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Lesson 6
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David Wickenden Stacking Intrigue
What I learn from doing this lesson?
Having learned this in the thriller course, it came a lot easier, and I had been previously thinking how best to present information, plot, and character intrigues.
Teaser
The teaser is a setup for further in the season. Another girl (Intrigue Mystery – who is the girl)(wound) her sister after she commits suicide because of sexual assault.
Act 1
We see a woman (Intrigue – who is the woman and why is she so skilled.) run through a tactical shooter’s training course with fantastic skill. Laura is that she is a doctor who specializes in PTSD, very caring.
A young child (Intrigue – Who is the girl and why) is abducted off the street. Janice is an undercover police officer, and she beats the hell out of the perv.
Act 2
Intrigue – secret Janice searches her own home with a gun. She hides her wound by being a work acholic.
Intrigue World – Finds a child, Ryan, who has 90 days left to live, posted on the dark web.
Intrigue – hidden Layer Both women are friends.
Act 2 Turning point – Laura’s patient commits suicide.
Act 3
Intrigue Accusation – Widow blames Laura for not helping her husband.
Intrigue Wound. Laura breaks down, but then
Intrigue secret – she opens a closet full of weapons.
Act 3 Turning Point – Laura plans on taking the law into her own hands.
Act 4
Intrigue: Mystery – A man is being released from prison.
Intrigue: secret – The death threat came with information of secret tapes of his victims.
Intrigue: forced behavior – Because of the threat, they flew the prisoner to the nearest airport where he plans on escaping the country before police can charge him on new charges.
Intrigue mystery – Laura is waiting for him – how did she know?
ACT 4 TP – he is assassinated.
Act 5
Intrigue: Secret identity – Laura is the vigilante
Intrigue: hidden agenda – Laura plans on continuing her crusade
Act 5 Turning Point: Janice is assigned to hunt the vigilante.
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David Thompson’s Stacks Intrigue
What I learned doing this assignment is techniques to improve on the original novel series. It helps to brainstorm ideas. Intrigue is crucial to grabbing a reader’s attention and dragging them into this strange world of the Furies.
Teaser:
Mystery: Who is that woman, what kind of horror is it?
Intrigue: What did this guy do to deserve this treatment?
Teaser Turning Point: Just who is that woman with the black wings?
Act 1:
Mystery: Woman that Dan sees.
Intrigue: Strange behavior: What caused the guy in the store to grab a child and hold it hostage?
Intrigue: Danger to the child being held hostage
Intrigue: Secret Identity – who was that woman?
Intrigue: Dangerous person: Alecto on her mission. A breadcrumb dropped as we see her take out a gang banger, and she tells the guy WHY she’s there.
Intriguing world: Mythological world of the Furies. Beautiful women who are vigilantes. DECEPTION, they can remain invisible to most people.
Intrigue: Mystery reveal – Megaera and Gaia. Hints about who they really are.
Act 1 Turning Point: The sword drops on the kid’s neck. Alecto rides off with the ghost of a child on her motorcycle.
Act 2:
Intrigue: Hidden Agenda: Megaera’s plans to deal with Dan
Intrigue: Secret: Why Dan saw Megaera
Intriguing World: Alecto and Megaera on mission.
Intrigue: Hidden Agenda: Mystery man at party.
Intrigue: Mystery: The man that drugs Brianna – what are his plans?
Act 2 Turning Point/Midpoint: Brianna drugged and kidnapped by serial killer.
Act 3:
Intrigue: Mystery – why was Brianna killed and by who?
Intrigue: Wound – this was Dan’s niece.
Intrigue: Deception – mortician actually Grecian God Thanatos.
Intriguing World: The Furies living in a small town.
Intrigue: Wound: Brianna’s spirit locked in our world, but why?
Act 3 Turning Point: Brianna must find killer’s first victim, see if it was a family member
Act 4:
Intrigue: Strange world: The Underworld. Demons, dragons.
Intrigue: Conspiracy: Bune and his plans to overthrow the entire Underworld.
Intrigue: Secret: Unknown demonic possession of serial killer
Intrigue: Intriguing world: We go deeper into the world of the Furies.
Intrigue: Secret Identity: Gaia actually “Mother Nature”
Intrigue: Wound: Dan grieving, refuses to believe Gaia.
Turning Point: Furies can’t help her unless she was killed by a family member
Act 5:
Intrigue: Secret Identity: Shadowy demon in hotel room, controlling killer – we still do not see the killer.
