Day 2 Assignments

[Judith Watson]

JUDITH’S BIG M.I.S.

“What I learned doing this assignment is thinking Big Mystery, Big Intrigue, and Big Suspense can help me create a great thriller.

LOGLINE: A woman’s estranged sister arrives unexpectedly vowing unification, but she has other intentions.

1. What are the conventions of your story?

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: Emily, a budding artist. <div>

Dangerous Villain: Rachel, Emily’s estranged, revengeful sister.

High stakes: Emily welcomes Rachel into her life unaware that she intends to kill her and take over her life.

Life and death situations include: Pregnant Emily losing her baby when Rachel arranges an accident for her; Rachel arranging it so Emily thinks her husband, Eugene, is having an affair; Rachel trying to kill Eugene; Rachel killing Emily’s best friend; and Rachel kidnapping and threatening the life of the child Emily is adopting before she will kill Emily when she tries to rescue Kathy.

This story is thrilling because we worry if Rachel will get away with killing Emily and taking over her life.

2. Tell us the Big M.I.S. of your story?

Big Mystery: Why are the sister’s estranged and why is Rachel trying to kill Emily? </div>

Big Intrigue: Will Rachel’s plan to fool Emily into thinking she wants reunification work while all along she plans to kill Emily?

Big Suspense: Will Emily realize what Rachel is up to and stop her before it’s too late?

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[Gary Mraz]

Koz Mraz Big M.I.S

A fun exersize

Midnight Rider on a Graveyard Run: Logline:

Following a trail of highway murders on “The Corridor of Death” moto-journalist Zac King and beautiful undercover CSS agent reveal an international kidnapping/organ-harvesting conspiracy orchestrated by a shadow government abducting thousands daily.

The Big Mystery: Hundreds of thousands go missing every year and the scores of murdered body’s dumped along highway 40 are a clue to who and why.

The Big Intrigue: It’s not just serial killings, there is a clandestine operation that is abducting and parting out human organs not only for sale globally, but is secretly funded by a covert government faction with the goal to create super soldiers.

The Big Suspense: Journalist Zac King and Lisette Duran (A Central Security Service Agent) unravel the plot while being hunted down by deadly biologically enhanced assassins, her own Agency, and the “Partsmen” who sell human organs on the black market.

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: Zac King is an investigative journalist writing a story called “The Corridor of Death”

Dangerous Villain: The puppet master is one of highest-ranking military commanders ultimately becoming head of the NSA in the first movie.

High stakes: Personally, socially, nationally, and globally.

Life and death situations: In every scene.

This story is thrilling because? Repleat with hi action, layer upon layer of deceit and covert activity ever revealing another mystery.

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[Jack Jack Jack Sherry Sherry]

Jack’s BIG M.I.S.

What I learned from this assignment is that by thinking about the big mystery, intrigue and suspense of the show, the outline becomes easier.

1. CONCEIVED

Logline: Two professional women from diverse backgrounds, who together had their eggs frozen because they were too busy to have children, learn that the eggs were stolen and children have been born and are being raised in China.

Unwitting but Resourceful Heroes:
Kayla, an American environmental lawyer, and Katherine, an English fund
manager who manages some of the royal wealth <div>

Dangerous Villain: Lung Ho, a
Chinese Hacker who has cloned himself and wants his clones to mate the
clones of wealthy and powerful women in a nefarious 50 year plan.

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High stakes: The lives of the
children of the protagonists are at stake, as well as the lives of the
protagonists.

Life and death situations: In
discovering Lung Ho’s plan, the protagonists run afoul of the Chinese
Communist Party and must defeat those attempting to kill them, as well as
rescue their children whom they have never met.

This story is thrilling
because? The villain’s outrageous plan to rule China and the world through
cloning is well underway when the protagonists find out about it. As the
mystery of how the children were born, who their fathers are and where they
live unfolds, intrigue continues when the protagonists hatch their own
plan to find their children and expose the villain, resulting in many
suspenseful escapes and discoveries.

Big Mystery: How and why were the frozen eggs stolen and who is responsible.

Big Intrigue: Who are the fathers of the children born, where are the children and what can we do about this?

Big Suspense: When the antagonists plan is revealed, the protagonists are targeted for death, as their bodies are no longer required.

2. CASTING CALL

Logline: A young woman leaves her home in Iowa for fame and stardom in Los Angeles, but quickly finds herself the target of a nefarious sex trafficking organization.

