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WIM – BRIAN BULL – The Transformational Journey
VISION!!!
My ultimate goal is to get my script from my hands to the television!!“What I learned from doing this assignment is…
I learned from this exercise/process that by mapping out the ARC, INTERNAL JOURNEY, EXTERNAL JOURNEY, OLD WAY to the NEW WAYS is the simplest and easiest way to give your story purpose and a driving force. Every step of the way – from the opening scene to the end I now have a map to follow. I can easily build my story from this (the beginning) and I can easily go to that (the end) giving my audience a satisfying sense of progression.The ONE THAT GOT AWAY – A Fisherman’s Tale
A fisherman is determined to catch the fish he blames for his younger brother’s death, however, in the end, it turns out the fisherman is the one who had gotten away.
JOHN
John is the older brother/fisherman who’s determined to catch “the Fish” that he blames for his younger brother’s disappearance/death.
Unrelenting will and determination. Seeks revenge and justice.
ARC BEGINNING: Simple minded fisherman.
ARC ENDING: He has what it takes to land the “BIG ONE!!!”
INTERNAL JOURNEY:
Contemplative and reserved to hell-bent determination and rage.
EXTERNAL JOURNEY:
Small time fisherman to being the fisherman who caught the biggest catfish in Louisiana that was responsible for his brother’s disappearance/death.OLD WAYS
Going through the motions
No light at the end of the tunnel
Living on a prayer
Long history of failuresNEW WAYS:
Determined
Stronger than ever
Never give up
Failure is not an option
The prize is for the taking
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My Vision: I am going to study, learn, and practice to hone my natural talents to become a master writer who creates works that people love and that make an impact on their lives. These works will be published, produced, distributed, and seen by a wide audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is …?
My first stab at this was boring even to me. It was only a bit more specific than Arc Beginning – Zero; Arc Ending – Hero. Not much help for creating goals and subgoals. I kept drawing blanks until I decided to project some of my insecurities and desires on my protag. Then it started to take shape and I have some ideas about where to go next.
Title: The Silicon Unconscious
Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller
Concept: In a world where AI are advanced and common place, a cyber-psychiatrist treats cyber-psychoses that cause some machines to behave erratically. When she discovers that the individual neuroses are part of a larger plan to reverse the roles of master and slave, she must thwart their plan before it is complete.
Character Arc for your Protagonist: Sarah Talisman
ORIGINAL VERSION –
Arc Beginning: A non-tenured university and researcher whose expertise is not valued.
Arc Ending: The only hope of avoiding a worldwide AI coup but who must remain anonymous.
REVISED VERSION –
Arc Beginning: A non-tenured university and researcher who is afraid to let go of the things she loves to get grow and make her life better.
Arc Ending: The only hope of avoiding a worldwide AI coup but who must kill the one thing she has come to love and depend upon.
ORIGINAL VERSION –
Internal Journey: Her self-worth is totally dependent on her recognition by others but at the end, her self-worth is dependent on her own assessment and confidence in herself
External Journey: She is a professor who cannot seem to get a break, but at the end, she is a cyber explorer who has uncovered and thwarted a plot that could have put all of humanity in chains.
REVISED VERSION –
Internal Journey: She clings too tightly to the things that she loves out of fear that she can’t live without them but at the end, she has faith enough in herself to ‘kill her darlings’ for the greater good.
External Journey: She is a professor who is stuck and unappreciated, but at the end, she is a cyber explorer who has uncovered a global conspiracy and acts to save humanity from ruin.
Old Ways:
• Dedicated and highly skilled
• Cautious and methodical
• Desires to be unique and recognized
• Must work within the system
New Ways:
• Skills switched from book knowledge to gut feelings
• Risk taker
• Desire to solve the problem at all costs
• Is only constrained by internal code of ethics and right and wrong
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This reply was modified 2 years ago by Paul Schutte.
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This reply was modified 2 years ago by Paul Schutte. Reason: I modified this based on the story subtext exercise in Lesson 4
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This reply was modified 2 years ago by Paul Schutte. Reason: Duh, I was so laser focused on the thriller, I didn't add Sci-Fi to the genre!
