Dwight Tincher
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Hi everybody!
My name is Dwight Tincher.
I have written two screenplays.
The main thing I want to get out of this class is to gain the skills needed to earn a career as a writer.
As far as something unique about me, I was born in Washington D.C. when Eisenhower was president. Not only is he the one I was named after, but he also fed me one of my first bottles.
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This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by Dwight Tincher. Reason: I forgot to mention how many screenplays I have written
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I learned so much from today’s teleconference. In no particular order – Immediately summarize and apply new knowledge. Learn from success and don’t get disappointed. Network and congratulate new success stories. If you don’t have the rights, don’t write it. Constantly engage the creative mind, improve and seek breakthroughs. Anytime you see a difference, embrace it. Criticism is the opposite of creativity. Give extra feedback. I will be successful in this program and of course all the materials covered in the printout. And of course, Hal’s stories are worth every minute!
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Dwight Tincher
I agree to the terms of this release form.
1. That I will keep the processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class available to anyone who is not a member of this class.
2. That each writer’s work here is copyrighted and that writer is the sole owner of that work. That includes this program which is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that idea.
I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.
3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.
4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea prior to the beginning of the class. If Hal deems them to be the same idea or close enough to cause harm to either party, he’ll request both parties to present another concept for the class.
5. If you don’t present proof to Hal that you have the same idea as another person, you agree that all ideas presented to this group are the sole ownership of the person who presented them and you will not write or market another group member’s ideas.
6. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.
This completes the Group Release Form for the class.
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Dwight Tincher’s Level 2 Action Emotions
What I learned from this assignment is to accept turning in an assignment that isn’t the best it can be. Chopping up this scene to just emphasize the three elements felt like a cheat but if I used the whole scene, it would have been way too long.
I’m choosing a scene from towards the end of my outline. Because this scene in full is about 12 pages, I am editing it down for this assignment.
Scene
After the poachers’ elephant attack has been thwarted, our hero finds herself just regaining consciousness after being thrown from her team’s Humvee. She sees the head poacher walking towards her.
POACHER
You’ve ruined my plans for the last time, bitch.
As he walks towards Sage, she unholsters her pistol. She is just about to fire when from behind her she hears.
Ex-Friend/Traitor
Drop it marine!
Sage turns and is shocked to see her former friend with a rifle leveled at her head. As Sage drops her pistol the leader of the elephant herd walks up behind the poacher.
Sage
What the hell? I thought you were dead.
Ex-Friend/Traitor
Well guess what, I’m not. No thanks to you.
She turns to the poacher.
Ex-Friend/Traitor
She’s ruined two of our hunts, it’s time for her to die. Would do the honors for me.
Poacher
With pleasure.
Sage is sure she’s about to die as the poacher starts to bring up his rifle. That’s when the elephant nudges him aside. The poacher turns his rifle on the elephant who swipes him off his feet with his giant head.
While the poacher is down the elephant moves in close and looks him eye to eye. He rears back up and smashes his right foot down on the poacher’s head crushing it like a watermelon.
The traitor turns her rifle on the elephant but before she can fire, Sage sweeps her legs out from under her, dislodging the rifle. The two fight it out for a few minutes with each temporarily gaining the upper hand.
Finally, when the traitor is about to go in for the kill, from out of seemingly nowhere, the giant Cape Buffalo charges across the savannah and gores the traitor with his left horn. He carries her off about 20 feet before tossing her in the air and dumping her to the ground.
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Dwight Tincher’s Level 1 Action Emotions
This assignment taught me how to rework scenes adding depth and emotion into them.
I believe the opening scene in my screenplay provides the three emotions of anxiety, fear, and relief, three times.
The opening scene
Open on a sunset Massai tribal ceremony celebration a youth’s passage to manhood by going on a solo hunt and killing a lion. After the ceremony, as the young man starts his hunt, we hear rustling in the dark. The youth looks around but sees nothing. He starts breathing heavier, he unsheathes his knife, the rustling is getting louder. He starts to walk around a tree towards the sound of the rustling. Suddenly a Black Mamba snake strikes out at him from a limb on the tree. With one quick strike he slices off the snake’s head. He bends down, picks up the head and tosses it aside. He takes a deep breath; the rustling sound has stopped. He starts walking forward.
