Day 5 Assignments

[Judith Watson]

Judith’s Villain Has a Plan!

L5 – Creating the Villain’s Plan

What I learned is to create the Villain’s plan you start from the end and brainstorm ways to incorporate the Villain’s goal, their devious ways, cover ups, and to make it all as intriguing as possible.

4 Questions to create the Villain’s Plan…

1. What is the end goal of the Villain, Rachel? Her end goal is to destroy Emily’s life, kill her and take over Emily’s life which she believes to be perfect.

2. How can Rachel accomplish that in a devious way? Rachel has rejected Emily over the last 10 years by refusing to see her and returning all letters from Emily seeking reconciliation by “return to sender” notes on the mail. One day Rachel presents herself at Emily’s gallery show, with a bouquet of flowers congratulating Emily, claiming to realize what a fool she has been and wants to connect and spend Christmas together with Emily, their mom and Emily’s husband.

3. How can she cover her plan up? Rachel swears she has been a fool and begs Emily for forgiveness. She is friendly, helpful, and loving, but all her pretense has an ulterior motive behind it of destroying Emily’s life and then killing her.

4. Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible. Start with the murder of Rachel and Emily’s mom which we see with a Detective checking it out and believing Rachel is dead too. Rachel shows up at Emily’s art gallery reception pretending “let’s be sisters.” She and Emily have good times together, talking about how excited mom is to reconnect, and all along Rachel is doing things to sabotage Emily’s marriage by making Emily believe Eugene is having an affair, by destroying Emily’s paintings, by doing strange things to Emily’s house and trying to help her figure out what is going on and trying to kill Eugene, kidnapping the child Emily is adopting, making Emily have a miscarriage.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by  Judith Watson.

[Warren Goldstein]

Friends in High Places – Warren Goldstein – To create your Villain’s plan. “What I learned is to succinctly make sure all the bases are covered in setting up the sequence of events that get to the final confrontation between our hero Warren, a clairvoyant senior college student and the villain, the serial Socialite Strangler.

Answer these four questions:

What is the end goal?
For the villain, it’s because of his once repressed hateful reproach
for socialite middle-aged type of women which we find out only later, after the final confrontation and in the aftermath when he has been
identified, that it was because his former wife was a socialite and cheated on him after
he was wounded in a robbery and paralyzed from the waist down. This happened while he was
a NYPD cop doing his dangerous duty apprehending a robbery suspect.

How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious way? Because of his enduring hatred and desire to get
even with his wife, who according to police missing persons’ reporting from thirty years prior, she supposedly ran off with a fireman in New York,
without ever knowing what happened to her or her lover. This villain’s killing of other women in revenge makes him feel satisfied to
instead take it out on other socialite “too good for themselves” women by
strangling them. As a former cop and detective he knows how to get away with it
without being caught.

His need to get even with his ex is by his projecting on to his victims by
enjoying the fear by killing them slowly this way and see them suffer. This is because, we
learn only later, that his wife disregarded his personal feelings without empathy or any
remorse and that she only chose men in uniform as well with whom to have her affairs in order to anger him.

How can they cover it up? (giving away who the unknown strangler is and ruining
it for someone who reads this script) He had not only become a Catholic deacon
while in physical therapy which never seemed to work for him, but now years later went on
to hold the position of Chaplain to the Metro Las Vegas Police Department.
He dishonestly remains in a wheelchair to avoid any suspicion as to his
ability to strangle anyone while being able to continue to have an inside pulse to continue his sick and deadly cat and mouse game without his capture or being identified.

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible. After his initial victims and without leaving any
traceable clues to him and his being aware of all the angles the police
detective is working on discovering his identity even while he is right
under their noses the whole time, his plan will become ruined. This is by Warren
trying to avert and stop the horrific prophetic vision of his mother-in-law becoming the
sixth victim of the at-large serial killer.

