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Day 5 Assignments
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Laura Hyler The 3 Gradients: Desired Change
What I learned from this lesson, is that it is very helpful to write out the gradients, as it will help serve as a guide or map to my writing. It really brings in a sense of clarity.
Emotional Gradients:
Excitement
Action Gradient:
Naomi meets Kofi at a charitable fundraiser. After the charity fundraiser, they have a “real date.”
Challenge/weakness gradient:
C: Naomi just came out of a bad relationship. Prior to that she was widowed.
W: She is unsure
about a new relationship, and the fact that he is from another race/culture.<div>Doubt
Action Gradient:
She is unsure of having any relationship. Naomi is not comfortable
putting people in their place, even when she is angry-she is inconsistentChallenge/Weakness Gradient:
C. Naomi must overcome the fear of rejection by family and how to handle racism.
W: Naomi is used to
being “nice” even to her own detriment.Hope
Action Gradient:
Naomi continues to date Kofi in spite of disguised prejudices of others.
She begins to see him as “the one.”Challenge/Weakness Gradient
C. People’s attitudes, overt and subtle. Workplace tension.
W. Knowing how to
respond appropriately and be candid with KofiDiscouragement
Action Gradient:
When Kofi realizes that Naomi did not tell him that he was invited to
her sister’s wedding. It is further complicated when Naomi discovers that Kofi
did not tell her that she was left out of Isaac’s wedding. Kofi moves out.Challenge/Weakness Gradient:
C. How to get back together with Kofi. How to handle her family and other’s viewpoints and actions.
W. Doesn’t want to
lose family connections or disrupt her employmentCourage
Action Gradient:
Naomi stands up to the people in her life. She decides that she’d rather
risk losing some relationships than losing the love of her life.Challenge/Weakness Gradient:
C. Putting people in their place, with tact. Reconciling with Kofi
W. Naomi has difficulty articulating her feelings to all parties
Triumph
Action Gradient:
Naomi reconciles with Kofi. She puts people in their place. Tells people
that her relationship is not negotiableChallenge/Weakness Gradient
C. Mustering up the courage to tell people off. Knowing what to say to Kofi.
W. Fear of the
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Pat’s Three Gradients
What I learned doing this assignment is it’s important to mirror the patterns and events of life. This exercise illustrates that we do not go through life unchallenged as much as we wish we could. It also emphasizes that we are constantly faced with choices that ultimately determine the journeys of our lives.
Use this set of gradient tools to brainstorm your story. I’ve attached a handout with a grid for brainstorming the Three Gradients.
Tell us the following:
1. What is the Emotional Gradient you’ll use?
I will use the Desired Change Gradient
2. For each emotion of that gradient, tell us the following:
A. Emotion: Excitement
B. Action: Ira wants to become an actor but his father wants him to go to Divinity School because he thinks Ira’s dreams are a pipe dream given the racism he experiences in the US. Ira receives an offer to travel to Europe, so he trades hoping to leave his racist struggles behind.C. Challenge / Weakness: C: Forced into the lower annals of the boat. W: Naïve, thinking America is the only place blacks are considered inferior.
A. Emotion: Doubt
B. Action: Ira slips away from European Divinity School into theater and makes his debut performance. Despite rave reviews from the audience the critics pan him with bigotry. Margaret helps him develop coping mechanisms.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C: Bigotry; W: Believing the lies.A. Emotion: Hope
B. Action: He marries Margaret & their strategies payoff. His popularity is gaining.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C: The press engages theater owners to limit or ban his performances. W: Infidelity which further infuriates the press.A. Emotion: Discouragement
B. Action: Ira and Margaret develop a new strategy to perform outside of London.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C: His work requires him to travel and leave Margaret home alone despite her becoming ill. W: No work-life balance.
A. Emotion: Courage
B. Action: Ira performs in other countries and is treated like royalty. He plays before the Queen who loves his work. The press concedes not wanting to be in opposition with the queen.
