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Kathleen’s profound map

What I learned from this assignment how to incorporate everything from the previous assignments to make my screenplay more profound.

What is the profound truth – Where you were born doesn’t define your destiny

What is the transformational journey?

Old Ways: Cassie is an insecure, recent valedictorian of her college. She has acute business savvy that is unsurpassed, but her social skills are lacking because of her appearance (thin, almost “Twiggy” like); therefore, she struggles with public speaking and selling herself to be successful.

New Ways: Though still a bit nervous, she presses forward and becomes the dynamic force in the business world that, at one time, was only a dream.

logline: The insecure daughter of a mistress, upon her father’s death, is bequeathed partnership in the family business if she joins forces with her unscrupulous siblings to save the company.

Change Agent: Mia Stone, best friend.

Transformational Character: Cassie Jenkins

Betraying Character: Rhonda West

Oppression: The timeline.

How do you connect with your audience in the beginning of the movie?

Relatability: Most can relate to stage fright.

Intrigue: Who is the man whose should we are looking over?

Empathy: We empathize with Cassie who has low self-esteem and don’t

Likeability: Cassie is a good person with flaws. People can identify with her.

Gradient of the Change:

Forced: Denial – That she could be a part of the Company

Anger – She was angry at the fact her sister didn’t want her there.

Bargaining – Asking her sister what can she do for them to work together

Depression – Nothing was working.

Acceptance – She knew she was on her own.

Desired: Excited to work at her father’s company

Doubt: Doubt that she would fit in.

Hope: that somehow they could work together

Discouragement: Because of the sabotage of her sister.

Courage: To stand up and win over the office.

Triumph!

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Kathleen’s Height of Emotion

What I learned from this assignment is that at the height of emotions, we should not settle for the first thought that comes, but look at varied ways.

1. When Cassie learns of her father’s death. “When I needed him in the past, he wasn’t there. When I need him in the future, he won’t be there; no difference.

2. At the funeral repast, Rhonda stood up and made a scene with the intent on making an uncomfortable situation, worse for Cassie. She said to the family, “True Wests have a certain pedigree. True Wests have sophistication, distinction and class.”

3. At the will reading, Cassie was challenged not to join the company because she is a bastard baby. She said, “Like it or not, West blood is running through my veins”.

4. T.T. told Cassie, “Welcome to the family. You are where you belong.” When Cassie could finally speak through her tears, she said, “More than job, money or power, this is what I wanted”.

2. What I learned is there are a variety of ways of using the same saying for emphasis.

Excuses, excuses: Mia said that to Cassie when Cassie complained about the new business wardrobe being too tight, not the right color, or anything negative.

Rhonda shouts this to Cassie when Cassie couldn’t balance the fake ledger.

Cassie says this to Rhonda when the Board want to know what part did Rhonda play in the project to save the company. Rhonda said she was occupied with other important matters.

Cassie goes from being a shy person with excuses to a bold person who won’t accept excuses.

West Blood: Rhonda declares at the will reading that West blood should only run West Refrigeration. This was to exclude Cassie and demean her in front of the family.

When Rhonda says only West blood can run the Company, Cassie responds, “It’s a good thing I have West blood running through my veins.

The Board announces that Cassie was responsible for saving the Company. She replied, “As my sister so proudly says, Only West blood should run West Refrigeration.'”

Cassie went from being excluded by others and being included on her own terms.

Better to be seen, not heard: Nichelle told Cassie this when she was going to the will reading. In other words be quiet and keep your mouth shut.

When Cassie walked into Rhonda’s secret team meeting and boldly sat down. All eyes on her. She said, “You know the old saying, it’s better to be seen, not heard. I’m just here to listen.”

T.T. found out about the arguments between Cassie and Rhonda and told Cassie to wait her turn. At the right time it will happen, just be quiet and learn about the business and in a few years, you’ll be ready. It’s better to be seen, not heard. Cassie retorted, “The saying is CHILDREN are to be seen and not heard. I am not a child; I’m a grown woman and will be bullied no longer.”