Because of Warren going to the
police in the first place for their help, which is the first inciting event that propels the sequence of
events which eventually will put an end to the villain’s clandestine plan, serendipitously, he overhears Warren attempting to make a police report on a murder which
has yet to happen. Because of this event the villain intentionally befriends Warren at the police
station interested to find out what else Warren has seen in his visions especially that Warren might actually identify him in some way if Warren is authentically and provenly clairvoyant. This of course is after the detective, clever Sergeant Sue Hart, had already shined Warren off. This is because
of her disbelief of having a psychic see the details of an impending
murder which hasn’t happened yet. Come on…

The villain only
through a subsequent event meeting with Warren again for a second time, pretends to advise him spiritually and religiously to warn Warren not to have communication with spirits but only as a lure. His intriguing goal he discovers and steps him to the next sequential event is to locate a rake which Warren doesn’t know has blood on it but from
a prior Socialite Stranger murder victim’s body. The rake with the blood stain had been used in
burying his number five victim and which tore at her wrapped blanketed body and his arm as well in the dark with his blood remaining on
the rake. It accidentally bounced out of his pickup and landed on the
driveway of Warren’s in-laws’ house for which Warren’s mother-in-law
picked it up and then it ended up in their garage, out of site from the
street.

This information which builds the suspense will lead the killer to Warren’s in-laws’ house
to get the rake back to remove his evidence that might link him to the murder victim number five. This is where the strangler,
according to Warren’s vision, will have to confront Warren’s mother-in-law
in their garage where he is predicted by Warren that she will, though
unintentionally, become his sixth victim.

Each event occurs in a sequence
as Warren strives to eliminate the causes for the killing in order to stop
it. These causes however theoretically lie in the future for events somewhat of which already
transpired because of Warren since becoming now a participant himself in this sequence of events trying to change his mother-in-law’s fate. Warren must not let his wife-to-be know about his vision or she has threatened not to marry him because his supposed “gift” frightens the hell out of her and can’t live her life with someone who is clairvoyant.

Warren only
undertakes his college professor’s experiment as a last resort solution.
This is the paralleling sci-fi element, although based on real events in the author’s life, but not of time travel which is
impossible, but rather through use of retro-intention hypnosis which the author has used as a master hypno-therapist as well. the hero’s goal is that Warren
might be able to engage the “collective unconscious” and narrow in on the
killer to try to change the villain’s “memories of the future” which are yet to occur and to change his choices he makes in events along the way. This solution which is to occur only if Warren participates in the professors’ experiment is theorized by the
professor to be able to use hypnosis of a clairvoyant to enter this “non-local universe” realm to change people’s own thoughts they will have in the future. This (by the way) is how and why a psychic can see the future events which have not happened yet. The professor’s goal is to get his theory published now having the proof.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by  Warren Goldstein. Reason: to correct codes

[Patricia Milton]

Patricia’s villain (Xtopher) has a great plan

I learned my villain’s plan.

What is his end goal?

· Develop and widely distribute a wearable AI conscience, selling the data to advertisers, law enforcement, politicians, clergy, and marketers.

· To do this, he must keep the Senate’s tech subcommittee from investigating Bubble.

How can he accomplish that in a devious way?

· Hire Kamiri, (whose Mom is a Senator) who desperately needs a job since she’s a blacklisted tech whistleblower

· Manipulate Kamiri into blowing the whistle on some small misstep, then clean it up, so it looks like Bubble is policing itself.

How can he cover it up?

· Claim his own secret project is a ransomware recovery project.

· Hire and assign Kamiri to investigate ethics in the autonomous car division.

· Xtopher will work with PerfecShawn to breach ethics (small privacy breach, car malfunction, cover-up of crashes) in the auto division

· Get Kamiri to whistleblow/testify to the Senate subcommittee on which her mother sits, honestly swearing that Bubble fixed their problem willingly.

[Michelle Donnelly]

Adam has a great plan

What I learned is…the importance of driving the story through the villain’s plan, not the hero’s goal. By considering and describing the villain’s plan, I am in a much better position to ramp up mystery, intrigue, and suspense by withholding information and then providing reveals as the story progresses.