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero:
Lyla, 22, the son her father, an Iowa farmer, never had, comes to L.A. as
a chaperone for her sister Sandi, a rebellious 18 year old with talent and
beauty. </div>

Dangerous Villain: Fareem, a Saudi
oilman who has established himself in L.A. with a Mexican cartel who
supplies him with minors for his Mideastern cabal of sex slaves.

High stakes: Lyla must find and
save her sister

Life and death situations: Lyla’s
life is threatened repeatedly by the Mexicans and their L.A. connections
who use bogus casting call to find women.

This story is thrilling
because? It has the mystery of the underground world of sex trafficking,
the intrigue of the L.A. casting scene and the suspense of a determined
sister desperately in search of her sister.

Big Mystery: Where is Sandi?

Big intrigue: Sandi gets so far into the antagonist’s plan that she joins him and becomes a Ghislaine Maxwell type enabler and an enemy of her big sister

Big Suspense: Lyla’s life is threatened from multiple angles as she attempts to take down an international sex trafficking ring.

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[Patricia Milton]

Subject line: Patricia Milton’s Big M.I.S.

The Engine of Our Destruction Logline:A blacklisted Senator’s daughter is encouraged by her ex to apply at the tech giant he helms. She’s surprised to be hired, given her background as a disgraced whistleblower. Her cynicism is challenged when she discovers her ex is engaged in a secret Artificial Intelligence venture that could upend the world.

What I learned doing this assignment is I am not interested in characters’ lives being in danger, but I love a protagonist whose moral character is challenged, who could lose their integrity for good.

1. What are the conventions of your story?

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: Kamiri

Dangerous Villain: Xtopher

High stakes: The moral life of humanity

Life and death situations: Kamiri losing her soul. Also
Kamiri losing her job, being blacklisted again, and being forced to
continue to live at home with her mother

This story is thrilling because: Who can Kamiri trust?
Will Bubble deploy the Ver-2 across the globe, controlling individual
moral choice? Will Kamiri keep her cynicism or lean into her integrity
again, though it will destroy her career?

2. Tell us the Big M.I.S. of your story.

Big Mystery: What is Xtopher/Bubble trying to hide?

Big Intrigue: What is the IA wearable called the Ver-2?

Big Suspense: How/will Kamiri testify before the Senate
     Tech Committee?

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[Alia Munn]

1. What are the conventions of your story?

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero:
Joan, guided by the Fire Element and visited by a luminous child spirit in
her dreams and visions – the audience sees the child standing outside of
time and space, objectively witnessing the dark actions of the Earth
Destroyers. <div>

Dangerous Villain: Earth
Destroyers

High stakes: Unmitigated chaos on Earth,
agents seeking to murder/destroy Joan and steal her soul

Life and death situations:
Gas-lighting, tracking and tracing and attempted murder of Joan since she
was a baby, having been born into a precious blood line.

This story is thrilling
because? Twists and turns of Villains and Angels

2. Tell us the Big M.I.S. of your story?

Big Mystery: Who is this child (the Divine Feminine Virgin Kali) with
paranormal powers and why is she impossible to kill?

Big Intrigue: What does the US Government have to do with it?

Big Suspense: Will the dark entities be allowed to destroy the planet?

Who are the four Elemental Goddesses and how did they find each other? Who sent them and why? What will they do to impede the earth destroyers? Who created chaos in the world’s governments? What is the purpose of the chaos? Are they really just having fun?

3. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment” is: how to set the stage for intrigue via twists and turns and hidden identities.

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[Alia Munn]

Log Line: A woman looking into the fire of her wood-burning stove envisions a luminous child witnessing the attempted murder of herself as a two year old.

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[Daniel Turner]

Daniel Turner

Big MIS

What I learned doing this assignment is – To look at the building blocks of the Thriller critically and not just guessing at the steps to build suspense.

Thriller – Day 2

Peter Franco, the preacher turned policeman is on the trail of a killer, whose killing prostitutes.

1. Conventions:

Hero – Peter Franco – A preacher who fell from the pulpit and became a cop.

Villain – The Killer – Someone, a man we assume but don’t know, who is murdering prostitutes for what seem to be religious reasons.

The Stakes – Can Peter save the women?

Life and Death situations: Peter is getting close to catching the killer who begins to taunt and threaten him.

2. M.I.S.

Big Mystery – Will Peter catch the killer, and discover who he or they are? And was he really sent by God to catch bad guys?

Big Intrigue: – Peter discovers that the killer may have been a member of his former congregation and also discovers a secret group with the intent of cleaning the world, are they responsible for the murders.