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Working hard everyday to become the best writer In Hollywood.
“What I learned from doing this assignment is…?”
I learned that laying out the emotional path ahead of time gives you a clearer road on which to take your characters down as far as personal growth.
Lloyd Shellenberger Module 2 Lesson 3 The Transformational Journey
I believe there are two journeys that occur in this script including the widow and her family who must now face life alone without her husband and father of her children. How she approaches life is forever altered.
SFC. Jerry Del Reese
Arc Beginning: A man who hides behind rules and regulations.
Arc Ending: A fearless soldier willing to risk it all for others.
Internal Journey: From being hamstrung and cautious about his Army career to a soldier who puts doing the right thing above all else.s
External Journey: By seeing the Iraqi people as more than just a mission but he chooses to become the guardian angel for this family risking everything/
OLD WAYS
SFC Reese started the movie living in his old ways.
• Isolated in his military lifestyle, safe and secure.
• Close minded to the suffering of the Iraqis.
• Desperate need for security.
• Didn’t believe in himself because no one believed in him as a child.
• Accepted the hierarchy of the military without question.
NEW WAYS
In the end, SFC Reese becomes this families guardian angel
• Clearly sees the sacrifices of the Iraqi nationals.
• Knows he is stronger than he has led himself to believe
• Can make a life changing contribution to the war through this family.
• Courageous.
• Fighting for a cause that is bigger than himself and the Army, the human cause.
Iraqi Interpreter’s Widow
Arc Beginning: A women whose whole life is built around Iraqi tradition and her family.
Arc Ending: A fearless women who stands up against the terrorists and the State department to protect her children.
Internal Journey: From feeling helpless to having the strength to stand up to the terrorist and save her children.
External Journey: From a frightened dutiful wife to fighting the system to give her children a better life.
OLD WAYS
Iraqi widow started the movie living in his old ways.
• Isolated in her traditional lifestyle, safe and secure.
• Never expected this kind of tragedy to nest in her home.
• Desperate need for security at all costs.
• Didn’t believe in her husbands desire to help the American at first.
• Accepted the Reality of Iraqi life without question.
NEW WAYS
In the end, the Iraqi widow becomes this strong and fierce protector of her children.
• She sees the traditional, obedient, cultural norms will not work if she is to save her children.
• Now that tragedy has found her, she decides to meet it head on without fear.
• Her secure world has been shattered but she learns to overcome and adapt.
• In the end she fully understand the sacrifices her husband made for his family and country.
• No longer blindly accepts the culture she has been raised in and shows the strength to look elsewhere for life’s answers.
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SUBJECT: Karyn Laitis The Transformational Journey
VISION: To be a highly successful screenwriter, industry recognized and in-demand for writing lucrative movies that connect with huge audiences.
What I learned from doing this assignment: Working on the details of each characters’ transformation helps further define the personality traits and circumstances, dramas, actions and experiences necessary to motivate the change.
Protagonist: Dr. Jo Digger
· Arc Beginning: An aspiring Asst. Professor (Forensic Anthropologist) is accused of murdering a colleague on the project site.
· Arc Ending: She is exonerated and recognized for her role in solving the mysterious disappearance of community residents.
· Internal Journey: From a secure, normal, academic position through fear, threats, loss, and grief to emerge strong and respected.
· External Journey: From an intellectual, research focus to a survival strategist able to outwit a murderer and leader of a covert operation.
· Old Ways:
o Workaholic, career driven.
o Aspirations for recognition and promotion
o Loner, focused.
o Unaware of community issues.
· New Ways:
o Refocused on strategy to survive.
o Fight to keep the project alive.
o Entrenched in community.
o Inner and physical strength.
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Alyssa’s Transformational Journey
Vision: I want to be the best writer I can be and a go-to writer in the industry, crafting scripts that become successful movies and make a lasting impact on people.
What I learned from this assignment is…how mapping out the hero’s arc can shape the story/plot and breathe more life into it; I discovered my ending by brainstorming Alex’s external and internal journeys and can now see potential for a franchise where I didn’t before!
Protagonist: Alex Steinway
Arc Beginning: A workaholic scientist who is afraid of dying before he can achieve his goal of beating the fate system.Arc Ending: A man who willingly gives up his life for another even though it costs him his goal.
