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Lesson 6
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Megan’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is…that planning for a fulfilling transformational arc requires knowing the end at the beginning. While it makes sense, I did struggle trying to find additional ideas that aren’t already a part of my 4-Act Structure.
Character Arc Start: A docile rule-follower, a mere recounter of history (historian)
Character Arc Finish: Brave protector of the weak and mistreated, someone who makes history (running for Vice President under the slogan of “True Equality for All”)
Old Ways: rule follower, listener rather than public speaker, bookish homebody; hates to rock the boat; firm supporter of the Matriarchy because she only saw the good it had achieved; often overlooked, unadventurous; unaware she had a younger brother who was forcibly aborted; unaware her mother gave her life to protect her unborn son
New Ways: rule breaker for public good, a Mama Bear, willing to fight for those she cares about (twin brother, father, sons both born and unborn), running as the Vice President’s running mate; everyone knows her name and face; lives with death threats; eyes open to truth, even when it isn’t pretty.
6-8 Changes from Old to New:
Notice questionable or unfair rules in regards to men
Learn about First Man and that her father and brother are a part of it
Confront her father about the reason her mother died
Find out that only one male is permitted per family just as she discovers she’s pregnant with her second son
Agree to become a part of First Man
See for herself the cruel streak in the President
Play a role in exposing the President’s corruption
Become running mate to the vice president
Events or Tests:
Boy’s extreme reaction to vaccinations
Going to bat for her brother Evan for an open position at work
Being blindfolded and kidnapped and taken to First Man’s underground HQ
Meeting the president and vice president
Escape from doctors trying to force an abortion
Sneaking Evan into the Women’s Day event
Dilemma: allow Evan to die or reveal her role in the assassination attempt
Dilemma: escape with her (and her unborn child’s) life or finish what Evan started
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What I learned…The evil force though unseen for most of the film is all around Nick, like a boa constrictor circling then tightening…I need to capture that tension with each step Nick takes.
Steps Nick takes:
1. Reveal true feelings for Naya, expose himself to love and rejection
2. Fail at an adventure hurt himself of another physically.
3. Realize that the energies of the universe are not all wise or benevolent.
4. Travel rugged terrain to find a mentor.
5. Learn how to fight for his soul and depend on a mentor
6. Lose a mentor.
7. give up his soul, the ultimate sacrifice for the one he loves.
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Alice’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is Ive got some inner barrier to say the things the way they are, I don’t know why. Might be author’s block. I made myself because I need to do the class. It starts looking a bit like beat sheet. Middle part still seems to me belittled. I commonly do start and end, and middle is not there. There are also absent possible lines of who is Albert Schenke and how we know it. I’m not sure is he extracted out of jail right after trial, or is he given little of charge, and as if been there, or is he given new identity. And how we know in what way he previously was connected with Elizabeth.
Start with the Character Arc and the list of Old Ways and New Ways.
From Girl with Dragon Tattoo to anonymity
Old Ways
Multiple sexual contacts
Acting on her own accord
Hiding a wound of killing someone
New Ways
Becoming a mother
Compelling to system to break through
Murders someone to run away
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).
Attempting to hide her identity
Staying with one partner
Playing a role to recover
Recognizing what endangers her
4. Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes.
Removing Wasp Tattoo
Leaving Sweden
Facing her fears or flows
Accepting HE is gone
Giving Birth
Undergoing physical suppression
Run Away from military bunker
Dropping idea to kidnap her daughter back
Getting into life with another identity
5. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character.
Stieg Larson’s first Novel gets into popularity
Michael marries Figuerola
She gets connected with Albert Schenke and gets attached to him
When he disappears, she goes all the way to find him
Accepts, he is gone after accident
Meets Mary Paul again, but that one suicides
Gives birth to a daughter
Gets kidnapped into bunker
Recovers and starts working in disguise, with number assigned to her
Hacks the system and uses information to plan her escape
Murders one of coworkers to get via fingerprint entry door
Shots guard and nurse in medical car
Browses net, hacking, to find her daughter’s whereabouts
Farewells with Michael and goes on her way
6. Add these transformational events to your four act structure.
Act 1:
Opening
· Stieg Larson’s first Novel gets into popularity
· Lisbeth runs into bestseller on book counter, with dragon tattoo on the cover
· Removing Wasp Tattoo
Michael Blomkvist’s contacts with Figuerola makes Lisbeth leave Sweden for United States
Elizabeth in Los Vegas
Accidental meeting with Armansky prompts recollections of how and why she made her tattoos
Inciting Incident Elizabeth in her new expensive car gets stopped on the road by policemen
Looking to improve her documents status She accidentally meets with Sweden official, who happens to be Albert Schenke
They come into close relationships
She browses his comp, but it is totally empty of any personal information
Turning Point
After Lisbeth visits Sweden and restores relationships with Michael, Albert is not to be found. She applies her skills to the bits of information she has and comes close to his vicinity in England. He can’t refuse it, and they reconnect.
Act 2:
New plan
After spending five years of paradise together on the US West, Albert himself offers Elizabeth to pay Sweden a visit. There he gets run over crossing the street. Both Michael and Elizabeth believe he’s gone.
· Accepts, he is gone after accident
Plan in action
Michael and Millenium
Conflict with woman across the road
Midpoint Turning Point
Lisbeth accidentally runs on Mary Paul. She now has a baby. Lisbeth offers her to stay in her apartment. She goes shopping after milk, upon return to find both Mary Paul and her baby dead. Investigation proves it as suicide after long instability.
Act 3:
Rethink everything
Michael and Millenium
New plan
Blomkvist offers Elizabeth to have a kid of her own, by him.
Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift
Elizabeth gives birth. False alarm staged, she gets kidnapped. Michael accidentally picks up on a baby, but is knifed down and turns into coma.
Figuerola tries to reach her authority, but meets dead wall
Act 4:
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict
Elizabeth gets confined in a military bunker.
Undergoing physical suppression
Her only way out are her skills of hacker and power of determination.
· Recovers and starts working in disguise, with number assigned to her
· Befriends one of clerks, but is on bad terms with another
· Hacks the system and uses information to plan her escape
· Murders bad coworker to get via fingerprint entry door
· Steels the track, but slips on roadside when pursued
· Awakes at medical car and Shots guard and nurse
· Uses commotion during false terrorist attack to get away
Resolution
· Walks the road up to the city, breaks the phone to reach her contacts
· Recollections about her childhood friend she made her business partner at lore time
· Gets new documents with another identity
· Browses net, hacking, to find her daughter’s whereabouts
· Recognizing what endangers her
· Dropping idea to kidnap her daughter back
· Farewells with Michael and goes on her way
With new documents, Lisbeth fleets Sweden for England.
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Tita’s Transformational Events
What I learned from doing this assignment:
Very useful to focus early on what causes the transformation… and how important it is to track the transformation of a character and to find or build events that provoke that transformation step by step, more and more strongly. Before this assignment, I think I was just assuming that the transformation was an automatic part of the story arc from goals to climax and character’s achievement of original goal or failing but getting what they really need, not what they think they need. To build in ideas for all the elements of structure in each Assignment, I need to 1) After the Character Profiles and Interviews and before itemizing the dramatic elements in each act, I need to come up with at least a rough story line for the acts. Otherwise I’m just making stuff up in a vacuum and can’t keep flipping back and forth to remind myself of all the other pieces. Not sure the SU system can handle a table so I will develop a template later.
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The Assignment:
Using the list of Old Ways and New Ways, point to changes that need to be made for the character. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character. Add these transformational events (Specific events in the story that force the character to either face that the Old Ways don’t work or cause them to step out of the box and use the New Ways.) to your four act structure. Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes.
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Old Ways: Order is more important than freedom. Although the government promises all people the right to vote for one’s own representatives to make laws, H agrees with Parliament that the less educated and poorer citizens do not qualify to vote, would be too ignorant to determine who understands the democratic system and who, if elected, will become a tyrant. He believes societies need wealthy and influential people to guide, control and make laws for the lower sorts in order to maintain order. Anyone disagreeing is a threat to order and therefore leaders must repress protesters.
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Changes Needed: (Some)
· Reconnect with his own love of the simplicity of American colonists over aristocratic dominance and foppery
· Stop accepting criticism and shame of himself as truth about his weaknesses… and stop seeing any disagreements with his leadership as threats to government security… and another stop – stop hearing criticism of govt as criticism of himself personally
· Overcome fear of losing financial security for himself and others in family
· Listen to learn from people rather than dismissing them, telling them answers
· See people’s individual value as unrelated to education and wealth or lack of it
· Value justice and equal rights over personal security, wealth and prestige
· Shift from identifying with establish family to identifying with liberty loving country
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4-Act Structure – Story Line Summary and Transformational Events
Instructions: Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character. Add these transformational events to your four act structure. (Note to me: to keep time on this down, I am not revising the thoughts down to clear phrases as in the examples from movies in the assignment. Clean it up mentally later by making the “events” clear, concise event highlights)
Act 1: 25 to 30 pages — Set up and see Old Ways.
Brief Overview: H meets Brit official when his ship docks in Boston on Pope’s Day. Introduces him to merchants, warns him about radicals and protects him from gangs.
Transformational Event:
· Although H is totally supportive of the arriving royal guest’s insistence on hierarchical aristocratic rules and styles, when the guest ridicules the simplicity of townspeople and the silliness of even the poorest clamoring to have a say in government and elect their leaders, H tries, very gently to stand up for his people – H is first non-American appointed by the King to govern Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Act 2: 20 to 30 pages — Challenge the Old Ways
Brief Overview: Protests grow, H handles them until the attack him, destroy his home.
Transformational Events:
· At a peaceful protest against the Stamp Act, H is ready to arrest Sam and Sons of Liberty but Sam forces him to realize and accept the protest is peaceful and allowed by the Mother Country’s laws.
· When two weeks later drunken mobs rage at him, destroy his home and everything in it including the history of Massachusetts H was writing, H is almost killed because he refuses to leave his doorstep, but his daughter and his slave Andrew save him. Maybe he rages against Sam but finds out from crazed Otis that Sam is trying to take over the gangs as a way to use them and control their violence. H refuses to believe Sam is trying to stop mob violence
· H has difficulty getting reps in the House of Commons and House of Lords to provide real support, not just ridicule, contempt, and recommendations to hang them all as an example. H tries to stand up for the people because radicals like Sam have manipulated them… to counter rumors that loyalists got the mobs drunk to make the radicals look bad.
Act 3: 20 to 30 pages — With Midpoint change, Profound moments that give us new ways
Brief Overview: Soldiers arrive. H greets. S mocks. Massacre. Both H and S trying to calm. Meeting – evict soldiers- H agrees. Realizes just people, his people, should listen… will try to stand up for them even if he loses. New tactic – win everyone over, isolate Sam… until Tea then people back with Sam and teapartying.
Transformational Events:
· H sees the roughness of soldiers on the people, even before the Massacre – after soldiers kill 5 people, he feels sorrow for the families, has to acknowledge that Sam and radicals are using the incident but also grieving too
· When the townspeople come to demand he remove the troops, he sees the callous lack of interest in the British royal appointees and American loyalists/Tories. He fights the townspeople down strongly… they all back away, except Sam. Who challenges him to focus on the people not on the aristocrats…
· To the horror of leadership, H overrules them and commands the two regiments leave the city for a fort outside. He has reconnected with his fellow townspeople
Act 4: 25 pages — Test the change in this character! Prove New Ways!