Big Suspense – Will the killer or the group deal with Peter because he’s trying to thwart their mission?

[Michelle Donnelly]

Michelle Donnelly’s Big M.I.S.

What I learned doing this assignment: I learned that explicitly stating the mystery, intrigue, and suspense helped to frame the story.

Logline:

A cardiologist must uncover who is murdering her colleagues before either she herself is murdered or the police wrongly accuse her of their murders.

What are the conventions of my story –

Unwitting and Resourceful Hero: Griffin, a cardiologist, who realizes she must work to find the killer who is murdering her colleagues before she herself is murdered or before detectives arrest her for their deaths. She begins to suspect the murderer is one of her heart transplant patients.

Dangerous Villain: Adam, Griffin’s patient, who unknowingly received a heart transplant from a serial killer and who is now murdering the cardiologist’s colleagues after the effects of cellular memory have altered his personality.

High Stakes: Griffin being wrongly accused of murder or being murdered, more colleagues dying

Life and Death Situations: Detectives wrongly suspect Griffin, she possibly losing her job/career because of being wrongly suspected; more colleagues dying; Griffin figuring out that the person who died and donated the heart was a friend of her father’s and had been responsible for a series of murders throughout the years. Also, the effects of Adam’s change on his family.

This story is thrilling because? Because the murders had long been unsolved for the community and the fact that the evil is living on through another person.

The Big M.I.S.

Big Mystery: Who is killing those closest to the cardiologist?

Big Intrigue: That a heart was transplanted into a patient from a man who had never been uncovered as a serial killer and the effects of cellular memory are now altering the personality of the heart transplant recipient.

Big Suspense: Will the cardiologist be able to figure out not only who the killer is, but what is making him kill, before more people die or before she is murdered or charged with her colleague’s murders.

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[Sherri Coffee]

Sherri D. Coffee – Big M.I.S.

What I learned doing this assignment is to brainstorm and tease out the story with the conventions, mystery, intrigue, and suspense.

Logline: A young lobbyist is recruited to join a new firm. On her first day, the man who recruited her places a jump drive in her hand and mutters: “It is up to you now. Don’t disappoint me”. She watches him slowly walk back to his office, open the door, and jump to his death. She struggles to understand why and launches a secretive search for the truth. As she investigates the jump drive information, she uncovers a dangerous coordinated network with one goal. To destroy the government of the United States. She must find who to trust as she works to expose the danger and save her country.

1. What are the conventions of your story?

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: Charlotte

Dangerous Villain: Firm head partner Joe, foreign network

High Stakes: Government stability

Life and death situations: Charlotte must figure out who to trust in the firm. As she uncovers the firm’s contracts with foreign governments, she is able to link to politicians. The more information she uncovers, the higher the stakes are for her personally. They try to poison her at a cocktail dinner; drug her drink at a fundraiser; and intimidate her.

The story is thrilling because? Charlotte does not want to get involved but she feels obligated. Her investigation reveals a piece of the puzzle but never the full mystery. She doesn’t know who to trust and must take risks to protect herself and the information. In the world of politics, she must navigate the world of money and power to uncover and prevent the network’s plan.

2. Tell us the big M.I.S.

Big Mystery: What is the purpose of the network and how can Charlotte stop them?

Big Intrigue: Charlotte must conduct clandestine investigation and resources to reveal the network’s plans. Who coordinates the network and what do they want?

Big Suspense: Will Charlotte be exposed, forced to support the network, or be killed?

[Ian Patrick Williams]

Ian Patrick’s Big M.I.S.

What I learned doing this assignment is to get a strong foundation before taking further steps

Logline: A detective must find and stop a vigilante obsessed with taking the law into his own hands

1. What are the conventions of your story?

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: A recently reinstated detective, previously suspended for being too violent with suspects

Dangerous Villain: A vigilante obsessed with being the biblical Angel of Death

High stakes: A series of unsolved murders has the city on edge

Life and death situations: Street criminals are being murdered by an unknown assailant

This story is thrilling because? The police have to find and stop this person before his M.O. gets completely out of control

2. Tell us the Big M.I.S. of your story?

Big Mystery: What is the main mystery of your story that will keep us wondering throughout the story?

Who is committing these murders and why?

Big Intrigue: What is the covert, clandestine, underhanded plot that will live under the surface for most of the movie?

The motivation of the killer and the suspicion that the lead detective might actually be the killer

Big Suspense: What is the main danger to your Hero that will continue to escalate throughout the script?

