Lesson 10 Assignments

[Jack Young]

What I learned doing this assignment is that with some brainstorming of titles for our episodes and season titles, we can find more intriguing and interesting titles for our TV Pitch Bible.

Jack Young’s) Episode Titles for “STREAM”

I have brainstormed titles and added those to the originally titled episodes and season titles below:

EPISODE I: Michael Crosses Over

Conflict: The Bill’s Come Due

Journey: Michael Crosses Over

Dilemma: Jail or Heaven

Issue faced: All Roads Lead to the Stream

Irony: Things Aren’t Quite Working out for Michael

Threat to hero: Michael Must Die

Discovery: Michael Faces his Destiny

As a child, Michael almost drowns and has a vision of the mammoth sacred seals. At work, as Michael repossesses the home of an old woman, she pulls a gun from her purse and shoots herself right in front of him. Michael gets word that the FBI has issued a warrant for his arrest for an illegal stock deal. Michael breaks off an affair with his secretary while his headaches intensify. Michael has visions of the Stream and Professor and discovers that he has terminal brain cancer. Michael meets the Professor and Thomas who want to stop his heart and send him into the Stream. Michael dies to enter the Stream and begins his journey.

EPISODE II: The Sorcerer’s Dark Story.

Conflict: Light Versus Dark

Journey: A Sorcerer’s Discovery

Dilemma: Good Prince, Bad Prince

Issue faced: The Dark Ages Cometh

Irony: A Brothers’ Love

Hero’s challenging situation: How to Kill a Sorcerer

Threat to hero: The Evil Begins

Discovery: How to Capture a Soul

During the dark ages, a king sends his sons to investigate the darkness that looms over his kingdom. His sons find the Sorcerer summoning evil and creating soulless creatures that has thrown the kingdom into the Dark Ages. The Sorcerer is killed during the fight and is thrown into the portal that leads to the planet of Sacred Seals. During the chaos, the elder son kills his brother over an affair he had with his wife. Upon his return, the king kills his traitorous son for killing his favorite son. Again, with the Sorcerer vanquished the darkness parts for sunshine over the kingdom.

EPISODE III: An Alien Invasion Fails

Conflict: Alien Vs. Pure Evil

Journey: A Long Way From Heaven

Dilemma: You Should Have Stayed in Your Own Galaxy

Issue faced: You’re Way Out of Your League

Irony: And You Thought It’d be Easy

Aliens arrive on the planet of seals. The Aliens discover the seals are a source of strange/dark power. Aliens discover it is evil and try to escape but find that they are trapped on the planet. Evil infiltrates the ship and causes the pregnancy of the human and other specimens resulting in new kinds of evil/dark creatures being born.

EPISODE IV: Cronus is Born

Conflict: Cronus Rises to Power

Journey: And Then There Were Skins

Dilemma: City of Seals or Bust

Issue faced: Lift The Seals and Unleash The Evil

Irony: Where’s the Union Rep When You Need One

Threat to hero: Michael’s Nightmare is Realized

Cronus is born of a female human and grows to take control of the aliens. Cronus discovers the body of the Sorcerer near the Seals. The Sorcerer’s body is reanimated and becomes aid to Cronus. Cronus develops a plan to raise the 6 Sacred Seals using slave labor from other planets. The Sorcerer helps the Aliens to bring human workers to the planet through a wormhole. Tired of the limitations of the human body, the Sorcerer and Aliens develop the Stream to steals souls for synthetic slave workers. The City of Seals is built around the seals.

EPISODE V: The Professor’s Stories of the Astral World

Conflict: An Anomaly in the Astral Plane

Journey: The Stream

Dilemma: Stolen Souls

Issue faced: Give Those Souls Back

Irony: So Much for Having Fun in the Astral Plane

Hero’s challenging situation: The Professor’s Discovery

Threat to hero: One Piece of the Puzzle Revealed

Discovery: We Found the Problem and it’s Trying to Steal My Soul

A group of college students experiment with astral projection. Professor Darlington becomes aware of their astral activities. The Professor mentors them on Astral Projection and recruits them into an Astral team. The Professor reveals his introduction to and dark secrets of Astral Projection. The Professor and students discover the “Stream” in the Astral plane. The Professor believes that the Stream is connected to no-birth and is ridiculed by science community.

EPISODE VI: Am I in Heaven?

Conflict: Michael Dies and Gets a New Skin

Journey: Journey to the Other Side

Dilemma: Now That You’re Dead, Now What?

Issue faced: Dying is Not So Hard

Irony: Am I in Heaven?

