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  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 13, 2023 at 5:20 am in reply to: Lesson 1

    What I learned doing this assignment is to rewrite, to rewrite takes me to work at it. Include clarity, storytelling be specific.

    Subject: (Mickey Gonzalez) Project Pitch

    A. Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Crime

    B. Title: An Unfortunate Event

    C. High Concept: The Theft of a collection leads to encounters with strangers and characters.

    D. Main Conflict: a continuation of setbacks puts this young writer in situations where deadly force has to be used, because the thefts won’t stop.

    E. Transformational Journey: Mark changes when his collection is stolen. He obsession to get his work back will take him on a path to retrieve it, at any way or means

    F. Opposition: At the police precinct, Capt. refuses the young writer’s request to bring in a news anchor and crew to air his plead for the return of the collection.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 29, 2023 at 2:27 am in reply to: Introduce Yourself to the Group

    1. Mickey Gonzalez

    2. I have four to work on and like to do some more as I’ve I been asked to do this screenplay writing

    3. want to be on the next level as the instructor

    4. I have said I have written a few drafts as a young writer who wants to be known for my story, I think there isn’t a story like my, because i came from a different neighborhood.

    We look forward to working with you all!

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 29, 2023 at 2:14 am in reply to: Confidentiality Agreement

    Mickey Gonzalez

    I agree to the terms of the release form

    GROUP 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.

    This completes the Group Release Form for the class.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    July 17, 2021 at 2:40 am in reply to: Introduce Yourself To the Group

    Hey everyone, Am Mickey Gonzalez, written few drafts and coming. But this is an extra learning experience through Screenwritingu. I <font face=”inherit”> got a couple of drafts for scripts wanting to </font>get over<font face=”inherit”> it b4 is gone again. get involve a little more. from writing </font>drafts in an unique way & to be complete into screenplays. I think there will be a more to tell later. <font face=”inherit”> </font>

  • mickey Gonzo

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    July 2, 2021 at 1:52 am in reply to: Post Day 24 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Fillled In Missing Scenes!

    What I learned doing this assignment is writing the script anytime! Thinking for sale too. never leave without it. Don’t look back. dialogue for the characters is “come in you are welcome”. Road map it. Most of the scenes be writing as I get connected with dialogue and other characters.

    Do a quick read of your script to pinpoint possible missing scenes. When you discover one, put a placeholder that you can return to.

    For each missing scene, create a quick outline.

    Write a high speed first draft for the most important of those scenes.

    INT. MARK’S APARTMENT – DAY

    in a room with desk on it’s top is cover with layers of drafts, and tattered manuscripts drafts. the discolor of the paper is overwhelming. there is nothing more than what Mark is wanting to do.

    EXT. STREET – DAY

    Through two windows that overlooks the intersection of the Sicilian neighborhood. let in a little of sun glare.

    INT. MARK’S APARTMENT – MORNING

    Mark Fox 15-year-old with a white muscle shirt and white boxers’ shorts on. Gets up out of bed. He leaves the room.

    INT. BATHROOM

    Opens the bathroom door. He is up at a mirror. and starts to wash up. he intentionally looks right into the mirror.

    MARK

    I had always washed my hands and face afterwards.

    High-n-Dry

    He has been with a girl the night b4.

    He hears the phone ring from the other room.

    INT. WRITING ROOM

    Unaware who he is talking to. Is a woman. He can hear a voice. He start to read pages of a manuscript draft.

    Tell us what scenes you added and why.

    I want to get the protagonist Mark to be out more of him. His intentions in his life.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    July 1, 2021 at 12:47 am in reply to: Post Day 23 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Act 4 Resolution

    What I learned doing this assignment is get it once by the antagonist efforts to get to steal and disrupt the protagonist by any means possible!?

    Outline Key Scene 4.

    Write Key Scene 4: Resolution – Wrap it up and show us the “new normal.”

    Write any other scenes for the Act or do some edits on scenes if you’ve completed every scene you outlined.

    A scenery fix for shooting film. A white Cadillac rides down the street. There are three four men running with it. IN an instant the film shoot is over. Mark standing there by himself. He takes a moment to savior it.

    INT. MARK’S APRTMENT – DAY

    There are shooting a movie. Blocks from Mark’s apartment.

    EXT. BUNNY’S – DAY

    A white Cadillac rides down the street. There are three to four men running with it.

    An argument is provoked by the director. The director and the producer are arguing over Mark being on set. His intrusion on the movie set. The director crushes a light unaware that Mark is behind him.

    He is not brother with it instead takes a moment to savior it.

    INT APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Mark sitting alone during it all. No manuscript part of his work has been stolen. He hears the rain coming down and making a thudding sound on his typewriter.

    EXT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    There is a woman wearing a white French trench coat standing at the front.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    He stands and reaches for a .38 chrome Smith-Wesson.

    He is thinking if he goes out in the rain, he will get drenched.

    He steps over to the screen door. And it is open.

    EXT. FRONT DOOR – NIGHT

    The woman backs away. She gets him to pull away and let’s go so she can get away.

    Her partner a man jumps and pulls on Mark. Mistake. He gets to close, and Mark dismantles him.

    The woman runs away.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    The encounter continues. They end up inside. Mark is holding on to his surprise the overpowered strength of the intruder.

    He hustles to the Mark’s collection of writings. As he grabs and grabs into a carton taking stacks of tattered valuable manuscripts and writings.

    Mark leans back pulls the trigger, shooting the intruder through back of the heart. The stranger falls back in a chair.

    EXT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Standing in the hard rain coming down, no one shows up to meet him. They are hiding and waiting a chance to take aim at him to harm him.

    MARK

    “This something you want. Something to kill for. My golden pages of my material? This is something I will kill for. I will kill for it.”

    In the rain out loud.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Police in leather jackets and guns are acting desperately not to arrest Mark. They do nothing.

    INT. RAQUEL APARTMENT – DAY

    Raquel knows that the man Mark had shot is dead. She romantically wins him over. It is happening. Mark decides to go with her. Her apartment is empty except for a few things that linger the memories of the obstacles that they had gone through. One of them is the phone.

    She and Mark start to leave with suitcase in her hand. The phone rings. She answers. She hands the phone over to Mark.

    RAQUEL

    Is for you.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 30, 2021 at 3:53 pm in reply to: post Day 22 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Act 4 Climax

    What I learned doing this assignment is succeed or can do better. Working to be winning.

    Outline Key Scene

    At a construction site. With a demolition ball swinging Knocking taking out of a tall building. See a Foundry doors glowing through the flats.

    The steel foundry small brick of steel runs through a chubby hole. While another takes out to cool. He stands outside of the foundry. This is something he does not want. He must get back at winning.

    A conveyor belt is carrying black coal over the top of a dump truck. Workers are around. Mark speeds under the conveyor system picking up gravel when black workers come around and shake their heads.

    Write Key Scene 3: Climax – The Ultimate Expression of The Conflict.

    Back to the job site. Mark works with Mick.

    Wrecking demolition ball in the air. Bulldozer noise we can hear.

    See far over the Detroit’s expressway, the Ford Motor foundry.

    A dump truck ready to carry black coal from a conveyor belt.

    Mark speeds under the conveyor system picking up black coal gravel shooting up from the car’s tires. Disappearing.

    When black workers come around and shake their heads.

    The workers yell out “get out”.

    Mark is not ready to give it up. Is his way out. Manuscripts are worth a lot of money along with a valuable vast collection of writings stolen from him. He wants his monies and vast collection back bad. Only way for Mark to get it going with Raquel. There is no other way. He must win. If he does not win is back to planning to work with the black coals.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 30, 2021 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Post Day 21 Assignment Here

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  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 30, 2021 at 1:51 am in reply to: Group Confidentiality Agreement

    Below is the release form. You have one of two choices here:

    AGREE, in which case, you hit “Reply to this topic” and include three things
    at the top of the page:

    1. Your name.
    2. The words “I agree to the terms of this release form.”
    3. Please leave the entire text below to confirm what you agree to.

    OR

    NOT AGREE, in which case, you hit “Reply to this topic” and add the words,

    “I’d rather keep my ideas private.”

    If you agree to the terms of the release form, then you can send your
    assignments into the group and you’ll get feedback on them.

    If you don’t agree, it’s no problem, it just means that you’ll be removed from

    the forums and won’t be part of the group interaction. You can still go

    through the program and I would recommend you still do the assignments,
    but you’ll have to keep your work to yourself otherwise.

    Mickey Gonzalez

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

    I agree to the terms of this release form

    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.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 29, 2021 at 4:24 am in reply to: Post Day 21 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Act 4 First Scenes

    What I learned doing this assignment is Here writing doing things that the character needs to complete her journey with the protagonist. thinking am getting closer as they bond. Her dominance carries through.

    Outline Key Scene 1 and 2.

    Write Key Scene 1: Reaction to 3rd Act Turning Point. Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict

    INT. STORE – DAY

    The clerk opens an old-time square silver register. The array of products in the isles. He hands out change to a customer. Mark is at the cooler. He notices two men at the counter. The clerk is nervous.

    They are trying to extort money.

    EXT. POLICE BUILDING – DAY

    A large two-tone bus white from the windows up and black in color for the rest of the bus. The bus pulls out of the building’s garage carrying inmates Lucasville penitentiary.

    INT. POLICE BUILDING – DAY

    There are several rooms. Mark takes one at a time looking for the narc. We see him walk pass the rooms through glass windows. He runs into a deputy sheriff.

    Deputy

    What are you doing here?

    MARK

    I am looking for a narc Hanna who is driving and stopping at my apartment.

    DEPUTY

    Do what you gotta do.

    Mark leaves.

    INT. MARK’S APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Raquel there. She tends to his wounds. She realizes the manuscript is gone.

    Raquel wants to walk out on him.

    After she tries to get him to stop and go with her. He gets ready upset starts to argue and show his lost and wants her not to go.

    INT. NINE BUILDING – DAY

    Mark is on the second floor. A bald man goes into this room. The door has a pebble glass can’t see through. A woman opens the door on Mark. Mark gets a surprise as he is trying to see through. She asks him to come in.

    He sees the man sitting at a table with a small dim light over his head.

    MAN

    What do want to do?

    MARK

    All I want to do is write.

    The man slips out. Mark cannot see enough what he is doing.

    Mark leaves.

    Scene 2: Protagonist faces their Dilemma

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Raquel is nowhere to be found. He looks for her at places where they been.

    INT. TV BUILDING – DAY

    She is walking down an isle of a TV studio. She comes up on a reporter with crew doing a story. He realizes what she is trying to do. The reporter quickly gets crew to tear down equipment.

    EXT. TV BUILDING – DAY

    She walks away down through the golden French doors out to the sidewalk.

    EXT. PAY PHONE – NIGHT

    Mark calls her apartment. No answer.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 28, 2021 at 3:14 am in reply to: Post Day 20 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Completed Act 3

    What I learned doing this assignment is writing the act1 act2 to act3 getting the story first there is some slaking happening. I’ll brag about it consider Mark Fox will hunt willing until he can get to the whereabouts what is going on. Additional actual characters can help. The character Mark has had a lot of those girls that pursue him.

    Outline any scenes left for Act 3

    INT. MARL’S APARTMENT – DAY

    He continues to work effortlessly produce new material.

    INT. PORCH – DAY

    Two women show up knocking on his front door. Mark opens the door. He steps backward away from the door.

    The Blonde one says Why you call the police we are going to that. The brunette stands next to her saying nothing. The blonde is a police officer’s young wife.

    EXT. STREET – DAY

    Seymour a strong man for a mobster. He is watching Mark.

    EXT. RAQUEL’S APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Raquel gets on a pay phone. Gives Mark a call. She is on her way to him.

    EXT. MARK’S APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Mark comes along after scouring Duck Island. Mark surprises a woman who is burglarizing the apartment.

    EXT. BETWEEN TWO BUILDINGS – NIGHT

    Five bad guys jump out. Mark gets the stuffing beat out of him.

    EXT. MARK’S APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Left bloodied on the sidewalk. the woman steps over his body.

    EXT. STREET – NIGHT

    She runs to a double park car with part of his vast collection of writings in her grasp.

    From his POV, he realizes the driver resembles the commander from the police room. He resembles the auto parts clerk. He resembles one of Seymour men Mark beaten up earlier.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 27, 2021 at 2:57 am in reply to: Post Day 19 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Act 3 Turning Point

    What I learned doing this assignment is get to writing again let see what happens as the rest comes in and let me do the writing.

    Outline Key Scene 4 – Turning Point 3.

    Raquel walks out on him. After she tries to get him to stop and go with her. He gets ready upset starts to argue and show his lost and wants her not to go.

    He leaves. He comes back for her. She is nowhere to be found. He looks for her at places where they been. Calls the apartment.

    She is walking down an isle of a TV studio. She wants to talk to a TV producer in charge so maybe she can get the story aired. The story what have been going through because of the missing collection and manuscript.

    An older producer has a different idea. As tries to seduce her. She leaves first chance she gets away, when he gets up to answer the office door. This leads him away from her side.

    Write Turning Point 3 – Protagonist faces their lowest low

    INT RAQUEL’S APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Raquel wants to get Mark to leave it alone.

    INT. TV BUILDING – DAY

    Raquel is getting to the point if Mark couldn’t get it done. Maybe she can.

    INT. PRODUCER OFFICE – DAY

    She paces back and forth as the secretary gets the word out to the producer. She is let in.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 27, 2021 at 2:17 am in reply to: Post Day 18 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Act 3 Middle Scenes

    What I learned doing this assignment is…am ready letting go and like to have it done so my story gets an ending. Hook all the act1 and act2 together for an ending. 25 to 30 pages

    Outline Key Scenes 2 & 3.

    EXT. TARMAC – DAY

    Mark looks over the body of a helicopter as the pilot is inside.

    One of the two pilots at the airport want him at an aerial shoot at the football hall of fame.

