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Day 6 Assignment
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Daniel Melin’s Stacks Intrigue
What I learned doing this assignment is how purposefully the audience’s attention has to be maintained. I had just taken for granted that once the turning points were created, the majority of the outline would have to do with how to integrate exposition and other important character work.
Intriguing World: We watch the world of Everlasting Summer, first we see Titania and Levi go on the hunt, and then we watch them return to the castle, where we have dancing and feasting, but no Puck shows up to play tricks.
Intrigue: Titania exchanges a look
with her huntsman when Puck doesn’t show up, and he shakes his head,
indicating that something else is going on.
Accusation: Titania accuses the
huntsman of losing track of him.
Titania Turning Point 1: The
huntsman tells Titania that Puck has gone missing.Intriguing World: We hear Titania and Levi debate the ban on Levi’s using magic outside of Everlasting Summer, but it’s never specified what they mean.
Mystery: Titania says that she will
miss Levi until he returns.
Wound: Titania mentions how Levi
came to Everlasting Summer when he needed a refuge.
Strange Behavior: Levi seems
distracted and wanting to leave. He seems bored with Everlasting Summer.
Accusation: Titania accuses Levi of
wanting to leave her, and she does so somewhat playfully.
Teaser
Turning Point: Levi wakes up in the ordinary world of Minneapolis.Intriguing World: The world of construction is intriguing to a degree. It’s full of weird characters and it’s often high-stress, with anxious customers who want their dream home, or who are dealing with unforeseen and expensive damages to their home.
Intrigue: Miguel mentions that Jorge
has been “borrowing” tools from him and forgetting to put them back.
Mystery: Miguel and Jorge start
arguing in Spanish at the end of the day and Jorge storms off.
Wound: Miguel slept with Jorge’s
wife, and Jorge just found out about it.
Strange Behavior: When Levi refers
to needing Jorge’s help at the next job, Jorge doesn’t answer.
Accusation: Miguel accuses Jorge of
stealing his tools.
Act 1 Turning Point/Levi Turning
Point 1: Miguel’s foreman unexpectedly quits, and Miguel
asks Levi to work longer hours and take on more responsibility at work.Intriguing World: The passageway to Everlasting Summer seems more shadowy than he remembers.
Secret: On the day before Levi
returns, the weather announcer says that there has been a heat wave.
Hidden Layer: The hunt has been
postponed.
Strange Behavior: Titania postpones
the hunt, claiming that there is not enough light to see by.
Accusation: Titania accuses Levi of ignoring
her instructions.
Act 2 Turning Point/Midpoint:
Titania confronts Levi and shows him that the moon is no longer full in
Everlasting Summer. She tells him that he has to close the portal he
opened, or Everlasting Summer’s enchantment will fade.Intriguing World: Levi almost hits a deer on his way to work, but it turns out just to be an ordinary deer.
Strange Behavior: The huntsman is
gone for a long while before the hunt.
Titania Turning Point 2: Titania
finds out that not only one of her wolves, but the deer has now crossed
over into Athens.Intriguing World: We are introduced to the many passageways through Everlasting Summer, which Mark dramatically reveals he knows, when he summons Levi to him at the end of his night in Everlasting Summer. But we need only to hint at this. When Levi goes to everlasting Summer, he gets there by a different way. There are strange passageways that he finds himself walking down, with many new forks in the road that he hadn’t noticed before. He sees a strange figure on one of the pathways.
Intrigue: Levi at first notices Mark
at the shop, but doesn’t understand why he wants so badly to talk to him.
Strange Behavior: There is a
completely different painting where the one Levi enchanted once hung, and
none of the employees or other regulars seem to notice any difference.
Accusation: Miguel asks Levi what he
did with the painting.
Act 3 Turning Point: Levi
learns that the painting was taken by another magician that has just
arrived in Athens, named Mark.Intriguing World: Levi is brought to a corner of Titania’s garden that he has never seen before, where she gathers some strange herbs.
Intrigue: Titania guides Levi through
a process of creating a potion, but doesn’t explain what it’s for.
Wound: Titania’s memories of her
son, prompt her hasty reaction. She mentions to Levi that someone very
dear to her was threatened by her carelessness, and that she doesn’t plan
on the same mistake happening twice.
