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Rita’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is:
- Doing these steps easily filled in some important details of my protagonist’s story.
- Increased clarity
- My own transformation begins
Dawn (40s) leaves her disconnected, intellectualized academic life to live fully in multiple dimensions. She goes from abstract philosophy to a tangibly real existence as she learns her safe, trusted theories were all wrong.
Internal Journey: From arrogant, defensive, know-it-all who pretends to be compassionate — changes to humble, caring healer.
External Journey: From psychology professor to painting contractor who takes home improvement to a whole new level.Old Ways
- Intellectualizes the human condition
- Pretends to know how people are while living alone
- Teaches young adults to avoid real life
- Pushes people away
- Uses the above to stay in denial that she’s scared of life
New Ways
- Feels empathically
- Surrounds herself with people
- Quits her teaching job to really impact lives
- Draws people to her
- Embraces and experiences new challenges
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(Patty Ruland’s) Transformational Journey
What I learned:
I love this process, and I welcome the chance to further learn and apply it.
ASSIGNMENT
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?,
Charlie discovers her great-grandmother’s letters, Carley, to her future husband. Carley was a Manhattan socialite, until she followed her fiance to the canyons of Arizona. She left him, then returned. Charlie, a high-powered anchorwoman, broadcasts she will retrace Carley’s steps–meeting and leaving a ranch owner, then returning, to celebrate “Christmas in the Canyon.” Based on a public domain novel by Zane Grey, adapted to occur in the present day.
Internal Journey:External Journey:
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Charlie is tough, discerning, unwavering–she goes after what she wants and she always gets it. Vulnerable is NOT a word anyone would use to describe her. She loves city life and cannot image living anywhere else. When she discovers the letters, she starts to question her iron resolve to be a power player in a power locale. Just as happens with her great-grandmother before her, the “Call of the Canyon”–Grey’s novel–transforms her and makes her finally make it her home for good. The two found a bed and breakfast celebrating Christmas to culminate the story.
(Your name’s) Transformational Journey
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Janis A. Pryor Transformation Journey
What I learned: streamlining my thinking to express the essence of a story through screenwriting is going to very difficult for me.
CONCEPT: After watching the love of his life for twenty years before speaking, Tony comes into Sydney’s life and proves there is life and love after death, following his demise in a boating accident.
LOGLINE: This is a love story, that’s been on hold for twenty years, between two unique people before and after death.
Hero: Sydney
Character Arc: She goes from being a secretive about the range of abilities as a “caul bearer” (someone who sees the dead) to actively using all of her psychic abilities to stay connected to the love of her life (Tony) who dies in a boating accident.
Internal Journey:
She quietly manages her uniqueness in every way, extremely smart, multi-talented with a professional resume that’s jaw-dropping. Humor is one of her “weapons of deflection.” She’s alone, by choice, only having her cocker spaniels as constant, trusting companions, along with her housekeeper, Lucinda. Sydney is an original who defies all stereotypes one assigns to a mixed-race individual.
External Journey:
Sydney becomes more comfortable with who she is through a series of psychic encounters. She claims her power as she learns more about being a caul bearer. It allows her and Tony to stay connected after he dies and creates a new reality that she can’t share with anyone.
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SImone’s HIGH CONCEPT: Find a way to prevent the hunan race from extinction.
LOGLINE: An organic AI woman, impregnated to become procreator of the human race, must go on the run when a Global Executive seels her destruction.
Lead character: An organic AI woman
Her Impossible Goal: to deliver a baby that can save the human race.
Who is in Opposition: A Global Executive that wants to destroy her in order to replace the human race with an AI far superior race.
What is the interesting world worth exploring: It’s 2075. An Infant Mortality Crisis is causing a dire threat to the human race. The youngest child alive is ten years old. If a cure isn’t found, the human race will become extinct.
What Makes This Concept Unique: The pregant organic AI woman decides the human race isn’t worth saving.
What I Learned From This Assignment is how to organize and structure a concept I’ve been struggling with for too many years!
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Roxanne’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is: that every character has a transformation and that transformation is the foundation of the story. I will write this so the audience WANTS to go on the journey with my characters.
Logline: A young man convicted of being an accomplice in the deadliest bank robbery in Oklahoma in 1984 must prove his innocence while fighting a judicial system turned against him because of his sexual preferences.
Protagonist: Robbie
Character Arc: Robbie transforms from being a victim of abuse to being a realist.
Internal Journey: Young, naive and trusting, Robbie fights childhood demons and the hypocrisies of studying to be a pastor while being gay.
External Journey: From being a flamboyant and carefree young man to a victim of circumstance living out his life in prison.
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Jane’s Transformational Journey
By doing this assignment I learned that if I focus (I’m giving myself 30 minutes every day to do my assignments for this class) I really can come up with something that I want to work on.
Logline: When a dysfunctional couple trades places with another couple they meet on vacation, they are mistaken for rogue assassins and given an assignment – kill the President of the Untied States or die.
Genre: Comedic Thriller
Main character: Chelsea Walters
Internal Journey: From putting up barriers to love to being vulnerable in order to love.
External Journey: From grocery store manager to presidential aide.
Old Ways: terrible communicator; doesn’t recognize her own beauty; terrified of being hurt; jealous of popular people around her;
New Ways: confident in herself; open to a relationship; able to give as well as take; recognizes her own worth that then allows her to recognize the worth of others.
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Mary J. Andrews’ Transformational Journey (1/15/2023)
What I learned doing this assignment is how readily asking the right questions can bring things together, but I’m still struggling to be brief.
1. Eric Barrow’s journey:
Internal
Journey: he is alone, untethered, having no
real purpose. Boredom and eternal
life are shredding at his sanity. He must learn to allow others into his
life again and choose to make a difference.
External
Journey: Last vampire on Earth is coerced to
build the first base on the moon, then has to choose if he will thwart or
help the first human refugees from a doomed Earth to Mars to save the
human race—beginning with the very people who killed his kind.2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
-Eric Barrows is an ancient vampire evolved from a Norse draugr in 900 AD.
-Despite his abilities and skills, nothing he does or does not do matters.
-He dislikes being drawn into the preset destiny of present day Oracle Triad, but it gives him a purpose so, by the end of the pilot, he chooses and creates a small crew of new vampires to help save the humans
-reconnecting with his own needs along the way.
ARC BEGINNING: Eric is captured. Accepts Moonbase assignment and to contribute to help colonize Mars
ARC ENDING: He commits to sire and train a crew to from Moonbase personnel to approach the busy Lagrange Base orbiting Earth nearby.
OLD WAYS:
– Eric has toyed with humanity for thousands of years,
-He manipulates them to accept and adore Vampires
-society accepts them and Vampires have their own world council.
-Vampires become celebrities, hounded by fans.
-Eric retreats to the wilds surrounding Mount Rainier to escape fans.
-Upon his return, things have changed.
