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Paulette L. Harris: “What I learned doing this assignment is….?”

1-My Profound Truth is : Good wins over Evil. You will find it in the hospital room on Pastor Stuart’s deathbed.

2-Pastor Young and Elizabeth hear of someone collapsing at the fair where they are singing and preaching the gospel. They don’t know who it is but feel they should go to the hospital and see if they can offer some comfort.

3-Confused Pastor Stuart and Mary recognize who their visitors are and they visit re-connecting. Pastor Stuart begins to sob as he shares how awful the past years have become.

Pastor and Mrs. Young offer to pray a prayer of repentance and in the process realize that Pastor Stuart isn’t really a believer.

Pastor Youn excuses himself to make a call.

4-Shortly thereafter another visitor arrives, he is Steve Olsen, a newly ordained minister and now studies exorcism in the body of Christ. He offers to pray over the pastor for any negative influences that may have interferred in the lives of Don and Mary. They agree and are freed of influencing forces in the past.

5-Pastor Don now believes fully in the salvation of Jesus Christ and accepts Him as the Son of God and His offer of love. The love and forgiveness is fully understood and Pastor Stuart is healed of all heart damage. Profound Truth is that God always answers a repentant heart.

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Paulette L. Harris: Connection with the Audience

What I learned doing this assignment was that there are a myrid of choices of emotions that human beings connect with. The hard part of this particular story for me was actually chosing which characters where going to play the most important and re-sounding parts to a congregation of troubled folks. At some point, that means every human has problems at some time or another in their lives. I’ve had to condense and re-condense down to 90 pages or so of focusing on only a few characters to get this right. But I’m have a great time doing this screenplay and this class is helping a lot to fine-tune and pare down into great characters.

1-Pastor Don

2-Jane Douglas

3-Stevie Olsen

4-Elizabeth Young

5-Assistant Pastor Young

Pastor Don:

Realability-Always excited to meet new challenges, people, places, and things.

Intrigue-Strong, athletic, good-looking, successful appearing. “How does he do it? He must have a secret for success.”

Empathy-In his mirror and office, he has to often face himself, the truth, and Satan who he is unwittingly being used.

Likeability-Good sport, charismatic, self-confidant, teases others in a rather condensending way that’s like a big brother. Most like the attention from him, he makes them feel as if they are in the “inner circle”, others dislike but they won’t let on.

Jane Douglas:

Relability-She is dependable and her personality is unchangeable as well as her strong well-grounded beliefs in how she was raised.

Intrigue-Soft, beautiful inside/outside, loving and kind to everyone.

Empathy-Her love for her husband and family is mis-understood and gossiped about.

Likeability-She’s keeps to herself for the most part, but approachable and people are comfortable around her because she is trustworthy.

Stevie Olsen:

Relability-Always at church with his Dad. Everyone knows he loves Jesus, his mom, and the Boy Scouts. He never misses meetings.

Intrigue-Stevie seems much older than he is.

Empathy- His mother has been in/out of drug re-hab. Basically his father is raising him. Stevie also sees the dark forms and spirits. He is scared to death because he doesn’t understand them. He confides in his father who is beside himself to help his unusual son.

Likeability- He is full of love and forgiveness towards everyone, especially his mother, who he is praying contanstly and hopeful for. His peers tease him constantly and people wonder at how he can be such a sweet young man considering what he goes through.

Elizabeth Young Assistant Pastor’s Wife:

Relability-Elizabeth struggles with a difficult pregnancy and often unconfortable in the Southern California heat. She finds herself often caught between herself and the congregation. She must always maintain an approachable and good reputation persona. Never mention her own thoughts and feelings.

Intrique-People wonder how she does this persona of self-control with so much to do. She always points to Christ.

Empathy-It’s hard to know when she should bring problems to her husband, she doesn’t want to be involved in gossip nor does she want to be involved in being divisive.

Likeability-Because she’s trustworthy, she often gets confided in, even more than the new pastor’s wife, which causes some problems. Elizabeth is wise and discerning. She’s an honest person who listens carefully and can steer people to the right scriptures that can help them personally. The Assistant Pastor and Elizabeth are a very much loved part of the body.

