Module 2 -Lesson 6: Build In The Genre Conventions

[John P. Hallar]

Subject Line: John P. Hallar’s Genre Conventions

My vision: To be a successful, highly sought after, highly paid writer who has had multiple movies produced and optioned.

What I learned from doing this assignment is: How to build in genre conventions into the structure of the script first.

Title: Melody’s Reprise

Concept: A 62-year-old guitarist/caregiver forms a band with elderly musicians in the retirement home he works at. Little did he know that some of the patients in the retirement home were world famous musicians in their heyday and proving age can’t silence the timeless passion for music.

Genre: Drama

Conventions:

* PURPOSE: ​ To explore stories with emotional and interpersonal high stakes for their characters.

* CHARACTER-DRIVEN JOURNEY: ​

* HIGH STAKES COME FROM WITHIN: ​ EMOTIONALLY RESONATES: ​

* CHALLENGING, EMOTIONALLY CHARGED SITUATIONS: ​

* REAL-LIFE SITUATIONS: ​

Act 1:

Opening – A handwritten sign on the conservatory door reads: EVE AND MOVERS KEEP OUT! Melody is in her favorite, beautiful glass enclosed conservatory spraying water on the plants and enjoying them. Melody puts on an album of hers, runs her hand over the album cover and starts humming the lyrics as she watches movers move her furniture across the front yard. WE SEE a tear run down her face. We see a For Sale sign go up in the front yard. Melody physically fights with Eve when leaving the house to go see her lung doctor. She kicks the For Sale sign on the way back into the house.

Inciting Incident – Melody gets moved into Silver Symphony Residence. Eve and the granddaughter bring some of Melody’s possessions, some are awards, two are Grammy’s plus some of her albums. One day when Jim, the new caregiver to Silver Symphony Residence, is bringing Melody her medicines and breathing treatments, he notices the Grammy’s on her shelves.

Turning Point – A scene at the doctor for Melody’s granddaughter’s diagnosis and need for heart surgery. Eve and Melody must now find a way to raise money for her granddaughter’s surgery.

Act 2:

New Plan – Jim, driven by the desire to help Melody’s granddaughter and inspired by the musical talents of the residents, proposes the idea of forming a band with them. Melody and the other residents tentatively agree, and the new plan is set in motion. They decide to prepare for a special performance to raise money for the granddaughter’s heart surgery.

Plan in Action – Rehearsals begin, and the group faces the challenges of organizing a band with elderly members. They navigate through humorous and heartwarming moments as they rediscover their musical skills and bond over their shared love for music. The retirement home transforms into a lively space filled with the sounds of instruments and laughter.

MIDPOINT Turning Point 2 – The midpoint turning point comes during a pivotal rehearsal. The group faces internal conflicts and doubts about their ability to pull off a successful performance due to very real physical and mental decline. Tensions rise, and it seems like the dream of raising money for the surgery is slipping away.

Act 3:

Rethink Everything – The midpoint turning point comes during a pivotal rehearsal. The group faces internal conflicts and doubts about their ability to pull off a successful performance. Tensions rise, and it seems like the dream of raising money for the surgery might be slipping away. In this moment of crisis, a surprising event or revelation occurs, pushing the characters to confront their fears and recommit to the cause.

New Plan – The residents come together to create a new plan, incorporating the lessons learned from their challenges. They adjust their performance, address personal conflicts, and find innovative ways to make the final show a resounding success. The new plan reflects a renewed sense of determination and unity among the group.

Turning Point: Major Setback – The turning point takes a surprising turn as the band’s keyboardist, Oliver “Keys” Davis, dies. By Melody’s POV, at a minimum, it could be her and Keys to play for the performance but now Keys is gone. She can’t trust the other residents to be able to perform and they already doubt their abilities to play. She decides to cancel the performance, but the members vote to get a new keyboardist.

Act 4:

Climax – Jim remembers a great jazz pianist he met earlier and asks him to fill in. He accepts. The climax unfolds during the final performance. The band, despite setbacks, start to believe they can deliver a captivating and emotional show. Melody believes again in the performance largely due to the members pushing her on. The culmination of their efforts, combined with the unexpected challenges they faced, makes the performance even more poignant. The audience, including Melody’s family, is moved by the music and the story behind it. So much so that the YouTube video and story go viral, and a GoFundMe account is started. Due to overwhelming support, Melody and Eve raised enough money.

Resolution – Melody’s granddaughter’s surgery is successful. The retirement home, once a “cage to die in” for Melody becomes a vibrant group of friends for Melody. Celebrating the enduring spirit of music and friendship. The sale of Melody’s house falls through and she could move back into it but now, having her newfound friends and responsibilities, decides to stay at Silver Symphony Residence.

[William Whelan]

William Whelan – Genre Conventions

Vision: To write a screenplay which will become a successful movie.

