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Erin’s Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing today’s assignment is: A concept can work with multiple plots and each plot gives the opportunity to explore different themes and will greatly affect the nature of the final showdown at the end of the movie
Pursuit: Uptight cop Tom1 travels back in time and teams up with Tom2, another version of himself who was also sent back in time, to carry out their mission to prevent WW3. To do this, they must pursue and locate elusive billionaire entrepreneur Cornelius, whose plan to dominate space must be stopped.
Underdog: Uptight cop Tom1 travels back in time and teams up with Tom2, another version of himself who was also sent back in time, to carry out their mission to prevent WW3. To do this, they must go head-to-head with billionaire tech entrepreneur Cornelius, who has more money, more power, more security, and more firearms than the Toms.
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Armand’s Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned…
The best plot for our concept can be determined through a a process of elimination, or choosing the most natural fit at this time.
Quest: could work because my ghost protagonist needs answers about his murder
Adventure: not really.
Pursuit and Rescue: this could work.
Underdog: could work too.
1. Looking through the 10 plots above, select two that could possibly work for your story:
Rescue
Underdog
Tell the name of the plot selection and write a one paragraph synopsis for each one.
Once the ghost protagonist is brought back to life, the revived ghost has the chance to leave the murder home he’s been haunting for years but the return of his never-caught killer puts the people in the house in danger and himself if he stays.
The revived ghost was killed by the serial killer and does he have the tools to survive him this time?
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[PS80] BOB SMITH’s DRAMATIC PLOTS.
“What I learned doing this is …?” The importance of examining plots in order to pull an outline together and build a story.
ASSIGNMENTS
1. Looking through the 10 plots above, select two that could possibly work for your story.
1. RIVALRY 2. UNDERDOG.
2. Paragraph on RIVALRY..
Marlene Dietrich is a support player, albeit, the lead support player as Lola Lola the love interest of Emil Jannings’ Professor Rath. But Jannings, the star of the film feels that von Sternberg’s obsession with Marlene in order to elevate her to stardom, is upstaging him. In other words, they are equally matched which intrudes upon Jannings’ creative partnership with von Sternberg. In Jannings mind it has gone further, Jannings does not want Marlene to outshine his stardom. The final confrontation are the last two scenes of “The Blue Angel.” Marlene shines with the song, “Falling in Love Again,” and Jannings shines in his dying scene as the dejected professor, his life over because of his obsession with Lola Lola.
3. Paragraph on UNDERDOG.
Both Marlene and Jannings see themselves as superior and as underdog: Marlene is the novice who needs to be trained for stardom by von Sternberg but von Sternberg’s attention to grooming her for stardom is seen by Jannings as a loss of his superiority as the star actor in “The Blue Angel.” He grieves the loss of von Sternberg’s partnership with him as he showers Marlene with attention and develops a partnership with her. Jannings complains to von Sternberg who tells him that it is Marlene who needs the attention, she is the novice, whereas you (Jannings) are an established actor and the star. Jannings complains to von Sternberg about his provocative shots of Marlene. Von Sternberg says such shots are necessary to reveal Lola Lola’s showgirl character and why the schoolboys and the Professor are attracted to her. Jannings resorts to harassment of Marlene (who regards Janings as a bore and a ham. In the end they come out even, Marlene with her famous song (“Falling in Love again”) and Jannings with his brilliant scene as the professor when he dies – a scene with an uncanny similarity to Jannings’ end as a person and actor: A disgraced ex-Nazi favorite facing denazification and the end of an acting career whereas von Steernberg and Dietrich partner in Hollywood with many more movies plus her refusal to return to Nazi Germany and becoming a US citizen who entertainis the troops as they march against the German army.
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Pablo Soriano Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing this assignment: My concept can easily fall under more than one plot category. There are certain aspects from Escape or even from Riddle that I could integrate into the story. But I do understand why focusing on a single plot will help me develop an outline that will be more linear and structured. So I dwindled it down to these two and honestly it probably falls more towards Underdog. It was fun and very helpful to once again modify the concept even further by changing the plot theme. Any concept can adapt and evolve into something better.
