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H. Vince’s Transformational Journey
The 30-Day Screenplay – 2023
Lesson 1: The Transformational Journey
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
Breaking my main character/protagonist down to who he is and what’s to become of him.
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Victor Saint is a young man that gets cancelled for jokingly saying something stupid. When he has no issue standing up for himself while people are trying to put him on blast, he gets kidnapped, blacks out and wakes up to an alternate reality where he is trusted with information about who aliens really are.
Internal Journey:
Goes from feeling lost to having more purpose.
External Journey:
Goes from thinking his life is just average to realizing he was chosen.
Victor Old Ways:
1. Naïve
2. Just cruising through life doing the bare minimum.
3. Gets disappointed with himself but not so much that he does anything to really change.
Victor New Ways:
1. Has been behind the curtain educated and experienced.
2. Has direction.
3. Doesn’t take life for granted.
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Suzanne Baird Transformational Journey
Lesson 1
What have I learned from this assignment? I learned that my Hero has a deeper inner life that I can draw stronger emotions from. It has helped me be more specific in how she starts and how she will change through her journey.
Who is the hero, and what is their character arc?
Daria is a single mother, widowed, raising a sick child. When her son dies, she realizes that certain laws in her state could have saved her son. As she discovers the dark money that has infiltrated her local government elections, she vows to enter local politics and change the laws for Citizens United.
Internal journey:
From victim, quiet, obedient, and a rule follower to empowered, educated, activist, and leader.
External journey:
After a “head down ” existence, she realizes that she is the agent of change needed for this fight. Daria engages her bi-partisan fellow workers and neighbors to call out a system of money politics that no longer represents the voters and breaks Citizens United.
What are the old ways?
1. Self-doubt
2. Fearful
3. Powerless
4. Victim mentality
New Ways
1. Confident
2. Empowered
3. Fearless
4. She is an Agent of change
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Deni B. Sher’s Transformational Journey
What I learned in this assignment is to dig deep into the protagonist. Where they start from at the beginning of the story, to where they end up and how important that character’s arc will be to the success of the story for the audience/reader. And, to not be afraid of the truth because it is a true story.
Transformation occurs when a character DENI is pushed outside HER box by some outside force ADDICTION OF HER SON and required to make shifts in HER behavior or thinking in order to survive (either figuratively or literally).
I am personally the hero in this true story.
INTERNAL JOURNEY: Deni went from feeling helpless (unable to save her son) to affect change by letting go, letting God, using creative visualization, prayer, projection and writing.
EXTERNAL JOURNEY: From a weak, codependent mother, easily manipulated by her son and fearful of her son dying, to a strong woman, facing addiction and codependency, and willing to do whatever it takes for both to be healthy and find a healthy relationship again.
OLD WAYS:
Ignorant of Addiction
Head buried in sand (denial)
Didn’t want her son to die
Would do anything to keep him from failing
Enabled him with money
NEW WAYS:
Knowledge of Addiction
Let go and Let God
Accepted the truth that she was co-dependent and an enabler
Stopped supporting him
Faced the Truth about herself
DENI’S OLD WAYS
Gullible, naïve, in denial, fearful of her son dying, blind to her own faults
DENI’s NEW WAYS
Facing the Truth, accepting that her son might die without her enabling, understanding familial dysfunction.
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Subject line: Tasha’s Transformational Journey
1. From this assignment, I learned the following:
The story can start to take shape rather effortlessly just by answering a few key questions about your protagonist. How easy!
2. My Hero is Bethany and she was once possessed.
Where she starts:
She finds it impossible to make a true love connection, let alone date, because of her past and the demon who possessed her (and still lurks around like a jealous ex)
Where she ends up:
She fights for a relationship with the one guy who isn’t scared of her and permanently exorcizes the demon herself.
Internal Journey: From feeling unloved, ashamed, unworthy and oppressed to feeling worthy of love, strong enough to fight a demon and damn proud of it.