What I learned from doing this assignment is to develop the 4-act transformational structure for my screenplay.

Concept: Mafia princess desires to break with the family and become a cultured, sophisticated lady.

Main conflict: Liza wants to break with the mafia’s criminal underworld life and become a cultured, sophisticated lady.

Genre: Romcom

RomCom Conventions:

· The Journey of Love

· Relationship Set-up

· Issues

· Separation

· Comedy

ACT 1:

· Opening – Liza, as a six-year-old, witnesses a torture/beating in the garage of her home being administered by her father Big Dom on a stool pigeon.

· Inciting Incident – Initial meeting is at a Dunkin Donuts where Liza comments to Professor Shaw that he needs a haircut and gives him her business card. In the hair salon in which Liza works she interacts with Professor Shaw, a professor of theater, and decides to enroll in an acting class which he teaches at Brooklyn college.

· Turning point – After Liza’s brother, Dom Jr. gets arrested and jailed her father Big Dom tells Liza she must quit the acting class to help out with the family business. Liza’s father has a cardiac event when they argue about Liza taking the acting class.

Act 2:

· New Plan – Liza will continue taking acting lessons behind Big Dom’s back.

· Plan in action – Liza participates in the collection of vigs and shakedowns while still taking the acting class. Liza gives Vito pushback over his aggressive methods of collecting the vigs and doing shakedowns.

· Midpoint Turning Point –Liza returns home from the acting class to discover Big Dom has suffered a fatal heart attack. Liza must then assume control of the family business until her brother Dom Jr.is released from prison further drawing her into the underworld she desires to escape. On the ride home from the burial Liza shows Vito a letter from Big Dom giving her temporary control of the family increasing the conflict between them.

Act 3:

· Rethink everything – Liza must devise a strategy to run the family business while continuing working in the hair salon and taking the acting class.

· New plan – Liza visits her brother in prison, and he instructs her to turn the running of the business over to Vito until he gets out. Liza feels betrayed and alienated by her brother’s lack of support. Liza turns over effective control of the family business to Vito, the underboss, until her brother, Dom Jr., is released from prison.

· Turning Point: Huge failure/Major shift: Liza shoots and kills Vito, the underboss, when he attempts to rape her. She must dispose of his body and make it appear that a rival family had whacked Vito. Liza and her friend Izzy cannot move Vito’s huge body, so they enlist Professor Shaw to help them dump the body on Staten Island

Act 4:

· Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict – Vito, surviving being shot by Liza, vows revenge and attempts to take over control of the family business from Liza and her brother. Professor Shaw, repulsed by his involvement in the cover-up of the shooting of Vito decides to cut his sabbatical short and return to England.

· Resolution – Liza survives a car bombing attempt on her life and decides to flee the country and reunite with Professor Shaw in Cambridge.

[Margaret Doner]

Mod 2: Lesson 6. Build in Genre conventions

My vision: I find the time to create well-written scripts that will sell and be produced.

What I learned: To consider genre conventions early on in the process and clarify the 4 act structure

TITLE: The Knowledge Keeper

Concept: In the future, in the attempt to wipe evil from the Earth, robots take away free will and allow only goodness, tasking one man, hidden away, to record mankind’s true history.

GENRE: Sci/Fi

Conventions: Fantastic worlds, new technologies, Incredible visuals, social commentary.

ACT 1:

Opening: The Knowledge keeper is in his secret “cave” and recording historical records with holographic portals. The first vision is that of the horrible world of Vlad the Impaler and his legendary Forest of Impaled Bodies. This contrasts profoundly with the current world which is controlled by robots and where everyone lives in a “Pleasantville” sanitized existence.

Inciting Incident: Arthur takes his daughter to become indoctrinated into their way of life by visiting the giant computer that they call God and learning the way the robots keep everyone happy by microchipping them and connecting them to “God.” During this event Arthur hears the Knowledge Keeper whisper in his mind and call out to him.

Turning Point: Arthur escapes the control of the robot who is assigned to his family and seeks out the Knowledge Keeper.

ACT 2:

New Plan: Arthur discovers the Knowledge Keeper and is convinced to enter a portal which will send him back in time.

Plan in Action: Arthur enters the portal and discovers the truth of humanity’s past. He experiences war and violence and is shown the moment at which the robots decide to take over Earth and create a world free of suffering.

Midpoint: Arthur decides to return to his current day home and tell his wife about what he discovered. He hopes to convince her to come with him, but she is afraid to go against the robots.

ACT 3:

Rethink Everything: Arthur decides to return alone to visit the Knowledge Keeper and once again goes through the portal. This time he discovers art and passion, and falls in love for the first time. He sees the “good” that was eliminated from the world…he begins to think that the new world is not better.

New Plan: Arthur returns to “pleasantville’ and decides to tell everyone about what he has uncovered.

Turning Point Huge Failure: Arthur is captured by the robots and told he will be microchipped once more and hooked back into the computer God.

