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Week 3 Day 5: Stacking Intrigue — GAME OF THRONES
1. Please watch this scene and provide your insights into what makes this scene great from a writing perspective.
2. Read the other writers comments and make notes of how you might create this kind of drama in your script.
3. Rethink or create a Stacking Intrigue scene for your script using your new insights and rewrite the scene.
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WATCH 1ST TIME FOR: BASIC SCENE COMPONENTS — SCENE ARC, SITUATION, CONFLICT, MOVING THE STORY FORWARD, ENTERTAINMENT VALUE, AND SETUPS/PAYOFFS.
– not familiar with this series and couldn’t get the link, but figured it must be from Season 8, Episode 3 “The Long Night.”
– based on that (I watched about 15 minutes), they are preparing for a big epic battle against terrifying forces. This comes through by all the extreme battle preparations, the array of the huge army, and the fear on all their faces.
WATCH 2ND TIME FOR:
WHAT MAKES THIS SCENE GREAT?
– not into such movies, but it does have a lot of suspense, holding the audience glued to the tube.
WHAT ARE YOUR INSIGHTS ABOUT STACKING INTRIGUE?
– not sure what this means, but am looking into it online. There is “stacking suspense,” so I’m reading more about suspense and how to create it. I imagine this means having various plotlines or complications, each adding to the suspense of making the audience thing, what will happen, will the good guys win, will it all get straightened out?
WHAT MAKES THIS SCENE GREAT FROM A WRITING PERSPECTIVE:
– easier to write, very expensive to produce (tho I noticed a few tricks to make it seem like a gigantic cast of 1000s
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Week 3 Day 5: Stacking Intrigue – Game Of Thrones
The clip from Game of Thrones was unavailable due to Copywrite issues, so
I’m using Every Game Of Thrones Recap Seasons 1 through 7. I never watched
the series while it aired, but after watching the recaps, every scene is
packed with treachery, betrayal, secretes, power struggles, suprise, deception,
Love, good and bad leadership, I can go on. I see why it’s a success every scene
engages you, it’s so many things going on, I bet it took a GROUP OF WRITER to
keep up with the show and they did an excellent job. The writers stacked
intrigue and plenty of action in every scene, that writing would be very hard
to top…
What I learned:
The power of stacking intrigue, it amplifies GRADIENT, TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY,
DEPTH of the story, BUILDS TENSION, PROFOUND MOMENTS, makes everything more
interesting, and entaining…
THE PITCH:
ACE IDEN, an Artificial Intelligence experiment gone bad, hunted by his corporate creators.
Title: “Iden Cover-Up”
Genre: AI Thriller
FADE IN:
INT. AI CORPORATE EXPERIMENTAL LAB – EVENING
Its the end of an AI implant operation, ACE IDEN is confined to an operating table, he breaks
free, throws the SURGEONS out of the way and escapes the room.
Ace is confronted by SEVERAL SECURITY GUARDS, he takes out all of them with superior fighting
ability, unmatched strength, then makes his way out of the building.
EXT. AI CORPORATE EXPERIMENTAL LAB – EVENING
Ace runs out of the building, jumps into the nearest car, hotwires it, one of Security grabs the
car, Ace races away, the Guard is thrown to the ground.
INT. AI CORPORATION EXPERIMENT LAB – EVENING
Security makes his way back to the Surgeons.
SECURITY
He stole a car, and got away.
The Surgeon goes to his advanced computer system and tracks Ace.
EXT. ACE IDEN’S HOUSE – NIGHT
Ace drives to his house, parks and goes to the door and knocks.
ACE IDEN
HELEN, it’s me Ace.
A WOMAN inside the house responds without opening the door.
WOMAN
There is no Helen living here, go away or I’ll call the Police.
Ace walks away, then TWO CORPORATE GOOMS jump out of a parked car as he passes them.
Guns drawn the try to take Ace into custody, there’s a fight, one man is immediately knock
out by a kick, the other man gets off a shot that missed Ace, and he is knock out, both men
lie on the ground.
Ace takes their guns, the money from wallets, and the keys to their car, jumps in and drives
away.
Ace finds a secluded hidden spot to spend the night, then in the morning he ditches the car
and leaves on foot.
EXT./INT. A SMALL BANK – NOON
Ace enters a small bank, approaches a TELLER, draws a gun.
ACE IDEN
This is a hold up, everybody on the floor, keep quiet and no
one will get hurt!
ALL THE PEOPLE in the bank comply, Ace is in and out of the bank with the cash quickly,
then he runs down a side street, back to the stolen car and drives away…
TO BE CONTINUED
FADE OUT
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