Day 3 Assignment

[Daniel Melin]

Daniel Melin’s Five Seasons

What I learned doing this assignment is that inspiration is a wonderful thing, but so is discipline. I had an ambitious plan for three seasons of a show, and found myself coming up with some decent ideas for an additional two seasons just by forcing myself to think about them. They are, however, still very foggy and will require a lot of refining down the line.

1. Brainstorm to find the arc of the entire journey, from Season One to Five.

I imagine only three seasons up to this point: The Carpenter, The Realtor, and The Veteran/The Governor. I imagine a series arc similar to Le Guin’s Earthsea novels or The Wire, where there is a different protagonist and a bigger arena—or at least a different arena every season. If The Carpenter’s thematic focus is on the war between the sexes, then The Realtor, will focus on race relations. The Veteran, will then focus on the cost of war after a warrior returns home. I think that maybe there may be room for a different third season, which is more about what happens during war, while the fourth will focus on the aftereffects. Maybe my fifth season will then be about creating a functional state—maybe a state that is contemplating secession??? Because of how tense and divided the country is becoming? Maybe it’s even set in the future? So, the sequence would go Carpenter, Realtor, Soldier, Veteran, Governor. The Carpenter is set in the present day. Each subsequent story goes farther and farther into the future.

2. Brainstorm the Stair Step version.

Season 1: Trying to repair relationships between men
and women.
Season 2: Repairing Relationships between races
Season 3: Repairing Relationships between soldiers and
the people they try to help.
Season 4: Repairing relationships between soldiers and
their families when they come home.
Season 5: Repairing the relationship between a leader
and their followers.

3. For each season, brainstorm the Building Blocks.

Season 1: The Carpenter

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: An aimless
young man starts to learn more about magic after a werewolf attach his
hometown.
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: From purposeless coward to
powerful, courageous magician.
C. Main Conflict: Levi has to fight a powerful witch
named Titania who has placed Levi and many others under an enchantment.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: Why are there werewolves in
Athens, Minnesota? Who is Lizzie and how did she come to be in Everlasting
Summer?
E. Cliffhanger: There is a new danger from some even
more distant shore than Lizzie, who has come to Athens.

Season 2: The Realtor

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: A
mysterious newcomer to Athens has been buying up premium real estate in
town, but seems up to no good, and may be connected to a string of murders
that have started.
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: An idealistic young cop has
to solve the mystery and confront the dark side of his hometown.
C. Main Conflict: The cop has to find out what the
Realtor is up to and what his connection to the murders is.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: What is the motivation behind
the strange killings? Will the plucky young cop survive?
E. Cliffhanger: The cop’s younger brother decides to
leave Athens and join the military.

Season 3: The Soldier

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: A soldier
is sent to control unrest in a small village in Iran, but finds the
village is at the mercy of a strange phantom.
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: The soldier has to learn
more about the villagers and get them to trust him in order to help them.
C. Main Conflict: The soldier has to fight the evil
spirit that is terrorizing the village.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: What is the evil spirit and what
does it want?
E. Cliffhanger: The soldier has defeated the phantom,
but is scarred by his experience and returns home, unsure of what he will
find.

Season 4: The Felon

A. High Concept or major hook of the season. A
childhood friend of the two brothers—the cop and the soldier—who was a
lackey of the main antagonist in the second season gets released from
prison, but starts terrorizing the brothers’ family with the aid of some
spirit.
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: The brothers have to repair
their relationship and fight their common enemy, who was once their
friend.
C. Main Conflict: The two brothers need to fight their
old friend who is using dark magic to terrorize their family.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: How did their old friend stumble
on such potent magical powers? Will they reconcile enough to face their
common enemy?
E. Cliffhanger: Their whole state is considering
seceding from the United States!

Season 5: The Governor

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Several
powerful magical factions have emerged in Minnesota, who eventually decide
to secede from the rest of the United States and create their own
nation-state.
B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: The reluctant leader of
this movement and the newly appointed governor of Minnesota has to bring
all these competing factions under a unified banner and prove that he can
be the leader that the newly formed nation needs.
C. Main Conflict: The governor has to convince several
warring factions in his state to all work together.
D. Mystery/Open Loops: What are the agendas of the
competing factions and will he actually prove a strong enough leader to
unite them?
E. Cliffhanger: He has become the leader the nation
needs, but at no small cost to himself.