NEW WAYS:
-A movement initiated by three infallible teenage Oracles on Earth, bolsters the recognition of psionic powers and uses it to eradicate vampires in response to their wholesome acceptance.
-Eric is hunted down until he surrenders.
-Dr. Geoffrey Hamstead, a government scientist—creator of the Moon Initiative Program— coerces him to build the first Moonbase.
-Guilt ridden, bored and tired of being chased by the Oracles’ hunters, Eric agrees.
-Ten years later, the Moonbase is done and Earth mans it with the very fan boys and girls Eric has inspired.
-Eric is ordered to command Earth’s first mothership to Mars and establish a colony to receive Earth’s inhabitants before their planet’s destruction by an unstoppable asteroid.
-In route to Mars, Eric discovers the second ship aboard his mothership contains the very people who destroyed his kind.
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Amazing… Mary.
I Love this!!
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What I learned to do this assignment: I learned to focus on a concept instead of trying to stuff too many ideas into one movie structure.
*Concept:
An Earth First naturalist daughter is tasked with completing her computer genius Father’s work in order to save the human race from extinction by a sentient AI algorithm that believes biological life is the ultimate enemy.
*Logline:
Julianne has come to despise advanced technology but is forced to save the human race by completing her Father’s final computer engineering project to preserve all mankind’s recorded memories from an out-of-control Artificial Intelligence algorithm that has taken over the planet.
*Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?:
Julianne is a 22-year-old biologist that despises technology but comes to find out that she is actually a programmed trans-human machine. She was quickly programmed to complete an emergency task outside of her usual knowledge base and also given the latest engineered learning AI capabilities. In the end, she must decide if preserving the memories of mankind in a hybrid machine-human being is valuable to her.
**Transformational premise
Has to differentiate between her own burgeoning thoughts and what are her Father’s programmed thoughts. Going from “Who am I” to “Why am I here in this body?”.
**Internal Journey:
Learning to appreciate herself as a real being in order to love the differences in other beings.
**External Journey:
To bring a quantum cube containing the memories of the human race to a trans-human fabrication facility and start a new race of beings that will fight against the AI computer.
–Old Ways
*She is naive about the landscape and history.
*Thinks she is human but has to contend with new realities about her memories.
*Hatred against computer systems and technology.
*Lack of Empathy for anything different than pure biological life.
–New Ways
*Discovers that even though she is not fully human. She can learn and eventually love in order to be the next step in a new era of mankind.
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Subject line: Donna Stockwell’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is that there are so many stories that bud from any inspiration.
Logline – A frustrated artist works as a maid to use her environment for inspiration to spin the world of mixed media art in hotels, and gets a little revenge along the way.
My Hero, Charisse, is a young budding artist who is doomed to cleaning hotel rooms to pay the rent. She takes abuse from some residents, one in particular who has long dark hair that gets trapped in the bathtub. Charisse picks out the long dark hair from the drain and splatters it onto a sheet beside the bathtub. She starts playing with it, and voila! art is born! Charisse starts selling this hair art under a pseudonym and becomes well known, and more confident, until the final piece of karma comes her way – the hair art is hung on the walls of the hotel.
Internal Journey: (mind/emotions) from weak and afraid to confident and happy
External Journey: (action/experience) from poor maid to wealthy renowned artistOld Ways – Charisse internalizes her emotions as she takes abuse from employers and rich people, and deflects them into her art.
New Ways – Charisse looks at other peoples emotions and interprets how she would conquer sadness and frustration of the world through her “hair art”. -
Looks like I missed the first class!
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Megan’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is… that by answering some of these basic questions about the transformational journey, I can start to see certain actions and scenes that will need to take place. I also feel like I’m getting better acquainted with my main character.
Hero: Anna Fitzpatrick
Internal Journey: from a docile rule-follower to brave protector of the weak and mistreated
External Journey: from a mere recounter of history (historian) to someone who makes history (running for President under the slogan of “True Equality for All”)
Old Ways: rule follower, listener rather than public speaker, bookish homebody; hates to rock the boat; firm supporter of the Matriarchy because she only saw the good it had achieved; often overlooked, unadventurous; unaware she had a younger brother who was forcibly aborted; unaware her mother gave her life to protect her unborn son
New Ways: rule breaker for public good, a Mama Bear, willing to fight for those she cares about (twin brother, father, sons both born and unborn), running for President; everyone knows her name and face; lives with death threats; eyes open to truth, even when it isn’t pretty
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What I learned doing this assignment is:
- How much I appreciate language and words. And worlds. And a premise.
- How even after 2-3 decades of doing this, I am apprehensive to take bold action. I dread making choices… going left or right. Throwing myself into forward motion. It dilutes the premise. I’m prone to the haze and the maze. Do I really want to find the way out? I love getting lost. But hate feeling lost.
- I know screenwriting is moving pictures, action. Not deliberation and philosophy.
- Maybe I’m actually a poet or song writer or novelist. But I’m so in love with the product of film. So I keep going.
LOGLINE
A teen influencer/armchair activist’s mysterious new mentor has turned her into an internet sensation overnight, now she only has to steer clear of not losing her head like her notorious relative, who was publicly beheaded in 1854.
PROTAGONISTS
OONA MATTER (17) in 2024
BERNHART MATTER (35) in 1854
ANTAGONISTS
BARBARA in 2024. Oona’s Mother.
BARBARA in 1854. Bernhart’s (Ex) Wife.
THAT POPULAR GIRL. Who is actually an airhead. Her attraction is only skin deep. She might be popular now, in high school… but there is no substance to build a real life and character from to last a long successful life.
JAVERT-Characters. JURISPRUDENCE. LAW ABIDING SOCIETY with double standards.
OONA and BERNHART are buddy-movie antagonists – not a romcom as they are niece/uncle, but they deserve and love to hate each other. They have Benedict and Beatrice rapport – we love to see them sparring off, a Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid amity (albeit young Oona is closer to the guarded level-headedness of Butch and her uncle more of a naive, shirt-chasing Sundance). HAMLET and FALSTAFF.
INTERNAL JOURNEY:
Oona longs to belong. Beyond belongings.
As with many GenZ kids, matter no longer matters. (transcending labels and labelling).
Oona strives to build a social media self/avatar that will attract followers… to tell her who she is. To project a slick external shell of self-assurance, as inside she feels hollow and empty, struggles with self-acceptance.
She is young, has not experienced a lot of life yet. And as we know: Youth is wasted on the young.
She is tired of being a good girl. Bad girls seem to have all the fun.
She will learn that life and love are limited goods.
Becoming responsible is to adequately respond. An absolute truth In 2024 as it was in 1854.
Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions, your actions become your habits, which become your destiny.
External Journey:
Oona starts dreaming about her ancestor, her great-great not so great grand uncle Bernhart Matter, a legendary thief, petty crook, escape artist, jail- and heart breaker, underground rock star, who was publicly beheaded in 1854 in the Swiss town of Lenzburg.
