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Lesson 8 Assignment
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Vision: To write touching family stories that teach and entertain at the same time.
What I learned doing this assignment is further analyzing the below:
Act 1
Secret/ Scheme: Tina’s current boyfriend is cheating and lies about having a job.
Mystery: What is Tina looking for in a mate? Who is Tina as a person? Why does she pick the wrong men?
Intrigue: Why did Tina receive a bitter prophecy from a woman at her church?
Act 2
Hidden Identity: Barry is not who he says he is, he’s in ministry with an intent to prey upon children.
Cover Up: Barry strategically plans how he’ll gain the trust of Tina and her kids.
Mystery: Why is Barry a bad man? What is his past?
Act 3
Cover up: Barry lies about putting hidden cameras in Tina’s daughter’s room.
Hidden Identity: Tina finds out that Barry abused a girl at another church.
Act 4:
Secret: Tina reveals that she was abused by her mother’s former boyfriend and is afraid of it happening to her daughter.
Intrigue: Will Barry hurt Tina’s daughter when they’re alone in a hotel room?
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Madeleine’s Intriguing Moments
Vision: I am going to do whatever it takes for me to be a writer of amazing stories with meaning who can move the audience and change the world resulting in financial, critical and audience success.
What I learned from doing this assignment is: What I learned is that the fact that I added intriguing moments changed my entire set-up, so I have to rework the beats, but I do this for the next assignment. I just list the intriguing moments.
New beats and ideas for this version:
· Arch for Corrie: from family woman to biker bride
· Arch for Alex: from business man to house man and taking on Mirai
· Arch for Eve: from being a loner to getting together with Mirai for a bigger plan
· Flavia dies by tripping over (something that is set up early and has to do with Alex’ weakness or goal. Like seeing a ghost as trauma for little boy in Parasite.
· Triangle scene without gun: one family, one life, one planet
· Starting with birthday party being crashed by Mirai
ACT 1
· Intrigue – Mystery: why is Mirai crashing the birthday party?
· Intrigue – Covert agenda: Eve connects with Mirai after birthday crash
· Intrigue – scheme: Luke proposes Alex to become dean to avoid students
· Intrigue – covert agenda: Corrie buys Alex a garden house so he stays more at home
· Intrigue – conspiracy and superior position: Because Corrie talks secretly to Luke, we figure out that Flavia applies based on a recommendation by Luke – against Alex?
· Intrigue – Hidden agenda: Corrie plans to work again.
ACT 2
· Intrigue – secret: Alex self-medicates to be able to participate in marathon.
· Intrigue – mystery: Luke passes away and we don’t know why and Flavia becomes interim-dean.
· Intrigue – superior position: Corrie suspects an affair and changes the pill’s content.
· Intrigue – intrigue: Flavia cuts Alex’s hours.
· Intrigue – mystery: Mirai lives alone because she is an orphan
ACT 3
· Intrigue – secret: Eve shares pic of her father’s strange new life.
· Intrigue – covert agenda: Alex realizes that Flavia left him out of the presentation.
· Intrigue – covert agenda: Alex must find out where Corrie works now and realizes that she is love.
· Intrigue – conspiracy: Flavia reveals that Luke wanted her to prevent Alex from becoming dean, so he does not hurt his health and lives a long life.
ACT 4
· Intrigue – mystery: Eve shares different endings, so we don’t know what will happen to Corrie.
· Intrigue – secret: Alex has Mirai move in so Eve is not so alone and they form a new family.
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Paul’s Intriguing Moments.
4. Vision of success from this program: I want to write scripts that become movies that change people’s lives.
5. What I learned from this assignment is that led me to discover at least two new intrigues that make the script more interesting. I found one of the new intrigues particularly exciting. I’m sure I’ll discover more intrigue as I develop the script.
2. Explanation of intriguing moments.
Act 1.
Mystery: During the raid on the fentanyl lab, one of the DEA agents recognizes the Protagonist, Lilia. How does he know her?
Intrigue: After the raid, one of the Mexican cops tells Lilia to remind her father he has to pay up. What is going on between the cops and Tino, her father?
Secret: Tino expresses violent, anti-American feelings. Why? What happened in the past?
Covert agenda: Why is Lilia so keen for her daughter to get the scholarship to study in the USA despite all the anti-gringo sentiment around her?
Hidden identity: Why do people see a slight physical resemblance between Marisol and the American college student, Hank Marcus?
Act 2.
Secret: Senator has excellent contacts in the DEA. They help organize his trip from DC to Culiacán. How come?
Intrigue: Someone in the DEA office in Culiacán tips off the Cartel about Senator’s arrival. Who? Why?
Mystery: Senator recognizes Lilia, but she doesn’t recognize him. What’s going on?
Secret: When Tino discovers the identity of the Senator he reacts extremely violently. Why?
Act 3.