Will he be killed by the suspect…or by his fellow officers?

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[Jeff Hall]

Jeff Hall’s Big M.I.S.

What I learned doing this assignment is to be clear and absolute about your protagonist and antagonist goal.

A disgraced deputy in a small western town discovers innocent people are being blamed for an onslaught of mysterious slaughters. Can he stop the slayings and survive being hung for the very murders he attempting to stop?

1. What are the conventions of your story?

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: Ben

Dangerous Villain: The Tall Man

High stakes: The murder of families and children

Life and death situations: They could hang Ben for murders he did not commit

This story is thrilling because? Many have died… many more can die.

2. Tell us the Big M.I.S. of your story?

Big Mystery: What is the main mystery of your story that will keep us wondering throughout the story? Who and why are these families dying?

Big Intrigue: What is the covert, clandestine, underhanded plot that will live under the surface for most of the movie? The man, monster or entity wants to murder as many people as possible.

Big Suspense: What is the main danger to your Hero that will continue to escalate throughout the script? He is being blamed for the murders.

[Mona Miller]

Subject line: Mona Deutsch Miller’s Big M.I.S.

Log line for Asuncion: FBI Agent Brett Dean, young and inexperienced, is an expert mountaineer. Pretending to be a tourist, he is sent to join a mountain climbing expedition of Asuncion, a high peak in South America, to keep an eye on his fellow mountaineers and to see if the group is helping a suspected terrorist training camp along the route. If possible, he is to determine the exact location of the terrorist training camp and to assassinate the leader of the terrorist cell.

Big Mystery: What is the main mystery of your story that will keep us wondering throughout the story? Will hero Brett Dean, an FBI [CIA?] agent, find and assassinate the leader of the terrorist cell, locate the terrorist cell’s whereabouts and survive the mountain climb? Who are the other people on this small mountaineering expedition? Are they all really just tourists who love mountaineering?

Big Intrigue: What is the covert, clandestine, underhanded plot that will live under the surface for most of the movie? Ali Patel, cerebral, well-dressed, sophisticated British-educated Pakistani, who participates in the expedition, is either the leader of the terrorist group or the number two man. Patel intends to convert idealistic Dr. Liza Graves, the medical doctor on the mountain climbing expedition, to his cause. He wants to make her both Chief Medical Officer for his terrorist cell and his mistress.

Big Suspense: What is the main danger to your Hero that will continue to escalate throughout the script? Enormous physical challenges climbing this mountain, even without being possibly surrounded by and dependent on people who would happily kill him if they knew who he really was; if Brett finds the location of the terrorist training camp, how will he complete his mission and get back down the mountain; is Liza for him or against him?

[J.R Riddle]

HOMEWORK: 4-28/22

What I learned from this assignment is to make a plan, think first, decide how to approach the script to include the main “thriller” M.I.S. components.

LOGLINE: Four gorgeous daughters and one controlling, widowed father own and manage a Las Vegas Casino, while the father’s old, arch enemy develops a complex plan to destroy the casino, the father’s life and family.

1. What are the conventions of your story?

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: Head of Security or Pop Tony.

Dangerous Villain: Andropovitch Family and ties.

High stakes: “How can they stop the destruction of the family Casino business?”Life and death situations: “Kidnapping/possible murder of the Casino President/ murder of others in the way of the kidnapping and destruction.”

This story is thrilling because? “Constant turmoil – fires, murder, kidnapping, problems running the casino, hidden betrayal from friends and employees, love affairs with the enemy.”

2. Tell us the Big M.I.S. of your story?

Big Mystery: What is the main mystery of your story that will keep us wondering throughout the story? “Who is creating the chaos and are these problems accidental or is someone or something else creating the chaos?”

Big Intrigue: What is the covert, clandestine, underhanded plot that will live under the surface for most of the movie? “An unknown, revengeful enemy, the father’s enemy from his old, Army Afghan days plans to completely destroy him.”

Big Suspense: What is the main danger to your Hero that will continue to escalate throughout the script? “Which of the four daughters was kidnapped, how, where and by whom? Are the accidents related? Who or what is destroying his casino business and how to stop it, all while finding his daughter and protecting employees, and the other family members?”

[Christopher Newell]

Chris N’s Big M.I.S.<div>

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>What I learned doing this assignment is: don’t get caught up in all of the world-building, especially around the intrigue, at this stage; just set up the shape of it that can stand as a target for doing that later.

