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Lesson 3 Assignments
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Mhmd’s Transformational Journey
My Vision: I will keep creating constantly and effectively; in order to be the most demanded and influential glorified writer within the industry and with the audience.
What I learned from doing this assignment is..
– Once you are involved in the process, everything becomes easy.
Title: conjoined twin 84
Concept: Shocking revolutionary actions escalate inside a labor colony of conjoined twins cut out of the will, underhandedly driven – with sudden and unexpected patterns- by a conjoined twin who has an impossible mutation.
84 (Protagonist)
Arc Beginning: an outcast worker lurks within the colony.
Arc Ending: Leader of the impregnable revolution within the colony.
Internal Journey: from loneliness and ostracism to leadership worthiness.
External Journey: from a worker who is no one cares about to a great leader.
Old Ways:
Introverted coexistence.
no clear goal.
no vision.
He has nothing to lose.
Limited liability within the scope of the assigned work.
Order taker.
New Ways:
Openness to unprecedented levels.
Great goals beyond the colony.
He has a grand vision of his own existence and his model for changing the world.
He has a lot he must protect.
Responsibility for many lives and their future in this world.
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Madeleine’s Transformational Journey
Vision: I am going to do whatever it takes for me to be a writer of amazing stories with meaning who can move the audience and change the world resulting in financial, critical and audience success.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: I’ve learned that sometimes it’s better not to think to long but just type and get something on the page.
Arc Beginning: Selfish, established silverback growth economic professor and absent father.
Arc Ending: Caring father and member of an experimental community, practicing a self-limiting life-style.
Internal Journey: From dogmatic and self-pleased to open-minded and respectful.
External Journey: From a sumptuous professor to a happy minimalist father and educator.
Old Ways:
• The only thing that counts is his career.
• Wasteful and disrespectful.
• Dogmatic believer in never ending growth.
• Finds happiness in consumption and sees himself above the ecosystem.New Ways:
• Cares about the needs of his wife and daughter.
• Conscious and caring.
• Embracing a self-limiting life-style.
• Discovers his is a part of the ecosystem and discovers genuine happiness.-
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KZ’s Transformational Journey
My Vision: I am an empowered writer who can find the gem hidden within any idea and turn it into a saleable script.
What I learned doing this assignment: Along with the previous assignment, I came up with some core truths about my characters that will enhance the story.
HONOR KALOS
Arc Beginning: NYPD Detective afraid of becoming like her superstitious Romanian mother.
Arc Ending: Invaded by the spirit of Bella Farkas, Honor does in fact “become her mother.”
Internal journey: Running from her background to embracing it.
External journey: From focused on the real to focused on the supernatural.
Old Ways:
- Doesn’t believe in ghosts
- Running from her mother’s philosophy
- Dropped her family
- Cautious
New Ways:
- Believes in ghosts
- Embracing her mother’s philosophy
- Returns to her family
- Bold
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Geoff Gwillim’s Transformational Journey
VISION: I am a writer of popular and critically acclaimed films, enjoying and grateful for every aspect of my creative life, consistently writing what and as I choose wherever I choose to live in the world, loving the wonderful experiences my writing enables me to have.
WHAT I LEARNED FROM DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT IS:
Designing the principal’s / protagonist’s development arc, from beginning to end, as a key step in the process provides the beginning of a structure that can then be ‘filled in’ with the events and relationships to enable the protagonist’s transformational journey.
GARRETT
Arc Beginning: Tortured by his past and demon and contemplating ‘The End’
Arc Ending: In control and understanding what humanity can become and how to achieve it
Internal Journey: From broken and suffering to calm and certain re the future and his mission.
External Journey: From self-absorbed sufferer of life to in charge of his and humanity’s destiny
Old Ways:
Unable to hold it together
Alone, isolated and hiding out. Preparing to
end it all.
No longer believing in himself or the value of
his life
Consumed by guilt for his past mistakes
Sees no futureNew Ways:
Understands the totality of life
Clear and certain re the future
Compassionate and inclusive for those with him.