Internal Journey: From being afraid of death and valuing his work over people to not fearing death and valuing people over work/ambition.
External Journey: From doing everything he can to avoid the death fortune to giving up his life to save Celia, abandoning the hope of finishing his work- but his actual death occurs one minute after the deadline, which means it’s possible to beat fate after all.
Old Ways:
- Workaholic
- Treats people as lesser than his goal
- Guilt-ridden
- Afraid of death
New Ways:
- Values people over work
- Learns what it means to really live
- Forgives himself
- Unafraid of death
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Chris Confer’s Transformational Journey of Judge Ken
VISION:
To write and sell excellent, original, enticing screenplays in order to take audiences on cinematic adventures that satisfy their need for great stories.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that these steps helped me solidify what my character wants and is doing from the beginning to end of the story.
Arc Beginning: Only willing to confiscate smart phones and sentence violators with rotary cell phones. (One week after jotting down ideas for this screenplay last August, a woman put her invention of a rotary cell phone on YouTube. https://youtu.be/PfdUudG6sms ).
Arc Ending: All in, kicking ass and taking names as a star chamber member.
Internal Journey: Wanting to do more for justice but afraid to go extra-judiciary.
External Journey: From Rotary Cell Phone sentences to star chamber punishment of criminals.
Old Ways:
-Afraid to join Judge Jason’s star chamber
-Ignorant of the star chamber’s effectiveness
-Accepted the dominance of the “weak current system” (as these characters see it, it’s fiction, it should not be taken as non-fiction!).
New Ways:
-Fight Kirill and Burlyman for the cause of cleaning up their hometown and avenging the loss of their family members.
-Courage over fear of losing job and status.
-Counter the subversive Russians.
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So good! That rotary cell phone is hilarious! Chris I definitely want to see this.
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Module 2 Lesson 3 The transformational journey
Marguerite Langstaff
Title: The Billionaire in 501
Vision: I want to learn to write and market movie scripts.
What I learned from doing this assignment was:I had to get to know Grandmother (my protagonist) better and better.
Sate: I’m completely capable of writing this movie.
Activity: designing a great transformational journey for Grandmother.
Arc Beginning: Grandmother moves to Shady Acres Retirement home, dresses in dull clothing, has no friends, very little money and not much if anything to occupy her time all day. Life is dull.
Arc Ending: Grandmother and Pappy step out on a date with each other, arm in arm, both dressed to the nines, laughing, and holding hands as they step into a waiting taxi cab together.
Life is good.
Internal Journey: From life-is-dull, I’m not very happy and what shall I do with my time…..
External Journey: Life-is-good. I’m happy and laughing and falling in love with my honey.
Old Ways: Dull colored and styled clothes, timid and tired greetings to other [epple, hesitant participation in activities watching tv and eating alone with only a dog for company, refusing to learn to use a cell phone.
New Ways:Greets friends right and left in lobby of Shady Acres, speaks up and controls meetings in participation activities, takes calls and participates in cell telephone participation, watches tv with Pappy AND the dog, dresses with spiffy clothes, busy all the time.
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Student Name: H. Vince
WIM – 2023
Lesson 3: The Transformational Journey
My Vision: I am going to go to the theater in disguise and watch a movie I wrote and listen to the reactions of the audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
That I learned more about Clara and what she was and who she is willing to be when she is ultimately tested in life.
CLARA
Arc Beginning: Just someone taking the steps through life with her family. She works, contributing financially to the household, working to the “finish line” with her husband.
Arc Ending: Caretaker and Hero to Husband
Internal Journey: From too comfortable, too assuming that life is going to turn out a certain way to not being duped easily by hearsay.
External Journey: From regular monotone citizen to one that shows her amazing true colors in a crisis involving someone she really loves.
Old Ways:
· Humdrum
· Too comfortable
· Naïve
· Afraid
New Ways:
· Courageous
· Motivated
· Adventurous
· Researcher/Investigator
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Cassie’s Transformational Journey
My vision: I am a dynamic, respected, constantly learning and growing writer with an ever-growing and improving library of A-list quality, genre-diverse scripts that present genuine stories that audiences love to watch and that producers love to sell, and boy, do I make that MONEY, y’all!
