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Day 3 Assignment
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(Mark Smith)
Stand up for fairness brings 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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Paul’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is that I’m not sure if my protagonist has an issue at the start of the script.
1) Tell us your logline for the transformational journey.
After her son is declared brain dead, a grieving mother donates his organs, never expecting that one day she would feel her own son’s heartbeat inside the chest of another boy.
2) Tell us what you see as the Old Ways.
Old ways – Sue is comfortable with her life, and family, happy for life to continue as is as it is relatively stable and anonymous.
3) Tell us what you see as the New Ways.
Sue has now become a spokesperson for organ donation to raise awareness of it and promote discussion within the community. Her decisions have given some total strangers the greatest gift they could ever have hoped for – a 2<sup>nd</sup> chance at a normal life.
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Alex Harrigan’s Transformational Journey
An entitled and picky medical student must learn to sew from a nursing home resident in order to be considered for a surgical residency.
Old Ways: Entitled, fussy about dress, appearances of others, unhappy about having to do menial chores that medical students have to do. Can’t do basic suturing but doesn’t initially know this.
New Ways: Compassionate, improved social skills, skilled and quick at manual surgical techniques, is accepted to Yale’s surgical residency program.
I learned that this is easiest as a “reverse” exercise. Begin at the final state of the character. Then build the external world that reflects that state. Then go back and define the most opposite state that is at all credible. Then define the character as adapted to that state either by acceptance (low self esteem) or rejection (arrogant denial).
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Day 3 Assignment
Joshua Doerksen’s Transformational Journey
WHAT I LEARNED DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT:
I learned that my Main Character/Bill Bishop’s Transformational Journey can be shown to and experienced by an audience through deliberate conflicts that he must address, each of which attacking his façade one-by-one that comprise the list of his OLD WAYS.
LOGLINE: An aging, wealthy industrialist must fight the Board of his own company to prove his sanity until he learns that true legacy cannot be purchased.
OLD WAYS: – Arrogant
– Unrelentingly Driven to succeed at any cost
– Unapologetic
– Stubborn
– Refuses to acknowledge limitations of old age.
– Fiercely supports justice within the legal system and rule of law.
– Believes that wealth, power and political influence alone equate to a legacy of “good”.
NEW WAYS: – Humility
– Kindness and Compassion
– Acutely aware of the Human Condition
– Repentant
– Believes that the importance of doing good for his fellow man is not the same as leaving a legacy of wealth and history.
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Frank Jordan’s Day 3 Assignment (The Transformational Journey)
I learned doing this assignment that constructing a profound story is much like solving a large piece puzzle. Start with the edges (beginning “Old Ways” and ending “New Ways”) then fill in the middle (connect the two with a transformational journey).
1. Logline: Drafted into World War I, a humble black farmhand struggles to reconcile his life in the Jim Crow south with his “duty to country,” before leading his regiment in the bloody capture of a German stronghold.
2. Old Ways: In the beginning, my transformable character, Freddie, age 21, is living a mundane, meaningless life, picking cotton in South Carolina. He has a limited world view. Freddie is threatened and worries for his family’s (and own) safety. He has contempt for white people and his country. Freddie’s plan is to move (great migration) to a northern city in search of a better, safer life with his pregnant wife Pearl. His plan (and journey) changes when he is drafted into an all-black regiment commanded by white officers.
3. New Ways: By the end of the story, Freddie’s world view has expanded. He values all people, especially his white lieutenant, and is hopeful for mankind. Freddie is a valiant leader, at peace with himself, heroic, and an unsung patriot.
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Mark Smith
1) Transformational Journey: A high school counselor gains greater focus and self-confidence as a he struggles to make sense, then do his part to change a dysfunctional school to focus on the achievement of all students – not just the state championship basketball team.
2) Old Ways: A school counselor who is unchallenged, reclusive, and unfocused accepts job to work in an underprivileged school.
3) New Ways: The counselor faces a backlash of attacks – even possible loss of his job – as he learns to speak out and champion the change needed for all students, not just a select few.
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Birgit Myaard’s Transformational Journey
What I learned during this assignment is a slightly different way of writing a logline; focusing on the journey the transformable character takes to go from the old ways of acting/thinking/believing to the new ways.
GENTLEMEN OF THE GRIDIRON miniseries logline:
From his introduction to the fledgling game as a teen until his death, Walter Chauncey Camp, dubbed the “Father of American Football” by his peers, faced opposition to his vision for the game’s future and, on occasion, had to fight for its existence.
Logline for episode 1:
A scrawny, teenaged Camp must improve himself academically and physically to fulfill his dream of playing football for Yale.
Logline for episode 2:
While at Yale, Camp must learn the persuasive skills he will use throughout his lifetime to convince the Intercollegiate Football Association to adopt his suggested changes to the rugby-style rules of football in order to open up the game and make it livelier.
