Mac McCord
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I agree to the terms of the release form. Mac McCord
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Hello! I am MAC McCord down ]n Chapel Hill, NC. I am a playwright and screenwriter; also and violinist and flute teacher. I am working on polishing my short film that I have received a grant to make, and have lots of idea for future movies. I look forward to this class!
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Hi! I have not gotten the 9th assignment yet…could you please send it to Mac McCord — mcmccord2@gmail.com. Thank You
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I did not get the Day 9 assignment … could you please sent 9 and the rest of the assignments, please? To Mac McCord at mcmccord2@gmail.com Thank You!
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Horace is the real antagonist and possibly more: He is loud and rude and thinks he is entitked to whatever he wants, in this case shooting a deer with a giant rack. He has lied and cheated and now has stolen from his corporate office. He wants to be admired and feared.he is hard to like, though he misses his dead wife and has a soft spot for Fred’s wife. He has a low frustration level and lashes out at people. He thinks Guy likes him. He also things Fred is a loser fir only being a hunting guide.
He laughs at the monster tales and waves his gun around. When he sees a glimpse of Cernunnos he just wants to kill him for his rack. When Guy tells him he knows about Horace’s embezzlement he shoves him and breaks his ankle. With Fred gone he shots Guy and goes after the deer
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My monster is Fred/AKA Cernunnos: basically a Celtic God and protector of the forests and all the wild things who live in them. In this film he and his wife Diana/AKA Fildias in a remote and mountainous part of the Appalachian. Folks in the region have long reported a huge monster with antlers that eats hunters. Fred works a a deer hunting guide who has moved around from forest to forest, protecting his deer. In his Cernunnos aspect he is eight feet high at the withers, has a huge rack of antlers that can move and drip loosen, and has blood red eyes. He shows up in this aspect only when hunters are over hunting or wounding animals and leaving them to die. But once his ire is raised he is a relentless, stealthy killing machine.
He and Diana cannot killed and will fade from one forest to go protect another .
Perhaps their greatest limitation is they have to much patience and expect Hunters to respect The forest.
When one greedy hunter kills another hunter , wounds a die,(Diana in Doe form) and stalks their twin fauns then Cernunnos takes revenge.
The story begins with a hunter being gored in the neck by a stag
But we do not
See much of the stag. Then we go to the hunting lodge where Fred works and meet the two hunters he takes out, Things start to go badly very soon as one of the hunters shoots at everything that moves, wounds a die, which sends and enraged Fred in search of her. The two hunters fight and one of them is shot. Horace keeps on his quest fir a big buck, not realizing that Fred in stag firm is stalking him.
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The character deaths in my film are,at this point, short as there are only two deaths,(not counting the animals. I may develop a prologue with a death to open the movie and give a glimpse of the monster; but in the plot as it is now there are two deaths, though the wife of the hunting lodge guide gets wounded by a hunter.
The first character death is Guy, one of the two hunters being taken out by the guide, Fred.Guy works with Horace, the other hunter and Guy’s boss. Guy is an ok guy who has inadvertently discovered a secret about Horace doing some illegal things within the company. Guy only agrees to go on the hunting trip so he can talk to Horace and try and fix the situation. Guy trips and breaks his ankle. Fred tells Horace to watch Guy and he runs back toward the road to get a cell signal.
Horace bullies Guy and calls him a slurs etc and says he doesn’t have the stones to shoot anything.
Guy shoots and wounds a hawk and feels bad about it even though he is in pain.As Guy gets delirious from pain he tells Horace he knows about the embezzlement. Horace, enraged, beats Guy with the stick of his gun and leaves to go find a buck. Guy is left barely conscious with blood running down his face. He imagines a giant hawk flying down, talons out stretched, to kill him fir wounding its mate. Then Guy realized that the sharp things coming at him are the times of a deer’s antlers. The stag, which we do not see clearly, hires him in the throat and he dies. him and he dies .
Horace is the second death, which doesn’t happed until the third act. Horace keeps on trying to find a stag with a huge rack, not realizing that the stag is following him. Horace is drinking and shooting at everything that movs, killing crows, a rabbit and finally wounding a doe . I
A giant stag with huge beaching antlers charges him and chases him deeper into the tangled forest. As he runs he feels like the branches are trying to grab him, and one dies. He realizes that the branch is a flexible time of the stags antlers, and he is choking. He uses his gun by as a club and breaks free only to trip and fall down a ditch, breaking his leg. His gun slides down and rests at the trunk of a tree. He lies dazed and in pain and sees the giant stag walking toward him . The stag raises his head an gives a chilling call that reverberates through the woods. Horace is crying and bags for his life. The die he wounded limps up to stand by the stag. As Horace watches both the stag and the doe turn into Fred and his wife Diana, who has blood on her leg. Fred walks over, picks up Horace’s gun and shoots him.