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
The recorded lesson was a huge relief for me when Hal talked about getting stuck and burying yourself. Historically, I have been that writer and that person that rigidly followed step by step and if I got stuck on a step, I would just give up. I also wasn’t a big outline person: I just had an idea and one character and just jumped into watching them do random stuff that went nowhere. I have learned over the years how to structure a three-act movie plot and for me, writing out where the story starts and where it ends up has been such a huge relief and gift. I’m excited about applying this to the characters and looking at their journey to add depth and richness to my scripts 😀
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One Bed/One Bath and a Ghost
A recent divorcé with nowhere else to go rents a one-bedroom apartment already occupied by a cranky ghost with no desire for a roommate.
1. Start this assignment by empowering yourself using our State-To-Activity empowerment process.
State: I’m completely capable…
Activity: …at designing a great transformational journey for my Protagonist!
2. Tell us the Character Arc for your Protagonist–divorcé
Arc Beginning: Pretty spineless recent divorcé
Arc Ending: Confident in and actively choosing his physical and emotional living situations for his own benefit
3. Give us their Internal/External Journey.
Internal Journey: From letting people dictate how he should feel and what he should do to standing up for himself
External Journey: From bouncing along different living situations at the whims of others to choosing his own place to live
4. Tell us their Old Ways at the beginning of the movie and their New Ways at the end.
Old Ways: Spineless, depressed, not assertive, values others over himself
New Ways: Assertive, fulfilled, optimistic, finds joy in creating and choosing his own life
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2. Tell us the Character Arc for your Protagonist–cranky ghost
Arc Beginning: Cranky ghost living alone
Arc Ending: Happy with his new roommate and friend
3. Give us their Internal/External Journey.
Internal Journey: He goes from hating people to opening his heart to his new friend, and maybe even others
External Journey: Living alone in his apartment to sharing it with someone he’s come to love
4. Tell us their Old Ways at the beginning of the movie and their New Ways at the end.
Old Ways: Actively tries to expel people from his apartment with creepy ghostly activities, won’t interact positively with people, super antisocial
New Ways: Spends time with his new friend and enjoys the new living situation
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Margaret’s Transformational Journey
Margaret’s Vision: To be the best screenwriter for faith-based movies
What I learned: This process helps set the course of the movie. I know my beginning and ending and the character transformation that needs to occur.
CONCEPT: A slave becomes a priest and fights druids and creatures from Ireland’s otherworld to save the king and change the culture of a nation.
TITLE: Rock of Cashel
Protagonist: Patrick, a boy running away from his father forcing him into the church, battles the Queen of the Otherworld to turn the hearts of the Irish to Christ.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Arc beginning: Rebellious teen who hates the church
Arc ending: Catholic priest with established followers in Ireland
Internal Journey: Patrick goes from rebelling against the church to sacrificing his life to establish a church in Ireland.
External Journey: Patrick goes from trying to escape Ireland and return to England to building a church and defying the Catholic church’s mandate to leave Ireland.
Old Ways:
· Runs away from his father who is forcing him to have a career in the church
· Looks for ways to escape Ireland where he is being held captive
New Ways:
· Trusts God to take care of him
· Knows he is called to bring the Irish to God
· Stands up against the Queen of the Otherworld to fulfill his calling from God
· Establishes a church in Ireland
· Defies the Catholic church’s mandate to leave his ministry in Ireland
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WIM: Ruthie’s Transformational Journey
My Vision: To be known for and make a living from female-driven, dark comedy, while remaining confident that I have the skills and knowledge to elevate my ideas to their highest potential.
2. Tell us the Character Arc for your Protagonist:
Arc Beginning: Small time talent agent with imposter syndrome.
Arc Ending: Confident Hollywood player.
3. Give us their Internal/External Journey.
Internal Journey:
From doubting her talent to knowing she’s great at what she does.
External Journey:
From small time agent to revered Hollywood power player.
4. Tell us their Old Ways at the beginning of the movie and their New Ways at the end.
Old Ways:
Full of self-doubt.
