Lesson 2

[Bob Rowen]

Bob Rowen’s First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is an interesting thought process for setting up my Cause screenplay.

My first three decisions:

1. What is your profound truth?

Truth ultimately prevails in a democratic educational environment.

2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?

CHARACTER ARC = The main character goes from a naïve view of educational governance to a coming of terms with it.

AUDIENCE CHANGE = The audience now has a new appreciation for the roll of academic freedom.

3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?

THE EMBELLISHED AS-IT-HAPPENED CONFLICT

[Bill]

Bill Southwell First Three Decisions What I learned doing this assignment is that it is useful to begin with the end in mind. Identify objectives and then build on them.

What is your profound truth?

A woman’s dedication to her husband’s success and happiness brings out her greatest feminine empowerment.

What
is the change your movie will cause with an audience?

Ceasing contention. Being supportive.

What
is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?

Embellished true story.

[Andrea Gilbert]

LESSON 2: Andrea’s First Three Decisions.

What have I learned from doing this lesson?

Although I have thought long, hard, and deep on this concept over the years I am amazed at how much more I am able to whittle it down to its most fundamental parts. And yet I have created two options for each question. I guess there is more whittling to do 👽

1. What is your profound truth?

**You are a multi-dimensional being with enormous potential beyond the five senses – and as soon as you realize this – anything is possible.

** Everyone can create their own reality through self-mastery.

2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?

Two possibilities:

**The audience feels the swelling empowerment that comes from integrating the shadow self with the whole self when you expand into a multi-dimensional being.

**The audience now realizes anything is possible if they can imagine and believe it – and are willing to become self-aware, forgive and let go of old subconscious wounds and limiting beliefs.

3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?

**Metaphor. The special world I will be creating in the second act is a hypnosis induced YA Sci-fi Graphic Novel through which the protagonist (a writer) must understand her characters (i.e.., herself) in a deep way – including their unprocessed traumas/ and or hidden potential. The characters are metaphors for the protagonist’s inner-child and unexamined shadow.

[John Trimbach]

What is my profound truth?

One’s true self is revealed when put to the test.

What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?

They will identify with the main character and her complete transformation from wall flower to venus fly trap!

What is the entertainment vehicle you will tell this story through?

A domineering boyfriend drags her to an advanced self-discovery resort island where she must learn to dig deep into her true identity if she is to survive.

[William Donnelly]

SUBJECT: William M Donnelly’s First Three Decisions

WHAT I LEARNED BY DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT

I learned that I have a hell of a lot to pull from (myth, legend, metaphor) to make my point. I learned that I enjoy going deeper into the Profound Truth of my story. I learned that I enjoy working to influence others toward healing.

WHAT IS MY PROFOUND TRUTH:

Facing our worst fears holds the treasure/healing we seek.

WHAT IS THE CHANGE I WANT AN AUDIENCE TO MAKE?

Each human being is wired for successful self-realization. As we step into our power and integrate our innate divine masculine/feminine powers, humanity is healed.

WHAT ENTERTAINMENT VEHICLE WILL I CHOOSE?

METAPHOR – Outer world destruction requires inner healing and balancing of divine masculine and feminine energies within each of us.

[MARY Johnson]

<div>What I learned doing this lesson: That I’m woefully short on the entertainment portion of my work. </div>

What is your profound truth? We don’t live in a bubble. Every thing we choose to do impacts someone else somewhere on some level. Positive or negative and intentional or not.

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What is the change your movie will cause with an audience? Consider the implications of their own actions and the effect they have on the lives of others.

What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through? This is where I discovered I’m very short. The story is two-fold. How the story of a young woman in 1950’s America (think Bridges of Madison County/tragic love) and a “today woman” trying to set right the wrongs and mistakes of her life (think Fried Green Tomatoes/rejected love) are intertwined in, what I believe, is a powerful node of conjunction. Both women are artist. The 1950’s woman is a painter and the “today woman” is a writer. So I need to nail down my entertainment “spine”, or lens, for the story. Is “love story” (done right) “enough” of an entertainment vehicle?