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Logline

When the employe who had been training new hire Maya at Silicon Valley’s hottest med-tech startup vanishes after investigating the secret “Avalon” project, the newly-graduated lab technician must step carefully to uncover why before she is similarly silenced.

Thriller Conventions

• Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: Maya, a recent college graduate and lab assistant at a Silicon Valley DNA Heritage testing startup, who stumbles into a secret she was never meant to see

• Dangerous Villain: The “Angel” Venture Capitalist with world-changing plans spanning multiple startups, and the ruthless willingness to use anything from NDAs to private mercenaries to make sure nothing threatens those plans.

• High Stakes: Maya’s life, her colleague’s lives, the continued operation and possible eventual success of several startups

• Life and Death Situations: Death of one of Maya’s more senior colleagues, heavy intimidation with the threat of life and death, attempted assassination and threats of getting caught by the mercenary thugs, potentially being killed by the villain after being captured

• The Story is Thrilling Because: we want to join Maya in learning what is going on, and this places her in escalating danger without knowing how far she can trust anyone

The Big M.I.S. of the Story

• Big Mystery: Why are they doing extra off-books DNA analysis on customers’ DNA, and what happens to it in the super-secret “Avalon” lab? </div>

• Big Intrigue: A conspiracy, hatched in the flickering light of Burning Man camps and cloaked in Silicon Valley project t-shirts and New York City pin stripes.

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>• Big Suspense: Will Maya be able to untangle the mystery while it can still be stopped, or will the shadowy figures behind it silence her first?

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[Eric Humble]

Eric Humble’s Big M.I.S.

What I learned doing this assignment is: that by simplifying the process of writing a thriller into the big components, I can more easily create a strong foundation for the plot. I’ve been struggling with plotting and outlining for as long as I have been writing – particularly with thrillers, which is my favorite genre. I tend to get too bogged down in the complexities and contrivances that when I finally unravel everything, it’s after months and months of outlining, very little writing of the actual script, and at that point I’m almost always disappointed by what I’ve written in as the foundation of the story. This tendency to get lost in the plot machinations has made me wary and disempowered whenever I get a thriller idea that excites me – it feels like I’m already defeated before I even start. So this process to break it down into the Big M.I.S. at the outset and work from there is very exciting to me. I can’t wait to see how we progress from here!

CONCEPT: A chef catering the G7 summit discovers someone is plotting to poison the President at dessert and has five courses to stop it from happening… using only the food he creates.

1. What are the conventions of your story?

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: Raf, a chef cooking the most important meal of his career. Adept in sizing up people and zeroing in on their specific needs – and appetites.

Dangerous Villain: Leiber, a foreign agent undercover as a high-ranking Secret Service agent, whose mission is to assassinate the US President to sabotage the peace treaty being brokered.

High stakes: The President will be killed. Raf will be killed if he uncovers the plan. A major peace treaty that could affect the world hangs in the balance.

Life and death situations: Raf needs to figure out which of his cooks is the assassin and how he’s planning to poison dessert. Someone is trying to kill Raf. Raf will be blamed if the President is poisoned. The previous chef found out and was killed. Everything in the kitchen is a potential weapon.

This story is thrilling because? Raf knows something catastrophic is going to happen but has no way to warn anyone. He’s in mortal danger. If he fails, the world descends into war.

2. Tell us the Big M.I.S. of your story?

Big Mystery: Who is the assassin and how is planning to kill the President?

Big Intrigue: Leiber wants to poison the President in order to shift the balance of power to one of the lesser NATO countries when the peace talks fail.

Big Suspense: Will Leiber kill Raf? Will he kill the President?

[Jennifer Miller]

Jennifer Miller’s Big M.I.S.

What I learned doing this assignment is to try and be as clear and succinct as possible with the conventions and the Big MIS.

Logline: A romantic thriller about a woman suffering from amnesia, who tracks down clues to discover the killer and clear her name, while being torn between her growing attraction to the man who saved her life and the fiancé she doesn’t remember.

What are the conventions of your story? <div><div>

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: Margot Godot

Dangerous Villain: Walt Milhouse

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High stakes: Esme’s life (her assistant), Margot’s life, Thomas’s life, and Margot would not be named successor of her family’s company.

Life and death situations: Esme is found dead, Margot’s home is ransacked and she’s attacked, but she survives.

This story is thrilling because? Margot knows who the killer is, but she doesn’t remember because the attack left her with amnesia, and she is sleeping with the enemy.