Concept: A Mexican family attempting to sneak across the border think they have a guardian angel when drones begin to drop off food and supplies, only to find out that they are being televised on the dark web as Americans place bets on their success and are simply trying to give them the advantage for their own gain.
Pursuit
With the border patrol right at their heels, a small Mexican family must rely on a mysterious drone to guide them to the United States through the perilous terrain and the unforgiving conditions of the Chihuahua Desert. But after more drones begin to appear, they realize that they’ve been under surveillance the entire time and fear that this unknown ally might have an ulterior motive.
Underdog
A Mexican family attempting to cross the border become unwilling game show contestants as they are live-streamed on the dark web though a journey filled with natural hazards and man-made booby traps. Viewers place bets on their success, but all the odds are stacked against them.
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PS80 Jim Peacock Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned: Wow, there are so many ways I could structure the plot to focus on several of these dramatic plots. Here are my top two. (I wish I was smart enough to use the Riddle!)
1. Pursuit: A team of marginalized geeks is pursued by middle eastern terrorists, by the FBI and by other unnamed mercenaries. But our hero finds a way to use his knowledge of military games, computer hacking, to turn the pursuers into the pursued.
2. Underdog: A painfully shy, lonely geek is asked to match forces with a militia general with the power and money of an entire army behind him. He is the personification of evil, while our hero isn’t able to make eye contact – at least on page one.
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What I learned is all these plots are useful in scenes and as usual, I am not making my characters fight, stand off, and hurt each other. I am too nice because I choose characters who are younger, richer, more successful, and more powerful than me so I can live their lives so unconsciously I keep trying to make their lives better instead of worse.
My two plots are Quest and Temptation.
BB is tempted by beautiful, strong, young women, usually climbers and dancers, but he is so insecure he must kill them before he can cum. Then his quest is to live on boats in a unconscious desire to return to a better womb. Ibrahim is on a quest to save the earth but really to enhance his money and power. Jake is on a quest for a more essential career and then for treatments to help him and family survive. Jake was tempted by drugs and women as a teenager, but I need him to be tempted now. I need more temptation. Then I need to fuse temptation with quest with through lines with concept.
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[PS80] Emmanuel’s Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing this assignment is if carefully selected, plots are key to making a great story. Selecting two plots is a good idea to aid in developing the concept and perhaps merged into one logline.
My dramatic plots are Rivalry and Underdog.
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Janeen’s Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing this is plots evolve to fit the stories we’re trying to tell. Can’t wait for the next 10.
Rescue
A Book Club struggles to rescue abused women from their husbands knowing that any acceptance of outside help will make the abuse worse for the victims. Their growing arsenal of parapsychology techniques are empowering the abused to rescue themselves but then one of the abusive husbands is killed by his wife and the cops suspect the Book Club of murder.
2. Revenge
A book club’s efforts to help women escape their abusers often end with the women being punished even more until the club finds parapsychology techniques that embolden and empower the abused to liberate themselves. One family takes revenge too far and murders their abuser, however, which leads the police to suspect that the book club’s been doing much more than just sending “thoughts and prayers”.
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Rob Bertrand’s Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned: I learned the first 10 Dramatic Plots and realized that I could classify the movies I’ve seen with those categories.
The Two Dramatic Plots I chose
– Rescue: After the death of their mother, two teenage girls become convinced their house is haunted. When their dad doesn’t believe them, the sisters begin experiencing frightening paranormal activity. Their investigation later reveals an obsessed teenage boy living in their walls, pretending to be the spirit of their dead mother. When the oldest daughter is taken hostage, her father is her only chance for survival.
– The Riddle: After the death of their mother, two teenage girls come to believe that their house is haunted. The youngest daughter is convinced it is the ghost of their mother and the sisters begin communicating with the spirit. The paranormal activity increases and is directed at the oldest sister. After the house is wrecked, their dad loses his temper. He believes his daughters are acting out for attention. The twist reveals a dangerous teenage boy, living in the walls, pretending to be the ghost of the girl’s dead mother. The boy has developed an obsession for the oldest daughter and will stop at nothing to be with her. The boy staged the “haunting” to torment the family, enjoying the pain and suffering he caused.