Act 4:

Climax: The Knowledge Keeper appears and tells the people that Arthur speaks the truth. Robots realize they must offer humans the chance to choose to stay with them, or to go through the portal back in time with Arthur.

Resolution: Everyone chooses to be re-chipped and return to Pleasantville except for Arthur who goes back through the portal and reunites with the woman he fell in love with. He becomes the Knowledge Keeper’s protégé.

[Pamela Rice]

Pam’s Genre Conventions

One-Sentence Vision: I will turn my ideas into produced hit movies and live a happy, successful life as a writer and industry professional.

What I learned from doing this assignment: I’m not exactly sure where I will build in all my Horror and Comedy conventions. I sprinkled in a few below just to get the ball rolling.
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Concept: COLD-BLOODED BEAUTY (Horror/Dark Comedy)
A graphic designer in a midlife crisis tries an amazing new anti-aging night cream, unaware that its secret ingredient — reptile stem cells — is transforming herself and her neighbors into reptilian predators while they sleep.
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ACT 1:
Opening: (HORROR) Police follow up with coroner re: a young, “Jane Doe” murder victim they discovered (we see her photo). The coroner tells them that they only have the one body right now, that of an old woman. A close-up reveals it’s the same woman, but she looks like she has aged 30 years.

Inciting Incident: Zivia, a 50ish local TV personality, hosts a LeZarde Cosmetics party for her aunt Jessica, the company’s founder. She ropes Eve into attending, and also asks her to be her Maid-of-Honor. Eve accepts.

(DARK COMEDY) During the party, a mouse runs across the floor, causing all women to scream, except Jessica. After the party, the mouse appears again. Jessica swiftly catches it and eats it.

Turning Point: Eve reluctantly commits to a “Youthful Beauty kit” and agrees to be included in the anti-aging night cream test group as well as Before/After testimonials, despite the fact that she hates attention.

ACT 2: (Old Ways are challenged in Eve’s New World)
New plan: Eve decides to see where the Youthful Beauty kit will take her, and take advantage of her newer, younger self in her career and social situations.
Plan in action:
– She signs up for a fine-art painting class, but walks out when she realizes she is surrounded by talented 20-somethings.
– She asks out a guy at work, but for all the wrong reasons. He declines her invitation.

(DARK COMEDY) *Strange things are happening around town (*shedded reptile skins found in homes, cats go missing, women’s fingernails are unusually long and sharp, aggressive behaviour, people hiss their “S” sounds, etc.) Most of this goes without concern, while everyone’s focused on their own reflections.

(HORROR) Eve gives the art class another chance, which includes a self-portrait assignment that she struggles with. One morning she wakes up from a nightmare and screams when she sees her canvas: her face is that of a hideous reptile.

(DARK COMEDY) A local Filene’s Basement has one of their legendary “Running of the Brides” sales, at night. Zivia, her wedding party, and a crowd of women excitedly show up for big bargains within locked doors. The claws literally come out as they grapple for discounted designer gowns. The scene gets bloody, fast.

Midpoint/Turning Point: (The whole first half of the movie was a con.)
Eve realizes that the night cream, while amazingly effective, has been turning her and others into nocturnal, reptilian predators while they sleep.

ACT 3: (Profound Moments Give Birth to New Ways)
Rethink everything:
– (MONSTER VILLAIN) Eve suspects that Jessica LeZarde must know of the product’s dangerous side effects, but is only interested in the money.
– (DARK COMEDY) Eve grapples with whether or not to continue using the night cream. She looks fantastic and doesn’t want to lose her new, younger man. On the other hand, she’s afraid to spend the night with him.

New plan:
– She decides to stop using the night cream, and plots to get it out of circulation. She plans to go to the police with her suspicions.
– Eve focuses on healthy solutions to her well-being, which include working out and swimming at her health club.

(REVEAL) Police discover the senior “Jane Doe” was a research scientist at LeZarde Cosmetics.

Turning Point: (Huge failure / Major shift)
– She confronts Jessica, who denies that her product is dangerous.
– When Eve warns Zivia, she learns that her friend has known about the night cream dangers for quite some time, and doesn’t want to stop using it. Especially since her wedding is right around the corner. They get into a huge fight. She “fires” Eve as her Maid of Honor and warns her not to cause trouble for her Aunt Jessica.

ACT 4: (New Ways are Shown)
New plan: Eve will secretly gather the proof needed to arrest Jessica and stop distribution of the night cream.

(REVEAL) Eve finds a horrifying video of night-cream user transformation in action on the scientist’s computer.

Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: (ISOLATION) Big finale at Zivia’s night wedding, on an island. At least a third of the guests have been using the night cream and look amazingly young. But Eve looks beautiful as she shows her true age, with New Guy by her side.

(DARK COMEDY) At midnight, all hell breaks loose on the dance floor: a major lizard metamorphosis. Zivia is one terrifying BrideZilla!

