Lesson 5

[Deb Johnson]

Deb’s Three Gradients

What I’ve learned… these assignments continue to push me out of my comfort zone (which is a good thing.) Filling in these gradients was simply my best guess and I look forward to seeing the pieces of the puzzle come together.

Desired Change

A. Excitement

B. A wealthy yet unsatisfied treasure hunter discovers his fathers’ old maps/notes and a personal letter that leads to a priceless treasure. His father was considered a fool and the man must decide if he will follow in his footsteps.

C. C: Must make a life-changing decision W: Ignorance

A. Doubt

B. After following the clues, he finds himself in a vast wasteland. He’s ill-equipped to travel this rough terrain.

C. C: all resources are exhausted/gone W: thinks he’s been on a fools’ errand

A. Hope

B. He meets someone who is experienced in the terrain and is given new resources. He is able to find the “X” that marks the spot.

C. C: learning to cope/explore foreign territory W: dependent on a guide

A. Discouragement

B. Finds the treasure but realizes that to obtain it, he must purchase the vast wasteland. He must give up all his wealth and possessions.

C. C: confronted with a ‘life’ or ‘death’ decision W: Self Doubt

A. Courage

B. Returns home to let his family know about the treasure. They don’t believe him and challenge him as he begins to sell off all his assets.

C. C: faces the rejection/challenges of family/peers W: overconfidence in how he will be received

A. Triumph

B. Buys the land and obtains the treasure

C. C: must create a new life for himself W: alone – on his own

[Mary Albanese]

Mary Albanese’s GRADIENTS OF CHANGE for her script.

What I learned – Plot your emotional path with at least one action and one weakness/challenge to overcome for each emotional experience. This creates the skeleton of your project in a way readers can track and experience along with your characters.

What is the Emotional Gradient you’ll use? THE DESIRED CHANGE
For each emotion of that gradient, tell us the following:

EXCITEMENT

ACTION: When Maggie’s plan to learn how to teach kids about rocks fails, she talks her way into being given a chance to accepted into a much harder program to become an exploration geologist. She never before thought she would be able to do this kind of thing, and the prospect is thrilling.

WEAKNESS – but she hasn’t had all the classes to qualify. She needs to study a ton of books and pass a difficult test in two weeks or else she won’t get in.

She gets in, at least for the first trial year. This is super exciting that she now has a year in this program to prove herself. HUGE EXCITEMENT.

DOUBT –

ACTION: She discovers this program is more dangerous than she imagined. The boys don’t think she can cut it. Checking through the program’s history she calculates that 1/5 of the trainees (the boys) don’t survive the training. Yikes! And she’s got to come up with an expedition idea and successfully lead it. How can she possibly do that when she is so far behind academically and the boys are much stronger?

WEAKNESS – She doubts her academic knowledge, her strength, and her resolve. All three work against her, eating away at her confidence. How can she possibly figure out an expedition idea when she’s so inexperienced?

HOPE

ACTION – She comes up with an expedition idea to explore and study a group of volcanoes that could jeopardize the safety of the 100,000 tourists that visit McKinley park. This is a project with real world ramifications and significance. She gets her exploration plan approved!

WEAKNESS – But her actions have triggered a backlash. And her angry outburst at a disrespectful male student has repercussions that make the other boys refuse to work on her crew. And her expedition can’t succeed without at least one other person on her crew.

DISCOURAGEMENT

ACTION: She enlists her young brother from NY to be her crew. They go out into the wilderness on her expedition. They get into trouble. His inexperience foils her efforts. Dangers face them. Although she tries so hard, she can’t find the rocks that would give her the results she needs to reach proper scientific conclusions about the volcanoes.

Weakness – she’s discouraged by her lack of success. What will all those boys say when she fails? She’s also challenged by her inability to deal with her brother’s inexperience, and the natural problems they face including bears, dangerous river crossings, and running out of food. She’s never encountered things like this before. How can she possibly deal with such things that are so far out of her experience?

COURAGE

She ploughs on anyway, and mends her relationship with her brother. She goes out alone while he protects the camp from bears, and does all she can to find the rocks she needs for her expedition.

WEAKNESS – Although she demonstrates courage, she still can’t find the rocks she needs. Were all those boys right about her? She doubts her ability to ever succeed in this difficult field, and has a crisis of confidence. What will they all say when she fails? She doubts herself, and doubts if she is worthy of being in this difficult field.

