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Lesson 1 Assignments
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Madeleine’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
Vision: I am going to do whatever it takes for me to be a writer of amazing stories with meaning who can move the audience and change the world resulting in financial, critical and audience success.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: I’ve learned once more, it just takes one small step at the time to advance on the path to a great script. At first it sounded like an easy step, I took the time and went through all the different structure to finally choose the Dramatic Triangle.
Title: Menopausal Dad
Concept: What if a professor of growth economics gets confronted with his own natural limits?
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Brandyn Cross’ Title, Concept and Character Structure
My vision for success in this program is to develop and hone my skills to the extent that my screenplays will be produced and widely viewed.
What I learned from this assignment is a pretty cool means of determining the overall structure of the story. I’m actually pretty stoked about this because determining how to present the story is always a huge struggle. Yet this method made what could be an endless internal debate an easy decision over about a 2 minute debate.
Title: Ghost Writer
Concept: : A struggling children’s book author develops psychic abilities, enabling him to communicate with dead children, following a disabling accident in which his own son was killed.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
(as a note, finding this page required a series of trial and error, as almost every available option kept taking me to the previous class from a few months ago)
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Hi Brandyn, like your concept a lot and agree with your learning as am finding the process/es to be extremely helpful .. looking forward to further epiphanies/breakthroughs
Also concur re your note .. in fact, I think I posted my assignment to an earlier cohort’s Forum .. have found navigating the Forums to be challenging, trial and error
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Mhmd’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
My Vision: I will keep creating constantly and effectively; in order to be the most demanded and influential glorified writer within the industry and with the audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is..
– The five result versions of ‘Exchanging components to new concepts’ assignment could be a mini helpful arsenal here and this gave me the ready answer on the Character Structure.
Title: Conjoined twin 84
Concept: Shocking revolutionary actions escalate inside a labor colony of conjoined twins cut out of the will, underhandedly driven – with sudden and unexpected patterns- by a conjoined twin who has an impossible mutation.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle.
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Paul’s Title, Concept and Character Structure.
4. I want to write scripts that become movies that change people’s lives.
5. What I learned from this assignment is that too many of my concepts still read like loglines.
2. Title: DON’T EVEN ASK!
He served for years in the drug war only to discover that the biggest cartel is the DEA.
3. Character Structure: Protagonist vs Antagonist(s).
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KZ’s Title, Concept & Character Structure
My vision for success in this program: To master screenwriting to such a degree that I can take any of my ideas and turn them into screenplays that will be successful at the box office and on streaming services because they speak to a vast audience yearning for meaningful stories.
What I learned from this assignment is how to make the big decisions up front, during the planning stage of the script.
Title: PERP WALK
Concept: A small town police force falls under the spell of an ex-con turned hypnotist, who is hellbent on revenge.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
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Geoff Gwillim’s Title, Concept, and Character Structure!
MY VISION: I am a writer of popular and critically acclaimed films, enjoying and grateful for every aspect of my creative life, consistently writing what and as I choose wherever I choose to live in the world, loving the wonderful experiences my writing enables me to have.
What I learned from doing this assignment is ..
Learning to outline really well is an essential skill for great writing .. and it takes time and commitment, as does anything worthwhile
Title EIGHTEEN DEEP
Concept A former submariner turned fireman suffering PTSD is recruited for an exploratory mission when the earth’s crust is torn apart, only to discover the answer to some of life’s biggest questions
Character Structure Buddy Movie
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Raquel Solomon’s Title, Concept and Character Structure
Vision: I want to go deeper into my writing to create screenplays where characters of depth are placed in compelling journeys with a fresh voice that Hollywood producers as well as independent film cos. know they must make!
What I learned from doing this assignment is that determining the character structure is another tool to help in structuring the screenplay and placing characters in scenes that express conflict and change/growth for the protagonist.
Title: Death Fugue
Concept: A young Jewish Warsaw Ghetto violinist forced to give concerts to Nazi officers outside the ghetto becomes a smuggler of guns and food for the uprising.
Character Structure: Protagonist vs Antagonist
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KZ’s Title, Concept & Character Structure
My vision for success: To master screenwriting so that I can turn my many ideas into salable scripts that get made and succeed at the box office.
What I learned from this assignment: That planning the script one step at a time allows the idea to develop on a strong foundation.
Title: ESCAPE FROM NIRVANA
Concept: Two cutthroat negotiators master meditation so well they wind up stuck in Nirvana.
Character Structure: Buddy movie — or — Dramatic Triangle
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