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Day 5 Assignments
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Danielle LEGRAND
ACTION TRACK
What I learned doing this assignement is sequencing the action scenes in logical order.
1. Answers
A. In this movie there could be :
– cyber-attacks
– Dangerous situations
– Torture
– Escape / Evad
– Chase/Pursuit
– Kidnapping
– Fight
– Interrogation
– Shoutout
– Rescue
B. The villain can count on a malware to infect and transform any White House computer into a pawn for the cyber-attack. The delayed virus he was injected with, gradually poisons the hero. When this one tries to escape and save his life the Villain has a bunch of Russian mafia gangs at his disposal to hunt and catch the President and his wife. The Villain may think it would be helpful kidnapping the hero’s wife in order to pressurize the hero into doing whatever his evil plan needs. Sending armed to the teeth mercenaries after the Presidential couple would be a piece of cake.
C. First, the Villain has prepared his mission for a long time and every detail has been carefully planned and organized. His plan takes place as he anticipated it.
Second Act : the Villain realizes the President is tougher than he thoughtand that he will not cooperate in spite of the mortal virus he has been injected with and the threat of killing his beloved wife.
Third Act : The hero’s escape and his search for an antidote before the end of the day escalates the action as well as the danger of the mercenaries after him. The climax is reached when he is caught tortured and he looks like a dying man.
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I will use every type of action from the list.
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F. COMPETITION : The Villain confronts a young ambitious coworker in his team who could help to unveil his part in the happening events.
G. DANGEROUS SITUATION : The President is trapped by the person he trusts the most in the White House.
E. ESCAPE/ EVAD : The hero has to run away and find help without compromising his scientific friend or his wife. The President has used a trick to credit back his account, the President has to escape quickly before the Villain becomes aware that he has just been diddled. Under the pretext he is going to play golf, the hero disappears and changes his appearance by stealing clothes and accessories in an open-air market.
A. CHASE/ PURSUIT : The Russian Mafia is on his heels.
H/C. INTERROGATION AND SHOOTOUT : The killers shoot the people they interrogate because they can’t help them find the President or his wife.
I. TORTURE : As he becomes weaker and weaker the hero is caught and tortured to make him comply to the Villain ‘s mission.
B. FIGHT : The hero’s wife who has been in touch with their friend, the scientist finds his husband with the help of the agent in competition with the Villain. They kick the villains’ asses.
D. RESCUE : The Secret Services arrive and get rid of the Villains whereas the scientist administers the antidote to the hero.
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Sunil Pappu’s Action Track!
“What I learned doing this assignment is…to know the purpose for each action scene, to make the action track truly meaningful and exciting”
A. Considering the concept from Lesson 1, what action could naturally show up in this movie?
Escape/Evade, Chase/Pursuit, Fight, Shootout, Rescue, Competition, Dangerous Situations, Interrogation & Torture
B. Considering the Mission and Villain Tracks, what action could work for this track?
Competition: prison fight club – beats an inmate using Krav Maga; Interrogated by the prison guards, Escape/Evade from prison, Chase/Pursuit by the military, Fights KGB agents, Shootout with assassins, Rescue by an ex-military sniper, Shootout with snipers, Dangerous Situations – enter a heavily guarded missile silo while her rescuer, an ex-military sniper, is beaten and his dog shot dead, captured and tortured, escapes and fights hand to hand combat
C. How can the action start well, build in the 2nd Act, and escalate to a climax in the 3rd Act?
ACT 1 – competition in the prison with krav maga fighter, interrogation by prison guards, fight with inmates, escape/evading from prison, chase/pursuit by canine units, shootout with assassins on skis, and motorbikes
ACT2 – rescue by an ex-military sniper, sniper face-off with KGB agents, breaks into the missile silo, hunter captured and beaten, rescue dog shot dead
ACT 3 – evades and fights her way in, surrounded by the enemy on multi-levels, she is trapped, captured, tortured, escapes and fights, ultimate face off with the villain, blows up the silo and rescues ex-military sniper.
ACTION TRACK:
1. COMPETITION: An illegal fight club inside the prison pits Svetlana against a giant fighter with seeming odds of a win. An Israeli fighter roots for Svetlana the underdog and she beats her opponent and leaves him close to death.
Purpose: to establish illegal gambling and fighting inside Russian prisons and lax guards. Also to show glimpses into Svetlana’s unique martial arts skills in Krav Maga.
2. INTERROGATION: Svetlana is restrained by prison guards. She catches them off guard and using her skills breaks free from her restraints to choke them to death.
Purpose: She also has Houdini-like skills in escaping from restraints. Her face is captured on CCTV.
7. FIGHT/EVADE: An inmate takes the contract to kill Svetlana, but he wants to humiliate her first for beating him at the fight club. This time he is armed and has help from the guards. They restrain her, and he tries to force himself on her. She kills him brutally and escapes. Fighting her way out.
Purpose: This exposes her wound of being raped by the commander. But now, she is fully prepared to defend herself, even ready to kill if necessary. This rekindles her rage, and she goes berzerk. This sets up her need to be on the run.