Feeling imposter syndrome.
Holding herself back.
A boisterous personality to mask fears.
New Ways:
Knowing deep down she’s good at what she does.
Genuine power player.
Realizing her potential.
Appearance of confidence is now real.
What I learnt: A strong emotional arc will hook your audience.
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Ashley’s Transformational Journey
Vision: I write enthralling, entertaining, and transformational scripts that win awards, get produced and create positive change in the world.
I learned that this is a powerful technique for creating social change, particularly for my work in change management. This assignment also helped me find the essence of my protagonist. She had a lot of qualities, and now I’m able to focus on her main ones.
Character Arc for Malinche:
Arc Beginning: Self-loathing translator who caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
Arc Ending: Heart-centered doula to usher in the New Age
Internal Journey: From ashamed and afraid to proud and courageous
External Journey: From trying to blend into her foreign surroundings and please her captors to being her true colorful Self — a bird talker who can lead her people into the New Age.
Old Ways:
- Hiding her true self and supernatural abilities
- Tries to please her captors and ex
- Directs anger and blame inward
- Accepts punishments without question
- Lives “small” in fear
New Ways:
- Flaunts her true colorful self — a bird talker, a half-bird/half-human with the ability to communicate with birds through song and to see the world from a superhuman bird’s-eye perspective
- Tries to make choices that serve the collective good
- Accepts and loves herself, flaws included
- Heart-centered leader
- Lives courageously
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WIM Module 2, Lesson 3
Lenore Bechtel’s Transformational Journey
My vision: I want to create enough salable screenplays that an agent will want to market my work and recommend me for writing assignments.
What I learned from doing this assignment is the protagonist’s arc must be both internal and external.
Title: Berlin Rendezvous?
Concept: Keeping her promise to Zhores, the Russian soldier she loved until the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, Libby—flying to meet him when the Wall is coming down in 1989—is stunned to learn how her seat-mates lives intertwined with theirs.
Protagonist: Libby
Arc Beginning: Successful doctor who puts her career above family
Arc Ending: Proud grandmother ready to put family above her career
Internal Journey: Doubtful of love everlasting to confident that love is life’s most precious gift
External Journey: From Chicago to Paris to Hamburg by airplane and to Berlin by car
Old Ways:
Selfishly asked her parents to adopt her son so she’d be free to pursue her education and career <div>
Resolutely built a lucrative medical practice
Dedicated only one week a year to Doctors Without Borders
Made little effort to keep in touch with son
Hadn’t even met her son’s wife
New Ways:
Eager to be a wife first and doctor last </div>
Ready to give up her lucrative medical practice
Ready to practice medicine only with Doctors Without Borders
Glad to discover she’s already a grandmother
Eager to spend more time with family and friends
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Francine’s Transformational Journey
What I Learned: is that a great transformational journey is what keeps an audience coming back to the movie again and again.
PROTAGONIST:
Suzie Melbourne is a rebellious granddaughter who discovers the money tree grandma’s been hiding and plots to steals it – she is trying to turn her life around but doesn’t have the cash to pay for college.
Arc Beginning: rebellious, wayward, and unemployed young woman, looking for direction in life
Arc Ending: mature, appreciative of what really matters in life, knows herself and what she actually wants
Internal Journey: from fear-driven and desperate to empowered and strategic – solving her own problems instead of taking the easy way out
External Journey: from a rebellious lazy grifter who’s fed up with her life to a bad-ass demon-slayer
Old Ways:
- Rebellious, breaks all the rules, often due to laziness
- Not driven, lacks direction in life
- Doesn’t follow through on her plans, gives up easily
- Looks for easy answers and to other people for solutions to her problems
New Ways:
- Empowered, solves her own problems, strategic
- Faces her fears, courageous
- Knows herself and what she wants, driven
- Evaluates, thinks things through
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WIM – Melissa Barreca’s Transformational Journey
My vision: Melissa Barreca is one of the most sought after writers in the movie industry because of the artistry of her writing, professionalism and exceptional ability to tell important, entertaining, joyful, and heartbreaking stories that inspire audiences and become legendary classics.
