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Rebecca’s Conventions
Concept: To prevent a massare of mine families at a protest, a coal mine mechanic and Great War hero must devise a plan to stop the coal and iron police commander and not get caught.
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Hero: A mine mechanic and WWI hero.
Demand For Action: Invasion of his town by coal and iron police led by a ruthless commander who targes the mechanic’s family for abuse.Mission: To protect his family.
Antagonist: Ruthless Commander of the coal and iron police bent on ending the strike at any cost.
Escalating Action: verbal confrontation leads to retaliation from the man in power against the hero’s brother and wife. Physical confrontation escalates the commander’s plan to massicare the striking miners.
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Bob Colley’s Conventions!
What I learned doing this assignment is that I find it difficult to unclench my brain and just let an idea flow. Hal had a great line in his call for an action movie “Judge and Kill.”
Concept: An ace helicopter pilot must free a condemned man or his daughter will die.
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Hero: A helicopter pilot and racer
Demand For Action: helilogging, racing, EX forces buddies
Mission: To save his kidnapped daughter by freeing a condemned prisoner.
Antagonist: Leader of a cybercriminal organization.
Escalating Action: Deadliest job in the world, helicopter racing and pulling off an impossible breakout.
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Cameron Martin’s Conventions!
What I learned doing this assignment is to prioritize a sense of play in my writing over perfect word play…at least until the last draft. Also learned that coming up with the mission of “Making a Bangin’ Corndog” actually CAN lead you to some better ideas. Twenty bad ideas, man. Who knew?
Concept: A Digital God’s right hand follower dives into the depths of a mechanical hell-scape to save his lover from a cybernetic fallen angel.
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Hero: Calvex – A devout follower who’s blessed by his god with the ability to “possess” (hack) any machine he can touch.
Demand For Action: Journey through the dangerous underworld against the cyborgs who dwell there, resentful from being cast out by “Arcadia” (heaven).
Mission: To bring a lover back from the dead and defeat the fallen child of the world’s digital god.
Antagonist: Janus – The fallen angel/child of the digital god (Adam) who can hack any machine or computer with a thought. She will stop at nothing to destroy Adam and his people.
Escalating Action: As we go deeper and deeper into the circles of this cybernetic hell, the question of who is good and who is evil eat at Calvex’s faith and pit him against his own “god” who sent him.
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Wayne’s Conventions!
I learned to just jump in … finally.
Concept: A youth grows up with an ability to hear other’s thoughts, literally. This gets him into more trouble than helping. As an adult with an inside track on what’s going on, he has to decide to whether to use his powers for good. Eventually he learns that his powers come from an alien that is sharing his body.
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Hero: A good alien sharing a body with a young man.
Demand For Action: WWIII is about to launch. He gets drafted.
Mission: Save humanity from extinction.
Antagonist: Alien leader who has taken control of the mind and body of the leader of the free world with intent to annihilate humanity.
Escalating Action: Starts with not wanting to get beaten up, to wanting sex, to saving the world.
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Stuart Ungar
High Concept: A brilliant neuroscientist realises that she must defeat the world’s richest man to save herself and her country from tyranny.
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Highly Skilled Hero: A disabled Nobel laureate neuroscientist with a photographic memory
Mission: Initially, in trying to find her twin sister’s murderer, she becomes entangled in the antagonist’s plans to overturn the federal government.
Demand for Action: Her intense need to thwart her implacable antagonist’s intention to shred the Constitution makes her transcend her abilities to foil multiple assassination attempts.
Antagonist: the world’s richest man’s megalomaniac intent -
What a first day journey. I started this homework with one idea, brainstormed the hell out of it and ended up with something completely else to use in this course and I believe I can elevate it much more as the idea is practically brand new in my head.
So I started with idea one:
Coming out of a coma a troubled cop realizes that he has to fake a brain injury to protect his paralyzed body and the evidence of the corrupt cops that left him for dead. His physio catches on that he is faking it. She has to decide whether to help him and therefore signing her death warrant or to expose him and sign his death warrant.