Strange Behavior: The dance at
Everlasting Summer goes on as usual, but there is no hunt, and the music
seems more melancholy than normal.
Act 4 Turning Point/Levi Turning
Point 2: Levi learns from Titania how to erase Miguel’s
memory so that no one will know it was him who brought the werewolf to
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Emmanuel Sullivan’s Stacks Intrigue
What I learned doing this assignment is the list of stacked intrigue in my view should be consistent and have the same theme in each act. Perhaps I’m wrong but it doesn’t make sense to list various topics of intrigue that have no relation to the next. In other words, I’m thinking you should stack intrigue for A and B story.
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Sherri D. Coffee Module 3 Lesson 6 Stacks Intrigue
Act 1:
Intrigue: Grace shops for all things related to Paris.
Intrigue: Sam gathers box from basement and labels.
Hidden agenda: Grace and Sam both arrive at dinner with news.
Wound: Sam is dying
Act 2:
Intriguing world: Grace attends political fundraiser.
Hidden agenda: Sam completes Last will and testament.
Mystery: Who is the financial advisor on tv Sam watches?
Wound: Sam falls into a coma
Act 3:
Deception: Carlton arrives to help.
Secret identity: Carlton is the financial advisor on tv and Sam’s son.
Conspiracy: Carlton works with an attorney.
Act 4:
Mystery: Where is the missing money?
Secret: Carlton hides documents from Grace.
Wound: Grace must move out of their home.
Intrigue: Grace hires Wilson, the unscrupulous political operative to investigate Carlton.
Act 5:
Conspiracy: Grace works with Wilson to uncover corruption.
Intrigue: What is the corruption connection? Why is Grace being followed?
Hidden Layer: Carlton and Sam have a money history.
Hidden Agenda: Carlton’s mother wants her money back.
Secret: Sam knows where the money is hidden.
Strange behavior: Grace’s neighbor next door.
Intriguing world: 1884 past life ties them together.
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What I learned was that the clarity of this creative process really helped me structure the Acts, the Turning Points, and build up the intrigue. I’m wondering if turning points and end of Acts are the same or similar.
Act 1
Intrigue 1: Jess is preparing for the trial when she receives an anonymous message “I know what you did”.
Turning Point: Jess’ Boss gives her a second chance go work with Captain Anderson he supports the County Sheriff’s office out at Green Lake.
Act 2
Intrigue 1: Jess is hesitant about the new role.
Turning Point: Jess sees that Sheriff Moore may be involved in corruption.
Act 3
Intrigue: Sarah Watson is upset when she hears that Jess Pearson, now a Senior Detective, is back in town
Intrigue: Sara Watson receives a sexy message from someone calling themselves Starman.
Act 4
Intrigue: Nick was caught on a gas station web cam following Luke Smith.
Wound: He knows that Sarah is cheating on him, but he doesn’t know who with.
Mystery: Who is Starman.
Turning Point: Jess hacks into several phones and is able to identify Starman.
Act 5
Mystery: Why is Bill Smith head of a global Trafficking Network.
Turning Point: Bill Smith, Sarah Watson, Captain Anderson, Sheriff Moore seem to be involved with Bill’s illegal activities.
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Renee Brown stacks intrigue
I learned from this assignment that my turning points were a bit weak, and some were in the wrong place all together. This helped define where the Acts really wanted to begin and end driven by intrigue and layers.
Hidden Agenda: Tallas asks for more ink from a fellow priest.
Intrigue: Tallas tells his initiates the newly found prophecy pages must be cleaned and restored before they can be seen.
Mystery: The children ask where he found the scriptures: Tallas dodges.
Suspicion: one keen little girl doesn’t buy his answers
Accusation: Little girl says she thinks he is hiding them from her.
Diversion: Tallas shuts down the discussion and retreats to his inner sanctum.
Act 1: Turning point: Tallas throws the fake prophecy pages he has written into the fire.
Intrigue: We see Saltar camouflage / shape shift a little while her ladies groom her.
Secret: Saltar tells Anauk she knows how to get to Tallas’ secluded cave.
Deception: Tells Anauk she must go alone. His ship won’t fit though the sea cave openings.
Strange Behavior: puts on jewelry before she goes
Act 2: Turning point: Saltar swims into Tallas’ water cave – camouflaged. She wants to get an admiring look at him before announcing herself.