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<b tabindex=”-1″ data-thread-perm-id=”thread-a:r1408236289408141231″ data-legacy-thread-id=”17bf989e5b5e882a”>[Proseries80] #1 Gollob’s character types +2/10 Dramatic Plot types
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What I learned… is that simplifying the story enhances it…
concept: Somebody is murdering the contestants in the national beauty pageant in a small South American country in turmoil, but who, and why?
Protagonist: the fat-shamed, “ugly duckling” contestant most unlikely to win is the last one left left standing. She, too, wants to know…
Antagonist: The girl’s mother, who happens to be wife of the tinpot dictator, motivated by vanity, or, something more nefarious, after “fixing” the contest to ensure her victory, attempts to kill her own daughter when her victory speech triggers a revolution.
Although they hate and resent her, Fanny is alarmed at the murders of the other contestants in the pageant. She seeks out “Frito” a former terrorist living there in hiding, a former lover of her mother’s, who briefly served as police chief, and together they discover the clues that lead to the assassin: her own mom!
Her mom is the tyrant behind the throne, the Lady MacBad of the story, who uses her knowledge of the sexual perversions of her husband, the dictator, as leverage over him… including the rape of her own daughter, Fanny. Fanny and Frito expose him in her victory speech, which triggers the moral indignation of the entire country, enough to topple him. Frito saves Fanny from her mother’s revenge in their final confrontation… they do the math and figure out he’s likely her biological dad… they kill the step-dad alongside her Mom, in the course of the revolution that saves the country from further rape and abuse of power…
plot types: Revenge and Underdog
logline: the step-daughter of a South American dictator avenges his sexual abuse of her and her mother’s complicity in it after she undeservedly wins the national beauty pageant.
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P80 Amy’s Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing this assignment is that there is more than one way to write any concept that I come up with.
Rivalry: Andrea comes back from time travel a year later and confronts Meagan who has taken over her family. Andrea tries talking to her husband and kids, but since her DNA has been altered and they don’t recognize her, they dismiss her. Andrea, a nationally known newscaster, isn’t recognized at work either, so she is homeless and jobless. She desperately tries to convince her family that she is who she says she is. She shows up at her husband’s job and her kids’ school activities. Meagan gets a restraining order against Andrea. Meanwhile, Andrea gets a former co-worker to believe that she is the woman who has been missing and has been presumed dead and he agrees to do a news story on her. Her family sees the story and starts to reconsider. Meagan doesn’t like this at all and begins a smear campaign to turn everyone she can, including all of the moms of the kids’ friends and all of the wives of Andrea’s husband’s co-workers against Andrea. She manages to convince them all that Andrea is just a crazy person trying to take over Meagan’s family. Finally, Andrea shows up to her son’s baseball game at the risk of being arrested. She goes undetected at first, but Meagan sees her and calls the police. The police arrive to arrest her, but she breaks free of them and runs up to the fence to talk to her son. She says to him the thing she had always said to him just before he gets up to bat. Suddenly, everyone realizes that it’s really Andrea. Upon this realization, Andrea’s DNA changes back. Her husband and kids are overjoyed. Meagan gets very angry and stomps away during their reunion.
Revenge: Andrea comes back from time travel a year later to find that Meagan(a single mom in the PTA with her) has taken over her family and that her DNA was altered by the time travel so that her husband and kids do not recognize her. She joins the PTA at the kids’ school and tries to befriend her husband and kids as a starting point to eventually telling them who she is. In the process, she does some digging and finds out that Meagan is the one who sent her traveling through time when she interviewed the local professor about the supercollider he was experimenting with at the local university. Meagan catches on to the fact that Andrea is trying to befriend the family that isn’t really hers and starts trying to turn them against her. Andrea, in desperation, tells her family who she is, but they don’t believe her. Andrea realizes the only way to get her family back is to get rid of Meagan. She starts going through her memory to figure out what happened just before she disappeared. She eventually puts all the pieces together and figures out what she has to do to send Megan back in time. At a school event, Andrea confronts Meagan in front of everybody without naming the professor knowing that Meagan will go to the professor to try to keep him quiet. Meagan arrives at the university, but Andrea has beaten her there and now has the professor on her side. Andrea pushed Meagan into the supercollider and sends her back in time. Andrea goes back to the school event and meets up with her family who now sees that she’s who she says she is. The reunite and Andrea’s DNA changes back to its original state.