Intrigue Hidden Agenda: Megaera’s plans for Dan
Lock In: Megaera wants Dan as a lover.
Turning Point: Serial killer going to hit again. Following a young woman to a bar.
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Moses Quainoo
MOD 3 – LESSON 6: STACKING INTRIGUE
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”
ASSIGNMENT:
1. Make a list of your Turning Points.
Act 1
Turning Point: Hu’s mother barges into the compound/yard to say grandmother’s malaria has worsened. Hu’s need for money is even greater.
Act 2
Turning Point: Hu leaps onto the flat-topped long vehicle and connects with another job seeker for the sixth position.
Midpoint: The two scouts capture the fight with their riding hats.
Act 3
Turning Point: AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s arena: The Essel Poles cauldron.
Act 4
Turning Point: The Supervisor calls for added truck and neb to get flour while stocks last.
Act 5
Turning Point: Hu and Ishey have no work to go to –Hu’s worst fears.
2. Before each Turning Point, brainstorm ways to create intrigue for the Turning Point. Give us the TECHNIQUE and one sentence that tells how you’ll create intrigue for the Turning Point.
Use these intrigue techniques to brainstorm:
Intriguing World:
Intrigue:
Mystery:
Secret:
Deception:
Conspiracy:
Secret Identity:
Wound:
Hidden Agenda:
Hidden Layer:
Strange Behavior:
Accusation:
Act 1 Turning Point:
Act 1
Turning Point: Hu’s mother barges into the compound to say grandmother’s malaria has worsened. Hu’s need for money is even greater.
Intrigue 1:
Mystery: Hu enters the family house compound and finds a final warning sticker.
Intrigue 2:
His Aunt asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the property tax.
Intrigue 2:
Hu says he will pay when he returns from the center. His eldest Aunt says he must be one of the lucky ones to get a job at the Center. What goes on at the Center? Why does he need luck daily to get a job there?
TURNING POINT:
When his mother barges into the compound to say grandmother’s malaria is worsening. Hu has no idea why she has come and what she wants to say to him. He was yet to step into the sick grandmother’s bedroom to find out how she was doing this morning.
(Strong Turning Point: Hu and the eldest Aunt are the only breadwinners in the extended family. His grandmother’s malaria threatens to stop him from going to look for work. No family member can raise the cash to send their grandmother to the hospital or buy anti-malaria drugs at the chemist. He needs to charter a taxi to the hospital, and Hu has no cash. He has no bank account or girlfriend to borrow money from.)
Act 2
Turning Point: Hu leaps onto the flat-topped long vehicle and connects with another job seeker for the sixth position.
Midpoint: The two scouts capture the fight with their riding hats.
Intrigue 1: INTRIGUING WORLD: The two scouts are members of The Do-Wells, an Intelligence Gathering organization.
Intrigue 2: HIDDEN AGENDA: The scouts hitch the horses behind the Center and enter through the back gates.
Intrigue 3: DANGER: Hu connects with another job seeker on the long vehicle.
Intrigue 4: HIDDEN AGENDA: Hu fights the other job seeker.
Intrigue 5: HIDDEN LAYER: The manager tells the gathering he has few jobs for the many.
Intrigue 6: CONSPIRACY: Scouts at the center with the Kingfisher drone.
(Strong Turning Point: Hu gets the opportunity of the day. He will not go home empty-handed. He must fight and win. Hu must pay property tax to cover his mother, grandmother, four female teenage cousins still schooling, and himself. His only male cousin is sixteen and joined the Military cadet for Bad Boys Company. He can’t return home empty-handed. Job seekers have filled the positions on the nine remaining vehicles. Others needed to be luckier to connect.)
Act 3
Turning Point: AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s arena: The Essel Poles cauldron.
Intrigue 1:
Intrigue 2:
Intrigue 3:
Intrigue 4:
Intrigue 5:
Act 4
Turning Point: The Supervisor calls for added truck and neb to get flour while stocks last.
Intrigue 1:
Intrigue 2:
Intrigue 3:
Intrigue 4:
Intrigue 5:
Act 5
Turning Point: Hu and Ishey have no work to go to –Hu’s worst fears.
Intrigue 1:
Intrigue 2:
Intrigue 3:
Intrigue 4:
Intrigue 5:
3. Select the ideas you like and add them to your growing outline.
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Wayne Stacks Intrigue
What I learned doing this assignment is how to add intrigue to each Act focused on the turning points.