4. Write a description of each season and give us the 5 seasons.

Season 1: The Carpenter

An aimless young man named Levi drifts from job to job until he finds himself paying his bills as a carpenter, working for a friend’s contracting company. He thinks his life will continue as a string of such unfulfilling jobs until a werewolf attacks someone in his small town in Minnesota. This sets him on a journey to learn magic that soon pits him against a powerful witch named Lizzie, who places him under an enchantment along with many others whom she has been turning into pawns in her vendetta against her unfaithful husband. Levi soon finds a mentor in another friend named Mark, who helps him penetrate the mysteries of Everlasting Summer, the magical kingdom Lizzie rules, but the duo find themselves at odds over how best to employ magic, and what its role in life is. Their adventures soon cause magic to manifest in surprising and dangerous ways in the lives of everyone around them, including Levi’s boss, Miguel whose affair with an old flame threatens to tear his family apart. Eventually, Levi will have to use everything that he has learned to not only free those whom Lizzie has enchanted, but to prove that magic can be used to give meaning to life and not just meaningless suffering.

Season 2: The Realtor

An idealistic young cop wants to help show that the police can actually be a force for law and order and not tyranny. He soon finds himself investigating a string of murders with ties to a pillar of the community who has bought up a huge fraction of the best real estate in the city. He has to risk career suicide in order to find the truth, but eventually, he discovers that he may in fact be a literal vampire, preying on the citizens of the city. He will eventually have to seek help from a man claiming to be a magician named Levi who he hopes will help him confront powers he had dismissed as paranoid fantasy.

Season 3: The Soldier

A soldier on a mission in Iran has to build a relationship with a remote village preyed upon by a terrorist cell pressing their young men into their ranks, and a vicious phantom that haunts the hills around the village. Eventually he has to stretch his notions of right and wrong in order to actually form relationships with the people in the village, and dispel the evil spirit that harasses them.

Season 4: The Felon

The cop from the third season, and the soldier from the fourth are brothers who have long been at odds. When the soldier returns home, he is traumatized by the events in Iran, and has shut himself away from his brother and the rest of his family. This isolation is soon shattered when a childhood friend of his and his brothers, who was a lackey of the antagonist in the third season is released from prison, now apparently possessing mysterious powers. The soldier will have to repair his relationship with his brother in order to face their common friend turned enemy who now threatens their family.

Season 5: The Governor

The newly elected governor of Minnesota finds himself presiding over a drastic turn of events when several powerful factions of the state emerge, all wielding powerful magic who urge the governor to secede from the United States, which fears and reviles magic. Soon the factions all begin turning on one another and the reluctant leader of this radical state of affairs must unite everyone and learn to understand the strange forces at work in his home.

[David]

Amazing job on your 5 season breakdown. It inspired me to keep pushing forward. I never really considered past the first two seasons. It is really uncomfortable.

On a side note. The Wire. Watching the first episode yesterday, again, brought tears to my eyes. Using this framework and knowing the storylines was eye-opening. But it also made me realize that this was David Simon’s 2nd run at a TV show in this topic/genre.

He wrote the book Homicide – A Year on the Killing Street

He did – Homicide: Life on the Street for NBC.

Wrote another Book – On the Corner.

Before tackling this prolific project called The Wire. In a way, David Simon spent more than a decade doing all these exercises we are working on right now. I got to work on A Plot Against America and David Simon is so awesome.

[David]

This assignment really messed me up. I struggled with it because… I never thought of my series as a “5 season” arc. More like a 3 season arc. Also, it really disturbed my “perfectionist” ego. If I wrote all of this down then everything had to be complete and figured out: Layers, Conflict, Character Arc… etc. I had a really difficult time looking at it as a draft. Mostly because this is probably as far as I have ever come writing so this is the edge of my visible universe.