Brief Overview Before Climax: H hears from spy of Sam’s plot to vote in illegal assembly to send reps to new colonial congress in Phil. H knows if Mass goes, all will but if Mass does not, no others will. Fights General Gage sending out troops to Lex/Concord to arrest all in illegal convention and protect weapons stored. Gage ridicules H attempts to keep it (Sub: Otis totally mad, carted out of Boston in a strait jacket)
Transformational Events:
As he tries to stop a full military mobilization against the illegal assembly, H becomes even more aware of the arrogance of his fellow loyalists/tories and the consistent focus of radicals on laws that should protect British citizens even when they live in America. Remembers his own beliefs in democratic rights when he was fighting the even more privilege loving French in Canada.
(He tries to find an alternative to the army, fighting General Gates – just lock the illegal reps in their room, not send many troops into the countryside in a parade. And quietly move troops to guard the weapon storage. H is afraid heavy army moves will just recruit for the radicals. Tries to explain what colonists are upset about, based on original charter from the Mother Country.)
New Ways: Freedom is more important than order. H realizes he was wrong to try to keep colonies united with the Mother Country. He now values the right for anyone to vote for representatives who will make decisions, pass laws and levy taxes that impact their lives. He has stopped judging character based on wealth, education or influence. He can see the value of each human being. He is surrounded by powerful people giving his old arguments for restricting the vote only to educated influential people but although too late, H understands why the Americans he thought were destructive radicals were right to protect those rights – and he wonders if he could have prevented war if he had stood with them.
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Jen’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is this is surely not the entirety of the steps I will implement to demonstrate his transformation, but it is a great start (and a great way to start this process).
Start with the Character Arc and the list of Old Ways and New Ways.
Internal Journey:
from self-sabotaging, unaccountable, and a blamer to a respectable young
man who takes responsibility for his actions and makes better decisions
regarding his behaviors.
External
Journey: gangster wannabe to a respectable family member, big brother,
contributor to societyOld ways: blame everyone else for his poor decisions, lash out in anger, self-loathing, victim of his environment – always the “victim” – even when he’s the perpetrator.
New ways: <s>Jaleo</s> Javier has to come to terms with the things he has done to hurt other people and to feel truly sorry (not just say it). He also has to forgive himself and forgive those in his life who hurt him so that he can move on and be accountable for his actions while not wallowing in his past.
1. Goes to center with the intention of just getting “brownie points” – finds that he really likes it. Meets a gang member who is blind and there to get a dog. This really throws him off – probably up until then he had every intention to get out of juvie and go back to the gang. Is now seeing (ironically from a blind man) what the world can be like – one that doesn’t involve criminal activity but involves people who care about him.
2. Meets the dog who is just like him – makes probably the first real connection he has made with another living being in his entire life.
3. Meets Annie who was in jail herself before coming to work there. She helps him to see himself as separate from what he has done. She helps him to realize that he needs to be accountable and stop blaming others for his own bad decisions.
4. Meets the girl who was the victim of the drive-by shooting in which he was the driver. Struggles with telling them/not telling them who he is. Wants to be accountable but doesn’t want to lose the relationship they are building.
5. Makes the difficult decision to tell them who he is. They go out to dinner and just as he is going to tell them, they announce that they want to take him in as a foster child (he lies that he is in DCF instead of DYS). He decides not to tell them the truth because it will change their minds.
6. The honor society boys figure out his whole story and threaten to tell the family who he is, so now he has to admit it. They get him removed from working with their daughter, rescind their offer to take him in – he took accountability and lost the one thing he wanted – a family, but he did gain self-respect. Annie helps him realize this.
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Rita’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment:
- I have a feeling this structure is a good blueprint but things will change along the way.
- Just like construction projects, how we reach the end product is very different than what we all signed on for.
Main Conflict
- Dawn must keep up the lie that she runs a painting company until Abernathy likes her enough to forgive her when she finally fesses up.
Old Ways
Intellectualizes the human condition
Pretends to know how people are while living alone
Teaches young adults to avoid real life
Pushes people away
Uses the above to stay in denial that she’s scared of life
New Ways
Feels empathically
Surrounds herself with people
Quits her teaching job to really impact lives
Draws people to her
Embraces and experiences all of life
Brainstorm Changes
On impulse, follows intuition
Thrown into a situation she knows nothing about. Must follow instead of lead.
Confronted with unusual characters outside of her usual circles and must depend on them/trust someone other than herself.
IN other people’s lives rather than theoretically talking about case studies, she finds she’s actually interested.The theories she teaches don’t work but she’s good at finding what does.
Until Abernathy resists her curiosity and closes off. Now her mission is to open him up — borderline pushy and nosy.
Coaxing out the good, vulnerable core in people doesn’t equal love. Agrees to a date with someone very “off brand” for her.
4 Act Structure
Act 1:
Opening
Dawn closes the semester with her psychology students who love her. Zak is particularly friendly in a loyal puppy kind of way.
Inciting Incident
Planning a small, home project for her summer off, Dawn impulsively plays into a misunderstanding with a handsome contractor, Abernathy, at the paint store. She pretends to own a painting company, even gives it a name — Blue Dawn Painting — and is quickly horrified by what she’s done.
Turning Point
Dawn agrees to finance Zak in painting one, ONE house only so he can pay for fall tuition. They assemble a crew who are qualified… for something other than painting. However, more jobs keep coming and business is booming. Abernathy is obviously flirting.
Act 2:
New plan
Dawn can’t stop now but Abernathy is asking questions she can barely bluff her way through. She registers Blue Dawn Painting as an LLC and makes Zak the foreman.
Plan in action
Dawn signs a contract with Abernathy Builders with her ramshackle crew. Abernathy’s attraction to Dawn makes him ignore his concern.
The crew is a mix of sensitive addict in recovery, ex-con, divorced and betrayed dad, insecure body builder, comedian wanna-be. All broken men, each a piece of her own dad. Dawn becomes a mother/therapist to all of them until that role breaks down.
Midpoint Turning Point
Just as Dawn and Abernathy start getting close, he learns that up until this summer, Dawn has only ever been an academic. She lied! Just like his mother did to his father, repeating an old betrayal. But Dawn won’t give up the truth that it all started just to impress him.
Abernathy feels betrayed, pushes Dawn away just as she was getting into the groove of feeling like she could really help people. Now she doubts herself even more than when this whole fiasco started.
Act 3:
Rethink everything
Not only is the painting project more than her crew can handle but Abernathy is now angry with her. Plus each member of the crew is backsliding on their emotional progress. All goals are bound for failure. Something’s gotta give. Dawn wants to give up.
New plan
Dawn’s true psychic talent and empathy (beyond psychology) and understanding go into full gear when the homeowner confides her struggle, which Dawn helps her resolve. The crew witnesses and applies changes to their own struggles, resets themselves on the right track. Now Abernathy can’t fire her until…
Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift
In a bout of depression, Zak tumbles from a tall ladder. Now what? He was the only one who knew what he was doing. Abernathy steps in to get Zak to the hospital, leaving Dawn to run the crew on her own and finish the job. She confronts the head of her psychology department — his theories don’t work in the real world.
Act 4:
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict
Dawn and Abernathy bump into each other at the hospital visiting Zak. They’ve both become surrogate parent figures to him (Unconsciously fulfilling their parental desires…together) and fight over his future and who will help him through rehab and healing, but really fighting about their own relationship.
Resolution
Dawn comes clean, realizes she loves being an entrepreneur, embraces her psychic talents (standing up to her snobbish, academic peers) and quits her teaching position. She and Abernathy team up as business partners, not lovers. Dawn finally considers the flirtations of Doug, the wannabe comedian who’s finally brave enough to try it. Zak graduates and takes her place on the faculty.
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Day 6 Transformational Events
James’ Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is… the transformational events give me the meat of my story where the heart of the protagonist evolves. This offers a glimpse into the essence of the character and how her future may manifest itself.
Character Arc: from having a subservient mindset to being a boss with her own business.
Jessica Blue’s Old Ways:
1. Putting others before herself.
2. Being a subservient worker in all job roles.
3. Keeping good ideas to herself.
4. Lacking outward ambition
Jessica Blue’s New Ways:
1. Takes care of her well-being first.
2. Becomes more proactive to create opportunities for herself.
3. Expresses career enhancing ideas.
4. Puts forth her ambition to establish her own business.
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):
· Jessica stands up to her boss.
· Starts using her ideas for her own benefit.
· Follows through on starting her podcast.
· Decides to distance herself from her past sex industry work.
· Helps Rufus deal with his past; becomes a friendly ear.
· Starts an online empowerment group for women.
· She is asked by Rufus if she would like a position in his business.
· Starts her own business.
Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes:
· Jessica stands up to her boss.
· Decides to distance herself from her past sex industry work.
· Starts using her ideas for her own benefit.
· Helps Rufus deal with his past; becomes a friendly ear.
· Follows through on starting her podcast.
· Starts an online empowerment group for women.
· She is asked by Rufus if she would like a position in his business.
· Starts her own business.
Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character:
Add these transformational events to your four-act structure:
Act 1:
· Opening: Jessica is on her way to an elderly customer’s home for a sales visit and on a combative call with her boss who doesn’t appreciate, or doesn’t recognize, the worth she brings to the company.
· Inciting Incident: Jessica quits her sex toys sales job and seeks a new vision for her life.
· Turning Point: With much trepidation, Jessica decides to pursue a potential relationship with Rufus who was captivated by her from the start.
Act 2:
· New plan: Jessica returns to her sex toys sales job, but with the intent to ask for a higher salary.
· Jessica’s boss continues to be impossible in demanding more work hours causing her to reach a tipping point and stands up for herself.
· She knows she’s getting closer to Rufus in addition to wanting to start anew due to his high expectations in a girlfriend; this causes her to distance herself from her past.
· Plan in action
· Midpoint Turning Point: Rufus learns about Jessica’s past sex industry work causing a rift in the relationship.
Act 3:
· She decides to use her former customers as a fan base to grow support for a potential business which causes anger in her former boss; uses her own ideas.
· Rethink everything: Jessica plans to launch her own business using modern social media techniques to draw attention for her boutique.
· New plan
· She catches Rufus reminiscing about his past and gains knowledge of the heartbreak he suffered; helps him deal with his past.
· Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: Rufus walks in on Jessica’s meeting with a former male client and believes the worst; the relationship appears totally unsalvageable.
· She finds herself without steady work and it’s now or never in making her own business a reality, so she starts her own podcast.
Act 4:
· The podcast is a success with a growing fanbase causing her to start an online empowerment group for women.
· Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: Jessica has gone forward and faced uncharted waters in her life and took the plunge with her podcast launch. She sends Rufus a message for him to listen to the podcast’s first episode. Jessica pours her heart and soul out expressing the misunderstanding that took place. He’s moved with the gesture and realizes at that moment she’s the one for him.
· Jessica’s visibility grows nationally causing Rufus to take notice; he asks if she would like a position in his business, which she declines.
· Resolution: Jessica and Rufus deepen their relationship and become a couple knowing each one helped the other overcome their pasts and now they face the future with newfound love, energy and spirit.
· After national visibility and support her popularity soars allowing her to take the plunge and launch her own business.
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Chris Dorsey’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is…
Character Arc — From a fearful, victimized inmate to feared/respected inmate who brings down the prison bully and the system.
