[Moses Quainoo]

1. Name = Moses Quainoo

2. How many scripts you’ve written = EcoHAVEN TV Show

3. What do you hope to get out of the class = To make EcoHAVEN the best script.

4. Something unique, special, strange, or unusual about you = I could ‘Outline with Intrigue’ every movie I watched from the age of six. I believe I have lost that touch.

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I agree to the terms of the Group 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 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 before 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.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 4 – LESSON 9: DIALOGUE 3 – 5
Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT
1. Go through your dialogue and find at least two opportunities to use each of these three dialogue skills.
• A. Setup / Payoff
• B. Anticipatory Dialogue
• C. Ironic Dialogue
2. Tell us how that improved the dialogue and give us an example of the Before and After on each line.
3. Post your assignment in the forums.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 4 – LESSON 10: DIALOGUE 7 – 8
Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT
1. Go through your dialogue and find at least three opportunities to use each of these two dialogue skills.
• Dialogue Skill 7: Dialogue As Action
• Dialogue Skill 8: Subtext
2. Tell us how that improved the dialogue and give us an example of the Before and After on each line.
3. Post your assignment in the forums

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BWTV-AI MODULE 4 – LESSON 7: PROBLEM/SOLUTION GRID 2

Moses Quainoo Completed P/S Grid #2

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT
Use the BW TV P/S Grid #2 to solve any problems you can for this draft.
1. Go to the BW TV P/S Grid #2 at this link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bingeworthytv/BW+PS+Grid+2+Final.pdf
2. Select one thing you are going to improve right now.
3. Using the “Possible Solutions,” brainstorm how you might solve or improve it.
4. Rewrite that part.
5. Repeat steps 1 – 4 as you improve other parts of the pilot.
6. Tell us the problems you solved and/or the scenes you improved, and which solution you used.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 4 – LESSON 6: PROBLEM/SOLUTION GRID 1

Moses Quainoo Completed P/S Grid #1

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT
Use the BW TV P/S Grid to solve any problems you can for this draft.
1. Go to the BW TV P/S Grid at this link: https://s3.amazonaws.com/bingeworthytv/BW+PS+Grid+1+Final.pdf
2. Select one thing you are going to improve right now.
3. Using the “Possible Solutions,” brainstorm how you might solve or improve it.
4. Rewrite that part.
5. Repeat steps 2 – 5 as you improve other parts of the pilot.
6. Tell us the problems you solved and/or the scenes you improved, and which solution you used.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 4 – LESSON 5: WRITE ACT 4 + 5

Moses Quainoo Has Finished Act 4 + 5

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:
Write Act 4 + 5 in the next two days!
1. Continue to write scene after scene until you have Act 4 + 5 complete.
2. Do a quick edit, but don’t spend time trying to make the words perfect. We’ll do that in the final draft.
3. Tell us any insights you had using the High-Speed Writing Rules or writing these final Acts.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 4 – LESSON 4: WRITE ACT 3 FIRST DRAFT!

Moses Quainoo Finished Act 3

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:
Write Act 3 in the next two days!
1. Do another quick rating of your use so far on each of the High-Speed Writing Rules so we can see the improvement.
A. Consistently use.
B. Some use.
C. Need to start using.

Rule 1: A
Rule 2: A
Rule 3: A
Rule 4: A
Rule 5: A
Rule 6: A
2. Continue to write scene after scene until you have Act 3 complete.
3. Do a quick edit, but don’t spend time trying to make the words perfect. We’ll do that in the final draft.
4. Tell us any insights you had using the High-Speed Writing Rules or writing Act 3.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 4 – LESSON 3: WRITE THE FIRST DRAFT OF ACT 2!