Cassie went from believing what others thought was best to doing what’s best for herself.

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Kathleen Delivers Irony

I learned doing this assignment is that irony is a way to make the audience think and it’s a way of teaching a lesson with lecturing.

Step 1. Where could you build opposite experiences into your screenplay?

With the conversation between Cassie and her mother.

Step 2. What is the New Way / Insight you want to deliver through them?

Nichelle, Cassie’s mother, wants her to meet her father’s family and work at the company, but Cassie was afraid. New way is that Cassie is open and up for the Challenge. Open herself up to knew opportunities, but she seems to have forgotten Nichelle’s side of the family because of all of the hours she spend at work and visiting new family members.

Come up with at least five (5) different ways you can create IRONY in your screenplay and deliver an insight.

1.For the example above: IDENTITY: Reaching your potential, but alienating those you love.

2. When reporting to the Board on how to save the company, Rhonda makes the presentation because of Cassie’s stage fright. Cassie did all the work, but Rhonda gets the accolades. CREDIT: Do something amazing, but the credit goes to another.

3. Rhonda’s team mixes fake documents among Cassie’s papers causing her to think she has found the solution. The Board notified her that her figures were wrong and reminded her of the stakes. DEALS: A special deal that turns out to be worthless.

4. Mason told Cassie he had found the real figures in Rhonda’s office. This is the way to gain control of your father’s company. REASONS: Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.

5. Cassie nervously watched Mia bagged all of her (Cassie’s) oversized clothes and gave them to the needy. WIN/LOSS: a loss that is really a win.

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Kathleen Delivers Insights Through Conflict

What I learned doing this assignment is the variety of interesting ways to show conflict.

With your list of the New Ways/Insights you want audiences to experience, go through these steps:

I want the audience to experience inclusion. It could show up when Cassie comes to the house for the repast. Public Humiliation as everyone knows her background.

I want the audience to experience acceptance. It could show up when the Board accepts her into the Company as one who can help fix the problems. This can happen through competition with Rhonda.

Mia and Cassie shopping for appropriate business for self-esteem: Though not a negative conflict, Mia had to use the direct approach to change Cassie’s mind about her appearance.

Verbal abuse is used to get Cassie to sign the agreement at the Will reading.

Misunderstanding when the staff doesn’t back up Cassie. Once she opens up, they are on her side.

5 Ways to use conflict

Argument

Power Struggle

Verbal Abuse

Plan goes wrong

Misunderstanding

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Kathleen’s Seabiscuit Analysis

1. What I learned doing this assignment is that profound moment don’t just happen in dialogue. I can be a look, or involve an inanimate object or an action.

Profound Moments:

Red made $2.00 and brought home to the family. He was proud and his father was astonished. This was profound to me that even as a child, he wanted to help his family.

The parents knew they couldn’t take care of him and saw he had a gift with horses. This broke my heart because you can tell his father loved him. He unselfishly wanted his son to have a better life.

Red was forcing himself to throw up to stay thin because that was the norm for jockeys. He was putting his life on the line for a career he loved.

The trainer told Red that he would rather Red be strong than thin. He cared about Red as a person verses just a pay check if they won a race.

When Red and Seabiscuit made a comeback after they both wounded their leg. The connection Red and the Horse had caused them to work together to come from behind and win.

2. Kathleen Turns Insights into Action

I want the audience to experience:

inclusion, acceptance, family bond, high self esteem, self-love

Cassie wore bulky clothes to look fatter. Mia show her ways to dress to compliment her body thus giving her higher self-esteem. Scene shows Mia and Cassie trying on clothes for Cassie’s first day at work. At first Cassie picks all the wrong, drab, bulky clothes, then we see her trying trendy, modern clothes that makes her look successful.

Rhonda told Cassie at the will reading that she is bastard child, a mistake and she will never be a part of the family. Cassie gets up and sign the agreement to follow her late father’s wishes.

