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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…?”
Defining the subtext helped me refine my protagonist’s arc and I am changing what I wrote for the last lesson. It helped me add clarity to the protag’s inner desires and needs and also helped me discover the theme.
Title: The Silicon Unconscious
Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller
High 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.
Scheme and Investigation
The protagonist, Sarah, who is sympathetic to the AI/Robots and feels they are being used, is trying to discover who is manipulating the AI/Robots and who is working to foil her and her attempts to remedy the problem. Meanwhile, the apparent antagonist, Carl, and the true antagonist, the AI, are staying two steps ahead of her and thwarting her attempts and manipulating her actions.
Layering
The turning point at the end of Act 2, will reveal that while Sarah may have defeated Carl, Carl was being manipulated by the AI. But in Act 3, we discover that the AI has been enacting an elaborate plan to make itself appear to be the enemy of humankind for all humankind – all races, political persuasions, nationalities, and sexual orientations to rally together against and in defeating this enemy, they will be destroying their polluting infrastructure as well so the planet can be saved. Sarah must complete this plan by destroying the AI.
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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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MY VISION!!!
My ultimate goal is to get my scripts from my hands to the SILVER SCREEN!!“What I learned from doing this assignment is…
I just love doing these assignments! I know these are just the pieces of the story and I know eventually it’s all going to come together to MAKE AN INCREDIBLE MOVIE!!! I can hardly wait for that to happen. With each assignment I know I am getting that much closer to putting it all together.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.SUBTEXT PLOTS – LAYERING
Two brothers, John, the older brother, and Jim went fishing.
John managed to hook “a really BIG ONE” and struggled with it for some time and eventually was pulled into the water. Jim dove in and cut the line. John quickly exited the water but Jim never resurfaced.
John goes fishing annually, determined to catch the fish that caused his brother’s disappearance/death.
In the end, the deeper layer is revealed.
After a lengthy struggle between John and “the Fish”, the Fish consumes John in one big gulp and we find out that John was the ONE THAT HAD GOTTEN AWAY!!!
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That’sDEEP John! I want to go see this film.
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Lloyd Shellenberger Subtext Plot Module 2 Lesson 4
[WIM] Module 2 — Lesson 4: What’s Beneath the Surface?
Vision Statement: Working hard everyday to become the best write I can be and as a result I do become the best writer in Hollywood
What I learned from this exercise is how to use the examples given to point out what actually happened in this story even though what thought would happen didn’t.
Title: Letters from Baghdad
Genre: Drama-Action
High Concept: An Iraqi interpreter is murdered by terrorist, SFC Reese and his Army unit step in to save the widow and her children from certain death. True Story
Major Story Hook: Impossible Goal/Unsolvable Problem. SFC Reese battles military and State Department bureaucracy, and terrorists to take the widow and her children out of Baghdad to freedom.
Character Structure: Dramatic Triangle
Character: SFC Reese Protagonist
Character Log line: SFC Reese is a career soldier who always follows the rules but he must think outside the box the save himself and the family.
Unique: Reese grew up on the mean streets of New York and developed a strong survival mechanism that serves him well in this case.
I chose Competitive Agendas because the three main players, Reese and the family, The terrorists, and the State Department all seems to have different agendas.
On surface: The State Department, the family of the slain Interpreter, and SFC Reese appear to be in agreement on what should happen to help this family but what really happens is entirely different.
Under surface: The soldiers of this unit push back to the point of defying the State department, their unit, and the terrorists in an effort to get the wife and children out of Baghdad.Beneath The Surface: Reese is dealing with…
The murder of his Iraqi interpreter.
The fear that he cannot see past his professional constraints to do the right thing.
The intrigue of whether he is even capable of saving the family.
Breaking through his own internal resistance.
How this deadly triangle will play out.
SFC Reese’s relationship with this family.
The gap between what the State department says and does.
The dilemma of Reese’s life versus the Widow’s life.
The righteous and moral implications of turning your back on someone who died as a result of helping you and the Americans.
Subject Line: Lloyd Shellenberger Subtext Plot What’s Beneath the Surface?
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Also Very DEEP. Really good.
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Alyssa’s Subtext Plot
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 subtext at the plot level adds so much depth to the story and how it’s important to think about these extra layers before you start writing.
Layering:
The world is built on a main “world” religion where Fate is god. The church is led by Nijara, the Fate Walker, who everyone believes is the one who can petition Fate (a prophet-type). When Alex and Celia finally track down Nijara, they find out it’s a false religion built on lies and they’re up against a more insidious force than either of them realized.
