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Lisandro Boccacci

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April 21, 2023 at 12:24 am in reply to: Day 15 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Horror outline version 1

What I learned doing this assignment is how to keep track of the horror situations, and emotions.

LIVE CAM – HORROR SITUATION TRACK

ACT 1 – SET UP FOR HORROR

1. INT – COURTHOUSE / COURTROOM – DAY

The judge is reviewing a police body cam… showing a police chase on foot ending one officer accidently shooting another officer and then catching up to the suspect and using violent force to subdue the person, causing extreme harm.

Horror Situation: cop shoots other cop on accident. The officer slowly loses his energy. falling to the ground.

HORROR EMOTIONS

SURPRISE: the ex cop notices a cop is in distress.

APPREHENSION: Ex cop notices the shot cop not doing well. The officer slowly loses his energy. falling to the ground but he knows the suspect is still on the loose and dangerous.

SHOCK . The video continues to show the officer chases down suspect, fires at the suspect and hits him on the leg, and runs back to the officer screaming, “Officer down and I’m shot!” Starting to realize he shot his own partner.

Horror Situation: Starting to realize he shot his own partner.

FEAR: The officer calls for back up, and an ambulance… more shots are fired, and the officer has no clue what is happening.

SHOCK: More officers arrive and open vest of the office that has been shot.

Horror Situation: …they notice a bullet got through the vest, bleeding from bellow his armpit,

SURPRISE: They have to stop the bleeding. the officer runs after the suspect and catches up to the suspect and starts beating him to death.

Horror situation: the officer is beating suspect to death.

The officer is beating the suspect to death and another officer has to step in to stop him. Wrong place at the wrong time. The main officer has mistakenly shot at his partner.

After the camera footage ends, the focus is on the ex-cop sitting in the stand. He is the body cam officer in the courtroom opening scene and sitting the court room having to answer some hard questions. role: .Leader: intro: He gets called up on the stand as a witness.

2. EXT – COURTHOUSE – DAY

role: Moral One: Introduced: he is the one that picks the group up from the courthouse.

3. INT – BAR – DAY

Connect with the characters – The 3 main characters meet the victim of this crime for dinner and celebrate his innocence and wining his lawsuit. here at the party, we get to learn a little about everyone’s personality through their actions and how they speak. role: love interest/ lovers character intro: she meets the leader at the bar in the opening scene.

4. INT – PRISON – DAY

the ex-cop is in the worst of moods and gets in a fight with the other inmates. he is quick to get back on his feet and take control of the situation, uses weapons if he needs to.

Monster Reveal: the ex-cop is in the worst of moods and gets in a fight with the other inmates. (He has a bad temper, and its revealed he is strong, and can fight multiple men at once.)

5. INT – HOSPITAL – DAY

During his last year he gets his face cut up really bad and is sent to the hospital with his life clinging. After some time, he takes off his bandages to reveal his hideous scared face and left with a face without a nose. This one of the officers who was fired, sued, and sent to prison for three years. That changed him as a man. It has also left him disfigured. In prison his face was slashed up, and his nose was cut off. He wants his revenge.

6. EXT – PRISON – DAY

Monster Reveal: The ex-cop, with a bandaged face is let out of prison. it’s been three years.

7. INT – HOTEL – DAY

He makes it to hotel. uncovers his face, slowly but painfully…to reveal he is missing a nose… his face all cut up. he is seeing his face for the first time… his temper is out of control.

Monster Reveal: The ex-cop, with a bandaged face is let out of prison. He makes it to hotel. uncovers his face, slowly but painfully…to reveal he is missing a nose… his face all cut up. he is seeing his face for the first time… his temper is out of control.

he reacts to stress: by finding strength within and forcing his way. and starts to laugh at his horrific face. he enjoys it scaring people with his face.

8. EXT – HOUSE OF WAFFLES– NIGHT

The brother, Is the carrier character. character intro: he walks in with double fisting beer when the group is out celebrating. he is given a tip about where dirty cops work, he talks to his friend, just become a police officer, character bit of a rooky.

9. INT – LEADER’S HOME – NIGHT

The leader calls his driver friend and talks to him about the tip. while they are talking the driver sends the leader a link to a new article about the victim has gone missing, suspected dead. The driver wants to lay low and warns them against doing anything, but the leader convinces the driver to go through with one last video tonight. The leader tells everyone to get ready, that the driver was going to pick everyone up and get all together.

10. INT – DRIVER’S CAR – NIGHT

He stops by the younger brother’s house, picks him up, he drives to the Leader’s place and pick him up, and the older sister. They drive to the location. They talk about not doing it and going back, Denial of horror – the leader of the group reassured them that as long as they have their cameras rolling and know their rights, that they have nothing to worry about.

11. EXT – PARKING LOT – NIGHT

Before they can start streaming live, they are surrounded by the police cars in a secluded area away from the city.

Horror situation: the lights shining in their faces, blinding them… and the dark figures surrounding them… officers screaming at them.

Rescuer intro: he is part of the squad that surrounds the victims’ cars. the lights shining in their faces, blinding them… and the dark figures surrounding them… officers screaming at them. They pull out their cell phones and cameras and start streaming live to capture any wrongdoing. The officers begin to ask questions, see their ID, and threaten to arrest them for denying the request.

Horror situation: the officers begin to ask questions, see their ID, and threaten to arrest them for denying the request.

They talk back to the officers… telling them they know the law, there is no sign at the park that says that there is a curfew. The officers threaten them and continue to ask them to step out of the car.

Horror situation: the officers threaten them and continue to ask them to step out of the car.

They refuse to get out of the car and stand their ground. one of the officers grabs and pulls back on the window, smashing it and a fight the leader gets hand cuffed to the door. the complainer’s reaction to horror: he is filled with fear.

The Police yell at them, and mess with them for a while. the complainer doesn’t like what’s happening. after the police have their fun and play their mind games with the main group in their car…the main monster, the ex-cop bent on revenge comes out…

Monster Reveal: The man in the pig mask and talking through a megaphone, with a K-9 by his side throws a couple of gas grenades and creates a fog around the car.

Horror situation: the group knows something is up… when the officers stand back and the figure with pig mask shows up…

HORROR EMOTIONS

APPREHENSION: ready to play with no rules or laws stopping him…The man in the pig mask and talking through a megaphone, with a K-9 by his side, the group in the car can sense real danger coming.

SHOCK: throws a couple of gas grenades and creates a fog around the car.

FEAR: The group knows something is up…

SURPIRSE :when the officers stand back and the figure with pig mask shows up. The driver starts their car and try to drive away… but its too late… their car is hooked up to a tow truck

FEAR: the dog is let loose, viciously barking at them through the car windows.

APPREHENSION: the other cops tell the complainer that he was used to set this whole thing up, they knew about his friendship with the younger brother, and he is in

ACT 2

12. EXT – FORREST – NIGHT

horror situation: they can’t escape and are now being dragged

The ex-cop has his tow truck and drags the characters out into the field where there is no Wi-Fi and internet,

horror situation: the place they are dragged to, has no internet, no Wi-Fi, no cell service and all of their live feed gets cut.

but the ex-cop has his own special camera with a special long range wireless antenna, and K-9 dog. They realize that none of their phones or computers are connected, their live streaming has ended. They can’t escape and are now being dragged by a tow truck. Driver’s horror reaction: they react by getting more focused on the situation, going from jokey to serious. driver’s once stopped. The driver tells them to stay calm and pulls out a gun from the glovebox. The driver goes by himself to unhook the car… the K9 gets loose and starts tearing the driver apart.

horror situation: the driver goes by himself to unhook the car… the K9 gets loose and starts tearing the driver apart.

The driver shoots back into the darkness … misses the dog. .

horror situation: the driver almost gets eaten alive by a dog, and he is out of bullets.

HORROR EMOTIONS

SUSPENSE: the complainer under stress: he tends to coward a bit and his, he runs or hides. FEAR: The driver almost gets eaten alive by a dog, and he is out of bullets.

DREAD: The group gets out of the car to help fight off the K9, the driver limps back into the car and locks everything once they are all inside the car.

SUSPENSE: One of the officers (The complainer) guarding the perimeter gets shot by accident. he makes his way over to the car. falls over the hood of the car bleeding to death…

horror situation: one of the officers guarding the perimeter falls over the hood of the car bleeding to death…

SHOCK: shot by the driver…

APPREHENSION: that officer drops his gun and the older sister sees that.

Monster Reveal: He has complete command of the dog… uses it to keep the victims from running and uses it for defense. If the victims can eliminate the dog, they have a better chance at running.

If the victims can eliminate the dog, they have a better chance at running. They stay in the car; they discuss running and getting to an area with internet and cellphone access.

MIDPOINT – He allows the rooky to die… and this doesn’t sit right with the other cops. The monster is worse than we thought – He starts using his baton stick to break and destroy their car.

Monster Reveal: He argues with the other officers about the officer bleeding to death. They have to take him. Eventually he lets a couple of officers take him to a hospital. Which made the circle perimeter guarding the area smaller.. and the gun that was left behind… the sister still has an eye on it.

horror situation: the glass starts getting smashed .

HORROR EMOTIONS

He argues with the other officers about the officer bleeding to death. They have to take him. Eventually he lets a couple of officers take him to a hospital. Which now this situation made the circle perimeter guarding the area smaller. and the gun that was left behind… the sister still has an eye on it. they duck down into the car, shielding themselves form the glass that flying in the air, every time the ex-cop swings his baton.

ACT 3 – FULL OUT HORROR

horror situation: the younger brother gets pulled out of the car…

HORROR EMOTIONS

The carrier character gets pulled out and is forced to fight the ex-cop,

another makes a run for it… a third goes out looking for the first character, and only one stays in the car. A few officers who have secured the perimeter fire back at the one trying to escape… the younger brother gets completely pulled out of the car…they try to pull him back in the car…but the younger brother gets dragged out and pulled into the darkness… with the younger brother gone, they don’t know whether to run for it, stay put, or try to save him.

horror situation: with the younger brother gone, they don’t know whether to run for it, stay put, or try to save him.

They argue about what to do…the sister grabs the gun that was left behind by the shot officer, runs after her brother…. the driver makes a run for it… the younger brother gets tied by the neck and get pulled up off his feet.

horror situation: the younger brother get tied by the neck and get pulled up off his feet.

The older sister finds him and fires at the ex-cop and at the dog, they make a run for it into the darkness around them. She manages to cut the rope down. and they make a run for it. The ex-cop uses a megaphone to let them know they are all going to die tonight. one by one… sending everyone in a panic and sets his K9 loose again. He is in control even if the victims are out running about. The driver is being shot at from the officers that are securing the perimeter.

horror situation: the driver is being shot at from the officers that are securing the perimeter.

Monster Reveal: he is in control even if the victims are out running about.

He has to run tree to tree… dogging bullets until the K9 attacks the driver again. The younger brother gets an asthma attack…close to suffocating, needs his spray.

Horror situation: the younger brother gets an asthma attack…close to suffocating, needs his spray.

The older sister runs back to the car for the spray. The ex-officer attacks them both electric shocker gun… He is just using what normal officers have… the leader gets somewhat tazed but is strong enough to withstand it…The sister grazes the ex-cops face, breaking the mask. they run for it with the asthma spray. They can’t get to the younger brother.

horror situation: the ex-office attacks with taser gun

Monster Reveal: He is just using what normal officers have… the leader gets some what tazed but is strong enough to withstand it…

The rescuer, switches sides and begins to help the driver escape, end up shooting the dog dead The rescuer ends up getting wounded badly and makes it out of the dead zone, the no radio, no Wi-Fi, no internet area and manages to call for back up. Here the brother has an Asthma attack and dies from that. the sister is in great the officers have lost control, things are getting out of hand, the night was just meant to scare them out of town.

horror situation: the officers have lost control, things are getting out of hand, the night was just meant to scare them out of town.

dog by shooting it dead, and they make a run for it out of internet dead zone, able to call for back up. The ex-cop takes off the mask… still alive… but that bullet could of killed him. He has lost his temper. He picks up knife and runs after them.

Monster Reveal: takes off the mask.. still alive… but that bullet could of killed him. He has lost his temper. He picks up knife and runs after them.

horror situation: the younger brother chokes to death.

dies from an asthma attack that was induced form being hung for a minute. the leader tries to get to the younger brother but has to break the side mirror in order to come free. the leader is Fighting back: he uses a lug nut wrench that’s in the trunk of the car, he uses that to physically fight the ex-cop.

horror situation: the leader has a face off with the ex cop

Back up arrives and police swarm the area and there is a shootout between good cops and bad cops.

horror situation: deadly shootout between cops, bullets dispersing everywhere.

the rest hiding in the forest from the bullets. the ex-cop manages to escape the shootout but chases down the girlfriend/sister, but the main guy has one last fight in order to save his girlfriend, face to face, both have knives…

horror situation: one last final fight, knife fight.

Monster Revealed: face to face, both have knives… its a fair fight, the monster and the leader seem to be on the same level.

HORROR EMOTIONS

PANIC: its a fair fight, the monster and the leader seem to be on the same level.

HORROR: but ends up getting seriously hurt in doing so…fight to the death,

HYSTERIA the leader gets cut up,

HORROR: but manages to stab the ex-cop in the back…rendering him useless with his life hanging by a string.

HYSTERIA: they run for their lives but the sister doesn’t want to believe that her brother is dead.

RELEASE: they reach the good officers and are escorted out of the area and into an ambulance, her insight: having someone there to help you isn’t a weakness and if she has to rely on herself, she flexible enough to get by. the driver although his skin is torn to shreds, he is fighting for his life in ambulance, and the brother is found dead. the driver’s motto: Fight for your right. the leader’s ability to stay calm and think is what got him out alive. The ex-cop manages to walk to his trailer…He manages to get back to his trailer where he has a computer booth running multiple live cam feeds to a website. where he was running a live feed from multiple cameras to a website that is hitting 5 thousand views.

Monster Reveal: He manages to get back to his trailer where he has a computer booth running multiple live cam feeds to a website.

we see an audience of billionaires looking at their screens. all of their live feeds stop as the ex-cop pushes end live feed. he tells the driver to go. The trailer pulls out of an old barn… and drives off on a dirty road. They leave just in time before the good cops swarm the area.

13. INT – AIRPORT – NIGHT

the ex-cop is using his laptop checking his millions in his bank account and watches the news… the survivors in the hospital alive. this makes the ex-cop furious. causes a scene and airport security reaches him before he can leave.

end of movie.
Lisandro Boccacci

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April 19, 2023 at 11:26 pm in reply to: Day 14 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Scary As Hell Scene

What I learned doing this assignment is that you can track the emotions and make sure there are enough emotions in a scene, and that the right actions correlate to the spark of the emotions to come.

in this scene their escape route has been cut off, this is the horror situation I’m using at the end of Act 1. the rooky character’s relationship with other officers: they don’t trust him fully as a rooky and he is trying to gain the groups respect.

EXT – PARKING LOT – NIGHT

FEAR: The driver starts their car and try to drive away… but its too late…

SCARE: there’s a clink sound and then a violent tug, that scares the group.

SHOCK: their car is hooked up to a tow truck

DREAD: and the dog is let loose, viciously barking at them through the car windows.

RELEASE: They are still safe inside the car.

APPREHENSION : the other cops tell the complainer that he was used to set this whole thing up, they knew about his friendship with the younger brother

Denial: he doesn’t want to believe that it was a set up

FEAR: he was played and they don’t respect him, he is afraid at how much they don’t like him.
Lisandro Boccacci

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April 19, 2023 at 6:14 pm in reply to: Day 13 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Scares, Releases, and Creepy moment

what I learned doing this assignment was how adding these elements made the scene have a horror element and taking advantage of those simple moments that get the horror going..

INT – HOUSE OF WAFFLES – DAY

the waitress who is the love character brings them their food.

LEADER:
this is the future right here… we open up a channel.. and do this for a living.

LOVE:

i think its a brilliant idea…

LEADER:

what are you listening in to our conversation.. that’s rude.

LOVE:

no its just… i overheard and I know the victim..

victim:

yeah this is love… and this is leader..

LEADER:

so what do you have to say about our idea

LOVE:

i would say that…

she sits at the table next to the Leader..

(continued):

invite me over for a good time and I’ll tell you what you think…

she leaves to fill a pitcher..

Moral one:

dang, she hot dude…you gonna get her number?

LEADER:

a guy like me… I mean, you know.. i havent been .. you know…

Suddenly plates crash.. startles them both…

victim:

look, Im in as far as this goes… but its got to be organized and we have to careful.. I’m actually thinking of moving, laying low for a bit before I do anything…

LEADER:
big pussy, what are you scared of?

Victim:

seriously you have to be careful with these things… especially if some of the cops turn out to be real wackos…

Moral one:

we do this right, try to stay anonymous as much as possible, stay within our constitutional right…

LEADER:

i think staying anonymous is gonna be a bit difficult dent you think?

Moral one:

yeah but we don’t ever state our address or any personal info… nothing like that.

victim:

that’s a good idea…

LEADER:

and all that cheddar we’re going to make is a good idea, you know what Im saying!

moral one:

i dont mind the money as long as justice is served and we dont break the laws while doing this..

LEADER:

all legit… so we all in?

victim:

im in..

moral one:

in

Love”

so hold on… you’re telling me that you guys just decided to create YouTube vidoes where you record cops be abusive, and then you sue them…

Leader:

yeah..

LOVE”
and you all make money doing that?

Leader:

well… we can… victim won a lawsuit of four hundred thousand…

LOVE:

DANG! hold on hold on, I am totally in this shit…

she slams the tray she was holding on the ground.

(continued):

my whole life I’ve been assaulted by and abused by police officers…I want in.. I want in more than anything I want in because I didn’t know you could do that… and get back at them…

the leader scoots over and signals her to sit next to him.