    INT. MARK’S APARTMENT – NIGHT

    What did Mark do with the guns. He had a couple of them taken from him by cops during his journey. He preps for a gunfight.

    INT. FASHION MODELING SCHOOL – NIGHT

    He is armed and ready to get at anyone who might cross him on his search for his missing collection.

    Raquel is looking for it too. While trying to, getting to it she runs into some characters on the way.

    He searches and Raquel does too. They are unaware of each other they meet up in the school office.

    INT. DOCKING AREA – DAY

    Mark wants his vast collection and a manuscript or book back.

    Bob Petersen might have his manuscript published into a book already. A book review is going on.

    INT. – NIGHT

    He searches for anyone who might be involved.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 26, 2021 at 9:58 pm in reply to: Post Day 17 Assignment Here

    What I learned doing this assignment is writing to pick up old ways to new ways get to a answer scenes from act 2 to new beginning, middle and end.

    Using your Beat Sheet, outline your Act 3 Key Scenes.

    Write Key Scene 1: Reaction/Rethink.

    INT. RAQUEL APARTMENT – NIGHT

    She avoids his passes. Mark wants her to listen.

    Reaction/Rethink: She tells him about her intentions on leaving.

    He is not willing to listen.

    Phone rings.

    Mark picks it up. He hands it over to Raquel. On the phone she hands it back. The phone call is for Mark. The caller wants him at a docking area.

    Reaction/Rethink: Mark and Raquel start to go. Mark tells her to stay.

    Mark goes to the docking area. Why the newspaper reporter didn’t come in. He thinks the kidnapping is a hoax.

    INT. MARK’S APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Mark walks in. Raquel is in the apartment. She tells him she had to leave because she couldn’t wait for him. Raquel is going through the apartment. He tells her what he thinks happen.

    Reaction/Rethink: She sits up on the bed. Mark jumps back and sits on the top of an empty desk.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 26, 2021 at 4:05 am in reply to: Post Day 16 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Has Completed Act 2 Draft 1

    What I learned doing this assignment is I want to get to reality of the scenes and not make any mistakes along the journey.

    Outline any scenes that you haven’t gotten to yet from Act 2.

    Mark is next door to Kafel’s Traven. He approaches them with four policemen dress in uniform and guns. He is accusing them of having his vast collection and the stolen manuscript.

    The tenant she is mad about the intrusion she is yelling at Mark. He looks at her and back at his car. The lights are on at Kafel’s Traven. The Leon signs are on in the neighborhood. The neighborhood is quiet.

    A couple of boys come out of Kafel’s Traven. One is forcing a girl into a parked car. She resembles Raquel. This enrages Mark. He knocks the boy back. Then he recognizes is not Raquel.

    Write scenes.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 26, 2021 at 3:33 am in reply to: Post Day 15 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Act 2 TP – Midpoint

    “What I learned doing this assignment is writing to be coming up what is going on with them. Because of the millions. Because of The “ARTIST” symbol.

    Outline your Key Scene 4: The Midpoint.

    EXT. APARTMENT – DAY

    A Sicilian detective 37, Mark can tell he is a narc. Short. He is standing up against a unmarked Chrysler blue four door sedan.

    Mark walks out. As he walks pass to the detective. He steps in front of Mark.

    He says to Mark, “there is nothing going on in there”. Two women walk up behind. They stand. Mark remembers them from the police dispatcher room.

    Mark his car was hit by vandals.

    The detective and the two women get back in their cars.

    Mark watches as they drive off. One car one way and the other the other way.

    EXT. RAQUEL APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Mark is down at the sidewalk door entrance. He starts going up the staircase to Raquel apartment.

    INT. RAQUEL’S – NIGHT

    Mark standing looking at her. As she goes into the phone cabinet stars to dial on a black phone. She hangs up.

    She says to Mark that not his car. Mark says yes, it is. He explains how he got the car. He asks what she means? She walks over to him. Mark asks her if she has been talking to somebody telling her something different? Mark does not know where she been or who she be talking to.

    They start to get into an argument about if he not getting his work. Who is? His manuscript and a vast collection. Mark dresses as Mark Fox a twenty-year-old in dark mechanic pants and no shirt or shoes. He starts to get into. With his palm of his right hand hits the wall above her head.

    They get together and she starts to cry. He kisses her on her wet lips.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 23, 2021 at 3:29 am in reply to: Post Day 14 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Act 2 Middle Scenes

    What I learned doing this assignment is am thinking to write the 2 act outline flow thoroughly write my story.

    Outline Key Scenes 2 & 3.

    Write Key Scene 2: Protagonist takes on a plan and executes it.

    Write Key Scene 3: Not only does their plan fail, but…

    EXT. Duck Island – DAY

    You can see a young Mark desperately wanting to get ahead of some pedestrians making her way to the police building.

    Beginning: Mark is on the way to the police building. She stands in front of the building gasping to understand. But pushes forward to enter the turnstile

    Middle: He wants to find anyone who can be describe or fit the description of a burglar.

    End: Of course, he won’t.

    INT. POLICE ROOM – DAY

    Beginning: The busy place with people. Mark wants to find someone he can talk too.

    Middle: This time he can’t find anyone. He walks over to a counter for information.

    End: There is entourage of people in handcuffs, sitting and at other side of the wall.

    INT. POLICE ROOM – DAY

    Beginning: At a desk the detective is typing. A young woman walks in behind him. He wants to tell her couple of things.

    Middle: Mark walks in. says “We’re going to do it my way.”

    END: He wants to turn him away. By telling him there is nothing they can do.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 21, 2021 at 12:44 am in reply to: Post Day 13 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Act 2 Reaction to TP 1

    What I learned doing this assignment is take it over the top. If I were to hand out any more information on the happenings through the breakthrough. I be writing for not. Reality sets in and got to keep it flowing.

    Using your Beat Sheet, outline Key Scene 1.

    Write the “Reaction to the Turning Point” scene.

    Act 2: 20 to 30 PAGES, challenge the old ways.

    Inciting incident: Mark expectations from his experiences that their intentions are to steal a Vast collection of writings that is worth a lot of money from him.

    Turning point: A looking like James Dean comes in surprises Mark. He suddenly takes up to fight. Mark picks up the casket and flips it over b4 he comes around and lays a hand on him. Quickly he grabs James’s hand and attempts to break it. If he cannot say anything why did they set Mark up there.

    Reaction: Surprise at warehouse Mark is getting nowhere. From the Kafel’s Traven he knows something is wrong.

    EXT. CARTHRAL – DAY

    Beginning: He is in a room filled red velvet and gold trimmings making impossible to understand why so much gold.

    Middle: He hears an (OS) voice telling where to stand.

    END: What are you here? Mark has one answer. He wants to talk to the archbishop.

    INT. WAREHOUSE – DAY

    Mark expectations from his experiences that their intentions are to steal a Vast collection of writings that is worth a lot of money from him.

    Beginning: He at the end flips over a wooden casket. There are some laying around on tables. (The Irishman)

    Middle: A looking like James Dean comes in surprises Mark. He suddenly takes up to fight.

    End: Mark picks up the casket and flips it over b4 he comes around and lays a hand on him. Quickly he grabs James’s hand and attempts to break it. If he can’t say anything why did he set Mark up there.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Beginning: Mark gets a phone call from a man; He wants Mark to meet him at the inner country barn. Across from the landing of the boat.

    Middle: He makes a police call. Two motorcycles cops meet up with Mark at the McKinley express way on ramp.

    End: Mark and two cops ride up on the express way. For 27 miles the motorcycles cops ride alongside Mark. That’s that young crazy writer, do the math

    EXT. DUCK ISLAND – DAY

    Beginning: The run after the burglar keeps Mark at bay. Mark looks for him around Duck Island and stops at Kafel’s Traven.

    Middle: A patron comes up to Mark. He suggests Mark talk to man there about what he wants.

    End: The man who name is Bob Peterson. He wants Mark to tell him why he is asking about a manuscript.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 20, 2021 at 2:42 am in reply to: Post Day 12 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Finished Act 12

    “What I learned doing this assignment is hey listen to the “OUT OF THE BOX” get on and write according to the idea from the 20%. Pick it up later. Incorporate the extraordinary. The Outline and any other scenes left to write in Act 1. Needs to be twenty or thirty pages.

    After he returns from the universities. He is back at work with skill.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Beginning: Mark is effortlessly writing to produce new material. And he does produce.

    Middle: The rain is light. In the night lights it lights up the night sky and the sidewalks. He sees a man and a woman. They are wearing white French trench coats. They stroll pass.

    END: Quickly, Mark makes a police call.

    EXT. APARTMENT – Night

    Beginning: Mark walks up to his car. His car is vandalized. The antenna is broken off and the windshield is shattered.

    Middle: Mark is mad. He thinking that is has something to do with the strange woman on the phone.

    End: Mark at the auto store counter. He pays and picks up an antenna.

    EXXT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Beginning: Seymour is watching Mark’s apartment from inside a car.

    Middle: Raquel knocks on the door. He lets her in.

    End: the phone rings. Mark picks it up and it’s Seymour. Mark has not meet Seymour. Seymour threatens Mark over the phone.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 19, 2021 at 5:02 am in reply to: Post Day 11 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Turning Point 1 Scenes

    “What I learned doing this assignment is writing true experience and let reality set in an outline. let be it fiction to fact, fact to fiction. make the writing of the script work better. later get to it.?

    Outline Act 1 Turning Point.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Beginning: Mark is planning to be at Case Western University. He will take his Vast collection along with the manuscript. And if it doesn’t work out. He will plan get to Yale University.

    Middle: He believes he will find someone to publish his work at Case Western University, and this is the best way. He will take his Vast collection along with the manuscript.

    End: Mark arrives at Case Western University.

    EXT. CASE WESTERN – DAY

    Beginning: He at the door. The door opens to the inside of the building. There should have been someone there that he talked to on the phone. He is carrying a stack of his vast collection and the manuscript.

    Middle: He goes inside to find no body. There is no one in the building. They have seen him and hid from him.

    End: Suddenly, someone from the inside slams the door with such force that the door and wall vibrate. Someone shut the door in his face. He sees two women looking at him through the walkway glass that connects the two buildings.

    Write Act 1 Turning Point.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Mark makes a phone call. He starts packing the collection of writings and the manuscript.

    EXT. PARKING LOT – DAY

    He steps out of a car. He makes sure he has the collection of writings and the manuscript.

    EXT. CASE WESTERN – DAY

    He walks along a small sidewalk holding the collection and the manuscript

    INT. TAYLOR HALL – DAY

    He knocks on the door. He looks up and sees a walkway that attaches the second floor to the next building. The door opens.

    INT. TAYLOR HALL – DAY

    Mark introduces himself. No one answers. There are sounds of someone rushing up the staircase.

    EXT. TAYLOR HALL – DAY

    Mark takes a step back to look outside of the door he just walked in. He notices two women take a hurried look at him from the walkway. Suddenly, with great force someone slam the door shut in his face. He can feel the door and the wall vibrate.

    Sometime later these two
    women are introduced on “The Today Show

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 18, 2021 at 5:30 am in reply to: Post Day 10 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Inciting Incident

    “What I learned doing this assignment is I am thinking to be able to write through the inciting incident (s). Here you can keep on all the way to the very last draft. (s) Just write the script. Trying to make it work.

    Outline Key Scenes 2 & 3 for Act 1.

    ACT 1 BEAT SHEET

    EXT. football stadium – DAY

    Mark is walking with cop who he had made arrangement to meet. He is writing a draft on the high school football team.

    INT. MODELING SCHOOL – DAY

    A model sits at a typewriter. She is working what is going to be going on during the day. When Mark comes to her door. She closes the door and locks it.

    EXT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Mark pulls up and there is a girl name Sandy waiting for him. He does not know her. But is nice. She makes her way into the apartment.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Mark is tapping away on a typewriter. He is working on what is going to be a highly sought out manuscript. This is the start of Vast collection of writings. When the phone rings. There is a strange woman on the phone.

    INT APARTMENT – DAY

    Mark makes a phone call. He sets up a time. He wants to get a TV producer to air his story.

    EXT. TV BUILDING – DAY

    About a ten to twelve people including one woman. They walk out of the side door entrance. All at once. They are smoking cigarettes, wearing suits and ties and see Mark coming. When Mark gets closer, they start to go off to the side making a pathway him to walk through. Some of them say things as he walks pass. He enters the TV building.

    ACT 1 OUTLINE

    EXT. FOOTBALL STADIUM – DAY

    Beginning: Mark pulls up. There is a three foot fence that surrounds the football field. There are four cops, and one opens a small gate. Mark views the football field. Another cop gets Mark to walk with him to go under the bleachers.

    Middle: He can hear chatter and the sound of cleats on the marble floor. He is writing on a clip board. As the cop watches on. He is done with the draft. He turns to the cop and says, he is done. He is going to stop by the concession stand. He leaves the stadium.

    End: He feels damn good. Now he did something. He picked up on a high school football game and is making way to becoming a writer.

    INT. MODELING SCHOOL – DAY

    Beginning: He drives to a big building. He goes inside and find the inside beautifully lined with glass doors and offices with portraits of fashion design.

    Middle: He sees a fashion model. She starts to come his way. She decides to go another and closes the door and locks the door behind her. He wants to get to her and talk to her. But she insists on not seeing him.

    End: Mark drives back to his apartment. He will continue to work on his material.

    EXT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Beginning: Mark wants to use his idea to get involved in anything that will get him success in the industry.

    Middle: When Sandy meets him. She asks him what he wants to do. Mark says all he wants to do is write. A girl that is with Sandy comes up, goes through her purse and hands Mark fifty dollars.

    End: He gets Sandy to go to the modeling school to pick up a brochure. She leaves gets one and comes back. She works her way up to Mark. She gives him a brochure. She sees that Mark is working on what is going to be a highly sought out manuscript. She stays with Mark…. leaves. Sandy seems to disappear. Mark thinking, she is married.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Beginning: Mark’s table has a lamp. He is overlooking his work. This is the start of Vast collection of writings.

