Lesson 5

[Nader Khaghani]

ASSIGNMENT— 5 Post : With much appreciation to Cheryl & Hal
Answer the question “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” Limiting page to 90 also 3 turning points to create a first draft of 4 acts.
1. Give us the following:
Concept: A painter’s life and livelihood are threatened when he plunges into a deep depression that threaten his life, sending him on a surreal journey.

Main Conflict: Fight with depression
Old Ways: Painting from a negative pole
New Ways: accept depression and working with a balanced mind
2. Fill in each of these with the answers you have right now.
Act 1: 25
Opening: Sever depression Wants to take his life
Inciting Incident: A phone call and start of the journey
Turning Point: Love of Color comes to his rescue
Act 2: 20
New plan: Travel to Venice
Plan in action: Books a flight to Rome to transfer
Midpoint Turning Point: Instead ends up in imagination
Act 3: 20
Rethink everything: Subjects
New plan: Live through it
Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: Does not pay off: imagination stops short
Act 4: 25
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: Intense darkness
Resolution: Discovers light in a painting