TRIUMPH

ACTION – When challenged by the bear that’s been tracking her, she stands up to her right to be there, and FINDS the rocks she needs to succeed in her work. She finally realizes she has never needed to prove herself to anyone else but herself, and now that she has embraced her right to take this project head-on, she can release her brother to get on with his own life. To complete her mission, all she has to do is believe in herself and stick to her path, and she will figure something out.

SUCCESS – She sticks to her path, figures out her last challenge, and succeeds in her mission. This vaults her into becoming a valued member of the scientific exploration community.

[Robert Kerr]

Bob Kerr – Three Gradients

What I’ve learned in this lesson is my characters are making a “Desired Change” as opposed to the “Forced Change” I initially believed was the story. Breakthrough moment for me.

DESIRED CHANGE

Excitement: The opportunity to continue to play football and honor their fallen comrades.

Action – the team votes to continue their season after the fatal plane crash.

Challenge/ Weakness – They don’t have enough equipment to p5roperly prepare for the next game.

Doubt: The team doesn’t know if the freshman will lose their senior year of eligibility by playing.

Action: They decide that honoring their teammates is more important than worrying about their senior year.

Challenge/Weakness: Some of them have to change positions to fill team needs. They don’t initially know how to play these different positions.

Hope: Local colleges contribute equipment so they can have a full padded practice and

properly prepare to create an upset of a team vying for a National Championship.

Action: The older players are teaching the freshman the techniques to succeed in their new and uncomfortable positions.

Challenge/Weakness: The players are definitely undersized and they must rely on their speed and agility instead of just brute strength.

Discouragement: The team begins to understand the monumental effort required to upset the 9th ranked team in the country.

Action: Their practice is getting ragged and the coaches are always chewing them out.

Challenge/Weakness: They must stay mental strong and emotional focused at a level

they are unfamiliar with prior to this moment

Courage: The team begins to believe they can do it. All the equipment has finally arrived

and the results on the practice field improve significantly.

Action: The players star having fun again at practice. They are relaxed and joking

amongst themselves. There is no fear for the task ahead of them.

Challenge/Weakness: The realization that some of the upper classmen will not start

at the Arkansas game. This is a huge morale hurdle that must be overcome.

Triumph: The team leaves for Arkansas and create college footballs finest hour.

Action: The team is warmly greeted by the citizens of Little Rock. When they enter the stadium, even though they are the visiting team, they are greeted with a standing ovation of 45,000 fans.

Challenge/Weakness: They are undermanned and outweighed. How will they perform in

the face of such adversity.

[Teresita Fernandez]

I didn’t get an email with Day 5 content. Was I supposed to? I don’t know what the assignment is.

[Susan]

Hi Teresita, I’m not getting emails at all. Go over to your courses and go to any Days you are missing. The assignments are listed there.

[Gordie Cowan]

Gordie’s Three Gradients

What I learned doing this assignment is to define the depth of the story through a gradient of change in the character.

Forced Emotional Gradient for the script, TMS

A. Emotion: DENIAL

Jess cannot believe that, in a fit of rage, he nearly took it to a horrific physical level that which he caused his family at a most difficult emotional level. (We don’t know what it is until Act II-2.)

B. Action:

Jess flees, takes a dangerous pilot’s job, then faces death nightly to fly dangerous missions. He’s a mercenary pilot.

C. Challenge / Weakness:

Jess can’t face his family. He is shamefully embarrassed. He hasn’t the courage to apologize.

A. Emotion: ANGER

Jess is angry with himself for mainly being a coward. He can’t face his family to apologize.

B. Action:

Jess channels his anger toward the enemy of the Biafran state, including within his payloads, guns which, in turn, breaches the humanitarian purposes behind his missions.

C. Challenge / Weakness:

Jess, although outwardly brave while conducting these heroic missions, nternally, he’s a coward. He knows it. But to get past this internal struggle, this impasse, he must first forgive himself.

A. Emotion: BARGAINING

Jess sees the easier way out by risking risk is life repeatedly, to help save others, than owning up to his own family.

B. Action:

Jess justifies his avoidance of family at home by risking his life to save others on a nightly basis.

C. Challenge / Weakness:

To face his deepest fear he must return home.

A. Emotion: DEPRESSION

Jess: Confession to Augie

B. Action:

Jess: Heavy drinking. Confession to Augie

C. Challenge / Weakness:

Jess: Facing up to famiy is scary.

A. Emotion: ACCEPTANCE

Jess: In his meeting with Augie, he accepts he must forgive himself first to find forgiveness from others.

B. Action:

Jess: Is preparing to head home. Even gets on the transport plane to home.