    Middle: He gets to it. He is manifesting a manuscript. In four parts of work that is extraordinary.

    End: After weeks of writing Mark’s manuscript is completed. In addition, to other writings. He gets an idea. The best thing to do now is to search out universities to get out in the publishing world. When the phone rings. There is a strange woman on the phone.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 17, 2021 at 1:54 am in reply to: Post Day 9 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Act 1: Opening Scenes

    What I learned doing this assignment is Get this method. I want to break through and break down the entire script. Simple outline for the any first drafts. Finally, write the screenplay. Deal with it in anywhere in the script.

    Go to your Beat Sheet and find the opening scene and a second lead character introduction. Create a simple outline those scenes for those two scenes.

    Protagonist

    Opening scene outline

    After grueling effort to find the whereabouts of his material. Mark is going to try to get his story on air at a TV station.

    INT APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Beginning: Mark and Raquel come in the apartment. Raquel sees that the manuscript is missing along with other material. She shows Mark that the top of the desk is bare. Mark. Mark says he left on the desk b4 he left.

    Middle: He picks up a flashlight searches the small apartment. He looks under everything. In the middle of the kitchen floor, he lifts a door leading to a small cellar. There is nothing there.

    End. A flashlight light comes through from outside of a window. There is a stranger with a flashlight peering through the window. In the illumination of the flashlight, he can see the stranger. He has on glasses, wearing a grey side cap and grey over coat. Mark and Raquel hurry to the front door. The stranger runs off. Mark chases after him. He gets away. A police car drive by slowly. Mark sees the patrolman in the passenger seat.

    SECOND SCENE BEAT SHEET

    INT. APARTMENT NIGHT

    Raquel helps Mark get inside. She is wondering if he knows who the burglar was.

    SECOND SCENE OUTLINE

    Raquel is in her dominance rage. She wants his work back. She wants him to go after them. First, they go to the police.

    INT. POLICE BUILDING – DAY

    Beginning: Mark and Raquel are talking to a police commander. He suggests if Mark knows who the stranger outside was. He asks Raquel if she thinks Mark had misplaced it and if he is telling the truth.

    Middle: They leave the police building. Back at the apartment, Raquel becomes enrage. Back and forth she goes trying to get Mark to embark on finding Seymour. They go at each other. She insists that he go after and find any possibilities where this Vast collection / manuscript is.

    End: Raquel says she is staying the night. Mark thinks is better she goes to her apartment. She just lay on the bed and falls asleep. During the night she embraces Mark and go on. She leaves early into the dawn. Mark embarks to search Duck Island.

    Antagonist

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Beginning: Mark calls a newspaper reporter at the Plain Press. He wants to be interviewed. He wants to get his story out as an article in the Plain Press.

    Middle: Mark getting ready for the secret meeting. He notices a man outside looking at the apartment. Then another man comes. They vanish.

    End: He wants to warn them to stay away.

    SECOND SCENE BEAT SHEET

    EXT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Mark is outside. He does not see the two men. He looks around.

    SECOND SCENE OUTLINE

    Beginning: The newspaper reporter from the Plain Press pulls up. Mark sees him.

    Middle: Mark thinks there is going to be meeting. When the men outside show up. They jump into the newspaper reporter’s car and force him to drive away.

    End: They force him to drive to Clark’s field warning him not to get police involved. One of them swing a punch landing on the reporter’s nose. Breaking his nose. As he holds his nose and cries out in pain. They leave him in his car in the green grass part of Clark’s field.

    A newspaper reporter is warned not to intervene or call police. The newspaper reporter gets a bloody broken nose.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 16, 2021 at 2:27 am in reply to: Post Day 7 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez High Speed Beat Sheet

    “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” I’m going to make a commitment to you as a group that I’m going to use these High Speed Writing Rules to get my script done at record speed, yes okay thanks. The high speed writing rules can relate to my drafts I have. They can be finished screenplays. Really get to know and get to write.

    Act 1:

    Opening

    EXT. AMUSMENT PARK- NIGHT

    Young Mark Fox is in a Ferris wheel pod accidently had fallen asleep. During the night, after the amusement park had closed a group of nuns finally find him.

    INT. VERIMINION JAIL-DAY

    He wakes up among adult inmates in a vermillion jail house. He does not know how he got there.

    Two inmates confront young Mark as he preps himself up on jail cell bunk chained to the steel wall.

    T1: A deputy sheriff calls out Mark’s name.

    These two inmates stop talking to Mark’s. Mark walks and faces the jail cell door.

    EXT. OUTSIDE OF CELL DOOR – DAY

    T2: The dust flickers in the sunlight coming through the window of the jail cell hall.

    EXT. LAKE VIEW OF JAIL – DAY

    There is a man. The man has a unmark car waiting, a Ford LTD.

    T3. Mark is led to the car.

    EXT. ABBY – DAY

    T4. A black and white cop car cuts the LTD Ford off at the end of the bridge. Mark is on his way back home. He in the back seat. Driver is talked to by the cop.

    Inciting Incident: Mark is becoming a writing genius. He has accomplished a Vast collection of writings. Worth millions. The collection will be stolen.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    T5. Raquel wants Mark to retrieve his stolen collection.

    EXT. DOWNTOWN – NIGHT

    T6 Mark and Raquel out in downtown tour, grey hound racing ect.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    The television is on. The news is about a stabbing of a woman outside of a copyright lawyer’s office.

    Is unsafe, Mark was at the copyright lawyer’s office to secure a place of safe keeping for his vast collection.

    Turning Point: Mark scours Duck Island and gets to learn it is a violent corrupt world outside of his lone place.

    T7 Seymour’s thugs warn Mark to stop trying to get the collection back. “Don’t call police we are going to do that”.

    Act 2: 20 to 30 PAGES, challenge the old ways.

    EXT. CATHEDRAL – DAY

    T8 Mark Fox is at Bishop Pilla’s office to get a photo shoot done.

    INT. WAREHOUSE – DAY

    Mark expectations from his experiences that their intentions are to steal a Vast collection of writings that is worth a lot of money from him.

    New plan: After grueling effort to find the whereabouts of his material. Mark is going to try to get his story on air at a TV station.

    INT. TV BUILDING – DAY

    T9 A producer talks to Mark outside the studio.

    Plan in action: Mark wants to get his story about the theft on air. A TV producer turns around and slams the doors in his face, literately.

    EXT. NEW TV BUILDING – DAY

    T10 At the front door Mark locked out. They will not let him come in.

    INT. HALLWAY POLICE BUILDING – DAY

    Mark is surrounded by police.

    Mark asks if the TV WKYC people can be brought in to set up shop to get his story aired. The police commander yells “No”.

    T11 On his way out one cop says, “don’t park that car there”. The halls turn empty. Mark is alone.

    Midpoint Turning Point: As he exits on an innerbelt bridge e-way some perpetrators cut him off. One of the vehicles is a company car with its’ WKYC emblem on the driver’s side door and a police cruiser behind him warning him to stop searching for the vast collection. This the work of Seymour’s group.

    EXT. FREEWAY ON RAMP – DAY

    T12 The company car and the police car back away and let him through.

    Act 3:

    Rethink everything

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    New plan: Mark knows what he needs to do. He must continue on to be the remarkable writer. He continues to work on his typewriter and effortlessly produce new material. And he does produce.

    EXT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Mark’s “72” red cornet R/T is destroyed. The antenna is broken off and the windshield is shattered.

    T13 Mark is at the auto parts store picking up a new antenna.

    New insights: Seymour’s group is watching Mark. Raquel is coming to his apartment to be with him.

    EXT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: Mark comes along to his apartment after scouring Duck Island with no avail. Mark surprises a woman who is burglarizing the apartment.

    Five bad guys jump Mark beating the stuffing out of him. Left bloodied on the sidewalk the woman steps over his body. Flees in a double park car with part of a vast collection of writings in her grasp.

    From his POV, he realizes the driver resembles the commander.

    Act 4:

    Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict

    EXT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    T16 Raquel comes along just in time.

    Mark gets into the apartment with Raquel. She tends to his wounds. She realizes the manuscript is gone.

    EXT. ROYAL CASTLE – DAY

    A botched robbery is taken place where a shootout with cop is killed and robber. Both are fatally shot. Mark getting his order of four 10 cents burgers.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    T17 Mark answers the phone call. Is Seymour. He gives Mark phone number.

    INT. NINE BUILDING – NIGHT

    Mark looks beaten up at a telephone booth. They are at the nine building. He wants to get to Seymour.

    T18 Seymour’s offer is $500,000.00. And Mark will call off his pursuit. Is a trap.

    Raquel goes in and out of rooms as Mark is confronted by a deputy sheriff. A fight starts. Mark fights off the deputy sheriff, knocks him out. Raquel is unaware what is going on.

    INT. ROOM – NIGHT

    When she comes in, she sees the deputy grimacing. She is wondering what had happen. Mark grabs her hand. Both run out of the building.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    The apartment, it is empty. Just a suitcase. As they start for the door to leave. The phone rings. Mark answers. Is a woman asking Mark “if he has any new ideas”? The woman says “It is for Alice”.

    Resolution: Get to Seymour. Both start to thinking is better to move.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 15, 2021 at 2:16 am in reply to: Post Day 8 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Beat Sheet Draft 2

    What I learned doing this assignment is great to do. Getting to find out if it is the best I can do. Listen to those rules and you can do it. sometimes is like i am always writing my drafts the right way. This can be it.

    Pass 1: Interweave theme throughout the beat sheet.

    1. Seymour steals Mark’s library. A sort of writer’s efforts. His typewriter, book ends, books, journals, notes, shelves of books and drafts. (“later shows up on “The Today’s Show”.)

    2. Seymour is watching Mark’s apartment from a parked car.

    3. Seymour is setting up a woman. This woman gives Mark a phone call. She is asking for Mark’s Manuscript. The he gets on the phone with her and threatens Mark. Saying “You not going to that we are going to take it”.

    4. He waits until Mark is out and gets some of his thugs to warn him.

    5. He kidnaps a newspaper reporter and warns him to not intervene after Mark sets up a meeting. The newspaper reporter gets a bloody broken nose.

    6. He waits for the Vast collection to come to him after burglar takes place.

    Do Pass 2 : Build in the Antagonist Journey.

    Act 1:

    Opening

    EXT. AMUSMENT PARK- NIGHT

    Young Mark Fox is in a Ferris wheel pod accidently had fallen asleep. During the night, after the amusement park had closed a group of nuns finally find him.

    INT. VERIMINION JAIL-DAY

    He wakes up among adult inmates in a vermillion jail house. He does not know how he got there.

    Two inmates confront young Mark as he preps himself up on jail cell bunk chained to the steel wall.

    T1: A deputy sheriff calls out Mark’s name.

    These two inmates stop talking to Mark’s. Mark walks and faces the jail cell door.

    EXT. OUTSIDE OF CELL DOOR – DAY

    T2: The dust flickers in the sunlight coming through the window of the jail cell hall.

    EXT. LAKE VIEW OF JAIL – DAY

    There is a man. The man has a unmark car waiting, a Ford LTD.

    T3. Mark is led to the car.

    EXT. ABBY – DAY

    T4. A black and white cop car cuts the LTD Ford off at the end of the bridge. Mark is on his way back home. He in the back seat. Driver is talked to by the cop.

    Theme: Seymour steals Mark’s library. A sort of writer’s efforts. His typewriter, book ends, books, journals, notes, shelves of books and drafts. (“later shows up on “The Today’s Show”.)

    Inciting Incident: Mark is becoming a writing genius. He has accomplished a Vast collection of writings. Worth millions. The collection will be stolen.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    T5. Raquel wants Mark to retrieve his stolen collection.

    Theme: Seymour is watching Mark’s apartment from a parked car.

    EXT. DOWNTOWN – NIGHT

    T6 Mark and Raquel out in downtown tour, grey hound racing ect.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    The television is on. The news is about a stabbing of a woman outside of a copyright lawyer’s office.

    Is unsafe, Mark was at the copyright lawyer’s office to secure a place of safe keeping for his vast collection.

    Theme: Seymour is setting up a woman. This woman gives Mark a phone call. She is asking for Mark’s Manuscript. The he gets on the phone with her and with her and threatens Mark. Saying “You not going to that we are going to take it”.

    Turning Point: Mark scours Duck Island and gets to learn it is a violent corrupt world outside of his lone place.

    T7 Seymour’s thugs warn Mark to stop trying to get the collection back. “Don’t call police we are going to do that”.

    Act 2: 20 to 30 PAGES, challenge the old ways.

    EXT. CATHEDRAL – DAY

    T8 Mark Fox is at Bishop Pilla’s office to get a photo shoot done.

    INT. WAREHOUSE – DAY

    Mark expectations from his experiences that their intentions are to steal a Vast collection of writings that is worth a lot of money from him.

    New plan: After grueling effort to find the whereabouts of his material. Mark is going to try to get his story on air at a TV station.

    INT. TV BUILDING – DAY

    T9 A producer talks to Mark outside the studio.

    Plan in action: Mark wants to get his story about the theft on air. A TV producer turns around and slams the doors in his face, literately.

    EXT. NEW TV BUILDING – DAY

    T10 At the front door Mark locked out. They will not let him come in.

    INT. HALLWAY POLICE BUILDING – DAY

    Mark is surrounded by police.

    Mark asks if the TV WKYC people can be brought in to set up shop to get his story aired. The police commander yells “No”.

    T11 On his way out one cop says, “don’t park that car there”. The halls turn empty. Mark is alone.

    Midpoint Turning Point: As he exits on an innerbelt bridge e-way some perpetrators cut him off. One of the vehicles is a company car with its’ WKYC emblem on the driver’s side door and a police cruiser behind him warning him to stop searching for the vast collection. This the work of Seymour’s group.

    EXT. FREEWAY ON RAMP – DAY

    T12 The company car and the police car back away and let him through.

