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Lesson 6
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ASSIGNMENT 6
Subject line: Pat’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is helps me to know
how these scenes should be placed in my script and there all there.
1. Listen to the Empowerment Audio.
3. Start with the Character Arc and the list of Old Ways and New Ways.
Old Ways: Afraid of being hurt; using sarcasm to make people think he’s in charge.
New Ways: Not afraid of falling in love; Vows not to use sarcasm as a crutch.
3. Make a list of 6 – 8 changes or steps that need to happen for that character to go from who they are in the beginning (Old Ways) to who they are in the ending (New Ways).
4. Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey
the character takes.
1. Losing the only wife he ever loved.
2. Thinks that involving himself in the marriage
Business will help him learn but he fails at first.
3. Makes sarcastic comments to other potential friends who he alienates.
4. Realizing that other people have feelings too.
5. Gains confidence through a girl that can see through his facade.
6. His wife recognizes he’s changing.
7. Gaining even more confidence, he vows not to use sarcasm to hurt others.
8. Knows he can show love and not be afraid of losing.
5. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character.
Wife moves out of the house.
Opens a marriage counseling business. The business fails.
Talking to clients with sarcasm. Realizing that other people have feelings too.
A girl in the marriage school recognizes his problem and talks with him about it.
His wife notices he’s changing. He begins to have confidence in himself.
He doesn’t need to be sarcastic and keep people at arm’s length.
He begins to show love and to love people.
6. Add these transformational events to your four-act structure.
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H. Vince’s Transformational Events
The 30-Day Screenplay – 2023
Lesson 6: Transformational Events
What I learned from doing this assignment is…
Breaking down the transformational events and adding them into the outline.
Concept:
Victor Saint is a young man that gets cancelled for jokingly saying something stupid. When he has no issue standing up for himself while people are trying to put him on blast, he gets kidnapped, blacks out and wakes up to an alternate reality where he is trusted with information about who aliens really are.
Main Conflict:
Victor is forced into a new reality beginning from being shown who his real mom is.
VICTOR: PROTAGONIST
Old Ways:
1. Naïve
2. Just cruising through life doing the bare minimum.
3. Gets disappointed with himself but not so much that he does anything to really change.
New Ways:
1. Has been behind the curtain educated and experienced.
2. Has direction.
3. Doesn’t take life for granted.
Act 1:
Opening:
PJ:
Victor does same routine: food, meaningless job, hanging out with friends smoking, drinking & philosophizing
Chill acquaintances with rich young adults but doesn’t relate
VICTOR TRANSFORMATIONAL EVENT: Disappointed when he wakes up from a black-out
AJ:
Donna is upset not knowing where Victor was all night
Inciting Incident:
PJ:
Victor makes a joke about the dents on his hood to the mechanic
Mechanic puts Victor on blast on social media
VICTOR’S TRANSFORMATION EVENT: Gets cancelled
Turning Point:
PJ:
Victor shows up to mechanic shop to talk to him about what he did
People show up trying to get involved
Black-out
VICTOR’S TRANSFORMATION EVENT: Kidnapped
Act 2:
New plan:
PJ:
Victor wakes up tied down not knowing where he is
VICTOR’S TRANSFORMATION EVENT: Forcefully given eyedrops to see alternate outcomes
Plan in action:
PJ: Victor decides he wants to know about his mom
AJ: Donna can’t find Victor
Midpoint Turning Point:
VICTOR’S TRANSFORMATION EVENT: Finds out about his real mom and that Donna was assigned to take care of him
Act 3:
Rethink everything:
AJ: Flashback to Donna’s assignment
VICTOR’S TRANSFORMATION EVENT: Victor finds out why he’s important/special
New plan:
AJ: Victor finds purpose
PJ: Flashback to Donna teaching Victor alternate ways of living but with caveats
VICTOR’S TRANSFORMATION EVENT: Trust people he’s just met recently
Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift:
PJ: Victor is just a regular guy who makes mistakes and not a hero.
AJ: Donna and her people find information on where Victor is
Act 4:
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict:
VICTOR’S TRANSFORMATION EVENT: Realizes there’s no going back with what he knows
PJ: Victor’s chip was taken out by kidnappers.
AJ: Donna feels lost not being Victor’s “mother” any longer
Resolution
PJ: Victor changes his physical identity
AJ: Donna gets killed
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Ana Victoria’s Transformational Events
Should I change the name to Maria Victoria? MV instead of AV….