(continued)

really?

suddenly a patron eating at the bar area throws up… and makes a disgusting mess everywhere…

Manager:

oh shit…

he rushes over to where love is…

manager:

what are you doing sitting there.. i need you to clean that bit of throw up ..

Love:

bit of throw up? no i don’t think so…I just quit.

manager:

if you don’t get up and clean that little bit of throw up. You’re fired and banned from here…

CUT TO:

EXT – HOUES OF WAFFLE – DAY

she storms out the front door and walk out towards the parking lot.

LEADER:

hey wait… hold on a sec… who are you?

LOVE;

name is love.. nice to meet you..

LEADER”

leader, watch out!.. .

he pulls her in, saves her from getting hit by a bicyclist.
Lisandro Boccacci

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April 17, 2023 at 8:28 pm in reply to: Day 12 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Level 3 Horror Emotion Scene

what i learned from doing this assignment is how the emotions building up one moment at a time really helps guide the energy of the scene and story.

INT – CAR – NIGHT

CARRIER:

Oh god! it hurts

LOVE:

What’s wrong?

Carrier:

the glass!

Moral one:

shit.. i think we have to make a run for it!

LEADER:

We stay in the car! that’s always been the rule

CARRIER:

im going to die if we don’t get out of here!

LOVE: youre not going to die!

The carrier has a coughing fit.

LEADER: Keep rolling even if we are not streaming live.. we can still use our recordings

The carrier takes a hit from his spray

CARRIER: Oh god i cant see

LEADER:

that’s right, stick to the rules, no one leaves the car and we keep rolling. you hear that you psychopaths! we got you on video breaking our windows! ASSHOLE!

CARRIER: I want to go home.. please take me home…

Moral one:

this is different… i think this man is trying to kill us…we have to make a run for it… we can’t stay here…this isn’t right

LEADER:

of course this isn’t right? when has it been ever..

LOVE: but we have to get him to a hospital…

and when have they not tried to kill us before…we stay here and we keep recording! its what’s keeping us safe and eventually we will get out of this mess and get him to a hospital.. we step out of this car we are in serious trouble

the ex cop grabs a hold of the carrier and drags him out of the car window… Love character screams and gets a hold of the carrier’s feet.

LEADER:

get a hand on him!

the moral one jolts back towards the carrier and grabs on to him where can.

CARRIER:

don’t let me go….

LOVE: pull him in!

LEADER: pull !

the moral one gets hit with the taser clips. The carrier’s legs are slipping through their grip.

LEADER:

we’re losing him! PULL!

the leader is struggling to pull the carrier in. Love character has both hands-on carrier’s leg. the carrier is also holding on to the car as strong as possible.

CARRIER:

don’t let me go!

the ex cop tightens his hold around the carrier’s neck. The carrier’s reaction is to let go of the car try to pry the ex cop’s grip and pressure around his neck.

Love character opens the door and steps out, she runs to grab the gun left behind by the cop.. she picks it up. the ex cop shouts a demand to the dog. the dog runs towards the love character and stops standing ten feet away from her growling..

LEADER:

wait wait wait dont move! dont move!

the ex-cop pulls the Carrier out of the car and drags him from his hair towards the tow truck.

LOVE:

oh shit..

LEADER:

stop! don’t move… 

he calls out to the moral one.

wake up!

cut to:

the ex cop dragging the carrier through the dirt..

EX-COP:

I always knew you would be the first to go in the group… after all its because of you they are all here to die…and its not cause your weak… its cause you’re stupid…

CUT TO:

LOVE:

What do I do…

LEADER: just don’t move… hey moral guy, wake the fuck up man… 

he shakes the moral man, slaps his face a little.

Moral man:

im still here motherfuckers.. i know what I have to do… i’ll distract the dog..

LEADER:

no i need you to help me get the key for the handcuffs..

moral man:

no.. i will make a run for it and go get help…

Leader:

youre not gonna make-

moral man:

it’ll be enough time for love to go after her brother and im pretty sure you can just break the fucking side mirror to get free… now who the fuck is with me..

Love:

im gonna make a run for it!

moral man:

i got this…

the moral man opens the car door…. the dog turns its attention to the door…

LEADER:

love, start moving the other direction…

moral man:

not so fast… we want him to chase after me…

LOVE:

your’e crazy…

the moral man steps out of the car ..

moral man:

hey dog… look over here… remember me… pop the trunk.. im gonna grab the lug nut wrench and use that to defend myself..

LEADER:

i dont think he’s gonna like that…

the dog is stepping forward…barking and grolwing…

CUT TO:

the ex cop puts a rope around the carrier’s neck.. he grabs a camera case on the floor. he opens the case and begins prepping a camera with a special long range Atena.

Ex-cop:

did you know that by the early American colonists, were readily accepted by the public as a proper punishment for serious crimes like theft, rape, and murder. Brought over to the states from our English ancestors…Oh how I really wish they would bring that back… but you know what…

he finishes the camera and sets it down. he now fiddles with a crane that’s connected to his tow truck.. He ties the rope to the crane. He picks up the camera points it towards the carrier…

CUT TO:

The moral one is now by the trunk…

moral one:

pop it..

the dog is running back and forth between watching the love character and watching the moral one and barking hysterically. the moral one grabs the lug nut wrench and starts to back up slowly ….

moral one:

when I make a run for it… you head to your brother…

CUT TO:

ex- cop :

During the American Revolution, the term ‘lynch law’ originated with Colonel Charles Lynch, a Virginia planter, and his associates, who began to make their own vigilante rules for confronting criminal elements… you’ll be the first to be served in this new age of modern lynching…tonight… we start a new revolution, and it starts with your death.. but the best part… it’ll be our little secret… well.. not completely.. there is an audience… who will just come close to equally enjoying this justice… well.. justice for me…

he pushes and button and he goes live.

the ex cop, pulls a lever and the crane starts winding up the rope. the carrier get dragged towards the tow truck… struggling to breath..

CUT TO:

moral one:

ok…. RUN!

the moral one makes a run for it.. the dog as predicted chases after him. the love character is clear to make a run towards her brother. 

LOVE:

carrier! carrier! carrier!

CUT TO:

the leader is working hard on breaking the side mirror free. 

LEADER:

comon you bastard! fucking come the fuck off! 

CUT TO:

the rope pulls the carrier up , and up until his feet dont touch the ground. the carrier is gasping for air.
Lisandro Boccacci

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April 8, 2023 at 5:52 pm in reply to: Day 11 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Level 2 Horror Emotion Scene

What I learned doing this assignment

EXT – FORREST – NIGHT

The ex cop takes a chain and hook and walks towards them.

LEADER: yo, are you getting this…

MORAL ONE: yeah yeah… what is he doing?!

LEADER: I don’t know, but I don’t like the look of this.

The ex cop is stepping forward and stops at the front bumper.

MORAL ONE: I think its time to get out of here…

The ex cop hooks the chain to the car..

LOVE: Hurry up and back it the car up!

the moral one puts it reverse and floors it… the car is moving backwards and the chain hanging loosely on the floor begins to tighten. the car is able to get 14 feet away in reverse until they get yanked to a stop. The chain now stretched out from the front of their car to the tow truck. The ex cop picks up his megaphone and speaks

EX COP: don’t try to get away or I’ll have to tell my officers to shoot.

LOVE: Oh God this isnt good!

LEADER: what are you waiting for step on it!

MORAL: you heard what they said, they’ll shoot if we try to escape!

The ex cop walks over to the back of the tow truck…

CARRIER: I dont like this…

LEADER: they’re bluffing…

MORAL you think so…

LEADER: we got them on camera..

LOVE: maybe we should do what they say

The ex cop pulls a lever and the chain pulls on the car towards him. The driver stomps on the breaks, but still pulls the car forward towards the tow truck.

CARRIER: I really don’t Like this!

LEADER: damn it! Floor it now!

LOVE: Oh god we are going to die!

LEADER: no, we need to get out of here while we still can

CARRIER: I don’t like this! 

LEADER: we have to go home! NOW!

MORAL: fucking hold on!

the driver slams the gas pedal, tires screeching as the car struggles to pull against the pully.

LEADER: floor it, floor it!

MORAL: I am!

LEADER: NO, FORWARDS!

MORAL: WHAT?!

LEADER: drive it forwards, and I’ll unhook us, that should get us enough slack

LOVE: you’re crazy

The car is getting pulled by the chain toward the tow truck.

LEADER: what other option is there now?

the driver keeps trying to escape by reversing it.

the ex cop: people don’t listen do they. he grabs his side radio.

ex cop: why don’t you guys go ahead and scare them a bit before they do something stupid.

officer 1: copy

officer 2; copy

officer 3 copy

complainer: copy

officer 4: copy

Rescuer: copy that

officer 5: copy

a couple of gun shots are fired around the car, splattering the dirt ground. One bullets hits near of the carrier.

CARRIER: stop the car they’re firing at us!

LOVE: stop the car! they’re shooting!

the driver stops trying to force the car out in reverse and the gun fire stops.

MORAL: what do we do now?

LEADER: just keep filming…

The car gets pulled up to the tow truck and the ex-cop pulls the lever, making the towing mechanism stop.

The ex cop has his gun drawn out and he walks up to the passenger side door where the leader is sitting. he throws a pair of hand cuffs to the leader.

EX-COP: put them on and handcuff yourself to the car… 

LEADER: i aint doing shit.. we go you on camera and im gonna sue the shit out of all of you…

MORAL: yeah that’s right… and we still need your badge numbers…you all need to identify yourselves when asked..

EX-COP: put them on or ill make you.

LEADER: try it asshole… you think that mask is gonna keep me from find out who you are.

The ex cop takes the gun and points it to the Love’s head.

EX- COPE: do it or she gets a bullet in her head.

LOVE: Oh my god!

CARRIER: do what he says asshole!

LEADER: Okay.. just put the gun down.

EX-COP: handcuff your self to the wheel.

LEADER: Okay… just don’t hurt anyone..

The leader takes the handcuffs, puts one around his left wrist.

EX-COP: you’ll be my insurance… in case you all decide to make a run for it.

the leader hand and cuffs the other end to the side view mirror.

EX- COP: I said the wheel…

LEADER: no wait stop!

he fires a bullet into the car shattering window that the love is seated at. the bullet doesn’t hit anyone. Love screams.

LEADER: stop you bastard!

CARRIER: NO!

EX – COP: next time you don’t listen to me it’ll hit her in the head. understand?

LOVE: just do what he says, please.

LEADER: look I’m handcuffed either way.. so would you just please stop.

EX -COP: oh… no… I’m afraid we are just getting started. now stay in your cars.

The ex cop climbs into his tow truck and pulls the them.

CARRIER: we’re moving!

LEADER: you guys make a jump for it

LOVE: and what leave you behind?

MORAL: Im with you brotha til the end

LEADER: you have to go now so you can call for help

MORAL: and risk getting shot? you saw the other officers, we are surrounded. best thing for us now is to stick together and to keep filming.
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April 6, 2023 at 6:57 pm in reply to: Day 10 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Level 1 horror emotion scene

What I learned doing this assignment is seeing how all of these steps got me to this point, finally writing out scenes, but with so much of the character work and plot work… everything seems to have a natural progression.

INT – HOSPITAL / OPERATION ROOM – DAY

the ex-cop is laying on table. the doctor is finishing up stiches on his lower chin.. a nurse grabs a pair of scissors and before she cuts. She looks at the doctor.

nurse:

its bad… really bad…prepare yourself.

she cuts the face bandages to get to the next gash on his face… the doctor is horrified at how sliced the ex-cops face is.

Doctor:

oh my god… poor bastard.

the ex Cop’s face is sliced up repeatedly across the face…his nose is left in cut up chunks. the ex-cop’s heart rate starts to flutter rapidly. The nurses and doctors react to the situation. The ex cop flat lines… the nurse is fast to perform defibrillation on him. After a few shocks his heart rate is up and back to normal.

INT – HOSPITAL / ROOM – NIGHT

The ex cop wakes up in a hospital bed…he breathes hard. he gets up and staggers his way to the bathroom. He checks the mirror… and notices his face right away… he touches his face…tries to pull of the bandages… but it hurts to much…he loses his temper and forcefully rips the bandages off his face… blood is dripping everywhere… he stubbles on the floor and crawls towards the call for help button. 

INT HOSPITAL / FRONT DESK – NIGHT

Nurse 2 sees the call for help .

Nurse 2:

Oh shit.. I need assistants in room 502.

she gets up off a chair and runs towards that room. Nurse 3 near by hears her calling and runs towards 502.

INT- HOSPITAL/OUTSIDE – DAY

He is sitting outside… staring emotionless.. smoking a cigarette. An officer is sitting on a public bench next to him. 

Ex – cop:

Im gonna kill the fucker that did this to me…. 

officer:

you know who you’re talking to over here…

Ex-cop:

i know exactly who i am talking to… you wouldn’t be an officer today if it weren’t for me… and all the times I’ve saved your ass from a pinch….its disrespectful as fuck. 

Officer:

so what do you want to do?

Ex-Cop:

we’re gonna need everyone who is with us and do this one thing… 

officer:

everyone? you serious? thanks impossible, and you know why it’s impossible.

Ex-Cop:

Nothing.. and I mean nothing on this green god given earth will sit right with me until I settle this score. assemble everyone in a fucking week. EVERYONE.

officer:

ok. you know we all have your back, and we are gonna do what you call for but something like this… its a big favor.

ex cop:

its gonna be like nothing we’ve ever done… and I do have a plan… ill be out in a week. I just need you to trust me. can you do that?

officer:

yeah boss.

A police car pulls up to the curb. 

Officer: 

the crew sends their condolences. we’ll be seeing you in a week. 

he gets up and gets in the police car and it drives off.
Lisandro Boccacci

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April 6, 2023 at 12:42 am in reply to: Day 9 Assignments
Lisandro Boccacci’s horror outline version 1

what i learned doing this assignment is seeing how over time how laying out this bit of information help fill in the plot. Its like planting a seed and watching everything bloom into something big. It’s still rough, but close, i just have to find places for the character journey track, but other than that, I feel on track and I love the story that is evolving.

ACT 1 – SET UP FOR HORROR

INT – COURTHOUSE / COURTROOM – DAY

The judge is reviewing a police body cam… showing a police chase on foot ending one officer accidently shooting another officer and then catching up to the suspect and using violent force to subdue the person, causing extreme harm. role: out of control: the main antagonist.

A cop shoots other cop on accident. The officer slowly loses his energy. falling to the ground. The video continues to show the officer chases down suspect, fires at the suspect and hits him on the leg, and runs back to the officer screaming, “Officer down and I’m shot!” Starting to realize he shot his own partner. The officer calls for back up, and an ambulance… more shots are fired, and the officer has no clue what is happening. More officers arrive and open vest of the office that has been shot. They notice a bullet got through the vest, bleeding from bellow his armpit. They have to stop the bleeding. the officer runs after the suspect and catches up to the suspect and starts beating him to death. The officer is beating the suspect to death and another officer has to step in to stop him. Wrong place at the wrong time. The main officer has mistakenly shot at his partner.

After the camera footage ends, the focus is on the ex-cop sitting in the stand. He is the body cam officer in the courtroom opening scene and sitting the court room having to answer some hard questions. role: .Leader: intro: He gets called up on the stand as a witness.

EXT – COURTHOUSE – DAY

role: Moral One: Introduced: he is the one that picks the group up from the courthouse

INT – BAR – DAY

Connect with the characters – The 3 main characters meet the victim of this crime for dinner and celebrate his innocence and wining his lawsuit. here at the party, we get to learn a little about everyone’s personality through their actions and how they speak. role: love interest/ lovers character intro: she meets the leader at the bar in the opening scene.

The girlfriend of the leader, lives with the leader, they share everything together, works as a waitress during the day, she joins her boyfriend for the thrill, loves the idea of getting back at cops. she also has a history of back encounters and drug use. 2. traits: rough around the edges, but hard working makes up for it, protective of her brother, she is very beautiful. 3. fears: losing her brother, but fears if she doesn’t live her life now that she will miss the boat. 4 she wants to live life to the fullest. she needs to let go of her past and move on from her family. 5. her aura of having been through the harshness of life, her loyalty to the leader and brother. /rooting factors: she comes from a good family, she’s good looking, bit of a black sheep, hard ass attitude makes her personality likeable. she has a great relationship with the leader, feels like a soulmate connection. everyone in the group finds her attractive and charming.

the leader’s Traits: Experienced, bold, rational. has a history of breaking the law. Has experience going through the court system… he learned the law… and has created a YouTube channel to get police officers in trouble. 3. Fears: he is afraid of ending up homeless, afraid of losing his loved ones. 4. Wants/needs: He has a need to find justice for how much the police have ruined his life. he wants to go out and put bad cops behind bars. He wants to have a good time while doing it. 5. Likeability/rooting factors: talks a lot, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. Has a history of breaking the law. Has experience going through the court system… he learned the law… and has created a YouTube channel to get police officers in trouble. relates to others: Very friendly and jokey with his friends and can be tender and caring with his girlfriend.

The moral one, he is a family man; he owns and drives the car. He is a professor by day, and a constitutional scholar. he has partnered up with the leader to make these live streams and has hit the jackpot. 2. traits: Intelligent, a good negotiator, outstanding citizen model. 3. Fears: He is afraid of letting his family down. Afraid to lose them. 4. wants/needs: He wants to do good in the world. he needs to put his family first. 5. likeability/ rooting factors: he is likable because he is a good person at heart. root factors is that he is a family man. 6. he reacts under stress: he just goes into action without thinking.7. relationship to other characters: He is looked at as the responsible one, an honest great guy. relations to group: he is looked upon as the oldest and wisest, survival depends on being the first to act. 5 fighting back: he owns a pistol; he knows his right to defend himself

INT – PRISON – DAY

the ex-cop is in the worst of moods and gets in a fight with the other inmates. he is quick to get back on his feet and take control of the situation, uses weapons if he needs to. The ex cop is in denial: he doesn’t accept his temper to be a problem. (He has a bad temper, and its revealed he is strong, and can fight multiple men at once.) every year he gets attacked multiple times while in prison.