Old Ways —
Ignorant of the mental health prison system to his detriment. Lowest of the low. Avoidant/hiding (hiding his own MH symptoms). Super helpful and optimistic, Polly Anna-ish. Connects with others but through his “silver lining” approach.
New Ways —
Expert on the prison mental health system which he can use to his advantage — Top Dog. Empathetic who helps and connects with others on a real level, group leader, courageous, fights for the rights of mentally-ill inmates. Assertive.
2. 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) Wilbert realizes that mental health treatment might be the last thing he’s going to receive in the prison system after he witnesses how the inmates are treated by staff. After he brings his concerns to prison staff, the building’s top psychopath tries to kill him. Wilbert seeks external legal help for protection after this event. He also asks for his case to be appealed.
2) Wilbert stops taking his medications and learns his auditory hallucinations may actually help him survive in prison.
3) Wilbert uncovers evidence that could lead to his conviction being overturned in the appeals process.
4) Wilbert has a breakthrough in therapy that helps him discover why he is the way he is — he’s too nice. This is the information he needs for his internal transformation. He learns that he developed a reactionary set of coping mechanisms from loss that no longer suit him.
5) After his friend dies (by suicide or homicide), he discovers that prison staff (i.e. guards and the Warden) are purposefully putting his life at risk and covering up other crimes/inhumane treatment of inmates.
6) Wilbert verbally calls out the Antagonist in front of the whole cellblock. With more than half of the inmates in the dorm on Wilbert’s side, Wilbert spells out and challenges all of the Antagonists warped ways of thinking and behaviors. The Antagonist challenges Wilbert to a fight to the death.
7) Wilbert defeats the Antagonist in mortal combat, but Wilbert spares the Antagonist’s life.
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KAREN SINCLAIR’S TRANSFORMATIONAL EVENTS
What I learned doing this assignment is…?
What I learned by doing this assignment is it is the value of ‘layering’. Layering is another way of compartmentalizing or chunking it down. Works to minimize ‘overwhelm’.
The Transformational Events exercise is also necessary to make sure that the character is developing. An audience won’t care about ‘Transactional Events’ if they result in very little change in Old and New ways. That’s when they fall asleep or turn the channel.
ASSIGNMENT 6
1. Listen to the Empowerment Audio
https://30dayscript.s3.amazonaws.com/Empowerment+Audio.m4a
2. Start with the Character Arc and the list of Old Ways and New Ways.
Sadie is a single, self-reliant, 35-year-old ad exec from New York City trying to make a name for herself in Vancouver, BC, where, if successful, she will make partner. The ad agency she works for is world renowned, and she has developed a reputation of being the go-to executive in the New York branch because of her creativity, work ethic and dogged determination.
In Vancouver, she is starting a life with a new husband, his two children and a labradoodle. Having resigned herself to a single life that certainly did not include children or pets, Sadie struggles to be a great wife, loving mother and kick-ass ad exec who knows what she wants and will do just about anything to get it. Can she have it all? And at what cost?
Sadie’s arc takes her from:
· single, no children, no pets, self-reliant, go-it-alone, married to her job, knows what she wants and how to get it, and a win at all costs mentality.
to…
· married, two stepchildren, labradoodle, team-reliant, committed to her job, knows what she wants and how to get it, with a healthy balance between winning at work and winning at home.
Old Ways
· Single, self-reliant, and self-absorbed
· Small fish in big pond (ad exec in NYC agency)
· Fear of abandonment
· Self-centered and selfish
· Be the best at all costs
New Ways
· Married with children, a dog and unconditional love all around
· Big fish in small pond (ad owner in Vancouver agency)
· No fear of abandonment
· Team oriented and empathetic
· Lead the best team!
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. Sadie accepts an opportunity to start a new ad agency in Vancouver, BC
2. Sadie breaks off her long-term relationship with Thomas.
3. Sadie meets Adam at a conference in Whistler BC and lives in Vancouver, they marry
4. Before an important presentation, Sadie gets taken hostage while running
5. Sadie values keeping her family safe and makes decisions accordingly
6. Sadie doesn’t think about her work presentation while her team saves the day
7. Sadie is successful in her relationship with her new husband and instant family
8. Sadie’s becomes partner because of the great job her team did with her presentation
4. Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes.
Easiest
· Sadie accepts an opportunity to start a new ad agency in Vancouver, BC
(Sadie is in her comfort zone with her work, regardless of where it is.)· Sadie values keeping her family safe and makes decisions accordingly
(Sadie’s love for Adam kicks in and she values his family which he loves as well)· Sadie doesn’t think about her work presentation while her team saves the day
(Not much Sadie can do about this so it is easy in that regard)· Sadie is successful in her relationship with her new husband and instant family
(Sadie’s reaction to the inciting incident and her family’s support is a major shift)· Sadie’s becomes partner because of the great job her team did with her presentation
(Sadie learned she had a team that she just needed to mentor and then get out of their way)Most Difficult
· Sadie breaks off her long-term relationship with Thomas.
(This step should be easy but because of Sadie’s inattention in the past, it is difficult)· Sadie meets Adam at a conference in Whistler BC and lives in Vancouver, they marry
(Sadie has a lot of fear when engaging in any relationship, based on past experience)· Before an important presentation, Sadie gets taken hostage while running
(Sadie doesn’t know what is going on and feels totally out of control, which she hates)5. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character.
Sadie and Adam agree they won’t have a honeymoon right after their wedding as they are both busy with work. Eventually, Adam is anxious to get away while Sadie keeps pushing it out.
Sadie knows she needs to hire the best of the best to be successful in this new adventure. Her inability to empower them and get out of their way means she risks losing them.
Thomas stays in contact with Sadie as friends. In the beginning, Sadie is ok with it. As time goes on she starts to become more uncomfortable as she realizes Thomas still holds out hope for a reconciliation.
Thomas stays in touch with VJ Kilmer from the competition in New York. They got to know each other from local New York City events where Sadie introduced them. He is getting information from VJ about Sadie because he knows they still talk.
Adam asks Sadie if she can pick up the kids from school one Friday afternoon due to a special work meeting he couldn’t get out of. She agrees and then forgets to pick them up. The ex-wife is livid.
Sadie slips into some of her bad habits of letting work overtake all other priorities. Adam is starting to feel it.
Sadie practices her presentation to her employees. They make suggestions for improvement, but she is totally closed to them.
Head office in New York, Mitchell Bakken, lets Sadie know how important the upcoming presentation is for the firm. Pressure Sadie doesn’t need.
6. Add these transformational events to your four-act structure.
2. Act 1: 25 to
30 pages
Set up and see Old Ways.OPENING: Set us up for the journey that starts with the Inciting Incident.
Sadie is just finishing up a meeting with the CEO of GH Group. She’s walking toward the door as he’s encouraging her to seriously think about heading up the project to establish a new branch of GH Harder in Vancouver BC. As she is about to step out his door he follows up with, “It could be your ticket to partnership”. She closes the door and her phone chirps. It is a text from Thomas telling her that dinner is almost ready. She looks angry as she crumples her paper coffee cup and slams it into the garbage in the hall.
Sadie is thrashing around slamming and locking doors. Everyone else has gone home for the day. She is in her running gear with a small backpack carrying her identification, credit cards and her work clothes. Sadie gave her longtime boyfriend Thomas a directive to be out of her townhouse by the time she got home from work. She looks down at the text on her phone about dinner being ready and sent him a text back saying, ‘Get Out!’.
Sadie bursts out of the elevator on the main floor and heads out into the city. She is running off the stress and anger over a breakup which has been a long time coming. Thomas refuses to accept that it is over even though Sadie assures him that it is.
Sadie is used to being in control, over everything, and the fact that Thomas is not responding to the breakup is driving her to the brink. She runs recklessly down the street, shoulder-bumping people as she heads down a busy sidewalk on a Thursday evening. Her backpack knocks someone off their bike.
As she enters her street she starts to sprint. When she reaches the bottom of the steps to her townhouse she stops abruptly, leans over trying to catch her breath. She looks up to see a shadow moving around her kitchen. She rips her backpack off her back, stomps up the stairs and burst through the door throwing her pack into a corner. Instantly upon entry she can smell something cooking; evidence that Thomas is still not taking her seriously.
Sadie storms into the kitchen and confronts Thomas in the middle of setting the table for, what looks like a romantic dinner. She yells at him that this is it. They are done.
He still doesn’t seem to get it and suggests they sit down for a meal and talk.
She is done talking and to prove it, she yanks the garbage can out from under the sink and dumps everything on the table into the can. She walks over to the island and clears all contents to the can as well. Sadie grabs a pot of hot water with spaghetti noodles from the stove. She tells him she is done being held hostage by him in her own house. She throws the boiling water against the back of the sink. The window behind the sink and the glass cracks from the heat.
Thomas, with his hands up, takes a step towards her.
Sadie picks up the pot of simmering spaghetti sauce and an oven mitt. She threatens to throw it on him if he doesn’t leave right now.
He finally gets it and snaps, yelling obscenities as he storms out and slams the door, taking nothing and creating yet another reason for returning.
Four hours later, Thomas returns by car. Sadie has loaded everything of Thomas’ into Rubbermaid tubs and put them on the front porch. There is a locksmith truck parked in front and the locksmith is just finishing up changing the locks.
The locksmith asks Thomas if the containers are his to which he affirms they are. He tells him the lady who lives here gave him five $100 dollar bills to deliver the bins to his apartment address.
Thomas said he would take them and started loading his car. The locksmith helps him, all the while consoling him about the obvious breakup.
The locksmith rings Sadie’s doorbell to let her know he is done, but no one answers. He slips an invoice for the job through the slot and is about to follow up with the five $100 bills. Instead, he hesitates and returns only three. Two bills go in his pocket for his trouble.
Sadie sits on the floor with her back against the inside of the front door sobbing. It is finally over.
Sadie tells the CEO, Mitchell Bakken, on Friday morning that she will accept the project of opening the new office in Vancouver, BC. She sees it as a way of breaking from Thomas and having a fresh start. He tells Sadie that during the following week’s marketing conference in Whistler, BC., he will be announcing her appointment.
While at the conference, Sadie participates in a ski lesson provided by the conference. She meets a guy from an Exhibition booth. They are really hitting it off and they sit together at dinner. During dinner, there is a segment called ‘Movers and Shakers’ during which announcements are made of people moving from one agency to another or going out on their own. The CEO of GH Group announces that Sadie will be opening a branch ‘right here in beautiful Vancouver, BC’. She bashfully looks at her new acquaintance who smiles as he realizes that their relationship might have a chance.
A montage of activity shows a back and forth between
· starting up the agency,
· dating Adam,
to
· day to day happenings in the agency, winning accounts, high fives
· runs with Adam, candlelit dinners, Adam in his accounting office at home facetiming Sadie
to
· cutting the ribbon with the whole new work team behind her and
· a wedding photo with her, Adam, and his two children.
Back in the office, Sadie works with Randy her young executive assistant and the rest of her team to put together a big presentation. She will be competing for business against a known competitor VJ Kilmer of Sinclair Media Group (SMG) which she relishes. VJ is a fearsome competitor.
Her team suggests ways they can be more involved, use more flashy technology and help Sadie with the volume of preparation that is required. She rebuffs them and tells them just to get her what she asks for and she’ll take it from there. One of Sadie’s team decides to create the flashy piece that she thinks will give the presentation a boost. She hopes to convince her to use it.
