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Day 7 Assignment
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Day 7. Denise’s 4 Act Structure. What I learned doing this assignment is to examine the structure to see if the story moves forward as well as examine the story’s conflict throughout.
Concept: A teen believed killed by a gunman encounters God who gives her a second chance at life.
Main Conflict: Antagonist holds Protagonist at gunpoint during a heist.
Act 1:
Opening: Deborah arrives at grocery store to cash her check and buy grocery
Inciting Incident: Gunman holds her hostage inside store in demand for money from owner.
Turning Point: Guns goes off, Deborah falls to floor.
Act 2:
New Plan: Antagonist is without a hostage.
Plan in action: He threatens to break through plexiglass.
Midpoint Turning Point: Deborah has an outer body encounter with God.
Act 3:
Rethink everything: Deborah must now decide what to do.
New Plan: Deborah boldly asks God to take care of her family if he’s taking her.
Turning point: Deborah is returned to her body.
Act 4:
Final Plan: Deborah realizes she has been given a second chance but keeps it to herself.
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: Gunman leaves with money. Deborah is not dead or wounded.
Resolution: Deborah leaves and gets her check cashed elsewhere to buy grocery for her siblings.
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Alvoro’s 4 Act Structure.
What I’ve learned doing this is that this process is pretty simple and effective. I like that it allows you to cover lots of ground in a smaller period of time.
Concept:When an ancient artifact is disturbed, a disembodied spirit moves through the Museum killing everyone in its path.
Main Conflict:The creature is killing security and custodians alike, and they’re all locked in the Museum.
ACT 1-Intro & Setup
Opening: We meet the custodial staff of which the Main Character is one. They prepare for their first night of their real first “Big” job, working the Museum. We meet the security staff.
Inc.Inc: An “Issue” with the power locks them all into the museum overnight.
1stTP: An ancient spirit has killed one person and taking over another.
ACT 2-Challenge their Reality
Reaction: Security and Custodians are trapped together, but act as opposing teams.
The Plan: Security uses Custodians(unwittingly) as bait for the creature. One custodian and one security are killed.
2nd TP: The plan has failed and they need to retreat and regroup.
ACT 3-With MP change, everything must be rethought.
New Plan:MC convinces others that they must work together. They prepare.
3rd TP: Discovers Museum has been dealing in black market antiquities.
ACT 4-Test the Change in the Character.
Climax-They’ve destroyed/eliminated the spirit.
Resolution:The remaining survivors await rescue
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ROLANDO’S 4 ACT STRUCTURE
What I learned doing this assignment is a couple of new ways of looking at the mid-point turn from the suggestions in the assignment.
1. Tell us the following:
Concept: A college graduate hard-up for cash starts an OnlyFans, only to attract the attention of a sadistic fan (DaddyLovesYou) who pays to have him perform sadistic acts for 12 hours that he can’t escape.
Main Conflict: Scott tries to get through the night to pay off his debts without provoking DaddyLovesYou to destroy Scott’s life.
2. Fill in each of these with the answers you have right now.
Act 1:
Opening: Scott loses his internship job. Parents who co-signed his school loans are on the verge of losing their restaurant for non-payment. Scott is in dire straits.
Inciting Incident: A co-worker convinces Scott to do OnlyFans to make money. He does and attracts a suitor by the name of DaddyLovesYou who we never see. Only hear his voice.
Turning Point: Scott tries to back out from the proposal but is threatened by ‘Daddy’. All the sexual and sadistic acts performed on video will be released to all of Scott’s contacts and the internet if Scott does not comply.
Act 2:
New plan: Scott tries to get help from the landlady, the neighbor and tries to call the police. All shutdown. His roommates, Jay and Lulu prematurely come back from their trip. Scott thinks they might be able to help but Daddy wants them to join in the fun. Scott reluctantly asks them to join for a large sum of money.
Plan in action: Scott tries to strategize with Jay and Lulu on how to stop ‘Daddy’ but is thwarted by Daddy by pitting Lulu against the other for a large sum of money. Commands her to stab Scott with a kitchen knife.
Midpoint Turning Point
Act 3:
Rethink everything: Lulu is regretful of her actions. Scott tries to get the roomies on the same page to figure a way out of this situation. Jay tries to escape but find that all the door has been electrified by Daddy.
New plan: Scott decides to stand up to Daddy. Tells him he doesn’t care about the money or if he sends all the footage out.
Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: Daddy threatens to send the footage of Lulu stabbing Scott to the police and recordings of Jay saying controversial things that could get him canceled. Daddy offers Lulu and Jay $50k each to subdue to tie up Scott.
Act 4:
Final plan: Scott tries to reason with Jay and Lulu but the money they’re being paid would free them of their debts and change their lives. Jay and Lulu drag a bound Scott to the tub and fill it so they can drown him.
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: Scott fights and manages to wriggle out of the tub and escape. All are drenched in water. Scott runs to the apartment door and times it so he grabs the doorknob just as Jay and Lulu grab him. They all get electrocuted and black out.
Resolution: Scott wakes up woozy. 15 minutes until the 12-hour timer ends. Finds Jay and Lulu still unconscious. Scott receives instructions from Daddy. $1M to kill Jay and Lulu, all traces of evidence, and all recordings deleted, or everything gets released and he gets zero.
Months later…
Scott is at the restaurant helping his family. Jay and Lulu pass by for lunch. That evening, Scott turns on the lights. Laptop. He has 20k subscribers on OnlyFans. His account shows he’s making $300K a month.
A message from DaddyLovesYou pops up: “Need more sugar?” Scott blocks Daddy.
On Daddy’s end, it’s revealed that Daddy is lines of code. It’s an Ai. The figure of a mysterious programmer closes the computer and shuts the lights off.
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