Moses Quainoo

ASSIGNMENT:
Write Act 2 in the next two days!
1. Rate your use so far on each of the High-Speed Writing Rules:
A. Consistently use.
B. Some use.
C. Need to start using.
Rule 1: A
Rule 2: A
Rule 3: A
Rule 4: A
Rule 5: A
Rule 6: A
2. Continue to write scene after scene until you have Act 2 complete.
3. Do a quick edit, but don’t spend time trying to make the words perfect. We’ll do that in the final draft.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 4 – LESSON 2: WRITE ACT 1

Moses Quainoo

ASSIGNMENT:

Write Act 1 in the next two days!
1. With each scene in your Outline, transfer it to your writing program and write the scene.
2. Continue to do scene after scene until you have Act 1 complete.
3. Do a quick edit, but don’t spend time trying to make the words perfect. We’ll do that in the final draft.
4. We’re not posting the FIRST DRAFTS of any of the Acts. But please tell us how you used the High-Speed Writing Rules and any insights you had about writing a first draft.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 4 – LESSON 1: TEASER AND HIGH-SPEED WRITING
Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

I have been working on my Outline with Intrigue day and night since my last assignment. Now I know and understand better how the story flows in the Pilot. I have the Final Draft and Movie Magic softwares for over 2 decades. I followed the High-Speed Writing Rules model as I wrote my First draft.
My Teaser is taken from ACT 4 of the Pilot.

ASSIGNMENT:
1. Use the High-Speed Writing Rules model as you write the first draft.
2. Write your TEASER. Do the first draft of it as fast as possible, focusing on the High-Speed Writing Rules.
3. Tell us your experience of using the High-Speed Writing Rules as you wrote your Teaser.
4. Post your assignment in the forums.

TV Show title: EcoHAVEN

SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: FEATHERS against STONE
TEASER
EXT. SKY ABOVE RIVER THAMES – SUNRISE. MAIN INTRIGUE – IMMINENT THREAT.

SKYY LAR glides across the River Thames. Wings spread wide, basking in the golden glow of the sunrise. It feels the warmth on its feathers. The iconic London Eye stands in the background, illuminated by the morning light.

SKYY LAR
(thinking)
Nothing like the morning sun… pure, free, endless. The city is so grand yet so fragile. With every beat of my wings, I feel its heartbeat.

A two-year-old feral pigeon. Orange eyes. Purple blue with shiny green neck.

SKYY LAR’s unique Prosthetic leg glints in the morning light, a symbol of injury and resilience.

Suddenly, a sharp silhouette slices through the air above.

SKYY LAR
(thinking)
What’s that?

A PEREGRINE FALCON, sleek and menacing, equipped with a barely visible technological device, dives towards SKYY LAR.

SKYY LAR
Cause trouble, from a natural predator, no doubt.

The device glints under the early morning sun.

SKYY LAR
But that device…

The FALCON, a precision-engineered assassin sent by the BEAUTY INDUSTRY, locks its sights on SKYY LAR. Its mission: to eliminate the rebellious leader threatening their operations. SKYY LAR senses the impending danger and braces for a confrontation.

SKYY LAR
Thought we were allied, fighting on the same side? No! You? An Assassin? Sent by the very Industry we fight against… they fear us. They fear change. Well, they will get a fight.

A breathtaking chase unfolds. SKYY LAR dodges and weaves through the complex cityscape, the Falcon in relentless pursuit. Their shadows dart over the glistening waters of the Thames. Westminster Bridge underpass. Reverse. Brushing past the spinning London Eye, weaves through the narrow alleys, avoiding people, obstacles, and towering skyscrapers of the city.

SKYY LAR
(thinking. mid-chase.)
Faster…gotta outsmart you. Down on The Thames. The Westminster Bridge underpass. Circle the riverboats. Fast. The London Eye… stay sharp… focused, stay alive.
Dodges through narrow passages. Feeling the wind rush past. Hears the prosthetic screech across a glass building surface during evasive technique.

SKYY LAR
EMMA, wherever you are… stay safe. This ends now.

In a desperate bid for survival, SKYY LAR performs a daring maneuver. With precise timing, SKYY LAR swings its body, striking the FALCON's eye with the robust prosthetic leg.

SKYY LAR
Gotcha. A little taste of resilience.