Cassie’s coworkers accept her. At first in the office, they ignore her. The walk past her when she tries to talk to them. She is invisible. So she hides in her office. When she realizes she needs a team to help her succeed, there will be a montage of her coming out of her office and greeting them in the mornings, they drop things on the floor and she picks it up, solving problem. Things that endear her to them.

Cassie is afraid to go to her father’s funeral although it has been a dream to be a part of his family. After helping to stabilize the family business, she was asked to come to the family reunion and she was treated 100% better than at the funeral.

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Kathleen’s Living Metaphors

What I learned in this assignment is to be sure to have them experience failure to help the audience feel empathy.

Should Work, but Doesn’t

1. The night before her first day at the Company, Cassie tried on her regular bulky, baggy clothes to hide her skinny frame. Nia tells her point blank, not to revert back to that 7 year old girls trying to hide in plain sight. She is a business executive and her old way is no longer appropriate.

2. At her father’s will reading, Cassie tried to be quiet and disappear into the crowd and not call attention to herself. It didn’t work. Rhonda took advantage of her as she had done in the past. After being maligned for a few moments. Cassie had a change of attitude and accepted the challenge.

3. Cassie came into the office building and went straight to her office, closed the door. She took solace in being along. Still the scared introvert. After Rhonda began rumors about her, she found that she was no longer good alone, but she needed a team to help her maneuver the business world.

4. Cassie became comfortable working with her team and ignoring Rhonda and her negative energy. Separating herself from negative people used to work, but the Board reminded her that according to her father’s will, the siblings had to work together.

5. Logan declares his love for Cassie. She withdraws out of fear of being hurt because men always have. This should have worked, but the pain of seeing him ignoring her in the office everyday was throwing her “off her game”. She decided to give it a chance and let him in.

Living Metaphors

1. Cassie’s bulky clothes was a metaphor for her hiding place so people couldn’t see the real Cassie. Mia helped her to see her true beauty with a new outfit and encouraging words.

2. Cassie hesitating to go through the door of her father’s company door. The door was the metaphor of a brand new life or keeping the old way.

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Kathleen’s Counterexamples

What I learned is how to expand on making profound changes.

5 Questions that challenge old ways.

Old Ways: Cassie: I can’t rescue my Father’s company. I just graduated from College. He should not have put that burden on me. Challenge: Nichelle: a. Your father knew you and he were cut from the same cloth, didn’t he? b. Aren’t you Valedictorian from Washington University School of Business? Cass stops in front of West Refrigeration, her Father’s business, shaking, not from fear, but excitement. She walks through the door.

Cassie: I don’t know if I should go to my father’s funeral. Some of them never accepted me. They’ll stare and whisper like I’m a freak. Old memories triggering me…I can’t do it. Challenge: Nichelle: You have every right to be there. c. Isn’t Monroe West your father? d. Didn’t his wife ask you to attend? e. Hasn’t it always been a desire to be a part of that family? Cassie: “Yes, ma’am.” With that she slipped into her black dress.

Counterexample:

Cassie: I don’ t know what to wear. (looking in the mirror) Everything makes me look talk and skinny and–Mia: Look, girl. Stop it right now. Most girls would kill to be your size. You’re the size of a supermodel. You’re the only one I know that can wear horizontal strips. Here, try this on. Cassie: Hmmmm, Okay, You always know the right thing to say. (looking at the outfit and with a new attitude) you just may need to be my personal shopper.

Rhonda (antagonist) spread’s rumors that Cassie’s position was only because her father felt guilty about his bastard baby. Counterexample: The office staff rallied behind Cassie because they see her as a very capable boss who cared about the success of the company and them.

Cassie was always “squeaky clean”. Logan Mason (Cassie’s love interest) secretly went through Rhonda’s desk and took files to help Cassie. Logan: Nobody likes a traitor, do they? Cassie: It depends on who they’re betraying. (Logan puts file on her desk) Cassie: Thank you, I will never forget this. Logan: I’m counting on it.