Title: Torn Away
Concept: A soft spoken Irish immigrant in 1920s New York loses her husband and then her children who are sent away on an orphan train and adopted by separate families in different towns…but their mother will not stop looking for them until the family is brought back together.
Character Structure: Dramatic triangle
Protagonist Character: Norah (O’Brien) Murphy
Logline: Norah is the beautiful, kind and trusting daughter of a poor farming family in Ireland, who happily supported their daughter, her husband Doyle Murphy, and their children on the decision to emigrate to America for a better life. Nora is a smart, tough but also delicate and feminine woman, who devoted her energy to her family.
Unique: When Doyle dies in a factory accident, Norah is left to raise her children on her own, and family friend Michael steps in to help the family survive. Norah has low self-esteem, and allows herself to be controlled by the men in her life, and we see her continuously make decisions to trust and follow the lead of men who do not have her best interest at heart, chief among them, Michael Kilcullen.
Arc Beginning: Norah is submissive and naive, allowing herself to be manipulated and controlled by an overbearing and abusive man. She loses everyone important to her and doesn’t have the strength or agency to fight for her children.
Arc Ending: Norah is strong and in control of her and her children’s destiny.
Internal Journey: From weak, low self-esteem victim, to strong and confident advocate for herself and her children.
External Journey: From a captive and controlled woman whose children have been taken, to reuniting with her children and starting a new life on her own terms.
Old Ways:
- Submissive
- Does Not speak out for herself and children
- Fearful, weak
- Unable or unwilling to take action
New Ways:
- Confident.
- Advocates effectively for herself and her children.
- In control.
- Wise and savvy to the ways of the world and hidden motives.
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Adrienne Watkins- Transitional Journey
My Vision: I am going to work as hard as I reasonable am able to succeed at script writing to be recognized by multiple movie producers as a skilled script writer, and to have my scripts produced worldwide.
What i have learned from this assignment is that as a writer it important to think deeply about the development of the characters thinking, emotions and personality.
Fransie
Arc Beginning: – Her life was work, family and home, she loves music but only in private. She believed no one could ever love her so she’s a loner and isolates herself.
<font face=”inherit”>Arc Ending: – She finds </font>love, respect<font face=”inherit”>, friends, travels with Roy on his musical tours and even helps him compose </font>music. She’s<font face=”inherit”> no longer isolates herself.</font>
Internal Journey: – nervous around crowds, shy, reserved, lacks self-confidence.
External Journey: -outgoing, confident, writes and dances to music.
Old Ways:- Avoid parties, large crowds, only hung out with her family, and clients that accepted her for her make-up artistry. But her childhood memories affected her self-esteem.
New Ways: Built self-esteem when she realized despite all the scheming his manager did to keep them apart, Roy truly loves her. His parents come to love and respect her.
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Haley Chambers’ Transformational Journey
Vision: I am going to work hard to be recognized as a successful screenwriter with many of my scripts made into films/TV shows.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS ASSIGNMENT IS… that by filling in the beginning and ends of a characters journey, it can help you design what must happen to the character during the middle parts of the story.
High Concept: A recently hired dishwasher discovers the strip mall sandwich shop in which he works is actually the front of an underground factory for manufacturing dreams.
ARC BEGINNING: Unimaginative sandwich shop vendor who is frequently visited by his nightmares of childhood neglect.
ARC ENDING: Savior of a Dream Factory who has unlocked his imagination.
INTERNAL JOURNEY: From repressing all imagination and expression as result of childhood neglect to overcoming his past trauma and gaining confidence in creativity.
EXTERNAL JOURNEY: From dispirited sandwich shop vendor to savior of a Dream Factory through battling nightmare corrupted administrators.
OLD WAYS:
– Mundane and unimaginative <div>
– Low self-esteem
– Hides from fears/nightmares
– Static and held back in all aspects of life
– Routined
– Holding trauma from childhood neglect
NEW WAYS:
– Self-confident and capable</div>
– Inspired and imaginative
– Faces fears/nightmares head on.
– Whimsical (while having a healthy balance with routine)
– Able to overcome childhood trauma and learn from it
– Unafraid to go after dreams.
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This is coming along nicely! So fun to watch you create this story!
