother killed by terrorist

C. Secret or Wound – Horror he has seen in combat

Villain: Sam Worthington: Billionaire Industrialist, Head of the Cartel

A. Unbeatable – has assassins and terror organization on call anytime</div><div>

B. Plan/Goal – Create a destabilized world that he controls

C. What they lose if Hero survives – Death and/or imprisonment, loss of wealth

Impossible Mission

Trevor must stop Cartel from controlling the world through terror and not be killed in process.

A. Puts Hero in Action – moves from place to place trying to expose plan, all the time he is hunted</div>

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best – Fighting Assassins and Terrorists over and over again

C. Destroy the Villain – Destroy Plan and bring cartel to justice

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[Dennis Chrisman]

Assignment 2: Heroes and Villains that Sell the Roles

Subject Line:

Dennis Chrisman Heroes and Villains

What I’ve learned from this assignment: Subtle changes can wreak havoc on the storyline but offer alternatives that might bolster the story and make it better. The class notes provide a nifty way to explore storyline alternatives or increase the protagonist’s effectiveness without weakening the antagonist’s intent and his mission.

Concept:

Hero Morally Right: The protagonist Shari Thomas (Shari) (29) travels to her dad’s self-sustaining farm (Sub Plot A), hauling four children (kids), including her daughter Anna (Anna) (10), to seek refuge from a world of chaos and wait for her husband Michael (Mike) (32) (Sub Plot B) who the government drafted to fight the Chinese on the Pacific Coast front. Villain Morally Wrong: An anarchist motorcycle gang led by the lead Antagonist Machete Manchette (Machete) (45) preys on Shari and her kids for fun pleasure and sells them on the Black Market.

– If the motorcycle gang doesn’t prey on Shari, how might that change the storyline.

Hero

Unique Skill Set: Reserve Police Officer with expert Police skills and tactics, and an amateur MMA fighter with MMA skills. Motivation: Husband is gone, chaos rules the land, and she has to get to her dad’s farm with the kids safe. Secret or Wound: Shari is worried about her husband; she’s under a lot of stress managing the kids and their safety. The woman at the river checkpoint she saved weighs on her mind, who Machete and his crew killed. Now she feels obligated to over protect her ten-year-old son.

– If her husband was with her, how might he change the Hero?

Villain

Unbeatable: Machete and his crew form an invincible killer squad bound to capture Shari and her kids. Plan/Goal: Uses motorcycle gang tactics and older, makeshift weapons to capture Shari and her kids for intimidation sexual pleasure and sell them on the black market. What they lose if Hero survives: Motorcycle gang death and wounds suffered in scrimmages with Shari; lose ~$10k potential pay for the<s> </s>sale of Shari and her kids.

– If Machete wins in the end, how might the win change the storyline?

Impossible Mission

Puts Heroin Action: Almost raped and has a clash with a band of untrained militia, Shari now fights an anarchist motorcycle gang<s> </s>to complete her journey. Shari was shot in a non-mortality spot during a skirmish with the motorcycle gang. <div>

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Demands They Go Beyond Their Best:

The motorcycle gang is close to Shari and her kids. They try and destroy the truck they are in by using motorcycle chains as weapons. Shari must fight through her mental and physical pain and torment with the one goal to reach her dad’s farm. Destroy the Villain: Machete dies in the end.

– If Shari dies, then how might Machete live and win?

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[savanna]

Franc vs. Luc

What I learned: Just fill in the frickin blanks. I had to hear Hal say this over and over through the years for it to click into action! It takes courage to fill in blanks. It takes courage to surrender to the process.

Concept. Hero morally right: Franc is bringing permanent peace to conflicts in the middle east. Villain morally wrong: Luc opposes peace because it requires un-hypnotizing mortals he has worked hard to hypnotize since conflict is a type of energy currency in the invisible world and vital to his perpetuation.

Unique skillset of hero Franc is accurate perceptions of invisible worlds. Motivation is highest reward of a modern monarchy and answering to a call. Wound: his father brought him to court for involuntary mental help, which he avoided by convincing he judge.

Unbeatable: Luc controls most of the material world through hypnotic suggestions and materiality with only a few pockets of transcendence available, which no one has ever figured out. His goal is self-perpetuation. If he loses, he loses control over minds of humans in middle east and assists an energy vortex created by peace.

Impossible mission, Franc, hero is in action by using nonviolent, paranormal communications to break through hypnosis and call forth other-worldly support for his mission. Demands are saving the world from itself and its own destruction; To destroy the villain, he must de-mesmerize enough Middle east Execs and leaders to channel a vibration of peace

[BG]

Action Lesson 2: Heroes and Villains That Sell the Roles!

ASSIGNMENT

BG’s Hero and Villain!

What I learned doing this assignment: I organized my ideas according to the conventions of the ACTION genre, and now, I’m wondering how I’m going to be able to invent all those set pieces.

Concept: Sent to get a scoop about a conspiracy, an engineer-turned-reporter decides to fight the conspirators instead.

Hero Morally Right: Preventing war and liberating humanity from warmongers.

Villain Morally Wrong: Promoting and starting wars to get control of resources. Warmongers are trying to start a war. Afraid of Reporter, they send assassins and agents after him.

Hero

A. Unique Skill Set: Reporter is an engineer by training. He’s a fast learner, can make unique devices, has knowledge of computers. Athletic.

B. Motivation: Reporter realizes that war will hurt many people and that he must keep on fighting. He wants to save lives and stop bad guys.

C. Secret or Wound: A bad breakup with the love of his life has drained his joy of living. He doesn’t want to talk about it.

Villain

A. Unbeatable: Conspirators have money, control of media, and assistance from CIA and MI6.

B. Plan/Goal: To start a war by pumping weapons and militants into a powder keg.

C. What they lose if Hero survives: Exposure, loss of face, maybe even death. The conspiracy will be exposed and the billionaires’ humanitarian work will be shown to be a cover for their personal gain.

Impossible Mission

A. Puts Hero in Action: Reporter is sent to check out a tip about a conspiracy to start a war. He sneaks around, fights assassins and agents, and makes unique weapons.

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Reporter must get over his broken heart, learn new things, and devise new tools to fight the conspirators.

C. Destroy the Villain: Reporter forces the conspirators to terminate their plot and tricks them into killing each other.

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[Neil Werenskjold]

1. Fill in the blanks and see what shows up.

Concept:

Hero Morally Right: Protect the President
Villain Morally Wrong: Not nice to kill the president of the United States.<div>

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Hero – Nash

A. Unique Skill Sets – 1. People person he knows a lot of talented people through his job in Public Affairs, 2. He started in the Air Force in Prime Beef Civil Engineering as a Combat engineer. 3. He finds a way to complete projects or work that needs to be done. </div>

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B. Motivation – Nash is very loyal and patriotic

C. Secret or Wound – 1. Because he gets work done when others cannot find away climber managers hate him and try to make him look bad. 2. Wife died two years ago. Married for 26 years.

Villain – Unknown

A. Unbeatable – Unknown enemy, so hard to know how to defend the President.

B. Plan/Goal – Kill the president

C. What they lose if Hero survives – President continues for full term.

Impossible Mission

A. Puts Hero in Action – Trapped in a hangar with explosives Hero gets them out of harms way by the skin of their teeth when every obvious exit is blocked.

B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: Escalating attacks push Nash to think and plan IAW his POC’s he knows from talking to so many experts doing his public Affairs duties.

C. Destroy the Villain – In the last scene an imbedded agent is revealed, but still a mystery who is all behind the attacks.

Improved answers completed last summer. What I have here is so far the best I have come up with, and is what the screenplay has been written too.

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