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Richard’s Dramatic Plots
What I learned doing this is… stories are not set in stone until the very final draft. Even at this plotting stage, I’m working out stronger scenes and questioning earlier story and character decisions/progressions. There are plenty of ways you can change your story.
Tell the name of the plot selection and write a one paragraph synopsis for each one…
Escape
From the Inciting Incident of my story, my protagonists are continually trying to escape the invading English army. Even when they arrive at the castle on an isolated island, which will be the setting of the final two acts, they not only have to escape the surrounding English army, but one another as their only chance of survival is to be the last person standing.
Underdog
From the get-go, our protagonists are vastly outnumbered by the invading army. Their own countrymen turn their back on them as they fear English retaliation. As the story progresses the odds are stacked against their survival. These odds virtually disappear after they are forced to turn on one another.
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<u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>PS80 Subject: Michelle Damis Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing this is that there are always options and different directions or points of view that could change or develop your story more fully or more deeply.
1. Quest and Temptation are possible plots
2. Quest = The Vampire on a quest for blood and a dwelling ends up finding a family he didn’t know he even wanted. The parents on a quest to enjoy retirement and have their daughter grow up and be nice have their situation unexpectedly resolved by a vampire. The daughter on her search to grow up and let go of a painful secret also has her situation remedied unexpectedly by a vampire.
Temptation=
This could fit in the sense of the Vampire needing blood by nature but he
discovers his feelings for some humans and decides to not kill anymore and will
therefore have to fight off future temptations.
The parents and/or daughter could be tempted to become a vampire
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Claudia’s Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing this… as writer’s we have many choices to make to create the best story possible…. the building blocks are the foundation and if we don’t get those right, the story will fail. That said, we can still choose what type of building blocks / foundation we will create the story on, this assignment is part of that choice and we are free to choose and as we are proceeding, we can find what works best and substitute or throw out what doesn’t.
Rescue: A cynical FBI Agent investigates a popular televangelist, believing he’s responsible for bilking thousands of people out of their money. He meets the Televangelist and instantly likes him but believes that it’s probably a trap to dissuade him of his duty to take him down. The Agent slowly realizes that it’s not the minister who is the bad guy, though he personally struggles against this… it’s his own agency and powerful politicians pulling the strings. He switches and sees it as his duty to rescue the minister from the false claims and corruption meant to take down the minister, his ministry AND the President of the United States.
Under Dog: A cynical FBI Agent tasked with investigating a popular televangelist starts to realize that he’s getting too much heat from the top about taking this man down. He uncovers a plot to make it appear the the minister is defrauding people when it’s really an inside job… but who hired the inside man shocks him. He then must fight his own agency, bosses and the political elite to clear the minister’s good name, a man who has close ties to the President of the United States.
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Hi Claudia,
I really like your idea!
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[PS80] (Kelli Cooke) Day 2 Plotting and Outlining
What I learned doing this assignment is, there is so many wonderful options to work with. And I feel lucky that I can look through the formulas to play with each one and how they can work for different situations.
The two that I think could work best for my story are the Quest and the Underdog.
For the Quest aspect my protagonist has searched for peace from feeling that this pivotal
humiliation in high school followed her throughout her life. In returning to her hometown
she finds her strength was there all along.
In the underdog version the love triangle would play a bigger part. Showcasing the two suiters
and pitting them in more sharp contrast one to the other, at least to the main characters eyes.
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Quincy (Quinn)’s Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing this is that, once again, I have a more defined list of what I’ve done in the past. Only, instead of flying blind trying to figure it out, I now have a dial-a-plot which lessens the time it takes me to brainstorm on how the story will work. I’m sure you can (and people have) that having these plots is a “cookie-cutter” approach but, to be honest, that’s how stories work. Most stories will fall into recognizable plots. What makes them original is how you fit your story within the plot. It doesn’t have to be “cookie-cutter” if you craft your story well.