8. ESCAPE/SHOOTOUT: She fights her way out. She gets to a vantage point and uses her marksmanship to take out all the guards and throws the prison gates open as the fight club resumes with the winner having to fight to the death.
Purpose: She has unique sniper skills on the move. She anticipates their moves and knows how the prison system works. She has been studying ways to escape if she needs to and bidding her time to do that. She could have left the prison anytime she wanted. Establish that she is not a normal prisoner but, in fact, a highly trained spy with a unique set of skills.
9. CHASE/PURSUIT: She is chased by the canine unit of the Russian military into the woods… she confuses them and befriends one of them. The minders are left unconscious.
Purpose: To set her off on the run and draw the KGB Commander to send his team in to deal with her. She has her own set of moral codes.
10. THE ORDER: The KGB Commander orders his agents and sends assassins into the forest to take her down.
Purpose: Insight into the Villain. He instantly wants her dead. Why? Shows the stakes for Svetlana.
11. SHOOTOUT/DANGEROUS SITUATIONS: She is hunted down by KGB agents on skis strapped with automatic weapons and chased by assassins on motorbikes airdropped into the forest. She takes them down, but she gets some help.
Purpose: Establish a fellow sniper, her love interest. Two people who need each other.
12. SNIPER AMBUSH: She is ambushed outside the missile silo, but she is prepared for it. There is a sniper face-off, and she gets her mark and slips away, but her friend is ambushed.
Purpose: Hero against villain’s representatives. Svetlana up against sniper agents with orders to kill her. Cool scene to watch. Twist in the end with her friend ambushed. Increases stakes.
13. BREAK IN: She enters the missile silo to stop the launch and shuts off power to the building. She has her sniper scope, and she sets up shots and is ready to ambush the enemy.
Purpose: Insight into the hero. She can outsmart the villain.
14. CAPTURED: She is forced to surrender when her partner is taken hostage and beaten up, and the rescue dog is shot dead by Mikhail in the woods.
Purpose: Hero has a moral code, and she is loyal to her friends, and her friend will die to protect her.
15. TORTURED: She is restrained and tortured like defectors to reveal her CIA secrets.
Purpose: The villain will stop at nothing to see her dead, but he wants to have fun watching her suffer for the humiliation he caused her by defecting to the enemy.
16. ESCAPE: She escapes from her restraints and kills the agents on guard.
Purpose: Insight into Hero. She is an escape artist. She will do anything to fulfil her mission.
17. HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT: She fights the ultimate fight to beat her own teacher using new methods she learned along the way. Leaves him to die in the missile blast and fire as she changes the target to the silo itself.
Purpose: She gets her revenge. But she still wants him to suffer the most horrific death for his mistakes.
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Laura Woodworth’s Action Track!
What I learned doing this assignment is to explore other areas of action that would be appropriate for my story. I also discovered certain set pieces that could be more action-oriented with some thought.
1. Answer the Action Questions:
A. Considering the concept from Lesson 1, what action could naturally show up in this movie?
Concept: A prophetic intercessor made aware of a terrorist plot intended to overthrow the U.S. government takes action to stop the evil, unwitting the Syrian army.
• Chase/pursuit: on foot, on foot/car
• Shootout: SWAT/FBI snipers, Even with the FBI raiding the drug house, close range with Vegard and suspected moles on their team
• Dangerous situations: Rachel captured, suicide bomber/innocent bystanders, hospital attack, bombs set and blown
• Interrogation/Torture: Vegard and his men suspecting the mole, Vegard with Rachel (restrained, tortured), Rachel with FBI (intimidation); people in Syria tortured/executed
• Escape/Evade: Rachel with phone situation, Rachel evading Vegard’s men, suicide bomber with police
• Rescue: Evan with Rachel, Evan/Rachel rescuing Brian and Lisa/baby at hospital
B. Considering the Mission and Villain Tracks, what action could work for this track?
• Villain track: dangerous situations, shoutouts, evade, competition, chase/pursuit, torture
• Mission track (Rachel’s mission to stop evil/save lives!): prayer (wrestling, fighting, declaring in prayer), escape/evade, dangerous situations, interrogation, torture, life on the line
C. How can the action start well, build in the 2nd Act, and escalate to a climax in the 3rd Act?
Rachel – begins with prayer and builds to actively engaged to stop the attacks, to facing off Pharoan with the FBI behind her. (NOTE: this is an area for me to really explore and make sure that my action is truly escalating and engaging the audience in it.)
2. Select the types of action you’ll use:
• Chase/pursuit
• Shootout
• Rescue
• Escape/evade
• Dangerous situations
• Interrogation
• Torture
3. Sequence the action scenes to deliver your story. Give us your list of action scene and the purpose of each scene.
Since I already have a draft of the script, this activity is going to take some time. I intend to go through each scene to determine and elevate the action and make sure it’s meaningful/has purpose.
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What I learned doing this was that I could outline my whole story around the action set pieces.
PURSUIT: Janine races to origin of the missile. She hunts to find answers.
Purpose: to show her dogged investigative skills.