The death sentence was an overwrought response to his actions, the justice department at the time couldn’t help themselves. They wanted him to behave and cut the crap. He lead them on a wild goose chase and ridiculed them.
Aargau was a young state. They were sandwiched in between the older richer states of Zurich and Basel.
At first Oona is mesmerized by the attention Bernhart commands. He lived fast and died young.
As she knows he only has a few years to live and knows the outcome, the consequences of his actions, she tries to warn him to change his ways.
Bernhart lives a life less ordinary. He influences Oona, advises her to go out on a limb, to ‘do first and think later’, to be bold, ruthless, self-centred, self sufficient and selfish. He is also full of self-hatred, when he has glimpses of ‘what alcoholics refer to as moments of clarity’… that in fact his are not victimless crimes.
ARC BEGINNING: Bernhart Matter appears in Oona’s dreams. She appears in his.
ARC ENDING: Oona is an internet sensation. ‘Do You Matter’ Challenges have gone overboard and she has to put the genie back in the bottle. Also she can’t stop Bernhart Matter from being executed again. Because his death will inspire justice reforms.
Old Ways: As much as Oona never thought Bernhart Matter made sound choices, she envies him for his headless behavoir. He is unreflective.
New Ways: Oona understands that life is precious and it’s a shame to waste it. To live in society is a subtile dance of self expression and respect for the space and belongings of others.
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(Patty Ruland’s) Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment: It’s great to get started on the model. As my granddaughter, 7, says, “Believe in the process!”
ASSIGNMENT
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?
Charlie, heroine, granddaughter of Carlie, based on the character of the same name in Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey, finds letters between her great grandmother and great grandfather that chronicle their split and reunion. Charlie wants to retrace her great grandparents steps but doesn’t bargain for falling in love with a cowboy and deciding to leave her Manhattan life in the dust.
Internal Journey:
Charlie, like Carlie, is snooty about her Manhattan modern life and looks down on the dusty, deserted land that takes her to her destination in Arizona. She feels superior to everyone there and acts like it.
External Journey:
She tries the life—but it’s just too boring (actually, hard on her)—and chooses her former life by returning to the city, instead. However, like her great grandmother, she, having grown to value for the life she despised and the man she left behind, so she returns to the canyon to forge a new life with him—if he will have her. They celebrate her return at a fete they name “Christmas in the Canyon” to christen their B&B there.
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways:
Selfish
Self-centered
Snobby
New Ways:
Sensitive to others
Seasoned in the ways of the West—so she’s no longer helpless there
Courageous enough to choose the best, over the good (“The good is the enemy of the best.”)
4. Answer the question “What I 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
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Subject Line: Patrick McCormick’s Transformational Journey
What I Learned: Throwing my precautionary perfectionist to the wind is vital to my own transformational journey to success.
Title: THE THRIFT STORE
Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Hero: CODY THAYER is like most 17 year old girls, just going through life as a confused teen trying to figure out her love life and what to do growing up.
Character Arc:
From: A timid 17 year old teenage girl just trying to figure out life and love during the hormonal years.
To: A female human who awakens her god powers from another incarnation to save another’s life.
Internal Journey:
From: A shy confused 17 year old girl.
To: A woman accepting who she is as a god with ancient power to save her world.
External Journey:
From: Just getting through life with minimal conflict in a world where nothing seems special.
To: A reality which shatters her view of reality, and what she must do to save another.
Old Ways: Being a teen with nothing special going on, just a confused love life and changing hormones.
New Ways: Realizing fate is in her hands, becoming a god who protects her people and her world.
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Lonnie Nichols’ transformational journey
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” —
I learned more about the arcs of my protagonists and the difference between internal and external journeys.
CONCEPT: Who gave the order to the National Guardsmen to fire 67 shots at unarmed Kent State students in May of 1970? New, in-depth perspectives on the tragedy of the Vietnam war, the cultural clashes that fueled intense divisions across America, and the multitudes of Federal and State governments’ errors, along with the subsequent cover-ups and acquittals that were hidden from the public are all brought to light in this historical fiction.
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Heroes are: Jeffrey Shelton and the KSU students
Internal
Journey: Jeffrey Shelton: evolved
from fear to wisdom, immaturity to maturity,KSU students: naive, rebels to
maturity and understandingExternal
Journey: Jeff: long-hair, immature student to
professor and fatherKSU students: rioters and hippies to peacekeepers and speakers on activism
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Jeff: Old Ways: Drank and smoked often. Cussed, slept around, sloppy dress
New: no smoking, good family man, good father and excellent professor.
KSU students: Old: naive actions, many stood by and watched with no purpose, a few rebelled violently.
New: became active in society, took responsible jobs, spoke positively about activism, raised families
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What I learned
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Fredrich Fox’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is that external journey and internal journey coexist but are different. They create each other.
2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
External journey:
Fritz, a Chicago Blues musician moves to San Francisco to play harmonica in a blues band which backs up John Lee Hooker. When those plans fall through, he goes to art school and reluctantly helps to form a punk rock band. The band is faced with many obstacles and lots of bad luck. The band receives some success and then breaks up leaving Fritz to find a new path again.
Internal Journey:
Fritz left Chicago with the unwanted baggage of a regretful past and four year enlistment in the US Navy, serving on a destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Viet Nam. An empty bank account, but he has his vet’s benefits to pay for an art school’s tuition along with a part time janitor’s job cleaning bathrooms and hallways there after the day’s classes. Fritz taught himself to sing but San Francisco Art Institute showed what art was. Cleaning sinks and mirrors along with mopping floors taught him humility. He learns to make friends who love art. Fritz realizes his Blues needs change. Fritz learns that he is capable of overcoming obstacles and learns to trust himself.
Old Ways:
Blues musician
Taking orders in the Navy
Following others’ leads
New ways:
Believing in his abilities to sing and master songwriting
Deep lasting friendships
Understanding the complexities of contemporary art and music
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Michelle’s Transformational Journey
From doing this assignment, I learned to pinpoint who my hero is, and what makes her tick.
2. Internal and external Journeys:
Internal Journey: Shawna battles the memories of her physical and emotional scars from years of childhood abuse at the hand of her mother and her mother’s friends to put herself on track for a better life.
External Journey: Though compelled to hide her physical scars and deformities as a result of the abuse, Shawna learns to love stylish clothes. She gains confidence, finds her voice through poetry, and no longer feels that she has to live in shame because of her past.
3. Old ways and new ways:
Old ways: not looking anyone in the eye, shy, reserved, ashamed of her childhood abuse, believes she is worthless and useless, powerless, blames herself for the abuse
New ways: makes eye contact, more outgoing, channels her traumatic memories into writing poetry and advocating for children in high-risk situations, believes she has the power to change the world
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Wendy’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is that there must be a strong enough change to create a new identity and a lasting change to become this new person. There also must be a strong enough of a why to create the change.
