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Day 4 Assignment
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[PS #81] Lisa Long’s NECESSARY QUESTIONS
What I learned doing this assignment is…that sticking to one question, conflict, dilemma, and theme is not easy.
1. List your answer for each of these areas of your story.
a. CONCEPT: When her ex-husband kidnaps Santa to pay back a debt, a Seneca Falls, NY super mom must save him, Santa, and the annual It’s a Wonderful Life festival.
b. DRAMATIC QUESTION: Can Mary save Santa from his kidnapper and pull off the It’s a Wonderful Life festival at the same time?
c. MAIN CONFLICT: The kidnapper is holding Santa in town during the festival and Mary must stop the kidnapper even though she finds out that he is the father of her two daughters.
d. DILEMMA: Mary must decide whether to try and save both her ex-husband and Santa, or just Santa and let it play out with her ex and law enforcement.
e. THEME: She is not alone who has friends…and family.
Thank you,
Lisa Long
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Laura Woodworth’s Necessary Questions
What I learned doing this assignment is keeping the story focused on the concept and key dramatic question. It was valuable to me to determine the dramatic question and the true dilemma for my lead character.
1. Concept:
When a Russian student discovers her grandmother’s contraband bible, it sparks a spiritual awakening across a Moscow university, but endangers her babushka’s life and she must evade the KGB to smuggle her out of Russia.
When a Russian student discovers her grandmother’s contraband bible, it opens her eyes to the dangers of the communist government, sparking a spiritual awakening in her life and across a Moscow university, but when her grandmother’s life is endangered, Natalia must decide between her love relationship with the KGB agent tracking her grandmother or saving her babushka and smuggling her out of Russia.
Dramatic Question: Will Natalia choose love over freedom?
Main Conflict: The conflict between Natalia and her new understanding of true freedom and Victor and his communist loyalties.
Dilemma: If Natalia chooses love and her relationship with Victor, she betrays her grandmother (to probable jailtime or execution as a traitor to the state).
If Natalia chooses freedom and smuggling her grandmother out of the country, she loses Victor and her chance at true love.
Theme: This story is about loyalties and the value of personal freedom over a love relationship.
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PS 81 June Fortunato June Fortunato’s Necessary Questions
What a learned: This is an easy way to get to the answers.
Concept: Once you stop, everything catches up to you.
Dramatic question: Will Roy find a permanent place to rest, and will he convince Kim to do that with him?
Main conflict:
Roy needs to stop running and finds his soulmate, Kim, who isn’t ready.
Dilemma
He’s torn between wanting this woman, a true woman/soulmate, and feeling the need to flee.
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Matt’s Necessary Questions
1. List your answer for each of these areas for your story.
a. Concept:
A single mother and chef works to escape out from the shadow of her famous chef father, finding love and a reignition of her passion for food along the way.
b. Dramatic Question:
Will Katie emerge from her father’s enormous shadow and find happiness in her own right without feeling like an entitled, unhappy daughter of a powerful and wealthy man.
c. Main conflict:
As Katie asserts herself and launches her own restaurant, in close proximity to her father’s and the jerk Sous Chef’s restaurant, the James Beard Award is on the line. It’s recognition is everything to the financial success of any high end restaurant. This world is a 50/50 proposition. Most restaurants fail in the first year and Katie must assert herself among the first rung of chefs and be free from her father shadow but the clock is ticking.
d. Dilemma:
The dilemma comes when Katie comes into possession of information that her father’s empire is crumbling. He has been sloppy and allowed several co investors to swindle him for millions. He’s nearly broke and the restaurant (I’m tentatively calling “Brigade”) that he fired Katie from is his last chance to salvage his reputation. She must choose between going all out to take the award from her father or intentionally tank it so her father can have one last taste of glory.
e. Theme:
Happiness doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It’s not entitled. It’s not given. It’s self generated.
2. Above your work, answer the question “What I’ve learned doing this assignment is…?”
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is that thinking on these four tenets of storytelling is really fun and informative once I allowed myself to think outside the box that I was putting myself in with the original seed idea.
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[PS81] Dev Ross — Necessary Questions
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is a deeper understanding of conflict and how it affects character choices, and also how it can twist the story into directions I had not foreseen. Also, doing this exercise has changed who I think is the protagonist. It complicates things for me but creates a far more interesting and different storyline. My villain is becoming my flawed hero… so far.