C. Challenge / Weakness: Margaret dies; W: Familial neglect & guilt.
A. Emotion: Triumph
B. Action: Ira remarries and returns to his international tour except this time he travels with his family and becomes a better family man. He plans to return to the US to see his American family and mentor other black actors. The skies the limit but he dies. He is given a King’s burial.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C: He becomes ill. W: Death.
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Brenda’s Three Gradients
What I learned doing this assignment is after doing this assignment, I’m still not sure how I want to end it. The story is fictional and I think I could end it happy or sad, but whatever ending I choose I feel that the characters need to earn that ending and I’m looking forward to see what happens at the end.
1. What is the Emotional Gradient you’ll use? Desired change – the mother character wants to take her child’s request for a treasure hunt and use it so she can help the child rediscover happiness so they can face death together as a family.
A. Emotion: Excitement
B. Action: The child’s mother arrives to visit her in the hospital. She agrees to take the child on a treasure hunt.
C. Challenge – The treasure hunt has to take place in the hospital / Weakness – the child is too sick to travel but doesn’t know it.
A. Emotion: Doubt
B. Action: The child is upset by not being able to leave the hospital, throws a fit, and experiences a health downturn.
C. Challenge – The child thinks her mother is too embarrassed by her / Weakness – the child believes her illness has made her mother not love her and that’s why she’s been away a lot.
A. Emotion: Hope
B. Action: The treasure hunt her mother devised feels like a real hunt, and the whole hospital is involved. The child starts to respond more positively with her mother.
C. Challenge – the child still thinks that they will leave the hospital at some point in the treasure hunt / Weakness – the child still believes that she will be well enough to leave the hospital
D. Emotion: Discouragement
E. Action: The nurse makes disparaging comments about the treasure hunt and tells the child she’ll never leave the hospital. The nurse is like a second mother to the child.
F. Challenge – the child begins to doubt that treasure can be found in a hospital and she’ll never leave there / Weakness – the child feels depression coming on and feelings of not being worth anything.
G. Emotion: Courage
H. Action: Despite her illness, the child fully participates in the treasure hunt her mother created and discovers there are real treasures in the hospital after all.
I. Challenge – doing the treasure hunt with an open mind so she can spend as much time with her mother as possible / Weakness – the child begins to think that she will get better and conquer her illness
J. Emotion: Triumph / Loss
K. Action: The child has another relapse and grows weaker. She and her mother have a heart to heart chat with what’s really going on with her health. The child realizes that she wants to spend the rest of her trying to find the treasure and happiness every day.
L. Challenge – The child realizes they might be sicker than they thought / Weakness – Relapse from the illness
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Sherri D. Coffee – Three Gradients
What I learned from doing this assignment is to apply the progression of either a forced change or a chosen change and brainstorm story possibilities.
1. Emotional Gradient to use: Chosen Change.
2. Emotional gradient progress:
1. Emotion: Excitement
Action: Kathryn lands a new position at a prestigious lobby firm.
Challenge/weakness: She is asked to put together a coalition of women’s health advocates to support health policy legislation.
2. Emotion: Doubt
Action: Kathryn tries to apply her educational knowledge to build the coalition.
Challenge/weakness: When she presents a rational fact-based policy solution, she is met with several conflicts of competing interests.
3. Emotion: Hope
Action: Kathryn talks to people to learn what she is missing.
Challenge/weakness: She must find a common goal among the coalition to support the legislation.
4. Emotion: Discouragement
Action: Kathryn has to reorganize the coalition.
Action: She must get rid of the person she initially selected to lead the coalition.
Challenge/weakness: She must accept that she will make mistakes.
5. Emotion: Courage
Action: Kathryn admits her mistake.
Challenge/weakness: She is humbled by her failure.
6. Emotion: Triumph
Action: Kathryn cultivates a new leader for the coalition and moves the coalition closer to the goal.
Challenge/weakness: Guiding the coalition to influence policy makers.
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Sherwen Moore Assignment 5:
What I learned from this assignment was to make a decision if your work is forced or desired change. That helps you better understand your story and walk through the steps in your mind a little easier.