Fred looks at Diana, hugs her, and they agree to move further away from people. They walk into the woods.
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Atmosphere is a dark forest reported to house a horned monster
The characters, a hunting party, become isolated by no cell service, & a sudden dense fog.
Horace, one of the hunters, shoots a crow which angers Fred, who tells him to go bury it. Horace stomps off but sees a doe and wounds it. Fred is enraged and goes after the doe.
The two hunters become isolated from their guide, Fred, and from each other after a fight between them.
One of the hunters tells Horace that he knows Horace has been embezzling money- they fight and Guy falls down a revine. Horace then shoots him and continues on up the mountain to get his buck.
Horace keeps goin but is followed by a murder of crows. They drive him crazy and he shoots more of them, then sees huge deer tracks leading up the mountain. Horace runs up the mountain and sees a glimpse of a huge stage with antlers the seem to move of their own accord he shoots, misses. The stage has vanished but Horace stalks him Horace stops fir a swig of whiskey from his flask and leans back against a tree. He feels a branch that moves down to curl around his neck. He feasts, shoots at the tree and keeps following the stag.
Crows keep dive bombing him and he shoots again. Then hears something and turns to see the stag-8 feet high at the withers, with burning Ted eyes and some kind of dripping liquid on the tips of the antlers. The antlers writhe and grow bigger as Horace watches.
.“You shot my wife, the stag’s deep voice rumbles in Horace’s brain. Horace aims at the stag and the gun trigger clicks. Horace pees himself as the stag slowly approaches. Horace tries to shoot again and the trigger clicks again . Horace drops the gun and runs back down the path. He stops for breath—no sign of the stag. Horace drinks again and laughs, then heads back up to get his gun.
As Horace gets to where he dropped his gun he is charged by the stag, who body slams him. Horace goes down with a broken leg. His skin is burning as drops of acid(?) from the stags moving antlers hit him. Suddenly the stag stops his attack and walks over to the fallen gun. As Horace watches the stag morphs back into Fred, the guide, who calmly bends over, picks up the gun and aims at Horace.
“ The triggers jammed, you idiot,” Horace pants. Fred shoots him between the eyes, then puts empties the chamber and throws the gun onto Horace’s body.
“Apparently not,” Fred says and he walks away to meet a woman in a white jacket and leggings. She is holding a bandage on one hip where Horace shot her. Fred walks over, picks her up abd csrries her into the forest and crows descend onto Horace’s body.:/
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Lesson 2 Homework—Crafting the Monster
The Monster is. Human,FRED, who can turn into a sort of Appalachian Ceneuunos: a huge stag with branching antlers that can writhe like snakes and drip poison onto those who dare not respect the animals and birds of his forest. ‘He is unknown to most, though there are tales of his mountain and the remote woodland that surrounds it. Quite a few hunters go into the woods and never come out. Fred, in human form, always has a perfect explanation of why the hunters might have “gone missing”. After dying Cernunnos’ hooves and antlers the bodies and picked clean or eaten by bears. Rangers go in with dogs but the hounds never get the trail, as ‘Fred’s wife, Diana, is magical herself and can control any canine she meets.
So-Fred/Cernunnos’ terror is stealth until revealing a horrific Stag with blood-red eyes.
People say if you see ‘the forest monster’ you are already dead.
But Fred/Cernunnos has rules; some hunters are fine if they are respectful and do not wound or hurt any animal other than one deer,(‘who is usually an young buck who has already lost many deer battles0
.what I’ve learned is making monsters is fun, exciting and hard. I have love Celtic legends all my life, so this is my homage to the Lord of the Hunt.
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Lesson Survivors and Victims:
My group for Run Bambi is the Deer Hunting Group: Fred, the guide; and Horace and Guy; two thrill seekers who work in a corporate office and want to play Big Buck Hunter. All they talk about is wanting to shoot the biggest buck with the biggest rack. Fred establishes the rules of the forest and the hunt, and emphasizes good sports,man ship and never shooting blindly, or to wound. Guy takes notes and Horace rolls his eyes. This scene happens as the three men go up the mountain on an increasingly narrow and rocky trial.