C. Challenge / Weakness:

Clay: One last mission pulls at his heart, dividing his soul. Does he fly on this final mission, one that could truly turn the balance of the war toward the right course? Or does he continue on his journey home to make amends with family? If he chooses the former, would he survive to accomplish the latter?

[Sunil Pappu]

Sunil Pappu’s Three Gradients

“What I learned doing this assignment is…to find the emotional gradient that fits my story and characters and assigning action and challenges to their weaknesses for each.”

The 3 Gradients: Desired Change

Emotional Gradient: Excitement

Action Gradient: Daisaku wants to enlist like his brothers in the war. He believes the military propaganda.

Challenge / Weakness Gradient:

C: He doesn’t get his parent’s permission.

W: He has tuberculosis

Emotional Gradient: Doubt

Action Gradient: Japan loses the war. Daisaku’s home is bombed twice. The warmongers turn pacifists to save themselves. Brother dies in Burma.

Challenge / Weakness Gradient:

C: Doesn’t know who to trust anymore?

W: Doctors say he won’t live to 30. Doesn’t know how to help his mother grieve her sons.

Emotional Gradient: Hope

Action Gradient: Daisaku meets his mentor Toda. Decides he can trust him and joins Soka Gakkai. Drops out of school to support Toda’s business and gets private lessons from him.

Challenge / Weakness Gradient:

C: What is the meaning of life?

W: Ignorance

Emotional Gradient: Discouragement

Action Gradient: Toda steps down from presidency as his businesses go bankrupt… Daisaku imprisoned on false charges… Toda dies… Media predicts the collapse of the organization.

Challenge / Weakness Gradient:

C: How to reinstate Toda as president? How to protect Toda and members? Who will succeed?

W: Self-doubt

Emotional Gradient: Courage

Action Gradient: Daisaku assumes the presidency. Begins his worldwide journey for peace.

Challenge / Weakness Gradient:

C: First Priesthood issue. Asked to step down.

W: Gives in to the demands if it will quell the injustices to members but they only intensify

Emotional Gradient: Triumph

Action Gradient: Dialogues with world leaders. Establishes SGI and becomes the president. UN peace proposals. UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons.

Challenge / Weakness Gradient:

C: Excommunicated by Nichiren Shoshu

W: Running out of time. Turns 96.

[Sharon Axcell]

Sharon’s Three Gradients

What I learned doing this assignment is…. that these gradients provide the belief within the story for the character. (And don’t shoe-horn the story into them!!)

Gradient: Desired Change

Excitement

– Dexter
is intro’d to her new lab – almost forgets the circumstances that put her here.
Should she accept what’s offered her (i.e. press ‘go’ on the computer or not) –
need something more metaphorical

– C: Having to trust that what’s on offer is a ‘good’ thing – risk.

– W: Maverick/ scattergun approach, doesn’t always
result in the positive progress it needs. Ignorance

Doubt

– Black
Hole discovery – and Beta seals the doubt. Starts to believe that time travel
is has negative repercussions – and she shouldn’t be doing it.

– C: Black Hole discovery

– W: Her work is NOT successful in ultimate terms –
with an horrific side-effect. She’s a failure.<div>

Hope

– Following her family’s death, she realises that her work could change history – and her situation. The work she’s doing is needed after all.

– C: Going back farther, creates extra time, and additional resources (self) to fix the issue and/ or stop it.

– W: She believes the past can change, even when
she hasn’t. Relies on data, which doesn’t actually help her</div><div>

Discouragement

– But
the work is what caused the Black Hole – and she finally understands what impact
she’s had on the world. She has to stop it – and can only do so by stopping her
own actions. She mustn’t follow her dreams.

– C: Confronted with her future self – that’s telling her to stop it! And trust her heart/ intuition

– W: Can’t believe that history is ‘fixed’ and
tries to change it.</div><div>

Courage

– Omega
decides to correct her self-made problem (Black Hole). She returns to the spot,
knowing that her return will likely make it worse. And then she sacrifices
herself to save her earlier incarnations, and to save the world.

– C: Going back in time to fix the Black Hole – finally.

– W: Over-confident – she still believes she can
survive the situation.</div><div>

Triumph (and Loss)

– Gamma/Sigma
finally knows her destiny, and embraces it – all of it. And fixes the Black
Hole situation.

– C: Attacked by herself over and over.

– W: Dead.