We switch POV to the back of the young man through the tall grass. We track him as he goes. Suddenly a cheetah pounces on his back and knocks him to the ground. The young hunter is bleeding now but manages to roll over, grab his knife and stab at the cheetah but his paw knocks the knife aside. Just then a young male lion jumps out of the tall grass and lands on the cheetah. The young hunter rolls out of the way, retrieves his knife, and climbs up a tree and out on a limb while the cheetah and lion battle to the death. After the lion sends the cheetah to its demise, he turns his attention to the youth. He attempts a couple futile leaps at the youth but cannot reach him.
Before the lion tries again, he is distracted by something across a small ravine. The lion crosses over the ravine while the young hunter inches his way out on the limb until he is above the edge of the ravine. There is a loud, but short struggle in the tall grass across the ravine. While the young Massai hunter peers over the limb, whatever survived the short struggle makes a path through the tall grasses moving closer to him. Suddenly the giant Cape Buffalo raises his head out of the grasses until he is eye to eye with the young Massai. With lightning speed, the giant beast opens his gaping mouth and attacks the young hunter and we cut to black.
The next scene opens on a firing range where our
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Dwight Tincher’s Favorite Twists!
What I learned during this assignment is that this is a great way to add depth and intrigue to the script.
Danger – Safety One of the hero’s team is about to be attacked by the giant beast when our hero jumps in to save him while risking her own life.
New threat – Unexpected support Our hero is about to be attacked by a lion when an unexpected ally saves her.
Plan fails – Plan succeeds After our hero’s transportation and communications are disabled and can no longer continue the hunt the team manages to MacGyver the transportation and get back in the game.
Identity or plan exposed – Identity hidden Our hero’s friend is exposed as a traitor and escapes only to show up again later.
Deceived – Surprising truth Our hero’s belief in her father’s past history turns out not to be true.
Attacked = Protected I already have this set up in the story 3 times.
Lost resources – New resources After losing most of their equipment during the poachers escape the hero’s team acquires new resources when they take the poachers down later.
It just got worse – It just got better In the final confrontation, the hero’s team has no more rifles, her father has been seriously injured by the giant beast, the other two surviving team members have also been seriously injured, and their transportation is severely damaged. The giant beast charges in for the kill when the team manages to kill it.
Unexpected weapon – Surprising response One of the hero’s team has a cute, friendly little pet monkey who always hides from danger until his master is about to be killed by one of the poachers. The monkey springs into action attacking the poacher and saving his master’s life.
Trap/trick – Escape This one is used by the poachers. The head poacher is an escape artist and releases himself from his handcuffs, frees his fellow poachers and they escape.
Reversal – Reverse the reversal Just when our hero captures her friend/traitor, the traitor turns the table and stabs our hero and escapes.
I am planning on using all the twists in my screenplay, if after it is done some don’t work, I can always cut/change them then.
My five favorite twists are, in no particular order; Identity – Identity/plan exposed – Identity hidden, unexpected weapon – surprising result, new threat – unexpected support, deceived – surprising truth, and It just got worse – It just got better.
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Dwight Tincher’s Likability/Empathy/Justification
What I learned from this assignment is that not only does it help connect the audience to the hero it also is a great way to add depth to the scenes.
Likability/Lovability
A. She is respected by her C.O., she is also loved and respected by the Kenyans she works with.
B. She loves the people and the wildlife of Kenya.
C. She strives to protect those who need help.
D. She helps save a baby elephant injured in the first poachers’ attack.
E. She shares jokes with her partners while on patrol.
F. She is loving and giving.
G. She defends her fellow marines and the wildlife.
Empathy/Distress
A. She suffers the loss of a good friend who turns out to be a traitor, she suffers from an estrangement from her father.
B. She is searching for a place to call home.
C. Hunting the giant beast takes her away from her friends.
D. She must try to kill her good friend.
E. Shooting her good friend.
F. Her friend stabs her before escaping.
Justification
A. The elephants are killed, and their tusks harvested. This is devastating to her because they are part of the wildlife she loves and is trying to protect.