(Cassie vomiting in the restroom from stage fright) Nichelle: Come on girl. Get it together! Cassie: Mama, I’m trying. You know my bodily fluids have a mind of their own when I get stage fright. Nichelle: You’re Valedictorian and in 10 minutes you will make the greatest speech of your life. This is what you do, go out to the podium and picture everyone naked. Cassie: Naked? Mama I can’t…oh, ok. (Onstage) Cassie straightens her index cards and looks up. A great big smile comes across her face.

At Cassie’s father’s will reading, Cassie was so uncomfortable as all eyes were on her. She didn’t move. No. She was afraid to move. As Rhonda spoke rudely about how Cassie had not right to be there and this was daddy’s mistake that he felt guilty about, a metamorphosis to place within her. She jumps to her feet and loudly proclaims, “I accept the challenge to help my sister, yes MY sister and brother save my father’s company.

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1. Kathleen’s 12 Angry Men Analysis

What I learned is to pose challenges to my characters to give them depth by trying to overcome the challenge are surrender and agree with the challenger.

Assumption of guilt: What’s the difference how long it takes? We honesty think he’s guilty. So supposing we finish in 5 minutes. Challenge: Let’s take an hour. The ball game doesn’t start until 8:00. He was challenged to “cool his jets”, not to be in such a rush.

Just Want this over: I got tickets to a ball game tonight. This better be fast. Challenge: This was blatantly ignored by the foreman and they just kept moving forward. Sometimes you don’t have to say anything. Again, impatience. His mind is made up and believe everyone agrees.

Not caring: Children from slum backgrounds are potential menaces to Society. #5 said “I lived in the slum all my life.” He challenged him by say, you are talking about me if you are talking about a slum boy. The young man is just another one of “them”.

Prejudice: I mean THEY’RE all liars. Challenge: Only an ignorant man can believe that. He had to be challenged on his racism. He put it right in the man’s face.

Assuming the Witnesses were accurate. #12 asks, “What do you mean, suppose they were wrong? What’s the point of having witnesses at all? #8 challenged him with a questions. Could they be wrong?

Assuming the evidence is not questionable. #4 said, “Everyone connected with the case identified the knife.” #8 challenged with “It’s possible the boy lost the knife and that someone else stabbed the father with a similar knife.”

2. Kathleen’s Old Ways Challenge Chart

1. Assuming where you are born determines your value. Mom challenges Cassie by telling her, It’s not where you come from, but where you are going.

2. You’ll never be a part of this family! Cassie asserts herself by telling Rhonda, “We may have different mothers the blood of my father runs warm in both of our veins.

3. Cassie was told she was a Bastard born out of adulatory. Cassie’s mother told her, “You are a child born out of love. I loved your father.

4. You will never learn how to run this business. Cassie replied, ” I just graduated Valedictorian from one of the most prestigious colleges in the nation and I am up for the challenge.

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Kathleen’s Profound Ending

1. Profound Truth – Accepted or not you can still make a profound impact. Cassie’s business savvy will cause her to be instrumental in saving the family business.

2. Cassie will be confident; no more stage fright because she has the support of her new family and colleagues. The entire firm and Board of Directors support her. Though Rhonda hasn’t changed, she accepts the fact that Cassie knows business.

3. Those workers who were against her is now on her side. rose thanks her. She tells Cassie that what her father and mother did was not her fault. They invite her to the West Family Reunion. Rhonda still won’t accept her as her sister and sulks alone.

4. There was NO hostile take over. It was a ploy to get the siblings together. The Lawyer looks guilty, the Board Chairman looks guilty, but they were in on it.

5. At the family reunion, the song “We are Family” is playing in the background.

6. What I have learned: To think of a variety of endings to make my play profound

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Kathleen’s Connection with Audience

What I learned is a way to add depth to my characters

Characters I will intentionally create a connection with the audience:

Cassie, Rhonda, Rose and T.T.

Cassie: A Relatability – we all have had stage fright and insecurities. C. Empathy – according to statistics almost half of the children in the U.S. is born out of wedlock. D. Likeability – She shows how she is down to earth and how she is kind.