Plots selected:
- Escape: Cassie’s body is being held hostage further and further until she uncovers how to get Helen out of her.
- Rivalry: Helen is jealous of Cassie’s life and keeps taking over to life a real life.
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PS80 Budinscak Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing this assignment:
o By the end of the assignments, I’ll have a solid concept, logline and an outline with which to finish my script.
o I will be able to adjust/amend whatever a producer needs ‘fixed’ – and I’ll be able to handle their request quickly and accurately.
o My story doesn’t exactly fit the first 10 plots, but I do see options I didn’t think of earlier that fit.
Assignment:
#2 – Adventure:
Two young cousins stowaway in their uncle’s car unaware he’s driving cross-country to deliver a package for a local crime boss. During the trip, the two boys meet their uncle’s friends, visit places they’ve only heard about and learn lessons about family and life their experience.
#9 – Underdog
A conniving chef must deliver a package from upstate NY to Burbank, CA to avoid the family’s restaurant from being burned to the ground by a crime boss. The day he leaves, two preteen nephews unknowingly tag along for the trip. During the next few days, the two boys learn life’s lessons and what family is all about as their journey winds down in Burbank and they rescue their uncle from dire circumstances.
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[PS80] Jennifer’s Dramatic Plots 1
WHAT I LEARNED:
This story will end up being some combination of a quest and a rivalry plot type, which I had already had in mind before writing this out. But seeing the subtleties between the two types makes me realize I need to think this through carefully to figure out how best to bring out the most powerful elements in the script.
PLOTS THAT COULD WORK:
Quest
Rivalry
SYNOPSIS FOR EACH PLOT TYPE:
Quest:
A high school overachiever will do literally anything to beat her rival and win and prestigious award guaranteed to get her into her dream college — even commit murder. Taking a strict quest approach from a satirical slant, this version sees the overachiever high school student on a brutal mission to win the prestigious scholarship competition that she wants to win at all costs and is told from her perspective, with every student, teacher, or parents who comes in between her and her goal as an obstacle to be overcome, even if it means murder. She will ruin the lives of anyone along the way to her goal.
Rivalry:
A high school overachiever will do literally anything to beat her rival and win and prestigious award guaranteed to get her into her dream college — even commit murder. Again taking a satirical slant on the rivalry theme, a high school overachiever focuses on wearing down or even eliminating her rivals who stand in her path as she works to win a prestigious scholarship competition. In this version, one of her rivals would be the most dominant antagonist in her path toward the version of success she thinks she needs to achieve to win.
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What I’ve learned doing this assignment is, that it’s hard not to put too much detail in ‘ the synopsis’. In this stage of the process, there are a lot of things you don’t know yet or don’t want to know yet.
1. escape
2. riddle
1. Escape
A struggling artist breaks up with her boyfriend and therefore can no longer afford to live in her NYC apartment and decides to become a surrogate mother to pay the rent. The couple she is carrying the baby for inviting her to come and stay with them during her pregnancy and introduce her to a well-known billionaire. They bath her in luxury and they boost her career as an artist but soon she starts to suspect there is something wrong with these people and investigates. She finds out the couple is suppliers for a pedophile network, who communicate through the darknet. The couple catches her checking out their computer and covertly confine her; they send her to the billionaire who owns his own island, where he lives together with a group of very young girls of whom he claims to be the foster father. She asks the girls for help, but they are brainwashed and too scared to talk. She tries to escape but they catch her. She is now locked up in a room, tries to get the other girls to help her, but to no avail. When the baby is due in several weeks one of the girls finally helps her to get out. She is now chased and moves from motel to motel and when she alarms the police they attempt to kill her. She’s scared to death but when she finds out that the girl that helped her at the island is brutally raped by the billionaire, she decides to return with a mission: to set the girl free.