INT – HOSPITAL – DAY

During his last year he gets his face cut up really bad and is sent to the hospital with his life clinging. After some time, he takes off his bandages to reveal his hideous scared face and left with a face without a nose. This one of the officers who was fired, sued, and sent to prison for three years. That changed him as a man. It has also left him disfigured. In prison his face was slashed up, and his nose was cut off. He wants his revenge. 2. traits: enduring, strong, revengeful. 3 Fears: accepting that he can’t go back to his old life, he fears never being able to fix his face. and he cant take being made fun of. 4 wants/needs: he wants his revenge. he needs to calm his temper. 5. likeability: we like him because of how much he has endured and suffered. he is rooted in being a solid guy. always comes through.

EXT – PRISON – DAY

Monster Reveal: The ex-cop, with a bandaged face is let out of prison. its been three years.

INT – HOTEL – DAY

He makes it to hotel. uncovers his face, slowly but painfully…to reveal he is missing a nose… his face all cut up. he is seeing his face for the first time… his temper is out of control. he reacts to stress: by finding strength within and forcing his way. and starts to laugh at his horrific face. he enjoys it scaring people with his face.

EXT – BAR – NIGHT

The brother,. Is the carrier character. character intro: he walks in with double fisting beer when the group is out celebrating. role: the carrier: he is the younger brother to the girlfriend/love interest. he is given a tip about where dirty cops work, he talks to his friend, just become a police officer, character intro: we first see him talking to the carrier, role: complainer: he is also the younger officer in the group. bit of a rooky. 3 Fears: he is afraid of getting shot on the line of duty. 4. wants/needs he wants to start a family of his own. he needs to mature. 5. likeability: honest, young, charming. he comes from a family of police officers. role: the carrier: he is the younger brother to the girlfriend. he trying to fit in, be part of the group, but also the one who gave the group the tip about the public parking lot, and how the cops are taking advantage of people there. 2Traits: has asthma issues, polite, drinker, socialite, always trying to please others. 3 fears: being left out. 4.he wants to spend time with his sister, but he needs to go out and find his own place in life. 5likeablility: Hes funny. root factors: he finds they are staying together as a family is important. He calls his older sister who is with the leader at the time as well and tells her about the tip.

INT – LEADER’S HOME – NIGHT

The leader calls his driver friend and talks to him about the tip. while they are talking the driver sends the leader a link to a new article about the victim has gone missing, suspected dead. The driver wants to lay low and warns them against doing anything, but the leader convinces the driver to go through with one last video tonight. The leader tells everyone to get ready, that the driver was going to pick everyone up and get all together.

INT – DRIVER’S CAR – NIGHT

He stops by the younger brother’s house, picks him up, he drives to the Leader’s place and pick him up, and the older sister. They drive to the location. They talk about not doing it and going back, Denial of horror – the leader of the group reassured them that as long as they have their cameras rolling and know their rights, that they have nothing to worry about.

EXT – PARKING LOT – NIGHT

Before they can start streaming live, they are surrounded by the police cars in a secluded area away from the city. Rescuer intro: he is part of the squad that surrounds the victims’ cars. the lights shining in their faces, blinding them… and the dark figures surrounding them… officers screaming at them. They pull out their cell phones and cameras and start streaming live to capture any wrongdoing. The officers begin to ask questions, see their ID, and threaten to arrest them for denying the request. They talk back to the officers… telling them they know the law, there is no sign at the park that says that there is a curfew. The officers threaten them and continue to ask them to step out of the car. They refuse to get out of the car and stand their ground. one of the officers grabs and pulls back on the window, smashing it and a fight the leader gets hand cuffed to the door. the complainer’s reaction to horror: he is filled with fear. …under stress the girlfriend: they panic and lose control, will just react and blindly and go toward harm’s way if they have to. leaders Stress reaction: He can stay calm and clear headed, which is why he can lead. the younger brother, under stress they react by following his sister’s lead and he becomes the weakest and scared the most out of the group. Leader’s relationship to group after first horror: He becomes the thing they cling on for rationality.

The Police yell at them, and mess with them for a while. the complainer doesn’t like what’s happening. after the police have their fun and play their mind games with the main group in their car…the main monster, the ex-cop bent on revenge comes out… ready to play with no rules or laws stopping him…The man in the pig mask and talking through a megaphone, with a K-9 by his side throws a couple of gas grenades and creates a fog around the car. The group knows something is up… when the officers stand back and the figure with pig mask shows up. The driver starts their car and try to drive away… but its too late… their car is hooked up to a tow truck and the dog is let loose, viciously barking at them through the car windows. the other cops tell the complainer that he was used to set this whole thing up, they knew about his friendship with the younger brother and he is in Denial: he doesn’t want to believe that it was a set up, and he was played. relationship with others: they don’t trust him fully as a rooky and he is trying to gain the groups respect. 

ACT 2

EXT – FORREST – NIGHT

The ex-cop has his tow truck and drags the characters out into the field where there is no Wi-Fi and internet, but the ex-cop has his own special camera with a special long range wireless antenna, and K-9 dog. They realize that none of their phones or computers are connected, their live streaming has ended. They can’t escape and are now being dragged by a tow truck. Driver’s horror reaction: they react by getting more focused on the situation, going from jokey to serious. driver’s Denial: He believes as long as he knows his rights, they can’t hurt him. once stopped. The driver tells them to stay calm and pulls out a gun from the glovebox. The driver goes by himself to unhook the car… the K9 gets loose and starts tearing the driver apart. The driver shoots back into the darkness … misses the dog. . the complainer under stress: he tends to coward a bit and his, he runs or hides. his relationships with other characters: he is viewed upon as the rooky so they treat him like dirt. The driver almost gets eaten alive by a dog, and he is out of bullets. The group gets out of the car to help fight off the K9, the driver limps back into the car and locks everything once they are all inside the car. One of the officers (The complainer) guarding the perimeter gets shot by accident. he makes his way over to the car. falls over the hood of the car bleeding to death…shot by the driver… that officer drops his gun and the older sister sees that. she will attack by any means necessary, even taking a gun and using it if she has but She becomes hysterical and needs to be controlled from doing something stupid. The ex-cop has complete command of the dog… uses it to keep the victims from running and uses it for defense. If the victims can eliminate the dog, they have a better chance at running. They stay in the car; they discuss running and getting to an area with internet and cellphone access.

MIDPOINT – He allows the rooky to die… and this doesn’t sit right with the other cops. The monster is worse than we thought – He starts using his baton stick to break and destroy their car. He argues with the other officers about the officer bleeding to death. the ex cop’s relationship with other characters: the officers have the highest respect for him, but they view his temper as his weakness. They have to take him. Eventually he lets a couple of officers take him to a hospital. the complainer’s insight: don’t be a coward. Which no this situation made the circle perimeter guarding the area smaller. and the gun that was left behind… the sister still has an eye on it. they duck down into the car, shielding themselves form the glass that flying in the air, every time the ex cops swings his baton.

ACT 3 – FULL OUT HORROR

The carrier character gets pulled out and is forced to fight the ex-cop, another makes a run for it… a third goes out looking for the first character, and only one stays in the car. A few officers who have secured the perimeter fire back at the one trying to escape… the younger brother gets completely pulled out of the car…they try to pull him back in the car…but the younger brother gets dragged out and pulled into the darkness… with the younger brother gone, they don’t know whether to run for it, stay put, or try to save him. They argue about what to do…the sister grabs the gun that was left behind by the shot officer, runs after her brother….the driver makes a run for it… the younger brother gets tied by the neck and get pulled up off his feet. The older sister finds him and fires at the ex cop and at the dog, they make a run for it into the darkness around them. She manages to cut the rope down. and they make a run for it. The ex-cop uses a megaphone to let them know they are all going to die tonight. one by one… sending everyone in a panic, and sets his K9 loose again. He is in control even if the victims are out running about. The driver is being shot at from the officers that are securing the perimeter. He has to run tree to tree… dogging bullets until the K9 attacks the driver again. The younger brother gets an asthma attack…close to suffocating, needs his spray. The older sister runs back to the car for the spray. The ex-officer attacks them both electric shocker gun… He is just using what normal officers have… the leader gets somewhat tazed but is strong enough to withstand it…The sister grazes the ex-cops face, breaking the mask. they run for it with the asthma spray. They can’t get to the younger brother. Death returns to take one or more: one of the officers, The rescuer, switches sides and begins to help the driver escape, end up shooting the dog dead The rescuer ends up getting wounded badly and makes it out of the dead zone, the no radio, no Wi-Fi, no internet area and manages to call for back up. Here the brother has an Asthma attack and dies from that. the sister is in great Denial: that her brother is dead. the officers have lost control, things are getting out of hand, the night was just meant to scare them out of town. dog by shooting it dead, and they make a run for it out of internet dead zone, able to call for back up. The ex-cop takes off the mask.. still alive… but that bullet could of killed him. He has lost his temper. He picks up knife and runs after them. The younger brother chokes to death. he was the cause for getting them to the set-up point. He dies from an asthma attack that was induced form being hung for a minute. the leader tries to get to the younger brother but has to break the side mirror in order to come free. the leader is Fighting back: he uses a lug nut wrench that’s in the trunk of the car, he uses that to physically fight the ex cop. Back up arrives and police swarm the area and there is a shootout between good cops and bad cops. the rest hiding in the forest from the bullets. the ex-cop manages to escape the shootout but chases down the girlfriend/sister, but the main guy has one last fight in order to save his girlfriend, face to face, both have knives…horror situation: one last final fight, knife fight. its a fair fight, the monster and the leader seem to be on the same level. but ends up getting seriously hurt in doing so…fight to the death, the leader gets cut up, but manages to stab the ex-cop in the back… rendering him useless with his life hanging by a string. they reach the good officers and are escorted out of the area and into an ambulance, her insight: having someone there to help you isn’t a weakness and if she has to rely on herself, she flexible enough to get by. the driver although his skin is torn to shreds, he is fighting for his life in ambulance, and the brother is found dead. the driver’s motto: Fight for your right. the leader’s ability to stay calm and think is what got him out alive. The ex-cop manages to walk to his trailer…He manages to get back to his trailer where he has a computer booth running multiple live cam feeds to a website. where he was running a live feed from multiple cameras to a website that is hitting 5 thousand views. we see an audience of billionaires looking at their screens. all of their live feeds stop as the ex cop pushes end live feed. he tells the driver to go. The trailer pulls out of an old barn… and drives off on a dirty road. They leave just in time before the good cops swarm the area.

INT – AIRPORT – NIGHT

the ex-cop is using his laptop checking his millions in his bank account and watches the news… the survivors in the hospital alive. this makes the ex-cop furious. causes a scene and airport security reaches him before he can leave. end of movie. the insight from him is: going down the path of revenge brings your own destruction.
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Lisandro Boccacci

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April 4, 2023 at 1:52 am in reply to: Day 8 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Character journey track.

what I learned doing this assignment is hashing out the characters in this matter give us the their journey, but also will fill in the plot, with character details. till make the character choices seem true to their personality.

(haven’t come up with names yet) I’m also going to have to think some more about how to place these character details sprinkled throughout the plot.

A1 role: .Leader: 2. Traits: Experienced, bold, rational. has a history of breaking the law. Has experience going through the court system… he learned the law… and has created a YouTube channel to get police officers in trouble..3. Fears: he is afraid of ending up homeless, afraid of losing his loved ones. 4. Wants/needs: He has a need to find justice for how much the police have ruined his life. he wants to go out and put bad cops behind bars. He wants to have a good time while doing it. 5. Likeability/rooting factors: talks a lot, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. Has a history of breaking the law. Has experience going through the court system… he learned the law… and has created a YouTube channel to get police officers in trouble 6. Stress reaction: He can stay calm and clear headed, which is why he can lead. 7. relates to others: Very friendly and jokey with his friends and can be tender and caring with his girlfriend. B1. intro: He gets called up on the stand as a witness. Denial: he thinks he is untouchable, clever with the laws. 3. 1st horror reaction: they react by getting more focused on the situation, going from jokey to serious. 4. relationship to group after first horror: He becomes the thing they cling on for rationality.5 Fighting back: he uses a lug nut wrench that’s in the trunk of the car, he uses that to physically fight the ex cop. 6 stress reaction: he makes it to the good cops, and ambulances. 7 relationship with other characters: that his ability to stay calm and think is what got him out alive. 

A1. Role: Rescuer: one of the officers has to take action to save their lives from the out-of-control ex officer. 2. Traits: professional, thinks for himself, athletic. 3 Fears: Afraid of being outed as a dirty cop. 4. wants/needs: he wants to keep making money on the side. He needs to keep the secret with everyone else. 5 likeability/ rooting factors: when the ex-cop goes too far, he flips sides and starts helping the victims. He kills the K9 in time and puts in a distress call. 6 stress reaction: he starts to slip thinking about a plan B. 7. relationship with other characters: he gets along with the other cops okay… they keep an eye on him… things turn when he flips sides and don’t follow his lead. B. 1 intro: he is part of the squad that surrounds the victims' cars. 2 denial: He doesn’t want to believe that the ex-cop will kill anyone tonight. 3. reaction to first horror: bothered by it. 4 relation to group after first horror: 5.fighting back: he is a trained police officer… he is athletic… uses that to help victims escape as fast as possible. 6 End point: He ends up away from the terror with a victim, he makes the call for help, and stays there hiding in the forest. 7. insight: never too late to do the right thing. 

A1 role: Moral One: he is a family man; he owns and drives the car. He is a professor by day, and a constitutional scholar. he has partnered up with the leader to make these live streams and has hit the jackpot. 2. traits: Intelligent, a good negotiator, outstanding citizen model. 3. Fears: He is afraid of letting his family down. Afraid to lose them. 4. wants/needs: He wants to do good in the world. he needs to put his family first. 5. likeability/ rooting factors: he is likable because he is a good person at heart. root factors is that he is a family man. 6. he reacts under stress: he just goes into action without thinking. 7. relationship to other characters: He is looked at as the responsible one, an honest great guy. B1 Introduced: he is the one that picks the group up from the courthouse.2. Denial: He believes as long as he knows his rights, they can’t hurt him. 3 first horror reaction: he jumps into action, trying to drive away. 4 relations to group: he is looked upon as the oldest and wisest, survival depends on being the first to act. 5 fighting back: he owns a pistol; he knows his right to defend himself 6. end point: he is torn to shred by the dog bit will survive, he is being carried into an ambulance. 7. insight: Fight for your right

A1. role: complainer: one of the officers who goes along with what’s happening, complains and warns the other officers about the laws they are breaking and the trouble they can get into if they get caught. 2. traits: honest, respective, but naive.. he is also the younger officer in the group. bit of a rooky. 3 Fears: he is afraid of getting shot on the line of duty. 4. wants/needs he wants to start a family of his own. he needs to mature. 5. likeability: honest, young, charming. he comes from a family of police officers. 6 under stress: he tends to coward a bit. 7 relationship with other characters: he is viewed upon as the rooky so they treat him like dirt. B1 character intro: we first see him talking to the carrier. tells him about the dirty cops and what they do, because they are friends, and they are hanging out. 2. Denial: he doesn’t want to believe that it was a set up, and he was played.3. reaction to horror: he is filled with fear. 4. relationship with others: they don’t trust him fully as a rooky and he is trying to gain the groups respect. 5 how they fight back: he runs or hides. 6 end point: he gets shot. 7. insight: don’t be a coward.

A.1. role: out of control: the main antagonist. He is one of the officers who was fired, sued, and sent to prison for three years. That changed him as a man. It has also left him disfigured. In prison his face was slashed up, and his nose was cut off. He wants his revenge. 2. traits: enduring, strong, revengeful. 3 Fears: accepting that he can’t go back to his old life, he fears never being able to fix his face. and he cant take being made fun of. 4 wants/needs: he wants his revenge. he needs to calm his temper. 5. likeability: we like him because of how much he has endured and suffered. he is rooted in being a solid guy. always comes through. 6. he reacts to stress: by finding strength within and forcing his way. 7. relationship with other characters: the officers have the highest respect for him, but they view his temper as his weakness. B1 intro: He is the body cam officer in the courtroom opening scene, and sitting the court room. 2 denial: he doesn’t accept his temper to be a problem. 3. their reaction at first horror: he enjoys it. 4. relation to group after first horror: they are all scared to death by him. 5 fighting back: he is quick to get back on his feet and take control of the situation, uses weapons if he needs to. 6. end point: he is stabbed… crawls to his trailer… and pushes end record . we see an audience of billionaires looking at their screens. all of their live feeds stops. 7 insight: going down the path of revenge brings your own destruction.

A 1: role: the carrier: he is the younger brother to the girlfriend. he trying to fit in, be part of the group, but also the one who gave the group the tip about the public parking lot, and how the cops are taking advantage of people there. 2Traits: has asthma issues, polite, drinker/socialite, always trying to please others. 3 fears: being left out. 4.he wants to spend time with his sister, but he needs to go out and find his own place in life. 5likeablility: Hes funny. root factors: he finds they are staying together as a family is important. 6. under stress they react by following his sister’s lead. 7. relationship with other characters: he is close with his sister and just met her friends. B1. character intro: he walks in with double fisting beer when the group is out celebrating. 2. denial: doesn’t want to accept that his sister doesn’t care to stay with the family anymore.3. he panics at the first sign of horror. 4 he becomes the weakest and scared the most out of the group. 5.by trying to run away. 6.end point: he dies in the forest from the asthma attack. Had he just stayed in his lane, none of this would of happened to him.

