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Lesson 18
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SUBJECT: Mark Napier’s Act 3 Middle Scenes
What did I learn? I learned to increase my speed.
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ACT 3:
BEAT SHEET: ACT 3 MAKES A NEW PLAN:
SLUG: INT–HOME, VIERA, FLORIDA–DAY
–Mark taps his retirement savings plans to generate revenue to sustain himself and cover the mortgage and utility bills, in addition to bartering personal property, short selling the house and dumbing down the resume to increase employment opportunities as a strategy to avoid failure.
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ACT 3:
ACT 3 MAKES A NEW PLAN: OUTLINE:
SLUG: INT–HOME, VIERA, FLORIDA–DAY
BEGINNING: Mark begins to barter to pay off vacant land he owns in Colorado as a backup plan to move there using his household goods, a couple of vehicles and heavy machinery he bought to support his oldest brother’s business that no longer exists. Mark cashes in his US Government and Military savings plans to pay off as much debt and to carry him, until he secures employment.
MIDDLE: After sending out approximately 200 applications over the course of six months with no results, Mark tries a different approach on his resume by dumbing it down to appeal to employment opportunities one would find at Burger King, Walmart and Winn Dixie.
END: Mark attempts to put his house on the market for a short sale in an attempt to prevent his credit from being destroyed.
ACT 3:
ACT 3 MAKES A NEW PLAN: DIALOG SCENE:
SLUG: INT–HOME, VIERA, FLORIDA–DAY
DESCRIPTION:
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ACT 3:
BEAT SHEET: ACT 3 THINGS GO WELL, UNTIL…:
SLUG: INT–HOME, VIERA, FLORIDA–DAY
–As the Great Recession grows worse and no hope for employment Mark soon depletes his savings, cannot pay utilities, nor buy food and worse yet the IRS files a nearly $500,000 civil suit for back taxes.
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ACT 3:
ACT 3 THINGS GO WELL, UNTIL… OUTLINE:
SLUG: INT–HOME, VIERA, FLORIDA–DAY
BEGINNING: As the Great Recession grows worse and no hope for employment Mark soon depletes his savings, cannot pay utilities, nor buy food.
MIDDLE: The IRS files a nearly $500,000 civil suit for back taxes Mark owes from the four years he spent in two combat zones for his country. Had he not had his luggage stolen by the CIA that contained his tax material, Mark had estimated he would have only owed $125,000. Now Mark is left without water and electricity for three months in a house he will lose.
END: The Internal Revenue Service reaches into Mark’s bank account and takes his last $600 shoving him and his small dog penniless into the streets.
ACT 3:
ACT 3 THINGS GO WELL, UNTIL…: DIALOG SCENE:
SLUG: INT–HOME, VIERA, FLORIDA–DAY
DESCRIPTION:
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LESSON 18:
DR. AMADOR’S Act 3 Middle Scenes:
***What I learned from this assignment is that I’m getting a good grasp of turning points, and even though I don’t have all the answers, this “outlined” beat sheet will help me flow once i officially start my first “run-through” draft.
(KEY SCENE 2: MAKES A NEW PLAN):
BEGINNING: The president is down in the polls, General Portman gets inside information that this ‘discovery’ if shared with the DOE will boost his numbers and help him with his re-election.
MIDDLE: General Portman and Robert fly to DC., they meet with the president. He hesitates at first and they back and forth: Why should he give them a second chance? Robert proves that there was foul play from Rosinski; he wanted the mission to fail so it could go into private funding. The President asks him what are the chances of it from happening again?
END: Robert insists he has his own loyal team in place outside of rosinski’s hands and can relaunch the mission, but they need to override other organizations , both public and private in getting exclusive time-priority for this ‘re-alighnment” project. The President escalates this mission to top priority. Rosinski is blocked from proceeding any further.
[things go well until ]:
INT. SILICON VALLEY SPACE CORPS. – DAY
BEGINNING: ROSINSKI PRESENTS dilemma to his “bosses”; he tells him he’s been pushed aside by robert’s shenanigans with the annoying general and the President.
Middle: All is going well, they’re[robert and co.] about to launch their global collaborative effort until a a major funder of the president tells the president to change course or else! [the president and private funder go back and forth. we don’t know outcome until]:
[place holder: here we can see more science and global intercuts of telescopes around the world; robert stays the course: we must aim satellite beam at the center of our milky way galaxy: at the deepest black hole in our galaxy—while we have this window literally , technologically and astronomically).
END: right as they are about to start their satellite adjustment, military facilities enter new mexico university to block Robert.
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ASSIGNMENT #18
What I learned doing this assignment is to get it on the page. For the first time I put (insert son’s name here) or (insert cool job here) and just kept going with the dialogue knowing I can fill in on a later pass.
1. Outline Key Scenes 2 & 3.
Key Scene #2: New Plan: Beginning: Harriet suggests Carla to use her to help get unstuck
Middle: Use you how? Just fall into being me for a bit since Mark has trashed your heart and you can’t see straight and you can’t stay as you are or you’ll wind up living in a cardboard box.
End: Okay. Trust fall and Carla allows Harriet to drive the bus on ALL her life decisions.
Key Scene #3:( Things start going well until…)(aka Transformational event E)
Beginning: Carla is volunteering at the school book fair and talking to other moms who turn out to be cool
Middle: Successfully networking and having fun getting ideas for building out her portfolio
End: “Send me your stuff when it’s ready. No rush these things always take a while,”
2. Write Key Scene 2: Makes a new plan.
Done.
3. Write Key Scene 3: Things go well, until…
Done.
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Lesson 18 Trish’s Act 2B Middle Scenes
What I learned doing this assignment is that I’m not sure if I picked the key scenes right. I have a ton of placeholders still, so I might pick others later.
1. Outline Key Scenes 2 & 3.
Did this in Lesson 17.
2. Write Key Scene 2: Makes a new plan.
Done.
3. Write Key Scene 3: Things go well, until…
Done.
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