B. The poachers try to kill her and her patrol.
C. She is injured stopping her good friend.
D. Some of her fellow marines are killed in the raid.
E. Her friend raids a supply depot, the poachers raid a herd of elephants.
I actually like all the ideas and am adding them to my outline, if they don’t work out, I can always cut them out later.
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Dwight Tincher’s Story Map
I learned that this method is a great way of fleshing out the structure and fitting all of the pieces together.
The opening scene is when a young tribal hunter goes on his quest to kill a lion and fulfill his passage to manhood. As he stalks his prey, the lion is killed by a giant unseen beast who then kills the youth.
A1 – I’ll start with the beast attacking the tribal hunter at night to introduce us to it and scare the audience, but it won’t be clearly seen.
V1A -The beast attacking a lone young tribal hunter in the dark
The next scene introduces our hero as she helps her fellow marines win small but an important battle.
M1 – A marine battle where our hero’s sharpshooting skills win the mission
A2 -Next I want to use the marine battle where our hero’s skills not only win the mission but seriously injure her former friend now turned traitor. This traitor will later turn out to be the head poacher’s boss
V1B – The poachers attacking a herd of elephants.
M2 – A confrontation between our hero and the elephant poachers.
A3 -Then we’ll have the poachers attacking the elephant herd followed by our hero’s confrontation and capture of the poachers. This will establish the poachers as lacking any morals and establish our hero as a proper hero.
The inciting incident is at the safari caravan’s lunch stop where the giant beast kills one of the tourists.
A4- I’ll finish the first act with the beast attacking a resting safari caravan, this will be the inciting incident to bring our hero in on the mission to kill the beast
V2A – The giant beast attacking a safari caravan and watering or resting herds.
The first turning point at the end of act one is when our hero sees the carnage and the photos of the attack. She decides she must lead the hunt to track down and kill the giant beast.
.A5 – I’ll build on that in the second act with a second attack of a safari by the beast to show his brutality and further establish the need to kill him.
M3 – The hero and her team chasing the wild beast
A6 – Due to logistics our hero’s team must take along the captured poachers as they start tracking the beast, this adds difficulty to the beast hunt and sets up later action scenes.
A7 – At the second attack site we are introduced to our hero’s father. We learn why he is important to the mission and how he actually killed one of the giant beasts years ago.
A8 – The team has to camp down for the night as a storm rages overhead. During the night, they are attacked by snakes and lions, I’ll admit this is some gratuitous action, but it also establishes just how dangerous a situation they are in.
M4 – Attacks from other predator animals during the search
The midpoint of the movie is when the poachers escape and disable the transportation and communication while killing and wounding members of our hero’s team. The mission changes from tracking the giant beast to one of survival.
A9 – After the attacks, the poachers escape, and in a shootout kill and injure members of our hero’s team and disable their transportation and communication, this heightens the stakes for our hero as she must find out some way to proceed and eventually succeed in her mission.
V2B – An escape and attack by the elephant poachers
A10 – In the third act, after the hero’s team has tended to the wounded and repaired their transportation, they give chase to the poachers
The second turning point at the end of act two is when our hero tracks down the poachers. Here she must also face off against her ex-friend turned traitor
A11 – This time they catch up with the poachers before they have started to attack the elephants. There is a battle between the poachers and the hero.
M5 – A second confrontation with the poachers during an elephant hunt.
V3B – The poachers starting a second elephant attack
A12 – The lead poacher is stomped to death by the elephant pack herd leader. The hero has a one-on-one battle with her former best friend turned traitor who was financing the poachers all along. After a fierce battle our hero kills the traitor, this sequence ends the threat from the poachers and scores a victory for our hero in one of her missions.