1. Sees the power of the gangs and how they exploit and injure immigrants using violence.
La Bestia
Death of her husband
Guest or slave?
2. Believes that caring for others matters.
Mother courage
Makes connections with others in immigrant organizations
Lets a man become her new husband
Rejects violence as a resolution
3. Invests time in helping those who are helping her and other immigrants.
Benefits mentally and in fulfilling her goals by networking
4. Discovers exploitive situations immigrants are trapped in
Experiences danger and risk exploring sociological landscape of immigrants
5. Makes decisions that it is okay to change her life or change her path
Accepts help, remarries.
Accepts her son is no longer her own dream.
Accepts connection with her daughter does not mean possession.
6. Resolves her search for herself and her children by rejecting violence and annihilation.
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George Tedino
Transfromational Events
What I learned from this assignment
That I have to be better at outlining. I have always had a beginning and end to my stories and as I write I filled in the blanks going though my ideas for scenes and dialogue trying to link them as best I could.
Character arc
From an innocent kid with gifts he didn’t understand, to being on the run from a group that wanted him for his gifts. To hiding and figuring out his gifts to wanting to try to live a normal life. To reluctant killer and redeemer.
Old ways
Young and innocent
trying to find answers about his past and himself
running and hiding from people who want him for their purposes
New ways
Still young but more understanding of things
Trying to fit in to society off the radar of the group
Being the one stalking the group after all the horrific things they had done to him
Steps
In the beginning a boy growing up with little to know friends
His parents are killed trying to protect him
He is hidden away by his grandparents
There is an incident that occurs that puts him on the run and into hiding
He goes looking for answers about his parents and his gifts while getting help understanding his gifts
He wants to fit into the real world still having only 2 friends when he meets a woman that he eventually gets to fall in love with him
An incident then occurs later on that puts him back on the groups radar as they hunt for him
they track him down make him an offer to join them he refuses
his refusal is meet with dire consequences
he goes on the hunt for them as they think he is dead he now wants his revenge reluctantly having to do what he had to do with his powers to get that revenge
ACTS
First act is he is a youth having known his parents were killed by villains and living with his grandparents. Then to a horrible incident that he now goes on the run from the villains.
Second act coming to terms with his gifts and trying to get all the answers about the villains and how to grow up at the same time and transition back into a world he wants to fit into
Third act as he tries to fit into the world he meets a woman and they fall in love. An incident occurs a year into his relationship that tests both of them and puts him back on the radar of the villains. An ultimatum puts him in jeopardy and ultimate his refusal cost him everything
Final act he was left for dead and thought to be dead as he plots his revenge and once he has enough intel he enlist some help to meet the objective. A Betrayal is also revealed. In the end he gets his revenge and finally
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Deni B.Sher’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment, because it is a true story, how important it is to find the events that happened in my past that moved me from being a co-dependent, enabling mother who lived in the fear of her son dying to the proactive mother who refused to allow addiction to destroy both her son’s life and hers and do the work involved in both of our recoveries.
CONCEPT: A true story of a co-dependent mother’s journey (internal & external) when she attempts to save her son from addiction and alcoholism, but ends up saving herself from co-dependency and learns that only the addict can save themself. It is a journey into the letting go of one’s ego in the quest to discover and to love one’s true self – from the inside out.
OLD WAYS:
Ignorant of Addiction (naïve)
Head buried in sand (denial)
Gullible
FEARFUL of her son dying
Pain
Anger
Sadness
Guilt
Shame
Frustration
Anxiety
Would do anything to keep him from failing (enabling)
Enabled him with money
Blind to her own faults and co-dependency
NEW WAYS:
Fearlessness
Surrender
Acceptance
Forgiveness
Stopped supporting him financially
Understanding and Knowledge of Addiction
Let go and Let God
Faced the Truth about herself
Accepted the truth that she was co-dependent and an enabler
Accepted that her son might die without her enabling
Internal Peace
Wholeness
Learned about and understood familial dysfunction and codependency
Serenity
Act 1:
TRANSFORMATIONAL EVENTS:
1998 – RENTED HIM AN APARTMENT IN MIAMI, BOUGHT HIM A USED CAR, AND PUT HIM IN MIAMI ART SCHOOL. HE WAS DOING COKE, DROPPED OUT. I CLEANED THE WALLS HE HAD DRAWN ALL OVER SO I COULD GEET MY DEPOSIT BACK.