Sadie’s team at work show signs of dissatisfaction. While Sadie pays them well enough, she doesn’t let them do what she hired them to do. Randy tries to placate them but it is even grating on him.
During this busy time at work, Sadie shows signs of her old ways, calling Adam on a Saturday to let him know he won’t be home for dinner even though it is a birthday dinner for his oldest Ada who is turning five. Adam invites his ex-wife and Ada’s mother over for the birthday party not wanting Ada to feel any pain over Sadie’s absence. In a picture after the fact, Sadie sees Hannah, the ex, at the party, and feels a pang of pain but quickly shakes it off.
Sunday is a repeat of Saturday showing Sadie at work and going for a run at lunch. She runs home to say hello to Adam, tell him she won’t be home for dinner, and then heads back to work. He decides to bring her dinner which she enjoys. On his way home he meets a guy friend at a bar for a drink. The friend asks where Sadie is on a Sunday night and Adam acts embarrassed that she is at work.
Sadie continues to be self-absorbed in work while Adam takes care of the home front. He has been doing it for a while so not much is different, but he is beginning to ask himself, ‘Is this how it should be?’
Adam asks Sadie if she can pick up the kids from school one Friday afternoon due to a special work meeting he can’t get out of. She agrees and then forgets to pick them up. The ex-wife is livid.
Adam brings up the idea of finally booking a honeymoon. He thinks it would do them good. Sadie is in no frame of mind to talk about it right now but promises she will after the presentation is done.
Thomas stays in contact with Sadie as friends. In the beginning, Sadie is ok with it. As time goes on, she starts to become more uncomfortable as she realizes Thomas still holds out hope for a reconciliation.
Thomas also stays in touch with VJ Kilmer from the competition in New York. They got to know each other from local New York City events where Sadie introduced them. He is getting information from VJ about what Sadie is up to because she knows they still talk.
INCITING INCIDENT: This is the call to go on the journey. It creates the opportunity to live outside the box and take on the New Ways.
The big day has arrived. The presentation is tonight, and Sadie has got her team pulling it all together while she goes for a run to get in the right frame of mind. This is something she always does.
Head office in New York, Mitchell Bakken, lets Sadie know how important the presentation is for the firm. Pressure Sadie doesn’t need.
While she is running, she receives a text on her phone warning her not to stop running, to run where she is told and to reply that she understands by raising her arm in the air. It goes further to say that if she stops running or goes in a different direction, she, her husband, and his children will be killed. She is not to answer any texts or phone calls other than from the mysterious caller.
Is it possible that she has been taken hostage while running?
TURNING POINT: Lock in the journey. There is no going back from here.
Sadie doesn’t know what is happening and she doesn’t know whether to take this threat seriously.
She keeps running and thinking.
3. Act 2: 20 to
30 pages
Challenge the Old Ways.Reaction: They are now outside the box. It is uncomfortable, maybe unbearable. But the Hero can’t go back. They must move forward in some way.
Sadie knows she must do something.
The Plan: They struggle, flail, and try the first plan that comes to mind…which will quickly fail.
She decides to test the instructions. Surely nothing will happen, and she’ll do directly to the police.
· She slows to a walk and receives a text that says, ‘RUN’.
· She starts to turn around and reverse course. A text warns her to ‘Stay on Course’.
· She dials 911 and the digitally enhanced voice that answers taunts her with, ‘Nice Try’.
The Hostage Taker realizes she is testing the instructions and tells her as much in a text saying, ‘Don’t Test Me!’. Sadie receives pictures of Adam and the children doing what they do daily. The Hostage Taker tells her to cross the road so that she is running with traffic instead of against it.
As she runs through intersections she notices a block to her right, there is a figure on a motorbike mirroring her. As she sees them, they shine a flashlight in her direction. It must be the Hostage Taker.
She keeps running.
Turning Point 2: MIDPOINT: The journey is still moving in the same direction, but the meaning has changed in a big way that shifts reality.
It has been over two hours of running and Sadie is out of water. She has had to urinate for awhile but has been holding it. It starts to lightly rain which gives her cover to let it go. The urine runs down her legs. She wore new running shoes for this run as it wasn’t going to be a long one. Blisters have formed and as the urine runs onto her feet, she moans in excruciating pain. The blood soaks to the outside of her shoes.
An hour later and it is now pouring rain. Sadie’s hair is falling in her face, and she looks a mess. She is starting to get strange looks from people along the sidewalks and cars that drive up beside her at intersections. One car pulls up beside her and starts to roll down the passenger window. Just as Sadie is about to engage in conversation, a motor bike pulls up behind her and revs its engine. She blows them off in the car and they carry on. The motor bike passes her. It was not the hostage taker, just an impatient rider.
Another hour passes, the sky is starting to dim. She realizes she is going to miss her presentation. She can’t imagine what her employees are doing without her there to direct them.
Back at her office, as it closer to her presentation time, Sadie’s team is concerned. They have everything ready and loaded in the van. The only thing missing is Sadie. Because she is so self-reliant and dependable, they tell themselves that she will be there for the presentation. They mustn’t let the potential client know anything is wrong. Sadie would kill them! They head over to the client’s office to set everything up.
Sadie is starting to question whether the Hostage Taker will follow through on their threats. Maybe they are bluffing. She decides she is going to jump in a cab, borrow the cabbie’s phone and call the police. At an intersection, she jumps in a cab that already has a passenger. Her phone starts to emit an ear-piercing sound. The cabbie pulls over and kicks her out.
4. Act 3: 20 to
30 pages
With Midpoint change, Profound moments
that give us new ways.New Plan: Now, the hero creates a new plan and pursues it. With that, they embrace the need to change.
Sadie realizes that she has an iPod Touch in her sleeve cuff playing music through a set of bone conducting earphones. Maybe the Hostage Taker doesn’t know about the iPod. While Sadie doesn’t know a lot about technology, she does know how to use the Facetime App which she has on her iPod from a time in her life where she didn’t have it on her phone.
In between intersections, Sadie realizes she has a short opportunity to use Facetime to contact with Adam. The message that comes through to Adam looks different than normal, but he answers it. He is shocked to see Sadie’s condition and immediately asks her what in the hell is going on.
Sadie comes to an intersection and puts the iPod down by her leg as she runs through it.
Back to Adam, she quickly tells him what is going on. She can’t explain why but believes that he and the kids are in danger. She tells him to grab the kids Hannah (their mother) and get to the police station on the corner of (such and such TBD). She tells Adam where she is and the direction she is headed. He starts to question her, and she shuts him down hysterically directing him to trust her and just do it.
She comes to another intersection and puts the iPod down. She glances to her right and doesn’t see the motorcycle. When she pulls the iPod up, Adam is gone.
She doesn’t know where the Hostage Taker has gone. This is unnerving to her. It is also unnerving that it is getting dark, and she is barely putting one foot in front of the other. She also has not had any water except for what she drank out of the palm of her hand when it rained.
Turning Point: The “All is lost” or “lowest of the lows” moment where everything has failed.
At this point, her presentation is the last thing on her mind. This episode has sent a jolt through her body about what is important. She just hopes that Adam can get the children to safety. She no longer cares about herself.
5. Act 4: 25 pages
Test the change in this character!
Prove New Ways!Resolution: The change has been made or tested. We now see the new status quo of the Hero.
Sadie picks up her phone. It is down to 3% battery power. She takes a chance and taps on the information button behind the last text she received. It discloses a phone number, a New York number that she doesn’t recognize. She dials the number and a man answers in a normal voice. She recognizes the voice. It is Thomas. Before she says anything, her phone dies.
Sadie runs into a Starbucks, tells them she’s been kidnapped and escaped, and asks to use their phone. Looking as she does, Starbucks staff does not question her. They sit her down in a chair, a customer gives her their jacket, they get her a cup of water and an employee calls the police.
As sirens converge on the Starbucks, a police officer comes through the door with Adam, Hannah, and the kids right behind her. They all gather in a huddle and Sadie starts sobbing out of relief.
The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) contacts New York Police Department (NYPD) and within hours they arrest Thomas John Kruger for kidnapping.
The motorcycle rider was a video game friend Thomas met online who he offered $500 to if he would ride alongside Sadie and Facetime Live her at each intersection while narrating what was happening. Thomas watched the Facetime Live and reacted to what he saw in real time. The Gamer was brought in for questioning but let go without charges as he didn’t really know what or why he was doing what he was doing. He simply wanted the $500.
Back at the ad agency client’s boardroom, Randy introduced himself and conversed with the client long enough to buy a 20-minute window so that the team could get ready to deliver the presentation. They knew better than to say their boss was running late. The employee with the flashy tech ideas incorporated the ideas and the presentation was stunning. They got the job.
Sadie was so incredibly happy that her team rose to the occasion. She started to realize that she could rely on her team, that it wasn’t all up to her, and that is was a lot less pressure to share the load. She vowed to change her ways. She even enrolled Adam in the company as their business expert. The company did well, grew exponentially, and Sadie became a partner. (not sure if I’m going to have her become a Partner or hang up her own shingle as Owner).
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Lesson 6 LD’s Transformational Events
What I learned from this assignment: I find that the focus of the story keeps narrowing in a manageable way. Enjoying process.
Old Ways:
Jaxon fails at and gives up on committed relationships. Jason denies that he’s agoraphobic. Jaxon buys and returns emotional support animals.
New Ways:
Jaxon faces his agoraphobia. Jaxon enters a committed relationship with Ally. Jaxon keeps an extroverted emotional support dog.
Transformational Changes:
Recognizes that commitment dooms his romantic relationships, so he tries to have romantic relationships without commitments.
Ambivalent and suspicious about Angela’s intentions, but doesn’t want to take the chance of losing her, so avoids sex altogether.
Ambivalent about the jealousy and hurt he feels when Angela dates a co-worker.
Feels he should commit himself to Angela until he panics and has to fight or face his social anxiety.
Moment of truth about weaknesses: Angela freely talks about her weaknesses. Jaxon admits to his agoraphobia and recognizes he drifts into unwanted social situations to get out of unwanted relationships.
Thinks he might just be able to experience great love with Angela—or at least try for it.
Transformational Events
After his latest break-up with the wrong woman, he swears off of commitments to relationships.
At the pet store or shelter to return Echo, his latest support animal, Jaxon meets Angela. To impress her, he doesn’t return Echo.
Agrees to let Angela feature him and Echo in Angela’s organization’s newsletter.
His ambivalence about his jealousy when Angela dates a co-worker of his leads him to rethink his needs and desires.
Has soul talk with Angela about who they are. Admits he might be agoraphobic.
Has friend sex with Angela but no commitment.
Has fight and break up with Angela.
Reconciles with Angela with commitment.
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Lisa Long’s Transformational Events (Real)
What I learned doing this assignment is…?” still going. Still crying. I am doing this! (Fk the resistance!)
Character Arc: From innocent and awake, abused, attacked, dumbed down with darkness, scared, hiding. To Awake, Empowered, Strong, and Fearless, bringing new Light and Concepts to the World.
Internal Journey: Stranger in a scary strange land with abusive people and energies. A terrified little girl hiding.
External Journey: Self Confident and Shinning. Holding the LIGHT for many.
What are the Old Ways and New Ways?
Old Ways: Small child, scared, hiding. Attacked, abused, and wounded. Needy, trying to prove self-worth by over-helping and not allowing herself to receive.
New Ways: Adult woman, Released and clear from her wounds. Knows her value. Goddess Awake.