FIGHT/RESCUE: Janine sees two young Mahenga kids getting attacked by locals. She fights them off. Rescues the kids.
Purpose: to show Janine as a freedom fighter who will put herself on the line. To introduce her to the Mahenga people. (Perhaps her driver is killed but before dying he asks Janine to save his daughter.)
EVADE: Young men are being rounded up. Janine makes a call to people back home about killing that are going to start. Janine evades capture by militia.
Purpose: Janine willing to risk herself for the truth.
DANGEROUS SITUATION: Janine witnesses the massacre of Mehenga men. Gets evidence. Again escapes militia.
Purpose: to hurl Janine into something she cannot ignore. Insight intro the villain and how barbaric they are.
DANGEROUS SITUATION 2: Janine find the one place that still has Internet connection. She gets there and releases her files to the world. …. She is captured.
Purpose: the battle of wills between Resnik and Janine grows stronger.
INTERROGATION: Janine is pulled in front of Resnik and Damir. He tells her she has failed, the message was blocked, nothing will, stop his forces now. The siege of the stronghold begins.
Purpose: the highest stakes. Villain has delusions of grandeur.
ESCAPE: Janine escapes from her prison. International forces invade. Damir is killed. Attack on stronghold is stopped. Resnik’s forces are put down.
Purpose: the villains are stopped. Janine’s message did make it out! She has triumphed and proven herself a capable war correspondent.
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Assignment 5
Jan’s Action mission
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” Unfortunately not much as I had to rush thorough this lesson as fast and late as possible due to project difficulties and managing tasks in a real life projects of mine. Yet I realized that I tuned the lessons before without almost any focus on acts because it was about missions and now I realize that I hadn’t even thought about it – (what is good thing of this class so far)
As I stared from a single sentence idea I know my finale and my most defeating point in act three but not exactly sure about mid point or even how I want act 2 to be structred like – Good I am under pressure.
Create a rough draft of your Action Track.
1. Answer the Action Questions:
A. Considering the concept from Lesson 1, what action could naturally show up in this movie?
Kitty -heroine – is educated in all kind of SAWT weapons and fighting techniques. Malta is an island in the Mediterranean, a vacation resort and swamped with party people. This allows for different fighting and chase scenes with increasing intensity in urban , dirt and hang out places.
B. Considering the Mission and Villain Tracks, what action could work for this track?
Heroine must escape the hunt for her skin and the tattoo under it. Heroine chases the unknown other two parts of the tattoo among tourists, rescue her\him, avoid constant supervision and interrogation by local police, , find a tools for self Defence as she is unarmed and unequipped, continue the IT Competion she was initially brought to the island, fight and finally shoot a constant growing army of DARKS security people with half automatic weapons she takes from the killed police officer.
Dark is relentlessly increasing the stakes to get hold of Kitty and the other tattooed, he is feeding local police with false intel to make them searching for the heroine in parallel. He has endless sources yet must constantly instruct his people not to kill her as then the tattoo will vanish.
C. How can the action start well, build in the 2nd Act, and escalate to a climax in the 3rd Act?
Heroine is tangled in a panicking crowd of party people tourists, she shows that she is educated not to panick , even shows nerves to safe a person from being trampled by taking a stand among crowds. Then waking up with the unwanted tattoo she stars searching and runs into two attacks by DARK people then getting arrested, interrogated then returning to her it commotion, receiving a. All directly from DARK explaining his goal she negotiates like a SWAT learns more of him ,
Then chasing an others tattooed loosing him ( DARK wins) a chase on dirt roads / motorbikes followed by boast chase on water.
Researching at the initial places, Petrus, one side kick gets wounded, she accepting another finding side kick, understands to accept help( mid point)
When about to find writing a new formula finding the 2nd tattoo she is arrested again but second side kick gets killed.
And second tattoo about to board she speeds to airport Feinds and evades tattoo2 from airplane – chase on air airport, escaping as she knows police procedures.
Overwhelming Georgie , flying to Sofia goes into 2 half of third act, fighting through DARK BUILDING, Georgie escaping her is I a defeat, and now final finale – finding DARK, Georgie gets in again in her way and DARK behind bullet proof glass next door has to watch how heroine has enough doesn’t fight Georgie a second time, just teasers him first then shoots him ties him to chair alive allowed to watch what she going to end it up with DARK. she wins the fight forces DARK to sit with the other two tattoos watching what the tatto will decide2. Select the types of action you’ll use.
A. Chase/Pursuit YES
B. Fight YES
C. Shootout YES
D. Rescue YES
E. Escape/Evade YES
F. Competition YES
G. Dangerous Situations YES
H. Interrogation YES
I. Torture n.n.3. Sequence the action scenes to deliver your story. Give us your list of action scenes and the purpose of each scene.