1. What is the Emotional Gradient you’ll use? The Emotional Gradient I am using is Forced Change2. For each emotion of that gradient, tell us the following:
A. Emotion: Denial
B. Action: Allen quits his job with the FBI. He has no confidence in law enforcement. Looking at reasons why his job is no longer good for him.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C- He wants to make a career change but he knows nothing about working with young people. W- Unsure how to prepare young people for life choices and racism.
A. Emotion: Anger
B. Action: Complained about staff and how the system treats white criminals different from black criminals- mad and frustrated about the different standards. C. Challenge / Weakness: C- Unsure how to interpret white privilege but feels it’s unfair. W- Unable to effectively address institutional racism on his job.A. Emotion: Bargaining
B. Action: Allen writes a grant and gets money to work with inner city youth. Allen wants to teach young boys about the unjust legal system and how to address it.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C-Inexperience working with young boys. W- Can’t get them to behave. Charles is one of his students and thinks of him as his mentor.A. Emotion: Depression
B. Action: After several invitations by Charles, Allen finally agrees to come over and have a family dinner at the student’s house. He learns that Charles mother has her own business as a caterer but Tyrone, the oldest brother, is selling drugs in the community. C. Challenge / Weakness: C-Can he save both boys for different reasons or just focus on Charles? W- Unsure how to reach out to Tyrone, because he makes more money than Allen.A. Emotion: Acceptance
B. Action: During
dinner Tyrone runs into the house trying to escape Mark (the policeman) and his
partner Tom. Mark shoots Charles by mistake and all hell breaks out in the
house. Allen’s law enforcement skills
surge to the forefront as he learns more about himself and the law.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C- dealing
with Inexperience of Mark while the situation unravels for the worst. W- Allen
adapting to a sudden change from a peaceful dinner to Charles getting shot,
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Lisandro’s Three Gradients
1. I will be using Forced changed
A. Denial
B Silas is living with his family, playing among the tribe when suddenly US soldiers start evacuated everyone forcing people out of their homes, killing some if necessary. It was sudden chaos, and everyone is being shouted at to move, grab a wagon. He can’t believe what is happening…
C He’s just a 13-year-old boy, what does he know what is going on, he’s scared and helpless with his mother and father. he lacks courage and inner strength.
A. Anger
B. Silas refused to cooperate with anyone, he refuses to speak and eat. He is very upset towards the US soldiers and wants revenge.
C. Because he can’t handle what is going on, he shuts down. is passive… holds the anger inward… making him a ticking time bomb.
A. Bargaining
B. He begs his family to go home, he’s hungry and thirsty but its too late, someone has robbed their food and water… there isn’t any,… and their father is trying to find water. Without getting to far from the wagon.
C. For the first time his parents can’t help him out of a bind… he has to do something or die of thirst. He is going to have to do something..
A. Depression
B. When the boy ventures off on his own for a while he passes out from dehydration… death is knocking…His father cant find him and his mother cant leave the wagon for fear of getting robbed… people pass over the boy… until he’s completely fallen behind…
C. he accepts death and gives up and just lays on the ground with other dead natives around him
A. Acceptance
B. He accepts he can’t go back home and he has to get back up and catch up with the wagons. But how…its starts to rain… and a puddle forms for the boy… enough for him to get back up and run back to the trail for people… but he cant find his dad… can find his mom…
C. He has to talk to the natives around him… and learn to also be careful… he has to learn that its okay for him to rely on the help of strangers… and in him self, and unfortunately for Silas, he has to grow up fast. He Boyhood is gone.