    Act 3:

    Rethink everything

    Theme: He waits until Mark is out and gets some of his thugs to warn him.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    New plan: Mark knows what he needs to do. He must continue on to be the remarkable writer. He continues to work on his typewriter and effortlessly produce new material. And he does produce.

    Theme: He waits until Mark is out and gets some of his thugs to warn him.

    EXT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Mark’s “72” red cornet R/T is destroyed. The antenna is broken off and the windshield is shattered.

    T13 Mark is at the auto parts store picking up a new antenna.

    New insights: Seymour’s group is watching Mark. Raquel is coming to his apartment to be with him.

    EXT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: Mark comes along to his apartment after scouring Duck Island with no avail. Mark surprises a woman who is burglarizing the apartment.

    Five bad guys jump Mark beating the stuffing out of him. Left bloodied on the sidewalk the woman steps over his body. Flees in a double park car with part of a vast collection of writings in her grasp.

    From his POV, he realizes the driver resembles the commander.

    Act 4:

    Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict

    EXT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    T16 Raquel comes along just in time.

    Mark gets into the apartment with Raquel. She tends to his wounds. She realizes the manuscript is gone.

    EXT. ROYAL CASTLE – DAY

    A botched robbery is taken place where a shootout with cop is killed and robber. Both are fatally shot. Mark getting his order of four 10 cents burgers.

    Theme: He kidnaps a newspaper reporter and warns him to not intervene after Mark sets up a meeting. The newspaper reporter gets a bloody broken nose.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    T17 Mark answers the phone call. Is Seymour. He gives Mark phone number.

    INT. NINE BUILDING – NIGHT

    Mark looks beaten up at a telephone booth. They are at the nine building. He wants to get to Seymour.

    T18 Seymour’s offer is $500,000.00. And Mark will call off his pursuit. Is a trap.

    Raquel goes in and out of rooms as Mark is confronted by a deputy sheriff. A fight starts. Mark fights off the deputy sheriff, knocks him out. Raquel is unaware what is going on.

    INT. ROOM – NIGHT

    When she comes in, she sees the deputy grimacing. She is wondering what had happen. Mark grabs her hand. Both run out of the building.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Theme: He waits for the Vast collection to come to him after the burglary takes place.

    The apartment, it is empty. Just a suitcase. As they start for the door to leave. The phone rings. Mark answers. Is a woman asking Mark “if he has any new ideas”? The woman says “It is for Alice”.

    Resolution: Get to Seymour. Both start to thinking is better to move.

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  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 14, 2021 at 4:02 am in reply to: Post Day 6 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Transformational Events

    What I learned doing this assignment is I’ll do the adding on to the four act structure with the new transformation events in the assignment a little later. There is more to a story but it must work together.

    Character Arc

    · Mark starts out as a young remarkable writer really good

    · Mark ends up really bad after he becomes sought out for his entire Vast collection of writings.

    Mark is a writer’s genius. He wants to have his work, a vast collection of writings to be read and published. It is worth millions. This has an effect on everyone he encounters.

    Old ways: He turns out to be a remarkable writer. The first thing he does is seeks out Universities. At no avail, he does not get anyone to hear him out. He at his lone place of writing, word gets out and his vast collection is stolen.

    New Ways: Seymour is a hostile man. He has a woman telephone Mark to gain access to his writings. Then his vast collection gets stolen. A murdered woman, killing of a cop, and break-in at his apartment ensue. Seymour is behind all this.

    6 – 8 changes or steps that need to happen for that character to go from who they are in the beginning (Old Ways) to who they are in the ending (New Ways).

    Old ways

    · He Believes in himself

    · Wants his work to be read and sold/ to gain a fortune

    · Doors are slammed shut

    · A few girls try to be around.

    · The collection is stolen

    · No police help

    New ways

    · Understanding there is a violent, corrupt world outside waiting for him

    · Give up or continue to pursue

    · Being beaten up by Seymour’s group

    · Overpowered by a burglar

    · he endures a bloodied fight

    · meets a prostitute

    Sequence the steps from easiest to most difficult. This will imply the journey the character takes. Brainstorm dramatic events or tests that could cause those changes for the character.

    · The telephone call from a woman asking for one of Mark’s great work a manuscript he manifested

    · Mark gets Raquel a dating tour around downtown or else.

    · A woman is murdered by a copywriter lawyer’s office who Mark was trying to hire is on the news. He wanted to see if he can leave his vast collection in a safe place.

    · Mark is being warned by Seymour’s thugs “Not to call police they are going to do that”

    · Taking to the streets to find his Vast collection and manuscript, about a local girl being abducted by a man who is her neighbor

    · His ability to fight off a few bad men in pursuit.

    · Breaking off his antenna and destroying his car

    · Surprises a woman burglar at his apartment who steps over his bloodied body with his second manuscript in her grasp

    · From his POV looks like the commander from the police building

    · Visiting a Royal castle restaurant for 10 cent burgers an off-duty cop is killed accidently by another cop responding to a trump up robbery

    · Raquel comes to him at apartment, and they try to make sense of it

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 13, 2021 at 5:58 am in reply to: Post Day 5 Assignment Here

    Create a first draft of your 4 Act Transformational Structure.

    Mickey Gonzalez 4 Act Transformational Structure

    What I learned doing this assignment is…? you don’t get the concept the way I wrote it”. Like to Work in fiction and the creative process, does it good.

    1. Give us the following:

    Concept: As one, Mark Fox written a massive Vast collection of writings worth millions and wants to be this remarkable young writer to build a fortune.

    Main Conflict: Seymour wants Mark dead and his Vast collection. Every time Mark has to settle down to fight out strangers to keep coming around to get his work down to Seymour. The fighting is because of Seymour’s greed.

    Old Ways

    1. town of Duck Island

    2. sees many options to explore

    3. womanizer and a young writer

    New Ways

    1. scours Duck Island

    2. knows get to fight perpetrators and Seymour to retrieve V.C

    3. meets Raquel a prostitute

    2. Fill in each of these with the answers you have right now.

    Act 1:

    Opening young Mark Fox is in a Ferris wheel pod accidently had fallen asleep. During the night, after the amusement park had closed a group of nuns finally find him.

    He wakes up among adult inmates in a vermillion jail house. He does not remember how he got there Two inmates confront young Mark as he preps himself up on jail cell bunk chained to the steel wall. A deputy sheriff stops inmates from talking to Mark. He leads Mark out to a man outside the cell’s doors. The man has a unmark car waiting, a Ford LTD.

    Inciting Incident: Mark is becoming a writing genius. He does not know yet. A Vast collection of writings accumulated has been stolen from him.

    Turning Point: Mark scours Duck Island and gets to learn it’s violent corrupt world outside of his lone place.

    Act 2: 20 to 30 PAGES, challenge the old ways

    Mark expectations from his experiences that their intentions are to steal a Vast collection of writings that is worth a lot of money from him.

    New plan: After grueling effort to find the whereabouts of his material. Mark is going to try to get his story on air at a TV station.

    Plan in action: Mark wants to get his story about the theft on air. A TV producer slams the doors in his face, literately. After the meeting, Mark is inside a police building and surrounded by police. Mark asks if the TV WKYC people can be brought in to set up shop to get his story aired. The police commander yells “No”.

    Midpoint Turning Point: As he exits on an innerbelt bridge e-way some perpetrators cut him off. One of the vehicles is a company car with its’ WKYC emblem on the driver’s side door and a police cruiser behind him warning him to stop searching for the vast collection. This the work of Seymour’s group.

    Act 3:

    Rethink everything

    New plan: Mark knows what he needs to do. He must continue on to be the remarkable writer. He continues to work on his typewriter and effortlessly produce new material. And he does produce.

    New insights: Seymour’s group is watching Mark. Raquel is coming to his apartment to be with him.

    Turning Point: Huge failure / Major shift: Mark comes along to his apartment after scouring Duck Island with no avail. Mark surprises a woman who is burglarizing the apartment. Five bad guys jump Mark beating the stuffing out of him. Left bloodied on the sidewalk the woman steps over his body. Flees in a double park car with part of a vast collection of writings in her grasp. From his POV, he realizes the driver resembles the commander.

    Act 4:

    Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict

    Mark gets into the apartment with Raquel. She tends to his wounds. She realizes the manuscript is gone again.

    Mark looks beaten up at a telephone booth. They are at the nine building. He wants to get to Seymour.

    Raquel goes in and out of rooms as Mark is confronted by a deputy sheriff. A fight starts. Mark fights off the deputy sheriff, knocks him out. Raquel is unaware what is going on.

    When she comes in, she sees the deputy wondering what had happen. Mark grabs her hand. Both run out of the building.

    At the apartment, it is empty. Just a suitcase. As the start for the door to leave. The telephone rings. Mark answers. Is a woman asking Mark “if he has any new ideas”? The woman says Its’ for Alice.

    Resolution: Get to Seymour. Both start to thinking is better to move.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 12, 2021 at 2:41 am in reply to: Post Day 4 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Character Interviews

    What I learned doing this assignment is…? Hey, working with the characters. Knowingly, interviews for characters.

    Tell me about yourself:

    Protagonist Mark Fox: Hey Am a remarkable young writer. I’ be writing drafts and manifested a manuscript. Am twenty years old. I have girls and a girlfriend. I lived in an apartment in a roman catholic solid white neighborhood. I have everything a neighborhood can feed me with. Duck Island.

    Why do you think you were called to this journey? Why you.

    Is Mark’s calling. By his earlier teachers that make him so skilled. If he didn’t write. He does something else. He goes to high school, won’t drive, and wouldn’t be involved with writing attracting so many. Mark was “it” in this neighborhood. The time the writer’s gods pick on him. From the beginning of his time Mark is involved with extraordinary events.

    What is it about them that makes this journey even more difficult for you?

    Mark endures that somebody is watching him. He is doing what a remarkable young writer does. He is being sought out.

    In order to survive or accomplish this, you are going to have to step way outside of your box. What changes do you expect to make and which of them will be the most difficult?

    Mark’s Vast collection of writings are stolen. He needs to retrieve the V.C. Mark comes out the box. He is not alone anymore. There is somebody after him. There is no way Mark is going to let go. He pursues every avenue to get to the whereabout of the V.C.

    What habits or ways of thinking you think will be the most difficult to let go of?

    Mark seeks out universities and high schools. To get his work published and read. The V.C is worth a lot of money. He can’t stop writing. He can’t let it go. His travels b4 the theft. He gets up to get his V.C back. Now he has to seek out vengeance.

    What fears, insecurities and wounds have held you back?

    What will he do without her? What happens if he is without her love? What is love without her? A missing V.C of writings is gone needs to retrieve it. He can’t move forward. He is forced to compromise his goals.

    What skills, background or expertise makes you well-suited to face this conflict or antagonist?

    Mark is a young remarkable writer in a solid white neighborhood. His skills are taught by teachers of his earlier years. A neighborhood hosted by a lone mobster, a dirty commander, and those who are in seeking a way out. A wave of police people involved, T.V people,. Mark gets a few telephone calls. One to see If “he is writing any new ideas, second a meeting place is set up, third is being escorted by motorcycle cops, to retrieve, fourth is to come to building for a pay out, with the antagonist, tons, how much does a ton weigh?, Ect.

    Wht are you hiding from the other characters? What don’t you want them to know?

    Mark is with other girls some which he just meets and do what they do. She leaves. With Raquel is a writing romantic affair. He speaks to her in ways of his writing. He writes. She does not know it. He doses off. He does not want her to know about the missing manuscript he had manifested.

    What do you think of?

    Mark thinks of everything. This is a thriller like most of his drafts and manuscript are. He thinks of success. He does not know it yet. No one else does what he has written. Mark needs to get his life back. He wants this V.C and other collections back. There is a cover up from those who are in seeking a way out. A wave of police people involved, and local T.V people.

    Tell me your side of this whole conflict/story.

    This what Mark thinks is happening. After a telephone call from an unknown woman. His apartment is broken into. His V.C of writings are stolen. There is no answer to any of his efforts. The police, deputies, lawyer, T.V station producer, He can’t find a way to get a story on air. No, doors are slammed, and no one wants to hear him. Somebody took it. He has a massive number of writings stolen. The girls are gone. The only one sticking with him is Raquel. She determines to be part of his efforts to get something back. At the end and endless grueling efforts to get his work, is at no avail.

    What does it do for your life is you succeed here?

    Mark deals with ideas. Ideas that can be accomplished if he succeeds. If he can get his Vast Collection back and/or a lot of money. Several ideas come in his young mind. Built a giant Chandelier, an innerbelt bridge, an opportunity corridor, and rebuilt his intersection in front of his apartment. Mark’s work is stolen. He turns to vengeance. If Mark finds his V.C of writings, he will be writing forever with an enormous number of drafts and manuscript as a writer will exist.

    Ask any other questions about their character profile that will help you.

    Can get my story logically consistent?

    Antagonist Seymour Heller

    Tell me about your self.

    Seymour is a strong man for a mobster that hosts the neighborhood. Hangs in the flats, bars and diamond clubs. Mark can’t get close to him.

    Having to do with this journey, what are your strengths and weaknesses?

    Seymour’s tough, boxing champ. But creates a group to get to Mark’s V.C . When he finds out, he wants everything. He turns on his group for greed.

    Why are you committed to making Protagonist fail?

    Seymour wants to make it hard for Mark. So hard that he will never find the whereabout of the V.C. Is Seymour’s goal after he finds out about the “gold”. No other place will Seymour find anything like Mark’s work. He can’t even come up with anything.

    What do you get out of winning this fight / succeeding in your / taking down your competition?

    Seymour wants to do what Mark is wanting to accomplish. He wants to do that. For power, monetary monies, fame, and get rid of Mark. Seymour sends people to warn Mark that they are going to do it without him. Like is supposed to be okay with Mark. Not for Raquel. She not going.

    What drives you toward your mission / agenda, even in the face of danger, ruin, or death?

    There’s no one else around. This city is too small. There’s no other vast collection of writings like Marks’. This sets Seymour off. He thinks he can succeed at. That he will do that. Even at the cost from acts of vengeance from Mark.