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[Susan]

Assignment 5

Susan McClary’s Three Gradients

What I learned doing this assignment is:

I learned that the story I am thinking of does not fit neatly into either gradient of change and I will need to either, see the gradients differently than I am now, or mix them together, or add some more sections, or do one and then the other.

Tell us the following:

1. What is the Emotional Gradient

you’ll use?

I am really not sure. Two different Gradients below.

2. For each emotion of that gradient,

tell us the following:

A.Emotion: B. Action:

C. Challenge / Weakness: Etc..

1st Gradient FORCED CHANGED:

A. Denial;

B. Action: GG arrives at brother’s house with a few clothes and boxes of his tech equipment. He figures in a few days, he’ll just get a new place and settle in sans his ex. C. Challenge: X-girlfriend throws him out of what once was his own apartment and he moves in with his confident brother. Weakness: Never sticking up for himself.

A. Anger;

B. His brother the Vet tells GG that he’s leaving for Thailand with Vets without Borders to help take care of the elephants. GG will now have to watch and take care of Bro’s menagerie while he’s away. C. Challenge: GG never even had a pet, knows ZERO about animals or how to take care of them, and they are causing a LOT of trouble. Weakness: Helplessness.

A. Bargaining;

B. Action: GG tries to get the Pets to behave and he tells them he’ll do whatever it takes to give them what they need, only he doesn’t know what that is. C. Challange: Trying to understand what each type of pet and each individual pet requires. Weakness: Thinking all the answers are online.

A. Depression;

B. Action: Continues to try new things and fails. C. Challange: No matter what he does, GG doesn’t understand the pets and his brother is harassing him by phone checking up. This is even worse than people! Weaknesss: GG believes he is not up to the challenge.

A. Acceptance;

B. GG falls and cracks his head and suddenly understands the animals. C. Challenge: GG gets it and realizes he really just needs to get to know each of them and meet them where they are. The pets don’t project their insecurities onto him like people do. He adores them! Weakness: BUT is he correct/self doubt.

2nd Gradient: DESIRED CHANGE:

A. Excitement;

B. Action: Doing what they really need and want really works, viola! WOW!

C. Challenge: Can GG get them to get along with him? Weakness: X’s voice in his head that he is a useless featherbrain!

A. Doubt;

B. Action: Starts tentatively posting advice online incognito (as an animal/s – which one/s how is their advice different?): “??? Says… If Pets Could Talk.” C. Challenge: How to help? Weakness: Usually plans everything in advance. This is a big risk.

A. Hope;

B. Advertises his Posts/Blogs on site.

Needs to Keep his Tech personna seperate from this “Pet” personna. Weakness: This is totally new to him, is he the right person to do this?

A. Discouragement;

B. A few people ask for help and he answers. Gets a load of hecklers on Social Media C. Challenge: can people really stop treating other people like shit?! Weakness: His past behavior to attacks from others is to leave/give up.

A. Courage;

B: Action He helps some people realize they are only seeing other people through their own eyes. C. Challenge: Really putting his alter-ego out there. Weakness: Past relationships/hiding from his tech sponsers.

A. Betrayal;

B. Neighbor outs him as the techie/pet advice guy. C. Challenge: Will Tech sponsors accept his other “job.” Weakness: 2 Worlds Collide.

A. Triumph;

B. 5 Stars! Tech companies love it, they sponsor both his ventures. C. Challenge: How do the Pets feel about it? Weakness: the Pets leave him all to himself while he’s busy.

Outcome: GG exhausted falls asleep on couch and wakes up with ALL the Pets cuddles up on and around him.

[Laurie Stoner]

Laurie’s 3 Gradients of Change

What I learned doing this assignment is to search for the key pieces that will form the border of the puzzle the audience will see.

Forced Change Gradient

A. Emotion – Denial

B. Action – McGill won’t believe he was poisoned so he demands another explanation for his symptoms.

C. Challenge/weakness – he is faced with a serious health crisis that could end his life and expects his wealth to save him. Weakness: Grandiosity, sense of entitlement

D. Emotion – Anger

E. Action – He bullies the doctors, he calls in the CIA and blames foreign actors as well as the people around him.

F. Challenge/weakness – his doctor tells him the truth, there is no cure, and challenges him to answer the question of what he considers a well-lived life. The CIA stalls him knowing he has immense pull but will die soon. He threatens everyone with retaliation until he’s utterly alone. Weakness – bullying

G. Emotion – Bargaining

H. Action – he turns his business upside down to get a list of all entities that may have wanted to harm him so he can buy them off or force them into providing an antidote or at least an explanation. He can’t die without knowing the truth.