Concept: Outshined by the latest hate groups, a fading KKK Grand Dragon plots the murder of a black leader, but when he wakes the next morning, he is that black leader who is suddenly struck with a plan to murder the Grand Dragon.
Dramatic Question: Will the Grand Dragon return to power if he assassinates a Black Leader?
Main Conflict: Is he going crazy or is the Black Leader always impossibly one step ahead of him?
Dilemma: Give up his revenge or lose his family.
Theme: Your hate will ultimately destroy you.
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[PS81] Arthur Anderson’s Necessary Questions
What I learned doing the assignment:
Answering the four questions is essential as they guide every decision you make in writing your script.
a) Concept:
When a coronal mass ejection (CMJ) from the sun destroys all electronic technology on earth, casting civilization back to the 1800s, six astronauts and one reporter on the international research spacecraft Reliant must adapt the experimental Tesla shield technology that saved their spacecraft to shield humanity from a larger earth-destroying CMJ just days away.
b) What is the Dramatic Question of the story?
Will the crew of the Reliant be able to save the earth from the approaching extinction-level Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun?
c) What is the main conflict of the story?
The crew of the Reliant must adapt an untested Tesla shield technology to save the earth from extinction-level Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun.
d) What is the dilemma of the main character?
With no way for the crew of the Reliant to receive the necessary equipment they need from earth to adapt their untested Tesla shield, they must make a hazardous journey to the moon to retrieve a nuclear reactor from an unmanned moon base, adapt their Tesla shield on their return journey, and get into position to defend earth before the next Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun arrives, just days away.
e) What is the theme of the story?
Humanity as a group is larger than the sum of its parts.
The film explores how each of the crew members from different nations can contribute to and learn from the process of working together in face of a humanity-ending disaster.
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PS81 Anna Harper Necessary Questions
As in Bill Stone’s Necessary Questions
What I learned doing this assignment:
I think this method might save me a bunch of problems with holes in the script.
a) CONCEPT
It’s almost Christmas in a picture-perfect English village. a stray Newfoundland dog, Alfie who has telepathic superpowers befriends 13-year-old Dylan saving him from a series of unpleasant events, the loving relationship between Alfie and Dylan, helps Dylan to understand how his choice to be mute must change in order that Dylan has a happier life and to accept the death of his mother, saving him, just in the nick of time, from being sent away to a ‘special school, arranged by his covertly and generally evil Dad’s girlfriend, Miss Perkins, (Dylan’s grade 6 teacher), luckily Alfie saves the magic and joy of the Christmas by introducing the very lonely Steve (Dylan’s Dad) to a new love interest.
b) THE MAIN QUESTION
Will Dylan ever be able to speak again?
c) THE MAIN CONFLICT
The main conflict (internal) is that being mute is a safe place for Dylan, he has some control in what was a devastating event where he had no control. Sometimes he wants to speak, but can’t.
d) THE MAIN CHARACTER’S DILEMMA
Dylan’s main conflict is between his safe but isolated inner world and his outer world which is creating stress demanding him to speak.
e) THEME
Love in the form of a life coach/friend and superhero Alfie can support courage and change where adults humans cannot reach or heal the child, Christmas magic flows through the story providing the heroes with transformational objects of hope and upliftment
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Cameron Martin’s Necessary Questions
What I learned doing this assignment is…how essential it is to come up with the question, conflict and dilemma prior to the rest of the outline. Some of this came easy. Some of this required more brainstorming to find a fit. I’ll keep referring back to this checklist throughout the brainstorming assignments to find the best fit for a quality script.
OPEN WIDE
a. Concept: When a community fails to seek shelter in time, they must band together to ward of an infestation of alien parasites and escape from their government sending exterminators to wipe out any survivors.
b. Dramatic Question: Will the survivors escape?
c. Main conflict: The alien parasites
d. Dilemma: Seal up the breach and possibly save everyone, or risk escape and guarantee either death or rescue.
e. Theme: “The better the liar, the better the monster.”POSSESSING EDEN
a. Concept: An android in search of redemption for a murder she committed is tested by a copy of herself that represents her own guilt, and she must either kill that side of herself or become one with it.
b. Dramatic Question: Will Janus bring back her victim and earn redemption.
c. Main conflict: While her creator wants her dead for leaving him, her own Copy/Guilt won’t forgive her.
d. Dilemma: To allow her Copy to take over and render justice, or dig deeper and find forgiveness for herself.