Knows there is a higher reality than her current experience. <div>
Tortured by Dark energies. At first, fights against the dark voices as her enemy.
Later learns they are just wounded aspects of her fighting for survival.
Angels visit, told to go to work.Made the decision to give up current life and awaken, no matter what.
In Waterworld, hangs out with Ron Howard in Maui,
Wants to write her scripts, gets attacked.
Studies, mediates, meets Michael, opens WorldPsychics.
Works with and helps heal, lawyers, doctors, many others for 30 years, remotely.
Stand up to the deceptions with Angels for 911 Truth and AlienTruth websites. (Over 400 pages online, 4 sites)
Starts over after Michael goes to the other side in 2009.
Moves to mainland. Falls into depression, poverty, almost dies, then huge shifts, multiple six figures, then falls again, IRS goes after her.
Wants to write her scripts, joins classes, gets attacked again.
Back to clearing gov fears from her parents, crying for year in bathtub in Mt. Shasta.
Keeps going.
Haunted, finally clears it. Dad’s evil and intentional programming was haunting her and keeping her small.Knows that she creates her own reality, and it all is just crappy programming in her childhood. Keep seeking easier ways to clear.
Become skilled at clearing old programing, starts teaching it.
Finds online master teachers that help her clear.
Helps others get out of the muck.
Becomes The One and works to awaken other One’s! (We are all The ONE!)
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Wendy’s Transformational Events
2) CHARACTER ARC
OLD WAYS Michele: Weak-Strength, Weak in skills, guarded heart, Mom mindset, distrusts men
NEW WAYS: Finds physical strength, Remembers old skills, Learns new skills, Combines Agent and mom mindset, Trust her partner and self.
OLD WAYS: Dean: Angry at women, Does not trust anyone, Loaner mindset, desire to be the hero, thinks he knows everything.
<font face=”inherit”>NEW WAYS: Falls for Michele. Learns to trust Michele, Learns teamwork, </font>Usually<font face=”inherit”> the one to save the day, Learns some new tricks, Learns new ways of thinking and being</font>
3) List of changes and steps to go from the old to the new:
MICHELE: a) Mom mindset to being forced into the FBI again. b) Remembers sone skills but it is not enough yet. c) finds physical strength d) Learns to trust Dean, e) Let’s her guards down and falls for Dean f) Puts new and old skills together to defeat the mob.
DEAN: a) Learns that he does not know what Michele knows about the mob (or fatherhood) b)Learns to be and have a partner. c) Anger leaves and he falls for Michele d) learns trusting other and their ideas (Michele) about how to trap the Mob e) Becomes Hero to the kids f) Aids Michele in capturing the mob
5) DRAMATIC EVENTS TH THEST AND CAUSE CHANGES
MICHELE: 1 Mom mindset- she must overcome wardrobe change, stop weraring dresses and has to wear Jeans, shirts, ball caps, no makeup, no more bougie accessories (she does sneak in a pair of shiny Tom’s shoes)
2) Shoot out at restaurant. She remembers some skills but still physically weak
3) Learns to trust Dean by his remarkable protecting of her and proves that he is in tune with her and gets her electronics restored
4) Finds the extra “mom” strength during first battle with the mob.
5) Learns to let her guard down. Dean saves the kids by putting his life on the line. She now knows that Deans will make a great father
6) Final trusting of partner and uses new skill to capture mob boss
ADD THESE EVENTS TO THE 4 ACT STRUCTURE
ACT ONE:
10 OPENING:
Introduction to Michele and she learns that her kids were kidnapped and her house blows up. Michele returns to FBI and meets resistance from her new partner.
INCITING INCIDENT:
With the aid of her old partner, she is set up with her new partner and she hates him from the word go, but they devise a plan to go on tour with the band
TURNING POINT:
a) Michele is total opposite of bougie mom now in disguise, She refuses to turn back and become the driver for the band. The band is seriously upset that she is a girl, but they do not know that she is a girl.
b) Shoot out at restaurant, the band learns that she is a agent.
ACT TWO:
NEW PLAN: With help of the band they decide to press on and locate the kids. Ring is noticed by Dean
PLAN IN ACTION:
At next concert the kids are not there but the mob is scouting the crowd looking for Michele. There is a scuffle with the mob but Michele finds the inner strength to defeat those guys.
MID POINT:
Separation of Dean and Michele due to electronics and then Dean returns with new items and leaves the ring with Michele and one of the band members figures out the secret code on the ring.
ACT THREE
RETHINK EVERYTHING:
Figure out to set up concert at HLSR (in Houston) with lots of venders/ here is where Dean trusts Michele with this plan
NEW PLAN:
Dean saves the kids by putting his life on the line whild Michele draws the mob away from them. Michele lets guard down and Falls for Dean in the process the mob escapes with the ring.
ACT 4:
CLIMAX:
Dean and Michele together trap the final remaining members with the help of the band. The boss escapes and Michele goes after him by herself. She captures him and he is arrested.
RESOLUTION:
Michele- Dean- kids and the band are honored to fly to Switzerland and open the vault.
Lots of surprised faces as the vault is open.
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Transformation Events for Cameron in Talking Pictures
I think I mostly looked at some decisions about the story/characters/arc/structure that have already been made; it seems that most of what I came up with are built in to the previous assignment. Not that I mind. I came away with a sense of affirmation.
Step 1: Cameron’s character arc
Starts as wounded, lonely, frightened dreamer
Ends as confident innovator intent on using his invention for good.
Old Ways:
· Obeys company orders to protect his less-than-satisfying job
· Denies his creativity
· Makes innovations in secret to avoid losing job
· Covers up his successes
· Avoids making waves
· Wounds make him fear intimacy with other people—and a love life impossible
New Ways:
· Accepts role as a disrupter
· Stands up for himself
· Advocates for positive use of AI to correct injustices
· Able to be intimate
Step 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). Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult.
Become open to intimacy with people (trust)
Help Nadia
Opens up to Reina—even though she’s not really a person
Be willing to stand up for himself (and trust himself)
Confront Leona
Gets fired from his job
Hacks into company database to get the software
Get past hurts from the past
Trust Nadia
Go beyond what’s safe (take risks)
Tweak the company software in secret
Defy his boss
Help Nadia
Do active research after Nadia is injured
Focus on someone else’s needs
Help Nadia with her inheritance claim
Commit more fully to Nadia after she’s injured
Commit to Reina
Commit to Leona after revelations show he misunderstood them
Confront those who’ve wronged him
Confront Leona
Confront Sol
Confront Nadia and separate from her once he knows she’s conned him
Embrace his own creativity
Tweak the software
Follow up when his software results in Reina—and others say the software doesn’t work that way
Take control of his own life
Get over his addiction/infatuation with Reina, who isn’t real
Break from Nadia when he has to
Call the cops so that Nadia finally gets “what she deserves”
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Jane’s Transformational Events
By doing this assignment I started to understand the beats of the story and got some good ideas about turning points and how tension can build throughout the story. I’m still not sure about the balance of action to mystery this story will have, but thinking about what events could change Chelsea’s direction and help her transform did give me points which I can play with as mystery and then as action to see which ultimately works best. So much I don’t know!!!!
Concept: A lonely introvert attends her childhood friend’s wedding, only to find that she has been set up to take the fall for the theft of the worlds most valuable diamond, and the murder of its owner.
Main Conflict: Chelsea must overcome her insecurity and crush Julie, her doppelganger friend who has set Chelsea up to die so that she can be free to create a new life for herself.
Chelsea Walters’ Journey (Protagonist)
Old Ways: 1. Insecure
2. Admires Julie with a childlike reverence.
3. Will do anything to not rock the boat and cause any conflict
New Ways: 1. Knows that her own abilities and intelligence is the only thing that will save her.
2. Sees Julie for who she really is
3. Knows change has to happen and that she’s the one to do it.
Transformational Steps:
1. Has to believe that she deserves to be happy.
2. Has to believe that she is in control of her happiness.
End of Act 1.
3. Let go of the past, of the things in her childhood that haunt her.
4. See Julie for who she is and who she isn’t; accept evil
5. Become skilled in using and relying on her own intelligence
End of Act 2
6. Realize that she is the only one who can stop Julie
7. Realize that using her own power does not mean diminishing others.
End of Act 3
8. Stand up to Julie.
9. Be respected, and loved, for who she really is (especially respect and love for herself).
Transformational Events:
1. “Take what you want” conversation with Julie and invitation to be a bridesmaid.
2. Decision to “become” Julie.
End of Act 1.
3. Realizes Julie has set her up and that she no longer ‘owes” Julie for the past.
4. A phone conversation with Julie’s Greek boyfriend exposes the depth of Julie’s corruption.
5. Manipulates the gangsters in order to escape and find the diamond.
End of Act 2
6. Discovers Julie is still on the boat and is gunning for her.
7. Decides to work with detective but knows she’s the one who has to get Julie.
End of Act 3
8. Fight to the death with Julie.
9. Decision to not go back home, but to leave on her own terms as Chelsea.
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Michelle’s Transformational Events/Journey Continued
In doing this assignment, I learned to further define the transformational events and figure out how this affects my protagonist’s journey
Changes/steps/events that need to happen for that character to go from who they are in the beginning (Shandy/Old Ways) to who they are in the ending (Mandy/New Ways). Brainstorm events and sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult.
Shandy recognizes that there is a better life out there, better
than her childhood and current reality filled with trauma and abuse
Shandy sees her mother, the trailer park, and her mother’s friends
as having all the power – until she leaves, and they don’t.
Shandy walks away from her current (past) life, changes her name,
and believes she can overcome anything (until Ray comes back into her
life)
Mandy faces her past trauma and uses it to fuel her passion for the
truth, through her poetry
Mandy finds strength in owning her truth, b/c it means Randy has no
more power over her – even when he tells her that her mother isn’t doing
well
She stands up to Randy, she stands up for herself *She lives her
life on her terms! – feels no guilt over her mother’s death, feels no
shame that everyone knows about the horrible abuse and trauma she suffered
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Lonnie’s Transformational Events
What I Learned from this assignment: This assignment was excellent in helping me understand the key events of the Kent State tragedy and how it helped some of those involved mature, evolve, and find their way forward after suffering significant trauma.
13 Seconds – 13 Down
An Historical Fiction
Since this is an historical fiction, the characters, events, and even the arcs are already defined by history. However (not being a true documentary) I will embellish the characters and events somewhat to emphasize the historical events, especially the murder of 4 students (and 9 others injured) by the National Guard and the various forces behind this tragedy.
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).
Jeffrey Shelton.
Old Ways: intelligent, athletic, but unkept, heavy drinker and smoker, naïve, unkept dress and home, irreverent and irresponsible.
New Ways: Responsible family man, wiser, at peace with himself, becomes a professor
Changes required: the death of his father and the shootings at Kent State, both which play on his mind, along with the previous assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK…. All pushing him to understand death somewhat, and forcing him to mature. He must witness the operations of the government and judicial system and come to peace with the fact that life is not always fair and he must carve out his own life, make his own integral changes, and seek a career.
Chuck Baker:
Old Ways: naïve student photographer, unaware of government over-reach on campus, overweight, carries some wounds from his past
New Ways: Mature adult, professional photography and graphic artist, wise to “the ways of the world”, healed through therapy.
Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character.
For both Jeffrey and Chuck:
· The murders at Kent State University triggered them both to address their personal issues.