I. Challenge/weakness – self-centered and bullying but terrified.

J. Emotion – Depression

K. Action – He checks into the hospital to die. He is given the list of people he’s injured and sets up meetings to see them in person so they will acknowledge they didn’t poison him.

L. Challenge/weakness – self-pity

M. Emotion – Acceptance

N. Action – people on the list tell him how he hurt them and although the money is nice they don’t think better of him because he isn’t sorry. He confesses to his daughter that he needs to see people again and ask for forgiveness.

O. Challenge/weakness – he accepts that he’s dying and his daughter confesses her role. He forgives her. He donates the money he has left with no strings attached to Doctors Without Borders. He answers the question for the doctor who asked him his definition of a well-lived life – and dies peacefully.

[ray Moore]

Ray’s Three Gradients

What I learned doing this assignment is how to take the audience through levels of emotions to keep them engaged.

1. Excitement:

Action Gradient: Adam and Eve are going to begin a new business adventure together.

C/W: C: Making a life-changing decision W: Ignorance

2. Doubt:

Action Gradient: Eve is not sure she can start the business without Adam

C/W: C: Starting a business on her own W: Feeling hopeless

3. Hope:

Action Gradient: God talks to her and tells her to have faith

C/W: C: To continue on with life while grieving the loss of her husband

4. Discouragement:

Action Gradent: The little boy finds the Booty Toots who help him destroy what Eve tries to create

C/W: C: Rise above the obstacles and create her business W: Self doubt

5. Courage:

Action Gradient: The Frooty Toots reveal themselves to Eve and encourages her to continue

C: Pick up the pieces and meet her deadlines W: The little boy and the Booty Toots

6. Triumph:

Action Gradient: Devils many attempts to break her

C: Booty Toots throw up several obstacles W: The little girl that she adopts

[Andre HowardMitchell]

Andre’s Three Gradients

Emotional Gradient I will use are both, a combination of Desired and Forced change. Why not!

For each emotion of that gradient, I will attempt to tell the following: Emotion, Action, and Challenge/Weakness.

For reminders, Transformational Journey is perfecting the Divine Plan.

What I learned doing this assignment is Psychological issue each character deals with is Stockholm Syndrome. A condition in which people develop false positive emotions and associations with someone who is keeping them captive physically and psychologically.

ANTAGONIST MALE

1. Transformational Character with an issue… ANTAGONIST MALE RACIST ISRAELI ASHKANAZI JEW, WHOM IS HEAD OF MEDIA EMPIRE AND USES HIS PLATFORM TO PROMOTE AND DISSEMINATE HATRED PROFILING OTHER ETHNICITIES BUT HIS OWN.

HE IS MARRIED TO ANTAGONIST FEMALE, HIS BLACK BITCH (AS HE REFERS TO HER AMONGST FRIENDS). SHE IS HIS HOUSECLEANER AND SERVANT-MAID HIRED HELP AND HE TREATS HER AS SUCH. THEY HAVE A CHILD TOGETHER, THE PROTAGONIST MALE “INDIGO” WHOM HE TREATS AS A BASTARD BECAUSE OF HIS SKIN COLOR. HE PREFER HIS SON BE WHITE, BLUE EYED AND FAIR COMPLECTED, LIKE THE ALIST ACTORS HE HIRES AND PAYS HIGHLY.

2. … has a journey that includes these emotional experiences:

A. EXCITEMENT. HE IS EXCITED TO BE THE ALPHA IN HIS WORLD OF MEDIA EMPIRE, BUT HIS EXCITEMENT IS ALWAYS THWARTED BY HIS DEPRESSION, WHICH HE KEEP SECRET.

B. DENIAL. HE IS IN DENIAL OF HIS RACIST IDEOLOGY. AND DAMN ANYONE WHO QUESTIONS THEM. HE CRUSHES HIS OPPONENTS WITH HIS MONEY, CONNECTIONS, AND ESPECIALLY HIS JEWISH SYMPATHY.

C. DOUBT. HIS DOUBTS OF NOT BEING AS GREAT AS THE GERMAN NAZIS WHOM HIS FAMILY FLED. HE IS A VICTIM OF STOCKHOLM SYNDROM, SO AS HIS MAID-SERVANT.