Temporarily blinded and disoriented, the FALCON screeches in pain and confusion, blindly pursuing SKYY LAR across the busy streets. EMMA, witnessing the aerial battle from the ground, gasps as the FALCON, unable to see the oncoming car, collides with it. The FALCON crumples on the street, dazed but alive. SKYY LAR watches from above.

SKYY LAR
One battle down. Many more to come. For EMMA, EcoHAVEN, for FEATHERS against STONE, for us all.

SKYY LAR escapes into the safety of London’s skyline. Determined. Unyielding.

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BWTV-AI MOD 3 – LESSON 12: OUTLINE WITH INTRIGUE
Moses Quainoo

ASSIGNMENT
Complete your Outline.

Done. Too large to post here.

1. With each scene, determine the MAIN INTRIGUE that you will emphasize in that scene.
• Intriguing World:
• Mystery:
• Secret:
• Deception:
• Conspiracy:
• Secret Identity:
• Wound:
• Hidden Agenda:
• Hidden Layer:
• Strange Behavior:
• Imminent Threat:
• Suspicion:
2. Put the main intrigue of your scene in the Slugline. Then, give us the open loops, mystery, empathy/distress, payoff, irony, and setups that will show up in this scene.
INT. LOCATION – DAY: MAIN INTRIGUE
Description:
• Open Loop:
• Mystery:
• Empathy/Distress:
• Payoff:
• Irony:
• Setup:

OUTLINE WITH iNTRIGUE

Outline TITLE: Feathers Against Stone

Teaser
*****SKYY LAR gracefully soars above the River Thames, its wings spread wide, reveling in the flight of freedom. A beautiful sunrise casts a golden glow over the London Eye backdrop.
As SKYY LAR swoops and glides, we see one leg fitted with a prosthetic. Whatever happened to the pigeon's leg?
A sharp silhouette suddenly slicing through the air above shatters the calm. A sleek and menacing Peregrine Falcon, equipped with a barely visible technological device, dives towards SKYY LAR. The device glints under the early morning sun and hints at the dire intent.
Ambush! SKYY LAR does not expect this.
The Falcon, a precision-engineered assassin sent by the covert operatives of the Beauty Industry, locks its sight on SKYY LAR. Its mission is to eliminate the Rebellion leader who threatens their operations.
SKYY LAR senses the approaching danger and braces for the confrontation.
A breathtaking chase unfolds. SKYY LAR dodges bridges and boats on the Thames, their shadows darting over the glistening waters with the Flacon in hot pursuit. It brushes past the spinning London Eye, weaves through the narrowing alleys and towering skyscrapers, and makes close calls around architectural landmarks of London.
In a desperate bid for survival, SKYY LAR performs a daring maneuver. With precision timing, SKYY LAR swings its body and strikes the Falcon's eye with the robust prosthetic leg.
Temporarily blinded and disoriented, the Flacon screeches in pain and confusion. It unthinkingly pursues SKYY LAR across the busy streets, unaware of an approaching danger.
EMMA witnesses the epic battle from the ground and gasps as a car strikes the Falcon, which cannot see it approaching. The Falcon lies unconscious on the pavement while SKYY LAR escapes into the safety of the London skyline.