OPENING: Deni scrubbing the walls of the apartment to get deposit back.
2001 – CHRIS MEETS SANDRA WHILE PARTYING IN SOUTH BEACH AND DOING DRUGS. HE MOVES INTO HER APARTMENT. THEY GET KICKED OUT. I LET THEM LIVE ABOVE MY OFFICE IN A LOFT AND HIRE BOTH TO WORK AT MY COMPUTER COMPANY.
SUMMER 2001, CAUGHT HIM STEALING FROM MY COMPANY AND LYING TO MY FACE. TOLD HIM IN A LETTER HE WAS A THIEF, A LIAR AND AN ADDICT. I SENT HIM TO GERMANY WHERE SANDRA WAS LIVING.
Deni hands Chris his passport and a one-way airline ticket to Germany and bitches at him for lying, stealing and using drugs. Tells him she never wants to see him again and that he needs to put himself in a rehab, that she can’t save him or takes his aggravation any longer.
Inciting Incident: Chris calls his mom from Germany, begs her to come home, promises he stopped using drugs and alcohol and wants to turn his life around. She agrees to fly him home, but when she tells her fiancé, Arthur (Antagonist) he’s coming home, Arthur reminds her of all his lies and how he sucks her in. Their discussion is the inciting incident.Turning Point: After Deni invests nearly $8000 to set her son up again with a car, apartment, clothing, cell phone, and food. He gets jobs, but doesn’t keep them. Deni continues to pay his rent.I LEARN HE IS DEPRESSED AND DRINKING ALCOHOL Arthur steps in to remind her that she’s enabling again. She goes to his apartment. They have a huge battle.
· SUMMER 2002, HIT MY ROCK BOTTOM. Deni does tough love; kicks him out, they fight and separate yelling at each other.
Act 2: Deni is now out of her comfort box. Unbearable. No turning back.
SURRENDERED TO MY HIGHER POWER – LET GO & LET GOD
ASKS GOD HOW DOES A MOTHER TURN HER BACK ON HER SON? GOD ANSWERS.
New plan: Deni comes home crying her eyes out and asks God, “How does a mother turn her back on her son?” She sits and writes for 4 hours, hears music and God answers her. She believes she has had a calling to write a musical, she titles what she wrote, “Mom’s Opera” at the end of her writing. Plan in action: Whenever Deni is inspired, she writes.Midpoint Turning Point: Chris continued drinking and his girlfriend, Rachel found cocaine in his pants pocket and he was keeping money from her. She attempts to kick him out, but they talk and he stays, promising not to use anything anymore. He had hepatitis from drinking so much. He quit drinking and drugging and called me after 5 months. We had a heart to heart and he invited me to visit them. Arthur will say things to me as my antagonist.
Act 3:
SAW CHRIS’ ARTWORK AND IT TORE ME UP INSIDE, I VISUALLY SAW HIS PAIN and especially the one with gun pointed to his head.
Rethink everything: When I visited his apartment, I was shocked at his artwork. And how it expressed his pain. But he was still filled with so much anger. I had no idea of the amount of work involved in recovery. My finger was pointed at Chris and I had no idea how I ignored my own emotions and continued to push them down. My son didn’t die. I was walking on clouds. We were communicating again. Arthur reminds me not to get too excited.
CHRIS RELAPSES IN SUMMER 2003, said he’ll go to rehab to appease Rachel, BUT doesn’t go.
ADMITS HE’S AN ADDICT 10/28/2003. Goes to FIRST NA meeting.
New plan: Stayed clean 8 months, then relapsed, drank a beer then did coke, Rachael threatened to kick him out, so he went to NA meetings. Admitted he was an addict 10/28/2003. 2005. Rachel and Chris agree to stop speaking with me. Spring 2004, they called and made plans to visit me on Mother’s Day. His grandmother promised him $1000 to quit smoking cigarettes and lent him $2,000 to buy a mountain bike. He quit smoking May 22, 2004. Offered to pay for college. Nov. 2004, Chris’ grandmother gave him $500 of the $1000 to put down on a car. Summer 2005, Chris attends college.Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: Rachel emails Deni while she’s in Japan to tell her she’s fearful for Chris’ life, that he’s chemically becoming a monster with a death wish. Was taking Vyvanse for ADD. Relapsed. Lost 40 pounds. Arthur will add to his role as my change agent.