2. Tell us the Big M.I.S. of your story?

Big Mystery: Margot receives an explosive document from a whistleblower, but the document is not real and when Margot’s assistant, who was working to authenticate the document, dies, an apparent accident, the mystery becomes— What would be valuable enough to leak a fake document, kill Esme, and attack Margot? </div>

Big Intrigue: The underhanded plan of a ruthlessly ambitious Walt Milhouse to frame his boss Percy for the missing money and take over the company by killing Esme and Margot. Or… Walt’s true deception to frame Percy for the stolen funds is uncovered and he will silence anyone who saw the real document.

Big Suspense: Will Walt kill Margot?

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[Bill Bill Kellas Kellas]

Action thriller

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Die hard John McLain

Reluctant hero

Mystery is why are the robbers there?

Intriguing how will John stop them ?

Suspense is will the they get away with it?

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[SUNIL BATRA]

Logline.

3000 years ago, bronze era the sun comes near earth. People are dying of plague and sun stroke.to take revenge they killed God of death, where do the soul go.?

MYSTERY: Kyla and Emilly will they survive the sun stroke. will they care for other people? what happen if God of soul died.

INTRIGUE: what happen to Kyla and Emilly. do they survive.

MYSTERY: What happen to people. where they go once the god of death died. will Kyla and Emilly survive.

[Bob Onufer]

Bob’s Big M.I.S.

Title: Incinerator

Logline: A naïve EPA field inspector stumbles upon an underworld-owned waste incineration facility being used to dispose of bodies.

Unwitting and Resourceful Hero: Joseph Green naively believes his position with the EPA is his ticket to save the planet. Frustrated with unexciting assignments, he stumbles upon what he believes to be a criminal operation during an inspection of a waste incineration facility. Over time, he must gather evidence to convince his superiors and authorities that what he suspects is true while avoiding the mob who believe he has found something incriminating.

Dangerous Villain: Frank Starr, operator of the incineration facility who has the tacit cooperation of the police as long as he keeps paying his fees. Frank wants Joseph silenced at any cost.

High Stakes: Joseph’s life. Members of Joseph’s team’s lives. Joseph’s girlfriend’s life. Exposure of corruption.

Life and death situations: Body being burned in opening scene. Chase scene through industrial complex.

This story is thrilling because: Throughout the story we are worried about Joseph as he tries to stay ahead of Frank and gather evidence he can use to expose what is happening. Each time he turns to someone he believes is trustworthy, he is betrayed.

Big mystery: Who is ultimately behind the use of the incineration facility to dispose of bodies?

Big Intrigue: Is Joseph alone in his quest to solve the crime? Are the police and his superiors all part of a coverup?

Big Suspense: Will Joseph be silenced before he can expose the crimes being committed?

[Stephen Plotkin]

Short Rides In Long Cars:

I learned how to break down my story and characters into smaller concepts.

Conventions of my story:

Unwitting Hero: Steve Mueller.

Dangerous Villain: Woody Huntsman.

High Stakes: Yo Levin Limousine Service.

Life and death situations:

Why are people trying to kill Steve over a limousine company?

This story is thrilling because?

Steve’s life is constantly in danger.

Big Mystery:

Why is his small run down Las Vegas limo company worth killing for?

Big Intrigue:

Woody Huntsman will stop at nothing to eliminate the competition and Steve in order to acquire Steve’s limo company.

Big Suspense:

Can Steve survive the violent takeover attempts of his limousine company.

[SUNIL BATRA]

LOGLINE.

when the god of death died in 2nd era and very few people left on earth. what happened to Emly and Kyla?

[Julio TUMBACO]

Subject line: Julio Tumbaco’s Big M.I.S.

What I learned doing this assignment is the development structure/elements to create a maximum entertaining story.

Logline: When Nick’s spirit haunts Owen’s life with Ella, Owen suspects his own mental deterioration. Once he shares with Ella, connection is made and choices of life, death, love and hate are inevitable.

1. What are the conventions of Notions, Odds & Ends (NOE)?

Unwitting but Resourceful Hero: OWEN

Dangerous Villain: THE PAST and FUTURE
High stakes: Life and death situations

This story is thrilling because it intertwines the supernatural with reality.

2. Tell us the Big M.I.S. of NOE?

Big Mystery: The main mystery of NOE that will keep us wondering throughout the story is how afterlife and life can coexist and impact the action.

Big Intrigue: The covert, clandestine, underhanded plot that lives under the surface for most of the movie is the connection of the 3 main characters and how they interconnect.

Big Suspense: The main danger to your Owen that will continue to escalate throughout the script is the choice of life/contentment vs. death/love