Day 8 Assignments

[andrea cabanas]

Andrea Cabanas, Designing a Profound Ending

I learned more about placing the right set ups to have meaningful payoffs at the end, and how important is to bare this in mind when writing your story.

1. <i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>You must be who you are and love whoever you want regardless of gender.

2. <i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Katrina feels her daughter’s distress and, for the first time, tells her she has her blessings to love whoever she wants. Alone at the resort, Zoe lies when a woman flirts with her but quickly regrets it and tells the truth. Zoe finds herself free to be whoever she wants and allows herself to be with the new person she just met.

<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>3. <i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Zoe lies to Katrina about Paula and, in the end, kisses Paula in front of her. Georgia tells Katrina to place her art in her community art gallery. James cancels a trip, and Zoe tells him off for the first time.

<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>4. <i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Zoe loses her lover as Paula is deported after being shot. James suddenly appears and invites Zoe on a trip; she’s ready to go, but he cancels it at the last minute. Katrina senses her daughter’s anger and tells Zoe to travel alone. There, Zoe feels free to be who she is for the first time.

5. <i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Katrina tells Zoe over the phone, “I won’t interfere in your life anymore. You’re free to be who you are.”

[Terrell Harris]

Terrell’s Profound Ending

What I learned doing this assignment is this was the toughest assignment so far. The audience really need to be able to relate to the setups, It’s difficult to tell if the set ups really work, so many times I’ll see what I consider a sappy ending or stupid ending cause the set up don’t work for me. So this makes me nervous.

1. What is your Profound Truth and how will it be delivered powerfully in your ending?

Proverbs 16:19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

2. How do your lead characters (Change Agent and Transformable Characters) come to an end in a way that represents the completed change?
They settle into to the lower City, that was set to be destroyed. John’s corporation promises to invest.

3. What are the setup/payoffs that complete in the end of this movie, giving it deep meaning?
(1) John’s visit and liked it down there. Moved there?
(2) the people are nice and unpretentious, despite being poor
(3) the dangers are exaggerated
(4) upper citizens are quietly visiting
(5) Joyce decides to see the appeal for herself, after swearing to never go there. Her transformation.
(6) john’s real mom confesses her backstory

4. How are you designing it to have us see an inevitable ending and then making it surprising when it happens?
(1) John loves the Upper City and will protect it at all cost
(2) step moms venomously defend the corporation’s path of development, John agrees and sees her points.
(3) John builds an orphanage in the upper city.

5. What is the Parting Image/Line that leaves us with the Profound Truth in our minds?
John playing with the kids in the lower city.

[Diane Lorene Phelps]

Diane Phelps’ Profound Ending

What I learned doing this assignment is that I’ve got a long way to go to get this story to a profound ending.

1. What is your Profound Truth and how will it be delivered powerfully in your ending? Love always wins.

2. How do your lead characters (Change Agent and Transformable Characters) come to an end in a way that represents the completed change?

Sami (Transformable Characters)= able to accept her new life and allow love in her life

Justin (change agent)= open his heart and let someone in. allow love in his life.

3. What are the setup/payoffs that complete in the end of this movie, giving it deep meaning?

Set up – that sami is forced to change her whole life

Pay off – that sami finds happiness in the new world.

4. How are you designing it to have us see an inevitable ending and then making it surprising when it happens?

TBD – I need to do more brainstorming on this on.

5. What is the Parting Image/Line that leaves us with the Profound Truth in our minds?

Love always wins. For now, I will let this marinate and come up with a better ending line.