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Lesson 4 Assignments
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KZ’s Subtext Plot
Vision for my future: I am an empowered writer who is a master of structure and genre, and who can turn any idea into a saleable script.
Doing this assignment, I learned: that thinking through subtext possibilities encourages inventive new directions for the plot.
Concept:
A down-to-earth NYPD Detective faces off with a supernatural opponent.Subtext plots:
3. Someone hides who they are
4. Fish out of water
7. Competitive agendas
How the subtext plot will play out inside the story:
Someone Hides Who They Are
- Pippa Drake hides that she has been overtaken by the spirit of Bella Farkas
- Honor Kalos hides that most of her family are criminals
Fish Out of Water
- In Kalos’ first job as Detective, she’s out of her depth, but tries to hide it.
Competitive Agendas:
- Carlos and Tom want to use traditional detective work to break the case, and feel certain that Alison is the killer, even wrangling a confession from her. Kalos knows that they’ve jailed the wrong suspect.
- Honor Kalos reluctantly acknowledges that she’ll have to make use of her mother’s spiritualism to find Bella, who is inhabiting Pippa Drake’s body.
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Madeleine’s Subtext Plot
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 instead of thinking of story to be a one level narrative, it’s an amazing insight to add the subtext-oriented plots. So far, I think that two structures could make sense. Picking these two plots will impact the way the story is going to be constructed, adding the subtext plot from the beginning.
Title: Menopausal Dad
Concept: What if a professor of growth economics gets confronted with his own natural limits?
Subtext Plots
1. Superior Position
Adding the Superior Position plot means that it will make sense, to shape the story in a way, that Alex might hide his condition from his family, so just the audience knows about it and is therefore at a superior position. It will add more interest and tension, than if everybody knows everything. I also think that, that the movie “Parasite” used this subtext plot, especially in the second part. So, it’s a good example how well this approach works out.
2. Competitive Agendas
It’s an approach, I’ve been thinking about, but having it as a subtext plot, it helps to shape the story in a way, so it puts this idea at the core and builds upon it. It will make the story stronger. It’s the approach that will help to introduce the scheming. It does not mean, that there have to be major fights, but it will help to build up interest and tension as how the two main character interact with each other. -
Mhmd’s Subtext Plot
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..
– Sometimes, empowerment can be done once I tell myself the complete sentence of State-To-Activity.
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.
Subtext Plots:
1. Scheme and Investigation:
The main character (84) is scheming and the under covered outsider (Spider) is investigating. Olso, the triangle character (3) has his own scheme for them both.
2. Someone Hides Who They Are:
The (Spider) as a new comer to the colony, he hide that he is a loyal agent to the outside system and he is here under covered for a specific purpose.
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VISION – 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 subtext.
The subtext plot I’m using is someone is hiding who they are.
My story has a protagonist who has a pattern of picking the wrong men. Now the new man in her life seems to be the entire package she’s been looking for: he has a job; he goes to church, and he loves kids. What she doesn’t know is he is a child abuser. As she learns about who he really is, it forces her to look at the things she’s been hiding herself, which is emotional pain and trauma from her past. This becomes an eye opener for my protagonist and the driving force to make a change for the better.
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Geoff Gwillim’s Subtext Plot
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:
Exploring and developing the subtext plot for the concept provides a gateway to developing the story’s deeper purpose
Concept A former submariner turned fireman suffering PTSD is recruited for an exploratory mission tive journey when the earth’s crust is torn apart, only to discover the answer to some of life’s biggest questions
‘Choice of Subtext Plots
Layering
Someone Hides Who They Are
How it Plays Out Inside the Story
There is a deeper meaning throughout the characters’ personal and the collective expedition’s mission/s .. think Dan Brown meets Elon Musk meets Jules Verne.
The journey into the depths is essential and must be undergone on order to rise again.
The reclusive billionaire behind the mission is seeking to access‘the Ancients’ who hold the secret of immortal life and humanity’s eternal ascension to higher consciousness.