T.T.: A. Relatability – She stands up and has empathy for the underdog. B. Intrigue – Why are those painting and model of Noah’s ark in the locked room? D. Likeability – She is honest, but loving.

Rose: C. Empathy – she’s be a dutiful wife and mother, but has been cheated on unknowingly for years.

Rhonda: Intrigue – her tricks to thwart Cassie’s Plans. Relatability – someone coming to take your place.

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Kathleen’s connection with the Audience

What I learned was a way to add depth to my characters.

1. Which characters are you going to intentionally create a connection with the audience?

Cassaundra (Cassie), TT, Rose and Rhonda

2. Cassie-A. Relatability: Most all have had stage fright and insecurities. C. Empathy-27-47% of children are born out of wedlock In the United States. Many will understand the struggle. D. Likeability. Show her naiveite’ and down to earthiness.

TT (Thea West)-A Relatability- She stands up for the underdog. B. Intrigue-Why are there paintings of Noah’s Ark in her room? D. Likeability – She is honest, but loving.

Rose-A. Relatability and C-Empathy: Others have had their husbands to cheat.

Rhonda – A. Someone coming to take your place. B. Intrigue – Her scheme to thwart Cassie’s plans.

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Kathleen’s Transformational Structure

Transformational Logline: The insecure daughter of a mistress joins forces with her unwilling siblings to save the family business from a hostile take over.

Change Agent: Mia Stone

Transformational Character: Cassaundra Jenkins

Emotional Gradient: Desired change for Transformational Character.

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Kathleen’s Three Gradients

What I learned from doing this assignment is: The assignment help me with getting to know my character more. It helped me brainstorm what challenges and weakness she has.

Excitement Graduating from College as Valedictorian. C. To find a career in business

W. Naïve

Doubt Job offers are few. Maybe start a business. C. In need of Direction

W. Indecisive

Hope After father’s death, in his will, she is given C. Never worked in Corporate

an opportunity to be a partner in his Company setting.

if she can save it from a takeover W. Insecurity

Discouragement Her step sister is sabotaging her C. Not being accepted

chance for success W. Wanting acceptance

Courage Her business savvy kicks in and solves C. Confronting her sister

the problem. W. Non-confrontational

Triumph The entire firm sees her worth and

welcomes her as a permanent partner C. Her sister lies to the Board

W. Afraid they would believe

her sister.

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Kathleen Gamble First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is…? In order to answer these questions, it was a must that I think of my movie in a more profound way.

1. What is your profound truth? Others Don’t Define Your Destiny.

2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience? Don’t count people out because they are not your definition of a success.

3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle..? The cause is the backgrou

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Kathleen’s Lead Characters

What I learned from this assignment is to give more consideration to the actions of my characters.

Logline: The insecure daughter of a mistress, upon her father’s death, is bequeathed partnership in the family firm if she joins forces with her unwilling siblings to save the business from ruin.

The Change Agent-Monroe West, Cassie’s dead father, sets the change in motion by his instructions in his Last Will and Testament. His Lawyer, Lincoln James, sees to it that the instructions are kept and guides Cassie through the change.

The Transformable Characters-Cassie Jenkins, though smart is a whip in business, is lacking in confidence because of pass wounds.

The Oppression-The stress of the looming timeline of turning the family business around before it is ruined.

Betraying Character – Rhonda West, Cassie’s older sister, she wants everything to stay the way “daddy left it”. She is in denial that her hero’s firm was in trouble. He could do no wrong and was always right. So why should anything change?

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Subject Line: Kathleen’s Transformational Journey

What I learned doing this assignment is how to define my characters and to develop clear cut personalities for them.

Logline: The insecure daughter of the mistress, upon her father’s death, is bequeathed partnership in the family business if she joins forces with her unscrupulous siblings to save the firm.

Old Ways: Cassie is an insecure, recent valedictorian of her college. She has acute business savvy that is unsurpassed, but her social skills are lacking because of her appearance (thin almost “Twiggy” like); therefor she struggles with public speaking and selling herself to be successful.