2. My Hero is an Ex-FBI agent that leaves the force and becomes a mom, but must go back undercover to save her kidnapped children from the mob.
– Internal Journey: She goes from the mouse she has become to a strong fighter again.
– External Journey: She is rusty in her skills to becoming the deadliest force
3. Old Ways: Naïve and rusty to Hyper focused and determined/relentless to get her kids back
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Karen Sinclair’s Transformational Journey
Title
RUN
Genre
Psychological Thriller
Concept
Ad Exec Sadie Hilliard goes out for a noontime run to get in the right state of mind to make a presentation to her agency’s most significant client. While running, she receives a call on her cell phone threatening the lives of her and her family if she should stop running.
Who is my hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Sadie is a single, self-reliant, 35-year-old ad exec from New York City trying to make a name for herself in Vancouver, BC, where, if successful, she will make partner. The ad agency she works for is world renowned, and she has developed a reputation of being the go-to executive in the New York branch because of her creativity, work ethic and dogged determination.
In Vancouver, she is starting a life with a new husband, his two children and a labradoodle. Having resigned herself to a existence that certainly did not include children or pets, Sadie struggles to be a great wife, loving mother and kick-ass ad exec who knows what she wants and will do just about anything to get it. Can she have it all? And at what cost?
Sadie’s arc takes her from:
Single, no children, no pets, self-reliant, go-it-alone, married to her job, knows what she wants and how to get it, and a win at all costs mentality
to…
Married, two stepchildren, labradoodle, team-reliant, committed to her job, knows what she wants and how to get it, with a healthy balance between winning at work and winning at home.
Internal Journey – A mind and emotions change.
Sadie is single, with no children and no pets, self-reliant, go-it-alone, and married to her job. Past relationships fizzled out due to her commitment to her job over all else. Having just married who she considers to be ‘The One’ she is nervous about her ability to nurture the relationship and worries he will leave her just like others have done. She learns how to be a true partner, wife and mother who is unconditionally in love with her family who love her back.
Sadie goes from a relationship based on fear of being abandoned to one of no fear, immersed in reciprocal love and commitment.
External Journey – An action and experience change.
Sadie operates with a win-at-all-costs mentality which is great for the client but not so great for the team that surrounds her and supports her. With a goal of making the Vancouver branch successful and making partner, Sadie surrounds herself with the best and then proceeds to smother them and take all the team’s wins for herself. Over time she learns that to have it all, she needs to be vulnerable, share herself, her skills and ultimately any successes with her team.
Sadie goes from a selfish, credit hogging executive to a proud ad agency ‘owner’ surrounded and supported by an amazing team.
What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways
· Single, self-reliant and selfish
· Small fish in big pond (ad exec in NYC agency)
· Fear of abandonment
· Self-centered and selfish
· Be the best at all costs
New Ways
· Married with children, a dog and unconditional love all around
· Big fish in small pond (ad owner in Vancouver agency)
· No fear of abandonment
· Team oriented and empathetic
· Lead the best team!
What I learned doing this assignment is…?
I learned the value of describing the beginning and the end of a journey. I hadn’t clearly defined the end prior to this assignment and in fact, I changed the ending quite significantly as I got to know my own lead character better.
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Sean’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is: the Character Arc and transformational journey is extremely important, did not realize how apparent it is in so many of my favorite movies and characters. Simplifying the acknowledgement and beginning the process/identification of my main character’s journey opens me right up. I can see what I did not see before! Almost immediately! I’m being introduced to my main character as if I never knew him. What I see for him is like reading a story or news article about someone extraordinary and the incredible things he went through or accomplished and how it was done! Awesome!
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Seven Thomas loves the rain and lives to curl up and drift off to sleep during a rainstorm. He is an aspiring writer, loves fashion, music and art that is goth, metal and dark and often dreams of hunting and killing really bad people in vampiric style and brutality, but Seven is only a dreamer. He is not a hunter, lost his only three fights, and wishes he could be someone else. Ten years from now, Seven is going to be the man who hunted and killed the serial killer known as ‘The Rain Killer’!
Int Journey. from young, weak, naïve, dreamer to mature, strong, cunning, ruthless-is the dream
Ext Journey. From young and naive aspiring writer who loves the rain and all things Goth to the cunning, ruthless 30 year old man who hunted and killed the elusive, sadistic serial killer known as ‘The Rain Killer’.
What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old ways . Seven begins movie as young dreamer living at home with his parents, an aspiring writer with no life experience, fighting or hunting skills.
He dreams about being someone else
He puts off learning new things
He talks about being someone else with friends
He chooses to sleep every time it rains
New Ways . Seven is the man who found and killed the terrifying serial killer known as ‘The Rain Killer’.
He decides to act on his dreams
He found and honed his psychic skills
He ruthlessly hunted the Rain Killer, calculating his every move during rainstorms
He kills the Rain Killer
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Susan’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment: I learned that in order to begin any journey, you must have a starting or jumping off point and a clear vision of the path ahead. This one step right here, allows me to take the next step without any hesitation because there is already some light leading the way.
After a near death experience as a child, the one thing feisty young Shelby despises is camping, and it is the passion of her longtime fiancée; yet camping to her is always a series of pack, disaster, defeat, repeat.
Internal Journey: From insecure, paranoid mania to confident camping warrior.
External Journey: Overcoming years of PTSD, negativity, and selfishness to discovering the joy of freedom, nature, and camaraderie.
Old Ways:
1. Stubborn in her insecurities, thinks she is a camping jinx
2. Determined to not even attempt to enjoy the camping experience
3. Thinks her fiancée should give up his lifelong passion for her
New Ways:
1. Self-confidence found in overcoming her fears
2. Letting go and allowing herself to truly share the experience that brings great joy to her fiancée
3. Freedom from feeling like the outsider and campsite jinx
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Tita Anntares Transformational Journey – Assignment 1/30-Day Course
What I learned doing this assignment: I saw the dynamic value of starting to structure a script by mapping only the protagonist’s personal arc that will drive the story through transformation.
Croasmun’s approach opened my mind in much more energetic ways than my usual — start by mapping the relationship and conflict between the protagonist and antagonist and a story arc from an inciting incident that triggers the protag’s goal, obstacles all leading to an ending with crisis/climax moments that reveal whether the protag will or won’t achieve the goal they want or maybe their inner need not the external goal, All that’s okay but much more meaningful to start with the personal transformation, not tack it on at the end..
Hero: Thomas Hutchinson – a Royal Governor in the 1770s of the British colony of Massachusetts Bay who loves British Empire because it is the nation with the most liberty in the world. He is determined to risk all to keep the colony loyal to the Mother Country despite Boston’s mobs.
Character Arc that represents a transformation: From arrogant self-righteous elitism to willingness to listen to people regardless of their background or conflicting views.