ACT 1
SCENE 1
EXT- H. J. ARIS WINE MERCHANT SKYSCRAPER ROOFTOP- DAY (MAIN INTRIGUE – SECRET IDENTITY)
London’s heart and cityscape. Bustling streets.
(SET UP) SKYY LAR and a group of young pigeons perched on the edge of a tall building, ready for a flying lesson.
OPEN LOOP: (Who is SKYY LAR, and why is he teaching young pigeons?)
The young birds’ hearts pound as they shuffle nervously on the ledge and gaze down at the city below, their home and playground.
OPEN LOOP: (Will the young pigeons fully overcome their fears?)
When the pigeons take off, a chaotic whirlwind of wind surrounds them, forming a labyrinth of air currents that twist and turn through the tall city buildings.
As they engage in this chaotic aerial dance, their wings flap, sometimes out of synchrony, as they strive to maintain control.
EMPATHY/DISTRESS: (The young pigeons are fearful, uncoordinated, and struggle with the city’s elemental and architectural challenges.)
The inexperienced birds, filled with anxiety, navigate through a maze of antennae, flags, and moving cranes, making the lessons difficult and dangerous. One young pigeon, its wings barely avoiding a fluttering banner, flies erratically, and its inexperience and struggle are evident.
IRONY: (While flying symbolizes freedom, the young pigeon needs control and precision to navigate confined spaces safely.) A young pigeon nearly collides with a fluttering banner, its fluster evident in its erratic flight path.
OPEN LOOP: (Although they master the wind, will the young pigeons become fully independent?)
Squadron leader SKYY LAR shows precise gliding techniques in challenging gusts. The Squaddie's wings move and adjust in the wind, efficiently using its power, a testament to its unwavering patience and dedication.
SKYY LAR, the caring mentor, returns to help a struggling pigeon, gently nudging and filling it with reassurance and hope.
MYSTERY: (How does SKYY LAR possess such refined flying skills and knowledge about navigating urban wind currents?)
Under SKYY LAR's guidance, the young pigeons rapidly transform into skilled fliers with each passing moment. The remarkable progress testifies to their determination, the mentor’s effective teaching, and a source of pride for the pigeons.
Tightening their formations, the young pigeons synchronize their movements with the wind currents. Moving in perfect harmony, they twist around a tall spire.
PAYOFFS: (The young pigeons triumphantly master the winds.) SKYY LAR, silently proud, watches over them.
SET UPS: (Small hints at SKYY LAR’S proficiency and mysterious past can be set up for future revelations about his identity and history.) The lesson concludes as the pigeons gracefully return to the same rooftop, their newfound skills making them confident fliers. Adapting to the urban environment is a testament to their resilience and the hope it brings for the coexistence of nature and urban life.
SET UPS: (The successful flight set up future episodes where this skill could be crucial – perhaps in rescue operations or significant plot twists involving aerial maneuvers.)
The setting sun casts long shadows over the city, showing their growing competence and resilience.

SCENE 2
EXT. URBAN PARK- DAY. (MAIN INTRIGUE- HIDDEN LAYER)
They fly low over the vibrant green of Clapton Common Park, which bustles with life. SKYY LAR and the young pigeons gather in a feeding area filled with crumbs and debris.
MYSTERY: (Why is the area so littered? What are the origins of these litters? Beneath layer: Human activities lead to the park condition. )
OPEN LOOP: (Will the young pigeons remember today’s lesson?) The pigeons cautiously peck at a mixture of crumbs and shiny objects in the grass. SKYY LAR watches as their heads bob uncertainly. One of them pecks at a small piece of plastic, causing concern.
EMPATHY/DISTRESS: (The young pigeons are naïve and distressed over their near misses with harmful objects. )
SKYY LAR swiftly intervenes as a young pigeon tries to snatch a foil wrapper, gently pecking it away.
IRONY: (The young pigeons’ instinctive behavior to forage can lead them to danger.)
The young bird flutters back, surprised and confused about receiving the correction.
SKYY LAR picks up a breadcrumb, shows it to the group its safety, and eats it. Then, it grabs a plastic item, inspects it, and repeatedly lets it go. SKYY LAR intentionally moves to emphasize the difference between the items.
The young pigeons imitate SKYY LAR and organize the litter with greater confidence. Pigeons imitate SKYY LAR’s method of distinguishing food from non-food items and feel accomplished when they peck at the safe parts.
PAYOFFS: (The young pigeons successfully distinguish between safe and harmful items.) They emulate SKYY LAR’s technique, dropping non-food items and selecting only food.
OPEN LOOP: (Are there other dangers they haven’t encountered? The question is a setup for a new scene where the pigeons might face new, unexpected challenges.)
SET UP: (The scene sets up the potential for episodes where these lessons become crucial, such as during scarcity of food or in differently dangerous settings. )
SKYY LAR observes as the pigeons learn essential skills for urban survival.
SET UP: (Individual young pigeons can be developed based on how they deal with this learning curve. Some fledglings might learn faster while others may struggle.)