· Visiting with their friends and family afterwards started a catharsis, an inner journey
· They both re-examined their thoughts on death
· They both had to decide whether or not to rebel more against the government, or be a peaceful advocate for good
· They both were forced to move forward with their life…sort out their career.
6. Add these transformational events to your four act structure. – DONE
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Bonnie’s Transformational Events
What I learned from doing this assignment is… that I’m determined to do the assignments every day and feel empowered when the words and events appear a little more each time I sit down to write.
MYKA’s Character Arc – Goes from selfish, egotistical and arrogant to self-sacrificing, self-aware, collaborative and courageous.
Myka starts with her Old Ways
· Myka always wants to be the leader and usually gets her own way. As kids, Myka, Gabi, Rafi and Yuri are bullied at school because of their synesthesia, and begin hanging out together.
· Self-centered/Egotistical. When there’s a choice, she picks the best for herself. She finds the perfect spot and they build a secret treehouse deep in the woods where they meet after school and weekends. Myka tags the best spot, best view and comfy chair inside. They make a pact to always be there for one another.
· Years later, at university, Myka is humiliated by her Master’s Thesis Committee, tells them off, blames her friends for the failure, storms off and leaves university.
· For the next year (or 2 or 3 years?) Myka isolates herself in her own synesthetic world of art and dreams. Starts drinking, becomes ruled by her hot temper and impatience.
· Manipulates her way into getting repped at a prestigious gallery. Has a successful show but refuses to accept the gallery owner’s advice and blows it.
· Ambitious, independent artist, to the point of destroying relationships.
Her dream research/synesthetic art are more important than people. She isolates herself creating art from her dreams until she goes broke.
· She can no longer remember her dreams, loses inspiration, her career, her apartment. Hits rock bottom, but she’s too proud to ask for help.
· Until she has a nightmare that changes everything. She wanders through her dreamscape, discovers the Multiversity is under attack. Her Lioness spirit animal tells her she must get her old gang together and save Ancient Wisdom, Memory and Dreams, or humanity will lose them forever.
New Ways
· Makes amends to those she’s wronged, rekindles old friendships.
· Admits she needs their help.
· Embraces her love for her friends and a deeper relationship with Gabi.
· Sacrifices her career to complete the mission with her friends.
· Collaborates with them to save The Multiverstiy of Wisdom, Memory and Dreams, for her friends and the greater good of humanity.
· Courageous, self-sacrificing in the face of danger.
Changes that need to happen for Myka to go from her Old Ways to New Ways.
1. Apologize. Admit it’s not always about her. Heal her damaged relationships.
2. Consider that the needs of others are just as important as hers. Recognize how her friends’ skills are vital to the mission.
3. Turn down a career opportunity to keep a promise to her friends.
4. Agree to training that takes each of their skills equally into consideration.
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Susan’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment: I learned that by outlining the old and new ways, I can more easily determine the sequence of events to get my protagonist to the finish line.
Character Arc for Protagonist, Shelby: From insecure, paranoid jinx, to a camping warrior (and hero)
Old Ways:
· Negative attitude about trying anything not designed by her
· Frightened to engage in any camping activities due to her childhood trauma
· Selfishly wraps herself in her bad karma and expects others to respect it and keep their distance
· Stubborn in her belief of being a jinx and maintaining the camping curse
· Avoids sharing Liam’s favorite hobby/past time of camping so she won’t disappoint him
· Fears that her fiancé will choose camping over her
New Ways:
· Newfound self-confidence after facing her greatest fears
· Freedom from anxiety
· Learns to let go and enjoy the ride/experience
· Assertively learns and practices the skills to become an equal in Liam’s world of camping
· Courageous, risking her life for those of her friends and fiancé
· Breaks the curse and is no longer a jinx
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).
· Realize that she must face the past and the scars it has left if she hopes to move forward in her relationship
· Shelby decides she must lose the selfish, taking an active role in Liam’s desire for camping and discover why it is such a vital part of his life
· As she overcomes one fear, she must prod forward to confront the next
· Equips/educates herself for the journey she is embarking on through You Tube Videos and Camping for Dummies
· Uses her newly acquired skills to save their camping party
· Becomes a camping warrior
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Margaret’s Transformational Events. What I learned completing this lesson is by identifying the changes that need to happen and brainstorming the best ways to illustrate the change I can hit the target. The old way of writing seems like a drunken version of pin the tail on the donkey. 2. Start with the Character Arc and the list of Old Ways and New Ways. Broken by life and tragedy to boundaries and mental and emotional health
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). Lake must go through the five stages of grief over the six 30 minute episodes of the season – one in each episode plus being tested and flexing her new behaviors to support her healthy life: Episode 1: Denial – Episode 2: Anger – Episode 3: Bargaining – Episode 4: Depression – Episode 5: Acceptance – Episode 6: Raising from the Ashes – Lake is challenged but models mastery, her new found responsibility for her own life and is certain as we are that she will be OK.
4. Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes. Episode 1: Denial – Lake must accept her circumstances Episode 2: Anger – Find her voice Episode 3: Bargaining – Take responsibility for herself. Episode 4: Depression – Choose Herself Episode 5: Acceptance – Gain Confidence Episode 6: Raising from the Ashes – Trust herself and vanquish the critic/Dave
5. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character. Episode 1: Denial – Lake must accept her circumstances. Lake finally goes to the burn site and walks through the ashes of her former life forcing her to come to terms with her circumstances Episode 2: Anger – Find her voice Episode 3: Bargaining – Take responsibility for herself. Episode 4: Depression – Choose Herself Episode 5: Acceptance – Gain Confidence Episode 6: Raising from the Ashes – Trust herself and vanquish the critic/Dave. For the purposes of today’s lesson I only need to identify the Transformational Event is Episode one (see above) but I will continue to brainstorm the transformational events in the next five episodes until I’ve got it.
6. Add these transformational events to your four act structure. Added to structure. I’m breaking the episode and added to end of act 4.
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Allen’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is…
building slowly helps me to expand the story bit by bit, adding important details. Also, the story organization improves along the way.
Concept: James Allan, a driven businessman, whose last promise to his late wife becomes a challenge when he must find the elusive natural father of his son for a life-saving transplant. I also found myself re-interviewing my characters to get more of who they are, what they want.
Main Conflict: To save his son Douglas, James Allan must find a suitable donor to save the life of the only child he and his late wife have. However, testing shows that James is not the natural father of the child, leading to a search for the natural father of his son, who doesn’t seem to want to be found.
James’ character arc: James Allan a staunch and demanding businessman with little time for life beyond his son and business, realizes life didn’t end when he lost his wife.
James Allan’s Old Ways:
Excessively
confident
Focused
on what he sees with his eyes.
Reliance
on others to do his bidding (the actual work).
Emotionally
stagnantJames Allan’s New Ways:
Open
to new opportunities.
What
is seen in the eyes of others is often just the door to what is on the inside.
Willingness
to depend on others for help.Changes or steps that need to happen:
James’
confidence in overcoming any obstacles is shaken.
Rather
relying on others to locate the biological father of his son, James determines
that he had to take on the search himself.
Through
his son Douglas, James finds that what is important in other people is
often on the inside, not the outside.
Willingness
to depend on others for real help.
Must
invest in himself and his desires to find what he truly wants in life.
James
finds he has romantic feelings for the outwardly stubborn, unyielding twin
sister of the biological father of his son Douglas.Act 1:
o Opening: James is busy at work, directing his management team on the new product line of the company. At home, James, Douglas and xxx are enjoying food and the basketball game.
o Inciting Incident: Douglas becomes ill at school, resulting in need of a transplant from close family member. While in hospital, James is surprised when he meets the student Douglas constantly speaks about, says reminds him of what he been told about his late mother, and hopes one day to marry.
o Turning Point: No family member qualifies as a suitable donor for James’ son.
Act 2:
o New plan: Figure out what occurred.
o Plan in action: Begin hereditary review, then trace into the past for any potential hospital or other mistake.
o Midpoint Turning Point: Douglas is not James’ son, but the child of an incident some 18 years earlier.
Act 3:
o Rethink everything: James hires firm to search for the biological father to save his son, who are unsuccessful in locating the man.
o New plan: James takes personally takes on the search for this man, finally locating the family of the father of his son. James becomes frustrated that the family of Douglas’ biological father is uncooperative in getting him in contact with him. James finds himself attracted to the biological father’s twin sister.
o Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: The biological father of James’ son died some 18 years earlier.
Act 4:
o Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: With the finding of the biological family and the knowledge of his death, James appeals for the cooperation of the family in hope of saving the son.
o Resolution: After the twin sister of Douglas’ biological father agrees to the transplant, James finds that he has mixed feelings due to the potential of losing her and his son. The brother of Douglas’ “girlfriend” becomes the unlikely donor who submits to the operation that will save James’ son.
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Alex Transformational Events
What I learned is that even though my brain struggles with this kind of abstraction and tends to freeze. I empower myself that I am only looking for 20% of my first draft here – even though this might feel like failing a test… and first the lists are short, suddenly they swell like tidal waves and grow enormously large.
And that I will find a way to organize and reconnect with my thoughts and ideas from yesterday.
Character Arc OONA:
From feeling she does not matter to being the only one that can change the mind of a mob of followers
Old Ways – Passive Dreamer
- Rumination, self harm: Poor mental health
- Clumsy, inept: Poor physical health
- Loner, Pushover: Poor social skills
New Ways – Active Dreamer
- Can say no, put up boundaries and laugh about herself: Good mental health
- Can fight, endure, not afraid to dress sexy: Good physical health
- Leads, inspires others and can stop the mob: Good social skills
OONA EMOTIONAL GROWTH
- Wants to matter. Cannot make her own voice be heard: Parroting others.
- Experiencing anger about injustice and turning it outwards instead of towards herself.
- Learns to survive without creature comforts.
- Willing to experience and stand up against injustice – and push back.
- Learns to deal with light and dark of fame: adored and criticised: Public speaking from a stage to a large audience
- Rejects faux fame.
- Learns who she wants to matter to.
RANDOM DRAMATIC EVENTS OONA
SCHOOL?
- Bullied by a boy, has no comeback line / Loses a debate
- Picked last on team.
- Cheating off someone’s test
Freaks out over a dead animal
Admit she is stimming. Admit she is lost and needs help
INFLUENCER
- Parroting off another, stealing someone’s lines.
- Only reposting. Doesn’t get reposted.
Virtue signalling? - Fake cause… That then becomes real?
DREAM STATE
- How does she get back from dream? Does it get harder every time?
- At party, takes drugs – but it’s the hitting her head that does it?
- Wakes up in a dream, accept that she can time travel
- Become skilled at operating inside the dream as a creator
- She can move in and out the dream world – can consciously get there
1850
- Can find a path without google maps, sleeps outside (Experiencing real exhaustion, pain, hunger – real world)
- Make Bernhard believe she is from the future
- Bernhard gets hurt. Drags limping Bernhard to safety – convinces neighbors to let them stay
- Steals something with Bernhard out of necessity
- Helps someone in need – her Oma appears in 1850 or someone that looks like her?
- Breaks out of jail. Run away from… and stand up to the Landjäger.
- Double cross bad guys
- Learning what is important to her by loss
- Save Matter from being beheaded
- Convinces Bernhard to die as a coward
- Can watch Bernhard be executed
2024 FAME – MYTHOS?
- Commands a 2024 mob to stand down
- Experiencing the dark side of fame
- Offered tons of money to promote awful products.