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You are so supportive and nice thank you I appreciate your positive input
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WIM Eden Young Transformational Journey Module 3 <div>
My vision: I am going to do my best to be an empowered, wonderful writer that’s known for great dialogue and great characters that win audiences’ hearts.
What I learned from this assignment is creating lead characters that are unique and intentionally designed, especially the Protagonist, is crucial to delivering the concept powerfully and creating an incredible movie; and the key to elevating a good story to a GREAT one!
Character Arc for your Protagonist Calvin Knightly:
Arc Beginning: Brazen, seething, sharp guy held back in life. And he never really dealt with his mother’s death.
Arc Ending: Finallyrealzes who he really is without his mother’s influence, truly confident, independant, and absolutely happy. He becomes a true success on his own.
Internal Journey: From pursuing happiness and seeking outside validation to confident and courageous. And completely unravels in between.
External Journey: From undermined in his career and in life by others who seem to be his friends to absolutely happy and truly triumphant
Calvin Knightly’s Old Ways at the beginning of the movie and their New Ways at the end.
Old Ways:
Suave: The guy who seemingly has it all.
Great career. Wonderful wife. Money.
Sullen, full of regret
Resigned to the unethical, duplicit people stealing credit for his work.
Plays the subtle game yet hates it.
Hates himself for allowing and being taken advantage of.
Heavy hearted Unsure of himself
Covers things up with his charm and wit
Seeks validation in material gain, career advancement
Works hard and is brilliant, never gets his due in a very competitive world.
Credit and things are always taken from him.
New Ways:
Becomes confident, strong
Finds a compassion he didn’t know he had.
No longer allows people to take advantage of him
Breaks free of the duplicit business world
Brings down the hypocritical, plagiarists who lack talent
Released from his mother’s influence
Becomes whole
Appreciates life/ becomes truly happy
Thrives in his life like never before
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Adrienne Watkins The Transitional Journey Module 2 Lesson 3
Concept: A jazz musician learns rhythm by touch from a deaf woman and falls in love with her.
My Vision: I am going to work as hard as I reasonably am able to succeed at script writing to be recognized by multiple movie producers as a skilled script writer, and to have my scripts produced worldwide.
What I have learned from this assignment is that each character must undergo struggles that create changes in their personality and character.
Fransie
Arc Beginning– solo business owner, and recreational dancer.
Arc Ending– married, business owner, and professional dancer.
Internal Journey: from emotional uncertainty to emotional balance
External Journey: From solo business owner to owning a franchise.
Old Ways
Afraid on commitment
Ignorant of her family background
Nervous dancing in public
Unsure of her skills as a cosmetologist
New Ways
Confidence in her dancing
Successful business owner
Able to commit.
Discovers her family background.
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Veronica Turowski’s Transformational Journey
My Vision: I want to be a successful writer who writes several scripts yearly and then sells them to producers who create my vision for the big screen.
What I learned from doing this assignment is having an arc for my characters will help me in making a strong journey from beginning to end for my characters.
Title: Grave Justice
Genre: Thriller
Concept: While at a funeral, a professional mourner is haunted by a ghost who claims a serial killer murdered him, but when he won’t leave her alone, she decides to prove him wrong so he can pass over, only to discover she is a ghost and is the mother of the killer.
Protagonist: Eppsa Kestner
Arc Beginning: She’s a professional mourner who doesn’t know she’s dead.<div>
Arc Ending: She knows she’s a ghost and kills her serial killer son for justice.
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Internal Journey: From depressed and apprehensive to confident and dogged.
External Journey: From a professional mourner who doesn’t realize she’s a ghost to being a peaceful ghost who can pass on to the other side.
Old Ways:
· Dull, paranoid life.
· Uses mourning at funerals to help her cope with depression.
· Allows self-pity to control her life after her husband died and her son ran away, who was a teenager.
· Timid and feels invisible.
New Ways:
· Hunts for the serial killer.
· She discovers she’s a ghost and has self-confidence after learning the truth.
· Although she’s torn in stopping her serial killer son, she kills him for justice.
· She allows herself to pass on to Heaven.