What I learned in this assignment is how important it is to truly understand what it is your characters are going through emotionally, not just for the benefit of the character, actor and story but for the audience, the trueness that exists there has to be there… for people to tune in and when they can relate to the emotions and feel like yeah, that’s how that goes… you’ve done a job well done…and the process of finding… is a great one… i think otherwise not knowing all these little tad bits really helps iron out what your story is and where it’s going.. fascinating how following those steps really helped discover all of this,
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Edward Brown three gradients
I learned I intutitively did this already, but got some focus improvements
my work sheet is three column graphic for my best mapping out flow
this download will not reflect that well, I it helps me organize my thoughts. besides I am goinjg to do stacking interlocking action and this is must for me
SWU day 5 profound 3 gradients assignment
will Tanya vamp Boris for new life posibilities
Excitement going by train to Moscow challenge/ vamping Boris
Anticipation of Catherine’s Palace NYE Ball weakness/ not know each other/never dated
Anticipation of exciting life was billionaire wife
Anticipation of father’s funding, son’s paved future
Anticipation of being head of culture U department
Enters Palace Ball Room dressed to vamp
Doubt Boris huddled with male fellow billionaires challenge/ break in to male circle
Warned not to intervene weakness/ women not proactive, but responders
Man proposes, woman disposes
No experience interloping/ sought after vamp
Discouragement Boris refuses to try waltzing Challenge/ get Boris comply
Weakness/ how respond to refusal/so walks
Can’t negotiate
Courage refuses DIMOND necklace/ring challenge/ romance is prime value/ live life on
REFUSES MARRIAGE Own terms
Weakness/ stuck alone on floor/no way home
No plan B
TRIUMPH Vamps Putin for flight home challenge/vamp and convince Putin
Sets up funding for Father weakness/no lover/ now midnight kiss
Will Tanya be open to new unconventional romantic possibilites
DENIAL flight home challenge/can’t believe Boris won’t try waltzing
Would propose without kneeling
ANGER flight home should have know better about rich/powerful men
Weakness/ outward promotion/pwer/resources
BARGARING maybe I could have trained/killed him challenge/males rule
Catherine had Czar husband killed
Weakness/prenups/no guarentes/ loveless mate
DEPRESSION never going to find romantic mate challenge/few desirable prospects
Weakness/ don’t know what to do
ACCEPTANCE pray challenge/beyond my capabilities
Weakness/Czarina mind set not open
Better have PhD Romance
Will Tanya and George connect enough to agree to meet face to “pretty face”
EXCITEMENT George calls challenge/believing prospect
DOUBTS skype: slop, Detroit, roofer challenge/qualifying prospect
Weakness/know nothing about George
Except wearing a tux, messy, not one to promote her
Career, social standing, if so, would he come Siberia
HOPE George is rosy romantic, seeks ny eave kiss CHALLENGE/ kiss by global midnight
WEAKNESS/ only skype meeting
DISCOURAGMENT Detroit vs Siberia Challenge/George won’t Siberia
Weakness/missed time zone kiss agreements
Real romantic signs off
“ Mexico didn’t work out
Siberia ice or sailing season”
COURAGE propose meet Moscow/then maybe Siberia challenge/negotiate to win George
Weakness/inflexible timing
TRIUMPH agree after Mackinaw Race, Moscow
Tickets, Cash advance, Ob Sea CHALLENGE: GETTING GEORGE TO KISS
BEFORE LAST GLOBAL NYE BORA BORA
WEAKNESS/ Da or Nyet
THEY KISS AT BORA BORA NYE MIDNIGHT!
Will George and Tanya after second thoughts meet in Moscow?
EXCITEMENT George excited, tells son, Vincent CHALLENGE: have I been vamped?
WEAKNESS: vampable “PUSSY WHIPPED”
Tanya excited, ballet girls excited CHALLENGE: is George a Player?
Tolya alarmed, Victor suspicious Weakness: how evaluate Detroit prospect? DOUBT Tanya decides on only respond emails
George decides on only respond emails CHALLENGE: is other hot for me?
Valentine Day Tanya challenge panties weakness: 11 time zones
George emails building valentine
HOPE George studies academic town CHALLENGE: if Siberia, use wind tunnel?