    What secrets must you keep to succeed? What other secrets do you keep out of fear / insecurity?

    Seymour secrets keep Mark away. He sends a warning message to Mark through others. Seymour’s Dirty cop tries to intervene. Goes after mark in excess to place him in a jail. There are telephone call “you don’t understand nothing” “you don’t know nothing” Second call from a dirty cop, “Korvavic”. Seymour knows this. Fears and insecurity be dealing with mobster. But with a dirty cop is okay. Too many for Mark.

    Compared to other people like you, what makes you special?

    Seymour has “Duck Island” in his power. There are many who come and get overwhelmed with this neighborhood. Seymour will have everything. It is small. But is just big enough for Mark.

    What do think of?

    Seymour is trenched with the idea. He knows his warning message reached mark. He sends thugs to beat on Mark. To get what he wants. No other way will he succeed. Not with that kind of wealth. Mark is writing “gold”.

    Tell me your side of the conflict / story?

    Seymour knows Mark is after him. But Mark does not know who he is yet. He continues to go after and keep Mark’s Vast collection. Keeping him away. Seymour figures that more people to attack Mark. The better it is for anyone involved.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 11, 2021 at 6:04 am in reply to: Post Day 3 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Character Profile Part 2

    “What I learned doing this assignment is bring these main characters closer. My story should be held together by this assignment. Keep in mind for changes if and when changes are needed.

    What draws us to these characters?

    Protagonist: Mark Fox:

    Traits: diligent, vindictive, remarkable young writer, determination

    Subtext: Mark writes in his apartment. Mark has a romantic living with a prostitute. They bond as the theft goes on. Physiological dominance over each other resumes after time. During Mark’s grueling effort to make it and her in pursuit. Mark scours the places of interest and at no avail he succeeds. He comes so close to retrieving his vast collections of writings. There is a telephone call. There are fist fights, cop killing, thugs try to deter him, and other girls.

    Flaw: Continue to be this remarkable writer. Preoccupied, he couldn’t keep his writing at bay because being set up by greedy strangers that will come along to poke around to steal.

    Values: honest, true to himself, fight,

    Irony: Mark has to go out in the violent world. His interactions with those who he comes across is life or death. He is not alone. He is the only one that can retrieve his V.C. He has to endure the outside world to get to the high-up from his lone place.

    What makes this the right character for this role? He is a young writer. He wants to make it. His V.C is worth a lot of money. He gets around a world of thieves no matter who they are. Mark couldn’t find this M.F Seymour.

    Antagonist Seymour Heller

    Traits: predatory, jealously, greedy, tendency to violence

    Subtext: Traits: manipulative, intimation,

    Subtext: Mark is on the close end of retrieving hi V.C. Seymour wants to stand out from the crowd or neighborhood and decides to take over Mark’s V.C instead of paying for it as he suggested in anonymous telephone call.

    Flaw: He gets some else’s work for his own greed. He knows Mark will not stop searching for the V.C of writings.

    Values: power, monetary success, manipulating, anger

    Irony: When he is at the Nine building enclosure, he is untouchable, has ways to be elusive, gets help from a deputy to getaway and restrains Mark. Kill Mark, even it doesn’t happen, try too.

    What makes this the right character for this role? He is high classed and even with this he expresses anger, violent interactions and is willing to take something away.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 10, 2021 at 4:40 am in reply to: Post Day 2 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Character Profiles Part 1

    What I learned doing this assignment is characters are easy. These characters have to make the story true. If the story is base on true facts then you must change and make them work together. The main character protagonist and antagonist do so much stuff in real time to get an unpublished work done. Then watch their work being done by an enormous writer and not be his.

    The role my Protagonist will play to fulfill that role.

    Hero

    Runner

    Fighter

    Victim: What of injustice by these people young Mark has to go under a constant standoff with poachers. He undertakes a grueling effort to retrieve his work. Mark has to be able to take on fist fighting, being ambushed, rejection from TV buildings, unable to air his story,

    The Antagonist can play to fulfill that role.

    Villain

    Change Agent

    Authority

    Predator: No empathy is right. No respect for others written works. Trespassing. Breaking and entering private residence to steal and harm the young writer. Narcissist in wanting to succeed in wealth and take from this young writer. With help from the high-up.

    My characters might be necessary

    Supporting characters: Raquel Morris a young prostitute. Mark’s love interest. Couple of girls, models,

    Minor roles: have police people, WKYC TV producer, lawyer and a murdered woman,

    Background characters: people in Chub’s grocery store, janitors, sheriff deputies

    genre.

    Thriller: This draft is a thriller.

    My lead character profiles.

    Role in the story: The young writer and his endurance to overcome the high-up

    Age range and Description: A diligent twenty-year-old. He is not masterly built. but is athletic looking with dark hair. Able to be on Harley. Race car driver type of twenty year but he is young writer.

    Internal Journey: from a young life of non-violent and no problems to a troubled violent and fighting for what belongs to him.

    External Journey: From a sought out young writer to being vigorously and overpower the high-up.

    Motivation: All Mark wants to do is write. But things turn for the worse once he is sought out. Mark needs his vast collection back. Be able to write agin.

    Wound: At nine years old he is placed in adult jail. He doesn’t remember how he got there. His Inability to fight off who is after him for his work.

    Mission/Agenda: to find out who is the high-up who is bringing strangers to steal from him.

    Secret: his failure to seek out the true high-up.

    What makes them special? Mark really having a hard time. His ability to be vulnerable and his grueling efforts to pursue the preparators.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 10, 2021 at 3:14 am in reply to: Post Day 1 Assignment Here

    Mickey Gonzalez Transformational Journey

    What I learned doing this assignment is getting to know who you are writing about. Getting a screenwriting technique down. The creative process is at work.

    Who is your Hero and what is their Character Arc that represents a transformation?

    For Mark Fox:

    Internal Journey: from a young life of non-violent and no problems to a troubled violent and fighting for what belongs to him.

    External Journey: From a sought out young writer to being vigorously and overpower the high-up.

    . What are the Old Ways and New Ways?

    I have Mark living in his old ways.

    · Not knowing possibilities for someone being after him for his work

    · Young writer

    · Believe in himself seeks out universities and high schools

    · Wants his work to be read and sold

    · Accepted by girls and a prostitute

    · His psychological dominance over others

    · His work is stolen

    · Local police, deputies

    I have Mark living in his new ways

    · Can see the other side of the world

    · He can become wealthy

    · Can overpower the thieves

    · Endure or face

    · Brave

    · make and achieve by fighting!

  • mickey Gonzo

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    June 9, 2021 at 4:21 am in reply to: Introduce Yourself To The Group

    Mickey Gonzalez

    I be writing a lot of drafts. The amount can do later.

    Hey, this class is understanding of one’s journey to write its screenplay in a unque way. Lets see what happens.

    An opportunity to be writing drafts and manifest a manuscript for movies and plays. Especially, in long hand.

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  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 24, 2021 at 1:49 am in reply to: Day 12 Assignment

    Putting together a plan to market myself to producers.

    Mickey’s Marketing Plan

    What I learned doing this assignment getting to the plan by using today’s technology. This is the best friend. If we were able to do this back b4 any of this was a available. My journey would have been a lot easier.

    A sample of my email request for writing assignment.

    About your next action thriller.

    About your last movie “The Departed’. Is a good movie. There is a lot of who doing what and so on. I think there is a slickness that reminds me of my writing.

    Hi Darrell,

    I see that you do action thriller movies. That is my speciality, also.

    I always wanted to meet you. I have seen you in your Tux and on the film school website. I am available to do writing assignments – I can do a rewrite for a screenplay. I work on this project the instant you can be available.

    Of course I want write a screenplay from your idea. Also, there is a possibility I may have an additional idea to write more screenplays. I’d be happy to send you a writing sample so you know the quality of my work.

    I haven’t been involved with the winnings of a writing contest. However, I’ve been part of their winning team, seen screenwriters win their contest. Great awards. I focused on becoming a pro at screenwriting. If there is a writing assignment or a book adaption you are considering.

    Let me know if you need anything.

    Mickey gonzalez

    216 555-5555

    smkj@gmail.gov

    mickey632

    Planning on : Pitching a project.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 22, 2021 at 8:13 am in reply to: Day 11 Assignments

    Mickey Gonzalez Plan for Increasing Perceived Value

    What I learned doing this assignment is there is a time and takes a lot to be making a movie. Follow certain notes and continue to get answers from connections if possible. Who do you know? This something I as a writer will pursue. As long I know what I need to accomplish with my personal vast collection of projects with Hollywood. Pricing and constant changes in to secure the most possible success in the industry.

    Since much of what gets you deals and/or paid is perceived value, tell us your plan to increase your perceived value with producers.

    Specialty — Describe your expertise in that specialty in one or two sentences.

    2. producers I have in my LinkedIn Network: notifications with producers over 75. This list changes and increases.

    3. Increasing my Perceived Value plan for increasing my value in these three time frames:

    A. Today: What producers want. What is it the genre? Right now, it can be a TV series instead of a making a movie and all that. Got to give it time to write anything for a producer. They might want to be involved with a team and are looking forward to be part of a film. Their timing and my timing can create a great relationship.

    B. In the next 30 days. Write either to prep for future writing and know ahead how they think what is going to happen. Make it work.

    C. In the next 6 months. Completing projects and can be completive instead of going my way. Make sure is the right projects producers want and/or team up with them for 6 months. Make a move closer and become involved more in business preparations. I believe in knowing who you are going to work with this length of time. Meetings and become involve in decisions to make the most possibilities that can improve the filming of the projects. Using these attributes that are taught here in our assignments.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 22, 2021 at 6:50 am in reply to: Day 10 Assignments

    Mickey Gonzalez is a Note Taking Professional!

    What I learned is This method is breaking down a filming budget for a producer. This is a way to get answers.

    Logline: A highly sought out manuscript by a diligent twenty year old is stolen to retrieve it he must overcome obstacles from a gangster, a dirty cop and a ghetto.

    Honor each of the following requests:

    -Cut the budget in half.

    The locations leaving one area to another. Same location city or state. City tax breaks involved locals to become part of the filming on the sets. Making sure nothing goes wrong.

    -Write it for a different audience (quadrant).

    If this needed do the scenes that relate to actual viewers. The audience is welcome to come to see if they are interested in this movie’s genre.

    -Double the conflict.

    Yes, double the conflict. Dialogue is important. No errors in telling the Logline. Conflict erupts as main characters scour the city to locate the whereabouts of their stolen vast collection of writings.

    -Change the sex and age of the lead character.

    Main characters journey. Related to their script reading. This is collaboration technique needs to get done. Each main character has a story. When Mark and Raquel start getting to know each other. Their process continues to grow. Thinking age and sex is not changing here. Leaves out what the story line is meant to be.

    -Change the genre.

    Under guidelines from out assignments. These attributes will relate to becoming a thriller.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 17, 2021 at 1:23 am in reply to: Day 6 Assignments

    Hi, Jenna Baker if u like to partner for notes. ‘ll take look and see what happens. write to my first rom com. Today I’ll look yours up because there are plenty of them written. if that’s ok..

    thinking it will be the one in Day 5 assignment. question By chance do u have a new treatment because of assignments.? Just asking.

    Best

    Mickey

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 16, 2021 at 6:32 pm in reply to: Day 9 Assignments

    Hi everyone,

    Mickey Gonzalez Decreased Budget

    What I learned doing this assignment is there many locations that are used over for movies. When this comes up rental are always to get together. There are possibilities the use of a location without costs. Mainly needs to work out for any production of filming a movie. Can always modernize a bit.

    Anything else dangerous that increases preparation time and/or Insurance

    2. With a major scene that depends upon a “high budget variable,” take it through the process of finding another way to deliver on the dramatic goal.

    Mark and Raquel appear at the police building talking to a policeman. The policeman ask if thinks he misplaced the Manuscript. At no avail they leave the police building.

    A. Police people guns, uniform, and use of actors. shorten the scene where there are only one policeman instead of nine. Takes care of guns and uniforms and locations size of set.

    At the apartment, enraged, Raquel questions Mark if he knows who the stranger was. Mark has no idea. Raquel dominance insists that Mark finds out. Mark agrees to Raquel.

    A. Small apartment. Make it look like a one room with flats to exchange walk throughs and bedroom scenes.

    Royal Castle’s robbery goes bad killing an off duty cop is mistaken after Mark leaves with his bag of burgers. Mark thinks it can be because the dirty cop from that night is attempting to get him. Missing him shooting an off duty trouper within minutes by mistake.

    A. Here you a parking lot and restaurant . Shorten scene with cars pull in and out.

    a. no worries with the burgers in the brown bag. cost is $.15 cents a piece

    B.Time era too can be it because we talking about the 70s.

    C.Have actor portray a city hall employee and use main characters at this location in sequence scenes have no minuses of extra scene which can and are edited.

    D. Leaving scene at the time where no ambulances or additional public authorities Are used. So other actors needed?!

    The neighborhood is namely after him for his manuscript and his fist fights in alleys and his dominance.

    A. The neighborhood can reuse prior scenes that are extended where can use part of one for the another scene. Driving, an Ariel shot of the drive from a Helicopter fly over. Not use additional police people to be around on motorcycles and wearing guns and uniforms.

    Tell us about the high budget item in your script that you are letting go of.

    A. Excessive use of police presence.

    What is the dramatic goal am I trying to accomplish with this scene?”

    This scenes are aspects of the main characters journey. An array of scenes to give the story a quick sense of the main characters accomplishments.

    Ask, “How can I accomplish the dramatic goal without the expense?”

    As fast going the process of filming is budget counts $$ and is important to make profits and pay offs.

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  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 16, 2021 at 5:37 pm in reply to: Day 8 Assignments

    Alistair McKenzie. partner up for notes ? e-mail is mickcan4@yahoo.com

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 14, 2021 at 2:48 am in reply to: Day 8 Assignments

    Hi everyone, just did a few paragraphs. If you like to be on the feedback is cool. read it see if any thing can happen and I look forward auto read any other ones. Let’s see what happens.