So in the end I realized that this will be more a drama with action scenes than an pure action movie….
But the brainstorm process led to the following – idea two (which is still very rough and needs some more work…
To prevent assassination on a global a brainiac girl must solve several puzzles in order to unlock the key code locked in her brain which will prevent it, but she have to stay alive and ahead of the maniac hunting her.
Highly skilled hero – A girl with brain capabilities that can only be described as inhumanly intelligent.
Demand for action – A group of ops specialists must find her before the multi-millionaire psychopath hunting her kills her.
Mission – She have to unravel the code in her head while being hunted in order to prevent subluminal mind control assassinations all over the world.
Antagonist – The son of the man who contributed in creating the key in her head, will throw all his money into finding her. No price is to high and no law unbreakable… he tortures for breakfast and will stop at nothing to find her and kill her at his leisure.
Escalating action – A troubled past of scientist parents held hostage for years by the antagonists father. She was born during this time.
She have to delve through layers of puzzles in order to peel back layer of layer to find the code, all the while she have to stay alive and one step in front of her hunter who have millions and minions by the millions to hunt her down.
He already started to use the program that bring assassination in a global scale into the world with disastrous consequences, she have the kill code for his program locked in her brain.
He also blames her for his father’s imprisonment and death.
Can she trust anyone in this world, who are not controlled by him…
As I said a lot of work still to be done…. but it was much easier with all the brainstorming ideas and the consent I gave myself to not do it perfect or control it in any way… to make mistakes and to know that this idea is still in it’s infancy shoes…
Loved the process.
Tx Hal
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Jul’s Conventions!
Concept: Man must get out of the doomed area, saving his loved ones, for the least, but gets stuck, and must overcome opposite party.
Hero: Hacker went trained, and gets a job of Security Guard
Demand For Action: He uncovers information about an area land planned to be destroyed
Mission: To save an interesting lady he just fallen in love with, who he knows went to work right into that area, at the same time keeping it unknown to his wife.
Antagonist: A Politition, turned out to be an evil scientist, who wishes to conduct evil scientific experiment, and cover up all the traces by destroying the whole area where that would happen
Escalating Action: They all stuck in labs building with doors blocked, together with his wife, who started following him down there, and an Evil Scientist, all unable to get out.
It was difficult to overcome old habits. I learned how to step across old preconceptions.
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Diana T. Black… what I learned doing this assignment is the need to “just get it down” on paper – hard for an overthinker/intellectual type, but doable. I’m developing this as a 6 episode mini-series hybrid – Action/Thriller. Originally written as a relationship drama, so the challenge will be to have sustained, yet escalating action over the entire narrative arc.
A Lead Firefighter moonlighting as a criminal investigator, who’s on the verge of discovering a web of organized crime, takes the rap for a crime he didn’t commit — presenting his unknown adversary the opportunity to destroy him.
Highly Skilled Hero: Lead Fire fighter who moonlights for the DA as a criminal investigator.
Demand for Action: An unknown adversary has murdered his lover, and now wants him dead
Mission: To discover and “make pay” whoever’s behind the murders and corruption before they kill him and his son.
Antagonist: Assistant DA after the top job and on the verge of taking over an organized crime syndicate
Escalating Action: Taking responsibility for the death of his best friend lands Keylan in prison with thugs on the inside ordered to kill him and his son on the outside now under serious threat.
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Subject line: Vonnie’s Conventions!
Brainstorm your concept and tell us the concept and conventions.
Concept: Medical doctor must kill her family to destroy an evil gene.
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Hero: Medical doctor Demand for Action: To destroy an evil gene ready to be activated. Mission: She has 48 hours to kill her siblings. Antagonist: Her wicked step-father. Escalating Action: escape, run, betrayed, ambushed, captured, tortured, fight, until she destroys the bloodline.
3. Answer the question, “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” Filling in the blanks allows me to easily find my logline.
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Brenda Lynn’s Conventions!