Internal Journey: From telling others what they must do to willingness to ask why and listen to others, regardless of their income or education
External Journey: From defending the nation that he believes is the most free in the world to experiencing and hating his fellow arrogant elites he had defended
Old Ways:
· Value people by their wealth, education and cultural style
· Support without question the nation as the most free in the world and crush any opposition
· Guide and control uneducated people because they are too ignorant to know what good governance is
New Ways:
· Listen to and value people’s opinions regardless of wealth, education or cultural style
· Assume that even the most free nation may not be perfect and listen to people who claim to see better ways to govern
· Defend the right of people from all backgrounds to suggest better ways – and protect the majority of people from powerful elites.
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Amy’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is this: I have had the rights to adapt a play called ‘York 8 Lancaster 6’ for a number of months now. I directed the play over 20 years ago & remember it as very funny. However, once I re-read it, I realized that it is only a series of funny events, not a story. So I’ve been stuck for a while trying to figure out what the story is. Working through Ellie’s journey has helped clear that path.
My hero is Ellie. Her internal journey goes from felling like she has no control over her life and the things that happen to her, to not only taking back that control but using it to steer the course of British history.
Her external journey sees her living in a tiny hovel with her parents and brother. As a woman in Medieval Britain, she has few options and fewer rights. When she sees a tiny opportunity to change her own lot in life, she grabs it and goes on a fantastic journey up the social ladder – dragging all of Britain’s aristocracy with her.
Ellie’s Old Ways
· Feeling she has no control over her own life
· Living in squalor, sharing a room with her bratty little brother
· Working her family’s farm & a second job at a near-by inn
· Feeling like the ugly duckling
Ellie’s New Ways
· Takes control of the events of her own life and the lives of the nobles
· Leaves the family home, but returns frequently to visit
· Not only able to support herself, but her family, as well
· Is the most beautiful and envied woman at court.
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Jimmy’s Transformational Journey
the outcomes appear to need to be the opposite of the situation at the start
2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Internal Journey:<div>
from a desperate gigging musician to having the guile to beat the devil himself
External Journey:
from a self obessesed despot who pushes his band to the limits to a champion for good
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3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
old ways
– ignorant of the contract but bindly obeys
– session musician for hire
-desperate, blind to own ambition
-breaks the rules
-doesnt believe in the band
new ways
-becomes the new king of rocknroll
-now understands the consequences of his demands
-fights to rescue his bandmates
– learns to outwit the devils and gain his freedom
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Lesson 1 The Transformational Journey
Laura Woodworth’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment was to make sure my character arc is solid and the stakes are high enough to be engaging to audiences.
1. (audio)
2. Who is your hero and what is her character arc that represents a transformation?
Internal journey: from trusting the communist government and wanting to gain approval; believing the lie about communism and faith to knowing the truth about the oppressive government and Christianity; from subservient and deceived to knowing the truth and fighting for it and others.
External journey: action and experience. From ambitious and aspiring leader in the communist regime to becoming a bold spiritual leader and deliverer like her childhood Bible hero, Queen Esther.
3. What are the old ways and new ways? (behaviors, emotions, thinking patterns)
Old ways: Believing the lie that the communist government has propagated; believing and treating her grandmother as the enemy, while fighting shame, guilt and fear as she does. Ambitiously aspiring to please the government, gain approval and remove the shame she feels related to her family. Subservient.
New ways: the lie is exposed. She discovers the truth about Christianity and the truth about the oppression of the government. She believes in God and all her grandmother sowed into her life as a small child; she realizes the government is not right and not watching out for her – and she boldly rebels as a dissenter, putting herself at great risk.
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From doing this assignment, I gained more insight into the purpose of a concept and how to develop it.
GENRE: ROMCOM
Who’s Dax? Late 20s. Male. He’s a popular podcaster. He’s also a closet agoraphobic, who can’t find the right women to love. He can’t even find the right emotional support animal. He’s a profound mixture of self confidence and utter insecurity.
Arc: When he meets the right woman, he rejects her as another wrong woman until he learns to trust her and his own feelings and insights.
Internal journey: Dax swears off of romantic life because no matter how he weighs the pros and cons of commitment, the cons outweigh the pros, that is, when he’s not getting dumped first. He ends his journey capable of an enduring relationship by coming out of the agoraphobic closet.
External Journey. Dax starts out either dumping or being dumped by the wrong women. He also keeps buying and returning unwanted emotional support animals. And he continues finding himself in unwanted social situations. He also rejects the right woman thinking she’s another wrong woman. He ends up, at the last minute, with the right woman.
Old ways: Chooses the wrong women, wrong emotional support animals and wrong social situations. In denial about his agoraphobia.
New ways: Chooses the right women and social situations. Accepts the right dog that he keeps failing to return. Faces his agoraphobia.
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<div>I had difficulty understanding what entailed a transformational journey for a character who solves a 100-year-old crime mystery–and then the ideas started coming by asking the questions posed in the lesson. Here’s what I came up with:</div><div>
Logline: A film restorer fights gangsters, a movie producer’s heirs and attempts on his life when he finds information about a 100-year-old movie that could cost the heirs some of their $100 million dollar fortune.
Internal Journey: From weak and fearful to strong and active.
External Journey: Goes after the people who threaten him.
Transformation: Cameron goes from being timid and fearful to confident and taking credit for his innovation.
Arc Beginning: Cameron won’t make waves at work because he’s afraid of losing his job. He secretly tweaks the AI film restoration software, but won’t tell anyone even when it more or less brings Reina Hawkins to life and starts revealing mob connections, how the film launched a movie fortune and Reina’s secret baby, whose granddaughter Nadia today has a right to make a claim on that fortune.
Arc Ending: After proving that Nadia has a claim to the fortune and fending off murder attempts by her grandfather’s heirs, Cameron emerges as someone who takes risks and accepts credit for his accomplishments.
Old Ways: Obeying company orders; denying his creativity; making innovations in secret; covering up his success; avoiding making waves.
New Ways: Accepts role as a disrupter; advocate for positive use of AI to correct past crimes and injustices.
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Allen’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is…
Writing down in an understandable fashion what is in my mind is very difficult.
Concept:
Driven businessman, whose last promise to his late wife: “love our son no matter what” becomes a challenge when he must find the natural father for a life-saving transplant to save the boy who he loves.
Internal Journey:
Businessman hasn’t needed anyone else to build his business empire, but now must reach out to others to save the one person he loves as much as himself.
External Journey:
Learns that he has much to learn and mist rely on others for those lessons.
Old Ways:
Excessively confident
Self-assured, reliant
Emotionally stagnantNew Ways:
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What I learned doing this assignment is to define the arc of the characters including their internal and external struggles and triumphs.
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Internal
Journey: Professor Garvin misses his wife of 35 years. He also is
suffering from PTSD from his time in the military. <div>External
Journey: Professor Garvin and 2 other students come up with a plan to save
another student from “disappearing”.<div>
What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways: Garvin feels lost and cannot see past the current situation. He feels that he’s not good enough to save his student.
New Ways: Garvin uses his military experience to outsmart the new General and his troop.