What is the end goal? Through cellular memory our villain has been altered by receiving the heart of a psychopathic serial killer. His goal is to kill.

How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious way?

– Having spent so much time in the hospital, Adam has learned who his cardiologist’s (Griffin) enemies are and what her routines are. Using this he can easily frame her. <div>

– In some ways, our secondary villain (Boyd) has accomplished his goal in the most devious way possible. To continue to kill even after his death by ‘taking over’ the personality of Adam. During his life, he accomplished this by killing people during war and then by targeting drug addicts and sex workers (executing the ‘perfect’ crime starts with picking the ‘perfect’ victim).

How can they cover it up?

– Adam knows the hospital and the small community. He knows hospital security is weak. </div><div>

– He knows Griffin’s flaws and who she has conflicts with.

– He knows he can execute his crimes without bringing suspicion onto himself since he theoretically has no motive.

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.

– Know enough about the hospital and Griffin to learn about the hospital gossip. </div>

– The first murder is a nurse who fought publicly with Griffin.

– The second murder is Griffin’s mentor who was going to recommend she be fired.

– The third murder was the CEO no one likes, who was going to be the one to fire Griffin.

[Jack Sherry]

Jack’s Villains have Plans.

What I learned from this assignment is to reverse engineer the antagonist’s plan and to have the protagonist “bump into” the plan.

1. CASTING CALL

1. What is the end goal of the antagonist, Angela? Angela is secretly a Mossad agent, masquerading as a L.A. porn star. Her plan is to gain information on Iranian oil baron Fareem’s life, including his friends, all powerful Iranian politicians and military leaders. But he is the “Donald Trump” of Iran, in that he doesn’t drink, smoke, or do drugs, so she has to find someone who will help her without knowing it.

2. How can Angela accomplish this in a devious way? Angela’s original plan was to seduce Fareem, but he is not interested in her because she is “used goods”. Angela seeks out a woman she can groom, mentor and use to get what she wants. Sandi, the 18 year old virgin Iowa farm girl, bumps into her plan and becomes Angela’s pawn.

3. How can she cover her plan up? Angela covers her plan up by doing everything she can to help Sandi succeed in her efforts to become a star in Hollywood, often acting against her own employers’ interests and thus threatening her own life.

4. Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.

A. Angela is introduced as an illegal-immigrant assistant to two men who run a bogus casting call scam to find women for their male customers.

B. Angela then masterminds an introduction for Sandi to Fareem, whom she says can help Sandi’s career.

C. Fareem finds Sandi perfect, but for his own villain’s plan: to trick Sandi onto his jet for a ride to San Fran for lunch, but in reality, to Riyadh to become one of his sex slaves which he uses to blackmail his associates into keeping him in power, which includes becoming the head of OPEC.

RED HERRING – Fareem is the red herring – we think he is the villain but Angela is the real one

2. CONCEIVED

What is the end goal of the First Antagonist, Professor Matthews? The professor owns a gene-editing lab and adds a cryogenics lab for the secret purpose of convincing protagonist Victoria, who has royal blood, to freeze her eggs for future fertilization. Protagonist Kayla “bumps into” this plan by becoming Victoria’s lover and following her lead and having her eggs frozen at the same time. The professor wants a child with Victoria to raise a son with royal blood whom he will use to gain wealth and power.

How can the professor accomplish this in a devious way? He uses Kayla to convince Victoria to freeze their eggs together.

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.

A. The audience first wonders why Professor Matthews is so interested in Victoria’s eggs, then in why he offers Kayla gifts to become friends with her.

B. Victoria has a dispute with the professor and has her eggs moved to another cryogenics lab, but not before he steals some of them to use for the birth of his son. He then switches Kayla’s eggs with Victoria’s to spite her.