There are a few other members of the body that I will use emotionally as well:

Abuse, weaknesses, futility, despair, attraction to the opposite sex, fear, confusion.

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Paulette L. Harris: Transformational Structure

Assignment 6

1- Transfomational Logline: A narcissistic Pastor must learn the truth of his profession, with unbelievable lessons as God agrees with Satan to turn a Church Body over to him to control for a year.

2- Transformable Character: Pastor Don will be the main character. Although I’ve listed him as the change agent, that could change because unknown to himself, he is actually the one being changed and manipulated as he tries to change his new congregations way of thinking about marriage and family. He’s changing for the worst as his congregation wises up and Satan turns up the pressure cooker using his main point man, INK.

Pastor Don and his congregation both seem to go through transitional change as they interact.

Pastor Don becomes worse as Satan shows up more and his demons excitedly make mistakes that cause them to reveal themselves on occasion.

3- The Three Gradients: Excitement, anticipation of adventure, move to a new environment, hope to unsettled as things planned begin to unravel, fear creeps in, then discouragment in the form of alcohol, and slipping of thoughts outloud. Pastor finds himself looking in the mirror more and talking out loud only to sometimes hear a “voice” in his head and seeing shadows about the room. He has no knowlege of negative beings.

4- Then Courage to accept that he may have been wrong and must move on, no excitement here, despair. He learns the truth and repents after running into a person who accepts him where he’s at and prays with him to recover after a heart attack. Triumphly Pastor Don returns home to start fresh. He’s learned Good always wins over evil.

5- Wife always supportive but having experienced this before with Don, she’s praying hard with some prayer warriors and trying to save their own marriage.

6- I’m using the MMM example, although both examples are good, the 1st choice seems to be easier to play with at the moment.

7- Does my logline fit?: Yes, I believe so.

Comments always welcome here. 🙂

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Paulette L. Harris What I learned about this assignment is: A natural progression that goes from bad to worse until character “gets it” and wants to change for the better…or worse!

1: Gradient is forced change

2: Emotion is Denial of failure and excitement of a new environment

3: Move to a new church in a new state.

4: Challenge is hope and overconfident.

1: Satan starts to use other people to dis-agree with him, he is questioning and defending himself, Satan is using his mirror and becoming bolder in showing himself/Ink. Pastor Don becomes double-minded and fear begins to creep in.

2: He begins to divide the body…especially the men from the women.

3: challenge, how to defend himself and his vision.

1: Fear

2: Begins to drink alcohol.

3: Try to keep members from leaving the body of Christ as things begin to unfold in the public arena.

The remaining members have stayed and prayed for the family, the church body wins with God’s help and Satan loses his bet.

4: Pastor Don loses church…forced retirement…he has still not learned his lesson but as he stops on a trip, he has a heart attack. He runs into his assistant pastor who left the church long before Pastor retired. Luckiely, he is ministered to and learns the truth as he is truly saved by repenting and learning to pray and fight the enemy of his soul.

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Paulette L. Harris Part 4B Analysis of Dead Poets Society

1-This change is all about teaching a classroom of boys to learn to think for themselves and make (hopefully) good decisions for themselves.

2-Lead Characters: Robin Williams, (John Keating) is the new teacher who brings new ideas into the classroom. He is the change agent. He is a happy man, excited to teach the boys as he lives it and he loves teaching. He will not ever change.

Transformable character: The boys in the classroom begin to make the change, they find it fun to learn and practice the changes rather than the old boring repetitve ways. The boys are young and impressionable, ready to try new ideas, they are the perfect group. One of the boys was focused on as the 1st excited leader, but I don’t remember who it was. He was positive and bold as a leader. Well-liked.

Oppression: The old ways of the headmaster and senior teachers, the board members,and the parents, especially those who are trying to guide or live through their sons. One mother notices but too weak to stand up to her husband.

3-Connection: Everyone wants to be free to make their own choices at some point in their lives, even if they are the wrong choices. There’s something exciting about freedom and running in it. Gets the juices of excitement and joy of life flowing, also there’s something to be said about have a type of euphoria when one rebells.

