Day 3 Assignments

[Judith Resell]

My villain is horrible and so powerful. I think he works very well in the action. Just vicious, and in a way that specifically opposes everything the hero holds dear. So I’m happy with him at this point.

[Dawn Rochelle]

Dawn’s Hero’s Mission Track

What I learned doing this assignment is how to begin outlining the hero’s mission.

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? She is trained to steal secret information from top secret locations.

B. What is the mission that would be an impossible goal? Prove her innocence after being framed as a traitor.

C. What strong internal and external motivation could drive the hero?

· Internal: Find out what happened to her parents and who she really is?

· External: Clear her name

D. Imagine that mission playing out across a story. What could naturally happen if this hero went on this mission against this villain? On the run from her own agency, avoiding and killing some of the agents charged with removing her, finds out what happened to parents, almost dies from special tech going haywire, gaining some help along the way, killing superior who framed her

2. Use the Mission Steps to outline the mission.

Clear Mission: Clear her name find out what happened to her family

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Motivation: Hazily remembers
mother’s death and father leaving and her own kidnapping
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Inciting Incident: She is
searching for information about who she really is

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First Action: Her superior
(kidnapper, mother’s murderer) realizes what she’s been secretly looking
for her family’s information

Obstacle: Superior wants her
captured or dead

Escalation: Superior sends
specialized force to capture/kill her

Overwhelming Odds: Tech
embedded in her blood begins to threaten her life; she must get back to
headquarters to fix the issue

New Plan: Go to another
superior who might help her

Full out Attack: With help of
other superior, get back to headquarters and attack from the inside

Success: Tech is fixed;
evidence found exposing direct superior as the traitor, what he did to her
parents and her kidnapping

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[Dexter Miller]

Assignment #3

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work. Lesson learned: Brainstorming this way helps create a story for the outline.

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? Her special forces training in covert operations bring her in to examine the virus as a scientist. She a 8th degree black belt in Ju-Jitsu. <div>

B. What is the mission that would be an impossible goal? She up against thr CIA and Government.

C. What strong internal and external motivation could drive the hero? Internal: Her husband was killed by the CIA and they have her daughter. External: They will kill her daughter if she exposes them.

D. Imagine that mission playing out across a story. What could naturally happen if this hero went on this mission against this villain? Discovering who has her daughter, Playing Scientist to get closer to the people that have her and killing them all while not breaking her identity. Killing all agents that interfere with her finding her daughter that will conclude to massive injuries or death.

2. Use the Mission Steps to outline the mission.

Clear Mission: To dave her daughter while killing anyone that gets in her way while exposing the truth behind the Covid-19 virus.

Motivation: Her husband is killed in a cover up mission failure. An envelope is dropped off at her doorstep with pictures of her husband’s kill shots. She’s determined to get answers.

Inciting Incident: Her daughter is kidnapped and pictures are sent to her email.

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First Action: When the police arrives, CIA comes over afterwards to console her they give off the wrong vibes about questions on what she was working on?

Obstacle: She has to play coye about her mission and go after the information about the virus while secretly looking for the kidnappers.

Escalation: CIA agents watch her and they get too close and she kills them.

Overwhelming Odds: She goes to her Dojo to blow off steam and is attacked be agents and she kills them one by one. Then she escapes and go to her lab for safety.

New Plan: Her daughter escapes and goes in to hiding.

Full out Attack: Her boss corners her with a major deadline that she absolutely has to meet. She mixes up some viles to buy her some time. They discover the mix up. They send agents to kill her as she’s about to announce her findings to the press conference.

Success: As she stammers her words, her daughter walk in and up to the podium. She then turn pages on her speech to tell the truth that it’s all a Government coverup and conspiracy to scare and controll the population. She does a mic drop and walks away from the podium.

3. Answer the question, “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work. Lesson learned: Brainstorming this way helps create a story for the outline.

4. Post your assignment in the forums at http://www.ScreenwritingClasses.com/forums

Subject line: (Your Name’s) Hero’s Mission Track (place in first line)

Deadline: 2 Days

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Creating this mission will give you a chance to see your Hero in action. Once you have a first draft, let it sit for a few hours. Then come back and improve it.

As we combine it with the other tracks, you’ll see an amazing story emerge that will keep readers and audiences engaged.

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[Judith Resell]

The mission does seem impossible. It pits an upper class wife against the mightiest army in the world. She must succeed or her town will be destroyed and her people killed or enslaved. She must find her true leadership qualities and must survive direct physical threat. The stakes, villain and mission seem strong enough at this point to me. The hero’s personal qualities need some work.

[Kay Hones]

#3. Subject line: Lee’s Hero’s Mission Track

“What I learned doing this assignment is I have a lot of backstory for hero & villain?” .

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A. What is it
about this Hero that will have them go straight into the face of the
overwhelming odds? Lee talks with other seniors/sick folks about real life
issues. They research & talk about impossible changes for good. They
have intellectual powers & magic haircuts give the physical powers.
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B. What is the
mission that would be an impossible goal? Stop corporate greed in
producing fentanyl

C. What strong
internal and external motivation could drive the hero? Personal & family
trauma of drug use & death

D. Imagine that
mission playing out across a story. What could naturally happen if this
hero went on this mission against this villain? Hero locked up in jail.

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Clear Mission:

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Motivation: stop
rampant availability of deadly drug from corporations
Inciting
Incident: accidental death of young relative; always visiting &
helping at senior home; found dead one morning in car accidental overdose.
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First Action: research
& find corporate boss
Obstacle:
difficult to access information
Escalation: all 5
use various research skills to find corporate head

Overwhelming
Odds: layers of legal & physical obstacles

New Plan: strategize
with magic ju jit su powers after weekly hair care from magical hair van
Full out Attack:
all 5 enter headquarters; ju it su all guards & enter head office suite;
use variety of techniques to change head guy(s) including hypnotism

Success:
fentanyl manufacturing destroyed/outlawed/jail for corporate for murder

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