What is the end goal of the Second Antagonist, Jung Cho? His end goal is to mate his clone with the wealthiest, smartest, most athletic and most powerful women on earth in order to have children that will take over the world in a fifty-year plan. He targets Victoria because she runs a hedge fund that includes royal wealth as well as investors from the world’s most powerful families. Professor Mathews and Kayla “bump into” Jung Cho’s plan because Jung Cho investigates the world’s leading cryogenics labs, thinking he can find his targets as people who are freezing their skin for their own future cloning.

How does he accomplish this in a devious way? Jung Cho hacks Victoria’s funds, then demands the unusual ransom of skin from people she knows, her investors, including royals, so she can get her accounts back.

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible:

A. The story opens with funeral directors taking skin from deceased clients and receiving money from Chinese men in exchange for the skin. English, Japanese, Indian

B. Jung Cho enjoys the birth of his son.

C. On the wall, photos of famous women athletes with some checked off

D. Computer tracks obituaries of Bildergerg Group, Committee of 300, Club of Rome, Royal Families of England, Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, others

[Ian Patrick Williams]

Ian Patrick’s Villain Has a Great Plan!

What I learned is that itemizing the Villain’s plan will help order the overall scene structure

To create your Villain’s plan, answer these four questions:

What is the end goal?

For a white supremacist leader to spark social unrest and create what he hopes will be a race war throughout the country

How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious
way?

A series of murders of white, Muslim and Jewish victims falsely blamed on groups like Black Lives Matter

How can they cover it up?

Planting evidence that falsely implicates Black leaders and ultimately the Hero himself

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.

A neo-Nazi organization marches in a major city

Protesters try to shout them down; one protester is killed

Hero detective stops killer from escaping

During interrogation, killer defends the group’s actions against all non-white Christians and hopes for a race war

Undercover officer is already in their organization

A rabbi is shot and killed by a masked assailant who escapes; Hero investigates and finds shell casing leading to Black owner

He is questioned in his apartment and claims gun was stolen

As police try to arrest him, an angry crowd demands justice

Shots are fired and a Black police officer is killed

The Mayor calls for calm; at police HQ a Captain urges his men to exercise caution

Right wing TV pundit asks why Blacks are being coddled by liberals

Hero publicly defends arrests of neo-Nazi types

At the officer’s funeral, some cops want revenge; more shots fired from a distance; crumpled BLM flyer found

Later forensics finds the bullet – a rare high caliber

Hero deduces killer might have military training

Police search data bases for white supremacists with sniper training

At white supremacist meeting, leader asks for more violence; second-in-command (Villain) agrees

Undercover cop recognizes a member from his own squad

Later the leader is wounded by same rifle; evidence is planted to implicate Hero

Hero is temporarily suspended while the case is open

Hero goes to gun shop owner and asks who might have such a high powered weapon

At an outdoor shooting range, he learns more about the rare weapon’s range; as he leaves, he’s shot at

Racist cop is confronted and confesses he planted the evidence implicating the hero

A Black Lives Matter march is planned; the Mayor announces a major speech to calm the city

Hero joins other cops at march expecting violence

Hero deduces the Mayor will be the actual target

He races to a building 2 miles away from the spot of the Mayor’s speech knowing that the killer’s rifle has that kind of range

He confronts the killer who captures him; he admits the wounding of the neo-Nazi leader was planned and evidence planted

Once the Mayor is shot, the city will go up in flames

Hero defeats Villain just before the assassination

Final image: neo-Nazis being arrested for conspiracy

[Jennifer Miller]

Jennifer Miller’s Villain Has a Great Plan!

What I learned is how important it is to be precise while setting up clear actionable goals, plus the great need to make a choice on who the villain is.

Villain’s plan:

What is the end goal? To cover up embezzlement of millions from the company, put Percy in prison, and be crowned the head of the family business.

How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious way? Fire the employee who discovered the accounting problem. Fake the original document, shift the blame by framing someone else, and destroy the paper trail.