(DEATH) Several deaths in the midst of reptilian carnage, and Zivia almost kills her new husband. After a vicious brawl, Eve manges to tie her up for her own safety. Eve tries to capture Jessica as well, but she escapes. Eve gives chase outside in the gardens.

Resolution:
– At the break of dawn, police confiscate cases of LeZarde’s night cream at the company’s headquarters.
(MORAL STATEMENT) Don’t mess with Mother Nature!

(TORTURE) Jessica drags a severly wounded Eve into the water. Eve is able to free herself and swim to safety.
(DEATH) Jessica drowns as she changes back into a human.
– A police woman secretly keeps a supply of the night cream for herself.
– The facility gets shut down. Zivia is forced to report on the whole scandal on her news hour.
– Eve attends an art gallery exhibit of her work, New Guy at her side. She and her self-portrait look her age. Eve is now comfortable in her own skin.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by  Pamela Rice.

[Vernall Ritchey]

Lesson 6: Assignment

Vision: I want to write a smart, well-written, and blockbuster script which I can then produce and direct.

What I learned from doing this assignment is: that is great to see how clearer the story is becoming.

Subject Line: WIM – Vernall Ritchey – Genre Conventions

Title: EviLives

Concept: An attentive caregiver and soon-to-be nun attempts to exorcise a demon in a bedridden priest, but the exorcism fails as it becomes clear that the real battle lies not in his exorcism but in hers. She is the true demonic entity.

Genre: Horror

Genre Conventions:

PURPOSE: To create the experience of horror for your audience by taking your characters to the point of hysteria.

ISOLATION: Setting and situation where the characters are alone and powerless against the monster.

DEATH: Threaten your characters with awful, violent, and torturous deaths. Create the fear of death or insanity.

MONSTER/VILLAIN: A person or entity that will inflict endless terror and violence.

HIGH TENSION: Put your characters in sinister situations that are out of their control, then turn up the heat to the point of hysteria.

DEPARTURE FROM REALITY: These are extreme locations, and situations, outside of daily life. Thrillers are part of our normal life. Horror movies are a departure.

MORAL STATEMENT: Under all of this horror is a social message about what are acceptable values and what lines not to cross. Those who violate these values are punished in a bad way.

Act 1:

• Opening: Kyla is introduced as an attentive Caregiver and soon-to-be nun deeply committed to her faith, showing compassion and dedication to Father Gill’s well-being, while subtly hinting that a demonic force has entered the house to possess her and Father Gill.

· Inciting Incident: There’s a loud NOISE hinting that a demonic force has entered the house.

o Isolation: All windows and doors close shut and lock simultaneously preventing both Kyla and Father Gill from leaving the house. Kyla tries to escape/get out of the house, but can’t so . . .

o Purpose: Kyla hysterically attempts various remedial rituals/methods (purification concoctions, prayer, salt) to purify her, Father Gill, and the house, each failing.

• Turning Point 1: Kyla, trapped in Father Gill’s bedroom, experiences a demonic presence and concludes that a demonic entity has possessed Father Gill.

• Isolation and Purpose: Kyla is alone and powerless against the Demon.

• DEATH: Threaten your characters with awful, violent, and torturous deaths. Create the fear of death or insanity.

• HIGH TENSION: Put your characters in sinister situations that are out of their control, then turn up the heat to the point of hysteria.

Act 2:

• New plan: Kyla reaches out to Father Moore and 911 for help with Father Gill’s possession.

· Plan in action: Kyla concocts various methods to expel the demonic entity from Father Gill.

• Kyla performs an exorcism wherein she escalates sinister methods to rid Father Gill of the demon.

• Midpoint Turning Point: Kyla forces purification concoctions down Father Gill’s throat forcing him to choke and his heart to stop beating. Father Gill passes out and then regains consciousness. Assumed exorcised.

• Kyla immorally molests Father Gill – she massages his penis as she cleans him.

• Demon speaks. Proving exorcism failed.

• A paranoid Kyla throws the kitchen sink at Father Gill in an attempt to exorcise him. She binds him and sadistically beats Father Gill to the point where he stops breathing. She resuscitates him. Her thought is that by killing him, she also kills the demon. He is in essence born again.

• MONSTER/VILLAIN: Kyla is a person and the demonic entity that inflicts endless terror and violence.

• HIGH TENSION: A hysterical Kyla has Father Gill in a sinister situation that is out of his control.

o DEATH: An insane Kyla, threatens Father Gill with awful, violent, and torturous deaths. Create the fear of death or insanity.

Act 3:

• Rethink everything: Presumed exorcised, Kyla obsesses over Father Gill – bathes feeds him, and unleashes jealousy.

• New plan: A Demonic Father Gill turns the table on Kyla – an eye for an eye. He taunts and terrorizes Kyla.