Hero’s challenging situation: A New Skin

Threat to hero: Welcome to Heaven, or Not

Discovery: So This is What Heaven Looks Like

Michael revisits the highlights of his life as his soul leaves his body and he enters the Astral plane. The Astral team, guided by the Professor, ensures that Michael enters the Stream and is on his way to the other side. Michael arrives in the Ocean of Souls (Heaven). Michael is plucked from the Ocean of Souls and is given a new “Skin”. Michael is assigned work in the Black Forest.

EPISODE VII: Keeping the Body Alive

Conflict: Body on the Run

Journey: MIT Didn’t Prepare Me for This

Dilemma: No Body, No Return

Issue faced: Dead Bodies Can be Complicated

Irony: Thomas is On the Way

Hero’s challenging situation: If Only Michael Knew

Threat to hero: Hurry Home, We’re Keeping Your Body on Ice

Michael’s wife escapes with Michael’s preserved body. Thomas steals equipment to maintain Michael’s body. Police implement a wide area search for Michael’s wife. Thomas is killed. He finds himself in the Ocean of Souls.

EPISODE VIII: The Professor’s Secret Soul Experiments

Conflict: Soul Man

Journey: City of Seals and the Trouble With Harry

Dilemma: Is Everyone on the Same Page Now?

Issue faced: There’s Something Very Evil afoot Here

Irony: The Stream is Only a Symptom

Hero’s challenging situation: I guess I’m All in Now

Threat to hero: We Know Your Secret, Now Run

The Professor has a breakthrough discovery on human soul/body connection. Police confers with FBI on Professor’s work. FBI hones in on the Professor’s research and assigns the case to Homeland Security agent (Harry Miles). The Professor flees with his team. The Professor succeeds with a test of is new device. Michael travels to the City of Seals and sees the seals for the first time.

FIVE SEASONS DESCRIPTION:

SEASON I: The Death of Michael

Conflict: Can Things Get Any Worse?

Journey: The Life of Michael..and Death

Dilemma: You Want to Stop My Heart?

Issue faced: Maybe This is What I deserve

Irony: I Almost Had the Brass Ring

Hero’s challenging situation: I’ve Been Here Before..it Doesn’t End Well

Threat to hero: Heaven’s Just a Heartbeat Away

Michael finds himself in a journey to see what exists on the other end of the Stream that is creating the no-birth epidemic. Michael is dying, being pursued by the government, and dealing with forces that are trying to stop him from entering the Stream. Can Michael get to the other end of the Stream and stop it? Michael is plucked from what appears to be a version of Heaven and finds himself in a synthetic skin on a strange planet.

SEASON II: There’s a Much, Much Bigger Problem…

Conflict: Welcome to the City of Seals

Journey: Skin Central

Dilemma: What Can I do, I’m Just a Skin

Issue faced: Where Have All The Babies Gone?

Irony: Keep the Light On, I have My Work Cutout for Me in Skin City

Threat to hero: A City of Stolen Souls

Discovery: Michael May be More Than Your Ordinary SKin

Michael discovers that a bigger problem than the Stream stealing souls exists after arriving on the Planet of Seals. A whole city has been built on the planet around 6 mammoth Sacred Seals buried in the ground. Hundreds of thousands of humans and millions of “Skins” have been imprisoned on the planet and employed as workers to raise the sacred seals. According to an old man they call the “Seer” the removal of the seals will plunge the universe into the age of evil, with Cromus at the helm. Michael searches for answers about the Stream and Seals while the Professor visits the Ocean of Souls looking for his deceased wife. The government steps up its investigation of the professor, convinced he’s responsible for the no-birth epidemic. Can Michael find the source of the Stream and shut it down? On Earth, Thomas gets killed while protecting Michael’s body and finds himself in the Ocean of Souls. The Homeland Security preps their team of Army Rangers to journey into the Stream to shut it down.

SEASON III: Ocean of Souls

Conflict: An Army of Skins

Journey: The Rise of Michael

Dilemma: One More Seal and Game Over, Man!

Issue faced: How Do I Kill The Evil Sonbitch

Irony: Pieces of God

Hero’s challenging situation: The Battle for the City of Seals

Threat to hero: Michael’s Faith

Thomas searches for Michael as a revolution builds against Cronus where Michael hesitantly accepts his role as leader. Cronus steps up crushing dissidence and removing the final sacred seals. War is on the horizon. Will the revolution succeed and will Cronus remove the final seals? Michael falls onto the seals and isn’t immediately disintegrated like others. He accepts his destiny that he has been chosen. Michael consolidates his armies along with Harry and his men who have come to Michael’s aid to destroy Cronus and the Stream.