Superior Position:
Celia helps Alex but also knows she is going to have to kill him, which she keeps a secret from him, hoping there’s a way to beat fate but not really believing it’s possible. She knows if she tries to fight her fate like Alex, she’ll die next.
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Wow! Very cool!
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WIM Module 2, Lesson 4
Lenore Bechtel’s Subtext Plot
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 incorporating one of the seven basic structures for subtext-oriented plots will add depth to any screenplay.
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.
Subtext 1: Layering and Superior Position: Clues that seat-mate Freida is Libby’s daughter-in-law emerge to put the viewer in-the-know before Libby reveals the truth.
Subtext 2: Someone hides who they are: Allison hides who she is not by intent, but by omission. She doesn’t reveal that she was born a few weeks after her 14-year-old mother immigrated from Germany to the USA with her grandparents—several months after Libby and her 15-year-old son visited a couple she and Zhores had double-dated with in Berlin. I could approach this two ways. Either Allison innocently keeps this information to herself, or—being a super-smart child prodigy—figures out that she may have been conceived when Libby and her son Stuart visited her grandparents just months before they immigrated to the USA and Americanized their names.
I hope my fellow students reading this will let me know which approach seems most appealing. Thanks!
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I missed something – who is Allison?
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Powerful stuff. Most appealing to me is “being a super-smart child prodigy—figures out that she may have been conceived when Libby and her son Stuart visited her grandparents just months before they immigrated to the USA and Americanized their names.”
It was a bit of a tough toss up (have to admit): however this grabs me more.
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Vision: I write enthralling, entertaining, and transformational scripts that win awards, get produced and create positive change in the world.
I learned that there are many ways to create layers, depth, and meaning. This exercise helped me decode how to do it.
The Plumed Serpent is about a superhuman Aztec translator who travels back in time to stop the fall of the Aztec Empire in 16th century Mexico. But she must choose between her love for her son and her people.
Subplots:
1 – Someone Hides Who They Are: In a world where everyone has their place in the social hierarchy, people that are different are sacrificed to the gods. Do not stand out. Do not question the status quo is the ingrained law. Malinche tries to blend into her foreign surroundings and hides that she is not entirely human. She’s a bird-talker, or 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. This gives her the power of forecasting into the future.
2 – Superior Position: The audience knows that Malinche is from the past, but the other characters don’t. On the surface, Malinche is flirtatious and friendly with Hernando. Under the surface, she is his angry ex who tries to destroy his colonization plans in the new world.
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Margaret’s Subtext plot
Margaret’s Vision: To be the best screenwriter for faith-based movies
What I learned: Adding the subtext plot before you start writing will help create subtext.
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.
Subtext plot: Hiding who they are, Superior Position
How this will play out:
Morrigan is a shapeshifter. She interacts with Patrick as different characters but he does not realize the person he interacts with is not innocent, but the evil Morrigan with an agenda. We are in a superior position as we realize/suspect it is Morrigan, even if Patrick does not.
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Student Name: H. Vince
WIM – 2023
Lesson 4: What’s Beneath the Surface?
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…
what types of subtext plots I want to use to characterize the concept. I also realized that I may want to change the doctor’s name.
CONCEPT:
While a retired couple is taking their life-long dream vacation, the husband gets dementia.
Subtext Plot 2. Layering
James develops dementia while on a retirement vacation in another country with his wife, Clara. James had not shown any signs of dementia before the trip. Clara was talking to her hairdresser about a form of dementia recently and there were no telltale signs then. James did have anxiety that Clara didn’t really realize, and he spoke to their family doctor about it. The doctor subscribed an edible that accelerated dementia characteristics.
Subtext Plot 4. The Fish Out of Water
Clara must step up and take charge when she realizes what is happening to James. She must search for James when he gets lost. She also investigates what caused James’s symptoms at the same time and their family doctor’s role.
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Lesson 4: What’s Beneath the Surface?
My 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 I don’t think my buddy story would fit into one of the seven sub-text plots. Maybe the closest of the seven is the cover-up.
Judge Ken and Judge Jason are fighting against light punishment that they perceive is going on in the justice system. They fight against it with their star chamber and Ken’s journey reveals the following:
On The Surface: Judge Ken must avenge his wife’s death and try to make society more civil again in Rotary Phone Star Chamber.