Internet says rental wind tunnel weakness: make arrangement
Tanya researches Anna CHALLENGE get honest assessment
Weakness: ANNA relates slob, disorganized etc
TANYA sees spinnaker on flag pole
DISCOURAGMENT George helps win Mac, never leave Challenge: mac party infested with
Jobs, business, life style, other sailor women at mac party attractive sailing women
Tanya meets with publisher, ex threatens not to pay Weaknness: seeking sail mate
Get PhD if published, then dean of Culture school Challenge: Tanya delimina Moscow or defer PhD rewards
COURAGE heart attack kills Meggie receiving FLAG
Her choice race and risk attack vivre de vie George Challenge: confirm Moscow
Or be with her man live life fullest weakness: fear being vamped diverted
Funeral statement Tanya challenge: steady comfort or
Adventure
Weakness: wants adventure
Both heros: ventures
TRIUMPH BOTH GET ON PLANES FOR MOSCOW G’s Challenge: no vamped, know Tanya
Weakness: vampable, Ob Sea, T playful ?
T’s Challenge: can rule George
Weakness: not good at compromise
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Patrick Malone Three Gradients
This exercise was difficult for me as the concept is very under developed. There are many things about the story I haven’t figured out yet. However, it has helped sort out some ideas.
Emotional Gradient: Forced Change
A. Emotion: DENIAL
B. Action: Dennis cannot believe the paranormal events are happening.
C. Challenge/Weakness: Confused.
A. Emotion: ANGER
B. Action: When Ned is injured, Dennis realizes it’s for real and is angry and frustrated.
C. Challenge/Weakness: Does not know how to stop the terror.
A. Emotion: BARGAINING
B. Action: Jennifer realizes Dennis being Indian is the only one who can possibly deal with the alien. She tries in vain to convince Dennis.
C. Challenge/Weakness: Dennis refuses to listen. Stubborn.
A. Emotion: DEPRESSION
B. Action: Dennis goes off alone and sulks.
C. Challenge/Weakness: He feels there is nothing that will help them vs. the alien. All is hopeless.
A. Emotion: ACCEPTANCE
B. Action: When another person in the group is killed, Dennis listens to Jennifer and summons his spiritual essence.
C. Dennis confronts the alien and they reach a compromise that saves the group.
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1. I am using the “Forced Change” emotional gradient.
2. DENIAL: Bess is unhappy that she has to comply with her parents desire to go to the New World, and when they become sick, she cannot believe she has to face their illness (and subsequent deaths) alone. Challenge/When her parents die, Weakness/she has no skills to cope with their death. ANGER: She is enraged when she must finish a letter her father wrote to her siblings, with news of their death. Challenge/How does she honor her parents’ belief in their calling to the New World when Weakness/she doesn’t believe in it or want to fulfill it? BARGAINING: Bess decides she must protect and save herself and the only people she has left, so she learns how to shoot a gun, and she plants her own crops. Challenge/She is trying to perform tasks typically not relegated to women and Weakness/she tries to do things herself without asking for help. DEPRESSION: When a drought occurs, her crops fail, despite her desperate attempts to take care of herself and the people around her. Challenge/She does everything she can to get her crops to grow (carry water to the fields, force others to help her) showing Weakness/ her willingness to manipulate others for her personal benefit. ACCEPTANCE: When the elders call for a day of Humiliation and Prayer to ask God for rain, Bess recognizes her self-sufficiency is really a reflection of her lack of trust in God, and she asks those around her for forgiveness. Challenge/Rain does not come right away and Weakness/Bess struggles to believe God’s ways are best.
3. I struggled to learn how to show emotional changes through action.
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Linda’s Three Gradients
I learned that the emotional gradients helped me (& the audience) connect better with the characters.
Using Emotional Gradient, Desired Change.
A. Emotion: Excitement
B. Action: Tanji convinces Major Sloan he do an impossible task. Sees it as an opportunity for proving his worth.
C. Challenge / Weakness: The one-week timeline and his lack of experience with what it will take to accomplish the task make him overconfident and naïve.
A. Emotion: Doubt
B. Action: Wasn’t expecting depth of sadness from going through effects of fallen soldiers and mourning loss of life.
C. Challenge / Weakness: Details of lives never allowed to be lived challenges his self-confident. He’s not good at coping with his emotions or those of others.
