Lesson 2 Assignments

[Elizabeth Fein]

Elizabeth Fein – What I Learned During This Assignment:

To view my screenplay from various angles to gain understanding and insight

1. What is your profound truth?

The planet is doomed

2. What is the Change you want the audience to make?

The audience must take action to save the planet.

3. What entertainment vehicle will you choose?

Metaphor: The earth in the not-too-distant future when pollution and corruption threaten the continued existence of humankind.

[Wayne Petitto]

Wayne’s First Three Decisions

What I learned from this lesson is that although these concepts of truth, protagonist change, and audience change may be intrinsic, making a conscious effort and process for empowering and enhancing them pays off many times over.

1. My profound truth: We must forgive ourselves and others before we can progress.

2. My movie will cause the audience to experience a profound example of how people can forgive the most egregious wrong in order to love one another. Thus they should desire to unburden themselves and each other likewise.

3. The entertainment vehicle is the story of a young couple who discovers that in a past life they were Joan of Arc and the Bishop who burned her to death.

[Michael Williamsen]

I really want to watch your movie. My dad, a Lutheran Minister, wrote a book on forgiveness. The hardest chapter for me to digest and apply was the chapter on self-forgiveness.

[Wayne Petitto]

Perhaps we can trade scripts for review when we get that far.

[Stephanie Henry-Ricchi]

Wayne, Same here, I’d really like to read this in it’s entirety.

[Tamera Raines]

Tamera Raines – First three decisions

What I learned from doing this assignment is that there are multiple ways to tell the same story and the profound truth might change as you start to discover what your story is really about.

1. What is your profound truth?

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When the inside and the outside become one. With congruence comes connection,and with connection comes friendship,Intimacy and healing.

2.What is the change your movie will cause with an audience?</div><div>

I want the audience to take a look at their own lives and see where they could make changes and live a more authentic life.

3.What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through?</div><div>

Embellished as it happened conflict.

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[Lincoln Hoppe]

Lincoln’s First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is to continue asking questions to dig to find the truth, and to allow myself to refine those truths as time goes on. There are lots of colors of these possibilities, and exploring them is important as they will be the blueprint for future work.

What is your profound truth?

You can do more good than you may think possible when you step up operate from your strengths

(option b) Accepting yourself is the first place to claim your real power

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

Invite people to look at where we’re not fully showing up, and see new ways to meet challenges from their strengths

(option b) Inspire people accept their unique strengths, talents and weaknesses to get things done!

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

Love story in an unusual metaphorical world set in an office mirroring life

[Michael Williamsen]

PROFOUND TRUTH. Governments are corrupt. The legal system is game created by politicians (lawyers) regulated by judges (lawyers) and played by lawyers fighting over their clients’ money. We wonder why lawyers always walk away with all the money?

CHANGE: We learn that by being aware, paying attention, and making some tough choices we can survive and be happy.

ENTERTAINMENT Single mother Victoria and rooking crime reporter is caught in a web of treachery and violence. Her ex-husband Sheriff is finding his kidnapping suspects are being killed off by a serial killer and the evidence is pointing back to him. Victoria’s new billionaire boyfriend criminal defense attorney is not only responsible for the kidnappings, but he is taking over the human trafficking ring he is publicly trying to prosecute, all while rising to power in the political system. Victoria’s 3-year-old daughter disappears.

WIL: my original story had the husband/sheriff as the hero and the attorney the villain. Victoria was just the love interest caught in between. Now my intention is to have Victoria the hero with the arc of a kind and loving mother, turned investigator, to manipulating her ex-husband/sheriff and her billionaire super criminal to find her daughter and escape alive.

With the big surprise/profound ending we never expected.

~w0w~ that all just came out of my fingers…

[Wayne Petitto]

Nice concept. Can’t wait to see this tangled web develop and unravel…

Question: Are you writing this on Word or something then copy/paste into the block?

I’m finding, I have to type it strait into the response block as it doesn’t take the paste.

[Michael Williamsen]

Yes Wayne. I type the homework into MS Word, then copy and paste onto the forum. I have lost internet connection or some glitch too many times to want to do it over. But, I do find when I have to do it over, it comes out better. Hmmm

[Stephanie Henry-Ricchi]

Michael, this is intense and comes from a very real place. Speaking as someone who has been working to eradicate Human Trafficking for years I appreciate this story.