How can they cover it up? Murder Margot and Esme, who have the original dossier sent by the whistleblower, and recover the document to destroy it.

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.

Kill Margot and Esme, make it look like a robbery.

When Margot survives, but is left with amnesia he acts like he is trying to help Margot get her memory back, but in reality, every action sets her further from the truth in some way.

Find the dossier that Margot has and gaslight her into believing Percy is the killer.

Destroy evidence and rework documents Bernie Madoff-style.

Fake documents to back up the frame accusations against Percy, who has financial problems.

[Sherri Coffee]

Sherri D. Coffee – Villain Has a Great Plan!

What I learned is to structure the villains plan by working back to his end goal. Also, to reveal the backstory as the hero uncovers the deceit.

1. What is the end goal? Joe Ford founds his state level lobby firm to make as much money as he can.

2. How can he accomplish the goal in a devious way? Joe partners with any client willing to pay him a lot of money and contribute large sums to politicians and political parties. He becomes the go-to-guy for a compromised politician who links him into a foreign network of laundered money and illegal businesses. He takes the money and hides the truth of the source.

3. How can they cover it up? He creates secret foreign bank accounts to wire contributions of laundered money; creates a system of standard contracts that hide the true purpose of the interaction; he uses cryptocurrency to fill political party and candidate coffers; and he leverages the power provided by the huge amounts of cash to compromise political parties, elected officials, and administrative employees.

4. Sequence:

Joe Ford leverages a powerful political relationship to obtain foreign government contracts.

He arranges for his clients to use offshore accounts and cryptocurrency to fund a political party and individual candidates. He hides the transactions in a hidden file.

He hides the motive of his clients by using generic contracts for “lobby services”. He files vague reports on his lobbying activities and creates a reputable path of political donations.

He grows his network by providing very large political donations. He obtains proof of political transgressions and then saves the victim from exposure to create a loyal network.

When the CIA enlists the help of one of his lobbyists to reveal his network, Joe leverages his powerful connections to oust the CIA agent in a very public and humiliating exposure. The lobbyist knows his days are numbered and commits suicide.

Joe Ford continues to make money and grow his corrupt network of power without oversight or consequences.

[Eric Humble]

Eric Humble’s Villain Has a Great Plan!

What I learned is: that the villain’s plan doesn’t have to be brilliant – just covert and mysterious, and the combination of MIS will enhance it as an experience for the audience. This is one of the breakthroughs I had while analyzing Basic Instinct and Silence of the Lambs. I always put all the burden of the story on the Villain’s Plan, and went into perfectionism to try and make it something so brilliant and elaborate that the whole story stemmed entirely from the revelations of the plan. I now understand that the intrigue is only a part of a structure of interwoven MIS – so I don’t need every scene and incident stemming from a cumbersome plot. I just need something simple that works within the logic of the story and the way we interweave MIS will give the intrigue the substance it needs.

What is the end goal?

Leiber works for a cabal of NATO leaders bucking their own policies to try and strengthen the smaller countries once the US is out of the way as a superpower.

How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious way?

Poison the US President just as a peace deal is finally being considered by the Russian President.

Frame the Russian president for the assassination, rallying all NATO countries to wage a united war on Russia.

Murder the chef who won’t go along with the plan.

Murder a line cook who figures out something is “off” about the dessert.

Set up Raf to look like a mercenary assassin working for the Russians.

Plant Russian money in a Swiss account in Raf’s name… and fake video footage to look like Raf deposited the money.

How can they cover it up?

Leave a false clue that makes Raf think the poison is in the kitchen.

Poison all the world leaders at the pre-meeting discussions with thallium in the water.

The poison isn’t in the dessert, the antidote is – in the prussian blue dye used in the icing… and the US President is a diabetic, so he’ll be the only one note eating it.

Insist on keeping the meal on a strictly-timed schedule… but make it seem like this is because the peace deal is at stake, not because everyone will feel the effects of the poison by then.