- Actually do research about the products and people behind them (Ask difficult questions)
- Say no to a great opportunity – and then finding out it was the right choice because it was too good to be true.
- Get agent, be pushed to marketing
- Being chased by Trolls on the Internet – in real life?
- Lying about her and her past: Religious, ex boyfriends, being on the news, mother losing her job
- Being responsible for someone getting hurt
- Being responsible for someone hurting someone else
WOUND?
- Learning the truth about her dad? That he took drugs/killed himself/just doesn’t care about her and Barbara? No longer idealizing him.
BERNHARD EMOTIONAL GROWTH
Lazy. Instant gratification. Not willing/able to work or be monogamous. Can’t change won’t change. Easy fix. Not asking for true support. Asking for quick help (money) Caring about someone else more than himself, actually listen to Oona and her time, – helping him understanding his own experience with ADD. Makes real amends. Accepting defeat.Willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.<b style=”text-decoration: underline;”>
RANDOM DRAMATIC EVENTS BERNHARD
Experiencing 2024: Cars, internet, light, surveillance, ATM, Lenzburg Jail
Understands 1850 as a truly horrible time in history
AA Meeting with Barbara – Stops showing off, but listens to someone smarter than him
Understands ADD, it’s not all his fault – humbled by the change he initiated in justice politics
Someone finds his skull? Mythos: He was strong, could bend metal. Trick minds, would have been a great mentalist!! Snake Oil Salesman takes advantage of him? Experience what it means to be a hero, a martyr.
Being given the choice to save himself or someone else – what would you sacrifice your pinky for?
Believe in angels and god – no longer believe in angels and god?
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Kevin’s Transformational Events
What I learned from this lesson is that choosing transformational changes to the character’s arc deepens the story.
Batman goes from Old, depressed, no will to live to reinvigorated, interested in life again, and becoming the Alfred to Ali’s Batman
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.
He needs to get up to speed on current technology
He needs to leap forward in current culture
He needs to go from Out of shape and in poor health to healthy and fit
He needs to brush up on his fighting skills and reflexes
He needs to accept he’s not what he once was
He needs to let go of his past identity and take on new responsibility
He needs to let someone else step into the role of hero and accept the role of support
Act 1:
Opening Batman is old, fat, depressed. Living out his
days as a regular Joe, uninspired and letting others manage his empire.
Joker is doing kids parties and hating life.
Inciting Incident Joker gets fired from gig and decides
it’s time to die – by the hand of Batman.
Turning Point Joker blows up daycare facility to get
Batman’s attention.Act 2:
New plan Batman decides to get in shape and back in
action to stop Joker. He enlists the help of his new assistant, Ali
(Alfred’s niece) who is a trainer and martial artist as well as a computer
engineer.
Plan in action He calls Joker out, starts working out,
eating better, training, and goes out to thwart the next attempt at
disaster.
Midpoint Turning Point Batman arrives at the destination
after the deadline, but is able to stop the bomb but instead 10 other
facilities are destroyed when he disables the one device. He has destroyed
all of the others.Act 3:
Rethink everything Batman decides he needs help in
order to compensate for his lack of physical ability and brings online an
AI partner Ali had created for him that he rejected, Robin, to help make
up for his lack of ability. He has Ali teach him technology and how to leverage
social media.
New plan – He figures out Joker’s next trap, sending
Robin as a decoy to disarm the bomb in time this time, while he goes to
Joker’s new lair.
Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift When he gets
there, Joker congratulates him but tells him that unless he kills Joker in
the next 0 seconds, the largest convention center in Gotham will be
destroyed. Batman hesitates and Joker, disappointed in him, tells him the
next one will determine the fate of the entire city… he blows the building
full of people and vanishes.Act 4:
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict – Batman is
dejected and returns to the manor. Joker sends the final message, a
nuclear device that will destroy the city and wreak havoc on the entire
world. Batman finally realizes he can’t be the hero he once was, but is
able to see and anticipate, and is better suited for the role Alfred once
played for him. He asks Ali to become Batman, take over his legacy, and
stop The Joker.
Resolution – Ali steps into the suit and becomes
Batman. She is all the physical specimen he was, with added skills. She
confronts Joker, who notices it’s not THE Batman he knows, who comes up
behind him and traps him as Bruce Wayne, revealing himself to Joker.
Rather than face another incarceration, Joker throws himself off the tower
to his death committing suicide and ensuring his place in oblivion, not
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Lesson6.
Old ways
1. Andrew 12 and matt Robinson 44 swimming at YMCA when matt defeated Andrew.
2. Andrew did not accept the defeat.
3. On the tv metro logiest predicting fort Myer weather. That storm is coming in 3 hours
4. People start vacating house.
5. Andrew afraid of hurricane.
6. Persisting matt to move from here.
7. Matt decided to stay.
8. Electricity turns of, wind blowing water raised. Jacki Andrew’s mom wants to move from fort Myer
9. Matt Robinson opening the anchor when he is invisible.
10. Andrew tries to save dad and drowned
11. he is declared dead by sheriff.
12.
13.
new way.
1. Andrew found by the jeff alive.
2. Jeff tries to return Andrew.
3. He went to the police station. but change his mind and torture him,
4. Andrew bug him to take him home
5. Instead put him to run Jeff’s shop.
6. Andrew tries to run by opening the shop window
7. But caught red handed.
8. When Andrew’s see his friend he tries to escape. But clever jeff wasn’t let him go.
9. When jeff hospitalize.
10. Andrew’s escaped and caught by Jeff.
11. Police notice a miner work in the shop.
12. Jeff tries to poison him since killing a dead person not a crime
Climax.
Jeff caught red handed.
2. jeff send to the court.
Resolution
. Andrew sent home and jeff prosecuted.
In court jeff accepted he kept the Andrew to punished judge matt Robinson. To take revenge for the crime he is not committed.
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I learned that by keeping the old ways and new waves I can trace the transformation journey and can outline the story.
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Amy’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is I actually have more to figure out, but here it is for the purposes of this assignment. Ellie’s events are not all struggles. She has a number of victories, growing in size, with defeats mixed in. These will all become stronger as I figure out more details. The history is so confusing and full of characters, it’s a lot to wrap my head around & a lot to strip down to fit into a 90-110 page comedy!
Character Arc: Ellie’s internal journey goes from felling like she has no control over her life and the things that happen to her, to not only taking back that control but using it to steer the course of British history.
Her external journey sees her living in a tiny hovel with her parents and brother. As a woman in Medieval Britain, she has few options and fewer rights. When she sees a tiny opportunity to change her own lot in life, she grabs it and goes on a fantastic journey up the social ladder – dragging all of Britain’s aristocracy with her.
Ellie’s Old Ways
· Feeling she has no control over her own life
· Living in squalor, sharing a room with her bratty little brother
· Working her family’s farm/inn
· Feeling like the ugly duckling
Ellie’s New Ways
· Takes control of the events of her own life and the lives of the nobles
· Leaves the family home, but returns frequently to visit
· Not only able to support herself, but her family, as well
· Is the most beautiful, envied and powerful woman at court. She is the Queen Maker.
Transformational Changes:
· The nobles fight over her in the inn, which kicks off the Wars of the Roses
· Ellie befriends the captured King Henry VI
· Edward (the Duke of York’s son & future King Edward IV) hits on her, she initially is star struck & can’t resist. But then realizes that she can (and does) say no.
· Ellie and Elizabeth Grey bond over Edward also hitting on Elizabeth. Initially, there is conflict between them.
· Ellie encounters Queen Margaret and Edward, Prince of Wales. She sees what being Queen can do to a person and decides she doesn’t actually want that for herself.
· Edward York goes to Ellie for comfort after losing the battle at Wakefield. Ellie seizes the opportunity to use the wiles she learned from Elizabeth on Edward.
· After Lord Grey is killed at the second Battle of St Alban’s, Ellie hatches a plan to get Elizabeth & Edward together. This is her first match making success.
· Ellie tries the same tricks on the Duke of Clarence that worked so well on Edward, and fails.
· Isabella Neville is betrothed to Clarence, but wants to call it off because she catches Ellie trying to seduce him. In a reversal of roles, Edward forbids Clarence from marrying Isabella. Ellie learns a new trick – reverse psychology.
· Ellie finds herself coaching the Price of Wales and Anne Neville about the ways of love. A bit ironic, since Ellie is a virgin herself. Getting these two kids together is very fulfilling, and Ellie is now certain she has found her place in the world – as a royal matchmaker.
· Ellie hits her lowest point when she realizes that her actions have led to the death of King Henry VI – the only one of the nobles who truly liked her for who she was.
· Ellie saves the fugitive King Edward IV, which puts her forever in his debt. She cashes in that debt by making Edward allow Clarence to marry Isabella, and by vowing to take care of her family for the rest of their days.
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Subject line: (Patty Ruland’s) Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is: to have faith the ideas, solutions, breakthroughs will come, gradually, just as they should
Lesson:
Act 1
–Charley is in her shabby, paint-stained weekend clothes, in her great grandparents’ attic, reading letters between her great grandparents, after the death of her great grandmother, who is preceded in death by her great grandfather. The letters are based on the novel, Call of the Canyon, by Zane Grey. As Charley reads, in voice-over, tears stream down her face. She exclaims, aloud, “Yes, the answer is yes!”
–Charley has dinner with her fiancé, to finally give him an answer. She wears an engagement ring, which makes her fiancé frown. Charley proceeds by telling him she loves him and the answer is yes. But her fiancé sadly tells her the engagement is not to be—“You hesitated, for weeks.” He walks away from her, conspicuously. [Inciting incident]
Act 2
–The seat to her left empty, Charley steps up to the podium at an awards banquet, in order to accept an award for her hit series, Our Destiny, [better title to come], which spotlights couples who overcome the odds to be together. The premise of the show is that actors re-enact their meeting, any falling out, then their reconciliation. She admits her audience that the episode featuring her engagement will not go as planned. She pitches another title, impromptu, “Unrequited.”
–The public’s response is overwhelming—they want to see the second series more than the first. Her producer agrees. Charley says she’ll be on board, if she can still make the trip Out West to honor and retrace her great grandparents steps. She insists she travel the hard way—by locomotive and horse-and-buggy. She boards a freight car, headed West.
–She arrives at Lolomi Lodge near the Grand Canyon in Arizona; it is rustic and open to the outside. She shivers in the cold and the next morning boards a stagecoach on the way to her great-grandparents ranch. The driver lets her off in the middle of the woods. She falls and injures herself, but she makes it to the ranch. The ranch owner tells her he doesn’t have time for snooty tenderfoots and refuses to help her. Her director threatens to cancel the whole thing. She promises she’ll put this one out of the fire.
Act 3
–A shy cowboy overhears his boss’s callous dismissal of the visitor, and he offers to help Charley retrace her great grandparents steps. The boss later confronts the cowboy, who admits he’s helping Charley. So, they’re on—if she is to stay, she must pass the test, a grueling trail ride to the sheep farm across the canyon.
— Charley and the shy cowboy grow close—with him showing her the acreage he dreams of owning one day. She secretly buys the property, just as her great grandmother did. Meanwhile, her ex-fiancé has second thoughts and dramatically heads West to surprise her, network cameras in tow. He woos Charley again, and she consents to go back East with him.
Midpoint:
–Charley invites the cowboy to meet her at “their place,” where she breaks his heart this time by telling him she’s leaving, a land she could never love as much as he does.