SCENE 3:
EXT. CITY STREET ROOFTOP – DAY ( MAIN INTRIGUE – IMMINENT THREAT)
SKYY LAR and a line of young pigeons peer curiously from the rooftops of a chaotic city street.
OPEN LOOP: (Will the young pigeons face more severe threats in the future?)
The street is alive with activity: bustling people, Police cars and Ambulance sirens, non-honking red buses, and the city sounds drift up to the nervous pigeons. An anxious pigeon fluffs its feathers, watching the passing cars with wide eyes.
EMPATHY/DISTRESS: (Fear and Anxiety: The young pigeons' visible nervousness and the risky situation they find themselves in create empathy in the audience, who may relate these emotions to their own experiences or fears of venturing into new, intimidating environments.)
Out of nowhere, a daring pigeon vigorously flaps its wings and takes flight. It heads directly towards an open space, rapidly closing in as a delivery scooter speeds ahead. SKYY LAR has an immediate reaction. With powerful wing beats, it dives after the fledgling.
MYSTERY: (The constant introduction of new, unforeseen dangers (like the scooter) keeps the audience on edge, wondering what other challenges the city might throw at the pigeons.)
SKYY LAR nuzzles the young pigeon away from the scooter’s path, saving it.
IRONY: (Flight as Both Freedom and Danger: Typically, flight represents freedom, but in this urban context, it also presents significant dangers, an irony that adds depth to the narrative and underscores the complexities of urban wildlife)
Unaware of the unfolding aerial drama, pedestrians below weave and dodge.
OPEN LOOP: (How will the experiences shape the young pigeons’ ability to survive independently in the city?)
SKYY LAR shows the art of timing and spotting gaps in the traffic to the young pigeons watching from above. Gradually, they synchronize their flights with the gaps between people and vehicles, mimicking their movements.
PAYOFFS: (Mastery of Urban Navigation: The pigeons learning to time their flights and maneuver through the bustling street provide a clear payoff to the scene, showcasing their growth and SKYY LAR’s effective mentorship.)
The pigeons confidently fly, effortlessly maneuvering through the cityscape with their newfound expertise. SKYY LAR returns to the rooftop, watching with pride as the young pigeons navigate the street with growing skill
SET UPS: (Future Episodes’ Challenges) This scene sets up potential future scenarios in which the pigeons might utilize their newly learned skills in critical situations, such as escaping predators or navigating to new territories.
Character Development: Showcases the individual traits of the pigeons, particularly the bold ones, setting up possible character-focused storylines about overcoming recklessness or developing leadership.)