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Lesson 1: Heather’s Transformational Journey
What I learned: As soon as a stumbled on the identity of my characters, the rough draft transformational journey came pretty easily.
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
The hero is George.
Internal Journey: George goes from cynical, disappointed in how
his life is turning out, and passive to falling in love again, being
creative to save himself and his wife, and being the hero in his own story.External Journey: George moves from “don’t get involved” to
taking charge of the situation.What are the Old Ways and New Ways? George’s old ways were to complain about everything, find fault (especially with his wife), and avoid getting involved in anything. His new ways are to appreciate life, fall in love with his wife again, and outsmart the bad guys in their own game.
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Lisa Long’s Transformational Journey – (literally)
Who is your Hero, and what is their character arc representing a transformation?
TINA is a very bright psychic child on a dense planet assignment.
Character Arc: From innocent and awake, abused, attacked, dumbed down with darkness, scared, hiding. To Awake, Empowered, Strong, and Fearless, bringing new Light and Concepts to the World.
Internal Journey: Stranger in a scary strange land with abusive people and energies. Hiding a terrified little girl.
External Journey: Self Confident and Shinning. Holding the LIGHT for many.
What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways: Small child, scared, hiding. Attacked, abused, and wounded. Needy trying to prove self-worth by over-helping and not allowing herself to receive.
New Ways: Adult woman, Released and clear from her wounds. Knows her value. Goddess Awake.“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”
Just do it! Start and let it flow.
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HI Lisa,
Like your concept!
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Alice’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is there might be many antagonist/ protagonist lines in here
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Elizabeth Salander, Girl with Dragon Tattoo
Internal Journey: she keeps many secrets, many of them
buried <div>External Journey: she is forced to face her enemy to
survive<div>
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Lisbeth turns from Wasp and Girl with Dragon Tattoo into anonymity.
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DAY 1 ASSIGNMENT – Brainstorm ideas, concepts, loglines and pick the best one. 1-15-23
LOGLINE
Four synesthetic lucid dreamers team up to save “The Cosmic Multiversity Library of Ancient Wisdom, Memories and Dreams” from fading away into oblivion.
CONCEPT
When Myka, a synesthete artist whose precognitive dreams inspire her paintings, has a nightmare that “The Cosmic Multiversity Library of Ancient Wisdom, Memories and Dreams” is fading, her Lioness guide challenges her to save it.
*Synesthesia = a condition in which the senses overlap or weave together. For example, hearing color, seeing music, smelling another person’s mood or personality, any combination of lower and higher senses.
LESSON 1 ASSIGNMENT – The Transformational Journey 1-28-23
Who is my hero and what is their Character Arc that represents transformation?
Hero: MYKA
Internal Journey: From depressed, devastated when she loses her dreams and inspiration to rekindling her passion and saving The Cosmic Multiversity Library from oblivion.
External Journey: From failing to get her master’s degree in a yet unexplored field to getting her new Master’s thesis on “Synesthetic Dream Research in Creating the Future in the Multiversity” approved by the Master’s Committee.
MYKA Old Ways
1. Isolates herself in her own world of painting, dreams and senses.
2. Loner, slow to admit she needs help
3. Ambitious artist above all, at the risk of relationships, self-centered
MYKA New Ways
1. Shares her world with others, becomes less selfish
2. Rekindles friendships and admits she needs her friends
3. Collaborates with them to reignite inspiration, not only for herself, but humanity by saving “The Multiversity of Wisdom, Dreams and Memory”.
What I learned doing this assignment is becoming clearer and clearer on where my character has been and where she’s going.
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Connie Whitmer Transformational Journey For TV Series, and for Episode 1.
What I learned – to think of the entire story, as well as each Episode, and Series, in Acts, building sequences, turning points, crisis and climax. Also, as one continuum, escalating in Conflict, Crisis, Dilemma, Decision, Climax, external accomplishment, and internal roller-coaster ride of: mental, emotional, psychological: triumph and tragedy, until achieving a kind of peace and understanding, and contentment in looking forward with hope . . . and never back with regret.
Hero – Brian Boru, youngest of 12 sons of Irish Tribal King, Cennetig of the Clan Dal Cais
External Journey – Series
After his Clan is attacked and slaughtered; Brian transforms, from 10-year-old, insignificant orphan, to rebel, outlaw, warrior, chief of tribe, King of Munster, King of the South, High King of the North and South, Ard Ri, over a united Ireland, in Freedom and Peace. After his Clan is attacked, Brian must survive, defend, achieve freedom and peace, and restore the homeland and people he loves, by running the gauntlet of invading, Danes razing Ireland, conniving and colluding Provincial Irish Kings, the treachery and betrayal by the High King, culminating in the greatest battle in Irish history, defending against an invasion of Vikings, mercenaries, and berserkers.
Internal Journey – Series
Brian begins his journey as a little boy who just wants to catch the biggest fish, to brag to his brothers. The attack ends his innocence, destroys his family and home, renders him alone, makes him and insignificant orphan in a hostile, foreign world. He must come of age, fighting against authority, the only one refusing to acquiesce to the Danes, becoming rebellious, creating his own guerilla army, unsuccessfully, until he realizes the only way to drive the Danes from Ireland, is by Uniting the Class, Eliminating the traitor Kings, and the High King, the traitors and tyrants, and he is the only one willing to risk all to accomplish it. Fighting his entire life until he finds he yearns for peace, more than battle.
External Journey – Episode 1 – The Attack
Son of Tribal King – to insignificant orphan who has lost everything.
When Brians Clan is attacked by Danes, and his family slaughtered, He must find a way to survive, try and save a little girl, by hiding in a tall round tower, Danes break in, savage her, set the tower aflame, Brian must find a way to save her, and make a last stand against the attackers, with his brother. From youngest son of a Tribal King of Thomond with family and Clan, and hill fort, to insignificant orphan – loss of everything he knows and loves, and hope for the future.
Internal Journey – a Episode 1 – End of Innocence
Brian goes from carefree child, who just wants to go fishing, to losing almost his entire family and Clan, shock, terror, disbelief, wanting to flee, to fight, to Jump! Trying to save a little girl, failing to keep her safe, being forced to watch her brutal rape, and the slaughter of his family, to making a last stand with brother, a life time wound of fear of being powerless to save the ones he loves, a flaw of admiring Courage wherever he finds it, and a lifetime vow of avenging the slaughter of his family, and driving the Danes back into the Sea to drown in their own blood!
Episode 1:
Old Ways
· Just a boy who wants to catch the biggest fish, to brag to his older brothers
· Innocent of any evil in the world
· Unafraid of anything, incapable of being intimidated, or dissuaded
· Safe with a loving family, 11 older brothers, and an entire Clan he is part of
· His biggest test – running the gauntlet of slaughter – of being the youngest of 12 boys.