Act 4:
MET ANNE SALTER 2007, an addiction therapist
EDITED HER BOOK, FAMILY STEW, ON FAMILIAL DYSFUNCTION
2010 FACED MY OWN DYSFUNCTIONAL CHILDHOOD
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: Deni arranges an intervention where Chris’ friend’s call him. Resolution: Chris goes to rehab for first time. Deni visits him and with a therapist they talk about their history and Chris tells Deni about things she did when he was young, that affected him. Deni admits to her short comings and realizes she too has to deal with her issues of codependency and take an honest look at how she got to where is got to as a co-dependent mother.
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Suzane Baird – Lesson 6 Transformational Events
What have I learned from this assignment? Some of the transformational events are in the acts, and some are not. I tend to be long on thought, and it paints me into a corner. I’m constantly questioning if I’m doing this in a way that will work as a strong story.
2. Start with the Character Arc and the list of Old Ways and New Ways.
Old ways:
Passive
Surviving
lost
Fearful
New Ways:
Empowered
Educated
Brave
Knows her purpose
3. Make a list of 6 – 8 changes or steps that need to happen for that character to go from who they are in the beginning (Old Ways) to who they are in the ending (New Ways).
A stray bullet kills Daria’s husband.
Daria’s son dies because she can’t afford to keep him in the hospital
While cleaning his room, Daria meets Senator Monroe.
Daria see’s no reason to live and drives for days. A protest blocks her. She drives to a bridge and considers ending her life. Remembers the faces in the march.
She comes home and discovers dozens of campaign mailers filled with lies and half-truths. She turns on her computer and TV and it’s more of the same. She sees the game of it all. She realizes she has let go of her power. Daria becomes angry. Her cause is born.
Daria meets Stephanie. Stephanie becomes her teacher.
Daria decides to run against Monroe.
The movie ends on election night, right before the result is given. Fades out to cheering crowds.
4. Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes.
She starts to heal from grief.
She realizes that her life needs new meaning.
She regains her strength through work, exercise, reading
She starts to ask questions and speak to the powerful/ Monroe
Protests
People see something in her, and she steps into public speaking
She discovers Monroe’s secret
She runs for office and challenges Monroe
5. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character.
The death of her husband
The death of her son
When she meets Monroe, she says she voted for him, and he blows her off.
The protesters surround Daria. We see their signs and faces that are fighting to be heard.
When Stephanie sees who she is, not who she was, but a fighter.
6. Add these transformational events to your four-act structure.
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Tasha’s Transformational Events
Doing this assignment, I learned the following: don’t go backwards. Even if you think you got the antagonist wrong, don’t try to change everything and start over at this point in the process. Save your ideas for any changes, but keep working the structure and it will start to take shape in ways that will move you closer to the goal and also help you make those desired changes when the time comes.
1. Listened to the Empowerment Audio.
2. Start with the Character Arc and the list of Old Ways and New Ways.
Bethany starts as a lonely heart hiding her past to a powerful spiritual healer who finds a soulmate.
Bethany starts off living in the the Old Ways:
Worries she’s unlovable
Has extreme dating anxiety and hides her past of demonic possession from her suitors
Doesn’t fight for relationships once they inevitably end
Relies on Deacon Anders for spiritual guidance and dating advice
Sees Deacon Anders as a father figure
Still has to deal with Demon 23
In the end Bethany finds her soulmate as a powerful dating exorcist:
Investigates failed relationships
Pursues her soulmate
Opens up about her past
Realizes Deacon Anders is her enemy
Takes her spiritual well-being into her own hands
Loves herself and believes she is deserving of love
Rids herself of Demon 23’s attachment/oppression
Becomes a powerful dating exorcist (can see when a mother or an ex is evoking an entity to mess up someone’s dating life)
3. Sequence of steps from Easy to Difficult
She is released from the grip of evil in her youth
Sees the potential for a true love connection and refuses to let it fizzle like her other relationships
Makes the decision to investigate why everyone leaves her
Accepts that the only person she thought loved her is her enemy
Becomes skilled at new age spiritual mysticism and healing herself from oppression
Gains control of Demon 23
Expose Deacon Anders
Sends Demon 23 back to where it came from
Becomes a Spiritual Warrior and finds love
4. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character.
