Lesson 7

[Claudia OBrien]

Subject Line: Claudia’s Emotional Moments

My vision: To become the best screenwriter I can be, and to find success in the industry.

What I learned from this assignment is – as with the rest of these outlining assignments, doing this work up front will make writing my first draft so much easier and better.

Give us a one or two sentence explanation of the emotional moments in each act of your project.

Act 1:

· Surprise/Connection: Grace watches Ann evaluate and treat a patient, amazed and impressed by her boldness, competence and compassion.

· Disappointment/Distress: Grace realizes that her commanding officer is racist and sexist.

· Bonding: Grace and Booker are attracted to each other; she flirts while he tries to stay aloof.

· Emotional Dilemma: Grace thinks her commanding officer’s diagnosis is wrong and needs to decide whether to do what he said, or what she thinks is right.

· Distress: Grace did what her commanding officer said, and her patient died.

Act 2:

· Distress/Anger: Grace blames herself for her patient’s death. Ann is angry at their commanding officer.

· Bonding: Ann, Grace and Rachel go to the Officer’s Club without a male escort, knowing it is not allowed.

· Humiliation: The commanding officer sends them to a psychiatrist because they tried to enter the Officer’s Club.

· Courage/Pride: Booker saves the life of another pilot in a dogfight.

· Anger: The other pilot claims credit for winning the dogfight.

· Bonding: Rachel and Booker share their experiences as members of oppressed minorities.

· Surprise: Grace wanders around a town discreetly looking for someone.

· Distress: Grace discovers she is pregnant – and that her boyfriend is already seeing someone else.

Act 3:

· Moral Dilemma. Grace opts for an abortion.

· Bonding: Ann, Rachel and Booker try to help Grace recover from her feelings of despair.

· Courage: Ann, Rachel and Grace start to get subversive in their efforts to ensure Black soldiers are treated medically as well as White soldiers.

· Courage: Grace convinces Ann and Rachel to go to the Officer’s Club again.

· Anger: As recovery rates soar among the Black soldiers in their ward, their commanding officer tries to undermine them.

· Distress: Booker rejects Grace’s love; Grace rejects Ann’s love.

Act 4:

· Bonding: Booker confesses to Keith and Rachel that his father was lynched.

· Surprise: Grace finds her older brother, who went AWOL after D-Day.

· Bonding: Grace and Ann share their secret wounds with each other.

· Success: The Army relents and women no longer have to pay Officer’s Club dues.

· Courage: Booker gets in another dogfight protecting a bomber – and crashes.

· Distress: Grace discovers that Booker is MIA.

· Courage: As the Germans mount a counterattack, Grace refuses to leave Booker, who is too injured to move.

· Courage/Sacrifice: Ann (and Grace’s brother) sacrifice themselves so that Booker and Grace can live and have a chance at love.

· Love: Booker and Grace are in love.

[Will Jennings]

Subject Line: Emotional Moments

My Vision: I will write movies that are extremely funny and entertaining and bring a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment to a world starving for true enjoyment.

What I learned from doing this assignment is how emotions are portrayed through the actions of the characters.

Act 1

Excitement: Abigail is excited when her impulsive and zany plan to throw a magical party for the uncool kids becomes a reality, and everyone is having a blast.

Courage: Gwendolyn must summon the courage to confront Brandi and her motorcycle gang when they threaten the party they organized for the uncool kids.

Act 2

Hidden Weakness: Abigail’s hidden weakness is revealed when she struggles to control her impulsiveness, leading to unintended consequences during their mission.

Bonding: Gwendolyn bonds with a shy and bullied girl at school, showing her kindness and helping her gain confidence.

Act 3

Emotional Dilemma: Gwendolyn faces an emotional dilemma when she has to decide whether to reveal her true identity from Fairyland to save the day or continue blending in with the Earthlings.

Success: Abigail feels a sense of success when she manages to bring muses and fairies from Fairyland to Earth, even though it comes with unexpected challenges.

Act 4

Emotional Dilemma: Brandi experiences an emotional dilemma as she starts to question her loyalty to her crime family and the consequences of her actions.

Hidden Weakness: Brandi’s hidden weakness is exposed when she realizes that she craves genuine friendship and love, which she has never truly experienced.

Distress: Brandi becomes distressed as her attempts to undermine the new girls’ efforts continue to fail, leading to frustration and anger.

[Mahee Sanapareddy]

Mahee’s Emotional Moments

My Vision – I want to be a great writer who is well-respected and recognized in the industry, with successful books published and blockbuster movies produced. I want to create a successful movie franchise that audiences all over the world will love, rave about, look forward to, and continue to enjoy many years from now.