e. Theme: Redemption/Salvation cannot be given; it must be cultivated through love.GRAND THEFT ROAD TRIP
a. Concept: A driving instructor finds out her son commits grand theft auto on a regular basis during a defensive driving course where her son is behind the wheel and the cops are on their tail.
b. Dramatic Question: How did a parent that controls every aspect of her child’s life miss that her son commits grand theft auto? or Can the parent and child see eye to eye again? or Will the parent successfully turn in their child?
c. Main conflict: The parent wants to turn in their child for their own good, or the parent wants the child to turn themself in, or the parent wants to reconnect with their child.
d. Dilemma: Freedom/Passion versus Family
e. Theme: Passion alone won’t get you far without love and support.OLD TESTAMENT BAND
a. Concept: A Christian Rock band snaps and goes full “Old Testament” on the criminal underworld when their founding member is killed by a loan shark.
b. Dramatic Question: Will the band/band’s leader “turn the other cheek” or give in to their baser desire for revenge? Will the band succeed in their quest for revenge?
c. Main conflict: The criminal underworld? The rest of the band respects the new manager instead of siding with the band’s leader? Holding to a Christian identity when the world pushes you to take action?
d. Dilemma: “Turn the other cheek” versus vengeance/justice
e. Theme: Without Forgiveness/Mercy, we’re guided by baser instincts. -
Michael Katz Necessary Questions
What I’ve learned: I’m liking the format of the ProSeries so far. This process of incremental development feels good so far. I like the systematic probing of the idea, tactically approaching it from targeted angles, producing productive brainstorming. Each exercise feels like it’s honing in on the essence, helping to clarify and define the fundamental building blocks of the movie. And the order of the exercises feels constructive.
ASSIGNMENT — Answer the 4 necessary questions.
a. Concept: Think James Bond supervillain…the entire movie from the supervillain’s POV, and it’s his complete story, from origin story to tragedy, so in addition to his initial victimhood and need for vindication, we’re witnessing/seeing his growth to tycoon and evolution into supervillain, his creation of the masterplan, cat and mouse with a government spy, and the very very real threat of planetary annihilation unless they let him rule the world…oh and the spy fails to stop him this time.
b. Dramatic Question: (3 lengths) Will Traeger the supervillain win? Can Traeger the underdog overcome the greedy evil world governments? Can Traeger become powerful enough to force the greedy world governments into submission so he can implement his world saving solar energy system technology?
c. Main conflict: Traeger keeps trying different ways to develop and build his revolutionary energy system, but the governments of the world who want to preserve the status quo keep throwing obstacles into his way to prevent him, which leads to the dramatic question: can Traeger become powerful enough to force the greedy world governments into submission so he can implement his world saving solar energy system technology?
d. Dilemma: Traeger has to choose between being an unsuccessful good person or a successful supervillain.
e. Theme: Corporate/government greed destroys everything in its wake
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[PS81] Antonio Flores’ Necessary Questions
What I’ve learned:
Developing the conceptual understanding of a school teaching unit holds amazing parallels with the development of the conceptual structure of film narrative.
1. List your answer for each of these areas for your story.
a. Concept:
A cheerleader-made-MMA-contender fights to find her runaway fiancé, an MMA prizefighter who, unbeknownst to her, hides a weapon of mass destruction, was poisoned, and must battle for the antidote in an underground octagon.
b. Dramatic Question:
Can Parisa get her fiancé back?
c. Main conflict:
The worldwide criminal network behind the underground octagon will hunt them no matter where they try to hide
d. Dilemma:
Give away the mass destruction weapon to the criminals and betraying the world OR fighting for the antidote and most likely getting killed
e. Theme:
Sometimes, to escape one must stop running
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Alice’s Necessary Questions
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is how different patterns interact with each other.
MIROPOLIS, the Universal City. SEPARATION.
Part 1
a. Concept:
In time of Separation, an artificial death protecting Advanced West society of Planet MIROPOLIS, workers of Research Institute get massacred, to create “new weapon”, interests clash, judge sentences wrongdoer at scandalous process, Separates, his subtle image reflected on video, his advice to filter people and expel outcastes is taken into practice…
b. Dramatic Question:
This is happening on another planet, and yet it’s relevant. It’s how they made their way we are going to.
c. Main conflict:
How we do we solve social problems.
d. Dilemma:
Protagonist #1: He lost his girlfriend, he must pay with his life.