Act like he’s most concerned with the US’s standing in NATO – the peace treaty is essential to re-establishing the US’s dominance within NATO. Insisting that the other countries are sheep following the US superpower.

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.

End Goal: Leiber works for a cabal of NATO leaders bucking their own policies to try and strengthen the smaller countries once the US is out of the way as a superpower.

Leiber murders the original chef who won’t go along with the plan.

Leiber plants Russian money in a Swiss account in Raf’s name… and fake video footage to look like Raf deposited the money.

Leiber recruits Raf as the new chef… claims it’s because of Raf’s reputation for providing custom meals that help power players lure their counterparts into deals.

Leiber acts like he’s most concerned with the US’s standing in NATO – the peace treaty is essential to re-establishing the US’s dominance within NATO. Insisting that the other countries are sheep following the US superpower.

Poison all the world leaders at the pre-meeting discussions with thallium in the water. The poison isn’t in the dessert, the antidote is – in the prussian blue dye used in the icing… and the US President is a diabetic, so he’ll be the only one note eating it.

Leiber insists on keeping the meal on a strictly-timed schedule… but makes it seem like this is because the peace deal is at stake, not because everyone will feel the effects of the poison by then.

Leiber sets up Raf to look like a mercenary assassin working for the Russians.

Leiber leaves a false clue that makes Raf think the poison is in the kitchen.

Leiber murders a line cook who figures out something is “off” about the dessert.

Leiber focuses Raf’s attention on the special “no-sugar” dessert that will only be served to the US President… a seemingly obvious choice for the poison.

[Mona Miller]

Mona Miller – The Villain’s Plan – Assignment to Post

What I learned from this assignment is that it is very helpful. I wasn’t overwhelmed in creating a series of scenes. It makes things clear. It boils things down to their essence. Thank you, Hal!

1. GOAL: Ali Patel intends to personally check on the mountain climbing treks and the remote terrorist training camps they support with supplies, weapons, etc. The money made from wealthy mountain climbers who pay for these specialized, difficult climbs is essential to keep Patel’s terrorist training organization going.

2. INTRIGUE: Patel is like an undercover CEO checking out his own corporate employees. He travels on the trek incognito (although a couple of trusted lackeys know him), as a wealthy mountain climber. He’ll use his attractive, upper class, British-educated aura to seduce Dr. Graves and appeal to the other climbers, who have no idea who he is.

3. COVERS SECRETS: Patel needs to clean up his organization and get rid of the screwups or untrustworthy employees. Since mountain climbing is so dangerous, accidents can happen. Patel and his associates know how to make them happen. He likes Dr. Liza Graves. He wants to hire her to help him with medical assistance in the future; she thinks he’s providing humanitarian aid to indigenous people who live in remote villages in the higher mountain regions. She’ll have no choice but to help him, as she’ll be totally dependent on him the higher and more remote in the mountains they are, and the more deaths have taken place.

4. I wasn’t sure if we were to list everything under “How to Create the Villain’s Plan.” I have done these steps, but didn’t want to go on for pages and pages (which I’ve planned out and written down).

[Mona Miller]

Mona Miller – The Villain’s Plan – Assignment to Post

What I learned from this assignment is that it is very helpful. I wasn’t overwhelmed in creating a series of scenes. It makes things clear. It boils things down to their essence. Thank you, Hal!

1. GOAL: Ali Patel intends to personally check on the mountain climbing treks and the remote terrorist training camps they support with supplies, weapons, etc. The money made from wealthy mountain climbers who pay for these specialized, difficult climbs is essential to keep Patel’s terrorist training organization going.

2. INTRIGUE: Patel is like an undercover CEO checking out his own corporate employees. He travels on the trek incognito (although a couple of trusted lackeys know him), as a wealthy mountain climber. He’ll use his attractive, upper class, British-educated aura to seduce Dr. Graves and appeal to the other climbers, who have no idea who he is.