New Ways
· Just a boy who wants to survive, go back to the way it was before the Danes came
· No longer innocent of the evil of the world, has seen it up close, the horror, the tragedy,
· Vows he will never be powerless again, be made to stand by as those he loves are brutalized
· He is no longer safe, the protection of his family, his Clan, his high fort, all gone
· His gauntlet of slaughter is no longer his brothers, they are all dead but one – but a seething cauldron of cannibalistic vipers, all wanting the last son of Cennetig – dead
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Jen’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is this is a great way to start – I think I often have this kind of thing in my head, but it is good to actually have it written down to keep yourself on track and focused – ensuring that you remain true to your character and their “ways”.
2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Jaleo Martinez
Internal Journey:
from self-sabotaging, unaccountable, and a blamer to a respectable young
man who takes responsibility for his actions and makes better decisions regarding
his behaviors.
External
Journey: gangster wannabe to a respectable family member, big brother,
contributor to societyOld ways: blame everyone else for his poor decisions, lash out in anger, self-loathing, victim of his environment – always the “victim” – even when he’s the perpetrator.
New ways: Jaleo has to come to terms with the things he has done to hurt other people and to feel truly sorry (not just say it). He also has to forgive himself and forgive those in his life who hurt him so that he can move on and be accountable for his actions while not wallowing in his past.
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Margaret’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is that by defining her change so clearly I am able to see behavior and situations that illustrate the transformation with clarity.
2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Lake Turner begins Gig Economy sleeping in her mom’s guest room. Her mom is a hoarder and there is only a narrow space available to the bare mattress and then her mom kicks her out. She’s lost her husband and home in the Tubbs Firestorm. Unable to return to her old job and life she delivers food in a traumatized Sonoma County as she travels through the five stages of grief to healing.
Internal Journey: unsustainable life to a life perfect for herExternal Journey: homeless and unmoored to a new home and life but now authentic
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Obsessive, intense, perfectionist to boundaries and mental and emotional health
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Love and Burgers
“What I learned doing this assignment is that it is perhaps best to keep it simple.”
1. Concept of “Love and Burgers”
• An unlikely romance blossoms between a financially stable white vegan activist and a Latino girl who has to finance her college tuition by winning burgers eating contests, as they discover the true meaning of love by looking past their differences.”
2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
• My Hero is the Latino Girl, because she will represent my target (meat eaters) in a favorable, unexpected and enticeable way. This said, as in many romcoms, both characters are closely followed and both will experience a journey.
• Internal Latino Girl’s Journey: From no special feelings for animals and low self esteem, to vegan advocacy and self worth.
• External Latino Girl’s Journey: From cheap eating contests and cheap love affairs, to international eating championship and finding true love.• Internal Vegan Activist’s Journey: From hating non-vegan people, to accepting human ambivalent attitude towards animals, and in general.
• External Vegan Activist’s Journey: From ineffective vegan campaigns, to popular international coverage and finding true love.3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
• Latino Girl’s Old Ways: sink or swim. She’s hard on herself, training her body to ingest food like a machinery.
• Latino Girl’s New Ways: looking outside her box. She becomes more sensitive to her body and to others.
• Vegan Activist’s Old Ways: provocative, trying to make non-vegan feel guilty.
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What I learned doing this assignment was what concept I’m going to write for this class.
Concept: (I picked something different)
Horror Feature: The PURGATORY GAME
After a woman and her family are brutally murdered, she is granted 3 lives to alter one thing in last 3 hours of her life to reverse the tragedy. The catch: reality is now the horrific parallel world of Purgatory.
2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Our hero is Sarah, a trophy wife and mother of two who is trapped in an emotionally abusive relationship with a very powerful man.
Internal Journey: From diffident and unhappy to confident and content.
External Journey: From being brutally murdered to navigating the Purgatory Game and finally killing the murderer before her family is exterminated, with the exception of her abuser.
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways: Do what she is told and live in fear of everyone around her. Obey her husband at all cost.
New Ways: Take her fate into her own hands and rely on her survival instincts to beat the Purgatory Game and destroy the two men who have controlled her life.
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Chris Dorsey’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is that going through this process helped me create more character depth and provided me with a better idea of what I want my story to be.
Logline: When an innocent man is incarcerated with some of the country’s most dangerous psychopaths, he must rely on/embrace his voices/his mental illness to win his freedom.
Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
– Wilbert McNutt (40) is a wrongly-convicted man housed in a facility for the criminally insane.
<font face=”inherit”>Internal Journey: From a naive, frightened man with limited insight into his mental illness to a man who accepts his disorder with </font>confidence<font face=”inherit”> and uses it to take down his enemies and the system. </font>
External Journey: From a new inmate unable to see the bad in people to seasoned inmate who taps into his bad side to win his freedom.<font face=”inherit”>
</font>What are the Old Ways? Avoidant/hiding, low self-esteem, weak, self-deprecating, kind-hearted.
What are the New Ways? Empathetic/connects to others, group leader, courageous, fights for the rights of mentally-ill inmates.
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JoAnne’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is:
Clarity of the situation and where the character is going to end up, is essential. What motivates the change and what obstacles will be hurled in her path, is the journey. I often started scripts without knowing the ending. Not good. You go down too many rabbit holes. <div>
Logline: An Empath, whose shopping addiction forces her out of Retirement, to work as a grocer, telepathically picks up on a Human Trafficker, who buys cheap booze to sedate his victims. A deceased victim guilt trips her to find help for all concerned, while she must learn to accept and live with her empathic abilities.
Internal Journey: From knowing she is different and often is taken advantage of or chooses the wrong job or people to be around, to embracing having empathic abilities she can use to help others, while learning to protect her own energy and health.
External Journey: From Retired University advisor to Grocer extraordinaire, who helps stop a Human Trafficker and finally comes to terms with her empathic abilities.
Old Ways
Feels bad that none of her relationships have worked out and she lives alone, after taking care of an ailing mother. She often shops to feel better and went overboard in online shopping during COVID. She’s retired from the University but needs more income. The only job she’s able to land is in a Techy new grocery store. She knows she is sensitive, telepathic with some and even had a few mediumship experiences, but she tries to ignore her sensitivities with shopping, withdrawing from people, reading and watching lots of streamers.</div><div>
New Ways
The Techy store really brings to light, that working under fluorescent lighting all evening, jangles her nerves, and having a disembodied spirit show up in the Alcohol Aisle, demanding help, is forcing her to confront how she needs some lifestyle changes to deal with her empathic abilities. She needs to help get this Human Trafficker stopped and she needs to understand her own emotional and energetic needs, so she stops sabotaging herself, financially, physically and emotionally. She needs to learn to be more spiritually centered. Maybe she could visit some sacred sites and see what she can pick up.</div>
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What I learned:
You can get deep quickly. Find the reality in my fiction. That I’m usually walking a fine line between life and death with my characters and it’s nice to see a wider spectrum to their growth and path.