A. Emotion: Hope
B. Action: Adiba helps Tanji with encouragement and her spiritual perspective until he realizes he can do this.
C. Challenge / Weakness: Major Sloan and Rev. Wilkes don’t believe in Tanji and his intellectually distant ways of viewing how God works in people’s lives. He over-intellectualizes and relies too much on dogma.
A. Emotion: Discouragement
B. Action: Tanji is devastated by Adiba’s death and has a crisis of faith, dark night of soul.
C. Challenge/Weakness: He must trust that showing his true feelings to the battalion chaplain commander will give him support. His fallback position has always been an either/or kind of faith with no nuances.
A. Emotion: Courage
B. Action: Tanji pushes through to finish the task.
C. Challenge/Weakeness: Rebelling against Rev.Wilke’s ways and expectations instead of focusing on how he wants to minister as a war chaplain.
A. Emotion: Triumph
B. B. Action: Tanji stops Mario from committing suicide. Major Sloan awards him a service medal. Adiba communicates that she loves him.
C. Challenge/Weakness: Major Sloan must witness and accept Tanji as a hero. Tanji is not the touchy-feely type, like his father, but now he knows how to offer empathy and honesty in a highly emotional and dangerous situation
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Pat’s Transformational Structure
What I learned doing this assignment is that change occurs in gradually. I also learned that you can have multiple levels of transformation in a single journey.
1. Tell us your Transformational Logline.
2. Tell us who the main character will be:
Change Agent:
Transformational Character(s):3. List out your Mini-Movie structure, (or whatever structure you’ve chosen) for your story.
4. Go back through and make sure you’ve covered each the following:
– The Transformational Journey listed in your logline.
– The Three Gradients.
– It is sequenced in Escalating Challenges.Transformational Logline: A young man dreams of becoming a lauded Shakespearean actor, but when challenged by systematic racism, he neglects his wife and son before learning family is his most important accomplishment.
Emotional Gradient:
Two Schemas:
1) Ira as Change Agent; Society/Press as Transformed Character (Forced Change – Professional Life)
2) Margaret as Change Agent/Ira as Transformed Character (Desired Change – Personal Life)
Mini Movie STRUCTURE
Mini-Movie 1 – Status Quo and Call to Adventure
As a young boy, Ira and his brother are in a hurry to get somewhere. They watch a show from the wings of a theater. His brother drags him away during intermission.
At home, they are greeted warmly by their mother who coughs incessantly. Ira spins out a line from Shakespeare, amusing her. He tells her he dreams of becoming an actor. Ira’s father, returns home from work and warns her it will be the death of her. He tells the boys they must come to work with him over the weekend.
At 10, he’s devastated by his mother’s death. The boys ride with Daniel as he struggles to sell straw. He encourages Ira’s brother to try. Same result. But Ira spins a magnificent tale around the straw and people gather round to buy.
At 15, His father wants him to go to divinity school and become a minister. Ira refuses and gets job aboard a sailing ship and travels south where a slave trader tries to buy him from the captain. Returning home safely, Ira works with a friend who works for an English Shakespearan actor. When his buddy becomes ill, Ira fills in.
Vision – To become an actor
Mini-Movie 2 – Locked Into Conflict
The actor notes his keen interest and rhetorical abilities and proposes he travel to London to act. His father forces him into Divinity school where he is bored. An administrator and family friend gets Ira a scholarship at U of Glasgow.
A. Emotion: Excitement
B. Action: Ira wants to become an actor but his father wants him to go to Divinity School because he thinks Ira’s dreams are a pipe dream given the racism he experiences in the US. Ira receives an offer to travel to Europe, so he trades hoping to leave his racist struggles behind.C. Challenge / Weakness: C: Forced into the lower annals of the boat. W: Naïve, thinking America is the only place blacks face racist situations,
Ira sets sail with the actor as a valet. Aboard the ship, Ira is forced into the gallows, unable to be treated as an equal, something Ira expected.
Change Agent: Ira
Transformational Characters: Society
Old Ways: Racist. Closed minded. Rigid. Calculating
The Vision: To break the color barrier as a successful Shakesperean actor.