Mystery: Sister brags to her lover that her father has a plan to use the X Planet – in teaser
Wound: So emotionally screwed up that he beats his son senseless. – in teaser
Hidden Agenda: Dauntus declares that now is the time- everything is in place. – in teaser
Accusation: Accuses Anauk of fowling his plan -in teaser
Act 3: Turning point: Dauntus takes over world communication. Declares himself ruler.
Conspiracy: Anauk tells Saltar: if the dark side of the moon knows about you crossing into Longhead territory….you’re in for it.
Strange Behavior: Dauntus refuses com. from the moon right before Steelman and crew arrive.
Accusation: Dauntus asks Anauk if he told the moon too?
Act 4: Turning point: they are summoned to the base on the dark side of the moon by the XUS.
Intrigue: When T, A and S are in Steelman’s HQ, they ask what the moon is saying.
Hidden Layer: On his wall of screens, one whole section labeled “moon” is blank.
Accusation: Steelman tells Tallas that the moon hasn’t talked to him since Tallas messed it up.
Mystery: The moon delegation tells Steelman he need not come.
Act 5: Tallas tells steelman he is coming to the moon / XUS against the org.’s directions.
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What I learned doing this assignment is, I keep thinking I have already done that. But then finding out, nope it’s just more in depth. So let’s see how much intrigue I can add to this comedy.
1. Make a list of your turning points.
Act 1
Ideas: Orientation tape showing happy beautiful people and surroundings, and lot’s of amenities.
Cameras are seen when she enters the building which raises suspicion.
Secret: Gwenn looks up ratings on glassdoor of the company to find one star.
Intriguing underworld: Old dusty awards are posted on the walls, with outstanding customer service award 1999.
Gwenn is looking around at a dilapidated building, mice poop, dingy, dark, sad.
Act 2
Accusation? Gwenn gets a call that she has failed the drug test and she needs to bring in any prescription drugs she is taking.
Deception: Flash back to smoking pot with a guy in a wheelchair with a police badge popping out.
Secret: Bill collectors call on her phone, she pushes decline.
Hidden Layer: Gwenn failed the drug test, She has to reveal how many drugs she is taking risking not getting hired
Act 3
Intriguing world: Gwenn calls her mom to complain about this company that is hiring her even though she failed the drug test.
Strange Behavior: Spirit does not remember she has moved to Portland.
Mother states she does not need her help and accuses her of trying to steal her money!
TP. Her mom shows she is really demented through revealing she does not remember having any conversation with Gwenn.
Act 4
Unique subworld: Gwenn becomes more hopeless after meeting the staff and patients.
Wound, Rejection: She steps out to listen to a VM, it is another company she had previously applied to stating they are not hiring at this time.
Gwenn sees a piece of paper on the desk that shows the cameras have been installed.Attached is a letter to the government. Is it a conspiracy with the government?
TP Sally tells her in a roundabout way (funny) she has to fraudulently bill in order to make it at this company
Act 5
Intriguing world: She is chased out of the facility dog barking at her heels towards an exit sign.
T.P Private loan company says she needs to pay or be turned into the board and have license suspended
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Donna Stockwell Stacks Intrigue
What I learned doing this assignment is the variety of techniques to create intrigue into each storyline or act, and how they are intertwined.
ACT 1
Intriguing World: gravedigging the vault in a cemetery
Intrigue: someone is dragging a body in, and is spotted by a man who is holding a corpse
Hidden Layer: Ben is dragging his boss’ dead friend into his mother’s vault
Act 1 Turning Point: Ben convinces brother that mother needs friendACT 2
Wound: Patrice is looking for love
Strange Behavior: Patrice pays close attention to her daughter to make sure she is treating her man right
Act 2 Turning Point: Patrice kisses Luke
ACT 3
Secret: Barbara’s past comes to visit her, as her friend & colleague prostitute meets with Barbara
Hidden Agenda: Barbara tells Ben to put security in friend’s home
Act 3 Turning Point: Ben has sex with Barbara’s friendACT 4
Strange Behavior: Ben is strange to his wife and his boss –
Act 4 Turning Point: Barbara asks Ben where her friend isACT 5
Intriguing World: bribing politicians with tapes
Deception: home security sales is just a cover-up for bribing politicians for Barbara’s “former” John
Act 5 Turning Point: John sees his star killed on security footage0
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