D. ANGER. HE IS ANGRY, YET HE DISGUISES IT WITH A SMILE.

E. HOPE. HIS HOPE IS TO WHITE WASH HIS PAST BY PORTRAYING HIS IDEALIZED VERSION OF HIMSELF ON THE SCREEN, WHILE DEMONIZING BLACKNESS. THE SAME OPPRESSION HIS FAMILY FLED FROM NAZI GERMANY ONLY TO REPLICATE IN USA.

F. BARGAINING. HE BARGAINS FOR EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY PEOPLES HOPES, DREAMS, AND DESIRES-FOR THEIR SOUL!

G. Discouragement. HE CANNOT OUTRUN HIS FAMILY PAST, NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE WHITE WASHES HIS CHARACTERS AND STORYLINES.

H. DEPRESSION. YES HE IS DEPRESSED, BUT HE HIDES IT WITH HIS WEALTH, FALSE FAKE SMILE, AND WITH DRUGS. HE ALSO SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH THOSE LESS FORTUNATE THAN HE, IT REMINDS HIM THAT THERE ARE THOSE LESS WEALTHY THAN HE; WHO ENTERTAIN HIM.

I. Courage. HIS COURAGE COMES FROM NETWORK OF ALL WHITE MALES IN MEDIA, LAW AND POLITICS. IF ONLY HE CAN BE LIKE THE GERMAN WHITES HIS FATHER TAUGHT HIM TO FEAR DURING THE HOLOCAUST, HE CAN BE BETTER THAN THE BLACKS. ALSO BOTTLES OF TESTSOSTERONE FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS THAT ALSO ADVERSELY AFFECTS MOOD SWINGS.

J. ACCEPTANCE. REGARDLESS OF THE AWARDS THAT ADORN THE WALLS OF HIS ESTATE, AND THE NUMEROUS CELEBRITIES AND FAMOUS POWERFUL PEOPLE, HE NEVER TRULY FEELS ACCEPTED WITHIN, BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE IS AN ACT, A SUPERSTITIOUS ACT FOR EXTERNAL ACCEPTANCE.

K. TRIUMPH...OR LOSS. LOSS. BY TRYING TO BE SOMETHING HE IS NOT, HE ENDS UP LOSING HIMSELF, HIS SELF AND SOUL.

3. …and conclude with the transformation. TBA

ANTAGONIST FEMALE

1. Transformational Character with an issue… ANTAGONIST BLACK FEMALE. SUFFERS FROM STOCKHOLM SYNDROME AS WELL. HER GOAL IS TO PLEASE HER WHITE MASTER, SHE HAS ANGER ISSUES WITH THE BLACK FATHER WHO ABDANDONED HER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD. SHE SEES HER WHITE HUSBAND, EVEN THOUGH ABUSIVE AS HER SAVIOR. HE IS ALSO THE FATHER OF HER CHILD, THE PROTAGONIST MALE. MARRIED TO ANTAGONIST MALE.

2. … has a journey that includes these emotional experiences:

A. EXCITEMENT. HER EXCITEMENT IS THE HOPE HER FUTURE IS BETTER THAN HER PAST BY MARRYING HER NEW DADDY.

B. DENIAL. SHE IS IN DENIAL OF TRUTH, THAT HER HUSBAND IS AN OPPRESSOR TO HER PEOPLE, BUT THE HOME HE ALLOWS HER TO LIVE IN GIVES HER FALSE HOPE AND THE DENIABILITY OF HER STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.

C. DOUBT. SHE DOUBTS HERSELF CONSTANTLY BODY AND MIND, REINFORCED WITH HER STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.

D. ANGER. SHE IS INTERNALLY ANGRY AT HER SKIN COLOR. HER HUSBAND CONSTANTLY REMINDS HER THAT HER PEOPLE ARE ONLY 13% OF THE POPULATION BUT MORE THAN 50% OF CRIMINALS; HIS MEDIA OUTLET CONTINUOUSLY FOCUSES ON THIS STATISTIC, WHILE IGNORING THE STATS OF WHITE COLLAR CRIMES DONE BY HIS POPULATION-PALESTINE BEING JUST ONE.

E. HOPE. HER
HOPE IS TO HAVE HER OWN TV SHOW. IN ORDER FOR HER TO HAVE HER OWN SHOW, HE PROMISES
HER THAT, BUT SHE MUST PROMISE TO NEVER SPEAK ILL OF HIS KIND, AND ONLY DENEGRATE
THE BLACK MALE. WHICH IS EASY FOR HER, SINCE SHE HATES HER FATHER, THE UNSEEN
FATHER.