A1. role: love interest/ lovers: the girlfriend of the leader, lives with the leader, they share everything together, works as a waitress during the day, she joins her boyfriend for the thrill, loves the idea of getting back at cops. she also has a history of back encounters and drug use. 2. traits: rough around the edges, but hard working makes up for it, protective of her brother, she is very beautiful. 3. fears: losing her brother, but fears if she doesn’t live her life now that she will miss the boat. 4 she wants to live life to the fullest. she needs to let go of her past and move on from her family. 5. her aura of having been through the harshness of life, her loyalty to the leader and brother. /rooting factors: she comes from a good family. 6. under stress: they panic and lose control, will just react and blindly and go toward harm’s way. 7. she has a great relationship with the leader, feels like a soulmate connection. everyone in the group finds her attractive and charming. B1 character intro: she meets the leader at the bar in the opening scene. Denial: that her brother is dead. 4 she becomes the hysterical and needs to be controlled from doing something stupid. 5 they attack by any means necessary, even taking a gun and using it if she has to. 6 end point: where the ambulances are and she is also with the leader. insight: having someone there to help you isn’t a weakness and if she has to rely on herself, she flexible enough to get by.

ACT 1 – SET UP FOR HORROR

Atmosphere of Evil established – court room reviewing a police body cam… showing a police chase on foot ending one officer accidently shooting another officer and then catching up to the suspect and using violent force to subdue the person, causing extreme harm.

1. role: out of control: the main antagonist. He is one of the officers who was fired, sued, and sent to prison for three years. That changed him as a man. It has also left him disfigured. In prison his face was slashed up, and his nose was cut off. He wants his revenge. 2. traits: enduring, strong, revengeful. 3 Fears: accepting that he can’t go back to his old life, he fears never being able to fix his face. and he cant take being made fun of. 4 wants/needs: he wants his revenge. he needs to calm his temper. 5. likeability: we like him because of how much he has endured and suffered. he is rooted in being a solid guy. always comes through. 6. he reacts to stress: by finding strength within and forcing his way. 7. relationship with other characters: the officers have the highest respect for him, but they view his temper as his weakness. B1 intro: He is the body cam officer in the courtroom opening scene, and sitting the court room. 2 denial: he doesn’t accept his temper to be a problem. 3. their reaction at first horror: he enjoys it. 4. relation to group after first horror: they are all scared to death by him. 5 fighting back: he is quick to get back on his feet and take control of the situation, uses weapons if he needs to. 6. end point: he is stabbed… crawls to his trailer… and pushes end record . we see an audience of billionaires looking at their screens. all of their live feeds stops. 7 insight: going down the path of revenge brings your own destruction.

Horror Situation: cop shoots other cop on accident. The officer slowly loses his energy. falling to the ground.

Reaction: (fights) The officer chases down suspect, fires at the suspect and hits him on the leg, and runs back to the officer screaming, “Officer down and I’m shot!”

Horror Situation: Starting to realize he shot his own partner.

Reaction : (fights )the officer calls for back up, and an ambulance… more shots are fired and the officer has no clue what is happening. More officers arrive and open vest of the office that has been shot

Horror Situation: …they notice a bullet got through the vest, bleeding from bellow his armpit,

Reaction: they have to stop the bleeding. the officer runs after the suspect and catches up to the suspect and starts beating him to death.

Horror situation: the officer is beating suspect to death.

reaction: another officer has to step in to stop him.

Character Death 1 : Wrong place at the wrong time. The main officer has mistakenly shot at his partner.

A1 role: .Leader: 2. Traits: Experienced, bold, rational. has a history of breaking the law. Has experience going through the court system… he learned the law… and has created a YouTube channel to get police officers in trouble..3. Fears: he is afraid of ending up homeless, afraid of losing his loved ones. 4. Wants/needs: He has a need to find justice for how much the police have ruined his life. he wants to go out and put bad cops behind bars. He wants to have a good time while doing it. 5. Likeability/rooting factors: talks a lot, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. Has a history of breaking the law. Has experience going through the court system… he learned the law… and has created a YouTube channel to get police officers in trouble 6. Stress reaction: He can stay calm and clear headed, which is why he can lead. 7. relates to others: Very friendly and jokey with his friends and can be tender and caring with his girlfriend. B1. intro: He gets called up on the stand as a witness. Denial: he thinks he is untouchable, clever with the laws. 3. 1st horror reaction: they react by getting more focused on the situation, going from jokey to serious. 4. relationship to group after first horror: He becomes the thing they cling on for rationality.5 Fighting back: he uses a lug nut wrench that’s in the trunk of the car, he uses that to physically fight the ex cop. 6 stress reaction: he makes it to the good cops, and ambulances. 7 relationship with other characters: that his ability to stay calm and think is what got him out alive. 

A1 role: Moral One: he is a family man; he owns and drives the car. He is a professor by day, and a constitutional scholar. he has partnered up with the leader to make these live streams and has hit the jackpot. 2. traits: Intelligent, a good negotiator, outstanding citizen model. 3. Fears: He is afraid of letting his family down. Afraid to lose them. 4. wants/needs: He wants to do good in the world. he needs to put his family first. 5. likeability/ rooting factors: he is likable because he is a good person at heart. root factors is that he is a family man. 6. he reacts under stress: he just goes into action without thinking. 7. relationship to other characters: He is looked at as the responsible one, an honest great guy. B1 Introduced: he is the one that picks the group up from the courthouse.2. Denial: He believes as long as he knows his rights, they can’t hurt him. 3 first horror reaction: he jumps into action, trying to drive away. 4 relations to group: he is looked upon as the oldest and wisest, survival depends on being the first to act. 5 fighting back: he owns a pistol; he knows his right to defend himself 6. end point: he is torn to shred by the dog bit will survive, he is being carried into an ambulance. 7. insight: Fight for your right


Connect with the characters – The 4 main characters meet the victim of this crime for dinner and celebrate his innocence and wining his lawsuit. here at the party, we get to learn a little about everyone’s personality through their actions and how they speak.

1. role: love interest/ lovers: the girlfriend of the leader, lives with the leader, they share everything together, works as a waitress during the day, she joins her boyfriend for the thrill, loves the idea of getting back at cops. she also has a history of back encounters and drug use. 2. traits: rough around the edges, but hard working makes up for it, protective of her brother, she is very beautiful. 3. fears: losing her brother, but fears if she doesn’t live her life now that she will miss the boat. 4 she wants to live life to the fullest. she needs to let go of her past and move on from her family. 5. her aura of having been through the harshness of life, her loyalty to the leader and brother. /rooting factors: she comes from a good family. 6. under stress: they panic and lose control, will just react and blindly and go toward harm’s way. 7. she has a great relationship with the leader, feels like a soulmate connection. everyone in the group finds her attractive and charming. B1 character intro: she meets the leader at the bar in the opening scene. Denial: that her brother is dead. 4 she becomes the hysterical and needs to be controlled from doing something stupid. 5 they attack by any means necessary, even taking a gun and using it if she has to. 6 end point: where the ambulances are and she is also with the leader. insight: having someone there to help you isn’t a weakness and if she has to rely on herself, she flexible enough to get by.

Monster Reveal: the ex-cop is in the worst of moods and gets in a fight with the other inmates. (He has a bad temper, and its revealed he is strong, and can fight multiple men at once.)

The characters are warned not to do it – 3 years later. The brother of one of the main characters is given a tip about where dirty cops work, and they are told by the guy who just won the court to lay low for a bit… because he knows cops can hold grudges.

1. role: complainer: one of the officers who goes along with what’s happening, complains and warns the other officers about the laws they are breaking and the trouble they can get into if they get caught. 2. traits: honest, respective, but naive.. he is also the younger officer in the group. bit of a rooky. 3 Fears: he is afraid of getting shot on the line of duty. 4. wants/needs he wants to start a family of his own. he needs to mature. 5. likeability: honest, young, charming. he comes from a family of police officers. 6 under stress: he tends to coward a bit. 7 relationship with other characters: he is viewed upon as the rooky so they treat him like dirt. B1 character intro: we first see him talking to the carrier. tells him about the dirty cops and what they do, because they are friends, and they are hanging out. 2. Denial: he doesn’t want to believe that it was a set up, and he was played.3. reaction to horror: he is filled with fear. 4. relationship with others: they don’t trust him fully as a rooky and he is trying to gain the groups respect. 5 how they fight back: he runs or hides. 6 end point: he gets shot. 7. insight: don’t be a coward.

 1: role: the carrier: he is the younger brother to the girlfriend. he trying to fit in, be part of the group, but also the one who gave the group the tip about the public parking lot, and how the cops are taking advantage of people there. 2Traits: has asthma issues, polite, drinker/socialite, always trying to please others. 3 fears: being left out. 4.he wants to spend time with his sister, but he needs to go out and find his own place in life. 5likeablility: Hes funny. root factors: he finds they are staying together as a family is important. 6. under stress they react by following his sister’s lead. 7. relationship with other characters: he is close with his sister and just met her friends. B1. character intro: he walks in with double fisting beer when the group is out celebrating. 2. denial: doesn’t want to accept that his sister doesn’t care to stay with the family anymore.3. he panics at the first sign of horror. 4 he becomes the weakest and scared the most out of the group. 5.by trying to run away. 6.end point: he dies in the forest from the asthma attack. Had he just stayed in his lane, none of this would of happened to him.

Monster Reveal: The ex-cop, with a bandaged face is let out of prison. He makes it to hotel. uncovers his face, slowly but painfully…to reveal he is missing a nose… his face all cut up. he is seeing his face for the first time… his temper is out of control.

Denial of horror – the leader of the group reassured them that as long as they have their cameras rolling and know their rights, that they have nothing to worry about.

Safety taken away – When they are surrounded by the police cars in a secluded area away from the city.

Horror situation: the lights shining in their faces, blinding them… and the dark figures surrounding them… officers screaming at them.

Reaction: they pull out their cell phones and cameras and start streaming live to capture any wrongdoing.

Horror situation: the officers begin to ask questions, see their ID, and threaten to arrest them for denying the request.

Reaction: They talk back to the officers… telling them they know the law, their is no sign at the park that says that there is a curfew.

1. Role: Rescuer: one of the officers has to take action to save their lives from the out-of-control ex officer. 2. Traits: professional, thinks for himself, athletic. 3 Fears: Afraid of being outed as a dirty cop. 4. wants/needs: he wants to keep making money on the side. He needs to keep the secret with everyone else. 5 likeability/ rooting factors: when the ex-cop goes too far, he flips sides and starts helping the victims. He kills the K9 in time and puts in a distress call. 6 stress reaction: he starts to slip thinking about a plan B. 7. relationship with other characters: he gets along with the other cops okay… they keep an eye on him… things turn when he flips sides and don’t follow his lead. B. 1 intro: he is part of the squad that surrounds the victims' cars. 2 denial: He doesn’t want to believe that the ex-cop will kill anyone tonight. 3. reaction to first horror: bothered by it. 4 relation to group after first horror: 5.fighting back: he is a trained police officer… he is athletic… uses that to help victims escape as fast as possible. 6 End point: He ends up away from the terror with a victim, he makes the call for help, and stays there hiding in the forest. 7. insight: never too late to do the right thing. 

Horror situation: the officers threaten them and continue to ask them to step out of the car.

Reaction: They refuse to get out of the car and stand their ground.

Monster: The nature of the beast – after the police have their fun and play their mind games with the main group in their car…the main monster, the ex-cop bent on revenge comes out… ready to play with no rules or laws stopping him…

Monster Reveal: The man in the pig mask and talking through a megaphone, with a K-9 by his side throws a couple of gas grenades and creates a fog around the car.

Horror situation: the group knows something is up… when the officers stand back and the figure with pig mask shows up…

reaction: they start their car and try to drive away… but its too late… their car is hooked up to a tow truck and the dog is let loose, viciously barking at them through the window.

ACT 2

Isolated/ trapped/ abducted – the ex-cop has his tow truck and drags the characters out into the field where there is no Wi-Fi and internet, but the ex cop has his own camera, and K-9 dog.

horror situation: they can’t escape and are now being dragged.

reaction: they keep live streaming, and they give out their location.

horror situation: the place they are dragged to, has no internet, no Wi-Fi, no cell service and all of their live feed gets cut.

reaction: the driver tells them to stay calm and pulls out a gun.

One of us Killed: one of the officers gets shot by accident and bleeds to death.

horror situation: the driver goes by himself to unhook the car… the K9 gets loose and starts tearing the driver apart.

reaction: the driver shoots back into the darkness … misses the dog

horror situation: the driver almost gets eaten alive by a dog, and he is out of bullets.

reaction: the group gets out of the car to help fight off the K9, the driver limps back into the car and locks everything once they are all inside the car.

horror situation: one of the officers guarding the perimeter falls over the hood of the car bleeding to death…shot by the driver… that officer drops his gun.. and the sister sees that.

Monster Reveal: He has complete command of the dog… uses it to keep the victims from running and uses it for defense. If the victims can eliminate the dog, they have a better chance at running.

Character Death 2: (The complainer) He left his perimeter guarding point, The officer headed towards where the gun fire was coming from and walked into a bullet.

reaction: they stay in the car; they discuss running and getting to an area with internet and cellphone access.

MIDPOINT – The monster is worse than we thought – He starts using his baton stick to break and destroy their car.

Monster Reveal: He argues with the other officers about the officer bleeding to death. They have to take him. Eventually he lets a couple of officers take him to a hospital. Which made the circle perimeter guarding the area smaller.. and the gun that was left behind… the sister still has an eye on it.

horror situation: the glass starts getting smashed by a police baton stick.

reaction: they duck down into the car, shielding themselves form the glass.

ACT 3 – FULL OUT HORROR

Fight to the death – a character gets pulled out and is forced to fight the ex-cop, another makes a run for it… a third goes out looking for the first character, and only one stays in the car. A few officers who have secured the perimeter fire back at the one trying to escape…

horror situation: the younger brother gets pulled out of the car…

reaction: they try to pull him back in the car…but the younger brother gets dragged out and pulled into the darkness…

horror situation: with the younger brother gone, they don’t know whether to run for it, stay put, or try to save him.

reaction: they argue about what to do…the sister grabs the gun that was left behind by the shot officer, runs after her brother….the driver makes a run for it… the leader gets hand cuffed to the door…

horror situation: the younger brother gets tied by the neck and get pulled up off his feet.

reaction: the older sister finds him and fires at the ex cop and at the dog, they make a run for it into the darkness around them. She manages to cut the rope down. and they make a run for it.

hysteria- the ex-cop uses a megaphone to let them know they are all going to die tonight. one by one… sending everyone in a panic, and sets his K9 loose again.

Monster Reveal: he is in control even if the victims are out running about.

horror situation: the driver is being shot at from the officers that are securing the perimeter.

reaction : he has to run tree to tree… dogging bullets until the K9 attacks the driver again.

Horror situation: the younger brother gets an asthma attack…close to suffocating, needs his spray.

reaction: the older sister runs back to the car for the spray.

horror situation: the ex-officer attacks them both electric shocker gun…

Monster Reveal: He is just using what normal officers have… the leader gets some what tazed but is strong enough to withstand it…

reaction: the sister grazes the ex cops face, breaking the mask. they run for it with the spray.

horror situation: they can’t get to the younger brother.

Death returns to take one or more: one of the officers switches sides and begins to help them escape. ends up getting wounded badly and makes it out of the dead zone, the no radio, no Wi-Fi, no internet area and manages to call for back up. Here the brother has an Asthma attack and dies from that.

horror situation: the officers have lost control, things are getting out of hand, the night was just meant to scare them out of town.

reaction: one of the officers turns and decides to help the driver escape the dog by shooting it dead, and they make a run for it out of internet dead zone, able to call for back up.

Monster Reveal: takes off the mask.. still alive… but that bullet could of killed him. He has lost his temper. He picks up knife and runs after them.

horror situation: the younger brother chokes to death.

Character Death 3 : he was the cause for getting them to the set-up point. He dies from an asthma attack that was induced form being hung for a minute.

reaction: the leader tries to get to the younger brother but has to break the side mirror in order to come free.

resolution: back up arrives and police swarm the area and there is a shootout between good cops and bad cops. the ex-cop manages to escape the shootout but chases down the girlfriend/sister, but the main guy has one last fight in order to save his girlfriend, but ends up getting seriously hurt in doing so… they reach the good officers and are escorted out of the area and into an ambulance, the driver although his skin is torn to shreds, he is fighting for his life in ambulance, and the brother is found dead. The ex cop manages to walk to his trailer… where he was running a live feed from multiple cameras to a website that is hitting 20millinon views.

horror situation: the leader has a faceoff with the ex-cop

reaction: leader fights back in order to save themselves.

horror situation: deadly shootout between cops, bullets dispersing everywhere.

reaction: hiding in the forest from the bullets.

Monster Revealed: face to face, both have knives… its a fair fight, the monster and the leader seem to be on the same level.

horror situation: one last final fight, knife fight.

reaction: fight to the death, the leader gets cut up, but manages to stab the ex-cop in the back… rendering him useless with his life hanging by a string.

Monster Reveal: He manages to get back to his trailer where he has a computer booth running multiple live cam feeds to a website.

End scene: the ex cop is checking his millions and watches the news… the survivors in the hospital alive. this makes the ex-cop furious.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 31, 2023 at 8:03 pm in reply to: Day 7 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Monster Reveal Track

What I learned doing this assignment is seeing how all the different elements come into play when it comes to hatching out the story…everything piece of the puzzle has a functioning purpose.

A. the monster is an ex cop who is now seeking revenge on the people that took his life away. His terror comes in from using excessive violent police force.

Powers: He is protected by a circle of police officers who are willing to look the other way to allow the ex cop get his revenge.

Limitations: He is human, so he is like everyone else. He power is in his trusty K9 and the officers that have created a perimeter around them.

Weakness: If his K9 gets taken out he is less threatening, and losing some of his officers, makes him lose his grip on the victims even more.

Plan: to act out his revenge on the victims and secretly has a live cam on all of them.

Purpose: to get back at people like them that force cops to lose their jobs or worse go to jail and does so by video tapping them getting abused and torched on a private website where he makes millions.

