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Margaret Valentine’s Villain Track

ATTACK: The invading people decalre war on the planet Arodoba, and issue an ultimatum – surrender of die.

MANIPULATION: This forces the epeople of Arodoba to invoke the ancient rite of ‘The Challenges of Honor’. This is exactly what the invading armies want. Each side has to choose a champion to defend their honor in the virtual reality world of the 12 challenges. They know their champion cannot be defeated.

PLAN: Rig the 12 challenges so that the Arodoba champion cannot win.

PLAN: As each challenge becomes significantly harder than the last, they have found a way to make certain that any wound or injury in the virtual world becomes a reality and weakens the Arodoba champion.

TREASON: While everyone concentrates on watching the Challenge of Honor, they move their ships and armies into attack positions. They also infiltrate the Arodoba government with the help of a traitor.

SURPRISE: The Arodoba champion, an exceptional thief an con artist, wins a challenge. She can cheat too!

INCREASE THE STAKES: They instruct their champion to kill the Arodoba champion in the remaining challenges. Now it is no longer a fight for honor and freedom, but a fight for life.

TAKE OVER: As the challenge comes to an end, the enemy take over strategic defense positiions of the Arodoba people.

TRAITOR DISCOVERED: The Arodova champion discovers the traitor in their government and he is killed.

ALL OUT WAR: Fighting in the cities and streets.

FITTING ENDING: The Arodoba champion cons the leader of the invading force. Perhaps he has been in a virtual reality the whole time (not sure about this)

[Margaret Valentine]

Margaret Valentine’s Hero’s Mission Track

Clear Mission: Complete the 12 virtual reality challenges and win at least 7 of them to save herself and her plane from death.

Motivation – betrayed, captured and sentenced to death

First Action – accepts the role of her planet’s champion and goes into the virtual reality world to complete the first challenge.

Ostacle – She loses the first two challenges when she knows she should have won them.

Escalation – She loses the third challenge and is injured. She cuts her leg and it starts bleeding.

Twist – Her leg bleeds in the real world.

Overwhelming Odds – The whole game is rigged. No matter what she does she cannot win any of the challenges

New Plan – Don’t win the game, steal it.

Full Out Attack – Kill the opposing champion and then has to take on the invading force and the traitor in her own planet’s government.

Success – Cons the traitor into revealing themselves, steals the invading force’s weapon and saves her planet.

[Margaret Valentine]

Margaret Valentine’s Hero and Villain

Hero morally right – saving her planet

Villain morally wrong – invading the planet, rob it of its riches and then destroy it

Hero

Unique skill set – exceptional thief, con artist and extremely good at combat

Motivation – save herself and her planet

Secret or wound – she was betrayed which is how she was captured and her true identity

Villain

Unbeatable – Champion of the invading force has never been beaten

Plan/Goal – destroy the planet and the people and steal all its riches

What they lose if Hero survives – Untold wealth and own life

Impossible Mission

Puts Hero in action – forced to be her planet’s champion and has to complete all the challenges to win

Demands they go beyond their best – the challenges are all rigged, she has to win a rigged game

Destroy the Villian – kill the Champion and destroy the rest of the invading force

[Margaret Valentine]

Margaret’s Conventions!

What I learned is that the hero has to have incredible skills for the mission.

Concept An exception thief/con artist is forced to escape a death sentence by fighting for her planet against a champion from an invading world who will destroy her world and everyone on it if she loses.

Conventions:-

Hero – An exceptional thief and con artist

Demand for Action – forced to fight to save herself and her homeworld from death

Mission – To complete 12 challenges in 4 hours against a champion from an invading planet

Antagonist – Invaders from another planet personnified in their champion. They will destroy her planet and everyone on it if she doesn’t win at least 7 of the challenges

Escalating Actions – the challenges get tougher and the time to complete them in gets shorter

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Margaret Valentine

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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.

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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.

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6. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.

This completes the Group Release Form for the class.

[Margaret Valentine]

Margaret Valentine

GROUP RELEASE FORM FOR “Writing Killer Action Scripts” CLASS
As a member of this group, I agree to the following:

1. That everyone’s work here is copyrighted and they are the sole
owner of that work. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this
group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that
idea.

2. That this program is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun and I will not share,

disclose, present, or deliver the information, design, and writing of this

program to anyone for any reason without written permission from Hal Croasmun.

3. That I will keep the other writers’ ideas and writing confidential
(including Hal’s materials) 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

[Margaret Valentine]

Margaret Valentine

GROUP RELEASE FORM FOR “Writing Killer Action Scripts” CLASS
As a member of this group, I agree to the following:

1. That everyone’s work here is copyrighted and they are the sole
owner of that work. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this
group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that
idea.

2. That this program is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun and I will not share,

disclose, present, or deliver the information, design, and writing of this

program to anyone for any reason without written permission from Hal Croasmun.

3. That I will keep the other writers’ ideas and writing confidential
(including Hal’s materials) 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.

4. 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.

5. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for
any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted
work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from
marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents,
managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment
industry organizations or people.

This completes the Group Release Form for Writing Killer Action Scripts.