SCENE 4:
EXT. CITY PARK – NIGHT (MAIN INTRIGUE -SUSPICION)
The moonlight filters through the leaves with a silver glow, casting ghostly shadows on the ground. SKYY LAR, perched on a sturdy branch, gathers the fledglings around, their faces touched by moonlight and apprehension.
The park appears quiet. Occasionally, there are rustling leaves and distant city sounds. The young pigeons anxiously shift about, straining their senses to perceive any movement in the darkness.
SETUP: (Preparation for Future Threats: This scene sets up the young pigeons for future challenges, suggesting they will be better equipped to handle similar or even more dangerous situations.)
The tension thickens in the atmosphere as a rustle in the underbrush approaches. A panicked pigeon flaps its wings desperately, prepared to flee aimlessly.
EMPATHY/DISTRESS: (Fear of the Unknown: The pigeons’ jitteriness and the nervous young pigeons’ reaction evoke sympathy from the audience, who can relate to the fear of unseen dangers, enhancing the suspense and emotional connection to the scene)
SKYY LAR exudes a calm and authoritative presence. They gently coo and capture attention by expertly positioning their bodies towards the sound, using the light to their benefit.
MYSTERY: (What other dangers lurk in the night? While this scene features a cat as a threat, the presence of other potential predators in the darkness adds a layer of ongoing mystery) SKYY LAR's quick reflexes allow them to swiftly climb to a safer branch, guided by the moonlight reflecting in a cat's eyes.
PAYOFFS: (Mastery of Night-Time Survival: The scene provides a significant payoff as the pigeons successfully use the skills taught by SKYY LAR to evade a predator, showcasing their growth and the effectiveness of their mentor’s guidance.)
IRONY: (Safety in Darkness: Ironically, the same darkness that conceals threats also covers the pigeons, illustrating how the night can be both a shield and a danger.)
SETUP: (Development of Leadership and Trust: Showcases SKYY LAR’s role as a teacher and protector, fostering trust and reliance among the fledglings, which could be crucial in upcoming episodes.)
OPEN LOOP: (1. Will the pigeons encounter more dangerous nocturnal predators? This loop keeps the audience anticipating future night-time scenes and the challenges they might bring.
2. How will these survival lessons impact the pigeons in different environments? This question encourages viewers to consider how the skills learned in this scene might be applied in future scenarios or other settings.)
The pigeons observe the cat from above, prowling and thwarted, and see it as harmless. The group finds comfort in SKYY LAR’s unwavering gaze, observing the park with knowledgeable vigilance.

SCENE 5:
EXT. URBAN PARK – DAY (MAIN INTRIGUE – HIDDEN LAYER)
As the sun rises over the same city park, SKYY LAR picks discarded items from a pile while curious young pigeons gather around. The group watches as he collects pieces of shattered umbrellas, plastics, newspaper scraps, bits of fabric, and plastic straws. The pigeons eye the unusual substance intently.
EMPATHY/DISTRESS: (Frustration and Urgency: The young pigeons’ initial frustration with unfamiliar materials and the added urgency from the sudden rain shower create a relatable challenge, invoking the audience’s empathy as they root for the pigeons to succeed against the odds.) Accustomed to searching for twigs and leaves, they find the synthetic materials unfamiliar and perplexing.
MYSTERY: (Effectiveness of the Materials: The effectiveness of unconventional materials like plastic straws and newspapers in shelter building poses a subtle mystery about their other potential uses and benefits, encouraging viewers to think about recycling and resourcefulness)
A few pigeons struggle with SKYY LAR’s actions, fumbling with the plastic and newspaper. They grow increasingly frustrated and want to give up.
Dark clouds appear out of nowhere, followed by the first raindrops, pushing them to learn the skill quickly.
SETUPS: (Future Resourcefulness: This scene prepares the young pigeons for future scenarios where they might need to improvise with available materials, suggesting more complex challenges and creative solutions.
Growth and Independence: Demonstrating SKYY LAR's teachings helps prepare the pigeons for future independence, setting the stage for their eventual need to survive without his direct guidance.)
SKYY LAR skillfully combines the materials, showing their ability to enhance strength and waterproofness. The young pigeons gradually learn to help each other position their shelters under the park’s few bushes. As the rain intensifies, it drums against the sturdy shelters. The pigeons stay warm and dry inside, looking in amazement at what they have just done.
IRONY: (Urban Waste as a Resource: It’s ironic that the discarded items, typically seen as nuisances or pollutants in the city, become valuable resources for the pigeons, shifting perceptions about waste and resourcefulness.)
Gradually, the young pigeons start to catch on, helping each other position their shelters under the park’s sparse bushes.
PAYOFFS: (Successful Shelter Building: The successful construction of the shelters provides a significant payoff, illustrating the pigeons’ ability to adapt and learn from their mentor, reinforcing themes of resilience and innovation.)
The scene concludes as the heavy rain sets in, drumming against the surprisingly resilient shelters. Inside, the pigeons remain dry and warm, peeking out with amazement at their handiwork.
OPEN LOOP: ( How will these shelters adapt to different weather conditions? This question keeps the audience wondering about the long-term viability of the shelters.
What other urban materials can be used for shelter building? This loop opens possibilities for future inventive uses of urban waste, promoting creativity and environmental awareness)
SKYY LAR perches atop one completed shelter and looks out over the young pigeons huddled comfortably beneath their new creations. The proud mentor safeguards his pupils' achievements. He is ready to face any challenges the city may bring and has a reassuring presence for the young pigeons