ACT 1 – SET UP FOR HORROR

Atmosphere of Evil established – court room reviewing a police body cam… showing a police chase on foot ending one officer accidently shooting another officer and then catching up to the suspect and using violent force to subdue the person, causing extreme harm.

Horror Situation: cop shoots other cop on accident. The officer slowly loses his energy. falling to the ground.

Reaction: (fights) The officer chases down suspect, fires at the suspect and hits him on the leg, and runs back to the officer screaming, “Officer down and I’m shot!”

Horror Situation: Starting to realize he shot his own partner.

Reaction : (fights )the officer calls for back up, and an ambulance… more shots are fired and the officer has no clue what is happening. More officers arrive and open vest of the office that has been shot

Horror Situation: …they notice a bullet got through the vest, bleeding from bellow his armpit,

Reaction: they have to stop the bleeding. the officer runs after the suspect and catches up to the suspect and starts beating him to death.

Horror situation: the officer is beating suspect to death.

reaction: another officer has to step in to stop him.

Character Death 1 : Wrong place at the wrong time. The main officer has mistakenly shot at his partner.

Connect with the characters – The 4 main characters meet the victim of this crime for dinner and celebrate his innocence and wining his lawsuit. here at the party, we get to learn a little about everyone’s personality through their actions and how they speak.

Monster Reveal: the ex-cop is in the worst of moods and gets in a fight with the other inmates. (He has a bad temper, and its revealed he is strong, and can fight multiple men at once.)

The characters are warned not to do it – 3 years later. The brother of one of the main characters is given a tip about where dirty cops work, and they are told by the guy who just won the court to lay low for a bit… because he knows cops can hold grudges.

Monster Reveal: The ex-cop, with a bandaged face is let out of prison. He makes it to hotel. uncovers his face, slowly but painfully…to reveal he is missing a nose… his face all cut up. he is seeing his face for the first time… his temper is out of control.

Denial of horror – the leader of the group reassured them that as long as they have their cameras rolling and know their rights, that they have nothing to worry about.

Safety taken away – When they are surrounded by the police cars in a secluded area away from the city.

Horror situation: the lights shining in their faces, blinding them… and the dark figures surrounding them… officers screaming at them.

Reaction: they pull out their cell phones and cameras and start streaming live to capture any wrongdoing.

Horror situation: the officers begin to ask questions, see their ID, and threaten to arrest them for denying the request.

Reaction: They talk back to the officers… telling them they know the law, their is no sign at the park that says that there is a curfew.

Horror situation: the officers threaten them and continue to ask them to step out of the car.

Reaction: They refuse to get out of the car and stand their ground.

Monster: The nature of the beast – after the police have their fun and play their mind games with the main group in their car…the main monster, the ex-cop bent on revenge comes out… ready to play with no rules or laws stopping him…

Monster Reveal: The man in the pig mask and talking through a megaphone, with a K-9 by his side throws a couple of gas grenades and creates a fog around the car.

Horror situation: the group knows something is up… when the officers stand back and the figure with pig mask shows up…

reaction: they start their car and try to drive away… but its too late… their car is hooked up to a tow truck and the dog is let loose, viciously barking at them through the window.

ACT 2

Isolated/ trapped/ abducted – the ex-cop has his tow truck and drags the characters out into the field where there is no Wi-Fi and internet, but the ex cop has his own camera, and K-9 dog.

horror situation: they can’t escape and are now being dragged.

reaction: they keep live streaming, and they give out their location.

horror situation: the place they are dragged to, has no internet, no Wi-Fi, no cell service and all of their live feed gets cut.

reaction: the driver tells them to stay calm and pulls out a gun.

One of us Killed: one of the officers gets shot by accident and bleeds to death.

horror situation: the driver goes by himself to unhook the car… the K9 gets loose and starts tearing the driver apart.

reaction: the driver shoots back into the darkness … misses the dog

horror situation: the driver almost gets eaten alive by a dog, and he is out of bullets.

reaction: the group gets out of the car to help fight off the K9, the driver limps back into the car and locks everything once they are all inside the car.

horror situation: one of the officers guarding the perimeter falls over the hood of the car bleeding to death…shot by the driver… that officer drops his gun.. and the sister sees that.

Monster Reveal: He has complete command of the dog… uses it to keep the victims from running and uses it for defense. If the victims can eliminate the dog, they have a better chance at running.

Character Death 2: (The complainer) He left his perimeter guarding point, The officer headed towards where the gun fire was coming from and walked into a bullet.

reaction: they stay in the car; they discuss running and getting to an area with internet and cellphone access.

MIDPOINT – The monster is worse than we thought – He starts using his baton stick to break and destroy their car.

Monster Reveal: He argues with the other officers about the officer bleeding to death. They have to take him. Eventually he lets a couple of officers take him to a hospital. Which made the circle perimeter guarding the area smaller.. and the gun that was left behind… the sister still has an eye on it.

horror situation: the glass starts getting smashed by a police baton stick.

reaction: they duck down into the car, shielding themselves form the glass.

ACT 3 – FULL OUT HORROR

Fight to the death – a character gets pulled out and is forced to fight the ex-cop, another makes a run for it… a third goes out looking for the first character, and only one stays in the car. A few officers who have secured the perimeter fire back at the one trying to escape…

horror situation: the younger brother gets pulled out of the car…

reaction: they try to pull him back in the car…but the younger brother gets dragged out and pulled into the darkness…

horror situation: with the younger brother gone, they don’t know whether to run for it, stay put, or try to save him.

reaction: they argue about what to do…the sister grabs the gun that was left behind by the shot officer, runs after her brother….the driver makes a run for it… the leader gets hand cuffed to the door…

horror situation: the younger brother gets tied by the neck and get pulled up off his feet.

reaction: the older sister finds him and fires at the ex cop and at the dog, they make a run for it into the darkness around them. She manages to cut the rope down. and they make a run for it.

hysteria- the ex-cop uses a megaphone to let them know they are all going to die tonight. one by one… sending everyone in a panic, and sets his K9 loose again.

Monster Reveal: he is in control even if the victims are out running about.

horror situation: the driver is being shot at from the officers that are securing the perimeter.

reaction : he has to run tree to tree… dogging bullets until the K9 attacks the driver again.

Horror situation: the younger brother gets an asthma attack…close to suffocating, needs his spray.

reaction: the older sister runs back to the car for the spray.

horror situation: the ex-officer attacks them both electric shocker gun…

Monster Reveal: He is just using what normal officers have… the leader gets some what tazed but is strong enough to withstand it…

reaction: the sister grazes the ex cops face, breaking the mask. they run for it with the spray.

horror situation: they can’t get to the younger brother.

Death returns to take one or more: one of the officers switches sides and begins to help them escape. ends up getting wounded badly and makes it out of the dead zone, the no radio, no Wi-Fi, no internet area and manages to call for back up. Here the brother has an Asthma attack and dies from that.

horror situation: the officers have lost control, things are getting out of hand, the night was just meant to scare them out of town.

reaction: one of the officers turns and decides to help the driver escape the dog by shooting it dead, and they make a run for it out of internet dead zone, able to call for back up.

Monster Reveal: takes off the mask.. still alive… but that bullet could of killed him. He has lost his temper. He picks up knife and runs after them.

horror situation: the younger brother chokes to death.

Character Death 3 : he was the cause for getting them to the set-up point. He dies from an asthma attack that was induced form being hung for a minute.

reaction: the leader tries to get to the younger brother but has to break the side mirror in order to come free.

resolution: back up arrives and police swarm the area and there is a shootout between good cops and bad cops. the ex-cop manages to escape the shootout but chases down the girlfriend/sister, but the main guy has one last fight in order to save his girlfriend, but ends up getting seriously hurt in doing so… they reach the good officers and are escorted out of the area and into an ambulance, the driver although his skin is torn to shreds, he is fighting for his life in ambulance, and the brother is found dead. The ex cop manages to walk to his trailer… where he was running a live feed from multiple cameras to a website that is hitting 20millinon views.

horror situation: the leader has a faceoff with the ex-cop

reaction: leader fights back in order to save themselves.

horror situation: deadly shootout between cops, bullets dispersing everywhere.

reaction: hiding in the forest from the bullets.

Monster Revealed: face to face, both have knives… its a fair fight, the monster and the leader seem to be on the same level.

horror situation: one last final fight, knife fight.

reaction: fight to the death, the leader gets cut up, but manages to stab the ex-cop in the back… rendering him useless with his life hanging by a string.

Monster Reveal: He manages to get back to his trailer where he has a computer booth running multiple live cam feeds to a website.

End scene: the ex cop is checking his millions and watches the news… the survivors in the hospital alive. this makes the ex-cop furious.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 28, 2023 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Day 6 Assignments

ACT 1 – SET UP FOR HORROR

Atmosphere of Evil established – court room reviewing a police body cam… showing a police chase on foot ending one officer accidently shooting another officer and then catching up to the suspect and using violent force to subdue the person, causing extreme harm.

Horror Situation: cop shoots other cop on accident. The officer slowly loses his energy. falling to the ground.

Reaction: (fights) The officer chases down suspect, fires at the suspect and hits him on the leg, and runs back to the officer screaming, “Officer down and I’m shot!”

Horror Situation: Starting to realize he shot his own partner.

Reaction : (fights )the officer calls for back up, and an ambulance… more shots are fired and the officer has no clue what is happening. More officers arrive and open vest of the office that has been shot

Horror Situation: …they notice a bullet got through the vest, bleeding from bellow his armpit,

Reaction: they have to stop the bleeding. the officer runs after the suspect and catches up to the suspect and starts beating him to death.

Horror situation: the officer is beating suspect to death.

reaction: another officer has to step in to stop him.

Character Death 1 : Wrong place at the wrong time. The main officer has mistakenly shot at his partner.

Connect with the characters – The 4 main characters meet the victim of this crime for dinner and celebrate his innocence and wining his lawsuit. here at the party, we get to learn a little about everyone’s personality through their actions and how they speak.

The characters are warned not to do it – The brother of one of the main characters is given a tip about where dirty cops work, and they are told by the guy who just won the court to lay low for a bit… because he knows cops can hold grudges.

Denial of horror – the leader of the group reassured them that as long as they have their cameras rolling and know their rights, that they have nothing to worry about.

Safety taken away – When they are surrounded by the police cars in a secluded area away from the city.

Horror situation: the lights shining in their faces, blinding them… and the dark figures surrounding them… officers screaming at them.

Reaction: they pull out their cell phones and cameras and start streaming live to capture any wrongdoing.

Horror situation: the officers begin to ask questions, see their ID, and threaten to arrest them for denying the request.

Reaction: They talk back to the officers… telling them they know the law, their is no sign at the park that says that there is a curfew.

Horror situation: the officers threaten them and continue to ask them to step out of the car.

Reaction: They refuse to get out of the car and stand their ground.

Monster: The nature of the beast – after the police have their fun and play their mind games with the main group in their car…the main monster, the ex-cop bent on revenge comes out… ready to play with no rules or laws stopping him…

Horror situation: the group knows something is up… when the officers stand back and the figure with pig mask shows up…

reaction: they start their car and try to drive away… but its too late… their car is hooked up to a tow truck.

ACT 2

Isolated/ trapped/ abducted – the ex-cop has his tow truck and drags the characters out into the field where there is no Wi-Fi and internet, but the ex cop has his own camera, and K-9 dog.

horror situation: they can’t escape and are now being dragged.

reaction: they keep live streaming, and they give out their location.

horror situation: the place they are dragged to, has no internet, no Wi-Fi, no cell service and all of their live feed gets cut.

reaction: the driver tells them to stay calm and pulls out a gun.

One of us Killed: one of the officers gets shot by accident and bleeds to death.

horror situation: the driver goes by himself to unhook the car… the K9 gets loose and starts tearing the driver apart.

reaction: the driver shoots back into the darkness … misses the dog

horror situation: the driver almost gets eaten alive by a dog, and he is out of bullets.

reaction: the group gets out of the car to help fight off the K9, the driver limps back into the car and locks everything once they are all inside the car.

horror situation: one of the officers guarding the perimeter falls over the hood of the car bleeding to death…shot by the driver.

Character Death 2: (The complainer) He left his perimeter guarding point, The officer headed towards where the gun fire was coming from and walked into a bullet.

reaction: they stay in the car, they discuss running.

MIDPOINT – The monster is worse than we thought – He starts using mid-evil weapons to break and destroy their car. the weapons get more intense as the night progresses.

horror situation: the glass starts getting smashed by old looking weapons.

reaction: they duck down into the car, shielding themselves form the glass.

ACT 3 – FULL OUT HORROR

Fight to the death – a character gets pulled out and is forced to fight the ex-cop, another makes a run for it… a third goes out looking for the first character, and only one stays in the car. A few officers who have secured the perimeter fire back at the one trying to escape…

horror situation: the younger brother gets pulled out of the car…

reaction: they try to pull him back in the car…but the younger brother gets dragged out and pulled into the darkness…

horror situation: with the younger brother gone, they don’t know whether to run for it, stay put, or try to save him.

reaction: they argue about what to do…the sister runs after her brother….the driver makes a run for it… the leader stays in the car…

horror situation: the younger brother get tied by the neck and get pulled up off his feet.

reaction: the older sister finds him and cuts the rope down. and they make a run for it.

hysteria- the ex-cop uses a megaphone to let them know they are all going to die tonight. one by one… sending everyone in a panic, and sets his K9 loose again.

horror situation: the driver is being shot at from the officers that are securing the perimeter.

reaction : he has to run tree to tree… dogging bullets until the K9 attacks the driver again.

Horror situation: the younger brother gets an asthma attack…close to suffocating, needs his spray.

reaction: the older sister runs back to the car for the spray.

horror situation: the ex-office attacks them both with a chain saw…

reaction: they run for it with the spray.

horror situation: they can’t get to the younger brother.

Death returns to take one or more: one of the officers switches sides and begins to help them escape. ends up getting wounded badly and makes it out of the dead zone, no radio, no Wi-Fi, no internet, and manages to call for back up. Here the brother has an Asthma attack and dies from that.

horror situation: the officers have lost control, things are getting out of hand, the night was just meant to scare them out of town.

reaction: one of the officers turns and decides to help the driver escape the dog by shooting it dead, and they make a run for it out of internet dead zone, able to call for back up.

horror situation: the younger brother chokes to death.

Character Death 3 : he was the cause for getting them to the set-up point. He dies from an asthma attack that was induced form being hung for a minute.

reaction: the leader tries to get to the younger brother but cant get passed the ex cop.

resolution: back up arrives and police swarm the area and there is a shootout between good cops and bad cops. the ex-cop manages to escape the shootout, but the main guy has one last fight in order to save his girlfriend, but ends up getting seriously hurt in doing so…

horror situation: the leader has a face off with the ex cop

reaction: leader fights back in order to save themselves.

horror situation: deadly shootout between cops, bullets dispersing everywhere.

reaction: hiding in the forest from the bullets.

horror situation: one last final fight, knife fight.

reaction: fight to the death, the leader gets cut up, but manages to stab the ex-cop in the back… rendering him useless with his life hanging by a string.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 28, 2023 at 3:41 pm in reply to: Confidentiality Agreement

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Lisandro Boccacci

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March 27, 2023 at 1:58 am in reply to: Day 5 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s horror situation track

what I learned doing this assignment is how this step helps fell in the plot.

ACT 1 – SET UP FOR HORROR

Atmosphere of Evil established – court room reviewing a police body cam… showing a police chase on foot ending one officer accidently shooting another officer and then catching up to the suspect and using violent force to subdue the person, causing extreme harm.

Horror Situation: cop shoots other cop on accident. The officer slowly loses his energy. falling to the ground.

Reaction: (fights) The officer chases down suspect, fires at the suspect and hits him on the leg, and runs back to the officer screaming, “Officer down and I’m shot!”

Horror Situation: Starting to realize he shot his own partner.

Reaction : (fights )the officer calls for back up, and an ambulance… more shots are fired and the officer has no clue what is happening. More officers arrive and open vest of the office that has been shot

Horror Situation: …they notice a bullet got through the vest, bleeding from bellow his armpit,

Reaction: they have to stop the bleeding. the officer runs after the suspect and catches up to the suspect and starts beating him to death.

Horror situation: the officer is beating suspect to death.

reaction: another officer has to step in to stop him.

Connect with the characters – The 4 main characters meet the victim of this crime for dinner and celebrate his innocence and wining his lawsuit. here at the party, we get to learn a little about everyone’s personality through their actions and how they speak.

The characters are warned not to do it – The brother of one of the main characters is given a tip about where dirty cops work, and they are told by the guy who just won the court to lay low for a bit… because he knows cops can hold grudges.

Denial of horror – the leader of the group reassured them that as long as they have their cameras rolling and know their rights, that they have nothing to worry about.

Safety taken away – When they are surrounded by the police cars in a secluded area away from the city.

Horror situation: the lights shining in their faces, blinding them… and the dark figures surrounding them… officers screaming at them.

Reaction: they pull out their cell phones and cameras and start streaming live to capture any wrongdoing.

Horror situation: the officers begin to ask questions, see their ID, and threaten to arrest them for denying the request.

Reaction: They talk back to the officers… telling them they know the law, their is no sign at the park that says that there is a curfew.

Horror situation: the officers threaten them and continue to ask them to step out of the car.

Reaction: They refuse to get out of the car and stand their ground.

Monster: The nature of the beast – after the police have their fun and play their mind games with the main group in their car…the main monster, the ex-cop bent on revenge comes out… ready to play with no rules or laws stopping him…

Horror situation: the group knows something is up… when the officers stand back and the figure with pig mask shows up…

reaction: they start their car and try to drive away… but its too late… their car is hooked up to a tow truck.