4-Most of the students are changed the most, although probably the boy’s parents that committed sucide changed their thinking. Perhaps more parents and staff. Change from the old way of thinking and teaching…formal, old-fashioned, constrictive to fun, upbeat, positive, with some humor, not so stuffy.

5-The boys actually under several “hands on” experiences that had nothing to do with poetry, learned to have fun with life and decisions that they began to make, including their club in the cave where they could discuss further thoughts freely.

6-They were changing in front of the school leadership and beginning to rebel, for the most part in a good way. But it left a couple of the boys confused as to right/wrong rules in the school system that they were attending.

7-profound moments, one student committed sucide, one caved in at the end and wouldn’t get on his desk, one got up as Robin Williams left the class room and shouted Carpa diam.

The betraying character was Richard Cameron.

8-Carpa Diam.

9-The boys are free, I was sad to see John Keating leave, but it seemed satisfying because he will never change. He was true to himself.

10-Profound Truth was be true to yourself. I personally love this movie!

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Paulette Harris’s Lead Characters

What I learned about this assignment is that it’s okay to play with the characters. Much to my surprise, I found out that they intertwine and could play several parts between the four elements. Now, I’m working on creating one outstanding characteristic that will help seperate them as they subtly begin to show their strengths and weaknesses.

LOGLINE: A narcissistic Pastor must learn the truth of his profession with unbelievable lessons as God and Satan agree to turn over a Church Body for Satan to control for a year.

1-Change Agent: Pastor Don Stuart comes from a long line of church pastors in a non-denominatial church in the United States.

Charismatic, athletic, good-looking, materalistic, and a good listener, he uses these things to manipulate his congregation. He is unaware of evil forces calling the shots in his congregation.

He struggles to get his vision across to America, although he is an expert in marketing his vision and his new book, How to Make Your Marriage Better. He needs to move to a better place, California would be good. He believes he’s outgrown his mid-western congregation, time to move to bigger and better places.

2-Transformable Character: Church body, some members will go along with this vision to a certain point.

3-Oppression: Satan is the driving force, using Ink as his on-site 24/7 demon.

4-Betraying Character: I think perhaps Pastor’s family and some members of the congregation. They all pray for Don and begin to side against him when he won’t change his beliefs, they either stay or leave to find biblical truth elsewhere. Things become evident and the people involved must make choices. Mary Stuart, Stevie and his Father Tom. Jane and Angela.

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What I learned doing this assignment is far more layers came out as I answered these questions and it’s exciting that I can see that I just may be able to get this story fine-tuned. I feel as if I’ve been helped a ton since starting this the other day. Things are coming together.

I do have a question though on the Logline? Are we supposed to write a name for our transformable character as well as the adversary? And, should this logline be broken into two sentences to make it clearer? I am surprised at how fast this came together for me. There are so many facets to this story.

1- LOGLINE: A narcissistic pastor must learn the truth of his profession with unbelievable tough lessons as God agrees to a year of control over a modern day church by Satan and his demons.

2-OLD WAYS: Pastor comes from a midwest old-fashioned traditional church. His father, grand-father, and great-grandfather are almost cultish in their beliefs in the church they started, making an attempt to form a new way of thinking, teaching, and preaching. Pastor believes he is in control and on the verge of making the “perfect church” as soon as he can get his latest book out on The American Marriage and How to Make it Better. All the experts say……

3-NEW WAYS: Pastor must learn and humbly that God’s ways of Marriage are far different than the experts and that there truly is Good and Evil.

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Six scripts

Fine-tune and re-write what I have finished

A better way to write. Hal makes the difficult process of script writing and re-writes much easier to understand and apply.

I am an accomplished writer/novelist who loves to write most different genres but love writing scripts the most. I’ve converted my novels into screenplays. I love to research and learn. I also enjoy challenges and am signed up for Surviving Producers notes, I understand the need for them and agree with what Hal has introduced us to on his recording. I want to be able to respond and work well with them.

I’ve gotten off to a slow start but am trying to catch up so I can get in line with the next class on Surviving Producers notes.