Beach Club (staged) panic: p(purpose): to single out trustworthy people – among them heroine- to be tattooed and disrupt DARKS PLAN
RUNAWAY scene : Kitty gets drugged and prepared for the tattoo
Office scene – IT competition starts
Relocation agent scene: find side kick get arrested by police
Police station. Kitty will not allow to get pushe around- we learn what educated fighter she is – yet only a fraction o self defense
In front of police station : two goons are not enough to kidnapp her
Dark calls: Kitty knows how to negotiate
Searching the tattoo riddle, she re meets the man who drugged her, learns why and about, when he gets shot and Kitty first fires a gun;
Kitty learns about her speaking tattoo and what advantages it might offer, awareness and fighting skills
Kitty breaks into the company computer – needs it power to find tatto2
Kitty in pursuit of the goons – water boat chase- looses tattoo 3 – he s going Sofia
More goons arrive on Malta while local police is ffedfalse intel, causing Kitty again;
Kitty surrounded by army of goons – don’t know yet how to create a new action situation – ( they know they not allowed to kill her -bas line)
DARKs right hand man GEORGIE arrives – now it gets serious
Kitty finds tattoo 2 , gets him out of plane and runs airport exteriors with him Georgi in pursuit.
Georgie out tricked by Kitty becomes ticket into DARK private jet, Kitty bossing the whole group to Sofia
Sofia-trick Zero : words off goons wairitning at the wrong airfield ( not new-I can do better)
Kitty into DARK HQ -fights her way towards DARK
Georgie free himself
Georgie wants second fight – doesn’t get it teased, shot, tied up made watching)
Kitty defeats DARK
Kitty finishes DARK watching how much the tattoo dislikes people like him
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Tom’s Action Track!
What I learned: Sequencing the action functions as a rough outline.
1. Answer the Action Questions:
A. Considering the concept from Lesson 1, what action could naturally show up in this movie?
Types of Action: Chases, Break-ins, burning from suit contamination, Trying to plug/patch missile leak, Rescuing comrades, Running from danger, Trying to unscrew warhead, explosion
B. Considering the Mission and Villain Tracks, what action could work for this track? Dropping wrench, Fighting, Subterfuge, Sneaking around, Breaking in, Climbing missileC. How can the action start well, build in the 2nd Act, and escalate to a climax in the 3rd Act?
2. Select the types of action you’ll use, and
3. Sequence the action scenes to deliver your story. Give us your list of action scenes and the purpose of each scene.
Accidental socket drop (inciting incident)
PTS team Races to silo (Show’s urgency, first thing they try)
Evacuation and sealing silo (reveals Antagonist’s ignorance, big mistake)
Kennedy Sneaks in to get a reading (show’s hero’s defiant nature, sets the ticking clock)
Fight (Antag sics military police on hero), reveals hero’s strength
Antag orders team to break into silo (shows his incompetence, puts PTS team in danger
Rescue (Kennedy has to rescue the team. One dies! (midpoint turning point)
Escape/Evade: Antagonist tries to jail Kennedy, but he escapes. Now Kennedy must sneak back into silo complex & disarm the warhead
Competition: MPs are after him but he and Livingston evade them and break in
Dangerous Situations: within 30 minutes the propellant will eat thru suits and kill. Plus the nuke will vaporize the population of entire southwest
Livingston’s suit tears. (third act turning point)
Kennedy shinnies up the missile to disarm the warhead
Against Kennedy’s fierce opposition, the Antag orders Livingston to turn on the exhaust fan
The missile explodes (climax)
(Wrap up) Kennedy and (posthumously) Livingston awarded the distinguished service cross.
Antagonist is promoted.
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Nick’s Action Track
What I learned: My screenplay has the potential of many action scenes, but also, suspense leading up to them.
Create a rough draft of your Action Track.
Concept: After he and his Latino friends are captured by cannibalistic skinheads during a campout in rural Georgia, a military war hero with PTSD and no legs manages to escape, but must stay and find a way to save his friends or they will be killed and eaten before dawn.
Nutshell: A military war hero with no legs must find a way to save his friends from being eaten by cannibalistic skinheads.
1. Answer the Action Questions:
A. Considering the concept from Lesson 1, what action could naturally show up in this movie?
—Our hero, Juan, is going to encounter all kinds of resistance as he tries to save his companions. He must kill his way to them.
B. Considering the Mission and Villain Tracks, what action could work for this track?
—Chases/pursuits, motorcycle crashes, unique fights, last minute rescues, escapes, torture.
C. How can the action start well, build in the 2nd Act, and escalate to a climax in the 3rd Act?
—A small incident turns violent at a roadside cafe; not much action as they enter an unusual camping situation and suspense builds; then the real action begins and escalates to the end.
2. Select the types of action you’ll use.
Chase/Pursuit
Fight
Shootout
Rescue
Escape/Evade
Dangerous Situations
Torture
3. Sequence the action scenes to deliver your story. Give us your list of action scenes and the purpose of each scene.
DANGEROUS SITUATION/FIGHT:
INTRO: Juan and Emilio are in the army and are in a dogfight with the Taliban. Juan and Emilio both get shot.
Purpose: Introduces Juan and Emilio as brothers-in-war who have to shoot their way out of a desperate situation. Gives us a hint of their fitness and martial arts skills.