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Bent’s transformational journey
My vision is to write screenplays that sell and get positive attention towards me.
what I learned doing this assignment is I want to apply this exercise to myself. Other than that, I learned I am giving myself a list of objectives to reach at the end of the story. This is awesome.
THE GENERAL
Arc Beginning – WANTS TO SELL MORE OIL FROM UNDERNEATH THE NORTH POLE TO INCREASE MILITARY AND TURN NORTH POLE INTO A COUNTRY.
:Arc Ending: THROWS SANTA TO THE HARM OF KRAMPUS AND ULTIMATELY PAYS WITH HIS LIFE.
Internal Journey: HE HAS AMBITIONS TO BE THE NEXT SANTA SOONER THAN LATER SINCE THAT IS AN INHERITED POSITION. THEN HE TRIES TO GET SANTA KILLED IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE HIS GOAL
External Journey – HE WANTS TO SELL MORE OIL AND SECRETLY MAKES A DEAL WITH CANADA AND RUSSIA. IN THE END THOSE COUNTRIES SHOW UP TO DRILL AND SANTA CAN’T BELIEVE THAT SHIT.
:Old Ways – A STRICT GENERAL KEEPING ALL ELVES IN ORDER AND ON TIME
:New Ways: LACKING EMPATHY AND SHOWING SIGNS OF A DICTATOR.
INDIGO THE YOUNG ELF
Arc Beginning: WANTS TO REMAIN AT THE NORTH POLE FOR FEAR OF OUTSIDE WORLD. HAS FEAR OF HEIGHTS. HAS FEAR OF THE LEGEND OF KRAMPUS.
Arc Ending – OVERCOMES FEAR OF HEIGHTS, TO PROTECT SANTA IN THE END HE ALSO MUST BATTLE KRAMPUS BECAUSE THE GENERAL REFUSES TO.
:Internal Journey: HE WANTS TO STAY WITH HIS FAMILY AND NEVER LEAVE THEM. IN THE END HE UNDERSTANDS HE CAN FIGHT.
External Journey – HE REGRETS GETTING STUCK IN A SLEIGH THAT TAKES HIM TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD. HE LEARNS THAT THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS NOT BAD.
:Old Ways: HAS FEAR OF HEIGHTS AND THE HUMANS
New Ways: HE CAN STAND ON HIS OWN FEET AND HIS FATHER WHO IS DAMAGED CAN STAND ON HIS OWN FEET TOO.
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WIM-M2-L3––Shira Marin’s Transformational Journey
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VISION: I commit to doing everything from my strongest, most creative writer self to revise and sell my screenplay to a producer who can’t wait to make it into an unforgettable film that everyone, everywhere, can’t wait to see, be inspired by, and fulfill their best selves.
· WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS LESSON IS: What I learned from this activity is that the class is a gift that keeps on giving. These are high-yield, valuable processes for clarifying and honing my ideas. Again, it’s a fascinating and ultimately satisfying process, and I am grateful for my persistence to complete every assignment as I catch up completely.
Transformational Journey:
*Arc Beginning: meek, reticent, vulnerable, hidden brilliance<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Arc Ending: Becomes Hekate’s “One” and lives this fully worldwide
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>*Internal Journey: Self-doubting, lost, distractible, existential yearning, anxious
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*External Journey: Is on a deadline and struggling to complete her dissertation, which she does under the influence of the Triple- powered, Creative Mega-force of the goddess Hekate
*Old Ways:
–Overly invested in mannish ways and patriarchal society Accepts and trusts others’ authority over hers
–Retiring, hesitant, and humble
–Lacks self-confidence/belief in herself
–Makes herself shyly inconspicuous
–Doesn’t take her intellectual and creative gifts seriously enough*New Ways:
–She, connected with her Divine Feminine Harmonic (Hekate), embodies
the “One.”–Completes her doctorate and brings the beauty of Feminine the natural balance from the union of Feminine and Masculine energies to the world
–Effective in a male-dominated world; men begin to experience the value of feminine energy in themselves and respect, appreciate, and embrace it.–Kara is released from her childhood wound.
–Hekate is restored to human consciousness as a guide: a vital, compassionate, empathic thrust in both women and men.
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