Another thing that disturbed me about this assignment is it seems hard to keep the deep threads I have planned for the series with some of the outlines. Maybe it was just me but my initial thinking and the easier storyline was something like falling stars and a physical invasion war story. I had to fight to keep the layers and depth I envision while creating this framework. Or just killing off each main character one season at a time. That actually felt really refreshing to do…

Season 1 – In Self We Trust

High Concept – Relationship to ourselves and our belief systems

Main Conflict – How can we know what we know is real as debunkers and society influence our every move.

Main Mystery – Are UFO’s Government made/propaganda. And if not then who is piloting the ships and abducting humans on Earth

Cliffhanger – Watching a video of a transgenic being during an interrogation stating all humans have been abducted at least once for DNA cataloging

Description – Rebecca looks for the abductee with Jakob and discovers that this phenomenon is larger than she ever realized. Lukas tries everything to lead Rebecca away from her investigation and the true reality. He also starts to fall in love with Rebecca again. Julianne tries to find out what the Aliens are doing on Earth and keeps her interactions with them hidden.

Season 2 – In Money We Trust

High Concept – Relationship to the Structures of Society

Main Conflict – Larger powers of Government interference are revealed as Rebecca comes close to revealing how large the Hybrid experiment has become

Main Mystery – Will Lukas let love guide him and why are so many people trying to stop disclosure.

Cliff Hanger – humans are used as containers for alien essence/souls and Aliens are in control of major areas of society’s institutional decisions on the planet.

Season 3 – In God We Trust

High Concept – Relationship to Earth and a Higher Power

Main Conflict – Man vs Hybrids

Main Mystery – What are the Hybrids doing on Earth?

Cliffhanger – Earth Spirits are found… are they willing to help Humans save the planet?

Description – By the end of the Season all of our main characters are on the same page and joined together to fight the Alien/Hybrid takeover of Earth plan. Earth spirits show they can stop Julianne from being abducted for the first time in her life.

Season 4 – In Children We Trust

High Concept – Innocents lost, remembering the past, distortions, truth

Main Conflict – Human societal structures and human behavior short-sightedness changing from the disclosure of a larger Universal consciousness

Main Mystery – Can we come together as a species and work with a more advanced species to save ourselves

Cliffhanger – Earth is on the verge of being uninhabitable OR Hybrids invade physical Earth as a last resort

Description – Julianne feels like a new person and gathers other abductees and aligned Hybrids

Season 5 – In Humanity We Trust

Season 1 – UFO’s visiting earth, abduction, cataloging

Season 2 – Transgenic Beings, Lukas is exposed as a double agent

Season 3 – Learns why Hybrids are on Earth. Discovers Julianne has been part of the Hybrid program

Season 4 – Rebecca goes on board a UFO to communicate, learns there are more than one species, and is contacted by Earth Spirits

Season 5 – Reveals Humans’ place in the Universe and Rebecca learns of her innate powers.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by  David Stam.
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[Emmanuel Sullivan]

Emmanuel Sullivan’s Five Seasons

What I learned doing this assignment is when you create a larger framework for seasons, it appears to be easier, but you have to be mindful of what happened in the previous season(s).

SEASON 1: BIPARTISAN INNOVATION

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Two former presidents from opposing parties launch a presidential foundation managed by their gen Alpha offspring.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: The foundation is under financial stress and a sex tape surfaces.

C. Main Conflict: Two families that don’t trust the other’s politics derails the foundation.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will the foundation survive with constant scandals and mismanagement?

E. Cliffhanger: Did Mark know about the politician’s wife’s affair, and will Andrew continue his vices to fund the foundation?

SEASON 2: FAMILY TIES

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Mark wants a second term as the US president.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Mark’s second family surfaces that no one knows about but the secret service.

C. Main Conflict: Two families that don’t trust the other’s politics derails the foundation.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will the former presidents appoint an offspring to run the foundation or hire an outsider for the CEO spot?

