Lesson 8

[Nader Khaghani]

Build in the Antagonist Journey.
I learned the theme is to sing through the script, softly, more clearly, louder and finally crescendo
Beat Sheet Lesson 7 into 8: Built the Theme into the Beat Sheet

Main Conflict: Light and dark sparing, Flow and lack of it
Old ways: Dark Depression. Stalled. New way: creative with 2 energies: light and dark-Integration, Transformation
Knows his family history of depression. Suicide claimed his dad early on. Began with stalling
His art of painting was to deal with depression and keep flowing get over it, but now catching up.

Act 1: Old ways-Journey Begins
25 to 30 pages — Set up and see Old Ways.
Opening: Eddy’s creative flow hits the rock bottom and stops. Depressed uncreative suicidal.

Inciting Incident: This is the call to go on the journey comes from Justin.
There is no going back from here: take off from Chicago- LA-Rome-Pienza
Opening: Burning his work in the backyard, valuable works of art, and removes wakizashi sword to open his belly.
Inciting Incident: Justin calls to make him feel guilty and is forced to fly to LA
Turning Point.1: Journey Begins: A hint of the theme with young girl at the airport.

Act 2: The journey finds purpose
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. The burden of the studio is off not facing the blades
The Plan: plan sex with a lady outside the marriage…which will quickly fail.

Turning Point 2: Seducing Colors: MIDPOINT: The journey is still moving in the same direction, but the me……aning has changed in a big way that shifts reality. If anything can help him, it has to be an art element: color. They can redeem him for the on-going bout of melancholy.
Whatever shift you choose, it completely disrupts the Hero’s reality.
New plan: Rome to continue to the island of color that he discovers.
Turning Poin 2t/Midpoint: Instead the answer is to enter imaginarium due to Placeholder/.

Act 3: Enters Imaginarium
20 to 30 pages — With Midpoint change, Profound moments that give us new ways.
This Midpoint changes everything.
This is an important part of the Hero’s transformation. Placeholder: Here comes the alchemical archetypal experience beginning of the transformation. Imaginarium shifts reality
A. They have multiple insights into why things weren’t working.
B. They see that the Old Ways won’t cut it anymore.
C. They must up their game, which means they must change!
New Plan: Now, for the hero, though passive I need to go with the change agent plans. creates a new plan and pursues it. With that, they embrace the need to change.
This could involve training sequences, bringing on new partners, or taking actions they never would have taken during the first half of the movie.
Turning Point 3: Disappointed at the experience–The “All is lost” or “lowest of the lows” moment where everything has failed.
Turning Point 3: Goes unconsious
5. Act 4: Looks within Finds Self and Light
25 pages — Test the change in this character! Prove New Ways!
With Turning Point 3, the Protagonist embraces a new way, which gives them a fighting chance in Act 4. Must make friends with the dark but not the sole friend must invite in the light.

Climax: No fights this relationship script: but discovery of the universal light
The Test. This is the ultimate expression of the conflict. Face to face with the Antagonist for the ultimate fight! This is an impossible situation that the Hero can only win with the change they have made in their lives. It is the ultimate expression of the New Ways.
Resolution: The change has been made or tested. We now see the new status quo of the Hero.