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Lesson 4 Assignments
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WIM Module 6, Lesson 4
Lenore Bechtel’s Solved Scene Problems
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 how important it is to make changes to be sure every scene advances the story. I made a huge change in a scene I loved, knowing loving it wasn’t enough. Now it shows my protagonist making a definite step in her over-all journey, and I love it more.
My Title: Berlin Rendezvous?
Concept: Keeping her promise to Zhores, the Russian soldier she loved when 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 intertwine with theirs.
Dramatic triangle: Libby, Freida, Allison
Genre: Drama/Suspense
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Lenore,
Are you ready to exchange scripts? Margaret
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Lenore,
Are you ready to exchange scripts? Would you be willing to exchange with me? Margaret
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WIM Module 6, Lesson 4
Lloyd Shellenberger’s Solved Scene Problems
My vision: Working hard every day to become the best writer I can be and as a result I do become the best writer in Hollywood.
What I learned from doing this assignment is how important it is to make changes early so everything you write has relevance and pathways to the overall structure. I have allot of work and some tough decisions because this script is the most important one that I have ever written.
My Title: Letters from Baghdad (Left behind)
Concept: Against all odds, SFC Reese and his squad must risk their lives and careers to save the widow of an Iraqi interpreter and her family from certain death at the hands of a ruthless terrorist.
Dramatic triangle: Antagonists, State Department, Military Command
Genre: Drama/Action
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Any chance you are ready to exchange for feedback (Lesson 5)?
Margaret
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Margaret Solved Scene Problems!
Vision: To be the best faith-based screenwriter
What I learned: I had several scenes that were exposition filled. I concentrated on replacing the exposition with action. I was satisfied that each of my scenes advanced the story and accomplished more than one purpose.
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Sorry to take so long to answer this. I haven’t checked the Forum for several days, so I just found your request. Here’s my email address: lenorebechtel33@gmail.com. Let me read your high concept before saying I’ll exchange with you. Mine is: Keeping her promise to Zhores, the Russian soldier she loved when 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 intertwine with theirs.
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H. Vince Solved Scene Problems!
WIM Module 6 – 2023
Lesson 4: Solving Scene Problems
My Vision: I will be a professional screenwriter.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that I solved the scenes from being uninteresting when I rewrote my outline.
TITLE: DREAM VACATION
WRITTEN BY: H. Vince
GENRE: DRAMA/THRILLER
HIGH CONCEPT: When a retired couple finally take their dream vacation, the husband starts showing signs of rapid dementia and leaves his wife in distress in a foreign country.
MAJOR STORY HOOK: Imagine thinking you can trust your doctor to prescribe you something to block your anxiety and instead you become a guinea pig for a clinical trial drug that causes extreme memory loss while you’re in a foreign country on your dream vacation!?
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Module 6 Lesson 4 Solving Scene Problems
Vision: I want to learn to write and market movie scripts.
What I learned from doing this assignment: I was limited in what I learned from this lesson, because try and I did..over and over…I could not access the website suggested. However I did learn that one of my scenes…a meal scene….accomplished exactly nothing and should be eliminated…I also learned that most of my scenes accomplished only one purpose, and that I should think more deeply with regard to those scenes because the story becomes a richer story with more than one meaning in its scenes.
I also learned that when my scenes had these problems that a common problem they had was too much conversation/dialogue…dialogue without much purpose. I think that’s a fairly common problem in my script and have just realized it.
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BRIAN BULL – Solved Scene Problems!
VISION!!!
My ultimate goal is to get my scripts from my hands to the SILVER SCREEN!!“What I learned from doing this assignment is…
Many of my scenes needed improvement and I’m still trying to flush them out but at some point you need to move on.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.ASSIGNMENT
1. Start this assignment by empowering yourself using our State-To-Activity empowerment process.
State: I’m highly motivated…
Activity: …to solve as many scenes as I can.
2. Look through your script and identify any scenes that have any of these problems.
Basic scene design.
Situations don’t challenge characters.
Uninteresting scenes.
Scenes that don’t advance the story.
Scene accomplishes only one purpose.
Exposition filled scenes.
When do I reveal what?
Cliché scenes and action.
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