Make a list of your turning points.
Teaser: Desae holding her dead lover’s head is arrested by Amixmu.Act 1: Desae looks up to Logard (God), asks for help.
Act 2: Desae sees Mike’s ship descending overhead and rushes to the crash site on her farm tractor.
Mid Pt. TP: Desae carries Mike’s unconscious body to her tractor and brings him home.
Act 3: Amixmu begins to follow the dusted over tracts toward Desae’s farm.
Act 4: Desae believes Logard (God) has sent this alien to her.
Act 5: Mike opens his eyes to see Desae’s large pale magenta humanoid face looking back.
Brainstorm TP intrigue with TECHNIQUEs and how to create intrigue for each Turning Point.
• Intriguing World: Description of Romal & humanoids: Desae, Amixmu, & Nome.
• Intrigue: Will Amixmu catch Desae harboring Mike.
• Mystery: Why is believing illegal on Romal? What will happen to Mike?
• Secret: Desae believes Logard sent Mike to her.
• Deception: Desae’s tracks are dusted over by the wind.
• Conspiracy: Desae intends to keep Mike hidden from authorities.
• Secret Identity: Mike is considered an Alien Invader by the Romali government.
• Wound: Desae lost her lover to Amixmu’s Security Force. She despises him.
• Hidden Agenda: Amixmu dislikes Desae & would enjoy catching her harboring the alien.
• Hidden Layer: Mike has a strong desire to have a family one day.
• Strange Behavior: Desae can carry Mike, larger than her.
• Accusation: Amixmu suspects Desae is harboring the space alien.
• Act 1 Turning Point: Mike and Desae first meet, face to face.Select the ideas you like and add them to your growing outline.
Teaser: The blastoff of Mike’s 13-year mission to Earth’s nearest inhabitable planet 6.2-lightyears away. While Mike is in suspended animation halfway to that strange planet, a humanoid Security Force team, led by Amixmu, raids a secret gathering, leaving a woman, Desae, crying over a lifeless humanoid who’s head lays in her lap. Amixmu steps over the distort Desae as he arrests her, gloating, “This should get you exiled to the wilderness.”
Act 1: Essence: Mike returns to Earth, greeted by his mother, sister, and her best friend, marries the beautiful friend, and has twin children, before being awakened from his dream by the ships onboard AI computer, “we are approaching the planet” that they’re on a mission to explore. Meanwhile, Desae, (from the Teaser), is farming alone, then goes home to check on her 3-year-old son.
Turning point: As she returns to her farming work, she’s tired, frustrated, and looks up to Logard (God), asks for help.Act 2: Essence: The fuel transfer valve of Mike’s ship is struck by a meteor causing the loss of fuel, forcing a crash landing and no possible return to Earth. Mike confers with “HAL” the onboard AI about his best course of action is for greatest chance of survival.
Turning Point: When Desae looks up praying to Logard, she sees Mike’s ship descending overhead and rushes to the crash site on her farm tractor.Midpoint: Turning Point: Desae carries Mike’s unconscious body to her tractor and brings him home.
Act 3: Essence: Amixmu, a stern Security Force leader arrives at the crash site, leads his men to load the empty craft onto a transport vehicle.
Turning Point: He personally begins to follow the dusted over tracts toward Desae’s farm.Act 4: Essence: Desae dresses a puncture wound in Mike’s side, rinsing it with a sponge very similar to her humanoid head covering. Nome stands by, overwhelmed in curiosity as she works carefully and diligently cleaning Mikes open wound.
Turning Point: Desae tells her son, Nome, that she believes Logard (God) has sent this alien to her because he needs her, and that she needs him.Act 5: LOCK IN As Mike begins to come to, Nome hides, as Desae stares at him in anticipation. Mike opens his eyes to see Desae’s large pale magenta humanoid face looking back.
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ASSIGNMENT:
Syd Stacks Intrigue M3_L6
4. What I learned doing this assignment is a technique for building suspense with intrigue.
List of your turning points.