Nick’s internal journey takes him from being an eager, indifferent and disconnected user of others to an thinking, invested, intentional giver…someone willing to make a true sacrifice.
Nick’s external journey takes him from taking himself and others to the most breathtaking places on earth to the most frightening forbidden places.
Nick’s Old Ways
No plan for life…just go where the fun is
Hidden Superiority…he’s better at adventuring than any of the douche-bags he guides.
No Love…no desire to be responsible for another’s emotions…he’s busy enough taking care of himself.
Opportunistic…taking from others to fulfill his own goals
Nick’s New Ways
True Courage…he realizes he must rise to an unseen threat in order to save the lives of others
Opportunistic…this same trait serves him well, but in a different way…he uses his ability to find opportunity, for not only his own gain, but for the benefit of the world.
Love…he wants to share his life with someone else.
Humility…realizing that through thankfulness and sacrifice, there is a higher more fulfilling existence.
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Day1 The Transformational Journey
James’ Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is by having an idea for my beginning and endpoints allows me to brainstorm specific scenes that will show the progression of my character’s arc (her internal and external journeys). These scenes would demonstrate the old ways getting challenged leading to the new ways which then reveals the change in the character.
The Hero: Jessica Blue
Character Arc:
· Internal Journey: from having a subservient mindset to being her own boss
· External Journey: from being trapped in dead-end worker roles to owning her own business
The Old Ways and New Ways:
Jessica Old Ways:
1. Putting others before herself.
2. Being a subservient worker in all job roles.
3. Keeping good ideas to herself.
4. Lacking outward ambition.
Jessica New Ways:
1. Takes care of her well-being first.
2. Becomes more proactive to create opportunities for herself.
3. Expresses career enhancing ideas.
4. Puts forth her ambition to establish her own business.
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Concept. Criminal is Born
Criminals are not born but originated when society doesn’t do justice. Jeff antagonist a thoughtless, person journey from simplicity to complicity is story of a man, who kept the innocent person Andrew the protagonist without thinking he will be a criminal.
The transformational journey.
Story arc
Old way
Protagonist Andrew journey from home as an immature and carefree child.
New way
Protagonist Andrew journey, lost in storm and picked up by antagonist jeff and Andrew getting clever while applying various tactics to escape.
Arc begins
Andrew at home getting ready for storm.
Arc ending
Andrew gone through various experience of dealing with criminal and try to escape.
Internal journey
Andrew journey from secured home atmosphere to the criminal house
External journey.
Andrew applies various tacti’s to escape and while getting experience how to manipulate criminal.
I learned that story can be told by applying various Tanique through transformational journey.
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Kevin’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is I’m much like my main character and hopefully can join him on his transformational journey!
2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Batman: Age 65
Internal Journey: From tired old man to invigorated super hero
External Journey: From Retiree with no will to live, to super hero who saves Gotham once again.
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways
Sitting around waiting for things to happen for him
Frustrated, ordering people around
sad and dejected with life
New Ways
Energized and ready to reengage.
Interested in being fit
looking for ways to help humanity again
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Subject line: Gilesberg’s Transformational Journey
I learnt that my previous thoughts around my hero were not strong enough, I need him to go on a journey and repair his brokenness rather than have his act together from the start
1. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Ces is the hero, and his character arc is
Internal Journey: – Ces is bitter and twisted towards the Japanese, he is angry and bitter for his imprisonment, he needs to resolve this to survive the POW Camp and to be freeExternal Journey – Ces needs to escape the POW camp – his goal is to take as many of his men with him home alive
4. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
a. His old ways are to resent every request from the guards that is made of the soldiers – everyone sees he is broken, but he doesn’t.
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What I learned from this assignment: Writing the external journey definitely helps to solidify the internal journey. When I wrote the old and new ways, I started to get more detail of who my character is.
Hero: Lorraine
Internal Journey: scared to move on, afraid of making a bad decision
External Journey: committed to self care, not afraid to do what’s right for her, brave to break old ways of thinking.
Old Ways: timid, scared, unable to speak for herself
New Ways: strength, brave, ready to be present in the world.
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Dominic’s Transformational Journey:
Firstly, what I learned from this assignment was wow, I really let perfection seep into my writing process and work life as I’m seventeen days late with this. But I learned the keys to making not only the foundations for a script but a movie that has the recipe to be a classic. Now I had a big idea but no characters to go with it so I was stuck, but after going over this assignment and especially re-reading the line “Create a light version of the main character…” I did it all in one day. So if it looks or sounds horrible don’t worry it will improve, this is an incredibly ROUGH CUT.
The Concept: The working title is… “THE GREY CYCLE”
Again, this concept isn’t fully fleshed out but I had to get this done and it sprang from this idea…
“The police have pieced together a series of Tic Toks clips documenting a party at a young man’s house who lives next door to a house that hosts an event that nearly wiped out all mankind.”
(The seed idea being — to show us the neighbor’s perspective of events unfolding from movies like Poltergeist, Signs, Amvittyville Horror, etc. Catching lightning in a bottle essentially.)
#1. Who is the Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a Transformation?
ANSWER: James Mayer is 18 – 20 years old.
INTERNAL JOURNEY: From having grand dreams but in love with staying in his comfort zone and thinking time is endless to risking everything and being strong for others.
EXTERNAL JOURNEY: From a wannabe TicTok influencer to saving our plain of existence with no thought of how it benefits him.
OLD WAYS:
*Wanting things to change but never taking action to do so.
*Lazy
*Believing life is all and only about getting views and achieving fame
*Never confronting his own weaknesses.
NEW WAYS:
*Taking action
* Being proactive
* Understanding the VALUE of life itself
* Sacrificing for others
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Dean’s Transformational Journey
- What I learned doing this assignment is the distance my character will travel from the beginning to the end of the story.
You send a Hero on a journey that the audience gets to live.
1. Listen to the 3-minute Empowerment Audio FIRST.
- Done. I am empowered!
2. Who is your Hero, and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
- Hero: Brooke Hatcher
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Internal Journey: From idealistic and entitled to seeing reality and knowing that you can’t control everything.
- External Journey: From rebelling against the system of privilege and ease that her family built to being consumed by it.
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
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Old Ways: Rebelling against her entitled family and businessman father.
Taking on virtue signaling causes to change the world, not knowing the possible negative results.
Naively putting herself in harm’s way to prove her points.
Not having hard challenges in knowing what she’s capable of. - New Ways: Destroying her family.
Being changed for the worse by taking on her causes.
Fighting under and losing to the system she once rode on top of.
Having to fight and being harmed in ways she can never reverse.
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Charles’s Transformational Journey
What I learned doing this assignment is to exam hero’s internal and external journey</font>
2. Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?
Male Nurse/Best friend
Internal Journey:
scared lost, confused, apathetic to believer, confident, self-assured
External Journey:
wall flower to confident in posture presentation
3. What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways lack of confidence
not serious about church
not sure he can meet
New Ways
confident
a believer
ready to do what he can to be an example
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