Deacon Anders performs a gnarly exorcism on Bethany and roses start to bloom all around her
She receives a request on her dating app from Brad, a friend she knew in Elementary school
She gets into a her first fight ever with Deacon Anders over not going on the date with Brad even though they sparked a romantic connection during their coffee catch-up
Gets stood up by Brad who leaves a cryptic message with the restaurant hostess
Chases after an ex suitor on the job at Costco to find out why he stopped seeing her and ends up watching a tape of her exorcism in the breakroom with the guy and his coworkers
Looks for Deacon Anders in the rectory and sees bouquet after bouquet of rotting roses, cleaning lady says she has no idea where they come from, they just keep appearing
Breaks into Deacon Anders Chambers and finds a pentagram, a book of conjuring spells, and other occult items. Demon 23 makes its presence known and physically assaults her.
Deacon Anders finds her at a coffee shop and has a friendly chat. Bethany can see him for the enemy he is and tells him nothing of her experience in his chambers.
Bethany seeks out a New Age healer for advice and the healer tells her she has something attached to her and it’s growing stronger.
First lesson at a New Age school, Bethany connects to her inner God power and sees Demon 23
Bethany uses Cosmic Mind Telepathy to influence Deacon Anders to dump coffee on himself
Bethany uses transcendental awareness to project a message of peace and love to Brad
Bethany invites Demon 23 into her soul and shows him that she can send him back to his origins, but he strikes up a deal with her to let him get back at Deacon Anders.
Deacon Anders kidnaps Bethany and uses her during a mass in front of the Bishop to demonstrate his power over possession and exorcism. He conjures Demon 23 and possesses Bethany it. When he tries to exorcise Bethany, she telepathically protects the member of the congregation with her inner god power while Demon 23 possesses each person and shows them how Deacon Anders used black magic to make Demon 23 do his bidding.
She meets Demon 23 once again in her soul. He tells her his attachment to her changed from possession of her to something closer to love for her. He’s ready to leave for good and Bethany guides him back to his origins.
At a restaurant, Bethany does a quick exorcism of a guy floundering on a date and tells him his mother invoked a demon to stop him from meeting a woman and leaving her. The guy thanks her and she walks to her table where Brad greets her with a kiss.
6. Add these transformational events to your four act structure.
Act 1:
Opening:
Deacon Anders performs a gnarly exorcism on Bethany and roses start to bloom all around her.
Bethany goes on a terrible date that has some strange but subtle (ignorable) supernatural elements to it. The guy leaves the date while Bethany is mid-sentence.
Inciting Incident:
Brad, an old friend from elementary school, reconnects with Bethany on social media. She’s working with Deacon Anders on her computer doing something for Church at the time and Deacon Anders warns her not to go.
She catches up with Brad in person over coffee and a romantic connection is sparked. He asks her out.
She gets into her first fight ever with Deacon Anders over not going on the date with Brad even though they sparked a romantic connection during their coffee catch-up. Bethany criticizes him for being passed up for bishop even though that’s all he wants and he has the added advantage of having performed an exorcism.
TP:
Bethany is stood up by Brad and he ghosts her.
Act 2:
Bethany apologizes to Deacon Anders for what she said about him not being a bishop and tells him he was right about Brad. He tells her that it’s ok if she is not cut out for dating and urges her to stop dating or at least give it a long rest.
Bethany can’t ignore her feelings. She wants love.
New plan
She tries contacting Brad but can’t track him down.
She chases after an ex suitor on the job at Costco to find out why he stopped seeing her and ends up watching a tape of her exorcism in the breakroom with the guy and his coworkers.
Midpoint Turning Point:
Looks for Deacon Anders in the rectory and sees bouquet after bouquet of rotting roses, cleaning lady says she has no idea where they come from, they just keep appearing
Act 3:
Breaks into Deacon Anders Chambers and finds a pentagram, a book of conjuring spells, and other occult items. Demon 23 makes its presence known and physically assaults her.
Deacon Anders finds her at a coffee shop and has a friendly chat but Bethany can see him for the enemy he is and doesn’t tell him anything about her experience in his chambers.
New plan:
Bethany seeks out a New Age healer for advice and the healer tells her she has something attached to her and it’s growing stronger.
