Day 3 Assignments

[Mary Ellevold]

Mary Ellevold

“What I learned doing this assignment this is easier than I thought, and I am close to finishing my screenplay.”

1. Ask the Mission Track questions to discover your Hero’s mission.

A. What is it about this Hero
that will have them go straight into the face of the overwhelming odds? Jon wants to save the world, one pet at
a time.
B. What is the mission that
would be an impossible goal? He
must face his fear of animals while the animals are attacking him.
C. What strong internal and external
motivation could drive the hero? Internal motivation = childhood dream. External motivation – he could lose his
job, his apartment, his gerbil, etc….
D. Imagine that mission playing
out across a story. What could naturally happen if this hero went on this
mission against this villain? Jon goes to the Phobia Doctor to cure his
fear of animals, but it’s not a phobia if it’s real.

2. Use the Mission Steps to outline the mission.

Clear Mission: Jon Johnson must face his fear of animals to save his job.

Motivation: Jon must face his fears to save his
job,his home, his pet gerbel….
Inciting Incident: Birds poop
bomb his vehicle so bad he can’t get to his dog catcher job;which is
rescueing a kitty in a tree…
1^st action: Jon’s arch enemy, his ex-childhood
sweetheart, Kat,places a secret basket at his door that makes animals go
crazy.
2nd Action:Kat convinces Jon the
animal attacks aren’t real, he has to go to phobia doctor to cure his
fears…
Obstacle:the phobia doctor is
on vacation, and the janitor picks
up the phone and decides to make some money.
Escalation: the Group tries
Virtuo-reality, and counter conditioning, but..
Overwhelming Odds:Kat sabatoges
each one, and almost kills Jon in the process..
New Plan: Jon decides to face
his fears.
Full out Attack:animals attack,
but the real problem is revealed, and everything stops.
Success: Jon has faced his
fears, Kat goes to jail, no more fear.

[Dennis Chrisman]

Cheryl, Where do I find Assignment 3 lesson plan so I can get started on Assignment 3 answers.

[BG]

Action Lesson 3: Creating the Mission Track

ASSIGNMENT

BG’s Hero’s Mission Track!

What I learned doing this assignment: I need to come up with more assassins, a higher body count, and maybe even a car chase;))

1. Ask the Mission Track questions to discover your Hero’s mission.

A. What is it about this Hero that will have them go straight into the face of the overwhelming odds?
• Reporter gets pissed off that powerful people are planning to instigate a war in order to benefit themselves and decides to get involved.

B. What is the mission that would be an impossible goal?
• One guy against billionaires, media and intelligence agencies

C. What strong internal and external motivation could drive the hero?
• Internal Motivation: Reporter starts with a broken heart. As he finds out more, he starts coming out of his funk and his intentions change. His mission becomes: To do what he can. This is also his healing process.
• External Motivation: Assassins and agents are going to kill him!

D. Imagine that mission playing out across a story. What could naturally happen if this hero went on this mission against this villain?
• Getting close to the subject, searching for information, getting caught, fighting assassins and agents, getting allies, rescuing friends, tricking the conspirators and agents, and the possibility of injuries or death.

2. Use the Basic Mission Steps to outline the mission.

NOTE: You can also use any of these steps: Twist, escape, search, discovery, hide out, attacking back, apparent success or defeat.

Clear Mission:
REPORTER’S CLEAR MISSION: To stop a conspiracy to start a war… before assassins and agents kill him!

Motivation:
MOTIVATION FOR THE MISSION: REPORTER gets pissed off that powerful people are planning to instigate a war in order to benefit themselves and decides to get involved

Inciting Incident:
INCITING INCIDENT: REPORTER is sent by his editor to check out a tip about a plot to start a war.

First Action:
FIRST ACTION: When REPORTER first arrives, his intention is to get a scoop for his paper. He gets hired as waiter by HOSTESS, who works at The Club, which, according to the tip, serves as headquarters for the conspiracy.

Obstacle:
OBSTACLE: REPORTER gets seen near the St. Michael conference room and is banned from the floor.

Escalation:
ESCALATION: He makes a jerry-rigged listening device, installs it into the thermostat in the St. Michael conference room.

DISCOVERY: He listens in and discovers that the conspirators are planning an operation codenamed NORTHSTAR that will pump in weapons and militants into Maldovinia where separatists are battling government forces. Their goal is to turn the protracted insurgency into a full-blown land war in the middle of Europe and disrupt piped natural gas supply, so that they can sell expensive LNG (liquefied natural gas) to Europeans.

NEW PLAN: REPORTER gets pissed off that powerful people are planning to instigate a war in order to benefit themselves and decides to get involved. He calls his editor to report, but makes the mistake of using the word NORTHSTAR during the call.

Overwhelming Odds:
OVERWHELMING ODDS: Keyword monitoring programs of NSA latch onto the word and CIA discovers that the press is onto NORTHSTAR, which they support. They alert MI6. MI6 sends agents to scan the St. Michael conference room.