Challenge: Segregation aboard the ship
Weaknesses: Rules are arbitrary and Ira finds ways to circumvent the rules
New Ways: Create an exception for Ira
Mini-Movie 3 — Hero Tries to Solve Problem – But Fails
Ira studies in Divinity school but travels to London on weekends to act. He meets Margaret. Eventually he ditches school and makes his London debut when he fills in for a sick actor The critics pan him. Margaret helps him “reinvent” himself. They marry.
Most of the press don’t buy the new Ira and ratches up the pressure, but some do and hail his performances.
A. Emotion: Doubt
B. Action: Ira slips away from European Divinity School into theater and makes his debut performance. Despite rave reviews from the audience the critics pan him with bigotry. Margaret helps him develop coping mechanisms.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C: Bigotry; W: Believing the lies.Old ways: Racism, outrage
Challenge: They despise the idea of a black man playing Shakespearean roles.
Weaknesses: Bigotry
Change Agent: Margaret: Ira fights back with Margaret help
Vision: He will be a respected Shakesperean actor
Old Ways: Racist Attacks referencing his physical features
Mini-Movie 4 – Hero Forms a New Plan
A. Emotion: Hope
B. Action: He marries Margaret & their strategies payoff. IRA leaves London. His popularity is gaining. IRA Widely accepted outside of London; buys Luranah Village; performs for the Queen (TP3);
C. Challenge / Weakness: C: The press engages theater owners to limit or ban his performances. W: Infidelity which further infuriates the press.Vision: To tour outside of London to gain respect
Old Ways: The press escalates to personal attacks when they realize he is succeeding in the Townships
New Ways: Concede & Celebrate his talent when the Queen lauds his performance & encourages the palace staff and associates to see him
MIDPOINT: Ira is successful in his professional goal, but his personal life begins to suffer
Mini-Movie 5 – Hero Retreats & The Antagonism Prevails
A. Emotion: Discouragement
B. Action: Ira and Margaret develop a new strategy to perform outside of London.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C: His work requires him to travel and leave Margaret home alone despite her becoming ill. W: No work-life balance.
Professionally, Ira receives offers to perform in other European countries
New Ways: The foreign press hails his performances
Margaret shows signs of illness; She travels with him. Ira is sued; Buys more property. Margaret decides it’s best to stay home (not well). Ira returns home with a new baby, Ira Daniel, infuriating her; she offers her psychoanalysis
Vision – To integrate his new family
Old Ways: Indiscrete
Challenge: Sexual temptation
Weakness: Infidelity/Insecurity
Mini-Movie 6 – Hero’s Bigger, Better Plan!
A. Emotion: Courage
B. Action: Ira performs in other countries for royalty and is treated like royalty
C. Challenge / Weakness: Margaret dies; W: Familial neglect & guilt.
Vision: To become a revered Shakesperean actor
Margaret adapts to Ira Daniel; Margaret raises him as her own; Margaret suspects Ira has a mistress, Amanda; Margaret dies; Ira vows to turn over a new leaf.
Old Ways: Indiscrete
New Ways: Discrete
Challenge: To become a better person
Weakness: Losing Margaret
Mini-Movie 7 – Crisis & Climax
A. Emotion: Triumph
B. Action: Although devastated after losing Margaret, Ira remarries and starts a new family. He returns to his international tour except this time he travels with his family and becomes a better family man. He is the highest paid Shakespearean actor. Ira Daniel is resentful; He tries acting, but fails. With a family of his own, he turns to crime and is sentenced to prison.
C. Challenge / Weakness: C: Ira Daniel is failing while his new family is thriving W: It’s too late to repair the relationship with Ira Daniel
Mini-Movie 8 – New Status Quo
He plans to return to the US to see his American family and mentor other black actors. The skies the limit. On stage, he collapses. He has a vision of boarding a ship and being reunited with his father and mother who tell him he’s going home. In his mind, he’s fulfilling his dream to return to the US. He dies and is given a King’s burial.
New Way: Family and helping others are his first priority
Profound Truth: “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not”
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