Day 4 Assignments

[Dawn Rochelle]

Dawn’s Villain Track!

What I learned doing this assignment is how to create a character’s progression so that it is strong and makes a worthy villain.

I. Villain Track Questions

A. What might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero? The plan could be pre-existing or created on the spot.

· Villain creates plan before hero emerges (as the hero) or realizes what is happening

· Villain’s plan is to seek revenge on a previous nemesis and use hero to achieve other goals that will benefit him. Hero is caught up in this plan before becoming the hero who kills the villain.

B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?

· Send special/secret forces/agents to capture and then eventually kill hero

· Controls tech that’s embedded in hero’s blood to cause physical issues

· Villain himself faces off with hero to kill her

C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?

· Knows/can see all the options/obstacles hero is going to come up against so therefore stays a few steps ahead of hero

· Hero uses villain’s own methods against him; instead of running from him, she takes the fight directly to him; hero receives help from sources unexpected/unknown to the villain

D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?

· Villain realizes his original plan of revenge wasn’t completely successful

· Hero and original nemesis kill villain and are reunited

II. Include labels with each step of their plan. Develop your own set of labels, but make sure you clearly show decisions, plans, and actions your Villain takes.

· PLOT: Take revenge on hero’s family by framing father and killing mother.

· HOSTAGE: Kidnaps hero as a child to train and perform experiments on to see if she has the right levels of blood enzymes to operate specialized government tech.

· DISCOVERY: Years later, discovers hero is searching for information about her parents and who she really is.

· PLAN: Set her up to look like a traitor before she gets any closer to finding out who she is and what he has done.

· CHASE: He sends special forces capture her.

· ATTACK: Special forces attack hero’s lab which sends the hero on the run. Explosions, car chase, secret tech that allows hero to escape.

· TRACK: Special forces track hero using tech in her blood.

· ATTACK: Special forces attack hero again as hero tries to find hidden emergency equipment.

· FIGHT: Special forces fight with hero, but her enhanced abilities easily beat them.

· OBSTACLE: Special forces no longer able to use tech to track hero. Must use conventional means that takes longer to find hero.

· ATTACK: Special forces final find hero and another battle ensues.

· THWART: Villain disables special tech which removes hero’s enhanced ability injuring hero but she narrowly gets away.

· DECISION: Villain realizes hero is bringing the fight directly to him.

· PREPARATION: Villain prepares to fight hero in person.

· FINAL BATTLE: Hero fights villain without enhanced abilities and is close to dying.

· FITTING END: Villain is killed by hero and original nemesis and witnesses their reunification

[Judith Resell]

In this story, a horrible villain pursues a plan to destroy the hero’s home and people. The hero rises in response to the villain’s threat. Do or die. The escalations include increasing jeopardy, increasing numbers of enemy soldiers, increasing violence, and a fitting end of poetic justice for the villain.

[Dexter Miller]

(Dexter Miller) Villian Track! Assignment #4

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Ask the Villain Track questions to discover your Villain’s plan, decisions, and actions.

A. What might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate the hero?

The Villian is planned to squeeze, scare and manipulate the Government to control the Population and profit from it.

The plan could be pre-existing or created on the spot.

B. How many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero?

Willing to Kill the scientists, send agents to destroy all information from the labs, germ warfare kills scientists and the public around the world, kidnaps her daughter at gunpoint, etc…

C. What advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this movie?

Has access to the CIA Agents at his disposal, local cops, and computer hackers.

D. What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve done?

Dies from an explosion in his office.

2. Include labels with each step of their plan.

Seige:

Senator Charlie Hall has his plan to become the Speaker of the House by planning a diabolical global virus outbreak to control the population by a man making genetic code virus.

Kills Husband:

The order is sent to test the virus and the husband is killed by the virus, but they cover it up by shooting him.

Plan:

Send the virus to Japan for further testing to make sure it’ll work.

Surprised:

Penny discovers variables in their story. She tests her husband’s blood and the same antibodies are present as with the virus. She sabotages her findings.

Attack:

Hall sends agents to test the virus on the public and all of a sudden a case is dropped and becomes airborne.

Deception:

Penny hears Hall conversate about his plans and she hides from them.

Fake News:

The news is kept in the dark about the virus for several months and then the US President is alerted and disbelieves that such a thing has occurred and does nothing.

Decision:

Hall corners the market on deadly diseases and creates an anti-body to cure the virus for all and sells to the major big pharma manufacturers.

Penny foils the plan alerting the news and Hall is disgraced.

Fitting ending:

Hall is confronted by Penny and found guilty of treason and is killed in his office as a huge explosion occurs as Penny barely escapes.

3. Answer the question, “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.

Continued inventing ideas for the story.

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

Subject line: (Your Name’s) Villain Track! (place in first line)

Deadline: 2 Days

[Kay Hones]

#4. Kay’s Villain Track!

“What I learned doing this assignment is villain Mac Janssen does not seem to have clear backstory/family/close friends?”

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A. What
might be the Villain’s plan to accomplish an evil outcome or to annihilate
the hero? Mac uses the judiciary system to control his power to produce
& distribute lethal drugs. He
has vast legal teams constantly organizing law tactics to support drug
production & profits.
B. How
many ways can the Villain attack or destroy the hero? Mac can have security
teams physically stop & abuse elders in various ways. His legal force constantly works on
attacking civilians with many court cases, police arrests, etc.
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C. What
advantage does the Villain have and how can they exploit that in this
movie? Mac has unlimited financial resources, powerful allies in government
both nationally & internationally & he has no empathy or feelings
for anyone or anything except “power” & money

D.
What would be a “fitting end” for this Villain where they pay for what they’ve
done? Die slowly from drug overdose (not quick fentanyl)

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