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Day 5 Assignments
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What I learned… my brain doesn’t work like this. Also, I thought the manipulation in Ozark was so obvious that it turned me off to the series. Why would money-launderers pretend to be financial advisers? If they deal in millions, why would they scam that couple out of $5000? And if Marty is watching a private eye video of his wife cheating, why hide that fact from the viewers? When we found out what it was, I felt cheated. A guy who watches porn when he is trying to make a sale is far kinkier than a guy who watches his wife cheat in the same circumstance. The first is an object of curiosity — why would he do that? The second is an object of pity. Why did he suspect her? Everything seems okay at home. Unlike what Hal said, I saw no hatred between Marty and his wife. After one episode, I never want to watch Ozark again. Breaking Bad didn’t cheat. It showed the craziness and then showed what led up to the craziness. It didn’t misrepresent anything. I have created an unusual world and I am revealing it a bit at a time. The method in this lesson doesn’t fit with my mindset.
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Lisa’s Layers and Reveals
What I learned doing this assignment is that I already had some plot layers and covers ups already thought out, but I was still worrying about how to make more coverups and layers to the point where I was considering rearranging everything and making it more complicated. I added some details introducing a couple more characters that will be beneficial to the plot line, such as Lucy being seen by Marc at the Pig Vigil, and introducing Dr. Berkwood’s husband to show what kind of person she’s married to and the distress she has in her life. I also added some intrigue to hint at the power that the vampires have over society.
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Layers, Cover Ups, Reveals
I learnt that there is always an opportunity to write more depth into an episode using techniques such as Layers, Cover Ups and Reveals.
Although I may not have added many with this exercise, hopefully there is enough sets ups for intrigue to have the reveals in the following episodes, hopefully having hooked the audience. Fingers crossed.
I added Elliot puzzling over the hand written invitation from Richard to meet him at the “Molly House” showing the name of the place, the date and the time for their secret meeting. This has created doubt in Elliot’s mind, were they set up and by whom?
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Module 3 Lesson 5
Griff’s Layers and Reveals
What I learned doing this assignment: The layers and reveals can be teased out of the framework from places they may be hard to see at first look.
ACT 1
Layer: Stephanie is unhappy with her job.
Reveal: Stephanie misses a deadline.
Layer: Randy is angry at the world.
Reveal: Randy bullies his brother, Todd.
Layer: Todd feels overlooked by his mother.
Reveal: Todd does nothing to wake up Randy and his mother to get to school on time.
TP: Stephanie gets the boys to school late. Again
ACT 2
Layer: Stephanie wants better writing assignments.
Reveal: Stephanie is pigeonholed and held back.
Layer: Marcey is a party girl who disappears into the desert for days at a time.
Reveal: She is disrupting Stephanie’s work from home.
Layer: Stephanie doesn’t really buy Marcey’s frivolous persona and asks Brad about it.
Reveal: Marcey warns Stephanie to let it alone.
Layer: Randy has a crush on Marcey.
Reveal: Only Marcey is aware that Randy can shoot hoops like a fiend.
Layer: Todd confides in Brad about Randy’s bullying.
Reveal: Brad gives Todd some self-defense pointers.
TP: Stephanie confronts Marcey about her lifestyle.
ACT 3
Layer: Randy can’t get picked for team sports because he’s small.
Reveal: Randy takes out his frustrations by bullying Todd.
Layer: Todd is big for his age but not interested in sports.
Reveal: Todd is invited to try out for football, which infuriates Randy.
Layer: Stephanie tries to enlist the boys’ help in making a good impression on the social worker.
Reveal: The boys are not enthusiastic.
TP: Social workers visit the home
ACT 4
Layer: Randy, surprisingly, puts on a good face for the home visit.
Reveal: Stephanie nearly succeeds in presenting a convincing home life.
Layer: Todd behaves strangely during the home visit.
Reveal: Todd blurts out his anger towards Randy and Stephanie.
Layer: Stephanie gets push-back from one of her blogs.
Reveal: Stephanie has a plan to break away from her silly writing gig.
TP: Stephanie follows Marcey to the desert and almost gets her busted by Border Patrol.
ACT 5
Layer: The boys walk to school but are turned away as truants.
Reveal: The boys are brought home by the police.
Layer: Stephanie has had it with the boys’ antics.
Reveal: They get into a loud argument that spills out into the cul-de-sac.
Layer: Marcey confronts Stephanie for nearly getting her busted.
Reveal: Stephanie outs Marcey and her real motives to Brad.
TP: The police break up the argument and send everyone home.
Lock in: In the morning Stephanie and Marcey are both missing.
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