Some unusual aspects about me…I am a United States Air Force Veteran who recently lost her Air Force Veteran to the horrors of war, that’s a big part of my being so far behind with ScreenwritingU but every day gets better.

I love horses, my first novel is about a Peruvian Paso, golf, cats, humans (most of the time)! 🙂

I have written, directed, and produced a “short” and won an Evangelista award in “168” with a team. It was a contest to begin with so we were pumped that it got an award. It was written, directed, and produced by all of us.

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Subject Line: Paulette L. Harris profound truth: Good wins over evil. Audience change:God loves his people and will help them. Entertainment: Comic relief as allegory Saten and a his top demon take over, occassionally Ink, makes a mistake and reveals himself.

What I learned about this assignment is that I can do this. I’ve had this for a long time and had trouble getting it into script. I wrote a novel, but it’s way too long to put into a feature film and I’ve been working hard to trim it down into tight sucinct scenes with a few good dialogue lines.

I’m very encouraged at this point, especially since I think I can keep up with the classes too and go deeper which is my hope, this could have many layers. This is fiction so it may be that it will be an embellished as-it-happened conflict. This is a Christian Church Body and the main background for scenes is the church interior and office.

The cause: God and Satan are alive and well in the Church body on Earth, in fact, it’s Satan’s favorite place to be. Can’t make up my mind as to which character is more fun to live through and cause such a ruckus! While serious and eye opening, there is a ton of redemption and surprise elements.

As a result, I’m so happy I signed out for this class. Hal teaches in such a way that “I get what he attempts to teach me” I understand his methods better than other classes I’ve paid for in other companies and I’m glad I’m here. I expect that I will be able to make this better and better and I feel positive about it, whereas, I was feeling pretty down and hard on myself that I couldn’t get it the way I was trying to do it earlier.

So now, I will go and make popcorn and watch another movie on the list for this class. 😔🤨😌😄

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1-Change is envitable and nothing will change until Phil is ready (sick and tired of repetition, bored) He has to be willing to change and get Rita, the girl he has always been attracted to.

2-Phil and Rita are the lead characters, Rita is the one causing the change and Phil is the Transformable character.

3-Phil’s boredom and negative attitude about everyone and everything is the Oppression. Loser is oppression if one believes he’s a loser, then he’s lost.

4-I think Phil changed the most from a negative person to a happy positive person and outlook on life. He changed from being a negative mean person towards others (narcissistict) I believe…the world owes me everything. He became a nice, thoughtful caring person towards his fellow man dare I say, even helpful without being asked. 🙂

5. Each morning, he had to wake up and change something in his life from negative to positive. I think the broken pencil was a strong scene for me and a hint of change.

6. Phil finally got to the point where he literally was forced to by staring at that broken pencil and Rita was vocal about his nasty attitudes as well. That shook him up when he realized he had to “listen” to what she liked. Not only that but he realized the importance of really getting to know her likes and dislikes, he surprised himself as he applied what he was learning about her likes/dislikes and her positive attitudes were rubbing off on him as well.

7. Although I was listening, I didn’t catch some of the profound dialogue. But, the scenes and her positive life were great. I liked the pencil, the bar scene where he finally got to the point of buying Rita a drink and finding out what she liked, then ordered the same for himself as he ordered a couple days later, it seemed like he had a break through with her. Also, the kids snowball scene and the day he hugged the old friend, insurance salesman and it was over the top, chased the guy away. To me these were all breakthroughs.

Another funny thing to me was the awful efforts to committ sucide and poor guy…nothing worked! No matter how hard he tried, it just wasn’t his time!.

8. I didn’t get the profound lines too well here, I was laughing too hard I think. 🙂

9. The payoff was Phil became positive, Rita’s personality rubbed off on him and they got each other and fell in love. Phil’s greatest wish, probably Rita’s too. There were a couple of hints on her part that she liked him at first, then didn’t and called him on his behavior, then he changed.

10. The profound truth of this movie is that we all have to make choices to change and be more positive at negative circumstances. Treat each other well and you will for the most part be treated nicely back. You reap what you sow, although trite, seems to be the truth for me.

No one likes to be around a negative selfish person all the time.

Love this movie. Paulette L. Harris