[Michael Williamsen]

Stephanie. You are my new BEST FRIEND!! I would love some references for back story, maybe include you as co-writer. I started this story with just the kidnapping with losing the heroine and her ex-husbands daughter. Then I decided to make the billionaire boyfriend be even worse by being involved with sex-slave market. Then, I saw a documentary where traffickers offer take kids from South America to find a better life with jobs and education. Just a mortgage on the parents’ property as security. They basically put the kids in a slave camp and foreclosed on the parent’s property. This latest version has our bad guy trying to get the heroine’s exhusband/sheriff to get rid of competitive traffickers so he can take over and merge all three human trafficking businesses into a giant organization which he controls. The profound truth at the end is, after revealing all the trafficking, the heroine gets her daughter back, but the boyfriend not only succeeds in gaining control but announces his canadicy for district attorney or state legislature. PROUND TRUTH Govt is corrupt and will never be stopped.

[Erin Ziccarelli]

Erin Ziccarelli’s First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is: the “story world” is important – what sets the most

entertaining movie scenes apart is usually the setting. An example that comes to mind is Annie’s breakdown at the bridal shower in Bridesmaids. The scene would not have been as funny if it didn’t take happen in Helen’s luxury house and in front of the guests, Helen’s children, and Annie’s mom.

1. What is your profound truth? My profound truth is loyalty matters.

2. What is the change your movie will
cause with an audience? Who you are and who you align
yourself with can change your destiny.

3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle
that you will tell this story through? I have picked the world of black
markets and counterfeiting for the story world. I believe this improve the
entertainment value by raising the stakes, making the lead character more attractive
for an actor, and adding intrigue to the plot.

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[Stephanie Henry-Ricchi]

Stephanie Henry-Ricchi’s First 3 Decisions

What I learned from this lesson, is how to remove the stress of beginning a script in this category because throughout the lesson it will be changed and fleshed out.

1) My profound truth is finding one’s self worth and individual identity.

2) My movie will cause the audience to be more aware of those around us that may be lonely and need someone to care.

3) The entertainment vehicle is about a female photographer that lives vicariously through the people and events she shoots.

[Bonny Millard]

Bonny
Millard’s First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is that I need to keep digging deeper.

1. What is your profound truth?

Believe in yourself and follow your dreams despite what others may think.

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

The audience will be encouraged and inspired to follow their own dreams.

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

The feral cats who came to live with me and reminded me to life on my own terms.

[Laura Woodworth]

Laura Woodworth’s First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is to think outside the box. I’ve done rewrites on this particular story several times, and still did not feel it was right. From today’s lesson, I may change the story world which will infuse more conflict immediately, and also be a better backdrop for my story for connecting audiences to my lead character.

1. What is your profound truth? (I’m still defining this.) God is searching for people who will stand in the gap with prayer to bring his good into the earth and stop evil. God is search for someone to pray.

Being called to pray is about love and self-sacrifice, not qualifications or skill.

2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience? They will become active participants in bringing God’s will into the earth through their prayers of faith. They will move from passive Christianity to active participants in advancing God’s kingdom in the earth through faith-filled prayers.

3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through? Storyworld: What if my lead character were a news producer/director? This immediately is more intriguing than current (she is a bank teller) and infuses this with conflict as she sees her prophetic visions become today’s news headline.

[Caryn Ward Ross]

What I learned doing this assignment is there are MANY ways to think about a concept. By doing the PICK A WORLD exercise, it opened my eyes to new possibilities that I’d never even considered. The biggest takeaway for me was the distinction between a character’s arc and the transformation I want my audience to have. Both can influence each other, but they are not necessarily the same thing.

Caryn’s First Three Decisions–

1) SELF-ACCEPTANCE IS LOVE

2) I’m going to love myself fully and completely( flaws and all), and accept the people in my life for who they are!

3) Music as a metaphor for life -time travel: a young blues dancer travels back to Memphis in the 1930’s for a second-chance of keeping her big band music family together and marrying the love of her life on Christmas Eve.

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