External Journey: Hiding who she is until her past scares away her suitors to exorcizing herself of her demon and pursuing a relationship.
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways:
Hides her past
Doesn’t fight for relationships
Fearful she’s unlovable
Has extreme dating anxiety
Relies on her church to help her manage the demon that still bothers her
New Ways:
Is open about her past
Fights for her relationships
Loves herself and believes she is deserving of love
Becomes great at dating
Takes her spiritual well-being into her own hands and rids herself of the demon
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Tom Trundle’s Transformational Journey
The 30-Day Screenplay – 2023
Lesson 1: The Transformational Journey
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
That even though my idea was outlined in one of the examples, I can bring a different perspective/analysis of my protagonist and of course (because it’s my life) my own spin.
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Jake was once a successful actor and model who over time let life and his addictions consume him. His last role was playing Santa Claus (without padding). As a result of years of suffered abuse he has jumped up to over 330 lbs and all of his relationships have fallen apart, his family, including his 3 children, his love life and his career. He feels hopeless and beyond saving, until a friend’s death (the one who cast him as Santa) gives him a new perspective and desire to transform his mind, his body, and his life.
Internal Journey:
Learning to love himself as he is, and as he will be.
External Journey:
Finding new friends and companions to help him on his journey. Taking the actions to lose the weight, give up his addictions, repair the broken relationships and find new ones in hope all while honoring his friend who passed away.
Jake’s Old Ways:
1. Procrastinator
2. Depressed
3. Abusive to himself and a doormat to others
Jake’s New Ways:
1. Finds love for himself by taking care of his addictions
2. Repairs damage he’s done to himself by taking care of his health (mental and physical)
3. Gains support and love from his community and becomes an inspiration to others so they can gain their freedom from addictions too.
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Rashit Ismail’s Transformational journey
What I learned from this assignment is that there is an internal and external journey.
My hero is Dona Gracia the heiress to the biggest spice trading fortune in XVI century Portugal.
Internal Journey
She transforms form a woman leading a rich an opulent normal life to a woman of conviction that protects and fights for the rights of Conversos like her: people that were forced to convert from Judaism to Christianity by the Inquisition.
External Journey
She uses her merchant fleet to help Conversos that are being persecuted by the Inqusition find refuge in safer shores within the Ottoman empire
Old Ways:
1) Carefree
2) guided by her husband
3) no political viewpoint
New ways
1) Self confident
2 ) takes charge after the death of her husband
3) fights for a cause
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My picks:
Protagonist- Is a victim the daughter of a museum curator.
Antagonist- Evil Mesopotamian demon
Other characters: Supporting,minor ,and some background characters.
Genre- Horror
Answers:
Is the victim of a well known Mesopotamian demon.
About A skinny 13years old booknerd.
Internal: Normal to total possession.Every once and a while her sweet voice emerges thru the guttural growls when she speaks with her mother.
External: Return to normal and finish her schoolwork.
Motivation: Time pressure hope seems lost for the 13year old.
Wound: Time will tell.
Mission: Find the cure and return to join the rest of the kids at school.
Agenda: Starts in the hospital but mom has a agenda for a excorism.
Secret: All done in secret.If the community learns of the demonic possesson the girl won’t survive it even with attempts of exorcism.
Special: She could be the first possession in this neighborhood.Time will tell.
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DESERT SONGS OF ANA VICTORIA by Kim Reed
STORY LINE: A woman left for dead in the desert by traffickers who steal her two children, survives and vows to get them back. On this journey she is helped by a range of characters who shelter her in situations that range from tents and pick up trucks to her eventual marriage to an American retired police officer who joins her quest to find her son and daughter, a tableaux of characters from the experiences of immigrants in the US. After a new search, they locate the son, now a gang member, who rejects her, breaking her heart, and then the daughter, who embraces her mother as family. Her son is now Ana Victoria’s enemy, but they both feel conflicted about it. Near the end the son re-emerges and recognizes Victoria as his mother, but is it too late to save him from the law or gang members?