2. The Riddle
A teenage girl from an underprivileged background is thrown out by her mother and stepfather when they find out she’s pregnant. At the abortion clinic, she starts to doubt whether she will have the abortion or give the baby up for adoption. She tells the dr. she has nowhere to go and asks him if he could help her to find an organization where she can stay until the baby is born. However, the doctor convinces her to have an abortion, while she desperately wants to keep the baby. He offers his help and introduces her to a well-known billionaire and his wife who have a foster home for teenage girls on their private island. They take care of them lovingly and The girls seem very happy but never leave the island alone. The dr. from the abortion clinic brings in new girls all the time and even though they are under age they are allowed to drink alcohol and join parties with influential people. The girls are waiting to be able to go and study, but they never do. The billionaire couple promises them all kinds of things but they never follow through. The doctor talks to her, explaining that she must do certain things in order to be able to lead this life of luxury. The girl now realizes why she’s here and she’s now forced by the couple to have sex with them and their guests. She tries to escape, but they make it very clear to her: there are girls that never made it from the island. She now has to fight to get her life back.
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Suya Lee Dramatic Plots 1
Outlining & Your Character Structure Day
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”
Although I have a lot of fear about what the story is, I am ploughing through. I seem to say this each time. I am working through my fears. I can do this. I like outlining. Ideas about where the story will go excites me. I am also taking the Action module, and I had to jumpstart the outlining process. I felt like I was on a high yesterday figuring out the story, especially from reading the outlines for John Wick and The Bourne Identity.
Concept:
When a group of old timers at a veteran’s retirement home win the mega lottery, they buy an old cruise ship to sail around the world with their extended families, but pirates attack their ship in South-East Asia and the veterans must face the last battle of their lives to save their families.
1. Looking through the 10 plots above, select two that could possibly work for your story.
From the first 10 plots given, I think #9 Underdog and #5 Escape.
2. Tell the name of the plot selection and write a one paragraph synopsis for each one.
Underdog:
Veterans are old, aren’t physically matched to fight hand to hand combat with the pirates, who are mostly young. Some of the veterans have physical disabilities (i.e., missing limbs), one has slight dementia. They are not as technologically skilled. They are outnumbered. Their extended family members are not in the military, armed forces or police. They have no fighting skills. They may have weapon skills, since a lot of Americans have guns, go to gun ranges, etc. But, they didn’t bring their guns to the cruise ship, not thinking they were going to get attacked. Pirates have guns, rocket launchers, etc.
Escape:
Veterans and their families only want to escape the Pirates. They want to get off the cruise ship. But, they are held for ransom. One of the crew members radio the Pirates that there are a bunch of mega lottery winners, worth half a billion dollars. But, there are 10 Pirates on their cruise ship. Veterans must fight back to get their families safely off the cruise ship.
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[PS80] James Salter Dramatic Plots 1
What I learned doing this assignment is there are several different ways to plot scenarios that can move a screenplay forward and bring together using this method without even realizing that you’re doing it.
1. Looking through the 10 plots above, select two that could possibly
work for your story.
The two below I believe would work best for my story:
Revenge & Pursuit
2. Tell the name of the plot selection and write a one paragraph synopsis for each one:
My 1st plot selection is number 6 Revenge:
Your hero has a moral justification for vengeance and seeks retaliation against the antagonist. The natural progression: normal life, a crime against the hero, normal channels fail to resolve it, plans for revenge, pursuit of the antagonist, the confrontation, apparent failure that requires improvising, final revenge.
A. As Jake finishes his last week of educational training and finally has everything to qualify him to enter the NASA astronaut program he learns that it been terminated, Jake finds that to be unacceptable so he sets out to start his own space exploration program and take revenge against NASA for stopping the program.
The 2nd plot selection is Pursuit:
In this plot, the chase is more important than the people in the chase. The pursuer should have a reasonable chance of catching the pursued. Make sure the chase is highly motivated and there is real danger if the pursued is caught
B. Jake has completed any and everything he has set out to do his whole life and just because NASA decides to stop there program doesn’t mean Jake has to halt his plans of continue space exploration to fulfill his lifelong dream.