What I learned from doing this assignment is causing my audience to feel emotional.

Genre: Science Fiction Thriller

Title: Realm: Gates of Wrath

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ACT 1:

Moral issue: Trevon and a gang of violent mobsters barge into a conference hall of historians and go on a destroying spree. In that process he and his father, Professor Campbell, lock eyes with each other, surprised to find themselves on opposite sides of the melee. Trevon feels he’s on the right side, but has his doubts.

Love: Trevon drives his father home upon his request but stubbornly refuses to listen to him along the way. Deep inside, he still loves his father, so much that he fears that his father put his life in peril by going after a high-profile politician like Reverend DuVernay.

Surprise: Sean wakes up from a nightmare, sweating profusely, his eyes filled with terror. He had just gone through an interdimensional information download and this time it’s about him and Trevon – on an extraterrestrial mission in an alien world. His mind had also seen a cipher and he struggles to make sense of it. He desperately tries to reach out to Trevon.

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ACT 2:

Distress: Trevon’s father has been murdered. He looks crestfallen as his worst fears have come true. He experiences great pain and misses his father a lot.

Betrayal: DuVernay slams Trevon’s actions in the public media labeling them as the product of a deranged mind. Someone who used to be one of his most trusted men is now determined to bring him down.

Betrayal: DuVernay organizes his mob of supporters and plans to kill Trevon as he has become a thorn in his flesh. The man Trevon always looked up to as a role model has unleashed his mobsters to end his life.

Bonding: Sean comes to Trevon’s rescue and helps him escape the attempt on his life. He convinces Trevon to live today to fight another day. They both go into hiding.

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ACT 3:

Surprise: Trevon and Sean check the drawers and closets in his father’s bedroom. Their focus falls on a cryptic message scribbled on the bedroom wall. Sean’s face drains of color as it’s the same cipher he saw in his nightmare. He mentions the weird nightmare to Trevon suggesting a possible link between the assassin’s origin and the alien world.

Wound: Sean is the only one who has the expertise of inter-dimensional travel. But he refuses to cooperate citing the dangers, complications, and time constraints involved. He remembers a prophecy that is destined to doom him and fears the mission will make the prophecy come true.

Sacrifice: Trevon realizes he must find the assassin’s purpose. To do that he needs to find a way to inter-dimensionally travel to Planet X searching for the assassin. Asks Sean for help. He reminds Sean he had helped him in the past and saved his life. Sean realizes the mission would put his life in danger, but he still agrees to help Trevon.

Excitement: Trevon and Sean buckle up in the machine designed to hypnotize them. With the help of an AI constructed program, they embark on an interdimensional voyage to an alien world. They only have forty-eight Earth hours to complete the voyage and return.

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ACT 4:

Surprise: Trevon is shocked to encounter TALIYA and FALLAG, the extraterrestrial super-human alter-egos of himself and his father Cedric, in the alien world.

Moral issue: TALIYA feels he’s fighting on the right side of an age-old war, while his father and the rebellion have been imprisoned in underground caverns on the dark side of the planet.

Excitement: Trevon comes to a realization this is a parallel world and his entire life is being mirrored here. Every decision he makes here could quite possibly have an impact on him in his real world.

Hidden weakness: Sean begins to get worried. The sight of the alien landscape has triggered memories of his strange nightmare and has confirmed that the prophecy of doom will certainly become a reality.

Surprise: Trevon finally deciphers the cryptic message and is shocked to find a long-lost truth. He comes to know that his interdimensional voyage has been actually pre-planned and he was intentionally brought here on a mission. He must lure the evil genius TALIYA away from 1ONTAE’s forces, and help the rebellion win the war.

Success/Winning: TALIYA, FALLAG, and the rebellion defeat the evil warlord 1ONTAE and chase him and his forces out of the world. The rebellion finally sees the light of day after years of darkness. Trevon helps TALIYA install his father FALLAG as the emperor and himself as the protector of the alien world. Peace is restored. FALLAG gives Trevon a message of peace and tells him he must spread the long-lost truth among the people.

Distress: Sean’s return journey doesn’t end well. He loses his way and gets trapped in a distant forbidden world.

Success/Winning: Trevon comes back to his real world, a completely changed person. Runs against Reverend DuVernay in the elections. Defeats him. He fulfills his father’s ambition and the promise he made to FALLAG. He spreads the message of peace and the long-lost truth among the people.