Judge: He’s unhappy, maybe living amid, managing it, with his subtle body inside. He’s put to justify antagonist, all people hating him, pointing fingers. As it is his fault. But he’s honest.
His separation (someone with subtle body) they given him this artificial death. It’s predicament of Future.
e. Theme:
Techno techno society, nano-particles, division into castes, and self development.
Part 2
a. Concept:
West in dismay, atomic war results and Black Archipelago gets destroyed
…after reservations for outcastes are created, trained WARDS are to bring qualified back to society,
Born in reservation, AKATA witnesses her Ward’s death, runaways, gets escorted by high rang military, becomes his lover, as anyone around undergo danger of being marked as “outcastes”.
b. Dramatic Question:
c. Main conflict:
d. Dilemma:
Ward: he must hide it, and his love to her, and if he kills. Either he has sex with her, or he writes report to liberate her. Because if she is his partner, they won’t believe he’s honest reporting.
Akata: She doesn’t fit not only amid people in reservation, but amid those outside as well. She looks, needs, demands for someone higher. She had no sex with that Ward, who she continues to love. And lives with another, who is good, but not enough heroic, maybe?
Son of Main Commander: If he goes to reservation as a ward, this means death, and he would lose them (Akata and kids), he also is her only support. He won’t stop reservations from existence, he himself invests in it.
How many girls are going to die inside of reservation, no ward to help them?
e. Theme:
Meaning: even at TECHNO world we continue to be human, techno is built to suite human needs.
Lesson: How civilization transits with free flow of information, resources availability, and sheds old clothes of former social structure.
Moral: What it means to be human. Struggle of self developed ones in social structure.
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Matthew Frendo’s Necessary Questions
What I learned doing this assignment was how to create necessary internal elements for a script. This should help add weight and emotion to the plot.
a. Concept: What if the judicial system was switched to social media voting, with those found guilty having to go through livestreamed battles and deadly challenges as people at home vote on their punishment?
b. Dramatic Question: Why did Alicia get put into this punishment system?
c. Main conflict: Can Alicia and her fellow prisoners make it through the punishment system and survive?
d. Dilemma: Will Alicia escape with her family and friends or seek revenge when she finds out who did this to her?
e. Theme: The unjustness of judging someone without understanding the context of their lives. -
Nancy Kates Proseries 81 Necessary Questions
What I learned from this assignment: the conflict was harder to define than the dramatic question, and I might need to spend more time honing the answers to these questions.
Concept: Two middle aged friends, one hetersexual with a husband and three children, the other lesbian and partnered, eat some magical cake and switch bodies. They are forced to pretend to be each other while they work out how to undo the “Switcheroo”
Dramatic Question: how did this switch happen, and will they figure out how to undo the switch before it becomes permanent, after 72 hours?
Dramatic Conflict: The friends are furious with each other and at loggerheads during much of the story, unable to work together because they’re too busy trying to be each other, and doing an iffy job of it. They will have to overcome their differences and work together in order to undo the magic that has transported each into each other’s body.
Dilemma: There are two protagonists, and they have slightly different dilemmas, under the main existential dilemma of being trapped in someone else’s body. Zoe discovers that Marilyn’s husband has been cheating on Marilyn, and is stuck about whether or not to reveal this hurtful information to her friend. Neither option seems wise.
Marilyn’s dilemma is that she discovers that she loves lesbian sex, and finds being in her friend’s life and body a fantastic vacation and adventure. She doesn’t actually want to switch back, at least not until close to the deadline. She’s torn between her desires and her wish not to be a total jerk to her best friend (by sleeping with her partner).
Theme: We barely know each other, and we’d do well to walk a mile in the other’s shoes.
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Kate Hawkes Necessary Questions
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is that the devil is in the detail.. and I am wondering if I have strayed way too far from the original concept? And was Dramatic Triangle for Character Structure the best choice? And my Plot seems to morphed into a mix of 3. I might be guilty of the 3-ring circus…
a. Concept:
EVOLVED (NEW) CONCEPT (not the darned logline..)