E. Cliffhanger: Will Andrew move forward in the secession movement?

SEASON 3: DISSOLVE OR FIGHT

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Sarah discovers Mark’s mistress and children.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Sarah struggles with the revealing of Mark’s current and former affairs and they make the decision to spin an open marriage.

C. Main Conflict: Can Mark manage a campaign and his second family. Andrew digs deeper into various funding schemes.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will Andrew leave the foundation to work full-time on the agenda for the new nation?

E. Cliffhanger: The former first ladies are left with the task of managing the foundation.

SEASON 4: DAYS OF RECKONING

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Mark and Andrew check out but still want the foundation to succeed.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Mark goes into full campaign mode and Andrew enjoys more of his hobbies.

C. Main Conflict: The CEO quits and the foundation goes into chaos.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will the foundation survive without guidance from Mark and Andrew?

E. Cliffhanger: The foundation is on the verge of closing and the family makes one last-ditch effort to keep it afloat.

SEASON 5: WIN AT ALL COSTS

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Mark and Andrew must face where their true interest belongs, with the foundation or not.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Mark is not the DNC nominee but is selected as a running mate. Andrew enters a recovery center for counseling through his personal vices.

C. Main Conflict: How do two families with two disparate agendas successfully manage a bipartisan foundation?

D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will Andrew head to the new nation after counseling? Will Mark accept being a VP?

E. Cliffhanger: The foundation is dissolved and some of the offspring follow their fathers to serve in their new administration.

SEASON 1: BIPARTISAN INNOVATION

How do two former presidents from opposing parties launch an innovative presidential foundation with a partisan family?

Two former leaders of the free world are not where they want to be, but they are off to a successful start with their innovative foundation. Family ties are stronger than politics and the pair lose control of the foundation the family manages. Because of the negative family influence, they begin to move apart from their mutual business relationship into competing and separate agendas.

SEASON 2: FAMILY TIES

The foundation is running steady after hiring an outside professional as the new CEO. A person that can act as a buffer between the two former presidents and the foundation’s management, who happen to be offspring and respective wives, serving as advisors. Mark, the former democrat president decides after long consideration to run for president again, after all, he feels less than successful only serving one term. Andrew, the former republican president, takes interest in secession movements across the country.

SEASON 3: DISSOLVE OR FIGHT

Mark swings into full campaign mode in an attempt to win the White House. With his children managing the foundation he feels confident in its success while he’s away campaigning. His wife Sarah goes along for the ride but is not 100% supportive. His campaign hits a roadblock when his second, younger family is discovered by the press. Andrew fights to keep the foundation alive, with Mark campaigning, he has the financial burden of fundraising. However, the secession movement is stronger, and he wants to be a force in that endeavor.

SEASON 4: DAYS OF RECKONING

The Cason and Brice family of siblings are fighting more than ever. The CEO brought in quits under stress and mismanagement. The matriarchs also have different opinions about how the foundation should be managed and who should take the CEO position within the family. Mark has checked out; his focus has turned to managing the revelation of his second family. Andrew indulges in more of his vices but also takes control of leading a separate nation movement.

SEASON 5: WIN AT ALL COSTS

Mark’s track record on the campaign trail loses steam. He is not selected to be the nominee at the DNC but is selected as a running mate. He moves on with his second family back to Washington DC. Andrew finally decides to give up on the foundation and is elected president of the new nation within the US. The innovative, bipartisan, family foundation dissolves, but with Mark’s sights on being the president again and Andrew serving as the leader of a new republic, a foundation is bound to appear again.

[Joseph Eastburn]

Joe’s Five Seasons

What I learned doing this assignment is… I had no idea how to create the 5 seasons, but I used the “fill in the blanks” process, and it worked. Amazed..

2. Brainstorm the Stair Step version. REWRITE AS ONE SENTENCE

Season
1: Ruby Kane, female
detective, haunted by her dead father, hunts a rapist who preys on older
women in a small town, decides to deliver her own brand of justice.
Season
2: The history of the town
as a hunting ground revealed, and who’s behind it.
Season
3: The ghost world
beneath it revealed; Ruby stops killing, and puts rapists behind bars
instead, so she won’t contribute to what the ghost world wants.
Season
4: The ghost world and
human world prepare for war across the life/death line.