150 more scenes completed

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BWTV-AI MOD 3 – LESSON 11: OUTLINE REQUIREMENTS

Moses Quainoo

ASSIGNMENT

1. PASS 1: For each scene in your Beat Sheet, answer the following questions to create your scene requirements:

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BWTV-AI MOD 3 – LESSON 10: CREATE A BEAT SHEET

Moses Quainoo

ASSIGNMENT

1. Tell us your Show Concept and Inciting Incident.

Show Concept = SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Inciting Incident = SKYY LAR commits, forms, and leads a birds’ coalition and collaborates with EMMA to broaden the group to a birds-human alliance against ecological destruction focusing on the Beauty Industry.

2. List your A, B, and C Stories.

A Story = High Concept

SKYY LAR is a Squaddie who mentors young pigeons on survival and thrives in the urban environment. SKYY LAR gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste, loses the left leg, and gets fitted with prosthetics, thanks to a young girl called EMMA. SKYY LAR collaborates with her to broaden the group to the bird-human alliance against ecological harm, focusing on the Beauty Industry.

B Story: Colleagues and Competitors

RAPHAEL, the English Trumpeter Pigeon, is indifferent. He becomes intrigued by SKYY LAR’s cause and remains unsure about his loyalties. He has hidden agendas and connections to the Beauty Industry. When SKYY LAR returns home after a long absence, RAPHAEL tells SKYY LAR it rented out the roost. Moments later, a female pigeon emerges and flies off. It turns out she is Raphael’s lover, and she does not pay rent.

SKYY LAR forms the coalition, and RAPHAEL grows interested and joins. SKYY LAR designates RAPHAEL as a core member. When SKYY LAR and the allies plan a bold action against the Beauty Industry, RAPHAEL realizes the risks and consequences of fully committed to their cause, including jeopodising his own interests and safety.

In the communal area within EcoHaven, RAPHAEL goes to a secluded area, speaking in hush tones on a communications device. As EMMA approaches, RAPHAEL quickly ends the call and hides the device, feigning innocence. EMMA notices RAPHAEL’s behavior but does not immediately question RAPHAEL. RAPHAEL is approached by factions with conflicting interests who seek to exploit his hesitation for their own gain, further complicating his decision-making process. RAPHAEL is coerced into greater involvement through blackmail forcing him to make hard choices to protect himself or his interests.

C Story: Other Relationships

EMMA makes a personal journey and her relationship with her family, who are connected to the beauty industry.

3. Present your current Beat Sheet with no dialogue.

TEASER (Echoes of ACT 4) Scene Breakdown:

160. EXT–THE LONDON EYE – DAY

Description:

SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight above the Thames towards the London Eye.

161. EXT– PROSTHETIC LEG – DAY

Description:

SKYY LAR soars. A unique prosthetic leg shows.

162. EXT– FALCON’S BODY – DAY

Description:

A Peregrine Falcon. Equipped with advanced technology. Dives towards SKYY LAR.

163. EXT– CITY OF LONDON – DAY

Description:

An intense and dynamic battle unfolds in the sky. Both birds are determined. There are strategic maneuvers and close calls. SKYY LAR’s resilience shines through despite the odds, earning the admiration of all who witness the struggle.

164. EXT– LIVERPOOL STREET–DAY

Description:

SKYY LAR drives the prosthetic into the Falcon’s eye amid the chaos.

165. EXT – LONDON CITYSCAPE – DAY

Description: The battle rages. The birds weave through the city’s landscape.

166. EXT – EMMA’s Perspective – DAY

Description:

From the ground, EMMA watches the aerial duel unfold.