F. BARGAINING. SHE BARGAINS WITH HER BODY, A SEXUAL SERVANT TO RECEIVE THE REWARDS HE OFFERS HER, THAT SHE SHOULD BE GREATFUL FOR. SHE
BARGAINS WITH HER BODY, A SEXUAL SERVANT TO RECEIVE THE REWARDS HE OFFERS HER,
THAT SHE SHOULD BE GREATFUL FOR. SHE IS PROMISED A BARGAIN, A SIGN OF HOPE, IF
SHE FOLLOWS HIS DEMANDS, SHE WILL HAVE HER OWN SHOW ON TV, AS LONG AS SHE NEVER
SPEAKS ILL OF HIS KIND, AND ONLY DENEGRATES THE BLACK MALE.

G. DISCOURAGMENT. SHE IS DISCOURAGED AT THE STATISTICS HIS MEDIA CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCES AND THE SON SHE CREATED.

H. DEPRESSIION. HER DEPRESSION IS FROM THE SKIN COLOR SHE WAS BORN IN, AND HER HUSBAND REINFORCES THAT BLACK IS BAD, WHILE WHITE IS GOOD AND HOLY.

I. COURAGE. SHE RECEIVES FALSE COURAGE WHEN SHE PROMOTES THE LEGACY OF BLACK SUFFRAGE, SHE IS REWARDED FOR IT, BY ALLOWING HIS WHITE FRIENDS SEXUALLY VIOLATE HER. SHE IS A PEOPLE PLEASER.

J. ACCEPTANCE. SHE ACCEPTS HER PLIGHT AND SUBSERVANT POSITION OF BEING BLACK.

K. TRIUMPH...OR LOSS. HER TRIUMPH AND LOSS ARE THE SAME, SHE IS ALLOWED TO TARGET BLACK MALES, A REMINDER OF THE FAILURE OF HER BLACK FATHER. SHE REGRETS HAVING A DARK SKINNED CHILD, SHE TOO WISHES HE WERE FAIR SKINNED WITH LIGHT COLORED EYES.

3. …and conclude with the transformation. TBA

PROTAGONIST MALE

1. Transformational Character with an issue… INDIGO, THE BASTARD TRAGIC MULATTO CHILD OF ANTAGONIST MALE AND ANTAGONIST FEMALE.

2. … has a journey that includes these emotional experiences:

1. EXCITEMENT. HIS EXCITEMENT IS HE CAN CHANGE GENERATIONAL COURSE OF KARMIC SIN.

2. DENIAL. HE IS IN DENIAL OF THE CHALLENGES HE FACES AND THE HURDLES HIS FATHER HAS PLACED BEFORE HIM. HIS FATHER ENJOYS THE POWER HE HAS PLAYING THE RACE CARD.

3. DOUBT. TBA

4. ANGER. THE TREATMENT OF THE ABSENT FATHER.

5. HOPE. TBA

6. BARGAINING. TBA

7. DISCOURAGMENT. TBA

8. DEPRESSIION. DEPRESSED AT IS CONDITION IN NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH AND KNOWING LEARNING HIS FAMILY TRUTH. HIS FATHER IS A POWERFUL MEDIA MOGUL WHOM IS RACIST. JEWISH, AND USES HIS PLATFORM TO DENIGRATE MEN OF COLOR.

9. COURAGE. AN INTERNAL INNATE ABILITY HE HAS.

10. ACCEPTANCE. TBA

11. TRIUMPH...OR LOSS TRIUMPH. BY FALLING IN LOVE WITH PROTAGONIST FEMALE, AND FOLLOWING HIS PURPOSE IN LIFE WHICH IS —TBA—, HE BREAKS THE CURSE OF KARMIC FAMILY SIN WHICH IS STOCKHOLM SYNDROME.

3. …and conclude with the transformation. TBA

TRANSFORMATION CHARACTER

1. Transformational Character with an issue… LUCIFER+100

2. … has a journey that includes these emotional experiences:

A. EXCITEMENT. MISSION TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN STRAND.

B. DENIAL THE METHOD IN WHICH THEIR TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY WILL FAULTER THE HUMAN STRAND/CONDITION, KNOWN AS THE LUCIFER REBELLION.

C. DOUBT. THE LUCIFER REBELLION SOWED THE SEEDS OF DOUBT OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.

D. ANGER. When society fails to punish crimes, group resentment usually asserts itself as lynch law; the provision of sanctuary was a means of escaping this sudden group anger. Lynching and dueling represent the unwillingness of the individual to surrender private redress to the state.