First lesson at a New Age school, Bethany connects to her inner God power and sees Demon 23.
Bethany uses Cosmic Mind Telepathy to influence Deacon Anders to dump coffee on himself.
Bethany uses transcendental awareness to project a message of peace and love to Brad.
Bethany invites Demon 23 into her soul and shows him that she can send him back to his origins, but he strikes up a deal with her to let him get back at Deacon Anders.
Turning Point:
Deacon Anders knocks Bethany out and kidnaps.
Act 4:
Bethany wakes up and her church to find herself restrained on the altar. Deacon Anders has just played a video (same video Bethany watches at Costco) of his exorcism of Bethany for the congregation including the Bishop and Cardinal.
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict
Deacon Anders conjures Demon 23 and has it repossess Bethany in a demonstration of his power.
He says that he will now cure her with exorcism, but Bethany telepathically projects Demon 23 into members of the congregation while protecting them with her Inner God Power. Demon 23 shows them how Deacon Anders used the occult to make Demon 23 do his bidding so that he could ascend the rank of the clergy and become the Pope.
Resolution
Deacon Anders is taken to the Vatican by the bishop and the Cardinal to be stripped of his affiliation of the church by the Pope himself.
She meets Demon 23 once again in her soul. He tells her his attachment to her changed from possession of her to something closer to love for her. He’s ready to leave for good and Bethany guides him back to his origins.
At a restaurant, Bethany does a quick exorcism of a guy floundering on a date and tells him his mother invoked a demon to stop him from meeting a woman and leaving her. The guy thanks her and she walks to her table where Brad greets her with a kiss.
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Chuck Czech’s Transformational Events
What I learned — the story is the main character’s transformation.
Concept: An autistic lab assistant barely escapes a catastrophic laboratory accident — but he can’t stop driving away or the alien monster he helped conjure will escape from his trunk and consume the world.
Old Ways: Isolated and lonely; dependent and deferential; awkward and outcast
New Ways: Integrated and social; independent and influential; awkward and accepted
Act 1
1. Ronan is isolated and lonely, driving endlessly.<div>
2. Not having the will to resist, Ronan takes Paulina, a woman he distrusts, on the journey with him.
Act 2
3. Brendan takes control of the car and the capsule, causing Ronan to become defensive. </div><div>
4. Brendan’s inexperience with the capsule prompts Ronan to assert himself as an adept driver and caretaker.
5. When ambushed by Strangers, Ronan escapes on his own, ditching Paulina and Brendan and preserving the capsule.
Act 3
6. Knowing a solitary journey is pointless, contacts Paulina and Brendan.</div><div>
7. Back together, Ronan devises a new plan that involves starting a new team.
Act 4
8. Against Ronan’s protests, Brendan tries leading the new team — but fails.</div><div>
9. Ronan fights Brendan to prevent him from saving his own skin and ruining everything.
Resolution
10. Ronan is confident enough to go out on his own and invite Paulina to join him.
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3. Make a list of 6 – 8 changes or steps that need to happen for that character to go from who they are in the beginning (Old Ways) to who they are in the ending (New Ways).
1- The Inquisition at Dona Gracia’s door after being denounced by her sister
2- The discussion with the Mother Superior while in house arrest at the convent
3- Arrival to Ferrara and convert back to Judaism
4- The Plague and how the Conversos are affected by it
5- The court case with Brianda and the custody of her daughter
6- The departure for Istanbul and meeting with Hurrem Sultan
7- Organizing the boycott of Ancona and its unraveling
8- Negotiate a homeland with the Sultan
The creation of a homeland with the beginning of a
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Joy Geldard-Smith’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is… Step by step makes it work, and makes it easier to lead up to the biggest actions in the movie. It also builds the world and makes it seem less ridiculous when the big things do happen, because the characters and the audience will be prepared for them (even if they think they’re not!)
1. Listen to the Empowerment Audio. – DONE, still love it!
2. Start with the Character Arc and the list of Old Ways and New Ways.
Madison:
An accountant fed up of being called boring proves there’s more to her when she embraces stand-up comedy. After taking a sickie to go to a puzzle room, she is fired when she gets locked in the wrong room and the whole event is livestreamed. Madison connects deeply with fellow risk-taker Jose, and their budding romance gives Madison the confidence to perform and own her creativity.