ACT 2

Isolated/ trapped/ abducted – the ex-cop has his tow truck and drags the characters out into the field where there is no Wi-Fi and internet, but the ex cop has his own camera, and K-9 dog.

horror situation: they can’t escape and are now being dragged.

reaction: they keep live streaming, and they give out their location.

horror situation: the place they are dragged to, has no internet, no Wi-Fi, no cell service and all of their live feed gets cut.

reaction: the driver tells them to stay calm and pulls out a gun.

One of us Killed: one of the officers gets shot by accident and bleeds to death.

horror situation: the driver goes by himself to unhook the car… the K9 gets loose and starts tearing the driver apart.

reaction: the driver shoots back into the darkness … misses the dog

horror situation: the driver almost gets eaten alive by a dog, and he is out of bullets.

reaction: the group gets out of the car to help fight off the K9, the driver limps back into the car and locks everything once they are all inside the car.

horror situation: one of the officers guarding the perimeter falls over the hood of the car bleeding to death…

reaction: they stay in the car, they discuss running.

MIDPOINT – The monster is worse than we thought – He starts using mid-evil weapons to break and destroy their car. the weapons get more intense as the night progresses.

horror situation: the glass starts getting smashed by old looking weapons.

reaction: they duck down into the car, shielding themselves form the glass.

ACT 3 – FULL OUT HORROR

Fight to the death – a character gets pulled out and is forced to fight the ex-cop, another makes a run for it… a third goes out looking for the first character, and only one stays in the car. A few officers who have secured the perimeter fire back at the one trying to escape…

horror situation: the younger brother gets pulled out of the car…

reaction: they try to pull him back in the car…but the younger brother gets dragged out and pulled into the darkness…

horror situation: with the younger brother gone, they don’t know whether to run for it, stay put, or try to save him.

reaction: they argue about what to do…the sister runs after her brother….the driver makes a run for it… the leader stays in the car…

horror situation: the younger brother get tied by the neck and get pulled up off his feet.

reaction: the older sister finds him and cuts the rope down. and they make a run for it.

hysteria- the ex-cop uses a megaphone to let them know they are all going to die tonight. one by one… sending everyone in a panic, and sets his K9 loose again.

horror situation: the driver is being shot at from the officers that are securing the perimeter.

reaction : he has to run tree to tree… dogging bullets until the K9 attacks the driver again.

Horror situation: the younger brother gets an asthma attack…close to suffocating, needs his spray.

reaction: the older sister runs back to the car for the spray.

horror situation: the ex-office attacks them both with a chain saw…

reaction: they run for it with the spray.

horror situation: they can’t get to the younger brother.

Death returns to take one or more: one of the officers switches sides and begins to help them escape. ends up getting wounded badly and makes it out of the dead zone, no radio, no Wi-Fi, no internet, and manages to call for back up. Here the brother has an Asthma attack and dies from that.

horror situation: the officers have lost control, things are getting out of hand, the night was just meant to scare them out of town.

reaction: one of the officers turns and decides to help the driver escape the dog by shooting it dead, and they make a run for it out of internet dead zone, able to call for back up.

horror situation: the younger brother chokes to death.

reaction: the leader tries to get to the younger brother but cant get passed the ex cop.

resolution: back up arrives and police swarm the area and there is a shootout between good cops and bad cops. the ex-cop manages to escape the shootout, but the main guy has one last fight in order to save his girlfriend, but ends up getting seriously hurt in doing so…

horror situation: the leader has a face off with the ex cop

reaction: leader fights back in order to save themselves.

horror situation: deadly shootout between cops, bullets dispersing everywhere.

reaction: hiding in the forest from the bullets.

horror situation: one last final fight, knife fight.

reaction: fight to the death, the leader gets cut up, but manages to stab the ex cop in the back… rendering him useless and his life hanging by a string.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 18, 2023 at 3:19 am in reply to: Day 4 Assignments
Lisandro Boccacci’s Horror Plot

What I learned doing this assignment is that I am able to see the main plot points from beginning to end… in a way become the road map for where the scenes need to go

ACT 1 – SET UP FOR HORROR

Atmosphere of Evil established – court room reviewing a police body cam… showing a police chase on foot ending one officer accidently shooting another officer and then catching up to the suspect and using violent force to subdue the person, causing extreme harm.

Connect with the characters – The 4 main characters meet the victim of this crime for dinner and celebrate his innocence and wining his lawsuit. here at the party, we get to learn a little about everyone’s personality through their actions and how they speak.

The characters are warned not to do it – The brother of one of the main characters is given a tip about where dirty cops work, and they are told by the guy who just won the court to lay low for a bit… because he knows cops can hold grudges.

Denial of horror – the leader of the group reassured them that as long as they have their cameras rolling and know their rights, that they have nothing to worry about.

Safety taken away – When they are surrounded by the police cars in a secluded area away from the city.

Monster: The nature of the beast – after the police have their fun and play their mind games with the main group in their car…the main monster, the ex-cop bent on revenge comes out… ready to play with no rules or laws stopping him…

ACT 2

Isolated/ trapped/ abducted – the ex-cop has his tow truck and drags the characters out into the field where there is no Wi-Fi and internet.

One of us Killed: one of the officers gets shot by accident and bleeds to death.

MIDPOINT – The monster is worse than we thought – He starts using mid-evil weapons to break and destroy their car. the weapons get more intense as the night progresses.

ACT 3 – FULL OUT HORROR

Fight to the death – a character gets pulled out and is forced to fight the ex-cop, another makes a run for it… a third goes out looking for the first character, and only one stays in the car. A few officers who have secured the perimeter fire back at the one trying to escape…

hysteria- the ex-cop uses a megaphone to let them know they are all going to die tonight. one by one… sending everyone in a panic.

Death returns to take one or more: one of the officers switches sides and begins to help them escape. ends up getting wounded badly and makes it out of the dead zone, no radio, no Wi-Fi, no internet, and manages to call for back up. Here the brother has an Asthma attack and dies from that.

resolution: back up arrives and police swarm the area and there is a shootout between good cops and bad cops. the ex-cop manages to escape the shootout, but the main guy has one last fight in order to save his girlfriend, but ends up getting seriously hurt in doing so…
- This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Lisandro Boccacci.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 11, 2023 at 11:22 pm in reply to: Day 3 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Character for horror

What I learned from doing this assignment is to lay the foundation for my characters, their roles are clear, and it creates the dynamic for themselves on the individual level and social relationship level, who they are to each other. I can see what kind of people they are… sets the course for these characters, they serve a purpose.

A group of youtubers called Constitutional auditors are in their car getting set up by a revengeful ex police officer. I will be using, A. Team of professionals. The group is known for setting up cops, video recording them, streaming live on some occasions to catch out of control police officers. They are known to sue, officers, take them to court, on some occasions, officer lose, have to pay a large sum, sometimes they get fired, and sometimes they are sentenced to prison. They mean business.

Dying pattern is B. The characters experience the terror and survive together, but one or two die.

Leader: talks a lot, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. has a history of breaking the law. Has experience going through the court system… he learned the law… and has created a YouTube channel to get police officers in trouble.

Rescuer: one of the officers has to take action to save their lives from the out-of-control ex officer.

Moral One: he is a family man; he owns and drives the car. He is a teacher by day, and a constitutional scholar. he has partnered up with the leader to make these live streams.

complainer: one of the officers who goes along with what’s happening, complains and warns the other officers about the laws they are breaking and the trouble they can get into if they get caught.

out of control: the main protagonist. He is one of the officers who was fired, sued, and sent to prison for three years. That changed him as a man. It has also left him disfigured. In prison his face was slashed up, and his nose was cut off. He wants his revenge.

the carrier: he is the younger brother to the girlfriend. he trying to fit in, be part of the group, but also the one who gave the group the tip about the public parking lot, and how the cops are taking advantage of people there.

introvert/loner: he is another youtuber who does the same thing on his own, when he sees the livestream, he recognizes where they are located and he heads to the same place with his live stream, little does he know the hell he is about to enter.

love interest/ lovers: the girlfriend of the leader, lives with the leader, they share everything together, works as a waitress during the day, she joins her boyfriend for the thrill, loves the idea of getting back at cops. she also has a history of back encounters and drug use.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 10, 2023 at 12:01 am in reply to: Day 1 Assignments

Live Cam : Horror Conventions

What I learned doing this assignment is…

Firstly, I just wanted to add a small note on the movie I watched…

It was hard for me to find a movie that matches my concept, the closest I found was a movie that came out in 2014 called Creep. This would be my second time to watch it. I picked it for its POV perspective which is the type of horror script I want to do. I made notes on the list of conventions which really surprised me because of how clear I was able to pick them out in this movie…. even though it’s a very simple movie with an unconventional story telling technique it still had clear conventions. And I suppose these conventions tie the whole thing together and it’s what makes the genre work. Working through the conventions really helps me discover the story as well. I know what I’m dealing with when it comes to characters and the situation. Going through the conventions helped flesh out the story.

so here is my list of conventions.

Concept: The monster is a psychopathic ex-police officer; everything takes place at an automobile parking lot at public park. The terror comes in the form of the auditors being set up so the officers can ‘teach them a lesson’ for getting one of their fellow officers fired… and he will have his revenge on them. His squad gave him a free pass to do as he pleases… egos are tested, and things just get out of hand. The victims are the youtubers who work as constitutional auditors and some of the other officers who have to break their own morality and oath.

Terrorize the characters: the youtubers find themselves by police officers who have let one of their own, do what he wants to them. The officers mess with the auditors and terrorize them. Things start to get when the body cams tuned off and when they begin their night of slow torture.

Isolation: The youtubers are trapped in their car surround by police officers. They are in a parking lot that belongs to a public park that has no curfew. But the officers here are known to lie to the public and gather tickets if people are parked there after 1Opm which is a form of theft because no curfew actually exits at this public park.

Death: the officers use their guns, knives, and handcuffs to kill the youtubers. They also play mind tricks and mess with the youtubers on purpose, trying to scary them to death.

Monster: The officer who was retired from the force because of these YouTube auditors. He wants his revenge on them… it was his uncontrolled rage and threat of violence towards someone who wasn’t breaking the law, that got him fired. It being all on camera from the youtubers streaming a live feed on him. He made a plan to turn the tables around and live stream the youtubers getting scared to death, but the officer’s ego takes him over the edge when the auditors aren’t playing into his game.

High Tension: it’s a standoff between the auditors and police officers…. the auditors usually win… even if things get taken to court, the auditors are well trained in the law, so they know when the officers are lying or fishing for a way to bust someone. The live streaming always serves as evidence. They have humiliated and have gotten officers fired for a long time. Payback is coming and what turns into just another day of just busting officers… turns into a nightmare situation that gets out of control.

Departure from reality: The auditors being set up in a threatening and violent situation and having the tables turned on them makes this a departure from reality. The other officers allowing the retired cop to do what he pleases is also a departure from reality.

Moral Statement:

Doing the right thing can get you killed… but so can doing the wrong thing. (I’ll keep working on it… but that’s just what came to me)

Primal fears:

I want to use the fear of the dark, that something terrible is going to happen, fear of a psychopath, fear of pain and torture, fear of death.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 9, 2023 at 11:50 pm in reply to: Day 2 Assignments
Lisandro Boccacci’s Terrifying Monster

What I learned doing this assignment is…how this method of jotting down the 5 different parts for a great monster really helps chisel out the potential, and the uniqueness of the new monster in creation.

My monster is a high-ranking police office, with an out-of-control temper, who is looking to settle the score with 4 youtubers that got him fired and sentenced to prison time, changing his life forever.

His terror comes in the form of yelling, getting in your face, verbal threats, mind games, lying, force, violence, and threats of death.

His mystery comes from the fact that he hides his identity from the youtubers and has the cover of darkness. But underneath that mask is a cut up face, with a pig nose instead of a regular nose.

His fear-provoking appearance is that he is wearing a police uniform with a happy cartoony pig mask, one of those cheap plastic ones for kids. He is a big guy, very muscular. He drives a towing vehicle in which he has stashed an assortment of weapons, form medieval, to flame throwers, to smoke bombs, and a sawed off shot gun. He also has a K-9 near him at all times.

His rules are that he has no laws to abide by as he is protected by his fellow officers who make a perimeter around him and the youtubers. In this perimeter he can do as he pleases, and he intends to give the youtubers a real scary show.

His Mythology would be about how when he was patrolling the streets, he came to this group of youtubers, who do constitutional audits on unsuspecting officers. Well, this officer fell prey to this group as his ego trip, violent behavior, his lies, and his rampage was all caught on a live stream. goes to court, loses, and is found guilty. Fired without pension and sentenced to prison. At that prison his face is brutally cut up and left is left disfigured for life… left with a cut off nose… as a gag he uses a prosthetic pig nose to cover the nose hole.
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March 9, 2023 at 7:17 pm in reply to: Introduce Yourself to the Group

Lisandro Boccacci

I have written a few screenplays

hoping to learn how to go about creating a great horror script to sell or make.

I’m pretty quiet, some people find that unusual.

I’m happy to be here.
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April 20, 2022 at 2:52 am in reply to: Day 15 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Height of the Emotion

1. Silas is sitting in the back of the wagon, parents pulling by horse, heading towards the trail, out the back he sees what will be the last time he will ever see his home. tears in eyes, soldiers raiding the home… very emotional… after being forced to leave.. at gun point… by the American soldiers. His mom could be back in the wagon with Silas… she could say something like..”ill be yours forever… Silas… you’ll never lose us.. I promise” Silas turns to his moms chest and cries…

2. the moment that it rains and the puddle forms… enough water for Silas to drink water…

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3. the moment that Silas digs deep into the dirt, to get to the roots… with the bulbs full of water, its the first time that Silas is successful.

I did it…

4. the moment that Silas kills the wild boar… he offers the spirits, thanks,

5. the moment Silas sees his mother after being lost..

he screams! MAMA!
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April 20, 2022 at 1:21 am in reply to: Day 13 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Delivers Insights Through Conflict

what i learned doing this assignment is learning how to put meaning through conflict.

1. American soldier raid them out of their own farmland. they lose a lot, because Silas’ parents had caught wind that the soldier where coming they started packing a wagon early on like their neighbors… what’s revealed to the family is the betrayal of the us government upon them (it’s such a violent and sudden thing to lose everything at once, it really puts Silas in a deep trans of sadness, hurt, and anger.)

2. another conflict is when their friend steals the family’s food and water supply. Leaving the family with nothing to eat, nothing to drink except a few water droplets in an old leather water bag and a few bread Crums… also leaving Silas hungry and thirsty… in moments of desperation you really find out who are your true friends… but it leaves Silas in a very bad situation… and he has no one to blame because he allowed himself to get moody and stubborn and refused to eat and drink anything… putting himself at risk…of death by dehydration .

3. Plan goes wrong when Silas spends the day asking the other travelers for water or food, and to his surprise no one would help him… everyone had developed a mentality of everyone was for themselves… and honestly just realizing,, the overall journey of the Tribe could be shifting from the belief that by keep to their own that they will survive and it’s not until later they figure out that they have to work together to survive the trail… but the sun beats down on Silas… luckily some clouds form but even with some shade… by the time Silas can think.. he is lost … and overtaken with fear. its hear that he Panics and runs and cries out for his parents… Hes losing hope. eventually gives up and falls, and everyone passes him. it’s not that by a Miricle that it rains just a bit. that a water puddle forms where Silas is laying and is able to drink water… (i want Silas to shift here to someone who believes in miracles.) and may be the first time he connects with a higher vibration. God

4. Silas has a struggle with a wild boar he has to overcome, he has to kill it… he has no choice… and he does… and this is truly a moment of manhood for Silas…

5. The moment when Silas approaches the ferry and the soldiers, overtaken by anger and revenger, he takes the bloody knife in his hand and is focused, he has the upper hand, he could suprise them and kill them… he killed a wild boar.. cant be that different… but its when seeing his mother helping the wounded soldiers.. it totally wrecked his heart and his hatred… he drops the knife and goes to his mother with the wild boar meet.. . the family united…
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April 20, 2022 at 12:30 am in reply to: Day 12 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Turns Insights Into Action

What I learned doing this assignment is how to pin point the profound moments in the story… and really make use of scenes but setting up these moments, that are important to the development of the character… it really solidifies in my mind how good writing works, because we don’t just go to the movies to be entertained… we want to be moved and maybe along the way learn something new..

1. well them being taken off their home is obvious the most profound moment… it destroyed their peace, their slice of heaven, it put them in hell. its sets up the entire movie

2. when Silas realizes that there is no water no food, and he is facing death unless he does something about it… that moment…

3. the moment when he is digging for the roots to collect water, he fails the first time, he has to dig deep, and use his strength, a great metaphor for digging deep within

4. another moment is when Silas is in the forest and he encounters the wild boar and is forced up the tree.. in fear.. he could stay there or face his fear and face the animal which he does.. and kills it.

5. the moment when he sees his mom helping the now wounded soldier that pushed them off their land… is a moment that breaks Silas’s hatred for the soldiers.
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April 20, 2022 at 12:17 am in reply to: Day 12 Assignments

<div>Lisandro Boccacci’s Seabiscuit Analysis
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What I learned from doing this assignment is seeing how the new ways/ old ways is something that’s really important, and of course we learn best from seeing, instead of just being told, so yes through actions of the character and their failures or success… are also the audiences … through moments of action… i think in a more subconscious level pick up on the changes happening to the character throughout the story.

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The main character losing his son is not just a profound moment, but it really keeps are main character in a dark place which would make sense considering he’s looking for the light in the darkness that he dwells in… so i find it interesting that psychologically, he does all this to stay afloat and not be complete destroyed by the sadness of what happened to his son… and marriage.

This is a great line, really tells you here what the film is about, this is the character’s belief… but all of these characters had to really earn that belief in the course of the film.

one obvious important scene is when Red is fighting off a group of hostile guys, and across from him is the horse doing the same and the trainer notices this. he picks it up pretty quick, how these two souls, horse and rider… just might belong together… its a risk to put them together from his perspective too, it could south.

When the horse and Red first start to click and going through the ups and downs, but really their friendship is profound in itself.