The crisis comes at the end of the showdown with the poachers when the giant beast suddenly attacks and injures our hero’s father. She must decide to either continue hunting the giant beast or rush her father to get medical attention
. A13 – Just when it ends the beast shows up and gores the pack leader and lifts it over its head before throwing it to the ground. The beast then attacks the poacher’s transportation before turning its attention towards our hero. She fires off a shot and hits it in the leg sending it tumbling down before getting up and hobbling back into hiding, this establishes the beast sheer strength but at the same time exposes a slight vulnerability
M6 – A battle with the giant beast with the beast coming out on top and disappearing
V3A – The beast chasing down our hero’s team
The climax is the final showdown with the giant beast. Our hero will not back down despite the insurmountable odds against her
. A14 – The hero’s team regroups and pursues the beast and in the final confrontation, more of the hero’s team are injured before the beast is killed in a fireball explosion, this is sequence is used to culminate the mission.
M7 – A final confrontation with the beast leading to his demise
The resolution is after the beast is killed our hero finally comes to peace with her father
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Dwight Tincher’s Action Structure
What I learned from this assignment is how to work on and improve the timing and structure of the screenplay.
The opening scene is when a young tribal hunter goes on his quest to kill a lion and fulfill his passage to manhood. As he stalks his prey, the lion is killed by a giant unseen beast who then kills the youth.
The inciting incident is at the safari caravan’s lunch stop where the giant beast kills one of the tourists.
The first turning point at the end of act one is when our hero sees the carnage and the photos of the attack. She decides she must lead the hunt to track down and kill the giant beast.
The mid point of the movie is when the poachers escape and disable the transportation and communication while killing and wounding members of our hero’s team. The mission changes from tracking the giant beast to one of survival.
The second turning point at the end of act two is when our hero tracks down the poachers. Here she must also face off against her ex-friend turned traitor.
The crisis comes at the end of the showdown with the poachers when the giant beast suddenly attacks and injures our hero’s father. She must decide to either continue hunting the giant beast or rush her father to get medical attention.
The climax is the final showdown with the giant beast. Our hero will not back down despite the insurmountable odds against her.
The resolution is after the beast is killed our hero finally comes to peace with her father.
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Dwight Tincher’s Action Track
What I learned from this assignment is that this is a great way to establish a really good starting outline from which to work.
Action Questions
Considering the concept from lesson 1, what action could naturally show up in this movie?
A marine battle where our hero’s sharpshooting skills win the mission. A confrontation between our hero and the elephant poachers. The hero and her team chasing the wild beast. Attacks from other predator animals during the search. A second confrontation with the poachers during an elephant hunt. A battle with the giant beast with the beast coming out on top and disappearing. A final confrontation with the beast leading to his demise.
Considering the mission and villain tracks, what action would work for this track?
The beast attacking a lone young tribal hunter in the dark. The poachers attacking a herd of elephants. The giant beast attacking safari caravans and watering or resting herds. An escape and attack by the elephant poachers. The poachers starting a second elephant attack. The beast chasing down our hero’s team.
How can the action start well, build in the second act, and escalate to a climax in the third act?
I’ll start with the beast attacking the tribal hunter at night to introduce us to it and scare the audience but it won’t be clearly seen. Next I want to use the marine battle where our hero’s skills not only win the mission but seriously injure her former friend now turned traitor. This traitor will later turn out to be the head poacher’s boss Then we’ll have the poachers attacking the elephant herd followed by our hero’s confrontation and capture of the poachers. This will establish the poachers as lacking any morals and establish our hero as a proper hero. I’ll finish the first act with the beast attacking a resting safari caravan, this will be the inciting incident to bring our hero in on the mission to kill the beast.
I’ll build on that in the second act with a second attack of a safari by the beast to show his brutality and further establish the need to kill him. Due to logistics our hero’s team must take along the captured poachers as they start tracking the beast, this add difficulty to the beast hunt and sets up later action scenes. At the second attack site we are introduced to our hero’s father. We learn why he is important to the mission and how he actually killed one of the giant beasts years ago. The team has to camp down for the night as a storm rages overhead. During the night, they are attacked by snakes and lions, I’ll admit this is some gratuitous action but it also establishes just how dangerous a situation they are in. After the attacks, the poachers escape and in a shootout kill and injure members of our hero’s team and disable their transportation and communication, this heightens the stakes for our hero as she must find out some way to proceed and eventually succeed in her mission.