Jose:
A struggling artist learns to redefine success through human connection, not critical acclaim. His unlikely collaboration and romance with Madison grounds him in valuing personal fulfilment over egotism. By forgiving his doubters, Jose finds inspiration for meaningful, authentic work – which gives him the acclaim and money he’s been seeking.
Old Ways: Madison: Accountant, playing it safe, being unfulfilled and unhappy.
Jose: Trying to live up to everyone else’s expectations and making it on his own as an artist.New Ways: Madison: Embracing creativity and happiness, herself and the love of Jose.
Jose: Accepting his own creative vision, the ability to make mistakes, valuing both himself and Madison as true artists.
3. Make a list of 6 – 8 changes or steps that need to happen for that character to go from who they are in the beginning (Old Ways) to who they are in the ending (New Ways).
Madison:
Be more spontaneous, or rather, be less “boring”
Get out of her comfort zone
Embrace her creativity
Learn stand up comedy
Try (and fail!) stand up comedy
Try (and fail!) to be loved by a creative person (Jose)
Finally accept herself and Jose’s love for her
Jose:
Be less worried about what other people think of his art
Earn money from his art
Not be afraid to fail if people don’t agree with his creative vision
Accept that not every creative person does that full time
Forgive those who hurt him
4. Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes.
For Madison:
1. She impulsively buys a bright red convertible to prove people she is exciting.
2. At the puzzle room, she solves complex puzzles even Jose can’t, proving her intelligence.
3. On the livestream, she jokes with Jose, showing her spontaneity.
4. She gets fired after her boss sees the livestream, forcing her to take a risk and keep working with Jose.
5. Inspired by Jose, she signs up for a comedy writing class to hone her skills.
6. She travels with Jose to new cities to do puzzle rooms there, living an adventure.
7. She tries out her stand-up routine for the first time, and bombs in front of Jose.
8. After refining her routine, she performs a killer stand-up routine at a popular comedy club, fully owning her comedic talents.
For Jose:
1. He plays it safe for the livestream, not showing his real work.
2. Stuck in another room with Madison, he spontaneously paints her, fuelling rumours among his followers.
3. After Madison calls him pretentious, he opens up to Madison about his professor’s damaging critique and the reason he’s seeking so much validation for his art.
4. He starts to plan his own intimate art show focused on meaning.
5. He turns down a lucrative commissioned project, refusing to compromise for money.
6. After his agent fires him, he returns to his hometown with Madison and visits his family for inspiration.
7. They help him put on the personal art show anyway – the centrepiece being a portrait of Madison.
8. He risks everything and proposes to Madison.
5. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character.
I think it kinda incorporated that into number 3 – oops!
6. Add these transformational events to your four act structure.
Act 1:
Opening: Madison excelling at her boring accountant life. Showing
her itch for something more by impulsively buying a bright red convertible
to prove to people that she is exciting. <div>Inciting Incident: She takes a sick day and ends up locked in the
puzzle room with Jose. Madison solves puzzles that Jose can’t, while he plays
it safe with the work her creates.Turning Point: She is fired from her job after they see the
livestream.Act 2:
New plan: Manager convinces Madison to do another show/puzzle room. </div>
Plan in action: They are both a nightmare for each other but do
puzzle rooms in several cities. Jose spontaneously paints Madison,
fuelling rumours among his followers.
Madison start taking classes on stand up and comedy writing.
After Madison calls Jose pretentious, he opens up to Madison about
his professor’s damaging critique and the reason he’s seeking so much
validation for his art.Midpoint Turning Point: They have gone viral and everyone is
speculating about whether or not they will get together.<div>
Act 3:
Rethink everything: Madison knows she can’t go back to being an
accountant but can’t bear to go on working with Jose.</div><div>New plan: Jose turns down a lucrative commissioned project,
refusing to compromise for money.
His manager then fires him because of it, as well as finding out that
Jose has been planning a different type of exhibit.
Madison wants to try stand up comedy.Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: She bombs at her first
gig but Jose is there for her.Act 4:
They both head to Jose’s hometown and his family help him put on
the show he wants to. They’re also really supportive of Madison. </div>Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: She agrees to do one
more puzzle room with Jose for money and he proposes.Resolution: She says yes and they support each other as artists.
Jose’s authentic show wins critical acclaim and Madison performs at
a fringe festival, winning new fans.
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