Aaaah … I was just reading other’s responses – perhaps I’m overthinking things. Mine will be, as was Bridges of Madison County, a fiction story told as if it is true – so it would read as a doesn’t-need-to-be-embellished true story. The location of the story is a real place and, of course, a few elements from real life (mine and others) are inspirations for what happens in the story. But, it’s not biographical – just that it will “feel” that way – a very personal account of this woman’s life – both women’s lives (to be more accurate). So to pull in a third inspirational work “Tony and Susan” (Nocturnal Animals) where there is an author writing a book within the book the audience will be reading. That’s my Entertainment Vehicle.

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P.S. Forgive the lack of editing.

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[Paulette Harris]

Subject Line: Paulette L. Harris profound truth: Good wins over evil. Audience change:God loves his people and will help them. Entertainment: Comic relief as allegory Saten and a his top demon take over, occassionally Ink, makes a mistake and reveals himself.

What I learned about this assignment is that I can do this. I’ve had this for a long time and had trouble getting it into script. I wrote a novel, but it’s way too long to put into a feature film and I’ve been working hard to trim it down into tight sucinct scenes with a few good dialogue lines.

I’m very encouraged at this point, especially since I think I can keep up with the classes too and go deeper which is my hope, this could have many layers. This is fiction so it may be that it will be an embellished as-it-happened conflict. This is a Christian Church Body and the main background for scenes is the church interior and office.

The cause: God and Satan are alive and well in the Church body on Earth, in fact, it’s Satan’s favorite place to be. Can’t make up my mind as to which character is more fun to live through and cause such a ruckus! While serious and eye opening, there is a ton of redemption and surprise elements.

As a result, I’m so happy I signed out for this class. Hal teaches in such a way that “I get what he attempts to teach me” I understand his methods better than other classes I’ve paid for in other companies and I’m glad I’m here. I expect that I will be able to make this better and better and I feel positive about it, whereas, I was feeling pretty down and hard on myself that I couldn’t get it the way I was trying to do it earlier.

So now, I will go and make popcorn and watch another movie on the list for this class. 😔🤨😌😄

[Susan Willard]

Susan A. Willard’s First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is that I can combine two or more story ideas to create a more profound movie idea.

What I also learned doing this assignment is that boiling down to the fundamentals of the profound truth of my movie ideas was a difficult exercise for me. It was a great thought and research experiment for me, and I will be working on getting to the seed of all my ideas from now on.

Susan A. Willard’s First Three Decisions:

What is your profound truth?

Movie Idea 1: Profound Truth: Those who seek the truth – will find the truth, no matter where it leads.

Movie Idea 2: Profound Truth: As you plow through the chaotic storm of life, searching for

answers, when truth is secured then grace and liberty will carry forward.

What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?

Movie Idea 1: Audience will consider pursuing truths daily, not knowing where the truths will lead once found.

Movie Idea 2: Audiences will be more impowered to seek truth through action in a chaotic world around them.

What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story
through?

Movie Idea 1: Entertainment Vehicle(s) Embellished-As-It-Happened-Conflict, Cause is the Background, and Metaphor: A Life of Liberty is like a silent growing seed.

Movie Idea 2: Entertainment Vehicle: Cause is the Background

[Kate Gleeson]

Kate Gleeson’s First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is focus on what I want to say and don’t get hung up on the specifics (the world, the timeline, etc.).

What is your profound truth?

The choices we make individually construct the reality of our collective world.

What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?

Recognize the impact of your small, daily choices and make choices that build the world you want to live in.

What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?

Explicit dual timelines with split storylines.

[Gordon Roback]

Gordon Roback The Profound Screenplay – Assignment two

What I learned from this assignment is that what I thought was the profound truth of the story I want to tell leads to deeper and more profound truths the deeper I go.