A young actress (Nia) on tour stumbles across the whereabouts of her Billionaire father who disappeared from her life at age 10 after her Mother died. At first she is thrilled and he offers her everything he has, but she discovers is not a good man, and so secretly joins forces with the local community who, led by Luciana, the fiery Latina Mayor, have setup a ‘sting – company’, to which Nia adds a specially written play, revealing the sting after it is too late for Darrogh to get out of his ‘investment’ and in which Nia confronts him for the first time. Exposed, humbled, having lost all his fortune he can only appeal to his daughter – and /or the community – for his future wellbeing. Nia has to decide whether to forgive him or walk away from the father she has just found.
b. Dramatic Question:
** Will the community save their town and will Nia have courage to stand up to her father?
c. Main conflict:
** The underdogs against the powerful bully at a community level (Luciana) & personal level (Nia)
Will the town stay united and support Luciana, to succeed in tricking Darrogh into making the investment and will Nia have the courage to stand up to him after she has just found him and he is welcoming her into his wealthy life.
d. Dilemma:
** • Luciana has a personal grudge – is she doing this for the community as Mayor or for personal revenge?
• Nia has to let go of the vision she held of her father and really see this one and then does she forgive him, be the good daughter, take care him? Or walk away and truly be free of him?
e. Theme:
** It takes great courage to balance personal ethics and morality with a greater duty and need.
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June Fortunato’s Basic Structure
What I learned is: This is a wonderful way to get to the key revelations and turning points while developing a story.
Logline (ish) When crazyass Roy almost dies in a self-inflicted car crash, he knows that he can’t keep going like this- he has to stop moving from mooch to mooch and find a permanent situation to collect his SSI- until he meets an eccentric woman who speaks very loudly! to herself! an dwho plays the same mooch and dash game. For the first time in his life, he’s happy. So is she. They crash crazy places together and have a blast. He’s never had so much fun. But he’s tired. He’s got to change and she refuses to stop running. Now he’s in love with her, and he even wants to take care of her- Roy has to leave this woman or run with her until he collapses. In retirement, one just wants it to be easier, but Roy doesn’t want to go it alone anymore, either.
Inciting Incident
When Roy deliberately crashes a car he almost dies, and wakes up in the midst of getting last rites. He goes to court and learns that he’s owed a lot of money- from SSI, Veteran’s benes and even a medal of honor- but he hasn’t had an address or even technology to collect. It’s essential to get a permanent location, so that he can get his money and doesn’t have to scrounge anymore. And there’s a time limit- the claim is in progress.
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Roy has to change his life. Now he knows, but he’s still looking for the perfect pad- still wandering, and it seems like he’ll never get this dream before the clock runs out.
First turn end of act 1
Roy meets Kim and the two have a hellofa blast because she does what he does and now he has someone to do it with.
Mid act 2
Roy and Kim are having beautiful times, but he can’t convince her to get a retirement place and stop running- and he can’t do this anymore. He needs an address, he needs his money from SSI and the veterans. Now he’s torn between being without her, which brings him much joy for the first time in his life, and resting – which he must do because he’s broken and can’t go on with the lifestyle. he can’t figure it out with her, and he can’t figure it out without her anymore. It’s the first time in his life that he has to dump someone instead of being dumped. It feels shit.
Second turning point end of Act 2
Roy longs for Kim. When he runs into her in a hidey place, he’s overjoyed. They have another great escapade, but she decides to give him a break and leaves before he wakes. Now his heart is broken all over again. What is his revelation? That secretly, he knows that she can’t do it without him anymore, either.
Crisis
Roy finds himself contemplating suicide in “their place” a cliff where they dreamed of having a place. But when he gets there, Kim is there, too. Should they jump off together, like Thelma and Louise? Like they talked about when ‘life would become too much” But seeing her, he knows there can be a way. He says, “Let’s have a life together, for whatever is left. I have a plan.”
Resolution
So what does Roy have to change to achieve his NEW goal- of having her AND a permanent residence? He has to guarantee that her life will be as exciting as it is right now, but slower, and not as difficult. The answer lies in what does she love? A scam. A sneak. She thrives on this. He decides to sneakily pay for high end restaurant dinners ahead of time, and make her think that they’re skipping the bill. He can do that with everything, too- groceries, flowers- even travel and car rentals. They get a permanent pad first as a trusted housesitter, and then , when the owner goes into a nursing home- they get to stay.
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Dana’s Necessary Questions
What I learned from this assignment:
Thinking about the necessary questions, especially the theme, I realized that my protagonist must have very high ethics to create greater dilemma. This means her transition or character arc must go in an opposite direction than I had originally considered.