• Turning Point 2 – Huge failure / Major shift: A hysterical Kyla is presumed sexually assaulted by a Demonic Father Gill. This is a traumatic and intense experience.

• Kyla’s true demonic identity is fully revealed, when the room turns upside down and Kyla is exposed as the person who is sexually assaulting Father Gill and is possessed by the demon, not Father Gill – shifting the audience’s perception of her as not only a monster in the inside, but the outside too.

Act 4:

• Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict: A demonic Kyla faces Father Gill, Father Moore, and Father Lyle in a final battle of wills, where her demonic powers are fully unleashed. The Father’s fight for their lives. Kyla kills Father Lyle.

• Resolution: The battle’s aftermath shows the new status quo for Kyla and the Fathers. The ultimate confrontation is not only with Father Gill but with the demonic entity that resides within Kyla herself. Manifest as a physical form, an internal voice, or even a dark reflection of her personality. Through this internal battle, Kyla confronts her fears, doubts, and temptations. She chooses between giving in to the demon’s darkness and embracing the light within her, ultimately forging a path toward self-acceptance and redemption.

• Father Gill and Father Moore exorcised Kyla.

• DEPARTURE FROM REALITY: Kyla kills Father Lyle in a demonic way. Father Gills breaks his wrist and stabs Kyla in the eye to survive her deadly wrath.

• MORAL STATEMENT: The overarching philosophical conflict in the screenplay is the battle between good and evil, as represented by the protagonist’s belief in God and the presence of demonic forces. This conflict intertwines with the protagonist’s journey as she confronts her own fears, doubts, and the existence of evil. It challenges her beliefs, values, and faith, forcing her to question the nature of good and evil and the power of faith in the face of supernatural occurrences.

[Andre]

1) Subject Andre’s Genre Conventions.

2) Start by empowering myself using the State-To-Activity empowerment process.

a) State: I’m completely confident…

b) Activity: …building genre conventions into my structure.

3) My Vision…

To learn how to write the best script(s) of my life, so far, by dramatically improving the quality of my writing in the genres of Action, Erotica, and Horror; while having both the Financial and Time resources to travel the world doing so, with colleagues / friends /peers, (the few that I have).

4) What I learned from doing this assignment is I am no good at just making up stuff. Quality takes time, and two-day turn around ‘ain’t’ enough.

The Genre Conventions

List of the conventions for my chosen Genre, based upon the proprietary list created at ScreenWriterU:

DRAMA –

Ø Purpose – To explore stories with emotional and interpersonal high stakes for my characters.

Ø Character-Driven Journey – We always need to care about the characters in a Drama, their internal journey drives the film’s events and progression.

Ø High Stakes Come from Within – Whether the story’s events are relatively mundane or intense, the struggles, obstacles, and stakes come from within the characters more than from external pressures.

Ø Emotionally Resonates – Drama audiences want to feel and be moved by my character’s emotions and how they experience the events.

Ø Challenging, Emotionally-Charged Situations.

Ø Real-Life Situations – Drama stories are grounded in reality.

ACTION –

Ø Purpose –

Ø Demand for Action:

Ø Mission –

Ø Escalating Action –

Ø Hero –

Ø Antagonist –

HORROR –

Ø Purpose – To create the experience of horror for my audience by taking my characters to the point of hysteria.

Ø Isolation – Setting and situation where my characters are alone and powerless against the monster.

Ø Death – Threaten my characters with awful, violent, and torturous deaths. Create the fear of death or insanity.

Ø Monster/Villain – A person or entity that will inflict endless terror and violence.

Ø High Tension – To put my characters in sinister situations that are out of their control, then turn up the heat to the point of hysteria.

Ø Departure From Reality – Extreme locations, situations, outside of daily life. (Thrillers are part of our normal life, horror movies are a departure.)

Ø Moral Statement – Under all of this horror is a social message about what are acceptable values and what lines not to cross. Those who violate these values are punished in a bad way.

Ø Horror defined: a setting invoking fear, tension, or utter shock.

Ø Hysteria loosely defined: an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping etc.

SCI-FI –

Purpose – To explore the implications of technological change, alternative worlds and probable futures that could come from the changes in science. To cause audience to think outside of our own fallen world.

Fantastic Worlds -Our world with some major shift.

Science – The circumstances and world are based more out of science and what it might possibly accomplish in the future.

Incredible Visuals – In exploring this fantastic world, we see things alien and bizarre, parallel to our current lives.

Social Commentary – Dire warnings, not idealistic hope. Different Time and Experience, exploring then to now social issues.

Sub-Genre – The World/Science is the environment. Sub-genre gives the story.

THRILLER –

Purpose – To thrill my audience with high stakes, plot twists and suspense.

Life and Death Situations – Facing danger either physically, emotionally, or mentally. Hero needs to either be in danger or there is implication of future danger.