Season 5: The war commences; Ruby has to stop rapist ghosts, protect her mother and has to unite with her father; as the they work together, fight, then turn on each other, still fighting between life and death, a fatal blow is delivered. (Cliffhanger!)

3. For each season, brainstorm the Building Blocks.

Season 1: (Venom)

A.
High Concept or major hook of the season. Someone is preying on older women in a small Gold Rush town.
B.
Big Picture Arc/Journey: When powerful people in town get him off, a female detective
takes justice into her own hands.
C.
Main Conflict: Chasing down the
rapist; fighting with the powers that be in the town.
D.
Mystery/Open Loops: Why do they rape older
women? Why does Ruby inject the rapists with insect venom? What is the
dark history of the town?
E.
Cliffhanger: Does she kill the rapist?

Season 2: (Hunting Ground)

A.
High Concept or major hook of the season. The doctor who has a cultlike following is actually experimenting
on older ladies, and in treatment, they get temporary memory loss and don’t
remember being raped.
B.
Big Picture Arc/Journey: The marketing aspect of the town, bringing in “fit” older women
with financial assets; Ruby begins to research and finds out many of them
became victims and were fleeced.
C.
Main Conflict: Ruby against the
underground network of the town spills into the open; Rebecca, Ruby’s
daughter, hanging with druggies to get treatment that’s not available for
her mental illness ends up becoming addicted to drugs.
D.
Mystery/Open Loops: Certain characters we’ve
bonded with are found to be involved in the scheme, including Rodion and
Lula Kane.
E.
Cliffhanger: Have Rodion’s
flashbacks actually been hauntings by a real ghost?

Season 3: (The Contract)

A.
High Concept or major hook of the season. There’s a ghost world underneath the town because of a major “Donner
Party” tragedy; a supernatural contract was entered.
B.
Big Picture Arc/Journey: Ruby stops killing, puts the rapists in jail to stop feeding
the new species with dead men.
C.
Main Conflict: Ruby and her team
turning their attention to what’s beneath.
D.
Mystery/Open Loops: Are their ghosts
among them? Ruby encounters one of the men she killed as a ghost. He tries
to get back at her by raping his first human.
E.
Cliffhanger: When he overpowers
Ruby, does he rape her, or does she fight him off?

Season 4: (Ghost World)

A. High Concept or major hook of the season. The ghost world and human world prepare for war across the life/death line.

B.
Big Picture Arc/Journey: Ruby, Rebecca and Lula are being torn apart. People in the town
are find out what’s really happening underneath.
C.
Main Conflict: Ruby marshalling the
forces for the living; personal stories of people in extremis; ghosts
appearing inside households.
D.
Mystery/Open Loops: There is reconnaissance
across the life/death line; Ruby is able to apply the tradecraft of Rodion’s
lessons; do they have a scene where she finally knows he’s ghost and he’s
warning her,
E.
Cliffhanger: Is this is how Rodion
makes amends for what happened with Ruby?

Season 5: (Beetle Brains)

A.
High Concept or major hook of the season. Ruby has to stop ghosts from raping humans; somehow, her work
with insects helps her solve some riddle.
B.
Big Picture Arc/Journey: She unites with her father.
C.
Main Conflict: Ruby mobilizing the
ladies of the town to fight back
D.
Mystery/Open Loops: Ruby and Rodion work
together; they realize a certain aspect of the rain beetle allows them an
advantage, then, in the heat of the battle, they turn on each other, fight
between life/ death line.
E.
Cliffhanger: A fatal blow is
delivered; who died?

[Barbara Gilmore]

Green Lake

What I learned was this is was a tough challenge and I’m hoping I can make the journey from A to B more intriguing.

ARC

Season 1 Jess Pearson is a Senior Detective aiding the Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office and trying to solve a murder and disappearance case while finding her missing brother.

Season 5 Jess Pearson is Sheriff Jess Pearson of Green Lake revered among law enforcement and feared by criminals state wide.

