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Lesson 2
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Joseph’s First Three Decisions
1. The obstacle is the way.
2. Problems are like gold. But you should be willing to accept the problem and the change it may bring up in you.
3. You have to take action, in order to resolve the problem .
II. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
The movie will give the audience the courage to do what they are avoiding to do as it now shows the work being avoided in a new light. If they follow through it could dramatically change their life.
III. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
I would ‘pick a world’ as an entertainment vehicle. The world would be as it is generally perceived by the audience.
The characters would come from a deeper space which shows that they are willing to face the pain in order to grow. Like the character – Rick Blaine in ‘Casablanca.’
IV. Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” (place at top of your work).
I learned the art of taking a line and going deeper and deeper till you arrive at place which is profound.
‘Cause is the background’ is an eye opener.
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Subject line: Nader Khaghani Transformational Journey (in 48 hrs.)
1. Each script is about a transformational change.
2. Each script is a journey from was to is.
Transformational Journey: The lead character: Tom
- Tell us your logline for the
transformational journey.:
First shot: Moving from preoccupation with death and dying to life and living.
Hal’s Helps: Depressed in old age, Tom is reoccupied with dying until he discovers he is living now (!) and will die yet he can still enjoy his remaining days.
- Tell us what you see as the Old
Ways. Old days: depression, death and all he loves left behind. - Tell us what you see as the New
Ways. The clock is running, but Can still enjoy the remaining days. - Answer the question “What I
learned doing this assignment is…?” (place at the top of your work). - Post to the forums at https://www.screenwritingclasses.com/forums/.
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- Tell us your logline for the
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Penny Wingert, My three decisions are to get the audience to love God, to love one another and o love themselves and all of Humanity
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Madeleine’s First Three Decisions
What I learned doing this assignment:
In the beginning, I found it difficult to imagine the profound truth I could get across in a murder mystery. I thought about exploring truth, evil, and pride versus humility.
But then I started looking deeper and discovered that I believe evil is often perpetuated by people’s conviction that they do not have the power to stop it: victim mentality.
Then I realized we don’t have to be victims. We can operate from our agency, our real power to affect the future and to influence others to help us.
The result is the following:
1. What is your profound truth?
You don’t have to be a victim.
You were created for better things.
You have the power to affect your future.
2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
The audience will move from feeling helpless to believing in their power to change things.
What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
A thrilling murder mystery.
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What I learned while doing this assignment:
It is hard when you have a head full of ideas to distill them down to a single profound truth. But every story has one. I learned how to push aside some of the excitement clutter of the story and get to the “why” of the story. That profound truth is what makes the story matter to people and why they buy into it. It’s what will make them watch the story on a screen more than once and tell other people about it.
I’m not sure I’m done with the distilling, but I’m impressed that I have a starting point to keep thinking about it.
I have two ideas, and I’m posting them both here:
IDEA 1 (TV Series)
What is your profound truth?
- People who are forced to share physical space develop an emotional connection.
- Even the people you hate are human and relatable.
- What you hate in someone else is sometimes what you really admire in them or what you hate in yourself.
What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
- From hating people who seem to be villains to understanding them as complex humans who have some lovable qualities.
- When you can humanize your enemies, you can understand yourself.
- People who evoke the strongest reactions in you may be mirroring something that lives in you.
What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
- PICK A WORLD: A shared house inherited by two women, one is the wife of the deceased, the other his mistress.
IDEA 2 (Movie)
What is your profound truth?
- Unreconciled pain sets up your adult relationships to fail.
- Your capacity to love is governed by your willingness to heal.
- The most authentic and freest way to love is unrestrained.
What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?
- From feeling the need to suppress and protect their deepest feelings to embracing the power, freedom and payoff of vulnerability.
What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?
- PICK A WORLD: A magical escape room that requires players to deal with the biggest hurt or fear of their lives in order to leave the room.
- METAPHOR: The room is a metaphor for the most common love and relationship blockers.
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