New Ways: Though still a bit nervous, she presses forward and becomes the dynamic force in the business world that at one time only been a dream.

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Kathleen Gamble First Three Decisions

What I learned doing this assignment is…? In order to answer these questions, it was a must that I think of my movie in a more profound way.

1. What is your profound truth? Others Don’t Define Your Destiny.

2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience? Don’t count people out because they are not your definition of a success.

3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle..? The cause is the background

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Kathleen Gamble

———————QUESTIONS FOR THE MOVIE Groundhog Day——————-

We are looking at this movie from the perspective of the change that occurs for the lead character and the audience.

What is the CHANGE this movie
is about? What is the Transformational Journey of this movie? Going from
an arrogant, condescending man to a kindhearted thoughtful person.

For audience: From a person who is ungrateful to seeing value in other and loving life.

Lead
characters:

Who is the Change Agent (the
one causing the change)
and what makes this the right
character to cause the change? Rita. She becomes his love interest.

Who is the Transformable
Character (the one who makes the change)

Phil

and what makes them the right
character to deliver this profound journey?

He’s the one who needs a life lesson.

What is the Oppression? Time
(the calendar)

How are we lured into the
profound journey? What causes us to connect with this story?

The fact that a day repeats itself is intriguing. The audience is interested in what he is going to do each day to better himself. What would we do if we had a second chance to repeat a day?

Looking
at the character(s) who are changed the most, what is the profound
journey? From “old ways” to “new way of being.” Identify their old way:
Identify their new way at the conclusion:

Phil changes the most.

Old way: Egotistical, snarky weatherman. He detests his yearly Groundhog Day assignment and takes it out on the crew and local people of the town.

New way: Outgoing, friendly, and helpful to the locals.

What is the gradient the
change? What steps did the Transformational Character go through as they
were changing?

1. Sarcastic and condescending; unhappy.

2. Not good at his job (got the weather wrong)

3. Thinks he is famous

4. Reluctantly goes to Punxsutawney and takes it out on co-workers

5.Rude to the local people.

6. As Groundhog day continues to repeat itself. He uses his knowledge to take advantage of the people.

7. He gradually changes as he falls in love with Rita.

8. His plan backfires as he is not genuinely changing. He repeatedly tries to commit suicide because he can no longer take it, but that doesn’t work either.

9. He wakes up one Groundhog Day and he decides to become the man he should have been all along, a genuinely good person.

10. All the townspeople love him and Rita notices his change and she loves him too.

11. He wakes up with Rita by his side in bed and they live happily ever after.

How is the “old way”
challenged? His old way is
challenged when he sees that his way of living, thinking and acting was
keeping him in a time warp in which he could not escape.

What beliefs are challenged that cause a main character to shift their perspective…and make the change?

His arrogance. Rita told him that he only loved himself.

What are the most profound
moments of the movie?

All the moments when he rescued and saved the townspeople. He convinced Rita to stay the night in order to believe him. He gave the beggar money after snubbing him. He tried repeatedly to save the beggar’s life. The nurse said it was the man’s time to die.

What are the most profound
lines of the movie?

Phil to Rita: The 1^st time I saw you, something happened to me. I never told you. I know I wanted to hold you as hard as I could.

Phil: I don’t deserve someone like you, but if I ever could, I swear I would love you the rest of my life.

Insurance man to Phil: Phil, this is the best day of my life.

Phil response: Me too.

How does the ending payoff the
setups of this movie?
Phil had resolved that if that was
the way his life was going to be, he was going to live it as a genuinely
good thoughtful person no matter what,

What is the Profound Truth of
this movie? A change of heart can change your future.

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[Kathleen Gamble]

Hi, my name is Kathleen Gamble. I usually write Christian Plays here in the St. Louis area, but recently began writing screenplays with a message and thought this would be the right course for me. I am in the process of writing a screenplay that can deeply touch and change lives, but I want to go deeper and make it PROFOUND.

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