Old Ways for miniseries: Concerned with winning (both in sports and in getting
his ideas for football advanced), antagonistic to those who disagree with him
(especially the Harvard reps on the IFA rules committee), wanting to be a BMOC
and doing everything he can to realize the goals of being in the “right” clubs
at Yale, adamantly opposed to the forward pass.New Ways: Less concerned with winning and more concerned with being a
gentleman, actually becoming friends with Harvard alumni, realizing he cannot
keep the BMOC college life in the real world, learning to accept that others
have good ideas about football rules and being able, finally, to accept the forward
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What strikes me about Matrix is that it is a parody of Christianity and Gnosticism. The dual themes of Faith (in oneself) and Knowledge of the Matrix (the world), are both are Truths needed for transformation. Neo goes through a journey that is a discovery of these Truths by which he emerges as the One. Parallels “Are you the one or shall we look for another?” (Matthew 11:3). Neo’s bath in which he comes out hairless is the equivalent of Baptism in Which he emerges as a “Christ.” Shortly afterward he is tested by ordeal and apocalyptic combat in which he saves Morphius, the original transformative agent and follower along with the woman and Tank and all the other supporters. The gradients are love and loyalty to them in which he has grown.
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What I have learned doing this assignment – I need to make the stakes higher in my story.
Tell us your logline for the transformative journey –
After losing her beauty as she ages and reassessing her life when her first husband’s words come back to haunt her. An aging actress takes the chance on a real and authentic relationship she had spurred many years before.
Old Ways – Using her beauty to win hearts. Driven to succeed at any cost. throwing away relationships that don’t serve her anymore. Afraid and Vapid, with an unauthentic lifestyle.
New Ways – Valuing authenticity, Being brave enough to put things right. Seeing the importance in peoples that have loved her for who she is not what she looked like. Being brave
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KZ’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is to work backwards from the ultimate transformation, which then reveals the beginning status quo and old ways.
OLIVER IS…
Logline: During the pandemic, an out-of-work costume designer must solve a murder to save the man he loves from the same fate.
Old ways:
Oliver has never been in love. Relationships were always about who could help his career or provide financial stability.
New ways:
Oliver is the one doing the pursuing. He meets Tony, who is in a controlling, abusive relationship, and he takes risks because for once in his life, he is in love.
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Chris Cornelius’ Transformational Journey
“What I learned doing this assignment is:
A framework (skeleton) for this screenplay is being developed that will make it easier to decide which stories to cut, keep and add to accomplish its mission.
Tell us your logline for the transformational journey.
There are 3 story lines for the lady in the ‘Lady and the Hawk’ that progress simultaneously; each ending on a different motorcycle.
The childhood journey: from growing up in a 5-room factory town apartment with her 5 younger brothers (fighting sex discrimination and health issues); to teaching design and technical theater at Harvard University and getting her first motorcycle.
The 1979 cross-country motorcycle journey: from sheltered college/extended family/city girl world; to a far greater developed head/ heart/ body and soul woman returning home on the Hawk motorcycle.
The midlife crisis journey: from empty nest/losses/downsizing/looking back; to zooming off into the future to collect more stories to tell on a new motorcycle.
Logline:
A tired, once vibrant, professional woman reconnects with her spirit and sons telling captivating, perilous and humorous stories of her past motorcycle travels.
Tell us what you see as the Old Ways.
Victim of sex discrimination/health issues/and an inexperienced sheltered college, extended family, city girl world with an undeveloped head/heart/body/and soul.
Tell us what you see as the New Ways.
Healed/compassionate/energized/experienced head heart body and soul.
There is also the potential for this ‘mission’ to become a ‘movement’ that could change the world.
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Brenda Lynn’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is that consolidating the transformational journey down to a logline helps to create a guidepost for the script and help to create the specifics to achieve the transformation journey in a profound way.
1. Tell us your logline for the transformational journey.
1. Lead character with an issue:
An ego-centric anthropology student who dwells in technology and thrives on artificial self-imposed goals,
2. Journey
at the top of his class, his Celtiberian professor sends him to his last choice on the list
3. Transformation
where he learns how to live a spiritual life as opposed to a superficial one.
2. Tell us what you see as the Old Ways.
Living life on screens and avoiding contact with people
3. Tell us what you see as the New Ways.
Understanding the importance of a spiritual, grateful existence.
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Scott Richards’ Transformational Journey
Logline: Vikki is a self-loathing alcoholic who must escape from the coercive control of an ex-boyfriend to find the self-worth to break a life-long chain of addiction.
Old Ways:
– reliance on other to tell her what she need and what she should do.
– reliance on alcohol to hide from her self-loathing and life’s troubles.
– predicated to subservience.
New Ways
– Thinks for herself.
– Knows her self worth.
– independent.
– Understands that her life is her own.
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