Day 3: What I learned …?

[Anis Taylor]

I learned in rewriting my scene to be very creative with my turning points in each act. Create a situation where it has drama that will push our protagonist to a point where there is no turning back. Since my script is a suspense, it was improtant for me to build the suspense before setting my Protagonist in a turning point situation where there is no “going back”.

[Rice Rice]

I learned that tension-filled subtly in dialogue and imagery can convey powerful turning-point messages. In rewriting my scenes, I introduced some subtly, interspersed with my dynamic action, which made my turning points more powerful.

[Renee Miller]

I’ve learned that each turning point needs to be bigger and more powerful than the last. As the movie progresses, the turning points need more tension, and the character should have more at stake. While I haven’t rewritten my scenes yet, I have gone through and brainstormed how to make them better and have a good plan for how I want to rewrite them.

[Shannon Collier]

My scene didn’t originally exist, but I decided to write it to add a clear turning point for my character. Originally, just ‘the bad guy’, in writing this scene, I’ve given him some humanity, and he’s turning into one of my main protagonists. I want the audience to understand why he does what he does, how he goes from being an average joe to being a murderer, understanding the creation of a psychopath. I’m not sure I’ll keep this scene, I’ll have to see if it reveals too much of the story, but it’s taken me on a different path that I’m kind of liking. In my scene, there’s a group of people with strong opinions about drugs and the problems it’s creating in their community. My protagonist has had a very bad day, has been triggered by something very traumatic (the inciting incident); then listening to this conversation, makes a choice which sends him on a very different path.

[Courtney Hill]

I learned something very important! I identified my inciting incident and TP1 as the same scene. I rewrote my outline to now include and inciting in decent, and now I have all the turning points. I believe this makes the script more exciting, and pushes more effort on the main character to move forward. It feels less of a happenstance, and more intentional on my part.

[Anna Burroughs-Merrill]

What I learned from this assignment?

Because my current WIP is the final season of a 5-season sci-fantasy television series, I’ve been having a hard time nailing down the “season” turning points versus the “episode” turning points. Its made me realize that I need to do some more macro-outlining to get the various plot-lines to all turn on a much more clearly delineated “season” vein.

[Susan Willard]

What I learned rewriting my scenes’ Turning Points:

· I need to raise the stakes, tension, and intrigue at turning points.

· I need to be very purposeful in the planning of the turning points.

· More show, not tell or assume that the audience will understand.

· More creativity in the ending, the turning points needs to be tried, perfected, and used.

· I need to practice, practice and practice putting together turning points, because I am not very good at writing turning points yet.