INTERNAL JOURNEY: Ana Victoria starts the movie as an abused, abject slave who was trafficked after her dead ex-husband left debt with local criminals. She dreams of starting again in a new life, but she is weak and uncertain of what she can do.
EXTERNAL JOURNEY: From victimized illegal woman to confident, networked American who can still love and seek justice. Ana Victoria learns that she is strong enough to work, love, and find people who she can trust.
OLD WAYS:
Afraid, widow of a debtor
Dominated by others
Single mother can’t protect her children
Manipulative, expects to be preyed on
Violence equals justice, dreams of it
NEW WAYS:
Confident but tested in her search
Mother courageous learns to fight for other immigrants
Becomes respectable by learning to trust better people
Resolves her search and vendetta
Accepts her son and daughter as individuals on their own path
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This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Kimberly Reed.
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Wow, there’s going to be some amazing movies written in the next month!
Joy Geldard-Smith’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is… that structure helps move creativity forward! OK, so that’s not completely new to me, but thinking about the transformation in this way makes it easier to move forward. The prompts help to stimulate ideas, and even if they’re not all gold at this stage, they’re ideas that I can move forward with and refine as I go.
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
I write romcoms and usually do this sort of thing for both sides of the relationship.
Accountant Madison is accused of being boring but dreams of stand-up comedy glory. For inspiration, she gets locked in an escape room with Jose, who turns out to be a pretentious performance artist who turns every puzzle into a work of art.
Madison:
Internal journey: trying to prove to herself that she isn’t just a boring accountant, no matter what all her friends and family say.
External journey: she embraces her creative side as well as her analytical side and launches her stand-up comedy career.
Jose:
Internal journey: all about validating who he is as a person and the choices he’s made so far in his life, rejecting the ‘starving artist’ stereotype.
External journey: becomes somewhat famous as an artist, but because of his company in the escape rooms, not just because of his performance art and the work he creates.
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Madison:
Old ways – factual, analytical, trained to stay inside the box
New ways – free-thinking, creative, takes more risks and has more adventures
Jose:
Old ways – trying to prove that he is truly an artist, comparing himself to others, a free spirit that isn’t really free
New ways – being more authentic, caring less about critical acclaim (and getting more of it!), sees the value of structure
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ASSIGNMENT 1
Subject line: Pat’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is how to better get the internal arc set up.
You send a Hero on a journey that the audience gets to live.
1. Listen to the 3 minute Empowerment Audio FIRST.
https://30dayscript.s3.amazonaws.com/Empowerment+Audio.m4a
2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Hank, a man who has had 7 failed marriages, who wants to be a marriage counselor.
Internal Journey: Blindly not understanding what marriage is
about.<div>External Journey: Hank, needs
to get his wife back, but he doesn’t know it yet.3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways
Hank is a know it all. But really is blind to others needs.
New Ways
Understands why his wife left him.
Knows he was a know it all.
Has more respect for others.
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George Tedino Transformational Journey
The 30 day Screenplay
lesson 1
What I learned from doing this assignment?
That there is more to a character then just giving a name and traits and a voice more so giving them a reason for people to care about them in the story.
Who is the hero, and what is character arc?
George St. John a young man, who has special abilities. From orphan looking for answers as to why he is the way he is and who killed his parents to become the hunted by the ones who killed his parents to becoming the hunter and understanding his abilities to bring his parents killer to a rightful end.
Internal Journey
from an orphan, not fully aware of his gifts and how they effect people. To trying to get answers about his past, to becoming fully embracing of his gifts while finding his answers that he seeks.
External Journey
finding his answers he realizes that while he is being hunted for his gifts, he becomes the hunter to finish the journey of revenge on those who needed to be held accountable for their actions.