Season 1 through 5

A. Solving a murder and disappearance with the same MO as that of her brother’s 5 years before and in the same vacation town, Green Lake.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: From Senior Big City Detective to Sheriff of the smallest big crime town in the American Midwest.

C. Displacing Sheriff Moore and defeating Captain Anderson and the Oil Producers.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will she solve both cases; Will she find her brother; Will her secret hacking skills help or hinder her investigations. Will she clean up the town and rid its big crime activities; Will Sarah forgive her.

E. Cliffhangers: TBC.

Bigger Opponent

Season 1: Conflict with Sheriff Linda Moore

Season 2: Confronting Captain Anderson

Season 3: Conflict with Oil Producers and locals

Season 4: Conflict with Sarah, retired Sheriff, and Oil Producers

Season 5: Winning as Sheriff, maybe? Maybe Not.

Bigger Arena

Season 1: Green Lake, a small town in North Dakota

Season 2: Nearby towns

Season 3: big cities

Season 4: state wide

Season 5 American Mid West

New Layer Exposed

Season 1: Full extent of corruption is exposed but string pullers remain largely hidden; Murderer still unknown. Luke still missing.

Season 2: Discover Sheriff, Captain Anderson’s and Oil Producer schemes

Season 3: Murderer unmasked; Luke still missing; Brother still missing

Season 4: Luke is found; Brother still missing

Season 5: Brother found; Murderer five years ago is unmasked; String pullers unmasked

Season 1: Welcome Back!

How does a Big City Detective clean up small town big crime without exposing her own secrets?

After her Big City Detective ambitions are thwarted, Senior Detective Jess Pearson returns to the area where her family summer vacationed to help Sheriff Linda Moore solve a double murder and disappearance. Jess sees this as an opportunity to find her brother who five years ago went missing under similar circumstances while keeping her newly found County Sheriff ambitions alive. Trouble is she needs to confront a past that includes Sarah Watson who is on a mission to Green Green Lake and that vision for the town doesn’t include a Jess Pearson anywhere near it let alone a Sheriff Jess Pearson.

Season 2: Case Almost Solved but Will Never be Closed

Senior Detective Jess Pearson continues to investigate the recent double murders and disappearances and discovers Sheriff Moore and Captain Anderson’s schemes.

Season 3: Unmasked – Finally!

Senior Detective Jess Pearson solves the recent double murder, but Luke Smith and her brother are still missing.

Season 4: A Homecoming to Remember

Senior Detective Jess Pearson finds Luke alive, but her brother is still missing. Finally, she must confront the day that she found her brother missing and their two friends murdered.

Season 5: I Don’t Remember I Can’t Remember

Senior Detective Jess Pearson faces some difficult truths to find her brother and bring him home.

[Donna Stockwell]

Donna Stockwell’s Five Seasons

What I learned doing this assignment is that making the seasons in steps from high concept to intriguing details is very revealing. The pieces are coming together slowly and piece by piece.

Season 1: Control: Ben tries to control his wife who ends up eloping with her daughter’s boyfriend .
Season 2: Chase: Ben is hard core serial killer; Patrice buys seaside cottage with Luc; does Celeste go to visit Patrice?
Season 3: Belief: Ben finds religion, but too hard to resist killing, and sends Celeste on religious path which turns out to be a cult.
Season 4: Loyalty: Ben gets caught; Jasper stays below with his mother & grave falls in; Celeste marries a man from the cult almost as old as her father — similar treatment to father
Season 5: Virtue: Celeste has a baby – does she allow the baby to see grandparents?

[Cooper James]

5 Seasons – EDGEMONT

What I learned doing this assignment is patience and trust in the process. Keep stacking your ideas that work, edit and toss the ones that don’t. Either way keep writing as you can always add, edit and improve on your idea. Stay open!