“Even if the earth should pass away, the resplendent face of the Supreme would abide in majesty and glory. The Most High is the first and the last, the beginning and the end of everything. There is but this one God, and his name is Truth. God is self-existent, and he is devoid of all anger and enmity; he is immortal and infinite. Our God is omnipotent and bounteous. While he has many manifestations, we worship only God himself. God knows all—our secrets and our proclamations; he also knows what each of us deserves. His might is equal to all things.”

“And this is the sum of duty: Let no man do to another what would be repugnant to himself; cherish no malice, smite not him who smites you, conquer anger with mercy, and vanquish hate by benevolence. And all this we should do because God is a kind friend and a gracious father who remits all our earthly offenses.”

E. HOPE. PERFECTING THE HUMAN CONDITION.

F. BARGAINING. JOIN THE REBELLION AND BARGAIN FOR YOUR SOUL.

G. DISCOURAGMENT. ALL IS HOPELESS. WITHOUT JOINING THE REBELLION, AND DENYING GOD, ALL IS HOPELESS.

H. DEPRESSIION. ONE OF THEIR MEDICAL CONDITIONS REQUIRING MEDICATION FROM BOARD CERTIFIED PSYCHOTHERAPIST.

I. COURAGE. Although the Prince’s staff were limited to natural means and ordinary methods of race improvement, they held out the promise of the Adamic gift of a new race as the goal of subsequent evolutionary growth upon the attainment of the height of biologic development.

J. ACCEPTANCE. But such an extraordinary and beneficent harvest of wrongdoing could only be brought about by the wise, divine, and merciful attitude of all of Lucifer’s superiors, extending from the Constellation Fathers on Edentia to the Universal Father on Paradise.

K. TRIUMPH...OR LOSS. TRIUMPHANT IN DEFAULT OF ADAM AND EVE AND MANY OF THE ANGELS, AND APPARENTLY ULTIMATELY IN THE WHOLE SCHEME OF THINGS, “THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE”.

The passing of time has enhanced the consequential good to be derived from the Lucifer folly; and since the evil to be penalized was quite fully developed within a comparatively short time, it is apparent that the all-wise and farseeing universe rulers would be certain to extend the time in which to reap increasingly beneficial results.

L. …and conclude with the transformation. One error of human thinking respecting these problems consists in the idea that all evolutionary mortals on an evolving planet would choose to enter upon the Paradise career if sin had not cursed their world.

The ability to decline survival does not date from the times of the Lucifer rebellion.

Mortal man has always possessed the endowment of freewill choice regarding the Paradise career.

As Our characters ascend in the survival experience, We as the audience will broaden our universe concepts and extend your horizon of meanings and values; and thus will we be able the better to understand why such beings as Lucifer and Satan are permitted to continue in rebellion. Through our characters journey, we will also better comprehend how ultimate (if not immediate) good can be derived from time-limited evil.

End.

-Andre

[Brendan Guerin]

Brendan’s Three Gradients

What I learned was it is very challenging to apply this model to the book-to-screenplay adaption i’ve undertaken. What i thought was a Profound Story may just be a big action war movie. I really dont know. However, i’m keen to see if i can apply the model. It may be that the Forced Change model is not right for this story and i may need to redo this assignment based on the Desired Change model. It’s quite a fascinating approach to laying down the foundations of a screenplay.

1 The Emotional Gradient used is Forced Change.

2. Completed table as list / below, based on Forced Change:

EMOTION – Denial

ACTION – English people & pollies choose to ignore that Hitler broke all limitations against rearmament as per Versailles Treaty and has re-occupied the Rhineland unopposed

C – A new invasion is coming but the public ready

W – Reactive behaviour

EMOTION – Anger

ACTION – The public openly question why the Versailles Treaty has failed so spectacularly at containing Germany?

C: Something revolutionary is needed to strengthen England’s defences

W: Desperate & unprepared

EMOTION – Bargaining

ACTION – Fearing voter backlash, the English govt stops funding early development of the Spitfires but agrees to accept private funding from philanthropist, Lady Houston, for it to continue

C: Another war is coming with England totally unprepared

W: Lack of political will, conviction

EMOTION – Depression

ACTION – England learns that Reg’s surgery has failed, his cancer metastasized and his days are numbered.

C: How to continue Reg’s work after he dies

W: People are losing patience

EMOTION – Acceptance

ACTION – The air force brass see the Spitfire as the answer to Germany’s effective bombing campaign and orders 300 units

C: Can England deliver the Spitfires before it’s too late?

W: The Spitfires are England’s only hope