What I learned doing this assignment is that this process can actually be fun when you don’t think about making mistakes or being wrong. Ideas come flooding in and you actually can make choices of which direction to take the story. If it doesn’t work, there are options. If there is no answer, wait and one will arrive.
Concept: Because of her past ballet experience, a new recruit in the Israeli army is brought into a secret mission to return artwork stolen by the Nazi’s in WWII to the descendants of the rightful owners.
Hero: Athletic, specifically-trained and female, she is less likely to be suspected of stealing back these paintings and artifacts from people harboring them. Her grandparents and other relatives were killed in the Holocaust. She grew up poor and her family has had to rebuild its wealth and status in the world. Brooding resentment boils underneath.
Demand For Action: Lots of action in that the artwork will be locked, hidden away and held be criminals.
Mission: To get Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee back from the mob boss that currently has it in his possession.
Antagonist: Head of mob-syndicate that holds the painting hostage in case he is arrested. He can use it for leverage to get a reduced, if not an erased sentence.
Escalating Action: First, she has to find him, get in his good graces, steal the painting and escape.
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Dwight’s Conventions!
I learned that it is much easier to do this if you’re not concerned about getting everything just right. The concept is a former marine sharpshooter returns to civilian life to help patrol animal poachers in Kenya. The main hero is a woman the secondary hero is her estranged father. The demand for action finds her immediately immersed in finding and stopping elephant poachers, also she must track down a wild beast who is attacking watering herds and tourist caravans. Her mission is to team up with her father to track down and kill the giant beast. The main antagonist is the beast, secondary antagonists are the poachers. The escalating action is the hunt for the beast while her supplies, equipment and allies dwindle, the weather turns life threatening and old allies betray her.
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ACTION: Lesson 1 12.14.2021 Kimbal Thompson’s Conventions
What I learned doing this assignment is that a simple beginning can provide both a foil to and anticipation of what is coming ahead.
Concept: What is thought to be an eccentric local newscaster, is, in fact, an alien with superpowers recruited to conquer earth.: A nosy neighbor kid accidently inherits the superpower to stop him.
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Hero: Elton, an eleven-year-old mid-western boy
Demand For Action: strange behavior of Mr. Edgeson. He
is a newscaster proselytizing about UFO’s, deemed eccentric by his
community. He is really an alien assigned to conquer earth.
Mission: find out what Mr. Edgeson is really up to,
then saving the planet.
Antagonist: Mr. Edgeson
Escalating Action: climbing up Mr. Edgeson’s arbor late
at night and discovering what’s going on in his attic. He is communicating
with aliens and turns into one when so communicating. IN spying on this,
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DeShawn’s Assignment 1.
Concept: A high school dropout and his friends have to go out and try to find a way to save his mother, who is in a coma, and his house before foreclosure, with Angels and Demons fighting a war for him and his anointing.
Hero: A high school dropout who fell out of Christianity because of disbelief.
Demand for Action: He must evade cops (Nephilim) and other dangerous supernatural beings, and his City is under demonic attack.
Mission: To save his mom and their house.
Antagonist: Lucifer is a fallen angel who will stop at nothing to get what he wants and is trying to kill the boy before he gets powerful.
Escalating Action: Every time he doubts, more Nephilim and Demons come to try to kill him.
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Ram’s Conventions
What I enjoy is brainstorming on this project in my mind for some and bringing this to fruition.
The amazing Character hero is Cinnamon Johnson, a beautiful smart, intelligent woman who grew up in a wealthy family; graduated ivy league and passes the bar on the first try; becomes a Lawyer by day, informant by night?
What is the demand for action? She has lost her father, stepfather, and boss, all the men who meant something special to her (emotional journey)
What is her mission? Who or what is responsible for taking away people she loves?
Antagonist? Unknown
How will this action escalate? A lawyer tries to find out who? or what? is responsible for the losses in her life.
Concept- The hero, Cinnamon must find out why the men close to her meet a terrible demise.