Garrett as well as the other crew members must navigate through the labyrinth of their subconscious minds, to defeat their demons and shadow values in order to achieve purification and enlightenment.
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Brandyn Cross’ Subtext Plot
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 how to deepen the story in a fairly easy way to explore the motivations of characters below the surface.
Concept: A struggling children’s book author mourning the loss of his son develops psychic abilities, enabling him to communicate with dead children, following a disabling accident in which his own son was killed.
Subtext Plot 1: Layering: After children’s book author Alex’s accident, he develops psychic abilities which enable him to communicate with the ghost of a young boy named Sandy. Sandy connects Alex to the ghosts of other children who can’t ‘cross over’ until their families come to terms with their passing and learn to let them go. Alex writes these children’s stories from their own points of view, designed to convince the families that their kids are okay in the arms of a loving God, enabling them to let to, and have one last moment to say goodbye to their departed child. Ultimately, Alex discovers the unknown connection he had with each of these kids, and the unwitting role he played in their deaths. It’s ultimately Alex who needs to come to terms with these deaths even more than the families of these kids.
Subtext Plot 2: Someone Hides Who They Are: As the ghost of Sandy connects Alex to the ghosts of other departed children, Alex is initially bitter that Sandy doesn’t connect him with his own departed son. Yet in the beginning, although Alex knows he had- and lost- a son, his memory of him is distorted. He’s fuzzy on his son’s name and how he looked but, for an unexplainable reason, doesn’t question his incomplete recollections. It seems somehow normal to him. As Sandy takes Alex further along his journey, Alex recalls more and more until eventually realizing that Sandy is, in fact, the ghost of his son, and that Alex died in his accident. What Sandy has been doing all along is preparing Alex to come to terms with his own death, and become ready to enter heaven.
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KZ’s Subtext Plot
Vision for my future: I am an empowered writer who is a master of structure and genre, and who can turn any idea into a salable script.
Doing this assignment, I learned: that thinking through subtext possibilities encourages inventive new directions for the plot.
Concept:
Two rival cutthroat negotiators must work together to escape NirvanaSubtext plots:
4. Fish out of water
7. Competitive agendas
How the subtext plot will play out inside the story:
Fish Out of Water
Neither Wendy nor Darvin are suited to Nirvana – a place where nothing ever happens
Competitive Agendas:
From the beginning, Wendy and Darvin are perfectly willing to double-cross each other and everyone else in order to escape Nirvana — while pretending to be working towards more spiritual goals.
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Raquel Solomon’s Subtext Plot
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!
What I learned from doing this assignment is without subtext we are left with a flat story with flat characters. Both the characters and story are without nuance or surprise. Without subtext we do not see growth and change in the personalities of our protagonist and other characters.
Concept: A young Jewish Warsaw Ghetto violinist forced to perform outside the ghetto for Nazi officers will use this for an opportunity to join the resistance and smuggle guns and food for the uprising.
Subtext Plot:
Scheme and Investigation
Miri, imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto is beholden to Officer Heinrich. As his prisoner Heinrich has control over her life. Her scheme is to use her access outside the ghetto as a performing musician for Nazi Officers at their club to join the resistance. She will smuggle food and weapons into the ghetto without Officer Heinrich and others finding out. These actions become more important to her than saving her life.
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Paul’s Sub-Text Plot.
4. I want to write scripts that become movies that change people’s lives.
5. What I learned from this assignment is that, like earlier assignments, it starts me thinking about new dimensions to the story or radically changes some aspects. Excellent assignment!
2. Concept: A young Mexican woman launches her own drugs war – against the drug-traffickers in the DEA.
Sub-plots:
No. 3: Someone hides who they are.
No. 5. Superior position.
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Someone hides who they are: Once Lilia is fully committed to her war against the DEA, a man befriends her saying he supports her ideas and wants to help her, but he turns out to be with the DEA and his mission is to sabotage her campaign, and, if necessary, eliminate her.
Superior position: The audience discovers the true identity of this new “ally” before the Protagonist does.
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