Brainstorm ways to create intrigue for the Turning Point + TECHNIQUE and one sentence that tells how you’ll create intrigue for the Turning Point.Intriguing World: Low-born (poor) female lives in Golden City Palace Fort
Intrigue: How did she get here? How does Charita, a female orphan (no male family) make her fortune, or at least survive
Mystery: Why is Bhad helping her? Who is this person in another kingdom who steals so skillfully? (Raj)
Secret: She’s trying to build a business leveraging the queen’s favor, but without the queen’s permission
Deception: Bhad helps her, but reports all her activity to the queen
Conspiracy: Someone is breaking into the palace fort / stealing jewelry in another kingdom
Secret Identity: She’s Queen Vanhi’s daughter
Wound: Shame, seen as “less-than” by the affluent, the queen’s pity project
Hidden Agenda: If she can create her own money, she can make her own choices
Hidden Layer: She wants to choose whom she will marry
Strange Behavior: Handsome young noble tries to flirt with her (he’s a queen’s pick)
Accusation:
Act 1 TP — Charita has been gifted a beautiful necklace from an unknown person (after it’s been revealed that Raj has been stealing jewelry in a neighboring kingdom).
Intriguing World: Mughal Empire — many kingdoms / principalities under Mughal rule
Intrigue: Palace break-in — many motives, many suspects
Mystery: How are enemies breaking into the palace fort? Who are they?
Secret: What do they want?
Deception: Veer’s own well-trained men — some remain loyal to Rajendra. Why?
Conspiracy: King Abzar has many enemies; more than one party may be part of this break-in — in fact, it would take a well-laid plan to get around Veer
Secret Identity: Anala knows Veer’s secret identity, he wants to reveal to Abzar
Wound: Anala holds a grudge against Veer, they used to be lovers
Hidden Agenda: What are the intruders truly after? Assassination? Theft? Something else? Charita wants the queen’s support for her business ambitions, AND secretly, she believes when she’s successful she will have the power to make her own choices — including marrying Jagger.
Hidden Layer: Bhad admires Charita’s ambition, but he’s spying on her for the queen; he and queen are old friends, but she appears to have something on him
Strange Behavior: Anala’s elitism toward Veer is cover for her feelings for him
Accusation: Charita secretly meets with Jagger to thank him for the necklace. It wasn’t from him. Jagger accuses her of flirting with another man.
Act 2 TP — An intruder has slain guards in front of the king’s private quarters. Jagger and Sugith summoned.
Intriguing World: Neighboring kingdom (several days journey by horse)
Intrigue: Raj, who stole King Shridhar’s jewel, lives in luxury as King Shridhar’s guest
Mystery: When Jag and Sugith are called away, Charita follows a mysterious woman [Damyanti] scurrying away. She tracks around a corner, but the woman disappeared.
Secret: Anala spies on the queen — who sends Bhad to investigate her prime suspect. Who is it? Vanhi starts carrying a concealed dagger.
Deception: Sugith is smitten with Gauri; she get locked out of her quarters during lockdown, she tells Sugith she was trying to find him
Conspiracy: Anala, like Veer, is suspicious of everyone — they make a list of suspects; she demands Bhad and Charita be followed
Secret Identity: Anala realizes that Bhad is more than a playboy from Mughal court
Wound: Abzar is angry at Veer because of the security breach; Veer is shamed — now is not the time to share his secret
Hidden Agenda: Does Gauri have a hidden agenda?
Hidden Layer: Vanhi or Anala (or both) are suspicious of the courtesan’s from Mughal court — demand that they be locked down
Strange Behavior: Strangely supportive of Veer (usually she talks down to him).
Accusation: Anala accuses Vanhi to Veer; he warns her to keep silent
Act 3 TP— An investigation into the guards slaying reveals that some of the queen’s jewelry has been stolen. Charita remains silent about her “gift.”
Intriguing World: Charita goes down a seedy street in the city with prostitutes and black market businesses, in search of info about necklace
Intrigue: Queen Vanhi interrogates Charita about the necklace? Who told the queen? The queen doesn’t recognize it as her own.
Mystery: Charita doesn’t know who gave it to her; wants to find Bhad to help her, but he’s MIA (Queen does not mention that she sent him on a mission)
Secret: Raj curries favor from King Shridhar, convincing his court that he’s a victim of the attempt on King Abzar’s life
Deception: Gauri tells Sugith men are chasing her (to get him to help)
Conspiracy: Raj plants a stolen gem on Bhad. King Shridhar throws Bhad in the dungeon as Raj and the Amir watch.
Secret Identity: A friend of the Mughal Amir, Bhad is welcomed in King Shridhar’s court
Wound: Veer’s wound — While he’s relieved that the motive for the breach was theft, he points out to Veer that if a thief can get to their jewelry, an assassin can get to the infant crown prince
Hidden Agenda: Reminds Abzar that Rajendra used to be an insider, with knowledge of the palace fort (in her mind, he will always be a threat to her son)
Hidden Layer: Charita is Vanhi’s daughter — only Abzar, Vanhi and Charita know this.