TWIST: No bugs are found! REPORTER is puzzled. Unbeknownst to him, HOSTESS goes to her car to make a call and is revealed to be a German agent.

APPARENT DEFEAT: REPORTER’s friend and ally, HACKER, is not answering his calls. Unbeknownst to REPORTER, he has been captured and is being interrogated in a CIA safe house.

AMBUSHED: On the way back to his hotel from HACKER’s ransacked apartment, he’s ambushed by ASSASSIN, sent by one of the billionaires. REPORTER tries to fight him off, finally pushing him off his center of gravity and toppling him down. While ASSASSIN is down, he kicks him unconscious.

New Plan:
TWIST: REPORTER follows HOSTESS to her car and discovers she is a German agent. She tells him they are working for the same goal: to stop a war. She tells him there are many Germans opposed to paying high energy prices to accommodate Western geopolitical ambitions. It was she who sent him the tip and removed his listening device, and she planted fake information about HACKER to deflect CIA’s attention away from REPORTER.

APPARENT SUCCESS: Using tools and a plan made by him, REPORTER, HOSTESS, and her allies rescue HACKER from the CIA safe house, and take him to an undisclosed safe house.

AMBUSHED AGAIN: On the way to his new hotel, where he’s hiding out, REPORTER is again attacked by ASSASSIN, wielding a taser this time. HOSTESS jumps out of the shadows and flattens him. REPORTER asks her not to kill him.

TWIST: REPORTER asks HOSTESS to help him put NORTHSTAR out of business. She agrees and arranges HACKER’s participation in planning via video-link from the undisclosed safe house.

Full out Attack:
FULL OUT ATTACK: REPORTER and allies conduct a major hacking operation to divert the conspiracy’s funds and make it look like one of the conspirators did it.

Success:
SUCCESS: Lead conspirator terminates the plot and has his second-in-command killed by ASSASSIN. REPORTER is seen in a restaurant, smiling and having a good time with HOSTESS, the female lead. His heart has healed!

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[jeffrey jeff glatz glatz]

What I learned doing this assignment is…?” Helps see the overall direction of the story and I am learing about the “must have” components of an action film.

TREVOR FORBES MISSION TRACK:

Clear Mission: Trevor must step back into his old life and stop a man, Samuel Worthington, from destabilizing the world through terrorism and taking control of the seat of US power<div>

Motivation: Beyond being the moral thing to do, a demon from his past is part of the conspiracy

Inciting Incident: Finding a copy of the Agenda (plan)

First Action:

Guards at Russian home try to kill him

Flashback to Afghanistan

Twist: Worthington knows his father who was killed by terrorists

Obstacle: Asley Loren. Love interest or pawn?

Escalation: Another Terrorist Attack

Search: Collect information on Cartel’s Plan

Escape: Must not be caught during recon of meeting</div>

Overwhelming Odds: Escape 12 assassins sent to kill him

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New Plan: Confront Cartel head on

Apparent defeat: Trevor is captured, tortured and his death is ordered

Apparent success: escapes his capture, killing along the way

Twist: His “adopted” Uncle is a member of Cartel

Attacking back:

o Confronts and kills member of Cartel – Germany

o Confronts and kills members of Cartel forces – England

Full out Attack: As time ticks down toward Presidential assassination, Trevor confronts his enemy at a meeting head-on</div>

Twist: Trevor’s father is alive and founding member of Cartel

Success: Kills almost everyone. Kills personal nemesis. Plot is stopped. Father and Worthington escape.

[savanna]

What I learned is that I can change the character and mission by continued brainstorming and I’m not married to the original idea.

CHIARA’S Mission Track

Chiara, who has a celestial mandate from the invisible world, sets out to eradicate homelessness in her country. The mission is an impossible goal as she is a petite soft spoken woman in a macho world taking on social structure to change demographics. Her internal motivation is constant rapport with the invisible world and external motivation is seeing her beloved cousins homeless. What could naturally happen is getting caught up in day to day assistance of the infirm, searching for a plan and advocating for it, having it criticized by authorities, developing her own plan with assistance of invisible world, bilocating, her main skill, to be in many places at once, recruiting others to help her, possibilities of resistance from status quo and exhaustion and injury.

CLEAR MISSION eradicate homelessness in her country MOTIVATION is a clear voice heard during meditation and sympathy for cousins INCITING INCIDENT is seeing her cousins freeze to death. FIRST ACTION is bilocating to hear governmental officials refuse to address the issue FIRST ACTION is calling on assistance from invisible world. OBSTACLE is finding metaverse controlled by dark forces as the energy of the infirm power the unseen battles for soul counts. ESCALATION is having to learn metaverse technology to be able to subdue evil forces, DISCOVERY is finding that dark forces are working pointedly against her. NEW PLAN is teaching others to bilocate so as to be able to control dark forces and simultaneously release homeless from mindset TWIST is one of her celestial assistants is aligned with dark forces APPARENT SUCCESS is eradication of homelessness FULL OUT ATTACK is disconnection of her helpers from metaverse by dark forces, SUCCESS is subduing dark forces for a while.