DANGEROUS SITUATION/FIGHT:
BACK HOME on an R&R camping trip to Georgia with their wives, Gloria and Coral: Cafe incident turns into a confrontation with skinhead bikers and escalates to the point where Juan and his companions are in mortal danger. Finally halted by the Sheriff—just in time.
Purpose: Introduces the mountain-sized Mankill and his skinheads and reveals their amoral stupidity. Also, shows us the martial arts skills of Gloria and Coral, even though they were losing because they were overwhelmed.
SUSPENSEFUL SITUATION:
We feel Coral’s dread as they stroll into the animal trophy-filled main room of the camp registration office. Hidden clues to their future as they read from the ubiquitous memorial plagues on the wall. The eccentric landlady suddenly bursts into the room with two dead rabbits and a shotgun and a loud mouth. Thunder outside and getting late, they feel they have no choice but to rent the campsite from her.
Purpose: To create a tightening of the spring, suspense, uncertainty, foreshadowing. To make us think that they are naively walking into a spider’s trap where we are going to see some sudden action.
FIGHT/CAPTURE
As Gloria and Coral watch for their husbands’ progress far down the lane, two knuckle-headed skinheads seize them from behind. Gloria and Coral put up a long and desperate fight, but are eventually overcome and knocked out.
Purpose: To infuriate Juan and Emilio when they return to see their wives have been kidnapped, and commits them to seek justice, whether legal or not.
DANGEROUS SITUATION
—Twenty or so Harleys suddenly roar out of the Holler and up to the farmhouse and park in the exit lane. They get off and eventually go inside the house. It’s Mankill and his gang.
Purpose: To create tension and fear. The motorcycles block Juan et al from leaving, creating a dilemma, and worry they will be discovered and killed.
CAPTURE
Gloria and Coral fight for their lives but are knocked out and captured by some skinheads.
Purpose: The girls show they can take care of themselves and are not afraid to maul their attackers trying to get away. One skinhead loses an eye, the other his hand before the girls are subdued.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE
—Gloria wakes up draped over a skinhead’s shoulder. In a panic, she grabs his knife from his belt and kills him and another. She runs blindly into the dark woods and knocks herself out on a low tree branch and is recaptured.
Purpose: To show Gloria’s survival instincts and create empathy for her.
DISCOVERY
Juan and Emilio sneak into the barn and discover a live man in a cage with all but one arm cut off, another dismembered and rotting, and an obese woman opened down the middle, as well a torture devices.
Purpose: To show the utter horror of the situation they are in.
CAPTURE/TORTURE
—Juan and Emilio are discovered hiding. Mankill smashes Juan’s prosthetic legs. They are beaten and corn hauled repeatedly.
Purpose: Creates a seemingly hopeless situation.
ESCAPE/CAPTURE
—Juan and Emilio escape while the skinheads celebrate. Emilio gets their SUV from the campsite and picks Juan up as he crawls to path. Emilio smashes into all the Harley’s he can before the skinheads charge out firing their guns. They escape into the Holler. Almost to the end of the Holler, they run out of gas, and they hear Harley’s in the distance coming their way. They escape into the swamp.
Purpose: To show Emilio’s rage and subsequent spontaneous actions without thinking of the consequences—and add the thrill of smashing motorcycles with a mad man at the wheel.
DANGEROUS SITUATION/CAPTURE
—Emilio is captured and brought back to the barn for torture.
Purpose: Juan has no place to go but back to save his friend somehow.
EVADE
—Juan encounters an alligator; barely escapes it as it chomps down on where his lower leg prostheses used to be. After nearly getting recaptured, Juan hides behind the spring harrow near the machine shed
Purpose: While hiding under the harrow cultivator, Juan gets the idea to weaponize his legs with the harrow’s spring tines. This is the point that our hero begins to feel the change in himself and get his confidence back. NOW HE HAS A MISSION.
RESCUE
Juan shows us his agility with his leg blades by running a couple of skinhead through for starters. He saves Emilio with mouth to mouth after finding him hanging with a rope around his neck and making death jerks.
Purpose: The action increases. He blows up the machine shed as a diversion to sneak into the barn and save his friend. The gas tank blows. The tractor. A motorcycle.
ESCAPE
—Juan and Emilio commandeer a Harley and take off into the Holler before a hail of bullets. A bullet hits the gasoline line and they run out of gas where the SUV conked out earlier.
Purpose: An adrenaline rush. To make a plan to find the girls now that their lives are momentarily out of danger after escaping into the swamp again..
RESCUE
—They find Gloria and Coral being molested, confront Mama, and kill all her skinhead boys in unique ways–using their own torture paraphernalia, including a guillotine..
Purpose: To showcase them as a team of fighters and each with his own method of killing most horribly—all accidental. They question their own horrible method of killing a skinhead—that maybe they’re no better in the racial hate department.
CHASE/FIGHT
—Mankill and the remainder skinheads roar after them as they escape the Holler in the SUV. They kill the skinheads in a flashy sequence of explosions and wrecks.
Purpose: The grande finale. They escape victoriously.
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What I learned is that by using the action type and purpose I can build out my plotline as it is currently and hopefully figure out to significantly improve it.