Strange Behavior: Sugith spies on royals conversation, tells Jag that a necklace has been stolen — Jag remains silent about Charita’s necklace
Accusation: Veer’s airtight security failed because he’s involved — it’s an inside job; who makes this accusation
Act 4 TP — Charita discovers from a black market dealer (maybe Damyanti) that her necklace was likely stolen in another kingdom. Before she can make this known royal guards seize her.
Intriguing World: Massive maze of tunnels through and under the palace fort
Intrigue: Charita questioned by Veer; he confirms that the necklace she has was not stolen from the treasury
Mystery: Who gave her the necklace? The queen demands to know
Secret: The necklace is still probably hot
Deception: Sugith leaves his post guarding the royal family to help Gauri
Conspiracy: Charita brings Damyanti with her to Veer — Veer discovers that his maze of secret passages in the palace fort is known, and exploited by others, including Raj
Secret Identity: Veer starts probing regarding Charita’s real identity, she’s close to the royal family — but, yet just a village girl, who happens to be well-educated
Wound: Veer (Irony: himself secretly a bastard) questions her worthiness, tempting her to shame; If she’s nobody why is she important to the queen? Also, why is she being set up? (Yes, he see it.)
Hidden Agenda: When things go south, Damyanti makes a run for it — and succeeds. It seems she knows the palace fort well and has allies inside.
Hidden Layer: Bhad, trying to escape Shridhar’s prison realizes Raj is smarter than he thought
Strange Behavior: Sugith MIA to save Gauri; Jagger MIA to warn Charita? Maybe not? Perhaps he’s wounded because Sugith left him alone?
Accusation: Sugith accused of being part of the conspiracy because he’s MIA
Act 5 TP — General Veer wants to know how the necklace got in her room, regardless of its origins. Before they find answers — the infant crown prince is kidnapped.
3. Select the ideas you like and add them to your growing outline. WIP
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Module 3 Lesson 6 – Stacking Intrigue – Assignment
Mike – Stacks Intrigue
What I learned doing this is how to raise the stakes, hook the audience then build the intrigue to keep them fixated on the show.
I. Make a list of your turning points.
Act 1 Victoria makes Caleb face his fear; changes how he thinks, what he does when confronted.
Act 2 Caleb’s in a head-on collision, saved from death by Victoria’s ghost, Charles summoned her
Act 3 Caleb talks w/ FBI agent Olivia, mom comes in; warns Caleb, tells him to rescue Rick
Act 4 Caleb texts Rick, leaves hospital, ride to car crash w/ Riders; they leave when Olivia shows
Act 5 Lyderia shows Caleb Raquel isn’t dead; Charles saves Rick; Rick goes to Shangra La
Act 6 Olivia goes to Cody, searches for Caleb; sees Victoria’s ghost. Can’t find Caleb.
II. Before each Turning Point, brainstorm ways to create intrigue for the Turning Point. Give us the TECHNIQUE and one sentence that tells how you’ll create intrigue for the Turning Point.
Act 1 turning point – (wound, secret) Victoria follows Caleb to the café, questions him; learns he isn’t a druggie. Learns he was beaten up by 2 cops who walk in the café. Caleb reveals his fear, his wanting to run away; Victoria will have none of it. She takes his hand, makes him walk right past their table and gives them dirty looks on their way out.
Act 2 turning point – (intriguing world) Caleb is kidnapped by g-g-g-grandfather, they argue, we learn of their crazy world and crazy lives. They get in a head-on collision, Caleb is saved by Victoria’s ghost which Charles, walking at the side of the road, summoned from a photo.
Act 3 turning point – (secret) Caleb talks w/ Olivia, FBI agent assigned to him. He keeps his crazy to himself, tells her to leave when his mother, Natalie, enters the hospital room.
Act 4 turning point – (intrigue/intriguing world) Caleb goes back to car wreck w/ Riders. Olivia follows, he tells her. The Big reveal as he teleports off and leaves her looking into a portal of Yellowstone.
Act 5 turning point – (Intriguing world) Charles saves Rick, takes him to Shangra-La, indoctrination.
Act 6 turning point – ( Mystery, hidden layer ) Caleb finds Olivia in Cody looking for him. She’s asleep, he leaves her a bottle of perfume he told her was perfect for her. The end…
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