Give us your three decisions.

The
Profound Truth I started off with is “Our society will fall apart if legal
contracts are not honoured and corporations are permitted to run amuck.<div>

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The deeper truth is that if there are no honest lawyers who are willing to go to bat for poor, honest clients than rapacious corporations will use their power and financial clout to run roughshod over the poor.

The even deeper truth is that corporate bullies must be confronted for the collective good.

Going even deeper, the punitive damages awarded to the client for four years of legal hell need to be substantially increased to deter similar wrongdoing. As is, a million dollars in punitive damages to a billion dollar a year corporation is little more than a slap on the wrist.

2.I hope my
film will make the public aware of just how fragile our society is and
that corporate bullies must be reined in.
This will be accomplished by taking an audience through one person’s
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3. My
entertainment vehicle is to focus on the hardship the plaintiff and his
lawyer went through confronting a three billion dollar a year corporate
bully before getting justice in the courts. The nasty facts of the case are only the
point of departure. The rule of
good characterization is to make things as difficult for the lead
characters as possible.b

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[Jeanne Sanner]

Jeanne Sanner First Three Decisions

What I learned from this assignment: I learned that I am not clear on my entertainment world. The world is that of friends in San Diego, but I’m not sure that is strong enough.

1. What is my profound truth: We can learn how to forgive the unforgiveable. (Forgiving isn’t something we can do; it is the result of what we stop doing.)

2. The audience will experience the freedom true forgiveness provides.

3. The entertainment vehicle is: an embellished As-It-Happened Conflict.

[Trish Carothers]

LESSON 2 – DEFINE THE CHANGE

What I learned doing this assignment is to learn more about the purpose of my screenplay by exploring the answers to the 1^st three questions.

Trish’s First Three Decisions

1. Profound Truth: Set your goal, face the obstacles, and work to overcome them.

2. Audience Journey: Take courage to act and persevere in pursuit of their dream as they take steps towards an unknown future.

3. Entertainment Vehicle: Embellished Conflict

[James Clark]

What is my profound truth: I am a story teller with unique and quirky ideas and I can generate quality stories by using my snenses and life experience to build a “world” for my characters.

What is the change my movie will cause with an audience: Seniors can life quality, fulfilling lives and contribute to society in multiple ways.

What is the entertainment vehicle that I will tell this story through: Embellished as it happened.

[Jenifer Stockdale]

Jen’s First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is that I may need to change the end of my story because I have her meeting a new guy and I wondering if that is not a “change” – it just brings her back to where she started as a “wife” – I really need to think on this end….

What is your profound truth? Live your best life, you’ve only got
one

What is the change your movie will cause with an audience? Self care
is important – you only have one life, so don’t take care of others only
What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story
through?

A woman who has only the identity to being a daughter, a mother,
and wife, loses all the people who define her and through an APP discovers herself

[JOANNE Bellew]

Joanne Bellew – First Three Decisions:

1. What is your profound truth? Your own truth holds the answers to your most fulfilled life.

2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience? To reach into their core and feel what is the right path for them, rather than focusing on external things like influencers, trends, or political beliefs.

3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?

1. First screenplay: Metaphor;

2. Second screenplay: The embellished as-it-happened conflict.

4. “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” What I learned from doing this assignment is that it’s the character’s/characters’ arc/arcs that makes the change for the audience. The audience’s change is born from how they see the story and how that could empower their own lives and unique circumstances. Everything will come back to the profound truth in the story, so it is important to know what that profound truth is before development. We have the responsibility of the audience’s vision and journey and sharing that profound truth with the world is a big responsibility. I see more clearly now why I don’t resonate with writing horror. I feel my path is to enlighten. If I were to write in the horror genre, inside of the story, there would have to be a journey of strength and resilience not just gore. I also appreciated the advice on putting the cause in the background.