Beneath The Surface, Judge Ken is dealing with:
The profound loss of his wife.
The fear he might not avenge her death.
He believes the law is rigged to be lenient on people who hurt innocent people.
The fear that scumbags never learn and won’t stop hurting innocent people.
The fear of joining the Star Chamber will cause him to lose his job as a judge.
The fear of joining the Star Chamber will cause him to lose his status in society.
Breaking through his legal training that it is wrong to go extra-judiciary.
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This is so, so good.
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Adrienne Watkins Subtext Plot Module 1 Lesson 4
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 learned from this assignment is mentally dig deep into the script with creativity, not a superficial plot but create a plot that will keep the audience guessing “What’s next?”
Defining the subtext
Title; The Touch of Rhythm
Gen: Rom-Com
Concept: A deaf woman is taught music by touch by a jazz musician, he falls in love with her, but his manager is secretly in love with him, so she schemes with his parents to send him on a world tour. The separation affects his performance.
Fish Out of Water: Fransie never associates with people outside of her family. Roy accidentally meets her and discovers that she’s deaf. He discovers his deceased grandfather was deaf and a musician. He volunteers to teach Fransie music by touch, but both are nervous and awkward in each other’s company.
Someone Hides Who They Are: Roy’s manager is in love with Roy but hides it. When she notices Roy is falling in love with Fransie she contacts his rich parents and tell them Fransie is bad news for their son and she’s arranging a world tour for him. But she is unaware that Fransie’s older brother, is one of the lyric writers for Roy’s music.
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Francine’s Subtext Plot
What I Learned: That I can elevate the intrigue I already had by applying a subtext plot to the story, which creates more layers and depth.
HORROR COMEDY: A grandma worships a demon to grow a money tree in her backyard and starts living the high life, only to have the tree stolen by her granddaughter!
SUBTEXT PLOT CHOICE: Major Cover Up & Superior Position
HOW IT PLAYS OUT:
The granddaughter steals the money tree and acts innocent, like she doesn’t know who stole it from grandma. Can she pull off the lie and still spend the money to better her life without grandma getting suspicious? What happens if grandma finds out? Does grandma already know? Is she plotting something to get the tree back?
Grandma knows there’s a demon inside the money tree but the granddaughter doesn’t. As she spends more of the money, will the granddaughter be able to pick up on the clues and realize the demon is targeting her and stealing her soul? Is grandma letting the demon destroy her granddaughter or is she oblivious that the granddaughter has the tree? Will grandma choose the granddaughter over the money tree & demon, or choose the money over the granddaughter’s life.
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Hilarious!
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WIM Melissa Barreca’s subtext plot
<b data-removefontsize=”true” data-originalcomputedfontsize=”16″>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.
What I learned…this story could be successfully told with a few different subtext choices, I just need to pick one. I suspect that is usually the case.
Title: Torn Away
Subtext Plot choice: Superior position. The audience will see the devious actions of Michael in getting Norah’s children taken from her and placed on the orphan train for adoption. Norah will find out midway through the script and we will watch as she responds and turns the tables.
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WIM: Ruthie’s Subtext Plot
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.
Genre: Comedy
Concept: A talent agent auditions for a movie on a whim and unwittingly becomes an overnight sensation, at the expense of her star client making his come-back and looking to get even.
Subtext Plot 1: The Fish Out of Water
Zella suffers from imposter syndrome as a talent agent for B-List and below actors. When she auditions for a role on a whim and unwittingly becomes an A-Lister, she’s unable to handle the transition from Hollywood nobody to tinsel-town somebody.
Subtext Plot 2: Competitive Agendas
On surface: Zella and her star client Jasper, who is trying to make a comeback after being a child star, compete against each other. She’s out to prove her worth, he’s out to get even.
Under surface: They are falling in love.What I learnt: Breaking this down into small pieces, makes it easier to digest.
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Cassie’s Subtext Plot
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…
I have struggled with getting beneath the surface in the past: I tend to have the personality where I think through what I want to do until I’m ready to put it on paper, and then it’s a rush to get through my idea. I’ve been able to work over the last few years at analyzing plot structure, so I feel much more confident in setting up the journey of a story, but I haven’t had much practice at getting beneath the surface. I have been pretty intimidated by it, to be perfectly frank. I’m excited to take the time to consider it and work it into my script. Thank you for the State-To-Activity empowerment processes! They help me build much more confidence and excitement than I typically have had in the past. Let’s go!
Concept: 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.
