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Audrey Jacobs
6-10 scripts in various genres/styles: binge, limited location/characters,rom-com, drama, thriller and horror-comedy.
I want a sharper focus/laser ideas to highlight both what is already written and to be written; to get inside character, narrative, action, spoton dialogue to match the methods of the finest A-listers,all with great subtext.
Greatest personal challenge is to gain strength and energy to walk, etc, again after 3 years in a wheel chair with a foggy brain.
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Audrey’s conventions
What I have learned is I subconsciously am making myself the protagonist.
Concept: A wayward recent widow is lost in her own home and mindset.
Conventions
Hero: Melissa with wavering self esteem and confidence.
Demadt for action: Become aware and decisive.
Mission:Overcome overwhelming mindset and take action.
Antagonist: Others who bully or demand their way.
Escalating Action: Arguments, avoidances, physical issues, broken promises and betrayals
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Hi from Audrey Jacobs, member since the early subtext class.
Number of scripts, and different versions (movie, limited location, binge worthy and works that could use more excitement and audience involvement varies between 7 and 12.). Dramedy, Rom-Com, Horror, thriller.
Ways to add inspiration with authentic action rather than mere tips to my drama of my honoring my husband of 60 years 1930-1918 with respectful action thru humor and understanding mindset.
I’ve recently been diagnosed with a-fib heart failure and accept the challenge to move ahead and complete my recent work, and inspire others.
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Audrey’s 10 Most Interesting Things
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is how hard it is to let the ‘babies’ go. I could use lessons on how to trim to the most interesting essence and yet make it pop.
A. What is most unique about
your villain and hero?A laughter therapist is in dire
need to laugh herself, after several major losses.
The villains are biased and
suspicious persons who attack her skills of therapy, especially since she
has lost her joyousness.B. Major hook of your opening
scene?TITLE: Laughter in the Mourning
Unique combination of grief and
humor, with bursts of deep sadness
at a joyous workshop, when hero is presenting at a Laughter Therapy
Workshop.C. Any turning points?
Ghost of husband offers
insights. From her own grief experience, she learns ways to break the
taboos and secrets in our culture’s expectations regarding mourning to be
authentic..D. Emotional dilemma?
Timely – we all experiences
losses. Can laugher help or hurt for healing. And what kind of pain does
it ease.Is optimism toxic or healing?
Can hero put her skills where her pain is, or go for outside help from
grief therapists?E. Major twists?
It’s a first. Maybe a new take.
Why we laugh in grief. Dialogue sprinkles with irony, wit, sarcasm, and
genuine laughter.F. Reversals?
We can laugh ‘til we cry, and
cry until we laugh, mixed. All cathartic and all have down sides. Her
research and grief group both helps and educates for self and others.G. Character betrayals?
Dubbed ‘the laughing widow,’
she is both criticized and teased. Clients waver, and family and friends
have their own ideas on what and how she is, or should be doing.H. Or any big surprises?
Vulnerability and insecurity of
dilemmas uncover her resilience.All ages and circumstances want to hasten
healing.A great role for a bankable actor. Shows the gambit of traditional standards and expectations and taboos regarding grief. And then orchestrating more positive responses and options/opportunities for both grievers and supporters.
Comps: I’ll See You In My Dreams. Truly, Madly, Deeply
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Audrey Producer/Manager
What I learned today is to wear a business hat and be clear, quick and act like someone who already works there for a producer. For a manager, I can be more informal and open to coaching with a manager.
PRODUCER
How to present myself and my project to the producer: be on time or before the meeting. Authentically pleasant and professional in manner. Find rapport about his/her movies (etc.) that are like my project and interests. Have progressive enthusiasm, yet keep the sellable points clear and intriguing. Use visual images and words in a storylike style, and watch their responses. Pause and allow to continue more like a friendly focused chat. Brief highlight on the project – big picture on protagonist journey and topic of grief and spiced with humor., little details if any. Wait for questions, and leave after thanking for meeting and time.
MANAGER
Exploratory looking for chemistry and checking each other out. Ask how they like to work and offer my interests, skills, work to collaborate. Add if appropriate skills with both focused and mixed genres, open to writing assignments and understanding the business. Provide writing samples with openness to rewrites and changes for evolving improvements, network and pitches.
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Audrey’s Marketable Components
What I’ve learned doing this assignment is that both more focus and expansion could be created and utilized to make this more exciting, humorous (!) and varied.
MARKETABILITY
A. Unique: Grief and Humor.
B. Great Title: (still experimenting)
Love, Loss, Longing
The Laughing Widow
Family Trust
Naïve OptimismC. True. Inspired by a true story. Own experience plus
fictionalized.D. Timely — connected to some major trend or event.
We all experience loses. Can laughter help or hurt for
healing.E. It’s a first. May be a new take. Why we laugh in grief.
F. Ultimate. Is optimism toxic or healing.
G. Wide audience appeal. All ages want to heal fast.
H. Adapted from a popular book. Personal journal. Own
rights. Extensive grief work research and experience.I. Similarity to a box-office success.
J. A great role for a bankable actor. Showing the gambit
of traditional standards and expectations and taboos regarding grief..Areas for improvement for A. C. G. and J. Especially the humorous aspects such as Blue is the new Black. How to respond to supporters, and how supporters can positively respond in ways that are helpful rather than critical .Coming of a new age after loss.
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Hi Cheryl,
I have not received the assignments for Lesson 9 on. My e-mail is audreymjacobs@verizon.net. Please let me know how to get them. Thanks so much. Audrey Jacobs
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1. Name? Audrey Jacobs
2. How many scripts you’ve written? Six or seven counting a few extended maps, from the classes of horror, thriller, comedy, contained movie, etc.
3. What you hope to get out of the class? Both the skills and courage to pitch with natural confidence.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I’m a 50’s style woman transformed into a cougar after 60 years of marriage and becoming a widow.
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Audrey Project and Market
What I learned today is how to focus on making the script a big picture concept, and appealing to any audience by thinking objectively like a producer. It’s a business.
1. Genre: Dramedy
Title: Family Trust (or Naïve Optimist)
Concept: Just as a Laughter Therapist’s career earns a high paying goal, she crashes when her husband dies and is attacked as a fraud with toxic optimism.
2. Dilemma of life long joy and optimism dissolving with grief issues, yet striving to campaign laughter as the best catalyst toward healing any loss.
3. First target: Producers with a matched genre, have the connections and appropriate budget for my current pilot script.
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