In the third act, after the hero’s team has tended to the wounded and repaired their transportation they give chase to the poachers. This time they catch up with the poachers before they have started to attack the elephants. There is a battle between the poachers and the hero. The lead poacher is stomped to death by the elephant pack herd leader. The hero has a one on one battle with her former best friend turned traitor who was financing the poachers all along. After a fierce battle our hero kills the traitor, this sequence ends the threat from the poachers and scores a victory for our hero in one of her missions.. Just when it ends the beast shows up and gores the pack leader and lifts it over it’s head before throwing it to the ground. The beast then attacks the poachers transportation before turning its attention towards our hero. She fires off a shot and hits it in the leg sending it tumbling down before getting up and hobbling back into hiding, this establishes the beast sheer strength but at the same time exposes a slight vulnerability. The hero’s team regroups and pursues the beast and in the final confrontation, more of the hero’s team are injured before the beast is killed in a fireball explosion, this is sequence is used to culminate the mission.
The types of action I use are chase/pursuit, fight, shootout, rescue, escape, and dangerous situations.
The sequence of the action scenes is pretty much as described in the three act breakdown as is the purpose of each scene.
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What I learned from this assignment is that breaking down the villain’s plan and steps helps structure the story.
Villain Track Questions
Main Villain – Giant Cape Buffalo
A – As a wild beast, he doesn’t really he have a plan per se, he has urges and instincts driving him. First off, he has unrelenting urge to mate. Secondly, he needs to kill or destroy anything and anyone he feels is in his way or threatens him.
B – He can attack or kill the hero by goring her with his horns, biting her with his huge mouth and teeth, or trampling her underfoot.
C – The Beast has a tremendous size advantage, he is bigger than an elephant, he has a very thick and impervious hide, and he also has incredible speed. He uses that speed to track down his prey and his size and strength to overpower them. His thick hide makes him invulnerable to all but the most precise rifle shots.
D – A fitting end for the beast would have to be as big and strong as he is. I’m planning on using a huge explosion blowing him to bits.
Secondary Villain – Head Poacher
A – He has both a pre-existing plan and one created on the spot. His pre-existing plan is to kill a herd of elephants and harvest their tusks for the ivory. The plan created on the spot is to first escape from his captors, attack and disable them, recover his payday, and then go after another herd.
B – He attacks the hero by sabotaging their transportation and communications, also after retrieving their rifles they kill and injure members of the hero’s group.
C – His main advantages are his talent for escape, the number of poachers in his party, and the element of surprise which he exploits all of these at night in a storm after he is captured.
D – A fitting end for this villain would to be trampled to death by a large elephant.
Villain’s Plan
Main Villain’s Plan – Giant Cape Buffalo
Driving Force – He wants to mate and is willing to kill or destroy anything and everyone that either gets in his way or that he needs for survival.
Mistake – Attacking our hero’s tracking team.
Fitting Ending – He is killed in a horrific manner similar to the ways in which he killed others as he is blown to pieces in a giant explosion as falls into a gaping creavice in the earth.
Secondary Villain’s Plan – Head Poacher
Initial Plan – Hunt down and kill a large herd of elephants and harvest the tusks for ivory.
Setback – He and his crew are captured by our hero. His supplies and tusks are confiscated by our hero.
New Plan – To escape and sabotage the hero’s transportation possible while getting away with his supplies and tusks.
Mistake – Getting greedy and going after a second herd of elephants which allows our hero time to catch up to him.
Fitting End – He is attacked by an elephant who stomps him to death.
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The main thing I learned is that this is a much better way of working out the action. I’ve always just written without a plan, this way gives me a plan that works and can easily be adjusted as needed.
Mission Track Questions
A. The hero will go straight into the face of overwhelming odds because of her love for the land, people, and wildlife, also because of her sense of duty.
B. The mission that is the impossible goal is killing a seemingly unkillable giant beast.
C. The internal motivation that drives the hero is to protect the lives endangered by the beast. Her external motivation is learning of the death of an old friend.
D. If the hero goes on this mission she could succeed, she or her friends could fail and either die gruesome deaths or suffer injuries with lifelong consequences.