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PS80 – Jodi’s Dramatic Plots 1 – Day 2
What I learned doing this is that most dramatic plots can be broken down into categories. It helped me to further flesh out the idea I had but nothing was set in stone for me yet, so by choosing different options a writer can see different vantage points of the story, not just the one that they had initially envisioned, which could be too fixed and inflexible, and not open to the best possibilities anyway.
The two that could possibly work for my story are:
1. Revenge – When Susan finds out the Senator’s Daughter’s name is on the “List’ thereby expecting a baby, she takes it upon herself to investigate if the Senator will make his child keep the baby or if he’s going to try to help her get an abortion.
2. Underdog – Outmatched, out-funded and over-burdened Susan makes it her mission to help the poor women who are stalked by bounty hunters by challenging the legislators who enacted the ban on abortion for all women in Texas.
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Hi Cheryl,
I’m resending posts 1 through 4 as I think when I initially posted them they went onto someone else’s post. I hit the big red ‘reply’ button but I noticed (after the fourth one) that they might have been sent to someone as a reply. So now I’m just posting to the administrator box. Sorry about that.
PS80 – Jodi’s Dramatic Plots 1 – Day 2
What I learned doing this is that most dramatic plots can be broken down into categories. It helped me to further flesh out the idea I had but nothing was set in stone for me yet, so by choosing different options a writer can see different vantage points of the story, not just the one that they had initially envisioned, which could be too fixed and inflexible, and not open to the best possibilities anyway.
The two that could possibly work for my story are:
1. Revenge – When Susan finds out the Senator’s Daughter’s name is on the “List’ thereby expecting a baby, she takes it upon herself to investigate if the Senator will make his child keep the baby or if he’s going to try to help her get an abortion.
2. Underdog – Outmatched, out-funded and over-burdened Susan makes it her mission to help the poor women who are stalked by bounty hunters by challenging the legislators who enacted the ban on abortion for all women in Texas.
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What I learned doing this assignment is SUBTEXT is a challenge but SO important to AUTHENTICITY and CREDIBILITY of my writing.
Title: Gollob Subtext and Loglines
Name: Fanny
Traits: She is ashamed of her size, body shape, weight
She lets her Mother run her life
She is afraid to show her true feelings
She is a Loner, feels despised by everyone around her
VENGEFUL, DECEPtive
Subtext: vengeful
Character Logline: Fanny is the step-daughter of a ruthless Dictator who FEIGNS belief in her mother’s lies and cover-ups of his sexual abuse of her and others until she can get VENGEANCE on her mother for her complicity and the step-father for his rapes, by exposing them to the world.
Possible areas of subtext:
She pretends to believe her Mother and the family doctor who maintain “it’s all in her head,” until she obtains proof: “No, Mommy, it’s his come in my vagina;”
She bows to her Mother’s pressure to participate in the national beauty pageant, though she knows she cannot win unless it is rigged;
She gracefully accepts her victory, but only because it provides her the podium from which she will obtain her goal.
Rosario (F’s mother)
Traits:
Crafty
Power-mad, VAIN
Fetishist (S&M)
MANIPULATIVE MURDERER
Subtext:
MANIPULATIVE MURDERER
Character Logline:
Rosario will stop at nothing to hang on to power; she FEIGNS ignorance of her husband’s activities, PUSHES her daughter into a SHAM beauty contest so as to MURDER top contestants also raped by her husband, and FORCES Frito to get involved in order to “protect” her daughter, who she also finally ends up attempting to kill.
“FRITO”
Traits:
Resourceful
Fighter
Believes in justice
Father, with strong paternal instincts
Subtext:
Protector of those he loves
Character Logline:
Still hunted by Interpol, he belonged to an Italian terrorist group when a teenager, finding refuge in chaos of Revolutionary Nicaragua, and briefly, in arms of Rosario. He suspects he’s Fanny’s biological father, but now with his own adoptive family, has distanced himself from the Dictator and his ruthless wife, until sucked in by proof of F’s sexual abuse, and now he will stop at nothing to bring down the power couple, though it means betraying Rosario, to whom he owes the debt of saving his life, but they have betrayed not just her own daughter, but the Revolution… (when he dies, F takes a DNA sample– his blood – to prove paternity)
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