Mystery/Intrigue/Suspense – A mystery must be solved in order to survive. Intrigue is the underhanded and covert Villain’s plan. Suspense comes from the danger the Hero faces.

Hero – Unknowing, unwitting, but resourceful Hero.

Villain – Dangerous, devious, and unrelenting. Committed to destroy anyone who gets in their way.

Main Emotions – Suspense, intrigue,
mystery, tension, anticipation, uncertainty, and surprise.

5) Tell the following:

<b align=”center”>Title1 – THE PLANETARY PRINCE. Concept –

Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen meets The Devil’s Advocate. What would power do to remain in power? Align itself with evil!

After 500,000 years of freewill experimentation, humanity is judged on its collective actions. With Lucifer on trial, Gabriel vs. Lucifer, and annihilation from existence as his potential judgment, Lucifer conducts his final act to perfect the imperfection of his earthly assignment-humanity.

Using human freewill as evidence, from abortions, scientific-experiments, and consistent warfare, Lucifer proves humanity is sinfully-evil, and his actions were to correct their Original Sin of Adam and Eve.

Genre
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THRILLER/HORROR and SCI-FI.

HORROR:

Purpose
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Ø To create the experience of horror for my audience by taking my characters to the point of hysteria.

Ø To write the movie that scares me.

Horror
loosely defined:

A setting invoking fear, tension, or utter shock.

Hysteria
loosely
defined:

An uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping etc.

Isolation
–

Setting and situation where my characters are alone and powerless against the monster.

Ø Hundreds of thousands of years ago, The Adamic mission on experimental, rebellion-seared, and isolated UrantiaEarth was a formidable undertaking.

And the Material Son and Daughter early became aware of the difficulty and complexity of their planetary assignment.

Nevertheless, they courageously set about the task of solving their manifold problems. But when they addressed themselves to the all-important work of eliminating the defectives and degenerates from among the human strains, they were quite dismayed.

Here they were, isolated and day by day confronted with some new and complicated tangle, some problem that seemed to be unsolvable.

Ø Modern-day… The back-alley abortion, sometimes a van parked in an alley, a dorm room. Not limited to abortions, but the theater of war as well. Anywhere humans live.

Ø The courtrooms where the case Gabriel vs Lucifer takes place.

Death
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Threaten my characters with awful, violent, and torturous deaths. Creating the fear of death or insanity.

Ø Yes, will do! Abortions, singles, doubles, triplets.

Ø Two-thirds of the African-American race.

Ø The haunted history of the Hispanic.

Ø One-half of every other race.

Monster/Villain
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A person or entity that will inflict endless terror and violence.

Ø Humanity. Our Monster/Villain is humanity itself.

Ø Lucifer, the devil and Satan.

High
Tension –

To put my Characters in sinister situations that are out of their control, then turn up the heat to the point of hysteria.

Ø Childhood abandonment, the agony female going through the abortion process.

Ø Loss of freewill for humanity and certain angels.

Ø The 13^th Amendment is enforced, slavery is reenacted and enforced. So too is the judgment of hangings.

Ø Triggering the Jews. Jesus was born in Palestine, thus he was Palestinian.

Departure
From Reality –

Extreme locations, situations, outside of daily life.

Thrillers are part of our normal life;

Horror movies are a departure from normal life.

The times we live in are not normal.

Ø Back-alley abortion.

Ø A soul losing its life, and the normalcy of a society that perpetuates it.

Ø Lucifer, the devil and Satan +100 on trial.

Ø Society begins to sink back to its old biologic level, and the forward struggle began all over, starting not very far in advance of where it was at the beginning of the Caligastia (The Devil) regime, this upheaval having left the world in confusion worse confounded.

Moral
Statement –

Under all of this horror is a social message about what are acceptable values and what lines not to cross. And I promise you, those lines have already been crossed.

Those who violate these values are punished in a very bad way.

Ø Humanity is one race, with various hues in color. Racism is one of the dumbest things a race can do and be, but here we are.

Ø Humanity kills for sport, not necessarily for survival, but for sport and profit. Humans, not the devil, killed Jesus.

Ø Fatherhood abandonment, tied to lucifer manifesto of God the father not being real.

Ø Another blaxsploitation film with a genre twist. The 13^th Amendment is enforced, slavery is reenacted and enforced. So too is the judgment of hangings.

Ø Gabriel is so profoundly impressed with the certainty of the impending outbreak that he goes direct to confer with the Constellation Fathers regarding the measures to be employed in case of open rebellion. (Keep in mind, he was impressed, profoundly; not necessarily against.)

THRILLER

Purpose
–

Ø To thrill my audience with high stakes, plot twists and suspense.

Ø The Caligastia scheme for the immediate reconstruction of human society in accordance with his ideas of individual freedom and group liberties

Life
and Death Situations –

Facing danger either physically, emotionally, or mentally.

Hero needs to either be in danger or there is implication of future danger.