Mission Steps to Outline the Mission
A. Motivation – To protect the people, wildlife, and land she loves.
B. Inciting Incident – Witnessing the aftermath of the beast’s attack on the caravan.
C. First Action – Tracking down the report of a second attack.
D. Obstacle – Finding out her father has been assigned to assist in the hunt.
E. Escalation – While tracking the beast, a once in a decade storm deluges the land turning the ground to muck and forcing them to a stop while the wind picks up and thunder and lightning roar, grounding any helicopter air support.
F. Overwhelming Odds – While they are mired down the poachers who have escaped attack their camp to retrieve the weapons, killing one and injuring two of the tracking party while disabling their transportation and radio communication.
G. New Plan – Care for the wounded, bury the dead, repair the transportation, and track the poachers who have the only means of communication.
H. Full Out Attack – Final confrontation with the poachers. Our hero faces off and kills the poachers silent partner, her one time best friend from the Marines. The head poacher is killed brutally by the beast.
I. Success – The hero must use herself as bait to lure the beast away from one of fallen teammates. The action escalates until finally the hero’s father tricks her and sacrifices his life and kills the beast.
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Dwight Tincher Hero and Villain
What I learned doing this assignment is sometimes there is a better approach. Other times I discovered by trying different approaches I had the right one already.
The Hero is Sage Wilkinson a former Marine sharpshooter who now works to protect wildlife in Kenya from poachers. She is morally right because she strives to protect the innocent and those who can’t protect themselves.
The main Villain is a gigantic Cape Buffalo. Known locally as the widow maker or black death this particular Cape suffers from gigantism making it almost twice as large as normal. He kills wildlife and humans indiscriminately. I like to think of him as Jaws on land.
Now since he is only doing what his instincts are driving him to do, I can not say he is morally wrong. So, there is a second villain, the lead poacher. He kills elephants to remove their tusks for profit. He feels no remorse for hunting them towards extinction and actually takes pleasure in the killings.
My Hero’s unique skill set is that of a highly trained and disciplined Marine sharpshooter who spent her early years in Kenya and is a friend to many of the locals. In her downtime with the Marines she worked with the medical teams learning to care for wounds and injuries.
Her motivation is to help the people and animals of a land that she never stopped loving.
Her secret or wound is her lack of a relationship with her estranged father.
The main villain is unbeatable due to his sheer size, speed and strength. Furthermore due to the thickness and toughness of his hide only a precisely aimed rifle shot at the smallest of targets can bring it down.
While he doesn’t have a “plan” per se, we rely on the secondary villain whose plan is to bring in the largest haul of ivory possible.
The giant Cape Buffalo dies if the hero wins, while the poacher loses his payday and faces time in prison.
Sage is put into action when she is tasked with hunting down and killing the giant beast. As the weather worsens and her allies dwindle Sage must go beyond her training to succeed. Finally after dispatching the last of the poachers and those who betrayed her she is able to take out the giant beast with the help of her father.
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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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Hello everyone, my name is Dwight Tincher. I have written two scripts. With this class I want to learn how to take those scripts and some other ideas I have to the next level. Not all of them are action genre scripts, but they all have sequences of action in them and I figure I can use what I learn here and apply it to those scenes. Now let’s see what makes me unique? Well, I am a forty plus year cancer survivor and a former professional bowler in the 80’s (albeit not very successful). I’m finally at a place in my life where I can devote myself to writing full-time. I look forward to getting to know everyone here and I hope you enjoy my work or at least are not afraid to tell me where it needs improvement.
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Dwight Tincher, I agree to the terms of this release form. 1. That I will keep the processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class available to anyone who is not a member of this class.
2. That each writer’s work here is copyrighted and that writer is the sole owner of that work. That includes this program which is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that idea.
I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.
3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.
4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea prior to the beginning of the class. If Hal deems them to be the same idea or close enough to cause harm to either party, he’ll request both parties to present another concept for the class.
5. If you don’t present proof to Hal that you have the same idea as another person, you agree that all ideas presented to this group are the sole ownership of the person who presented them and you will not write or market another group member’s ideas.
6. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.
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