Old Ways
Young and innocent
Unaware of his gifts
Being haunted by answers
Being hunted for his powers
New Ways
Still young but Powerful
Accepting of his gifts
Not being haunted
Becoming the hunter
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Lesson 1: The Transformational Journey
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
That audience must CARE DEEPLY about the protagonist’s transformational journey.
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Tony is an ultra-successful business executive who returns home after 15 years to visit his dying best friend, and confront the fatal decision they made together before he left home.
Internal Journey:
From hiding from his family and past to accepting it as part of what made him what he is
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From the “next big thing” to “just doing what makes him really happy”
Old Ways:
1. Measures happiness by “#s on his paycheck”
2. Afraid of people in his new life finding out about his family
3. Needs a father figure to replace his own
4. Would do anything to protect his “corporate family”
New Ways:
1. Measures happiness by “living”
2. Not afraid to confront his family and live with it
3. Accepts he is his “own person” and doesn’t need a father figure to drive him
4. Does what it is right, not what is right for the corporation he works for
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Lesson 1: Transformational Journey
What I learned? I have to dig deeper into these characters than I wanted to!
Who is your hero and what is their character arc that represents a transformation?
There are two heroes: JP and TC
JP goes from being a self-contained, introverted/private individual with a big secret to being more open and honest about who and what she is.
Her external journey? She smiles more! She goes from being resigned to being alone to becoming joyful (and grateful) having found the love of her life.
Her internal journey? Grappling with having been born as a “caul bearer” and having related abilities to embracing and owning it regardless of popular opinion.
TC after watching JP for over twenty years, takes a big risk and speaks to her. It opens the door to the everlasting love he’s always wanted.
His external journey? He begins to relax, calms down knowing this highly intelligent woman loves him. He throws away his care free, playboy image to finding security and peace with the love of his life.
His internal journey?
TC looses his insecurity and accepts that he’s worthy of JP, that she accepts him “as is”, that JP is no longer an out of reach dream or fantasy after spending two decades thinking she wouldn’t pay any attention to him, that he was “unworthy.”
LOG LINE: This is a love story between two unique people that’s been on hold for twenty years – before and after death.
CONCEPT: After watching the love of his life for for twenty years before peaking,TC finally speaks to her the day after she (JP) makes an inquiry about him to her friend, Christine. TC becomes a catalyst for a series of “coincidences” that forces her to own the psychic abilities she was born with including being a “caul bearer.” It allows them to continue their relationship after TC drowns in a suspicious boating accident.
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What I learned in this lesson is the importance of the “old ways” and “new ways”. I’ve heard about the internal and external journey before, but defining the ways really helps narrow down the behaviors/person/characteristic of each aspect in the journey. It’s the “show” of the change.
My hero’s name is Michelle, a wife of a well known realtor, who finds out her husband’s secret and dangerous career when he uses her as the fall guy for his crimes.
Internal Journey: From feeling helpless, passive, and insecure to feeling confident to confront her husband and defend herself.
External Journey: From a passive “trophy wife” who takes directions from anyone to a confident, bad- ass woman who takes the lead to take down her husband and his minions.
Old Ways: Asks for permission, would never show off her talents in her self defense class, willing to fall to the background.
New Ways: Takes the lead, doesn’t see herself as “showing off” and owns her skills, doesn’t let people take advantage of her.
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Chuck Czech’s Transformational Journey
What I Learned: It’s important to clearly define story parameters – in this case character transformation – early in the creative process. Also, from the video on concept analysis I learned that when you have a complicated concept you have to return to the seed of the idea to convey it to the reader.
Who is the Hero: Ronan Cambridge (20s) is autistic and has been driving US highways for three years straight, never stopping more than an hour. If he stops too long, the device in his trunk will open the doorway to another dimension and release a monstrous all-consuming organism that can destroy the Earth in a matter of days. Ronan is the only survivor of a failed research project, led by his father, that sought to explore the multiverse.