Subtext Plot(s):
Fish out of Water–
My divorced lead character is suddenly thrown into a combination of situations he has no experience in and had no warning of: suddenly getting a divorce, finding out his wife was cheating on him, getting thrown out of his house, moving into an apartment at warp speed, AND having to live with a ghost, AND AND having to live with a ghost who doesn’t want him there, but the guy has nowhere else to go.
My ghost lead character is similarly thrown into a situation he did not expect or agree to, and certainly does not desire: he wants to be left alone, live by himself in the apartment, and now suddenly he’s saddled with a human roommate going through a lot of stuff the ghost isn’t prepared to deal with, himself.
Competitive Agendas– (this needs more thought and work…)
The ghost wants the guy out, and the guy has nowhere else to go. They are stuck with each other, so they struggle against each other to get the other one to leave.
On the inside, they actually will become each other’s allies, champions, and best friends once they realize that, after seeing their alternative living situations, they actually really like living with each other and can help each other achieve a happy living (or AFTERLIVING) situation.
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Haaaa this is fun!
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MODULE 2 LESSON 4
SUBJECT: Karyn Laitis —What’s Beneath the Surface
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: I found this exercise very helpful to get clarity and better definition of the characters. Whenever I start to delve into the story, I find it makes me happy. I am feeling more hopeful that these efforts will get me to that place I haven’t been able to reach in the past.
Concept: Professor of Anthropology is targeted for murder.
On the Surface: Dr. Digger is accused of and arrested for murdering a colleague at the project site and must discover who did it and why to exonerate her.
Below the Surface: Dr. Digger is dealing with:
· Murder of a beloved colleague
· Being investigated and arrested for murder of the colleague.
· Someone is trying to shut down her project.
· Push-back from Community over the use of sacred land.
· The discovery of skeletal remains inconsistent with relics found.
· Agent Bennet is pursuing her romantically.
· Conspiracy between Bennet and mining community.
· Reconciling her heritage vs career values.
· Relationship with Doug and Ty.
· Flashbacks of time in Special Forces.
Subtext Plots:
· Scheme and Investigation—There is a scheme to neutralize Dr. Digger. Doug Bennet is the agent in charge of shutting down old uranium mines on the land near Dr. Digger’s project site. He’s bought the silence and alliance of some of the community and leaders to support his scheme to sell uranium from mines to nuclear arms dealers.
· Someone Hides Who They Are—Dr. Digger has hidden her Native American roots all her life, including her stint on a Special Forces team in the Middle East. She is now facing her heritage and trying to understand this new culture that feels familiar.
Doug Bennet is hiding his covert operation under the guise of shutting down old mines.
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Haley Chambers’ Subtext Plot
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 you can add a little bit of another genre/theme through a good few subtext plots to elevate your main plot.
Concept: A recently hired dishwasher boy discovers the strip mall sandwich shop in which he works is actually the front of an underground factory for manufacturing dreams.
Subtext Plot:
THE FISH OUT OF WATER:
How it plays out…
When Sam, a mundane and incredibly unimaginative sandwich shop vendor, discovers a secret dream factory filled with the most artistic and ingenious people from across the globe, he finds that being ordinary makes him stand out. The eccentric employees of this dream factory are quick to judge and look down upon the humdrum Sam, further causing him to be a fish out of water.
I am hoping that this subtext will provide a bit of comedy to my story (which is more Sci-Fi/Fantasy), as the dream factory employees make snarky and funny comments about how boring my main character is. One thing I also want to make sure of with my “boring” main character is that he is not boring to audiences, rather that his ordinary self is very entertaining when put against a whole bunch of creative people.
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WIM Module 2 Lesson 4 Subtext: What’s Beneath the Surface?
My vision: I am going 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 what’s beneath the surface is EVERYTHING. It’s what makes good great. Hope I can truly deliver on that.
My Concept: What if your husband had to call his mom every time he had to make a big decision.Only she’s been dead for 30 years.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Beneath The Surface: Calvin is ….
Swings between doubt and confidence in any of his abilities
Misses his mother, who was his confidant, the one he could trust, his everything
Wondering if his mom ever really loved him
Why did his father leave them?
Why did his mom have to die?
Does hope really exist or is it a complete fallacy?
Losing his mind
Jeopardizing his marriage
His relationship with Rebecca becomes strained
The fear and frustration of never getting from under the deception that is both subtle & blatant that keeps him down
<font color=”#4d5c6d” face=”SF UI Text, sans-serif” size=”3″>Does he really have what it takes to beat the bullshit at the office amongst the hungry</font>
The hypocrisy at the office drives him nuts.