Hidden identity: The Senator was once a DEA officer, working in Culiacán where he had an affair with Lilia.
Secret: Unknown to him, the Senator is the father of Marisol, Lilia’s daughter, who died of the drug overdose in his house.
Intrigue: Local journalist keeps turning up at press conferences organized by Culiacán police, asking pertinent questions, showing he has inside information. Who is he? How does he know so much?
Conspiracy: DEA and UNODC (UN’s drugs and crime office in Vienna) planning to have Lilia eliminated by… the Cartel!
Act 4.
Cover up: Lilia is murdered on instructions from the DEA/UN, but it is made to look like a Cartel job.
Cover up: Why is the inconvenient journalist also found dead?
Mystery: When Senator and son are re-united, son has questions about his father’s past. What is he hiding? Was he also into drugs?
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Brandyn Cross’ Intriguing Moments
My vision for success in this program is to develop and hone my skills to the extent that my screenplays will be produced and widely viewed.
What I learned from this assignment is building onto the dramatic moments of the story to find deeper meanings to them, turning them into not just emotional drama, but psychological intrigue.
ACT 1
Intrigue: Alex intentionally drives his car full speed into an overpass pylon in a suicide attempt. Why?
Secret: Alex is despondent and negative over misfortunes in his life, much of which he has no clear memory of.
Intrigue: Alex develops psychic abilities and experiences ghostly visitations after his accident.
Covert Agenda / Hidden Identity: Sandy, a 10-year-old boy, tries to befriend Alex, but he rejects the boy. Sandy then reveals to Alex that he is a ghost.
Covert Agenda / Mystery: Sandy tries to convince Alex to use his new psychic powers to help ghost children. Why?
ACT 2
Mystery: Alex tries to ignore ghost children Sandy and Rorie but, deep down, feels an unexplainable need to help them.
Intrigue / Mystery: Angel helps Alex see more detail about his accident, in which he sees a boy get out of one of the cars that had stopped to help, and run across the road, stopping midway, with a terrified expression.
Covert Agenda: Alex doesn’t really care when Rorie’s family rejects his book about Rorie, but Sandy is almost desperate to convince them.
Hidden Identity / Mystery: When Alex remembers more about the grave, Sandy is convinced he will soon be reunited in heaven with his dad.
Mystery: As Alex succeeds in helping Rorie’s family gain closure about his death, he has a change of heart, and becomes obsessed with helping the ghost children.
ACT 3
Covert Agenda / Mystery: As Alex finds peace of mind in helping the ghost children, Sandy becomes impatient that Alex’s reunion with his son might be delayed.
Conspiracy: Rose commits suicide after receiving Beth’s book.
Intrigue: Alex refuses to use his powers anymore for the ghost children, and tells Sandy to leave him alone.
Hidden Identity: Sandy is crushed by Alex’s rejection of him, and frustrated at being forbidden to reveal his identity to Alex.
ACT 4
Intrigue / Conspiracy: Beth and Angel acknowledge they put Sandy and Alex into a no-win situation, since Rose would have committed suicide regardless what Sandy and Alex did.
Mystery: Alex and Sandy are introduced to the third ghost child, Kody, after they agree to resume working with the ghost children.
Hidden Identity / Mystery: As Alex finishes Kody’s book, they discover that Angel is Kody’s mom, and the book was necessary to help Kody come to terms with his death, and cross over to be reunited with his mom.
Covert Agenda: The ghost children, Rose and Angel all tell Alex they forgive him, but he isn’t told yet what it is they’re forgiving him for.
Intrigue / Secret / Covert Agenda / Hidden Identity / Conspiracy / Mystery: Alex remembers everything, now realizing not only that he is actually dead, but that Sandy is his son, and that Alex is responsible for the deaths of the ghost children, and that the whole journey has been to bring about his forgiveness and redemption.
Mystery: Alex is taken face to face with Jesus, where he lays his sins at the feet of Jesus so he can forgive himself, and gain access to heaven, where he and Sandy can finally be reunited.
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KZ’s Intriguing Moments
Vision: To master screenwriting so that I can take any of my ideas and turn them into sellable scripts, then help get them made into movies.
What I learned from doing this assignment is that isolating the intriguing moments gives you a good way of ensuring there’s enough embedded interest in the story.
Act 1
Covert agenda/Conspiracy: the business people (including Wendy and Darwin) who are taking Myra’s class pretend that it’s for spiritual enlightenment, rather than as a way to gain an edge over the competition
Covert agenda: Wendy collects damaging information on people to use against them.
Covert agenda: Darwin’s mother keeps serving up proposed mates, professing it’s for her son’s good, but really it’s so that she will be taken care of in her old age.
Scheme: Wendy manipulates a coworker into using his phone during meditation so that she can take his place in the class when he is asked to leave.