A man with a mission larger than himself. -
To write touching, entertaining family stories that have a message to teach and entertain audiences at the same time.
What I learned doing this assignment is creating the journey for my protagonist:Arc Beginning: My protagonist is shallow, cold, uses people for her own selfish reasons, lonely and desperate for love
Arc Ending: My protagonist transforms into a humble person, has maturity and growth, takes her time to get to know people and has the interests of her children as a priority
Internal Journey: Fragile, angry, needy, desperate
External Journey: Independent, confident, reassured, patient, compassionate
Old Ways: Seeks love, acceptance and attention from the
wrong men, financially supports mooching men who take advantage, puts men
priority over her children, has unresolved anger and resentment from her
troubled pastNew Ways: Develops inner strength, heals from the past,
values herself and her children, no longer desires false love or fears being
alone, stops settling for the wrong men-
This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Danielle Dillard.
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I want to go deeper into my writing to create screenplays where characters of depth are placed in compelling journeys with a fresh voice that Hollywood producers as well as independent film cos. know they must make!
I learned from this assignment to create a protagonist with complex personality traits and show action that brings out these traits in order to witness the growth of the protagonist through the arcs of the screenplay.
Character Arc:
Arc Beginning: Music more important than family and friends, superficial frivolous relationships with men.
Arc Ending: Uses music to first help, ultimately save others, relationships are most important of all.
Transformational Journey:
Internal Journey: self-centered musician to victim to heroic selfless fighter
Eternal Journey: freedom loving musician to humiliated Nazi prisoner to heroic fighter.
Old Ways:
self-centered
superficial
music above relationships
does not stand up against anti-semitism
New Ways:
uses music to save others
has first real love relationship
heroic fighter against Nazis
caring full person
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Brandyn Cross’ Transformational Journey
My vision for success in this program is to develop and hone my skills to the extent that my screenplays will be produced and widely viewed.
What I learned from this assignment is an amazingly easy and quick means of tracking a character’s journey, by identifying the beginning point and ending point, and then filling in the incremental steps along the way.
Arc Beginning: Introverted struggling children’s book author whose own son has died.
Arc Ending: Learns to use his talents to bringing closure to families who have lost a child.
Internal Journey: From depressed, discouraged and negative to selfless and empathetic.
External Journey: From selfish, struggling writer to using his abilities to benefit others.
Old Ways: Self-absorbed, victim personality, mourning the death of his son.
New Ways: Helps others get over their own loss and grief.
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KZ’s Transformational Journey
My Vision: I am an empowered writer who can find the gem hidden within any idea and turn it into a salable script.
What I learned doing this assignment: Along with the previous assignment, I came up with some core truths about my characters that will enhance the story.
WENDY
Arc Beginning: Cutthroat negotiator determined to win at any cost
Arc Ending: Learns to negotiate so that both sides win
Internal journey: Having to prove herself to self-acceptance
External journey: Must find her way out of Nirvana
Old Ways:
- Collects information on opponents to use against them
- Never trusts anyone
- Only feels she has succeeded when someone else loses
New Ways:
- Values others
- Adopts a “trust-but-verify” approach
- Looks for the win-win solution
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Paul’s Transformational Journey.
5. I want to write scripts that become movies that change people’s lives.
6. What I learned from this assignment is that it is a brilliant way to start thinking about my Protagonist before writing a word of dialogue. Again, it has made me re-think my Protagonist.
2. Character Arc: Protagonist – Lilia.
– Arc Beginning: A single mother totally and exclusively concerned with ensuring her daughter does not have to live the life of poverty she has endured.
– Arc Ending: The leading agitator in a movement she started to bring down the DEA.
3. Internal Journey: Naïve and easily intimidated to totally disabused and as tough as nails.
External Journey: From totally unknown to international fame, but with powerful enemies.
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Old Ways:
Narrow horizons.
Fighting to survive.
Not question authority.
Unaware of the politics of the drug war.
New Ways:
Leading a fight with global implications.
Fearless.
A danger to the survival of the DEA.
Determined to end the phony drugs war.
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