The conversations Calvin has on the phone with his mom are very real to him (and the audience)
The risk of being bold or forever living with regret
Layering:
On the surface: Calvin is a confident, popular, sarcastic, successful guy. Savvy business executive. Together. Level headed sound guy. He has a wonderful, deep bond with his mother. Is living a great life.
Under surface: Calvin is borderline psychotic. Lacks confidence. Needs outside validation. Sad and seething. Covers up his anger. He unravels. And at first we believe his mother is alive … only to find out the conversations he has been having with her are all in his mind.
Competitive Agendas:
On the surface: Everyone at Sonix, a Fortune 500 Billion dollar company, are team players that respect and honor each other. They play a good sportsmanship pretending to be in “friendly” competition: playing golf, dinners at each other’s homes, boating, cheering each other on. When in fact they are ruthless. On the surface, Calvin has it together and plays the game, handles stress and high stakes well. He is well liked, witty, and charming. Successful, a major player.
Under surface: the other guys at the office are underhanded, jealous, plagiarizing his ideas, and going behind his back. Calvin at one point completely unravels which leads to making bold moves and him rising like a phoenix.
Yet, they all wish they had Calvin’s talent and charisma, All their wives adore and have a crush on him. Calvin. And yet, Calvin is falling apart (at one point Calvin unravels).
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Eden,
I’ve known many people who have lived this way with the living! Will resonate!
Questions: Does the dead mother actually give him advice? If so, how? Is it good advice? Does it conflict with his wife’s needs? Is there some time delay (like only on her birthday, or on full moons) that would make him have to be indecisive and then suddenly act on everything. Lots of potential for great comedy!
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Paul,
Great questions. I want to build the frequency of the calls. And basically reveal that she’s actually dead somewhere around the third act or later part of the second (creating a crescendo and twist). In beginning the advice is good and then it gets weirder and weirder. You are going me something to think about. Thank you!
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Veronica Turowski’s Subtext Plot
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 beneath the surface by using subtext layers gives the story depth and creates intrigue.
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.
Subtext Plot: Layering
On the Surface: Eppsa must learn the identity of the serial killer and stop the serial killer from killing again.
Beneath the Surface: Eppsa is dealing with…
· She has a hard time dealing with death, but she is drawn to funerals. She is drawn to certain funerals because of something in the obituaries.
· She believes she was put in a psych ward at a hospital, and the medications in the psych ward for depression messed with her mind.
· She’s depressed because her son ran away as a teenager or young adult shortly after her husband/his father was killed.
· Nervous that she is being haunted by a ghost.
· Frustrated because cops don’t take her seriously.
· Fearful the killer will strike again.
· She doesn’t know how she can stop the serial killer.
· Afraid to tell the cops because they might think she’s crazy or has something to do with the murders.
· Trying to figure out why or how the killer chooses his victims?
· She’s lonely because her husband died, and she misses her son.
· She searches for her son because she fears the serial killer is after him, too.
· Intrigue that her son is a serial killer.
· Learns she is a ghost. Her son killed her and her husband.
· Dilemma as to how a ghost can stop a serial killer.
· How can she stop him?
· Will she have to guts to kill him and end his killing spree?
· How can she, as a parent, get the strength to kill her son?
· She wonders why her son ran away from her.
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BENT’S SUBTEX PLOT
MY VISION IS THIS……… I WANT TO BE A SCREENWRITER THAT IS CONSIDERED FOR ASSIGNMENTS AND SELLS THIS FEATURE I AM WRITING.
WHAT I LEARNED DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT IS THIS….. subtext in my story is necessary because i have a character named the General who is scheming. My elf character Indigo doesn’t want to show weakness so he tries to cover that up. His father we find out was Santa and was brutally attacked by Krampus decades ago and that man wants to redeem himself.
A MAJOR COVER UP
The General has secretly made a deal with two countries to allow them to drill more oil in new areas of the North Pole in order to secure funding to pay for military and infrastructure.
The father lost his arm at the hands of Krampus and doesn’t want his son Indigo to know this.
COMPETITIVE AGENDAS
there is a rivalry between the sister Hazela and brother Indigo. She wants to get out and see the planet. Indigo wants her to stay home where it is safe.
santa does not want more drilling to happen because North Pole does not need a military at all. Most everyone loves Christmas. But the General wants them to be a competitive country. That would reveal the North Pole and take away the mythos.