Charles Howard: [speaking to the newsmen after the win at Santa Anita] Well, I just think this horse has a lot of heart. He may have been down, but he wasn’t out. He may have lost a few, but he didn’t let it get to him. I think I learned a lick or two from this little guy. Oh, and by the way, he doesn’t know he’s little. He thinks he’s the biggest horse out there.
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April 16, 2022 at 12:16 am in reply to: Day 11 Assignments

Lisandro’s Living metaphor

With each, tell us the Old Way and the Challenge, and how you think it might play out in your story.

What I learned doing this assignment is really understanding what it takes to find all of these great ideas, how they all play together, how its all layers, and how going through this process of rewriting, and thinking really brings out the best for the project, and that’s important because I know it elevated the wrting, the story, and the experience for the audience,

– 5 Should Work, But Doesn’t challenge (IN ORDER OF PROGRESSION )

1.

old way: Passive, shy, overcome with fear… cowardly..

Challenge: He is challenged when US soldiers force them off their land .

how it plays out: This situation does not play out very well for the family, and especially Silas, everything is suddenly without warning, forcefully pushed out of his birthland.

2.

old way : ; gives into anger… lacks understanding for his father, others, and the situation they are in… inconsiderate,

challenge: trapped in a mix bag of emotions,

how it plays out: because of his moodiness, he misses the chance to drink water and eat food because someone close to them steals their supplies.

3.

old ways: he whines and begs, bargains… to no end…to his parents, its situation he can t control and just can cry his way back home…

challenge: forced to seek help else where , other than his parents, he is going to have to overcome his fears, shyness, …

how it plays out: Plays out that because everyone is low on supplies everyone is turning him down when he asks for help… no one wants to give what little they have and the boy doesn’t understand how the people he grew up with and knew as neighbors are turning their backs…

4.

old way: has a habit of quitting when things get tough,

challenge: survive the night from dehydration,

how it plays out: Silas is able to collect condensation, and is able to drink water that way, but its barely just enough..

5

old way: Silas would rely on his parents for any kind of help and comfort

challenge; he has to do for himself now, he has to do as his mother instructs, for their survival, he has to collect certain plants.

how it plays out; the plants he collect are too dried up.

– 5 Living Metaphor challenges – IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

1.

old way: the thought of going back a second time to the forest area to dig deeper for the watery root bulb, he would of quit. before having to put more effort.

challenge: has to dig deeper than before to reach the root bulb filled with water…

how it plays out: he reaches the bulb with his bare hands, is really succesful, and the metaphjore of digging deep with his hands, is a metaphor for digging deep with himself.

2

old ways: would of chosen to go back after his parents…

challenge: fork in the road, (thats the metaphor) has a choice to make between two paths, the forest, — that seems scary… or back to his parents out of fear, will most likely die form dehydration.

how it plays out: Silas for the first time chooses to not go down the path of fear.

3

old ways: giving in to anger, giving in to his emotions other than his wisdom.

challenge: seeking revenge in his heart for what happened, the soldiers forcing them out of their home,

how it plays out: he sees his own mother helping the soldier.. and that image… breaks… his heart, that has been made of stone become of what happened… but his mother’s continued kindness, even towrds their enemies melts his heart.

4

old ways the tribe would fight each other over what happened, but instead

challenges: the ferry has to been shared, the Cherokees and the soldiers, now injured,

how it plays out: the Cherokee people had the oportunity for payback but instead chose a higher road, and as tough as it is for their elders and leaders to accdept what is happening, they understand a great change is on the horizon and they cant do anything to stop it…its time to adapt and survive. the ferry with both sides in peace not fighting is the metaphor

5.

old ways : choses fear…

challenge… he is up in a tree with an angry wild boar down below.. he has to climb down and fight it in order to get back to the ferry in time to catch up with his family.

how it plays out. the metaphor, physical facing your fear and wrestling with it, fighting, and in this case, kills it and will later take it to his family to enjoy ..
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April 12, 2022 at 2:50 am in reply to: Day 10 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Counterexamples

What i learned doing this assignment is helping see how the old ways get challenged through dialogue in the form of questioning, and the other technique which is through the demonstration of the counterpart.

*5 question Challenges to an old way

1. The scene where the family is forced out of their homes, and the boy is in denial about the situation, and his old ways of being are: Shy, nervous, hopeless, goofball.

Father” we have to go…

Silas: but why this is our home

father: not anymore… son. its time for us to move on.

Silas: but I don’t want to leave!

father: the family is our home.. as long as we are together.. does it matter where we live…

2. The old way for the boy is to let his anger take control of him and as it does, it does not serve him well. his weakness is fear… and right now the boy is scared… he cowards to his parents.. into his moms arms.. its not until later when his anger takes over that he starts blaming his father for being a coward and not fighting for their farmland. as he spends time in a mood Silas misses his chances to drink water and eat food.

mother : “Silas… I know you’re angry with us… but for your own good, will you please drink this water.. i don’t want you getting dehydrated… the heat here can kill..”

Silas doesn’t say anything and lays depressed and in a mood, in the wagon…

(continued)

Silas, please take the water… please…for your own sake…

… Silas… if you let you anger take hold of you like this… it could make you do a mistake that could cost you your life… be smart Silas…

Silas doesn’t say anything.

3. Later when Silas snaps out of his mood he goes to look for the water jug, and its gone.. he goes to his mother .. she hasn’t seen it… and their food is missing… its obvious that someone stole it… rope that was tying it to the wagon was cut.

4.For the first time his parents can’t help him out of a bind… he has to do something or die of thirst.

Silas: where’s the water?

mother: it got stolen…

Sials: is there any water anywhere?

mother” there might be some drops in the old leather bag

Silas: that’s all…

mother: you’re going to have to ask around…

silas.: .. why cant you…

mother..: i have to stay here and protect the wagon.. your father is near by .. he cant go too far off but he is asking around to see who took our food and water…

5 Challenge: The boy has to go off on his own for a while, venture away from the trail for a bit in search of the plant with the watery bulb near the root. he does fail and so when he later catches up with his mom, she teaches him how to properly spot the plant they need.

Weakness: Fear of getting lost, fear of not finding the plant.

Old ways: complain to parents to get what he wants.

mother: Silas… when we found you… you where crying… that is weakness… and there is no time for weakness… we have to be brave and strong.

father: that’s right Silas… you are my son… bravest among the bravest… son of a survivor and warrior… that potential is with in you..

mother: but unfortunate as hard as we tried to create a happy childhood for you…

father… we are afraid the time for being a child is gone… you are a man now… its do or die…now… no more play time.. understand.,,

mother: Silas… you must not cry, and you must not fear change… you must strong and not show weakness to you enemies… promise me you will always fight…

Silas: I promise.

*5 Counterexamples to an old way

1. The mother is a character that is a direct counterpart for the son, she is truly his north star and she is truly a very empathetic and loving person.

2.The father in the story… although he has to leave to either hunt for food, or fight off wolf, or be in charge of getting the wagon and keeping the family together, when he is not doing that, he is a good father… he is tough on Silas, but he has to be. .for his and their survival… parents need their sons youthful energy to help them build a new life…

3. They are a day away from arriving at the ferries to get across the lake >and at this point the boy and family are incredibly thirsty. The plants are dried up… and there is not single cloud in the sky…

Venturing around, he sees a leathery bag hanging from a donkey…its jiggling like its filled with water… he’s tempted to take it… he has knife… all he has to do is cut, take it and run…weakness: giving in to stealing but

as he does so… a man grabs his are. pull the knife out his hand and throws it away.. and he slaps the boy across the face…(this is a direct counter part)

4. Old Ways: Boy is a quitter when things get tough…

new ways: he finds the inner strength to pull himself up and not die.

Challenge: he has to make a choice, give up or hold on to faith…

Weakness: feeling of no hope, quitter when things get hard.

he’s given up and falls to the ground… but the weather saves him.. it rains just a enough to drink water… All he has to do is find that little bit of inner strength to drink the water…

the counterpart is really himself… he’s dehydrated… and close to passing out, and giving up …

5.I have this image of the boy walking towards the ferry with the wild boar meat in one hand and a bloody knife in the other… and revengeful focus in his eyes. he is walking up to the soldiers to kill them… but he gets stopped by the voice of his mother and father… tells the boy to let it go, and that if he goes forward with what he is thinking of doing they wont be able to be a family anymore and that would be a shame since they found each other and they can continue on being a family while others lost so many.
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April 11, 2022 at 1:34 am in reply to: Day 9 Assignments
Lisandro Boccacci’s – Old Ways challenge Chart

Old ways: Ten year old Silas Scruggs, assumes the great life he has on the farm will last forever. — because of how peaceful the farmland is where they are at, he doesnt have anything to really worry about other than being a kid, having fun and going to his parents when he needed food and be taken care of. He is also a mama ‘s boy, not ragging on it, but thats what the situation has created, and because he is sheltered with his mother and father… he has also created a natural way of being shy , and passive and not really having the will power to get himself out of trouble because he never really had to, he was never put in a life and death situation where he had to handle it on his own and his parents know this when they get forced out of their farmland and onward to Oklahoma, they had to make sure they keep him safe.

He is challenged when US soldiers force them off their land .

Old ways: The Boy assumes that his parents have all the answers and when they don’t, he gets very sad, cries, but he also gets very angry, at his parents for not having answers this time around, angered at his father for being a coward for not fighting back to keep their farmland.. the boy doesn’t understand that there was nothing that he could do, that he father is doing his best to keep them alive even if it meant leaving their farmland … he is so mad that he ignores his parents to the point that it puts his own life in danger because when his mother told him to take the water they had, he was to upset and stubborn to get out of his mood so he didn’t want to take anything from his parents. but then the water and food they have gets stolen from one of their friends , out of desperation turns on the family, the family that’s been good and generous to this friend. so with the water and food stolen the boy is out of luck when he grows hungry and thirsty enough to snap out of this mood and go to his parents.

He is challenged when they cant provide food and water for the boy…he is on his own…

Old ways: he whines and begs, bargains… to no end… its situation he can t control and just cry his way back home…

The boy is challenged, forced to seek help else where , other than his parents, he is going to have to overcome his fears, shyness, …

Old ways: The boy really tries, and is even surprised that he did it… but its not enough to he resolves to quitting… he always quits when things get tough… (will have to show that early on, as a set up)

He is challenged by being pushed to the limit… literally all fails and … the the weather provides rain for the boy…enough for him to drink. .but he really had to dig in deep to go for the water. .and get over his dying thirst.

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Old ways: would of chosen to go back after his parents…

He is challenged with a decision.. to make… on his own, and he has to be smart… or else it could be a fatal for him…if he choses the wrong path… he chooses to cut through a forestry area to try and collect more water and its a short cut… if he makes it out alive..

old way: choses fear…

challenge… he is up in a tree with an angry wild boar down below.. he has to climb down and fight it in order to get back to the ferry in time to catch up with his family.

Old ways: He would of given into his emotions, his anger, give in to getting his revenge back… he wants to kill the soldiers that did this to them…

the challenge… the soldiers that moved them out of their homes.. where ambushed by revenge seeking Cherokees.,, it cost them their lives and left the soldier hurt, wounded, or dead… they have to carried across on the ferry to seek real medical attention… fastest way… but the thing is they have to share the ferry with the Cherokees… its a very complicated situation and people are scared to get on the same boat for fear of the same thing happening… and something happens that makes everyone stop in there tracks and pay attention…the mother is trying to set a good example for her son…doesn’t want him to go down that path of anger.. so she start healing and helping the injured soldiers. everyone is baffled at first… but her leading the example… other women join in… and soon… everyone is helping everyone… there’s no fight.. the son.. the boy full of rage and revenge.. drops his knife… and helps a soldier out…

What i learned doing this assignment was seeing how the old ways and challenges really fit perfectly with the structure for the main characters that we assigned as the transformable character and the change agent characters… it really solidifies the structure, locks it in, frames it perfectly.
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April 11, 2022 at 12:36 am in reply to: Day 9 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s 12 Angry Men’s Analysis

I went off the ones that were listed, unfortunately, I couldn’t find a copy and I could only find the ones that show the clips, so for times sake im going off the ones listed in the email.

Assumption of guilt – So the main guy who is firmly going to hold his guilty verdict already assumes the worst because of everything presented in the court, he also has personal experience in life and just makes the assumption that anyone and everyone from the slums is guilty and would be found guilty because it makes sense to him.

Just want this over – People don’t want to be there and that’s made clear, and every time there is something thrown into question, which withholds some from watching a game for example and that puts a real cramp in their own day…

Not caring – The majority are quick to believe the current information, its satisfying enough for most of them to go back to their lives, which is what they care more about… they don’t care enough … to the point that they don’t care if an innocent boy goes to jail… a boy like that will eventually be there anyway..

Prejudice – they’ve already got their mind up about certain people because of how they speak, or how they come off, maybe not as intelligent, “prejudice always obscures the truth.” for sure a really great line that challenges the current perspective.

Not looking beneath the surface – just like everything that was presented in the trail, all the clues and evidence point to guilty, but its all very surface. as the movie shows as each thing gets questioned, the time it took the knife, the motives, etc, when they really dig deep, they start to find what makes more sense.

Assuming the evidence is not questionable – one moment with the knife… the group argued that the knife is too unique and that the idea of a coincidence happening was unbelievable until the fonda character pulls out a knife and throws down on the table demonstrating with 6 bucks and a walk around the block where the kid lived and he was able to find a knife , just like the murder weapon,

Assuming the witnesses were accurate – one of the things that comes into question is the dots left on a the top portion of a person’s nose, those marks appear when you wear glasses for a long time and take em off, resulting on the dots, and so that puts into question did the old lady really see what she saw…

Assuming the defense attorney did his job – Interesting how people of high positions or assumed authority, we give them credit thinking they did everything that they did.. but in the room, the fonda character starts to walk and count the 15 seconds, a mention is made, “dont you think the attorneys would of went over that” something like that, indicating that everything has been looked at by the professionals because that’s there job

Assuming the case is completely logical –There’s a moment of heated discussion where one of the men yells at the other man who is testing the perspective of the kid being gulty… he pushes the man until he shouts at the other, “im going to kill you” says it out of anger, and the other men have to hold the angered man back…

in which in turn the other man says.. i know you said it but you didn’t mean it… which in turn really puts in question… anyone who gets angered and says im going to kill you doesn’t mean that that proves guilt. human nature to say things like that when one is pushed to extreme anger.
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April 9, 2022 at 7:57 pm in reply to: Day 8 Assignments
Lisandro Boccacci’s Profound ending

1. Profound truth: Letting go and moving on is hard but it clears the path to one’s future.

or / and when others hurt us, we still have a choice to either give in to the emotion and hurt back and choose to rise above revenge.

2. The mother helping the hurt US soldiers despite they were the ones that trashed their home and moved them out. Her kindness… changes the heart of the young soldier… who can’t believe that even after what he did .. she was kind to him… the boy bent on revenge realizes the power of changing hearts… by being strong enough to show kindness to your enemies.

3 The best one i thought of is a scene were a wagon pulls up full of hurt soldiers… they have to put them on the ferry to get them to real doctors that can help. This puts the Cherokees in a very interesting position where they are powerful over the soldiers… they can choose to be cruel and show them a different way.

I have this image of the boy walking towards the ferry with the wild boar meat in one hand and a bloody knife in the other… and revengeful focus in his eyes. he is walking up to the soldiers to kill them… but he gets stopped by the voice of his mother and father… tells the boy to let it go, and that if he goes forward with what he is thinking of doing they wont be able to be a family anymore and that would be a shame since they found each other and they can continue on being a family while others lost so many.

The image of the mother helping the soldiers is the strongest one that I can think of and the boy watching.

4. I can set it up early on… how the other natives think of the us soldiers, and wanting their revenge…

5. tells the boy to let it go, and that if he goes forward with what he is thinking of doing they wont be able to be a family anymore and that would be a shame since they found each other and they can continue on being a family while others lost so many.

6 What i learned in this assignment is how delivering the ending with your message at the end, it takes like a zipper effect, all those set ups, and having a focus of the message, it really creates the tread that keeps it all together.
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April 7, 2022 at 11:13 pm in reply to: Day 7 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci’s Connection with Audience

1. I’m going to INTENTIONALLY create a connection with Silas Scrugs, and his parents, but not so much as our main character, Silas, the boy

well for all three the first one is empathy, when they are forced out of their home, its a horrible experience, yet alone, being forced by gun point.

In the beginning we have a pretty normal family for the three, there’s relatability to how the mother takes care of things in the kitchen, washes clothes, and the father is out on the farm land working and their Silas playing in the fields.

In the beginning, there is intrigue because we know something is wrong, and we know this because of the looks the mother and father give each other. They keep an ear out for news about how the US government was on the verge of pushing all the native americans off their land towards Oklahomka, lot of rulmors that create intrugue,

for Silas, once he is left alone, seperated from his parents, we start to see a side of Silas, a strong survuval side, and he is forced to face death by dehydration, but he had to find the will to contiue… and once hes alone… we wonder what the heck is he going to do… so theres a lot of intrigue there.

As far as likability, the father is a hard worker, honest, and loyal to his woman. and the mother is very caring and loving… like if the boy hurts his knee, his mom knows how to take care of him.

The boy is fun and adventurous, and likes to play alot games, he s fun and energetic so that makes the boy likeablie.

What i learned doing this assighment is how there are layers upon layers on the story structure, you cant just rush through, you have to layer it, discovering the elements one by one, and this is just another element to make sure that everything we set up for the audience for the transitional journey, once all the mechanims are ready, its still important to have the audience connect with the character to be taken through this jouney and this is important because we want the audience to stick around to go t hrough the story.
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April 4, 2022 at 9:59 pm in reply to: Day 6 Assignments

Transformational Logline

1. A Mix Cherokee boy, SILAS (10) and his family are forced out of their homeland by the US Army, joining their tribe in long treacherous journey across the states toward Oklahoma to start a new life.