3. COVERS SECRETS: Patel needs to clean up his organization and get rid of the screwups or untrustworthy employees. Since mountain climbing is so dangerous, accidents can happen. Patel and his associates know how to make them happen. He likes Dr. Liza Graves. He wants to hire her to help him with medical assistance in the future; she thinks he’s providing humanitarian aid to indigenous people who live in remote villages in the upper mountains. She’ll have no choice but to help him, as she’ll be totally dependent on him the higher and more remote in the mountains they are.

4. I wasn’t sure if we were to list everything under “How to Create the Villain’s Plan.” I have done these steps, but didn’t want to go on for pages and pages (which I’ve planned out and written down).

[Mona Miller]

Mona Miller – The Villain’s Plan – Assignment to Post

What I learned from this assignment is that it is very helpful. I wasn’t overwhelmed in creating a series of scenes. It makes things clear. It boils things down to their essence. Thank you, Hal!

1. GOAL: Ali Patel intends to personally check on the mountain climbing treks and the remote terrorist training camps they support with supplies, weapons, etc. The money made from wealthy mountain climbers who pay for these specialized, difficult climbs is essential to keep Patel’s terrorist training organization going.

2. INTRIGUE: Patel is like an undercover CEO checking out his own corporate employees. He travels on the trek incognito (although a couple of trusted lackeys know him), as a wealthy mountain climber. He’ll use his attractive, upper class, British-educated aura to seduce Dr. Graves and appeal to the other climbers, who have no idea who he is.

3. COVERS SECRETS: Patel needs to clean up his organization and get rid of the screwups or untrustworthy employees. Since mountain climbing is so dangerous, accidents can happen. Patel and his associates know how to make them happen. He likes Dr. Liza Graves. He wants to hire her to help him with medical assistance in the future; she thinks he’s providing humanitarian aid to indigenous people who live in remote villages in the upper mountains. She’ll have no choice but to help him, as she’ll be totally dependent on him the higher and more remote in the mountains they are, especially after there are a series of “accidents” and the number of trekkers is small.

4. I wasn’t sure if we were to list everything under “How to Create the Villain’s Plan.” I have done these steps, but didn’t want to go on for pages and pages (which I’ve planned out and written down).

[Mona Miller]

I have posted my “Villain’s Plan” assignment multiple times, but I’m not advancing to have this marked “completed.” I’m not seeing a “done” at the bottom of my screen. Help!

[Mona Miller]

Mona Miller’s Villain Has a Great Plan! (Yet another try.)

What I learned from this assignment is that it is very helpful. I wasn’t overwhelmed in creating a series of scenes. It makes things clear. It boils things down to their essence. Thank you, Hal! I just wish that posting and advancing to the next step wasn’t such a nightmare! Your system doesn’t mark me as “done.” It won’t let me advance.

1. GOAL: Ali Patel, head of the terror group (and Brett Dean’s target, but Dean doesn’t know that) intends to personally check on the mountain climbing treks and the remote terrorist training camps they support with supplies, weapons, etc. The money made from wealthy mountain climbers is essential to keep Patel’s terrorist training organization going.

2. INTRIGUE: Patel is like an undercover CEO checking out his own corporate employees. He travels on the trek incognito (although a couple of trusted lackeys know him), as a wealthy mountain climber. He’ll use his attractive, upper class, British-educated aura to seduce Dr. Graves and appeal to the other climbers, who have no idea who he is.

3. COVERS SECRETS: Patel needs to clean up his organization and get rid of the screwups or untrustworthy employees. Since mountain climbing is so dangerous, “accidents” can happen. Patel and his associates know how to make them happen. He likes Dr. Liza Graves. He wants to hire her to help him with medical assistance in the future; she thinks he’s providing humanitarian aid to indigenous people who live in remote villages in the upper mountains. She’ll have no choice but to help him, as she’ll be totally dependent on him the higher and more remote in the mountains they are.

4. I wasn’t sure if we were to list everything under “How to Create the Villain’s Plan.” I have done these steps, but didn’t want to go on for pages and pages (which I’ve planned out and written down).