SEASON IV: Son of Cronus

Conflict: Just When You Thought It Was Over…

Journey: Evil Never Dies

Dilemma: Politics, the Perfect Vehicle…

Issue faced: Evil Rises

Irony: Why Does Politics Attract Demons?

Hero’s challenging situation: Michael is Called to Duty One Last Time

Threat to hero: Michael’s Dejavu

Cronus’ concubine returns to Earth carrying his child…the son of Cronus. Michael returns home, having destroyed the Stream. Babies are born again. The epidemic averted.

The birth of Cronus’ son has brought the evil back to Earth. What will the evil that was brought back to Earth do? The son of Cronus is elected as VP of the United States.

SEASON V: The Battle for Mankind’s Souls

Conflict: A World Seduced By Evil

Journey: Some Will Not Survive

Dilemma: The Dead Rise for the Occasion

Issue faced: The Son of Cronus

Irony: We’re Going to Need Bigger Skins

The son of Cronus gains power in the political world as a small group of rebels grows having perceived his evil intentions. Michael finds himself and family drawn into a new war against evil that he thought had been destroyed. The son of Cronus and his armies against the rebel force being led by Michael. Can the son of Cronus gain power over the world and will the sacred seals now be successfully removed by the son of Cronus? Newly designed “Military” skins guard the sacred seals on a foreign planet, forever guarding against the evil returning.

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[Madeleine Vessel]

Madeleine Vessel’s Episode Titles

Doing this assignment, I learned how to use title formats. Very helpful. I now have new titles for my Season 1 episodes and new titles for my five seasons. They tell a story. Amazing!

As always, this is a work in progress. Fun, fun, fun.

Here are my episode titles:

Episode 1: Frantic

Episode 2: Frightened to Death

Episode 3: Kidnapped

Episode 4: Rescued

Episode 5: Bodyguard or Villain

Episode 6: Outsmarted

Episode 7: All is Lost

Episode 8: Kill or Be Killed

Here are my new season titles:

Season 1 Title: The Hoard

Season 2: The Forgery

Season 3: The Restoration

Season 4 Title: The Negotiation

Season 5: The Trap

[Eric Humble]

Eric Humble’s Episode Titles

What I learned doing this assignment is: This was a really interesting lesson in that I was able to reexamine my episodes and seasons for the essence and the hooks and it really gave me some interesting breakthroughs as I tried to encapsulate them in succinct titles. I’m sure these will evolve as I go forward, but I like the way they tell the story even just in the short phrases themselves when sequenced out. I’ll be doing this exercise with my second concept when I get that one up to this step, and I’m excited to get another opportunity to try this technique out.

EPISODE TITLES

Episode 1: One Drop of Blood

Episode 2: Find the Girl

Episode 3: You Owe Us, We Own You

Episode 4: All It’ll Cost You

Episode 5: The Intimidation Game

Episode 6: Ghosting

Episode 7: Initiation

Episode 8: Old Bones

Episode 9: No One Lives Forever

Episode 10: Radiation Treatment

SEASON TITLES

Season 1: Hyperplasia

Season 2: Dysplasia

Season 3: Metastasis

Season 4: Malignant

Season 5: Invasive

[George Petersen]

George Petersen – EPISODE TITLES

What I learned from doing this assignment is that there is always a better title, pretty much.

TITLE:

THE ART OF SECRECY

EPISODES:

Episode 1: THE RED BALLOT

Episode 2: A CITY IN CHAOS

Episode 3: THE GANGS OF BALTIMORE

Episode 4: BRING ME LINCOLN’S BEATING HEART

Episode 5: WHERE’S MISS DIXIE?

Episode 6: THIS TRAIN IS NOT COMING BACK

Episode 7: UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS

Episode 8: WILL THEY ATTACK THE CAPITAL?

SEASONS:

SEASON 1 – MOBTOWN

SEASON 2 -THE WAR COMES

SEASON 3 – END OF DREAMS

SEASON 4 – RISING FROM THE ASHES

SEASON 5 – HOME AT LAST

[Eloise Healey]

Eloise Healey’s Titles

What I learned from doing this assignment is that episode titles can tell the story of a whole season in a glance – a reason to include them, even though I hate coming up with titles!

NO MAN’S LAND is a limited series, so only 1 season of titles are here:

EP 1 – No More Men

EP 2 – Banished

EP 3 – What is (Wo)man?

EP 4 – Mutiny

EP 5 – Turncoat

EP 6 – Never Again