Original Concept:
A schizophrenic with multiple personality disorder calls a radio psychiatrist and threatens that his more dominant and violent personality will kill one member of the psychiatrist’s kidnapped family every hour on air unless the psychiatrist can excise the personality before the end of the show.
Dramatic Question:
Can the radio psychiatrist stop a violent schizophrenic from killing her family kidnapped family?
Main Conflict:
A violent schizophrenic has taken a radio psychiatrist’s family hostage and threatens to kill them on air unless she can excise his violent personality before the end of the show.
Dilemma:
Does the psychiatrist sacrifice her medical ethics of “Do no harm” so save her family from her violent patient?
Theme:
What will you sacrifice to save another?
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PS 81 Anita Gomez’s NECESSARY QUESTIONS
What I learned: a much more structured approach to my story outline.
CONCEPT:
A young woman who can’t access an abortion abandons her baby at birth only to learn years later that the child is her best hope for a life-saving transplant, leading her to search for a daughter she never wanted.
DRAMATIC QUESTION:
To abort or carry out a pregnancy for a single woman who doesn’t want the child and whose life is put in jeopardy by the pregnancy.
MAIN CONFLICT:
The woman’s health is failing and she needs to find the now-grown daughter for a transplant.
DILEMMA:
Choice #1 – Abort the child against her religious beliefs
Choice #2 – Have the child at great personal risk
LATER, the Dilemma morphs into: Give the child away / Find the child for selfish reasons.
THEME:
That there is no one perfect answer to an unwanted pregnancy. That an unwanted pregnancy often leads to an unwanted child.
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What
I’ve learned doing this assignment is the questions, honestly, I did not know, and they are vital for the creation on early stage.a. Concept: Robert, a government official, has to figure out why his daughter killed herself. First, he learns that it was due to gossip about her being a slut in college and some photos running around. Then, trying to find out who leaked the images, he finds out the photos are genuine, and the rumors go beyond that. His daughter was the leader of a prostitution ring on campus. She provided the service to higher government officials. Then he discovers that she did not kill herself; she was murdered.
The next piece on the puzzle is that Robert finds out that her daughter discovered a conspiracy to steal pension money from government members. Then he finds out His best friend and daughter’s godfather, Thomas, is the leader of this conspiracy, and not only he was involved with her daughter, but he has been abusing her since she was 14. And wants him dead for asking too many questions.
When he finds out everything, he wants vengeance and does everything in his hands to achieve this goal. Still, in the end, he finds himself between letting the crime being committed survive and letting his daughter’s reputation be clean or trashing her daughter’s reputation and dying himself by exposing the corruption.
b. Dramatic Question:
Will Robert be able to find and punish those responsible for his daughter’s death?
c. Main conflict: Between Robert and the group that orchestrated the conspiracy, who try to stop him from asking more questions.
d. Dilemma: he begins his journey looking to clean his daughter’s reputation, and at the end, he has to choose, between dying and exposing his daughter’s secret life, or living while maintaining her daughter’s name clean.
e. Theme: despite the pain, a family should stay together.
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Justina Mitchell’s Necessary Questions
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is that some questions about a screenplay are easier to answer than other questions.
Concept:
A very wealthy man who has no heirs considers leaving his money to one of three distant, unfamiliar cousins, but to find out how they will handle a massive fortune, he decides to give each of them a small fortune while he lives among them incognito and observes their handling of it.
Dramatic Question:
Who will Stanley end up choosing as an heir to his massive fortune?
Main conflict:
Each of the possible heirs have good points and bad points in how they relate to money and with each other.
Dilemma:
When Stanley realizes he has fallen in love with Maggie, he knows he has to continue living the persona he created or risk losing her by telling her that he has been dishonest with her for their entire relationship.
Theme:
Money doesn’t buy happiness; love does.
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Day 4: The Necessary Questions – Assignment
Mike O – Necessary Questions
“What I’ve learned doing this assignment is… The questions are the building blocks upon which the story hinges. If the foundation is lacking, the story will be as well.
1. List your answer for each of these areas for your story.
a.
Concept: Daughter finds her father’s love after he has passed.
b. Dramatic Question: How Brooklyn react to her estranged father’s posthumous
love?
c. Main conflict: Brooklyn loves her father’s gallery and must keep the general
manager from stealing it.
d. Dilemma: Brooklyn can reject her father’s life and love, or accept it and
fight to keep what was his.
e. Theme: A father’s love does not end with his death. Memories keep love
living when the person isn’t.
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