Impossible mission- Dad killed in a car crash when she was only 5 years old Cinnamon survives but her father dies; Mother remarries, stepfather killed mysteriously; now come to present her boss/lover is killed mysteriously
Engaging journey- She needs to know why? the men in her life meet a mysterious demise
Incredible action–Cinnamon is the badass who wants to find out why? and learns some twists, turns, doubts about her family and the man she fell in love with.
Intriguing World-The non-stop existence of betrayal.
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Joan Edwards’ Conventions
“What I learned doing this assignment is that brainstorming helps improve ideas.”
Concept: Ansaca Jones brags at a Convention of Banking CEOs that no one could break into his bank and steal any amount of money and definitely couldn’t transfer funds out of the bank without him and his team knowing it.
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Hero: Bladen Stephenson, great
chef, kung fu expert with blades of all kinds and shapes, Is expert in
disguises. Reformed Con Artist
Demand For Action: Braggarts
shouldn’t broadcast themselves on National TV. Someone will go out to
prove them wrong.
Mission: Ansaca Jones
brags at a Convention of Banking CEOs that no one could break into his
bank and steal any amount of money and definitely couldn’t transfer funds
out of the bank without him and his team knowing it.
Bladen’s mission is to con
Ansaca to get even with him from when Anasaca conned his parents out of
their house and savings in a little bank in Bleakville, Oklahoma.
Antagonist: Ansaca Jones, CEO
of Bulwark Financial Holdings,
Escalating ActionFigure out the security in Bulwark Financial Cushion, Inc.
Transfer money to untraceable account in Bank in Switzerland.
Ansaca sends people with higher degrees of skills to try to stop Bladen, but fails.
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Matt Frendo’s Conventions!
What I learned was how to start writing an action script!
Concept: An ex-C.I.A. black ops agent who has trouble living with what he did for the agency becomes a priest in a small South American town, hoping to make up for his past deeds. When a cartel starts to terrorize the town, he is forced back into his old ways, to save the town from evil.
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Hero: Ex-CIA black ops agent living as a priest.
Demand For Action: Must stop bad guys or town will be terrorized and people will be killed!
Mission: Save town from cartel.
Antagonist: Cartel, led by a former foreign soldier (not sure which country yet) who’s family was killed when the CIA betrayed his army.
Escalating Action: First stops minor thugs hurting someone around church, then they send bigger people over and over until he’s facing the main antagonist.
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Christopher Dalbey’s Conventions
Concept: Honest mayoral candidate, Phara Ady, is on the cusp of victory when she is exposed to having ties to voodoo … Mardi Gras is in full swing, Phara vanishes and blood fills the streets as corrupt politicians are massacred one by one.
Hero: A mayoral candidate and voodoo deity incarnate.
Demand for Action: Inadvertently finds herself at an underground sex society party where she is slain but comes back at the voodoo incarnate, Maman Phara, and targets all the dirty politicians invloved.
Mission: Seek retribution.
Antagonist: Senator Triano, a very corrupt politician who only sees the world through the seven deadly sins.
Escalating Action: What she couldn’t do as an aspiring mayoral candidate, she accomplishes as the voodoo incarnate Maman Phara, stopping at nothing and annihilating all that was corrupt in the political world that surrounded her as a mortal.
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Jeffrey Lehmann Conventions
I learned that my villain is pretty run-of-the-mill and I need to up his uniqueness.
Concept: Teenage tribal princess must summon her courage to overcome sexism and racism to outwit and defeat a warlord’s ambition to annihilate her tribe.
Highly Skilled Hero: Ying is a tribal princess; smart, great archer, and swordsperson
Demand for Action: Sun (Chinese) is going to annihilate her tribe
Mission: To defeat Sun and prove her leadership ability to tribe
Antagonist: Regional Warlord Sun believes he should be Chinese emperor.
Escalating Action: Sun attacks Li farmers, Murders father, attacks tribe, enlists help of emperor’s forces to defeat tribe.
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