A. Considering the concept from Lesson 1, what action could naturally show up in this movie? Shootout, car chase, fight, rescue, escape/evade, competition, dangerous situations, interrogation.
• B. Considering the Mission and Villain Tracks, what action could work for this track? Chase/pursuit, shootout, escape/evade, rescue, dangerous situations.
• C. How can the action start well, build in the 2nd Act, and escalate to a climax in the 3rd Act? Escalating stakes between Rachel Gilroy and Nick Chen as she discovers that it’s not just a biological attack he’s planning, but an attack on her family.
Type of action I’ll use:
• A. Chase/Pursuit -Yes
• B. Fight -Yes
• C. Shootout – Yes
• D. Rescue – Yes
• E. Escape/Evade -Yes
• F. Competition – Yes
• G. Dangerous Situations – Yes
• H. Interrogation – Yes
• I. Torture – No
Shootout: Elite CIA sniper, Rachel Gilroy on the rooftops of Vienna protecting a meeting that’s happening between her colleague Matt Edwards and CIA’s Russian Informant, Serge Ivanov.
Purpose: to introduce us to our hero’s skills as an elite sniper: she takes down the Chinese snipers who are trying to disrupt her intelligence meeting with a CIA informant, Russian double agent, Serge Ivanov. At this stage we don’t yet know why Chinese agents are involved. BG notes maybe this should be Russian agents.
Chase/Pursuit: Matt Edwards and Ivanov escape followed by the Chinese agents, but Ivanov gets a call from Steven Gilroy, CIA consultant and Rachel’s father promising him a deal with the CIA if he promises to meet him at a local bakery.
Purpose: Shows us that Ivanov wants a CIA deal and trusts Steven to get him the best one and not Edwards and Rachel’s boss, CIA Director Susan Green.
The Order: Steven Gilroy calls Serge Ivanov and tells him to meet him at a local bakery. Gilroy then calls Natalia Volkova and tells him Ivanov will be at the bakery.
Purpose: To stop Ivanov getting a CIA deal but we don’t know why Steven double crossed him. BG Note: should this be a hit and why? Or was it as Steven claims later he wasn’t expecting Volkova to kill Ivanov.
Ambush: Serge Ivanov at the bakery is ambushed and killed by his boss Natalia Volkova for trying to get a deal with the CIA.
Purpose: To kill Ivanov and take back his intelligence before anyone else can.
Breakin/Interrogation/Fight: Rachel and Edwards go to Natalia Volkova’s apartment to retrieve Ivanov’s cellphone and computer. Rachel ends up killing Volkova and her minder in self-defence.
Purpose: to show how tough Rachel is and that she’ll stop at nothing to follow the trail of intelligence that will lead them to undercover and stop the planned attack.
Ambush: Melissa Chen and Audrey Meyers are ambushed and kidnapped by Nick’s associates.
Purpose: Nick needs to get his sister back so that he can release the virus but unbeknown to him his sister is with Senator Audrey Meyers and although an added bonus it wasn’t part of his original plan.
Competition: Rachel asks her father to meet her at their place: The Third Man Museum
Purpose: Rachel wants to know why her father, Steven Gilroy is working against her.
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The Foundlings Action Track
What I learned is that I need to work through the more derivative elements to get into the more unique action and story elements.
Chase / Pursuit – The Foundlings are introduced as they are engaged in a game of Capture the Flag- They use INK instead of BULLETS, so this is essentially PAINT BALL- The Foundlings run across a small cadre of Pyke Syndicate operators who are doing a drug deal- The Foundlings engage them and destroy their drug hall and take the Beskar payment-
Purpose – Establishes that Foundlings are adept at warfare on a kid’s level of schoolyard skills and tactics.
Payoff – At the end, the Foundlings return to town to find their Mandalorian caretakers have returned from their off world mission. The Pyke Syndicate also arrives and the Foundlings turn and engage the Pykes while their adult caretakers stand back to see how they do-
Rescue – JW rescues the wounded Jedi and bring her and the Pods back to his home to find that his wife, Olivia has done the same and brought home the hungry Mandalorian Foundlings-
Purpose – Despite their checkered past as retired Smugglers, JW and Olivia are both good people, ideal parents, who go out of their way to help those in need.
Chase / Pursuit – Asa Dern and the Bounty Hunters have pursued Jedi to this planet- The original tracking fobs died out long ago, or so they tell their Broker. They’ve tracked her to this planet and move into her encampment and try to take the Pods, but she is able to fend them off with her Lightsaber- literally disarming Asa- She uses the Force to manipulate his severed arm to fire his BLASTER back on the Bounty Hunters, killing a few of them. The Assassin Droid, HK-51 deposits new Tracking Fobs onto the Jedi Pods and they retreat- As the Jedi relaxes, we learn she is wounded. The next morning, JW goes out to hunt food and stumbles upon a lone Jedi woman who has been wounded- He approaches her with caution- uncertain of who she is what has happened- Purpose – shows that JW is a capable hunter and tracker. Reveals that Asa Dern and his Bounty Hunters are ruthless and capable.