Ø Our Hero is involved in vehicle accident, experiences NDE in the beginning, fatherhood abandonment issues, and has the internal anguish of his child being aborted, without his awareness yet he somehow knows.

Ø Round the clock abortions.

Mystery/Intrigue/Suspense
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A mystery must be solved in order to survive. Intrigue is the underhanded and covert Villain’s plan.

Suspense comes from the danger the Hero faces.

Ø Our Hero must solve the mystery of what happened to him during those moments of blackout during the accident. The intrigue is the underhanded and covert plan of Lucifer to use this pawn during his trial as witness to fatherhood abandonment, and how he the devil and Lucifer saved him, not the father.

Ø The Devil+100 are non-flesh eaters, but Mankind is.

Ø Humans killed Jesus, not the devil. Human freewill was established 500k years before Satan and lucifer arrived. But they didn’t necessarily help.

Ø And of all forms of evil, none are more destructive of personality status than betrayal of Trust and disloyalty to one’s confiding friends. In committing this deliberate sin, CALIGASTIA (the devil) so completely distorts his personality, that his mind is never able to fully regain its equilibrium.

Hero
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Unknowing, unwitting, but resourceful Hero.

Is there a hero in this story? Who is the hero in this story?

Villain
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Dangerous, devious, and unrelenting. Committed to destroy anyone who gets in their way.

We think the Villain is Lucifer+ sixty members of the planetary staff who went into rebellion alone, but it is also Mankind.

SATAN proclaims that “worship can be accorded the universal forces—Physical, Intellectual, and Spiritual—but that allegiance can be acknowledged only to the actual and present ruler, LUCIFER, the “friend of men and angels” and the “God of liberty.” Note: This is the deception and reason for his fall.

Main
Emotions –

Suspense, intrigue, anticipation, uncertainty, and surprise.

Main emotion is responsibility with collective freewill.

SCI-FI

Purpose –

To explore the implications of technological change, alternative worlds and probable futures that could come from the changes in science. To cause audience to think outside of our own fallen world.

Ø to write the movie that scares me.

Ø Particle acceleration technology, anti-matter potentiality.

Ø Abortion + Science. Mix them both and voila!

Fantastic
Worlds –

Our world with some major shift.

Ø Our modern-world on the verge of another cataclysm.

Ø Society quickly sinks back to its old biologic level, and the forward struggle began all over, starting not very far in advance of where it was at the beginning of the Caligastia regime, this upheaval having left the world in confusion worse confounded.

Ø One hundred and sixty-two years after the rebellion a tidal wave swept up over Dalamatia, and the planetary headquarters sank beneath the waters of the sea, and this land did not again emerge until almost every vestige of the noble culture of those splendid ages had been obliterated.

Science
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The circumstances and world are based more out of science and what it might possibly accomplish in the future.

Ø The circumstances and implications of Double helix 105665 human DNA structure to Triple helix 1056665 DNA structure post virus.

Ø Particle Acceleration Technology.

Ø Anti-Matter.

Ø Abortion clinic vs back alley.

Incredible
Visuals –

In exploring this fantastic world, we see things alien and bizarre, parallel to our current lives.

War In Heaven

Ø “There was war in heaven; Michael’s commander and his angels fought against the dragon (Lucifer, Satan, and the apostate princes); and the dragon and his rebellious angels fought but prevailed not.”

This “war in heaven” was not a physical battle as such a conflict might be conceived on Urantia.

But this war in heaven was very terrible and very real. While displaying none of the barbarities so characteristic of physical warfare on the immature worlds, this conflict was far more deadly; material life is in jeopardy in material combat, but the war in heaven was fought in terms of life eternal

Ø Black sclera.

Ø Light absorbing skin, always in the shadow of light even outside under the sun with no visible shade, dimensional.

Ø Mental telepathy of the 100.

Ø What does the 100 look like?

Ø What does anti-matter look like? How does it behave?

Social
Commentary –

Dire warnings, not idealistic hope. Different Time and Experience, exploring then to now social issues.

Ø The consequences of collective human freewill and fallen nature since before the arrival of lucifer, Satan and the devil. Freewill was already established.

Ø Near Death Experiences.

Ø Medical malpractice.

Ø Does abortion affect the father?

Ø Money.

Sub-Genre
–

The World/Science is the environment. Sub-genre gives the story.

Sub-genre is science fiction world ranging from 500,000 years ago to modern-day.

Ø The moral will creatures of the evolutionary worlds are

always bothered with the unthinking question as to why the all-wise Creators permit evil and sin. They fail to comprehend that both are inevitable if the creature is to be truly free.

Ø At first the Lucifer upheaval appeared to be an unmitigated
calamity to the system and to the universe. Gradually benefits began to accrue. With the passing of twenty-five thousand years of system time (twenty thousand years of Urantia time), the Melchizedeks began to teach that the good resulting from Lucifer’s folly had come to equal the evil incurred.