Internal Journey: Throughout his life, Ronan has been dependent on his father and has not fit in with groups; in this story, he learns to function within a group and ultimately assert himself as leader.
External Journey: At the beginning of the story, Ronan is cursed to driving without end, alone and without direction; over time he’s able to assemble a team, orient them on the predicament, challenge them, and ultimately lead them to a solution.
Old Ways:
Isolated and lonely
Dependent and deferential
Awkward and outcast
New Ways:
Integrated and social
Independent and influential
Awkward and accepted
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ASSIGNMENT #1
VAL BOYLE’S TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY
1. HERO: Athena.
2. CHARACTER ARC: Athena’s desperate struggle to rediscover her faith and gain spiritual understanding in coping with the results of a tragic accident, which ended in the death of her child and grand child.
3. OLD WAYS: Too self involved; selfish, too busy; too caught up in corporate success machine, stubborn, entitled, arrogant, irreligious, agnostic.
4. NEW WAYS: Emotionally more open, unselfish, spiritual, religious, volunteer and family/friend/people oriented, generous, kind.
5. ATHENA’S internal journey takes her from loss to rediscovering her faith in living
6. WHAT I LEARNED? I can write! I am empowered!
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Lesson 1
Renee’s Transformational journey.
What I learned doing this assignment … his Old Ways need to be more extreme and noticeable.
Angel is my Hero. His Character Arc that represents a transformation – He actually cares about crazy old Granny and the where and how she spends her last years.
Internal Journey: The more she displays the loss of memory and her emotional rollercoaster, the more Angel is truly concerned. (So initially he is stumped at her odd behavior. )
External Journey: Initially he makes excuses for her because he needs a place to stay. He then covers for her and eventually changes the world around her to make her comfortable.
Old Ways – selfish & arrogant, only wants the best of everything, user, Total f’ing skirt chaser
New Ways – understanding, focused on dating lady cop, caring
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Malinda Baum: 30 Day Screenplay
What I learned while completing this lesson is that it is just as important to really know your characters, to give them true life before the time you are creating as it is to give them that life during the story.
Assignment 1
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Jaxson, a 20ish year old male that has been living in a shelter. He aged out of foster care and has been floundering ever since trying to make meaning of his life and find a path that will keep him off the streets.
Internal Journey: Jaxson embarks on a journey of self-discovery and acceptance. He grapples with feelings of insignificance and alienation, wrestling with existential questions about his purpose. His internal journey is a path towards self-love and acceptance, learning to appreciate his uniqueness, and finding contentment within himself.
External Journey:Jaxson’s journey is about establishing connections and finding a community where he feels accepted and valued. It involves breaking away from his isolation, forging meaningful relationships, and finding a cause or a passion that lends purpose to his existence. The culmination of his external journey is in establishing a sense of belonging and purpose in the world around him.
What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
New Ways: Looks to build meaningful connections and relationships; works to not fight and lose his temper; becomes a meaningful part of a movement
Old Ways: Isolation, drugs, avoidance, fights,
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Iliona’s Transformational journey
What I learned doing this assignment is to think deeply about the entire arc of my hero and know where I intend to go with his personal story before even starting writing a line of script.
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Jared thinks that he’s the unluckiest guy on earth and that everything and everyone are against him. He’s drowning in debts, his wife left him, he’s only allowed to see his daughter one weekend a month and he just lost his job.
Internal Journey: From feeling helpless, lost and unhappy to being fulfilled, grateful and finding true happiness
External Journey: From being broke, self-centered, pessimistic to becoming rich, generous, caring and an extrovert
What are the Old Ways?
1. Not a believer
2. Thinks money will solve all his problems
3. Thinks he’s the unluckiest guy on earth
4. Doesn’t value his life
What are the New Ways?
1. Believes in magic
2. Realizes that all he wants is to feel respected and loved
3. Understands he’s in charge of his own happiness
4. Finds out money doesn’t solve all issues
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