Competition / Ticking Clock – Asa Dern is under a ticking clock. If he doesn’t deliver the Pods to Kamino in 2 day’s time, his contract will be given over to a competitor, Cad Bane and he and his team get nothing for their troubles.
Purpose – Asa is driven by greed and maybe just plain old, everyone has to make a living even if it means killing. Asa also hates Cad Bane on a professional rivalry and the mere mention that the Broker will engage a competitor insults and infuriates him.
Siege / Shootout – JW wakes to find the local magistrate on an early morning visit about a stranger up at the caldera- as they get into the details- he is shot by a laser blast out of the early morning mist- The Foundlings use their weapons and shoot back- but they only have INK which they were using for ammunition in their training earlier in the day – Successfully, their INK blinds Asa and his Bounty Hunters – JW hustles the foundlings back into the house for protection from the unseen force –
Purpose – reveals JW and Olivia’s skills from their past lives as smugglers. It shows that Asa Dern and the Bounty Hunters are deadly adversaries when they kill the magistrate in cold blood and then come advance on JW & Olivia’s home to recover the Pods and kill everyone who knows about this- they are a threat to JW, Olivia, The Foundlings and the Jedi-
Escape / Evade – JW and Olivia lead the Foundlings who help carry the unconscious Jedi down a long tunnel leading to an underground hangar and their old smuggler ship –
Siege / Pursuit – Asa follows after JW, Olivia, and The Foundlings, using the tracking devices –
Purpose – NEED to work out something better here- Tracking has been done before and also in this fiction-
Caught – JW’s ship goes down- from not being kept up over the years.
Chase / Pursuit – The Foundlings (hijak another ship?) / (repair the damaged smuggler ship?) and follow after Asa and his Bounty Hunters bringing the Pods to the cloners on Kamino –
Purpose – The Foundlings are driven by purpose and moral code to avenge the killing of their surrogate parents, JW and Olivia, and fulfil their promise / mission to deliver the Pods to sanctuary on Balfour-
Torture – Asa surrounds JW and Olivia and the Foundlings- JW restrains the Foundlings from engaging to keep them safe- as Asa fights the much older JW and ends up getting bested-
Purpose – Asa and his Bounty Hunters do not operate on any morals. They are driven by their own selfish goals. This is in sharp contrast to JW, Olivia, the Jedi and the Foundlings-
Dangerous Situations – The Foundlings enter the cloner complex in Kamino and have to navigate their way through keeping as hidden from sight as they can. Once they are discovered they will lose the chance to recover what was taken as well as who knows what will happen to them at the hands of the Kaminoians and or Asa and his Bounty Hunters for leaving witnesses.
Purpose – They go into danger because of their moral code. They promised to help the Jedi get her Pods to sanctuary while not knowing what is inside them.
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Create a rough draft of your Action Track.
1. Answer the Action Questions:
A. Considering the concept from Lesson 1, what action could naturally show up in this movie?
I think we will need some physical, perhaps weather related catastrophe that serves as a time keeper of the show.
Action in the football field with aliens on both sides trying to get Nick
Action related to the time raveling geniuses- Bb scares people with flaming beard then hurts them with cutlass (rubber one) then real one -Archimedes invents machines that create action-Leo the same or Edison who wants to clear his name -does electricity
Action-by aliens to take over junkyard
B. Considering the Mission and Villain Tracks, what action could work for this track?C. How can the action start well, build in the 2nd Act, and escalate to a climax in the 3rd Act?
The football game. After Chad teaches Nick to be good enough to play the alien players try to kill him and torture him to get info on the field. And the coach won’t pull him out because he’s an alien
The coach
2. Select the types of action you’ll use.
A. Chase/PursuitB. FightC. ShootoutD. RescueE. Escape/EvadeF. CompetitionG. Dangerous SituationsH. InterrogationI. Torture
3. Sequence the action scenes to deliver your story. Give us your list of action scenes and the purpose of each scene.
4. Answer the question, “What I LESSEN learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.
5. Post your assignment in the forums at http://www.ScreenwritingClasses.com/forums
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Wendy’s Action Track!
What I learned doing this lesson is that I have a lot of content possible but now I know how to form it into understandable actions.
1) ACTION QUESTIONS:
A) Considering the concept from Lesson 1 what action could naturally show up in this movie?
-Anything in the OR can become a weapon and useful against either Heroine or Villain.
B) Considering the mission and the Villain tracks, what action could work for this track?
-See Below in section 3
C) How can the action start well, build in the second act, and escalate to a climax in the 3rd act?