2. Change Agent: Mother & Father.

the 10-year-old boy, Silas is the MAIN Transformational Character. His mother and father go through a minor change. The entire Tribe is also affected.

Choosing to use the Mini-Movie Structure 3 Gradient of Forced changed for Silas and his parents and Tribe.

MINI MOVIE 1 – STATUS QUO AND CALL TO ADVENTURE

The year is 1832, in Hawkins Tennessee, Silas is about 10, and his mother and father work together tending to crop like corn, as well as tending to their old, aged parents who also do what they can around the farmland, they are surrounded by their tribal neighbors and there is mutual friendliness and respect but also fun and sometimes jokingly mischievous but noting actually too mean spirited.

Silas is living with his family, playing among the tribe when suddenly US soldiers start evacuated everyone forcing people out of their homes, killing some if necessary. It was sudden chaos, and everyone is being shouted at to move, grab a wagon. He can’t believe what is happening…

A. Denial

C He’s just a 10-year-old boy, what does he know what is going on, he’s scared and helpless without his mother and father.

The Old Ways: Shy, nervous, hopeless, goofball

The Vision: Silas’ parents have to make sure they make it safely, protect their son, and once they do, they know they are going to have to build a new home from the ground up.

Challenge: The family is forced out of their farmland and forced to migrate towards Oklahoma.

Weakness: Sillas lacks courage and inner strength, doesn’t believe in himself.

MINI MOVIE 2 – LOCKED INTO CONFLICT

A. old ways: Anger

Challenge: forced out of their homes and accepting they are moving on to an unknown future…

Weakness: Fear, Pressure, Pride,

They have to pack really quickly, even though they already had a wagon prepared, they didn’t really think this would be happening. They pack fast and because the soldiers have entered the home, they won’t let them pack everything, they want them gone, they threatened the father’s life, almost gets stabbed. The boy is crying, and his father is shouting at him to stop crying, and that they have to go. Once packed and on the wagon, they leave as fast as they can …with the back view of soldiers raiding their home. They all leave together, including the grandparents and a friend that was helping around the house, became a close family friend.

B. After being on the trail for a while, Silas refused to cooperate with anyone, he refuses to speak and eat. He is very upset towards the US soldiers and wants revenge; he’s also unreasonably upset with his parents. He wishes they could have done something more, call his father a coward for not fighting back.

C. Because he can’t handle what is going on, he shuts down. its passive… holds the anger inward… making him a ticking time bomb.

MINI – MOVIE 3 – HERO TRIES TO SOLVE PROBLEM – BUT FAILS

A. Bargaining

B. After a few days of being on the trail, he begs his family to go home, he’s hungry and thirsty but it’s too late, someone has robbed their food and water… there isn’t any… and their father is trying to find water, without getting too far from the wagon in case someone tries to steal more things or food.

C. For the first time his parents can’t help him out of a bind… he has to do something or die of thirst. He is going to have to do something…But he is too scared to get out of his comfort zone, after all he is just a child. He complains but that gets him nowhere and he searches around the wagon for water. He is able to get a few droplets from a leather water bag they have. The dehydration is making the boy weak.

Mother reminds him about a certain plant in the area that contains a bulb of water near its root. She encourages him to think and find a solution, find the plant, and use the knife to get to the bulb.

Challenge: The boy has to go off on his own for a while, venture away from the trail for a bit in search of the plant with the watery bulb near the root.

Weakness: Fear of getting lost, fear of not finding the plant.

Old ways: complain to parents to get what he wants.

new ways: Mother demands he go out and do this… no choice… he has to grow up and be a man or die.

MINI MOVIE 4 – HERO FORMS NEW PLAN

A. Depression

The boy ventures off, keeping an eye on the trail… he ventures into a forestry area and starts digging around for that root. His first attempt fails, it’s the wrong plant. He tries a different plant… same result.. nadda. He continues.. he thinks he spots it… he digs and finds a bulb near the root, he’s excited, he cuts the bulb out and as he holds it in his hands… the bulb crushes into a powder dust that floats in the air… no water… its been dry in these parts for a long time… plants are drying out… but he is able to get somethings out of the roots he collected.

… he goes back to the trail to catch up with his parents…

MIDPOINT: He’s looking for his parents, calling out to them…he’s losing faith… he’s crying… and every stranger to him terrifies him. His father finally finds him, and they go back to the wagon. That night his mother teaches the boy how to extract the water from the roots…They make tea out of it and they have a little rabbit to share for dinner.

MINI – MOVIE 5 – HERO RETREATS & THE ANTAGONISM PREVAILS.

They are a day away from arriving at the ferries to get across the lake and at this point the boy and family are incredibly thirsty. The plants are dried up… and there is not single cloud in the sky… 

Venturing around, he sees a leathery bag hanging from a donkey…its jiggling like its filled with water… he’s tempted to take it… he has knife… all he has to do is cut, take it and run…

as he does so… a man grabs his are. pull the knife out his hand and throws it away.. and he slaps the boy across the face…

he passes out from dehydration… death is knocking…His father can’t find him, and his mother can’t leave the wagon for fear of getting robbed… people pass over the boy… until he’s completely fallen behind…

C. he accepts death and gives up and just lays on the ground with other dead natives around him

Vision: Parents are doing everything they can to find the boy, last resort… praying to their gods, even though the boy is not keen on prayer… his mother taught him how to pray and keep the faith when all feels lost…

Old Ways: Boy is a quitter when things get tough…

new ways: he finds the inner strength to pull himself up and not die.

Challenge: he has to make a choice, give up or hold on to faith…

Weakness: feeling of no hope, quitter when things get hard.

MINI MOVIE 6 – HERO’S BIGGER, BETTER PLAN

He accepts he can’t go back home, and he has to get back up and catch up with the wagons. But how…its starts to rain… and a puddle form for the boy… He drinks and is so happy to have this miracle happen for him… it feels that way anyway. By the time he has enough strength to pick himself up… he runs after the wagons… but he’s too far off… He gets an idea. he thinks he can cut through the forest area in order to catch up with the wagons and the ferry across the lake. And he knows as long as he cuts through the forest, he can collect more water and wild berries. It’ll be more dangerous for him to do that… but it’s his only chance to catch up to the wagons.

The mother and father move their wagon to the side and allow others to pass them… hoping to find their son. No one is helping them…. and they feel abandoned by their own people and tribe.

old ways: the parents fear they have lost their child…

new ways: For the boy its relaying on himself to get himself out of a deadly bind.

challenge: the family being separated; will they survive without each other and will they be united and for that to happen the boy has to find the will power to help himself.

MINI MOVIE 7 – CRISIS & CLIMAX

A. Acceptance

The boy on his own trail… finds himself face to face with a wild boar… a baby one.. and he’s hungry… he starts chasing it… running after it… it leads him to the big mama boar and it chases after him and its charging at him… he runs…

The boy finds a tree and climbs it… he feels safe there… he climbs the tallest tree and can see where the trail is headed… he can see the port… it’s not far. ITs getting dark… he makes himself comfortable.

His parents can’t wait any longer… they have to get back to the trail and catch up to the ferry. The father showed his son where they were going… he believes he is smart enough to make it and they hope that he will show up at the ferry… they will wait there for him for as long as they can.

The boy has an arrowhead… a rock from him homeland, the farm in Tennessee. He throws it away. He accepts that, he could be on his own now. but he is not crying.

The following morning… the boy has to get down, but that big boar is still lurking… he is afraid to go down there. He sneakily gets down… and tries to get away quietly but the boar spots him and runs after the boy.,, the boy decides to defend him self and has a one on one fight with the wild boar. He kills it… but he hurt his leg in doing so. On his way out of the forest area he runs into some US soldiers… with blood on his knife… and his face.. he is ready for battle… he wants to kill them and he has his knife ready…. as he does so a soldier grabs his hand and stops the boy… they arrest the boy and take him back to the ferry

New Ways: The boy is more of a man now, still just a boy though… but he has confidence in himself…

The vision: the family is reunited.

challenge: can the boy overcome his anger?

MINI – MOVIE 8 NEW STATUS QUO

The boy stumbles his way to port. He has to talk to the natives around him… and learned to also be careful… he has to learn that it’s okay for him to rely on the help of strangers… and in himself, and unfortunately for Silas, he has to grow up fast.

He is finally reunited with his family and his mother takes care of his wounds. His Boyhood is gone. he gives his father boar meat. His father is proud of him... while many sons and daughters, and elders have perished in the trail… hi son has passed the test. 

They get on the ferry… and travel across the lake to…here… Silas and his family find water… in exchange for the boar meat… the boy’s leg wound begins to heal, thanks to his mother’s natural herbal remedy… promises her boy she will teach him the healing ways that were taught to her… she will do this when he is a bit older. All is well, but their journey isn’t over. they still have to venture to Oklahoma once they get across the lake and that will be a longer and deadlier journey… father is thinking of escaping the trail and finding a secluded area that they could hide and try to live at. 

New Way: They are united… and the boy is on his way to becoming a man.

Profound truth: Letting go and moving on is hard but it clears the path to one’s future.
Lisandro Boccacci

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April 2, 2022 at 8:53 pm in reply to: Day 5 Assignments

Lisandro’s Three Gradients

1. I will be using Forced changed

A. Denial

B Silas is living with his family, playing among the tribe when suddenly US soldiers start evacuated everyone forcing people out of their homes, killing some if necessary. It was sudden chaos, and everyone is being shouted at to move, grab a wagon. He can’t believe what is happening…

C He’s just a 13-year-old boy, what does he know what is going on, he’s scared and helpless with his mother and father. he lacks courage and inner strength.

A. Anger

B. Silas refused to cooperate with anyone, he refuses to speak and eat. He is very upset towards the US soldiers and wants revenge.

C. Because he can’t handle what is going on, he shuts down. is passive… holds the anger inward… making him a ticking time bomb.

A. Bargaining

B. He begs his family to go home, he’s hungry and thirsty but its too late, someone has robbed their food and water… there isn’t any,… and their father is trying to find water. Without getting to far from the wagon.

C. For the first time his parents can’t help him out of a bind… he has to do something or die of thirst. He is going to have to do something..

A. Depression

B. When the boy ventures off on his own for a while he passes out from dehydration… death is knocking…His father cant find him and his mother cant leave the wagon for fear of getting robbed… people pass over the boy… until he’s completely fallen behind…

C. he accepts death and gives up and just lays on the ground with other dead natives around him

A. Acceptance

B. He accepts he can’t go back home and he has to get back up and catch up with the wagons. But how…its starts to rain… and a puddle forms for the boy… enough for him to get back up and run back to the trail for people… but he cant find his dad… can find his mom…

C. He has to talk to the natives around him… and learn to also be careful… he has to learn that its okay for him to rely on the help of strangers… and in him self, and unfortunately for Silas, he has to grow up fast. He Boyhood is gone.

What I learned in this assignment is how important it is to truly understand what it is your characters are going through emotionally, not just for the benefit of the character, actor and story but for the audience, the trueness that exists there has to be there… for people to tune in and when they can relate to the emotions and feel like yeah, that’s how that goes… you’ve done a job well done…and the process of finding… is a great one… i think otherwise not knowing all these little tad bits really helps iron out what your story is and where it’s going.. fascinating how following those steps really helped discover all of this,
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 31, 2022 at 5:15 pm in reply to: Day 4 Assignments

Lisandro’s Lead Characters

1. A Cherokee boy and his family are forced out of their homeland by the US Government joining their tribe in long treacherous journey across the states toward Oklahoma to start a new life.

2. I believe the mother and father are the change agent. They see their son, Silas, who is going through a lot for such a young age, especially having to leave his home and be forced to go on a journey to a new land, their vision is to find a place where they can be a family away from the US Government oversight and danger.

The mother is a full Cherokee so she will be teaching Silas of the old ways of herbal medicine and Cherokee heritage. But they both want to make sure Silas is safe and make sure he doesn’t grow up to be bitter and angry.

Silas’s mother is full Cherokee, so she has a lot of experience being part of a tribe, and his father is not Cherokee but is skilled in hunting and living in the woods.

3 Silas the boy, is the main character that will go through a major transformation, from being a joyful happy little 13-year-old, to being forced out of his homeland, to walk a long journey to the lake, where they take a ferry, from there they have to make their way to Oklahoma. It was a danger, treacherous journey, that many tribal Indians died. Something like that would leave the boy filled with suffering, and sadness and anger. The boy’s anger issues is something he will have to deal with .

I believe the mother and father will be transformed too, maybe they thought about splitting, or something was going on to keep them apart in the beginning, and a journey like this, forcing them to look after their son, it will bring them closer together… which in turn. will have two more children.

4. The US government, forcing them out of their homeland and then it becomes the natural forces that they encounter through their journey to Oklahoma.

5.I think a betraying character could be a close friend of the families who steals their food and water.

6. What i learned in doing this assignment, how understanding the mechanisms at play here to create something of story, the simplest elements, down to the transformational journey. finding that true nugget of an idea, and that comes with understanding the relationships and how they affect one another.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 29, 2022 at 9:40 pm in reply to: Day 3 Assignments

Lisandro’s Transformational Journey

1. A Cherokee boy and his family are forced out of their homeland by the US Government joining their tribe in long treacherous journey across the states toward Oklahoma to start a new life.

2 Old Ways: In the old ways, much like Apocalypto, the boy is living with his family, enjoying life rather peacefully with his family and friend. Enjoying life as a free creature of earth.

3New Ways:

They have to pack up everything and move, all by force, if necessary, their peaceful little way of living has been stripped. Thier friends hurt, or worse killed. They lose mostly everything and suffer greatly just to get to the boats and ferry across to get to Oklahoma.

4.What i learned doing this assignment is how having your puzzles picked out and placed at the bookends of the journey, really helps you connect, and helps you discover what it could be, I enjoyed the thinking process behind that, and these simple steps really helped guide that.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 26, 2022 at 9:48 pm in reply to: Day 2 Assignments

Lisandro Boccacci – First Three Decisions 3/26/22

What I learned doing this assignment are the simple questions one can ask one self to get to the proudness of the story, to dig a little deeper to really find the nut of the idea, and really keeping the audience in mind, keeping in mind we are building a character that the audience will hopefully chose to follow…

1. What is your profound truth? Letting go is hard but it clears the path to ones future.

2. What is the change your movie will cause with an audience? That even if people have harmed us in the past, we still have a choice on how we react and hold ourselves, and treat others. They will go form an eye for an eye, to shifting to… forgiveness…

3. What is your Entertainment Vehicle that you will tell this story through? the cause is the background, and the background happens to also be historical events.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 23, 2022 at 1:03 pm in reply to: Day 1 Assignments

1. The Change is going from toxic person to a not toxic person. Becoming the best person you can be.

2. Change Agent: Rita. well rounded good person.

Transformable Character: Phil the reporter…

The oppression is the day repeating over and over and being trapped in this sequence with what seem for eternity.

3. At the beginning we get a sense of Phil, and because its Bill Muray, it signals the audience oh this guy is funny and likable, but right now hes being a jerk.. so we know something is going on here..

4. Phil changes the most, his old ways to his new way of being a caring man.

Everybody in town is affected by the new Phill, in a more positive way, and Rita’s perspective of Phill changes… accepts him for who he really is… a good hearted guy..

5. Phil is with the two drunks from the bowling alley he realizes he can do whatever he likes, it doesn’t matter because it will all be gone the next day. At some point he becomes attracted to Rita and each day he learns something new about her. He uses this knowledge to impress her and get her to like him. However, she sees through him and rejects him.

He then goes to a dark place and tries to kill himself several times. He fails.

6. Phil tires everything but be the best version of himself. that’s the last thing that he does… and I don’t think that’s what he knew he had to do.. I think he exhausted himself tirelessly , he realizes what a shitbag he is because of how others around him react to him, and him not getting what he wants.. and by a miracle.. he is able to repeat the same day.. until he gets it right.

7. For me a great profound moment is the montage of him being rejected… he reaches a wall, where his old ways just wont get him to where he needs to be…

8. Profound lines: Phil: “I don’t even like myself”; “I am a jerk”; “You’re the kindest, sweetest, prettiest person I’ve ever seen in my life”; “The first time I saw you something happened to me”.

Rita: “Maybe it’s not a curse”.

9. Phil has changed, but it took time, effort, he took it upon himself to become a better man…

10. golden rule, treat others the way you want to be treated…
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 21, 2022 at 6:52 pm in reply to: Introduce Yourself to the Group

Hi

you can see a full listing of work ive done on my imdb page, if you have minute, you can visit here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3849582

I’ve taken classes in the past, I’ve written on and off for a while, I’ve written lots of things, but I’ve never sold a script. Optioning scripts is the goal.

My goal is to refine my understanding of the craft, as i also refine my business sense too. I am also trying to find committed fellow writers who would like to work on spec scripts with me, and pitch decks, because I plan to attend AFM this year, and every year if possible, with the goal of finding an agent to represent me and my partners, as well as find a sales agent to help negotiate those deals.

I’m currently working as a ghost writer and for a Kiosk ad agency.

I’ve received one on one acting training from one of the actors from that movie, Dead Poets Society, I will leave to who that was up to you imagination. I can also do a monologue from that movie.

I love stories… I love acting. I love creating… I want to go really far in this industry not just in screenwriting, but in acting, and filmmaking in general.

please visit my imdb page for a list of work I’ve done, much appreciated.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3849582

I’m currently finishing the score for my feature film and soon will have a screener for agents. My goal is to get on Hulu or at least Imdb free tv, something like that to get my feet wet out there in the world .

My other goal is to network with someone from this program that has optioned scripts that could act as a mentor and guidance councilor to the writer’s group i am forming.
Lisandro Boccacci

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March 21, 2022 at 6:36 pm in reply to: Confidentiality Agreement

Lisandro Boccacci

I agree to the terms of this release form

As a member of this group, I agree to the following:

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.

Lisandro Boccacci

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