[Jeff Hall]

Jeff Hall’s Villain has a Great Plan!

What i learned from this lesson is to have a clear plan for your villain. Complete with motive and back story, either if its not mentioned in the script.

To create your Villain’s plan, answer these four questions:

1. What is the end goal? To breath in as many children’s souls as possible. Kill many children at the same time for the ultimate high… target the orphanage.

2. How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious way? Only operate at night and in the shadows so on one will even know he exists.

3. How can they cover it up? Letting the blame fall onto others.

4. Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible.

a. He rides the train mingled with other hobos. Exits in small western town. Camps deep in the wood.

b. During the night, he slaughters beloved family… parents and children. He breaths in the souls and gets his high.

c. From the background, he watches the town hang an innocent man.

d. Immediate jumps the train and avoids detection.

e. He repeats this in the next town.

d. Discovers orphanage and wants to experience the ultimate high by killing all of them at the same time.

e. During the night, he gases the orphanage putting them all to sleep. Slaughters them all.

[Julio TUMBACO]

Julio Tumbaco’s Villain Has a Great Plan!

What I learned is the sequencing skill is key to the structure of the villain’s plan.

To create my Villain’s plan, i’ve answered these four questions:

What is the end goal?<div>

– OWEN’s death

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How can the Villain accomplish that in a devious way?

– drive OWEN insane to the point of suicide

How can they cover it up?

– document OWEN’s spiraling, agreeing with him (in private only) that NICK exists and is in love with OWEN- only way to be together us to die and go to the other side.

Sequence it to make it as intriguing as possible:

1.- once ELLA recognizes that OWEN knows that she killed NICK, she implements a plan to discredit OWEN’s assertion

2.- ELLA gets OWEN to see a psychiatrist who specializes in suicide trauma

3.- ELLA distorts reality for OWEN to get him to question his sanity

4.- in private, ELLA, accepts NICK’s presence to OWEN

5.- ELLA tries talking to NICK (in private and with OWEN present) – pretends seeing NICK

6.- after OWEN declares NICK’s love, ELLA rationalizes that all she wants is OWEN’s happiness and if that’s with NICK, OWEN should go be with him

7.- ELLA creates a guilt-free plan for OWEN’s suicide.

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[Daniel Turner]

Daniel Turner’s Villain has a great plan!

What I learned is that the villains plan is really the engine of the story. The villains actions, plan, is what makes the story happen and what makes it go.

Villains Plan

Goal: To cleanse this world of sinners to prepare for the coming of God’s paradise.

How to accomplish goal: The villain created a secret sect, and they are sacrificing sinners by making them disappear to cleanse the society and the world. And by sinners, they are snatching up drug dealers, thieves, prostitutes and others who make this world a living hell for others.

How will they cover it up: The sect itself is secret, and the members who are mostly cops have all bought into this goal. And most of the people that they are sacrificing are on the edges of society, so other than other people on the edge of society who is going to miss them?

Sequence:

The hero, a detective, comes across a series of ritualistic killings.

A criminal gets out of jail time on a technicality and rubs our hero’s nose in it. Our hero strikes the criminal and is sent to the police shrink.

During the sessions with the shrink, our hero gets the feeling that he is being recruited for something. So he begins to play along to see where this may go and ends up being invited to a group session outside of the department with like minded individuals.

An informant asks our hero about people disappearing, being snatched up. And why nothing is being done about it. He says that he’ll look into it.

Our hero is on the fence about the group session. He goes and waits in his car outside of the house. He is not sure if he is going in or staking the place out. But the group is just other cops.

The hero goes to see Coopernicus, the wise man of the street. He tells him that yes there are people getting snatched up and being made to disappear. And from what he hears, they way they move and are in sync when they are in the process of snatching that it must be some kind of professionals. They definitely have training. They are law enforcement of some kind, maybe not local, but they are.

This piques our hero’s curiosity and he begins looking into the shrink and his group.