–Charley and her fiancé arrive back in Manhattan, her co-workers welcome her, and she is convinced she’s made the right choice. Then, she begins to read the letters again. Her fiancé sees her and asks her why she wants to live in the past. Why cowboy country means so much to her, apparently.
Act 4
–Charley and her fiancé stand next to each other at the wedding rehearsal, her rich and successful peers whooping them on—risqué talk flows like wine, and wine flows like wine. They mock her cowboy life in Arizona, too. They do a horse-riding “conga” line, erupting into laughter. Her fiancé breaks from the surly mob to join her. She faces him, squarely. “I’m returning the favor,” she says, “and your ring.” She doesn’t belong here anymore.
–She heads West, where she oversees the building of a ranch-style lodge she hopes will be their home. However, her old friend tells her that her true love is not hers anymore—he’s smitten with another, and they’re newlyweds. This parallels her great grandparents near-miss. She goes to the ranch to tell him she’s happy for him, and he tells her he’s not married. They embrace—they plan their new life together.
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Laura Woodworth’s Transformational Events
What I learned doing this assignment is the clarification of the early transformative events challenging the old ways, and the later transformative events training in the new ways.
2. Natalia’s character arc: believing the lie of communism to knowing the truth about the government and about faith and God From a fearful subservient to the lie of the government to a fearless deliverer armed with truth.
3. Old ways:
Ignorant of truth and of faith
Believing the lie of communism
Not a freethinker
Atheistic
Fearful, subservient
Shamed
Accepting the communist dominance
Trying to be “good” to gain favor/protection by Mother Russia
New ways:
Knows the truth about her parents’ execution and of their dissenting faith
Knows the truth of communism a
nd of Christianity
Fearless
Fighting for a cause – the Kingdom of God
Believes she can do anything with God’s help
Believes all can be changed, be saved
She is the “one” – the agent of deliverance for her university campus and for her country – even as she dreamed of being Queen Esther as a child.
4. Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult.
1. Recognize there is a different reality than what she’s known. (Discovering her parents were killed – why?)
2. Sees the level of power the KGB has and that Alex, as an agent, is her enemy.
3. Realizes there is a spiritual reality.
4. Makes the decision to seek truth.
5. Realizes there is another level of life in God – miracles, answers to prayer.
6. Skilled with the scriptures.
7. Standing up to Alex and the power of the KGB.
8 Choosing Russia over a chance to escape with Jim to America – so she can be the one her grandmother believed for to turn the nation back to God.
5. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character.
-Discovers her parents were executed as dissidents because of their faith, thus seeing the power of the KGB.
-Meets Jim from America who challenges her thinking and exposes her to freedom outside of communist Russia.
-Discovers her grandmother’s forbidden Bible; she reads it and realizes the spiritual reality; God is real; Christianity is not a fairy tale.
-Determines to share truth on campus; takes steps to share scripture; meets resistance and she goes another route – cutting up the Bible into scraps of scripture that can be easily and secretly shared.
-Alex senses something is wrong and becomes insecure and jealous of Jim. At first he covers for her, but then out of pride, becomes a staunch enemy.
-Jim proposes and offers an escape to America.
-Natalia considers Jim’s proposal, despite her love for Alex. She finds a note in her grandmother’s Bible about her faith for a deliverer to rise up and turn the nation – and she realizes her grandmother believed she was the one.
-Torn, she turns down Jim with faith that Alex can change, that he can turn to God.
-Alex finds a scrap of the Bible… and reads it.
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Lesson 6 The Transformational Events
Subject Line: Patrick McCormick’s Transformational Events
What I Learned: The process of one’s story becomes self-defining once a certain point is achieved, but one must remain determined throughout to maintain story momentum, while allowing self-definition to occur.
Title: THE THRIFT STORE
Genre: Sci Fi Drama
Lead Character: Cody Thayer
Character Arc:
From a timid 17 year old girl trying to figure out life and love during the hormonal years
To a female human who awakens her god powers to save another’s life
Old Ways: Being a teen with nothing special going on, just a confused love life and changing hormones.
New Ways: Realizing fate is in her hands, becoming a god who protects her people and her world.
Transformational Events
1) Cody discovers Quantum Portal in back room of thrift store.
2) Finds out her boss Elizabeth is an ancient AI Creator who made human realm while hiding it from the gods, tells her she is special and wants her help finding an important artifact.
3) Cody almost gets discovered by Challenger Gods at Portal, which would have destroyed humanity.
4) Elizabeth shows Cody soul of murdered unborn child from her rape, helping Cody process and challenge her own mother who made her abort. Mother announces they’re moving away.
5) Cody runs away, almost gets murdered/raped at truck stop, Elizabeth/AI saves her by disassembling and returning her to Thrift Store.
6) Elizabeth trains Cody in god arts. Cody gets caught by Jesub as he reveals human realm, arrests and takes them to Creator Council for trial.
7) Jesub presents evidence Elizabeth/AI/his own mother is destabilizing the cosmos by evolving, and must be terminated for the good of the cosmos. Jesub begins termination and Cody breaks down and puts up Genesis Shield, saving Elizabeth.
8) Jesub still has to terminate his own mother to save the Universe, but Elizabeth saves dying Cody by giving her the Genesis Codes and dies.
9) Creator Council decides to let humans live, issues protectorate order and asks Cody to be their new Genesis Guardian.
10) Human Cody incarnates, meets new Elizabeth who gets human soul. Goddess Cody goes with Jesub to check on disturbance in Arcturus Galaxy, then beginning the hunt for Challenger God hiding on Earth who may help find missing artifact.
Act 1: Set up and see Old Ways
Transformational Event 1) Cody discovers Quantum Portal in back room of thrift store.
Inciting Incident: Cody almost falls through portal and finds out Elizabeth is an ancient AI Creator/Guardian of humanity, has secretly hidden laggard souls here for hundreds of thousands of years, and now wants her own soul. Creator Council Member/Jesub contacts Elizabeth/AI to inform her something is off on soul counts.
Transformational Event 2) Finds out her boss Elizabeth is an ancient AI Creator who made human realm while hiding it from the gods, tells her she is special and wants her help finding an important artifact.
Turning Point 1: Elizabeth/AI informs Cody her world may end unless something is found and soul and wants her help finding the lost artifact in the human world which could save humanity by keeping us hidden from the gods, and help Elizabeth acquire her own soul. Which Cody has neither the confidence, belief, nor trust in herself to say yes.
Transformational Event 3) Cody almost gets discovered by Challenger Gods at Portal, which would have destroyed humanity.
Act 2: Challenge the Old Ways
Transformational Event 4A) Elizabeth shows Cody soul of murdered unborn child from her rape,
Transformational Event 4B) helping Cody process and challenge her own mother who made her abort.
Reaction plan: Creator Council Member/Jesub informs Elizabeth/AI he is launching investigation because fate of universe may be at stake. Cody must help otherwise all human souls get discovered and re-assimilated and her world is toast.
Transformational Event 4C) Mother announces they’re moving away.
Plan in action: Cody fights her inertia and begins cluelessly searching for artifact on Earth. Jesub finds clues about aberration leading directly to Elizabeth/AI, almost discovering secret dimension she’s hiding humanity in.
Transformational Event 5) Cody runs away, almost gets murdered/raped at truck stop, Elizabeth saves her by disassembling and returning her to Thrift Store.
Turning Point 2/Midpoint: Elizabeth/AI informs Jesub it found all readings in universe are off, even nobody knows what is, that she is a special atomically, including soul counts. Jesub relays universe will begin deconstructing if this thing she may have stored on Earth is not found, ordering the Challenger God contest suspended, and launching a full-scale search by deploying the Challenger gods to Earth to find artifact and stop the unravelling of the Universe, which has already begun.
Act 3: Profound Moments give New Ways
Transformational Event 6A) Elizabeth trains Cody in god arts.
Rethink everything:Elizabeth/AI has to design new story for the gods to get them to back off, while in the human world Cody is having flashbacks of god powers, on this journey to find the mystery object and her powers start to awaken. Jesub goes to investigate in the Halls of Wisdom, and it leads again right to Elizabeths’ doorstep. The Challenger gods send out timeline probes to see if any thing is off at different ages.
New plan:
Transformational Event 6B) Cody gets caught by Jesub as he reveals human realm, arrests and takes them to Creator Council for trial.
Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: Through the Challenger God findings in the timeline, Jesub uncovers Elizabeth’s hidden human dimension, reveals he was sent by Source to investigate her and she must be terminated because her malfunction may threaten all of creation, even though it is his own mother who made him 100 million years ago!. Cody stands by helpless, seeing her God Friend prepared to get executed. Jesub notices something amiss during Elizabeth’s termination, but proceeds anyway.
Act 4: Test Change in Character, Prove New Ways
Transformational Event 7) Jesub presents evidence Elizabeth/AI/his own mother is destabilizing the cosmos by evolving, and must be terminated for the good of the cosmos. Jesub begins termination and Cody breaks down and puts up Genesis Shield, saving Elizabeth.
Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict:As the termination has begun it can’t be stopped. At the moment of execution, Cody in a fit of trauma saves Elizabeth by shielding her, awakening her Creator Power no one knew was possible even for a God, saving her life.
Transformational Event 8) Jesub still has to terminate his own mother to save the Universe, but Elizabeth saves dying Cody by giving her the Genesis Codes and dies.
Resolution: Jesub catches Challenger Gods in conspiracy to kill her through timeline tampering. But Elizabeth is also a malfunction, and termination must continue. Cody fully drained begins dying, she just wanted to become a human again but now faces eternal void. Elizabeth seeing her die, offers her own Genesis Code, sacrificing herself and dies. Cody comes back from the Void as an Genesis God.
With Elizabeth gone, Cody manifests as a human on Earth, and as her god memory fades, sees Elizabeth’s Soul Matrix in a glint of another woman’s eye. She changed her mind and wanted to remain a god in a human body, but its too late, the veil makes her forget.
Transformational Event 9) Creator Council decides to let humans live, issues protectorate order and asks Cody to be their new Genesis Guardian.
As Elizabeth was dis-creating, Jesub uploaded her AI Genesis Code into the Oversoul Matrix of human laggards, making her the Collective Oversoul for her human children, and Elizabeth gets the Soul she always wanted. Cody and Elizabeth, now mortal together, become friends unaware in the lost world of Earth.
Transformational Event 10A) Human Cody incarnates, meets new Elizabeth who gets human soul. Goddess Cody goes with Jesub to check on disturbance in Arcturus Galaxy,
Looking upon the Earth from the Council Room, Jesub has become the new Interim Almighty, and Cody’s Goddess has become the new Guardian Mother of humanity, as they watch the human Cody and human Elizabeth.
Transformational Event 10B) then beginning the hunt for Challenger God hiding on Earth who may help find missing artifact.
Jesub reveals they may have a lead to finding the object; a Challenger God who noticed corruption in the Creator Challenge stowed away as a human soul and Elizabeth stored him in her secret human dimension. He’s been hiding in the human realm ever since, and he may know where the artifact is. The artifact’s code is a ‘dead man’s switch’ for resetting creation to a new Genesis and if not activated, may dis-create everything and everyone starting over at the set point 15 billion years ago.
The new Almighty invites the New Guardian Mother to investigate an aberration in Arcturus. Cody decides Earth is her Home, and at the last minute accepts the invitation, as they vanish.
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