The dying pattern is that Guy falls down a revine , and ‘Fred runs back to get a good signal to call for help, telling Horace to watch Guy. Horace doesn’t, going on up the trail by himself. guy , trying to stand u, falls down again= and hits his head. The blood from his wounds attract and family of bears.
Horace keeps on, and shoots/wounds a doe.
Fred comes back , having called for help, and sees that Guy has died. He goes after Horace and finally finds him standing over a dying doe. Fred is furious but Horace punches him. The two men fight, and Horace, though not a great fighter, gets a lucky moment and clubs Fred with his rifle butt. By now the doe is dead and Horace slogs up the mountain to find his big buck.
Horace is being watched and followed by a murder of crows and he shoots at the. He kills one and the rest fly around him cawing. He bats at the and tries to shoot more of them but his gun jams. Furious he keeps trying and the tries the gun down where is slides dow an embankment. As Horace watches the gun goes off, hitting Horace in the leg.
Horace hears footsteps and sees the biggest stag he’s ever heard of. He starts trying to crawl over to his gun and the stag keeps coming closer. It seems to Horace the stag is getting bigger by the moment and it’s antlers a moving, growing and dripping a vicious liquid. Horace starts yelling for Fred to come save him, and the stage bends down to sniff Horace. He pulls out a hunting knife but the stag rears and tramples him. The the stag morphs back into “Fred.
Fred, other than being supernatural is the universal character; the man.stag leader protecting his wood. He is not the one who brings the monster but the monster who is enraged that Horace killed the doe. He has a strong sense of FairPlay but will do anything to protect his herd, and the other beings in his wood.
Horace is the obnoxious one. Selfish, entitles and greedy.
Guy is unlucky and bear bait. /decent but not willing to say no to his boss Horace.
Fred’s wife, Diana, who does not go on the hunt, is beautiful and otherworldly. If Fred hadn’t killed Horace she would have.
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I am re-replying to this assignment. the horror movie I watched, VAMPYRES, was from 2015, and was a dubbed version. But, while the pacing was PAINFULLY slow, it did cover a lot of the usual conventions.
Isolation: the first shot is of a motorcycle driving through the countryside, then coming down a dirt road through a remote and dreary forest. Suddenly there is a tall figure clad in black in the middle of the road and the bike skids, throwing both riders. One rider wakes up, finds his dented helmet, and looks for the other rider, who has vanished. The remaining ride trades through the forest, sees another black clad figure and the scene cuts to:
Another scene introduces a threesome of young people who are looking for the motorcyclists, who have both vanished.
The movie continues with this continually isolating one person after another. The men meet a beautiful woman who lives with another beautiful woman in a spooky old house in the forest. Both women are not only VAMPYRES, (who drain their victims a little at a time to make it last,; perhaps they didn’t have a big enough freezer). As the movie slogs along we discover the women are also, aside from being very sexual with their victims, like a bit of torture on the side. Bear traps play and part, as does cutting tongues out of the young woman. I admit I started to lose patience so I will have to re watch or find a better movie. ‘We fell into the second season of “American Horror Story” and are still mesmerized. So I need to go back and count the horror conventions in AHS once we complete this season.
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I agree to the terms of the release form. Mac McCord
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I did reply to this but have not been able to upload my other assignments. I am working on; perhaps it has something to with the fact that I am trying to use an iPad for everything. I have done stuff but will redo them and try and get them into the forum assignments.
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I have done my premise or idea but do not see where to post that. However, I did take a stab at Lesson 1. I made the mistake of looking at an older film, VAMPYRES, which is dubbed and one of the slowest movies I have ever tried to watch,(worse that ‘The Secret ofThe Incas).
All the conventions were ticked off…but everything happened so slowly I lost interest before the second pallid jump scare. There was very little character development, or attempt at such. I will try again with a different movie tomorrow. I don’t recommend this one, and I frickin’ love vampire movies.
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Mac McCord. I agree to this release form. Thank you!
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Hello! My name is Mac McCord. I am an older transman living with my wife in North Carolina. I have written ten,(the horror script will be my 11th), feature scripts; mostly animated, family, a trans story that no one would read and a fantasy drama involving Irish legends and the abuse of power by the Catholic Church. I have been writing short screenplays, radio plays,one produced), and stagE plays. I have also had a good bit of my poetry published along with a number of genre short stories. I have been a puppeteer since 1969 and have worked as a dog and horse trainer. I was a piccolo player in the Army Bandfield and now play and teach violin and viola. I hope to learn how to better use the conventions of a particular genre to tell and unique horror tale.