1. Brainstorm to find the arc of the entire journey, from Season One to Five.

SEASON 1 START: Since this series is set in a dystopian future where the world is struggling for its survival and resources are scarce, the first season begins with Simone, a single mother, trying to save her family (aging father and twin sons) and their family fortune – Edgemont Hotel. When conflicts arise between Simone and her misguided father, King, and her power-hungry son, Roman, over cashing out by selling Edgemont to developers, Simone must return to her former trade – assassin, to keep the developers at bay. This leads to her estrangement with King and Roman who are up to their schemes. But her fearless and hot-headed son, Remy, joins her side when the developers bring in reinforcements – Region 26, where ruthless Senator Green, Simone’s ex-lover, would like nothing more than to take her down and gain control of Edgemont and their resources.

SEASON 5 END: Simone takes down Senator Green and becomes Senator of Region 26.

2. Brainstorming the Stair Step Model

Season 1: Conflict with King, Roman, developers, and Region 26.

Season 2: Going to battle against Region 26.

Season 3: Going to Region 26 to kill Senator Green

Season 4: Being captured, standing trial, and facing death for alleged crimes.

Season 5: Finally taking down Senator Green and becoming Senator of Region 26.

3. Building blocks for each season:

Season 1: Fool Me Once…

A. High concept or major hook of the season: Saving her family and their fortune – Edgemont.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: From single mother to leading her son, Remy, and a group of homeless kids against developers to save Edgemont.

C. Main conflict: Going against her father King and son, Roman’s plan to sell Edgemont.

D. Mystery/Open loops: Will Simone and Remy get killed saving Edgemont?

E. Cliffhanger: Can Simone recruit enough backup to save Edgemont and not be killed?

SEASON 2: Shame On You…

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: The developers hired the military from Region 26 to attack Edgemont.

B. Big PictureArc/Journey: Simone goes from hating her ex-lover, Senator Green to disco dring she still has feelings for him.

C. Main Conflict: Can Simone kill Senator Green to save her family and Edgemont.

D. Mystery/Opening loops: Is Senator Green the father of Simone’s twin sons? Will she fall under the Senator’s spell again?

E. Cliffhanger: Will Simone use her sexuality to get support from Owens to help fight Region 26?

Season 3: Fool Me Twice…

A. High concept or major hooks of the season: Simone reconciles with her father, King, and son, Roman which leads to their agreement not to sell Edgemont.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Not being captured when she goes into Region 26 to build a powerful network to take down Senator Green.

C. Main Conflict: Simone has to get her son, Remy, to follow her directions and stop attacking Region 26’s military.

D. Mystery/Open loops: Can Simone trust King, Roman, and Owens to help her or will they sell her out.

E: Cliffhanger: Who revealed her location that allows Senator Green to track her whereabouts?

Season 4: Shame on Me…

A. High Concept or major hook: Simone is captured and faces the death penalty for the murder of the former Senator.

B. Big PictureArc/Journey: From single mother trying to save her family to political pawn in jail.

C. Main conflict: Proving her innocence and staying alive.

D. Mystery/open loops: Will Mrs. Conners be exposed as the real assassin of the former Senator or will King keep that info hidden?

E. Cliffhanger: Will Simone be found guilty and released from jail or will her son, Remy, rescue her first?

Season 5: Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold

A. high Concept or major hook of the Season: Remy must deliver Mrs. Conners to Region 26 with evidence to save his mother’s life.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Simone going from jailed and accused assassin to running for Senator.

C. Main Conflict: Simone fighting against her father King, son, Roman, and Senator Green.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: Can Simone stay alive long enough to win her senate race against her ex-lover Senator Green?

E. Cliihanger: With her back against the wall and everything on the line, will Simone finally be strong enough to kill Senator Green?

4. First Draft of Five Seasons

Season 1:

How does a single mother convince her father to save the family by not selling the family fortune, Edgemont, to developers?

After discovering her father’s plan to sell Edgemont, Simone must stop developers from closing the deal. Using her training as a former assassin, she trains a group of homeless kids living at Edgemont how to fight. This battle pits her against her father and son who have plans to use the money from the sale to gain power in Region 26. How will she gain the upper hand? She kills off the developers. As a single mother, she always trusted her father and raised her sons to be strong. As a defender of the family fortune, she returns to being an assassin.

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