    Thriller?! e-mail mickcan4@yahoo.com

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 14, 2021 at 2:40 am in reply to: Day 7 Assignments

    The structure for the story in 8 paragraphs is the 3-Act. ?!

    Mickey Gonzalez Fantastic Treatment

    Logline: A highly sought out manuscript by a diligent twenty year old is stolen to retrieve it he must overcome obstacles from a gangster, a dirty cop and the ghetto.

    If you were using the 3 Act Structure, you’d list these beats:

    Opening: Inciting Incident: First Act Turning Point: Midpoint: Second Act Turning Point: Crisis:

    Climax:

    Resolution:

    Synopsis: A young Mark Fox, from Duck Island is a twenty year old has one dream to do is becoming a young writer and making it. A young Mark is going through extraordinary events in his young life. Marks receives a telephone call to be at a photo shoot with catholic Bishop Pilla at the Cathedral. He appears on the headlines in the newspapers.

    Later Mark takes a trip to a amusement park with a couple of nuns. Where he falls asleep in a Ferris Wheel pod. Everyone thinks he is lost. The amusement park closes. He is asleep. He is found by nuns who come back for him. In the early morning Mark wakes up in an adult jail cell. He doesn’t remember how he got there.

    After all this. This is a time of segregation back forth yellow buses busing for whites and blacks youth. There is rioting, fights, and police. Helicopters fly over his apartment. You can hear them during the night. Three years later Mark is gleaming young and strong. The might and the will to get and become a writer. There are serval girls that take a look at him and wanna encourage him on. He is on top. He confines in a girl, Raquel Morris a young prostitute. However turns out to be anything but easy.

    Mark Fox manifests to be a highly sought out manuscript. A manuscript written about a neighbor who abducts a girl and is a serial killer. This manuscript is worth a lot of money.

    Mark decides that the best way to get the tattered manuscript read is get to a University. There are two attempts. Both attempts Mark shows up only to find people are waiting for him slamming the office doors rejecting him.

    Mark in his apartment. Raquel is there. The manuscript is on the desk. Raquel and her physiological dominance. She comes in lays down on the bed. Mark writing into one of his drafts. Mark get up from the desk and takes a look at her. She is sound asleep.

    [Mark gets a flashback when he ended up in an adult jail cell. He was nine. There were two inmates]. Suddenly, the telephone rings. It’s a woman voice. She asks if he has any ideas. He gets around to reading a few pages. After unsuccessfully getting her name. She hangs up.

    Mark doesn’t realizes just how much is going on. Mark doesn’t know the caller. The caller wants his manuscript. Mark leaves manuscript on the table.

    Mark and Raquel at a diner. They stop at a local five-n-Dime store. There’re two woodpeckers on the upper shelf. They pick them up off the shelf. Woodpeckers swing slightly back and forth, pacing themselves.

    Mark and Raquel enter the apartment. They realize the manuscript is not on the desk. Raquel insist Mark to get the manuscript where she can see it. Mark searches the small apartment. He grabs a flashlight. He looks under anything and everything. No avail.

    He opens the cellar door from the middle of the kitchen floor. No manuscript. The manuscript and other writings have been stolen.

    From Mark’s POV he sees a light coming from the window. Is a stranger with a flashlight peering through the window from outside. He sees the stranger’s face and what he’s wearing by the stranger’s incandescent light from the flashlight.

    With Raquel behind him he races to the door after the stranger. Mark goes outside with his flashlight. The stranger runs off. After a grueling run after the stranger. Mark stops. He goes back in the apartment. Raquel is waiting.

    Mark and Raquel appear at the police building talking to a policeman. The policeman ask if thinks he misplaced the Manuscript. At no avail they leave the police building. At the apartment, enraged, Raquel questions Mark if he knows who the stranger was. Mark has no idea. Raquel dominance insists that Mark finds out. Mark agrees to Raquel.

    Raquel says she staying the night. Mark says “Oh”. Mark is with her but thinks probably it’s better she go home. Raquel quickly lays on the bed. Mark slips a small mattress on the floor beside the bed. She says “good night”. During the night she slips down behind him… She leaves during dusk.

    Mark embarks out in the neighborhood. And he’s going to find it’s not as easy as it seems. He has only couple of clues. The Stranger and a telephone call. Mark is writing in the apartment often. Raquel with be over and he be over her apartment.

    Mark is out coming back to the apartment. When he sees a blonde woman. Mark goes to catch her. In a second, five bad men hold him away and assume to kick the stuffing out of him, leaving him bloodied on the sidewalk. The woman walks out with Mark second manuscript draft. She steps over his body on the sidewalk. She hurries to a double parked car and disappears.

    From Mark’s P.O.V it’s driver resembles the commander from the police building. He thinks, he’s a dirty cop.

    Raquel comes around. She finds Mark on the sidewalk. She wants to know what happen. Raquel gets Mark back in the apartment. Raquel sees the desk is bare again. Raquel sits up on the edge of the desk. Wondering if Mark knows who stole it. She gets Mark to lay on a table, to mend his wounds. He doesn’t know the extend of his wounds.

    Meanwhile Mark gets a mysterious telephone call offering him $500,000.00. The man on the telephone gives Mark a number to call when he gets to the nine building. Mark looks a bit beaten up at the nine building. Mark is seen calling from one of the five telephone booths. Mark uses the telephone booth closes to an elevator. The elevator opens and sorts of people exit. Mark listens to a man saying stop trying to find whereabouts of the manuscript.

    Mark attempts to get his story on air by the local TV buildings. “WKYC” One of few TV buildings after speaking to a producer. He rejects Mark. Literally, slams more doors in his face. The others refuse to let him in. Mark wants to plea for his manuscript’s return.

    Mark embarks again to seek out his work. This time he is getting closer to a gangster and his criminal activity. Mark doesn’t want to go to jail. The gangster is bombing and killing off people and milking his union of money.

    Mark over hears an agreement between a black man name Jules Adkins and the gangster Vincent Cosomalo in a RV trailer between two buildings. See Mark ducking around outside the windows of the RV trailer. Jules is to go get the $75,000 and bring it back to Vincent. Vincent is borrowing money to built an Irish pub. Mark awaits for a chance that Jules makes a mistake, by leaving the money behind.

    Instead, Mark gets around Russo trails to get away from the RV trailer. There is no doubt that the money isn’t left behind. He has to go before he is found out. He runs and gets out through the rock made gates Mark in the apartment at the table overlooking his material. The TV is on the news cuts into the program. There is the news reporter telling the events that Jules Adkins has been arrested for the car bombing killing of Vincent the gangster.

    Mark and Raquel are at the nine building. Night time she walks down in front of place and enraged. But Marks holds her off. She walks in. Mark after her. When a man stocky build and looks mean enough tries to get Mark in the corner of inside the building’s lobby. Raquel unaware what is happening is in and out first floor rooms.

    Raquel eventually comes to find Mark already beaten this man by Knocking him out in the lobby. Mark grabs her and heads for the building’s front doors to go.

    Royal Castle’s robbery goes bad killing an off duty cop is mistaken after Mark leaves with his bag of burgers. Mark thinks it can be because the dirty cop from that night is attempting to get him. Missing him shooting an off duty trouper by minutes. The neighborhood is namely after him for his manuscript and his fist fights in alleys and his dominance.

    At the apartment Mark and Raquel look around. It’s bare just a suitcase. As Raquel picks up the suitcase the telephone rings. Mark answers.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 12, 2021 at 1:51 am in reply to: Day 6 Assignments

    Mickey Gonzalez Producer Interview Experience 2

    What I learned doing this assignment is a challenge to get your great storytelling technique even better.

    Report Producer versus the Writer. The same ideas connect making it easier. Getting a formula that will work for structure, writing a sentence to a new sentence, understanding a vision with the producer’s synopsis.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 10, 2021 at 2:09 am in reply to: Day 6 Assignments

    What I learned doing this assignment thinking of the producer this is a paid assignment deal. But it is something to work with. always have in mind what I’m writing next. is it too much or can I get it right the first time.

    Mickey Gonzalez producer interview experience.

    Mickey Gonzalez Synopsis for Producer Interview

    report: producer vs writer

    Title: The Rundown

    Genre: Thriller

    Logline: A highly sought out manuscript by a diligent twenty year old is stolen to retrieve it he must overcome obstacles from a gangster, a dirty cop and the ghetto.

    Synopsis: Mark fox, a twenty year old has one dream to do is becoming a young writer and making it. He’s there forth confines in a girl Raquel Morris. However turns out to be anything but easy. He encounter numerous strangers who have one interest in common. They are after his work a vast collection of drafts and this manuscript.

    He manifests a high sought out manuscript. While getting ready to go out and try to get his manuscript look at. The telephone rings. It’s a woman. She asks him over the telephone if he had any ideas. He gets around to reading a few pages. After unsuccessfully getting her name. She hangs up. Mark doesn’t realizes just how much is going on. Mark doesn’t know who the anonymous woman is.

    <font face=”inherit”>Mark and Raquel enter the apartment. They realize the manuscript is on top of the desk. Mark had left it on top of the desk. </font>

    <font face=”inherit”>Mark is out coming back to the apartment. When he sees a blonde woman. In a second, five men start to beat on him leaving him bloodied on the </font>sidewalk. This woman walks out with Mark’s high sought out manuscript. She steps over his body on the sidewalk. She hurries to a double parked car and disappears.

    <font face=”inherit”>Raquel comes around finds Mark on the sidewalk. She wants to know what happen. Raquel gets Mark back in the apartment. Raquel sees the desk is bare. Mark grabs a flashlight </font>starts<font face=”inherit”> to look under anything and everything in the apartment. Raquel sits up on the edge of the desk. Wondering if Mark knows who stole it. She gets Mark to lay on a table. to mend his wounds He doesn’t know the extend of his wounds. </font>

    <font face=”inherit”>From Mark’s POV he sees a light coming from the window. Is a stranger with a flashlight peering through the window from outside. He sees the stranger’s face and </font>what<font face=”inherit”> he’s </font>wearing by the stranger’s incandescent<font face=”inherit”> light from the flashlight. With Raquel behind him he races to the door after the stranger. Mark goes outside with his flashlight. The stranger runs off. After a grueling run after the stranger. Mark stops. He goes back in then apartment. Raquel is waiting. </font>

    <font face=”inherit”>Mark and Raquel appear at the police building talking to a police </font>commander<font face=”inherit”> The police </font>commander<font face=”inherit”> ask if thinks he misplaced the Manuscript. At no avail they leave the police building. At the apartment, enraged, Raquel questions Mark if he knows the thief. Mark has no idea. Raquel dominance insists that Mark finds out. Mark agrees to Raquel. </font>

    <font face=”inherit”>Meanwhile Mark gets a mysterious telephone call asking </font>offering<font face=”inherit”> him $500,000.00 for the manuscript. As long he calls a number and stops at the nine building. this is to get Mark to stop trying the find whereabouts of the manuscript.</font>

    <font face=”inherit”>Mark attempts to get his story on air by the local TV buildings. One TV building </font>rejects<font face=”inherit”> him and slam the door in his face. The others refuse to let him in.</font>

    <font face=”inherit”>Mark embarks out in the neighborhood. And he’s going to find it’s not as easy as it seems. He has only couple of clues. The </font>Stranger and/or the anonymous woman caller. Mark is writing in the apartment often. Raquel with be over and he be over her apartment.

    Mark getting closer to a gangster and his criminal activity. Bombings in the city and milking union money and a Royal Castle’s robbery killing a cop. The double parked car looks like the driver resembles the commander from the police building. He thinks a dirty cop. The neighborhood is namely after him for his fistfights in alleys, and his dominance.

    Mark Fox and Raquel Morris sets off. When they get one more telephone call after him.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 9, 2021 at 1:48 am in reply to: Day 5: Partner Up for Writing Sample Feedback

    Doing day 5 assignments. little getting here. Got it just got in. anyone like to feedback on my. thats great. yes okay thanks mickcan4@yahoo.com.

    Best

    Mickey

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 7, 2021 at 7:49 pm in reply to: Day 5 Assignments

    Hi everyone. This is the first chance of any feedback. An agreement for any partner on this assignment 5. Anyone?! ‘My” I Appreciate it.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 7, 2021 at 7:39 pm in reply to: Day 5 Assignments

    What I learn doing this assignment base on true events. writing the first 15 pages. Am understanding the screenplay. Sorts of ideas, scenes, killer scenes,. Let’s see what happens. My drafts are long hand written, getting them into a screenplay format for a paid assignment. <font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>I have to be using any form of screenplay pattern getting it done. To get a </font>paid<font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”> </font>assignment notes have adapted to screenwriting. The producer’s vision is important.

    Mickey Gonzalez Writing Sample Plan Thriller

    FADE IN

    The Bingham buildings along side the north coast. A strip of warehouses up on the break wall of the lake.

    We see young Mark standing by a TV. He is reading newspaper ad. The commercial comes on about it. The TV commercial is playing on. He looks back-n-forth to the ad then to the TV.

    He realizes they are the same.

    INT. STORE – DAY

    At the local hardware store a pyramid of cans of same chrome polish from the newspaper ad and commercial. Mark gives the clerk $2 for a can.

    He is meet at the door by an Mexican who hands him an orange mechanic’s rag.

    EXT. FRONT OF HOUSE – DAY

    1959 black white red interior Chevrolet Impala swirls away at polishing the huge bumpers and chrome around the car.

    A big blonde hair kid comes around the corner stops.

    KID

    Get off the car.

    Mark looks at the big kid. The kid strolls away. Disappears.

    After turtle waxing mon and dad siding down the front hood. Cheering and laughing at the nice outing after working hard on the auto.

    EXT. STREET – MORNING

    On the way to school with a black writing pad. He hears a cry out for help.

    Mark sees bellowing smoke peer over the roof top.