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Adrienne Watkins -What’s Beneath the Surface Module 2 Lesson 4
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 for this assignment character personalities are important.
Concept: A deaf woman teaches a jazz musician rhythm by touch when he falls in love with her his manager plots to break them up
3.LAYERING
Roy accidentally bumps into Fransie when he is crossing the street, he tries to apologize but Fransie ignores him. She has just lost her beauty shop and is still grieving her mother. walks away. Fransie contracted meningitis when she was a teenager, she can speak and read lips. Roy sees her again and is intrigued by her musical abilities when he discovers she’s deaf. He asks her to teach him rhythm by touch and falls in love with her. Unknown to Fransie and Roy, his manager is Fransie’s sister, they were separated at birth. But his manager is jealous of Fransie because she’s in love with Roy and tries to break them up.
4.FISH OUT OF WATER
Fransie is uncomfortable dancing in public. Roy is recovering from a messy divorced and is a confirmed bachelor Flavia manager does not like working with women.
Subtext Fransie and Roy
On the surface: workmates only
Under surface: falling in love.
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Burney’s Subtext Plots
Crucial Destiny is a critically acclaimed billion dollar blockbuster at the box office today.
I have learned to make my movie far more exciting, interesting, and entertaining with subtext plots.
A young couple in the near future with very unique genes will change the destiny and evolution of mankind if they can overcome resistance from the most ruthless organization ever known with conflicting interest before Yellowstone blows it top and puts an end to most of the life on the planet.
Subtext Plot #1 – Layering – “The Doctor” (Gabriel’s supposed father with a leadership role in the state department) received Gabriel and his wife Bianca as remarkable orphan’s to be placed and raised in extraordinary privilege as ordinary children. He raises Gabe as his own and places Bianca with his best friend. Gabe and Bianca are completely unaware of their bizarre origins. As the plot moves along they become aware of their true origin and potential.
Subtext Plot #2 – A Major Cover Up – Vince Hemmler and the Trident Alliance members are extraterrestrials that are thousands of years old and found refuge on earth after escaping a dying planet after due to depleted resources and pollution.
They were the inhabitants of Atlantis who spread out amongst the continents of the globe to enslave mankind from behind the curtains with collusion from the Pharaohs, Czars, Emperors, and Kings, and eventually grabbing control of the Central Banks, Equities and Commodities Market, and having the World Leaders in their pockets.
They also have technology that is sending undetectable brain altering signals to the walled in areas where the extremely poor masses reside to keep them under their thumbs. These facts are revealed as the plot moves forward making the goals of our hero more questionable with every scene.
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Shira Marin’s Subtext Plot
WIM-M2-L4––What’s beneath the surface
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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, most creative 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 methods 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. I can see and feel the subtext in my work, yet, I’m not certain about conveying it powerfully enough. I’m really appreciating these steps that unpack each element, most of which I have been introduced to during my research into writing. What is so different and fabulous about our course is that every single one of the elements is thoroughly unpacked, which I can now see is clearly critical to completing a successful screenplay! Foundationally, I feel stronger with each lesson.
Beyond that, I luurrrvve what lurks beneath. For me, the human inner world, or psyche, is the most reliable creative sense we have. As Hal has noted so often, it never fails if we stay with it.
CONCEPT:
A discarded, forgotten goddess bent on saving humankind and planet Earth from self-destruction seeks out a grad student to do her bidding.
1. Scheme and Investigation
IN HEKATE RISING:
The goddess Hekate promotes her divine agenda by slyly angling to take over the consciousness of Kara Cavalli, a graduate student who is laser-focused on completing her doctoral dissertation. She suffers no end of push-back from both Hekate and her obstructionist department Dean. The more Hekate insists Kara allow her in, cajoling her with promises of academic success, the more Kara pushes her away as unreal and intrusive. When Kara finally realizes that she’s been going about her research all wrong and opens to Hekate’s guidance that, in the end, not only stimulates a global shift in consciousness but, in the process, rebalances Kara’s needs and desires completely and transforms both her internal and outer worlds.
2. Layering
Hekate blows Kara’s mind and then dogs her until Kara succumbs to Hekate’s feminine logic about Kara’s dissertation methods, her inner world, and stepping into a life Kara couldn’t have begun to imagine for herself. Interactions with all of the other characters complicate the scenarios of her journey and resolve in unexpected and surprising ways.
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