Scheme: Wendy and Darwin psych out others to get their way in negotiations. We see Darwin’s mother use the technique on him.
Scheme: Darwin tells his mother he’s gay so she’ll stop trying to arrange a marriage for him.
Act 2
Superior knowledge: We know that Darwin and Wendy are attracted to each other, even though they try to deny it themselves
Mystery: What is driving Wendy to need to win all the time?
Mystery: Why does Darwin’s mother have such a hold over him?
Scheme: Wendy bribes Darwin’s mother to get the “secret of meditation”
Covert agenda: Wendy and Darwin try to get information out of each other that will help them win the upcoming negotiation
Act 3
Conspiracy: Wendy and Darwin try to manipulate Myra so that they can get back to reality
Scheme: Myra gives them false information to help them become more spiritual
Conspiracy: Wendy and Darwin try to manipulate the monks into turning the train around.
Covert agenda: Wendy tries to leave with the information she gleaned from Darwin so that she can win the negotiation in reality.
Act 4
Scheme: Contrary to their boss’s instructions, Wendy and Darwin negotiate a solution where both companies win.
Scheme: Wendy and Darwin come up with a plan to break the news to Darwin’s mother that they’re a couple
Mystery: will their plan work, or will Darwin buckle once again to pressure and guilt trip?
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Raquel’s Intriguing Moments:
Vision: I want to go deeper into my writing to create screenplays where characters of depth are placed in compelling journeys with a fresh voice that Hollywood producers as well as independent film companies know they must make!
What I learned from doing this assignment is to provide more moments of intrigue to add depth and interest for the audience.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Act 1
Miri before the war is a rising blues violinist. She cherishes her freedom. She has casual affairs with men. Her music career is above family and friends.
Warsaw Music club:
Miri and her band perform.
She is commanding and rising in her profession.
two anti-semitic thugs attack a patron at music club.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Audience members grab the 2 men and throw them out the back and lock the door.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Intrigue:
Conspiracy: anti-semitism is spreading
Mystery: what will happen with dangerous Hitler’s Germany- will they attack their neighbors?
The MC urges the band to continue to perform.
The concert ends.
Andre joins Miri.
Exterior: They walk quiet streets to her apartment.
Andre speaks about the incident. Miri is silent.
Miri opens her apartment door.
They kiss.
Intrigue:
Cover- up: Andre proposes. He can “protect” her as he is Christian.
Miri declines marriage.
Mystery: Is Miri facing the danger ahead?
Miri is only focused on musical career.
Miri tries to maintain life as usual. Determined to live her free life.
Turning Point 1: Miri is now confined in the Jewish quarter of the Warsaw Ghetto.
She befriends other musicians for support to survive.
Intrigue -Covert Agenda:
To subvert the children’s degradation and provide them with normalcy.
Miri makes a plan with Angie to join her to teach music to class of kids.
Fifteen kids enter the room with Claude.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>ACT 2: Miri is teaching a song to the class of children
She learns from Claude that Jacob is pretending that his father is still alive.
The next class she has Jacob remain after and helps him play the violin.
Turning point 2: Midpoint: P.J. Miri practices classical music to tryout for the ghetto orchestra.
Intrigue: Secret:
Miri’s main purpose to play in orchestra is for the greater access to food which she will bring to her young music students.
Officer Heinrich hears Miri practice and starts a conversation about the great German composers.
He forces a kiss which she rebuffs.
Intrigue Scheme:
Miri will be his mistress or he will send Jacob to Treblinka.
Intrigue: Covert agenda: Miri becomes his mistress. She will use this position and performing outside the ghetto to join the resistance and smuggle guns,
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>ACT 3: Intrigue: Secret Identity:
Miri uses her time at her “rehearsals” at a Nazi officers club outside the ghetto to sneak over to the Aryan side – pass as a non-Jew and meet with resistance members in order to smuggle weapons into the ghetto.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Turning point 3: Heinrich becomes suspicious of her absences and also hears she has a Jewish lover (Avi).
Intrigue: Scheme:
Miri is worried for Jacob and helps hide him to escape from the ghetto. Avi is killed aiding this escape.
Intrigue: Covert Agenda:
Miri is devastated that Avi died protecting Jacob. She stays alive to continue to smuggle weapons for the cause.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>ACT 4: Climax: Drunk Heinrich catches Miri with a potato sack filled with weapons. He aims his weapon to shoot her.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Climax: Miri raises a gun and kills Heinrich.
Miri runs away. She is being chased. Shots fired.
Intrigue: Conspiracy:
She has escaped ghetto so she will not be killed in retribution. She fights with Polish Partisans.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Resolution: Intrigue: Mystery:
he war is over. Miri hears a rumor that Jacob is alive. She searches for him and finds him at a Jewish orphanage. They are reunited but she has to say goodbye. He is being sent to relatives in Palestine.
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