    Sees a blonde little girl in a window trying to escape.

    YOUNG GIRL

    Help, help fire.

    He runs to the sidewalk in front.

    MARK

    Fire, fire.

    People on the sidewalk rush in the walkway between the two building. We are starring a local hero.

    He goes to the school building.

    EXT. FRONT LAWN – MORNING

    The driver of the school bus is a gorgeous blonde girl. She steps off the bus and gives young Mark a French kiss.

    BUS DIRVER

    You be here every morning and I’ll stop.

    She stops for the next three mornings. Then on the fourth she doesn’t show.

    We see young Mark waiting.

    INT. GYM – DAY

    On stage a podium and grand fire Marshall and three others speaking. The nun comes over to get young Mark to be introduce.

    As Mark is walking up on stage. He is held back. We see the speaker nodding his head “NO”.

    Young Mark doesn’t know how to feel.

    The presentation goes on without him being introduce. The group of speakers introduce an unknown kid and present him a skeleton key.

    EXT. STREET – NIGHT

    During the rioting, shoot outs with police, looting, over poverty and segregation on an east side neighborhood.

    We see national guard on cots on deck behind the municipal football stadium. The cots are line up. Young Mark walks through.

    GUARDSMAN (OS)

    Hey here comes one that’s going to make it.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Three years older Mark is writing. He writes a few drafts and is over looking his remarkable work. There are three of them. Three foot stacks of drafts and a tattered manuscript.

    We can hear sounds of helicopters hovering over and pass the apartment.

    EXT. STREET – DAY

    We see line of yellow school buses lining up to get segregation started. The black kids to west the white kids to the east. There is a U.K water blasting company water blasting a public library’s structure.

    INT. CHRUCH – MORNING

    We see the interior of a church, church altar, stained glass windows, confession box.

    Young Mark is memorizing The Suscipiat a special Latin prayer of the Roman Catholic rite off a pick card a young nun gave him.

    We hear altar servers in response to the Orate fratres in Latin translated in English is, “May the Lord accept this sacrifice at your hands, to the praise and glory of His name, for our good and the good of His Holy Church.”

    Alter bells ring. The incense lights up in the air.

    The Archbishop leans over gives young Mark a new 50 cent piece sealed in a clear plastic case. Year 1965

    EXT. AMUSEMENT PARK CLOSED – NIGHT

    We see rails of the roller coaster. A public telephone stand. Camera moves to the Ferris wheel where we see young Mark asleep in one of the highest pods.

    People soaring on the ground as if looking for something. Young Mark is awaken by voices hollering his name. He looks down. A man and a nun looks up. The nun points.

    NUN

    There he is.

    They scramble towards the Ferris wheel. The Ferris wheel operator starts rotating the upright wheel. Young Mark gets out of the pod.

    Young Mark blacks out.

    FADE TO BLACK.

    INT. JAIL – MORNING

    Young Mark is waken by a voice coming from outside the cell. He’s laying on top of a blue steel bunk chained to the steel wall of a cell. The shadows of chains linger on the walls.

    He has no remembrance how he got there.

    DEPUTY(OS)

    Come to the door. Now!

    Young Mark, rises his body. His legs dangle over the edge of the steel bed.

    There are six blue steel beds chained to the jail cell walls. Two of them are occupied by inmates one lays down on the far wall and the other to right.

    An inmate in his late twenties is surprised.

    INMATE

    What are you doing here?

    We see young Mark.

    DEPUTY (OS)

    Don’t talk to him.

    The inmate lays back.

    The cell lock is turning. A deputy unlocks the cell door.

    Walks out. He turns to the right as the cell door slams behind.

    He is escorted to a black ford.

    EXT. VARIOUS – DAY

    Down in the back seat we see the lake’s waves as the Ford heads out away from the brick building of the jail.

    A news building and it’s parking lot where cars are lined up to sign in before entering the lot.

    Back in through the neighborhood crossing over a bridge on Abby way a police car pulls in front and cuts off the Ford blocking it from going on.

    A Cleveland police officer in uniform and gun comes over the to the driver’s side of the Ford.

    OFFICER1

    Where you taking him?

    DRIVER

    Home.

    The police officer pulls away giving way for the Ford to drive on.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    We see an array of drafts, a tattered manuscript.

    Mark sits at a typewriter with left elbow on top of table.

    EXT. MODELING SCHOOL – SCHOOL

    At the top of the staircase we see Mark come down the stairs. The glass door opens and a young model girl quickly rushes back in.

    Mark at the door peering inside through the glass. The signature on the glass door says “Barbizon modeling School”.

    EXT. APARTEMNT – DAY

    A nice warm day, there’s a beautiful burette girl nice looking babe waiting. Mark pulls up. He’s gleaming. He is on top.

    She comes around front bushes and hedges and walks into the apartment with him.

    GIRL

    What do you want to do?

    MARK

    What I want to do? All I want to do is write.

    She comes in the kitchen see the table and follows him to his writing desk and typewriter. He as no problems yet.

    She starts necking and kissing on him. She is wearing a tight knitted black mini skirt and white blouse.

    There is noise. Some one in the kitchen wearing a blue robe. Looks like a woman but is not is a dark hair man.

    The figure disappears.

    They move on to the sofa. The girl is really into sex. After they are done. She sits back and lights a cigarette.

    GIRL

    Now what do you want me to do?

    Mark thinking in a way wishing it would come true.

    MARK

    I been to the modeling school. She didn’t want to open the door for me.

    GIRL

    Yeah okay. What did you do? Scared her?

    MARK

    No. You could down to the school and get a brochure. Come back.

    GIRL

    Okay I will.

    MARK

    Are you driving?

    (beat)

    Where is you car?

    He looks out the windows onto the intersection, sees his car.

    She gets up to dress. She looks around the room. She sees drafts and a tattered manuscript. She moves her head back-n-forth. She is impressed.

    EXT. STREET – DAY

    She drives off in a blue convertible thunderbird.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Mark starts to get things together. He untangles keys of the typewriter. We can hear the tapping sounds of a typewriter.

    Two windows let in the little of sun glare. He goes into the next room, opens bath room door, to the mirror, washes up and looks in the mirror.

    MARK (OS)

    I always wash hands and face afterwards.

    Kid use to be, Mark Harper 15, no body does what he is doing. He is bold, smart, talented and a young writer.

    MARK

    EXT. STREET – NIGHT

    We see snow tires seasonal tires snow along the threads of the tire, storefronts, night clubs, black and white girls in the door ways, lots full with cars.

    High-n-Dry

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Mark and Raquel are getting inside the door. Talking about getting together. The apartemnt has a small dim light on. The desk. She holds up at the desk. It’s bare.

    RAQUEL

    Where your work. You have been discovered.

    Mark comes over to the desk.

    MARK

    I have been discovered?

    (beat)

    I don’t know. I finished it. I left it behind, on the desk.

    RAQUEL

    Do you know who could of done it? Taking that collection from you meaning you can’t be without that collection. You need to get it back. Doing nothing will get you nowhere.

    Noise coming from outside. Mark turns on a flashlight. Looks around the apartment. He lifts open a door in the middle of the floor. Nothing. With the flashlight he is searching.

    He sees a light coming from outside the window. There is a stranger in the window. He is wearing a grey long over coat and a grey tip hat and is holding a flashlight up. The camera pans over to the window into the flashlight light we see the stranger outside the window.

    Mark goes to the door.

    EXT. OUTSIDE – NIGHT

    The stranger runs off as Mark tries to reach him at the window.

    A patrol police cruiser slowly is driving by. We see in the passenger seat a patrol officer with glasses and dark hair. Later the patrol officer is shot and killed.

    INT. APARTMENT – NIGHT

    Mark with flashlight lays it on the counter by a tea kettle.

    RAQUEL

    Did you see who it was?

    MARK

    No. I lost everything.

    RAQUEL

    You need to get it back.

    MARK

    What am I going to do?

    She starts to undress. Mark sees her in the mirror. He looks on.

    RAQUEL

    I am staying here tonight.

    She lays on the bed.

    Mark gets up pulls a small mattress from under the bed. He lays on it.

    RAQUEL

    Good night.

    MARK

    Good night.

    They go to sleep.

    Raquel awakens. She slips down behind Mark. She rubs kisses on his shoulders and arms as he lays on his right side.

    Mark lets her go on with it. She props up on the bed. Mark gives her a lift up.

    They get to making love.

    When they are done. Raquel gets up. Mark laying on the bed.

    MARK

    What. You leaving?

    RAQUEL

    Oh no. You were terrific. I am leaving.

    We see her as the camera and lights are on her. She starts to dress. She goes to the door. Puts on a coat and opens the door to the night sky.

    RAQUEL

    Bye.

    Smiling bye.

    INT. UNION STATION – DAY

    We see Mark at a pay phone behind a wooden column. The train station benches. They look like church pews line up and only few people coming and going. A small conveyer belt for luggage screening. Two employees operating it. Blonde woman stands behind a table.

    Mark hangs the pay phone up and leaves.

    EXT. GRAVEL INC. – DAY

    We see the front of the building. There are doors after doors that line the front. Mark drives by slowly looks into door after door to see if he can see anybody.

    INT. DINER – DAY

    There is a white trailer in side is a diner. Looks like a busy place for workers. Mostly excavation workers, wearing flannel shirts and blue jeans sitting along side each other.

    Mark is seen coming up to the entrance.

    MAN

    Hey comes one. See if he can make it. He looks like…

    Everyone inside knows who he is. They start chattering about how bad he is.

    Mark walks in.

    A desk to the left. A man sits behind the desk.

    EXT. APARTMENT – DAY

    We see the street. Mark’s car parked.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    We see an array of drafts, manuscripts in camera lights. In the window’s day light. Mark is at a typewriter. A large black binder is open, face up. He is gathering paper, sorting. Closes binder. In time he turns, looks over and leaves.

    EXT. ROYAL CASTLE LOT – DAY

    In front of the restaurant Mark pulls up. It’s a busy place usually an eatery for off duty police and other street people.

    A younger man from City hall, thirties, tall slim black suit and tie, slick black hair comb back. He gets out of a car in the parking lot, waves at Mark. He remembers him from city hall.

    YOUNGER MAN

    Hey, you could do that. Keep on.

    MARK

    Yeah. Thanks.

    Mark appears at the front door.

    INT. ROYAL CASTLE – DAY

    There is the cake stand where you would pick a slice and pay for it. We see the opening in the wall where the cooks prep the healthy food orders.

    At the dining counter are red cover stools. Most of them are filled by customers. Mark makes his order.

    MARK

    I take four cheeseburgers and fries.

    Mark gives her five dimes.

    WAITRESS

    Okay wait a minute.

    She comes back hands Mark a brown paper bag with the order.

    MARK

    Can I have a styrofoam cup?

    Mark waits for waitress to answer.

    A black man comes from the entrance door with a .44 Magnum. The whole angle is block by Mark as he turns toward the restaurant’s patrons.

    The waitress slaps the cashier door shut.

    Mark sees the cook. He has his hands up over his head. He is wearing an apron and wearing a diamond cap. He turns and runs to the back of the kitchen.

    Mark goes back, looks around, takes his car keys out. As a white off duty cop shoots the black man. He walks out of the restaurant.

    We see a police cruiser, cop is out guns drawn shoots into the restaurant’s front windows. He shoots the white off duty cop, killing him.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    The large black binder is closed. It’s face up. He places the brown paper bag with the cheeseburgers and fries beside the binder. Opens binder.

    The telephone is ringing.

    We see Mark pick up the telephone. He answers.

    MARK

    Hello.

    He listens to see if he can hear a voice. A woman answers.

    The voice is course and can barely hear her.

    CALLER

    Do you have any ideas?

    MARK

    Yeah. “Susie Salmon like the fish”.

    Mark reads from the binder. The first five pages of a manuscript’s draft. We can see covers of a “Journal”, another says “Notes”, and “draft”.

    He waits for the anonymous woman to come to the apartment. The rain starts. He is standing out in the rain. He looks side to side.

    EXT. POLICE BUILDING – DAY

    Mark pulls up.

    INT. BLONDE WOMAN RECEPTIONIST – DAY

    We see receptionist behind her counter. There a door behind her. This door leads into the police room.

    MARK

    Who do I talk to about a going Byer’s football field writing a script am working on.

    POLICE WOMAN

    Go in there. Talk to them.

    She points to the door behind her.

    INT. POLICE ROOM – DAY

    We police people working on typing on large black typewriters. Tapping sounds are heard.

    Mark walks in the room. There one cop he talks to.

    The cop is typing.

    MARK

    I want get to the football game write to a script am working on.

    Commander points to a detective room. There is a detective sitting a in office cube.

    COMANNDER

    Go talk to him.

    DETECTIVE ROOM

    MARK

    I wanna see if I can get in the football game at Brey’s field and….

    The detective raise him self from the chair.

    DETECTIVE

    Hey, fuck you!

    He talking to the comannder sitting at the typewriter.

    DETECTIVE

    Okay what game is that?

    MARK

    Saturday’s game.

    EXT. FOOTBALL FIELD – DAY

    The football field surrounded by fencing, it’s goal posts, it’s running track, and bleachers. A cop opens the gate to let Mark in.

    Mark is holing a clip broad with papers, and pencil.

    He is surrounded by six cops. One cop walks up.

    COP1

    Okay come on.

    He lead Mark under the bleachers to the football players locker room entry door.

    OUTSIDE OF LOCKER ROOM ENTRY DOOR.

    We can see mid field 50 yard line. Mark with clip broad writing. Cop stands beside him.

    INT. APARTMENT – DAY

    Two highly sought out manuscripts drafts and stack of drafts at Mark’s desk.

    EXT. SIDEWALK – NIGHT

    Mark is laying on the sidewalk bleeding in front of his apartment. He had been beaten up by four men.

    A blonde woman walks out of his apartment carrying the manuscripts drafts and stack of drafts. She steps over his bloodied body on the sidewalk to a car double parked on the street.