Demand
for Action

In short, what God had given men and angels Lucifer would have taken away from them, that is, the divine privilege of participating in the creation of their own destinies and of the destiny of this local system of inhabited worlds.

Mission

Lucifer’s folly was the attempt to do the non-doable, to short-circuit time in an experiential universe. Lucifer’s crime was the attempted creative disenfranchisement of every personality in Satania, the unrecognized abridgment of the creature’s personal participation—freewill participation—in the long evolutionary struggle to attain the status of light and life both individually and collectively.

In so doing this onetime Sovereign of your system set the temporal purpose of his own will directly athwart the eternal purpose of God’s will as it is revealed in the bestowal of free will upon all personal creatures.

1. Lucifers’ main defense will be “At the time MICHAEL the Arch-Angel is in the flesh, Lucifer, Satan, and Caligastia (the devil), are leagued together to effect the intentional miscarriage of his bestowal mission.

That mission being, The Dalamatian Teachings- The true concept of the first Source and Center is first promulgated on Urantia by the one-hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia’s staff.

This Expanding Revelation of Deity goes on for more than three-hundred thousand years, until it SUDDENLY TERMINATES, by planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime.

And it is this True Concept that reigns in the end, with the Satan Sauce converted human dna with his 1056665; willfully through human science technology and manipulation (intentional deception). The lucky ones died early.

Escalating
Action

The banner of Michael, the material emblem of the Trinity government of all creation, the three azure blue concentric circles on a white background.

The Lucifer emblem was a banner of white with one red circle, in the center of which a black solid circle appeared. The variation in flag. The void flag, or dot that turns black, vs. the Urantia flag.

Hero

No being in all the universe has the rightful liberty to deprive any other being of true liberty, the right to love and be loved, the privilege of worshiping God and of serving his fellows.

Antagonist

SATAN proclaims that “worship can be accorded the universal forces—Physical, Intellectual, and Spiritual—but that allegiance can be acknowledged only to the actual and present ruler, LUCIFER, the “friend of men and angels” and the “God of liberty.” Note: This is the deception and reason for his fall.

The sixty members of the planetary staff who went into

rebellion chose Nod as their leader. They worked wholeheartedly for the rebel Prince but soon discovered that they were deprived of the sustenance of the system life circuits.

They awakened to the fact that they had been degraded to the status of mortal beings. They were indeed superhuman but, at the same time, material and mortal.

In an effort to increase their numbers, Daligastia ordered immediate resort to sexual reproduction, knowing full well that the original sixty and their forty-four modified Andonite associates were doomed to suffer extinction by death, sooner or later.

The staff rebels, deprived of spiritual sustenance, eventually

died a natural death. And much of the subsequent idolatry of the human races grew out of the desire to perpetuate the memory of these highly honored beings of the days of Caligastia (The Devil).

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Concept
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Did Apollo 14’s Edgar D. Mitchell the sixth-man who (supposedly) walked on the Moon, conduct a secret experiment into human-consciousness while travelling to the Moon?

ACTION –

Purpose – To get to the Moon, land, perform experiments, return back to earth safely.

“My (EDM) real interest is-and has been for many years-to understand the nature of consciousness and the relationship of body to mind.”

Demand
for Action –

Limited resource, the clock is always moving, space will kill you!

Mission
– Impossible Mission-

Ø Launch aboard a Saturn 5 rocket, into Space. Land on The Moon! Perform Experiments. Return to Earth safely!

Ø Demands they go beyond their best.

Ø Destroys the Villain. Villain is Space. Space is unforgiving.

Ø Ignorance Is a sub-villain, thus the pursuit for knowledge to land, collect resources, return, and improve technology for modern-day version of Apollo -the Orion spacecraft-capsule, Human rated for space.

Ø Highlight Heat Shield technology during re-entry and ESP enroute and on Moon surface, with earth-based participants.

Escalating
Action –

Ø Overcoming the problem requires greater and greater heights of action (and involving higher stakes) as the story progresses.

Ø Once lift-off, the clock begins to touch-down; limited resources to survive, from oxygen, to food, to integrity of hardware (incorporate what is known now vs what was known then.

Hero
–

Ø EDM. Highly capable and skilled.

Ø Crew.

Ø The Spacecraft, Vehicle and Suit.

Antagonist
/ Villain –

Ø Space itself.

Ø What: Nature/Space. Time. The Forces of Nature, Space. Is space considered nature? Is atmosphere a Characteristic for Action in atmospheric reentry?

Ø Plan/Goal: Test mankind’s acumen and ability to live off-planet.
What they lose if Hero survives: They represent the circumstances of failure. Advancement. Man becomes a space fairing species.

Weakness (how to defeat
it): Unbeatable.

End Andre’s Module 2 Lesson 6 Build in the Genre Convention.