-Starts with a bang when the Villain hits the Heroine causing head trauma. At the hospital she dies on the OR table and blood pools up from under the table and audible screams are heard. All the sink faucets go on at the same time and dormant equipment comes to life. In the second act the Military trained personnel begin to fight her and protect the surgeon, and her husband that is in the room as well, then the MP’s join in and then in the third act the husband is caught and is forced to confess and the OR staff is after him now and he escapes and she finally catches him and uses a Craniotomy drill and drills a big hole in his head killing him
2) Select the types of action you’ll use
A) Chase/Pursuit
-Heroine chases the Villain and the OR Staff Chase the Heroine
B) Fight
The Heroine must fight hand to hand with OR staff to get to the Villain
C) Shootout
When the MP’s arrive with their guns it turns into the OK Corral
D) Rescue
The OR staff keeps rescuing the Villain, because they don’t know that he is the killer
E) Escape/ Evade
When the Heroine finally catches the Villain he escapes
F) Competition
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G) Dangerous situations
-The Heroine knows how to use the common OR items to cause damage to things and people
H) Interrogation
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I) Torture
-When the Heroine catches the Villain she tortures him into telling the truth
3) SEQUECE THE ACTION SCENES AND THE PURPOSE OF EACH SCENE
-1) Open with Villain hitting the Heroine
–Into to Villain and who done it, but why?
-2) OR an Heroine dies and Anesthesia provider is callous and makes a joke about the death
–Sets up interaction between Villain nd accomplice
-3) Dangerous situation Audible scream and equipment malfunctioning
–Insite to Heroine and her anger against the Villain
-4) Manifesting the anger Anesthesia provider gets tripped by cords and entangles herself and is strangulated
–this is to show that the Heroine is not to be made fun of and she means business
-5) Chase and Pursuit from room to room and the different types of rooms present types of danger
–purpose is the need for the Villain to get away
-6) Shootout- Military Police arrive and attack the Heroine
— Shows the desperation of the Heroine to expose her killer
-7) Capture of Villain the Heroine traps the villain in the OR
–Insite to the Heroine and the Villain
-8) Exposure and torture of the Villain
–The truth arises and the OR staff has shifted sides after insight to the Villain
-9) Rescue- The MP’s don’t know the truth and they rescue the Villain
–Villain’s ability to The Heroine finally escapes the MP’s and with the help of the OR scrub nurse they capture the Villain and strap him to an OR bed and she drills a hole in his head ultimately killing him
–The Heroine is determined to exact justice, not just for her, but for the others the Villain killed
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Wendy’s Action Track!
What I learned doing this lesson is that I have a lot of content possible but now I know how to form it into understandable actions.
1) ACTION QUESTIONS:
A) Considering the concept from Lesson 1 what action could naturally show up in this movie?
-Anything in the OR can become a weapon and useful against either Heroine or Villain.
B) Considering the mission and the Villain tracks, what action could work for this track?
-See Below in section 3
C) How can the action start well, build in the second act, and escalate to a climax in the 3rd act?
-Starts with a bang when the Villain hits the Heroine causing head trauma. At the hospital she dies on the OR table and blood pools up from under the table and audible screams are heard. All the sink faucets go on at the same time and dormant equipment comes to life. In the second act the Military trained personnel begin to fight her and protect the surgeon, and her husband that is in the room as well, then the MP’s join in and then in the third act the husband is caught and is forced to confess and the OR staff is after him now and he escapes and she finally catches him and uses a Craniotomy drill and drills a big hole in his head killing him
2) Select the types of action you’ll use
A) Chase/Pursuit
-Heroine chases the Villain and the OR Staff Chase the Heroine
B) Fight
The Heroine must fight hand to hand with OR staff to get to the Villain
C) Shootout
When the MP’s arrive with their guns it turns into the OK Corral
D) Rescue
The OR staff keeps rescuing the Villain, because they don’t know that he is the killer
E) Escape/ Evade
When the Heroine finally catches the Villain he escapes
F) Competition
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G) Dangerous situations
-The Heroine knows how to use the common OR items to cause damage to things and people
H) Interrogation
–
I) Torture
-When the Heroine catches the Villain she tortures him into telling the truth
3) SEQUECE THE ACTION SCENES AND THE PURPOSE OF EACH SCENE
-1) Open with Villain hitting the Heroine
–Into to Villain and who done it, but why?
-2) OR an Heroine dies and Anesthesia provider is callous and makes a joke about the death
–Sets up interaction between Villain nd accomplice
-3) Dangerous situation Audible scream and equipment malfunctioning
–Insite to Heroine and her anger against the Villain
-4) Manifesting the anger Anesthesia provider gets tripped by cords and entangles herself and is strangulated
–this is to show that the Heroine is not to be made fun of and she means business
-5) Chase and Pursuit from room to room and the different types of rooms present types of danger
–purpose is the need for the Villain to get away
-6) Shootout- Military Police arrive and attack the Heroine
— Shows the desperation of the Heroine to expose her killer
-7) Capture of Villain the Heroine traps the villain in the OR
–Insite to the Heroine and the Villain
-8) Exposure and torture of the Villain
–The truth arises and the OR staff has shifted sides after insight to the Villain
-9) Rescue- The MP’s don’t know the truth and they rescue the Villain
–Villain’s ability to The Heroine finally escapes the MP’s and with the help of the OR scrub nurse they capture the Villain and strap him to an OR bed and she drills a hole in his head ultimately killing him
–The Heroine is determined to exact justice, not just for her, but for the others the Villain killed
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