    We see close up view of Mark as he lays on the sidewalk. From Mark’s P.O.V the driver of the car resembles the Commander from the police building. She hands part of the vast collection through the passenger’s car window. She disappears.

    High-n-Dry

    EXT. GIRL’S APARTMENT – NIGHT

    We see Mark knocking on a white door. We see her sitting on the end of a sofa. There is lamp on in the corner of the small apartment.

    At the door we see Raquel open the door to him. Mark bloodied and distraught.

    They sit at the end of the sofa. He can’t remember anything what happen. She tends to his wounds. She sees he has a gun shot wound to his back left shoulder. He has bruises and a gash to his left elbow. A black eye.

    KITCHEN

    She is getting butter and salt to tend to the black eye.

    RAQUEL

    You been shot.

    Raquel rubs eye with the butter and salt. She gets Mark to lay on a table

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 7, 2021 at 7:37 am in reply to: Day 4 Assignment

    What I learned doing this assignment yes it is something to work with. They’re so many ways to write and finish the assignment. To complete, make sure the producer’s idea is there.

    Genre Thriller

    Title The Rundown/Bulletproof/My (Three titles.)

    Concept A diligent twenty year old highly sought out manuscript is stolen to retrieve it he has to overcome obstacles from gangsters, a dirty cop and the ghetto.

    Audience all ages

    Budget $6,000,000.00

    Lead CharactersJourney Mark Fox and Raquel Morris

    The gangsters, the dirty cop and the ghetto feed the twenty year old and then they ripped him off. The twenty year old journey starts off by his first years as a nine year old. Mark Fox a diligent twenty year old with a highly sought out manuscript is stolen. Mark asks Raquel for her help. Raquel assists Mark in trying to retrieve the stolen manuscript. Mark wants to find out what happen to the manuscript, as the police have been unable to do so and despite the TV station didn’t want to air his story. He searches through the ambiance of the gritty ghetto he has been living in. The only lead is anonymous phone call from a woman supposedly interested in his manuscript. Since then, he will get more of these mysterious telephone calls. The belief is that Mark and Raquel are getting close. Mark and Raquel do whatever they can forcing a psychological dominance over each other especially in refusing to take the lost. He will now work on a level for the creative process and have a romantic living with Raquel.

    Character ArcOpening

    Mark searches. gets back to the apartment when he get a mysterious telephone call asking him to come down to the Nine building and gets a telephone number to call when he gets there.A man offers is $500,000.00 for the highly sought out manuscript. Mark thinks he is getting this money. At the Nine building Mark places the telephone call to number he has. The man answers. The cruel twist is seems the man has changed his mind. Mark listen what the man is saying they are not giving the manuscript back. They are going to do it.

    Mark doesn’t know who he is.

    Ending

    Some one seems to be stalking them. Raquel is getting worried because of Mark’s activities bring on danger at every corner. They bond together even more. Raquel plans to leave and Mark doesn’t want to let her go. Eventually she leaves. Mark starts looking. He works fast. No avail. His efforts lands him to the Nine building, fighting off the dirty cop thats following him. Mark can be killed. Mark finds Raquel at the apartment. The apartment is bare, everything is gone, is empty. Mark picks up a suitcase. Mark and Raquel start to walk to the door to leave when the telephone rings. Raquel answers, It’s the…

    I would do is shorten scenes down. Make them work a little more on the character Raquel. Add on the characters. too.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 6, 2021 at 2:27 am in reply to: Day 3 Assignment

    Mickey Gonzalez Speciality: thriller

    what<font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”> I learned doing this assignment am a fan of this </font>genre. Thriller fast pace writing. Getting any way to select scenes for an online. Practically, can write just about any fight, a girl, CIA, etc.

    1. thriller.

    “Bourne Identity”

    movie,

    Genre: Thriller

    Title: Bourne identity

    How it delivered on the genre conventions: fast pace, danger always around the corner, he doesn’t know who he is, every step is for finding out who he is, Suspense to the passports, to money, to different names alias, to this girl with a little red car, to money with no control what is going to happen next. to. High-n-Dry

    Outline of the movie:

    The movie opens up with sea water no light just a body in the water.

    the body is completely intact except he has been shot twice in back off the shoulder.

    Survives in water so long because of it’s temperture.

    The crew on the fishing boat astounded what had transept here. two gun shots and a tube pin at the hip under the skin. Is a bank account number.

    In Zurich it says. Now we know where the heck he is going.

    The CIA gets in to this movie. speaks multiple languages. He can fight. Learning who he is. Is coming along. He is an expert in martial arts.

    He don’t know his name. Cops come his way and he knocks them around pretty fast.

    Wombosie is on TV. Great now we know there is a assassination attempt. CIA wants to know who did it. Where is Bourne.

    safe deposit box in it passports money guns, and he sees a name. He fills a red bag with money. This is Jason Bourne.

    5 more passports implicate in with different names.

    after this police are on to him in the embassy.

    Mp’s try to get him no avail. martial arts get the down. Jason Bourne.

    On he escaping from the Embassy. He gets to Marie. He offers her 10,00.00 dollars to get her to drive to Paris.

    After Bourne is Conklin orders assassins out on him. Dead.

    He still don’t know who he is.

    BOURNE and MARIE are seen together. They become hunted by Conklin.

    Bourne fitting very apartment he is in with Marie. She stay with him as he fights off assassins.

    On Bourne’s way, Jason is recognized at places by his other alias. They referred to him by other names off safe deposit box passports. Along the way Bourne is sought out by the director, assassins who he continues to fight off and any one in his way, But Wombosi and Conklin get killed by assassins. By their own security flaws.

    At the end BOURNE finds MARIE at a ocean resort bike shop are still at it. leaving trails of mystery and clues.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 5, 2021 at 3:24 am in reply to: Day 3 Assignment

    <font face=”inherit”>Mickey </font>Gonzalez<font face=”inherit”>) Speciality — thriller </font>

    What I learned doing this assignment is an outline can is written to be the idea of a screenplay. Establishing scenes that will work and are entitled for the movie.1. Action, Mystery, Thriller

    2. 1. The Cable Guy (is one), 2. Bourne Identity.

    Genre:thriller

    Title:The cable guy

    How it delivered on the genre conventions:

    in the first ten pages the cable guy is not the ordinary cable guy. There is the possibility he going to do the right thing. Then it becomes the illegal use of cable TV.

    He is not leaving. The still insist on staying causing discomfort with the tenant of the apartment he is in. Doing the sort of things a stranger to the tenant.

    He is turning on the tenant in order to satisfy him self.

    Outline of the movie, highlighting the parts that fulfill the genre:

    The tenant’s apartment, Steven reenters the room he finds the cable guy watching Television. The news. <font face=”inherit”>Cable guy has rearranged all the </font>furniture<font face=”inherit”> </font>impratical<font face=”inherit”> for the only possible thing to do is to watch television. </font>everything<font face=”inherit”> is facing the television.</font>

    <font face=”inherit”>after getting cable going. The cable guy puts is arm around the tenant. They both walk to the door. The cable is done. This where </font>cable<font face=”inherit”> guy is leaving, </font>supposedly be leaving.

    The cable guy at the basket ball game show how muscular he is to Steven. he totaling ripped. between his nerdy face and his awesome physiques is scary.

    the cable guy is over using the answering machine. He keeps calling and leaving messages after messages. Steven getting unnerve about this.

    The cable is out Steven is there with ex girlfriend. He calls the cable guy as soon as he hangs up. There is a knock at the door. He goes to open and it’s the Cale guy. This startled Steven. the fitting pit . Steven can’t fight back as well. The cable guy is trying to kill him.

    <font face=”inherit”>The cable guy at liberty has taken over Steven’s apartment. filled it with electronics as </font>stereo<font face=”inherit”> and Tv screen all </font>stolen<font face=”inherit”> </font>mercies<font face=”inherit”>. and which are </font>stolen<font face=”inherit”> property. </font><font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Steven is arrested for it.</font>

    <font face=”inherit”>this shows the extend the cable guy is being </font>destroying<font face=”inherit”> Steven life. </font><font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Cable Guy is after the ex girlfriend. He is on to a beat up a man she is on a date with. He </font>disguise <font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>him self as a bathroom attendant in the </font>restaurant’s<font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”> bathroom. The blame goes to Steven the tenant. The cable guy Chip </font>Douglas<font face=”inherit” style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”> doesn’t do nothing about it.</font>

    Then from on to the end the cable guy loses and is a lunatic at a place he always goes to a satellite dish. Showing how dangerous he has become with the Steven the tenant and Robin. He shows a killer instinct towards them. He is capable destroying the Steven and Robin and him self

  • mickey Gonzo

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    April 24, 2021 at 4:54 am in reply to: Day 2 Assignment

    Mickey Gonzalez LinkedIn Profile is Amazing!

    What I learned doing this assignment is getting to update any form of communication with today’s producers and film industry. Loglines and tag lines sysposis treatments. This can find out who likes and who doesn’t.

    Yes okay thanks If I could I would.

    – screenwriting

    – endorsements

    – ecommendations

    – producers

    4. getting an idea to work with get my story out there in this kind communication. To let them know about my work..

  • mickey Gonzo

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    April 24, 2021 at 4:39 am in reply to: Day 2 Assignment

    Mickey Gonzalez Credibility is Going Up!

    1. I have been working on the very first things. getting these scripts done. I have already wrote.

    2. working on it. Put together my plan for increasing my credibility.

    3. listen to an opportunity as it comes. see to it and get the meaning of the paid assignments, and getting my own work taking it to a producer as I already understand too. make this time count.

    4. ‘What I learned doing this assignment is takes time to work. there is always the goals to complete. But it is really something to work with. just get it going. My look at it is have a draft and can’t get it right. There is a writer looking for a paid assignment. thinking most of the time screenplays can be done by paid assignments.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    April 21, 2021 at 5:54 am in reply to: Confidentiality Agreement – Writing Assignments 20

    agree. yes okay thanks

  • mickey Gonzo

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    April 21, 2021 at 5:46 am in reply to: Introduce Yourself To The Group

    Hey. Mickey Gonzalez

    1. scripts: am on to writing several drafts, outlines ready to complete.

    2. getting the final draft down, fun. They are drafts of my.

    3. I want to use every word i have ever written. use my personal experience for them. I had been back-n-forth to LA. you wouldn’t believe it if I told you guys.

    4. other thing is getting here finally and to get the paid assignment. lets’ see what happens.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 23, 2021 at 6:33 am in reply to: Day 6 Assignments

    Mickey’s Producer/writer interview

    What I learned doing this genre An Adventure Romance. The writing sample is completive. Making the right business decisions according to the concept. Establishing producer’s notes. Making an agreement on note taking and the concept.

    As a producer interview grant my story to make it interesting with help of a professional writer. Establish a cliff hanger for an ending. yes okay thanks

    My writer interview work with the idea of the producer to extend the greatness of the story outline and logline.

    GENRE Adventure Romance

    IDEAS ON TITLES The Village Fringe. Season 2 Episode 1

    CHECK ON CONCEPT

    Stu and Maggie are deeply in love. Unfortunately, STU is out on a fishing boat when a storm erupts his boat is damaged and sinks. STU dies at sea. There is smuggling and looting to start happening in the village.

    HERO IS royal. There is a dark secret among the pub owners. The hero

    CHARACTER ARC: IE STARTs to EVOLVE at the END I. The women are drunk. They are partying on a party bus. and trying to get everyone home is a task to be because they are not leaving in cooperative way. There is a report of an affair in this love life. The local pub owner Caleb is having an affair. Does Cleo know? Caleb is evil. He is drinking and gambling. The women conspire to kill him off.

    A group of male friends have trusted meetings in barns and other places. They plan to take care of their financial issues by smuggling and looting. As far as they can go to. There is one time to make it big. Are they taking a chance to get on something valuable? Then they ever excepted?

    WHAT IS THE VILLAN’s STORY the evil villain of the owner of the pub. Dysfunctional behavior.

    BUDGET $$$

    TARGET AUDIENCE The concept is based in Brexit.

    WHAT IS THEIR AGE 17 and up. GENDER Male and Female. ARE YOU WANTING WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION. Yes.

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 17, 2021 at 3:44 am in reply to: Day 6 Assignments

    Hi, yup want to do a partner up to give you expanding ideas for your synopsis. is interesting to do a rom com. ASAP ok.?!

    Best

    mickey

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 17, 2021 at 12:01 am in reply to: Day 6 Assignments

    Hey u partner with anyone.. for notes still see what happens k e-mail mickcan4@yahoo.com

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 16, 2021 at 5:34 pm in reply to: Day 8 Assignments

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 16, 2021 at 5:30 pm in reply to: Day 8 Assignments

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 16, 2021 at 5:29 pm in reply to: Day 8 Assignments

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 16, 2021 at 5:28 pm in reply to: Day 8 Assignments

    Hi partner up for a bit. notes…for today e-mail mickcan4@yahoo.com

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 16, 2021 at 5:31 pm in reply to: Day 8 Assignments

    am sorry but it’s it keeps running and adding on to yours overtime

    best

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 16, 2021 at 5:28 pm in reply to: Day 8 Assignments

    Hi partner up for a bit. notes…for today e-mail mickcan4@yahoo.com

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 11, 2021 at 12:12 am in reply to: Day 5 Assignments

    HI Phil, thanks so much so for the feedback.

    On the 14pager.

    best

    Mickey

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 10, 2021 at 7:43 pm in reply to: Day 6 Assignments

    Hi that’s good I like that.

    best

  • mickey Gonzo

    Member
    May 10, 2021 at 4:25 am in reply to: Day 5: Partner Up for Writing Sample Feedback

    Hi Phil sure any feedback be appreciated. yes okay thanks.

    best

    Mickey

  • mickey Gonzo

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    May 9, 2021 at 1:51 am in reply to: Day 5: Partner Up for Writing Sample Feedback

    hey just a feedback thats okay. I have it on in a few hours. few notes and on.

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