167. EXT – LONDON BUSTLING STREET – DAY

Act 1:

1. A. JARIS WINE MERCHANT Rooftop – Ashwin Street–Day

Description:

SKYY LAR guides young pigeons (Aged between four weeks and one-year-old) in flight formation, swooping and soaring above the cityscape, teaching the squabs how to harness the wind currents for efficient flying.

2. Ext. NEWINGTON GREEN – Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR shows foraging techniques to the young pigeons pecking at the ground. SKYY LAR lifts a piece of food and drops it four times to differentiate between edible and harmful items.

3. Ext. STOKE NEWINGTON – HIGH Street–Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR leads a group of pigeons in a coordinated effort to avoid pedestrians and vehicles, instilling in them the skills of urban navigation and hazard avoidance.

4. Ext. Rooftop–Night.

Description:

Under the moonlight, SKYY LAR teaches the young pigeons the importance of night-time vigilance, showing them how to stay alert and safe from nocturnal predators.

5. Ext. CAR STATION CENTER-Abandoned Building–Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR conducts a lesson on building makeshift shelters from scraps, demonstrating how to create a temporary roost in environments lacking traditional nesting sites.

6. Ext. Water Fountain–Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR shows young pigeons how to drink safely in urban environments, illustrating techniques to avoid polluted water sources and bathing techniques in a puddle.

7. Ext. HACKNEY Townhall–Dusk.

Description:

SKYY LAR leads a stealth exercise in the fading light, teaching the young pigeons to blend into the cityscape and become nearly invisible to passersby.

8. Ext. Bridge Underpass–Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR shows acrobatic flying skills under the bridge, teaching the young pigeons how to maneuver in tight spaces and use ledgers, shop canopies, and urban structures to their advantage.

9. Ext. Alleyway–Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR engages the pigeons in a scavenger hunt, honing their ability to find food in the most unlikely places and fostering their resourcefulness and adaptability.

10. Ext. City Park–Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR orchestrates a mock evasion drill, simulates a predator attack, and teaches the young pigeons evasive maneuvers and the importance of group cohesion in times of danger.

11. EXT–RIDEY ROAD MARKET OPEN MAIN ENTRANCE–DAY

Description:

SKYY LAR leads the flock as they cautiously enter the bustling market, skillfully dodging feet and shopping carts and searching for scattered grains and crumbs.

12. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Day.

Description:

Amidst the chaos of vendors and shoppers, SKYY LAR shows how to peck at food spills without attracting attention, teaching the flock stealth and timing.

13. Ext. CHICKEN AND CHIPS SHOP–Ridley Road Market–Day.

Description:

The flock descends to a Chicken and Chips shop, nibbling on bits of dropped produce. SKYY LAR cautions the food may not be healthy. SKYY LAR keeps a vigilant watch for any approaching threats while the young pigeons feed.

14. Ext. Butcher’s Section–Ridley Road Market–Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR guides the flock away from the dangerous butcher’s section, signaling the risks with cautious body language to ensure their safety.

15. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Twilight.

Description:

SKYY LAR leads a quiet foraging mission as the market winds down, taking advantage of the reduced human presence to explore more openly.

16. Ext. Fishmonger’s Stall–Ridley Road Market–Day.

Description:

The flock observes from a distance as SKYY LAR inspects the area around the fishmonger’s stall, assessing if it’s safe to approach for scraps.

17. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Early Morning.

Description: In the quiet of early morning, before the crowds arrive, SKYY LAR teaches the young pigeons how to find the freshest discarded food, emphasizing the importance of early starts.

18. Dalston Curve Garden–Dalston Lane–Day

Description:

The pigeons peck around a relaxation spot, and SKYY LAR shows them how to pick bits of green, highlighting nutritious choices.

19. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Night.

Description:

SKYY LAR leads the flock into a covert operation, using the shadows to scavenge remains unseen, emphasizing the art of nocturnal foraging.

20. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Day.

Description:

A sudden disturbance scatters the flock; SKYY LAR quickly rounds up the pigeons, demonstrating crisis management and protective instincts in the urban jungle.

21. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Day.

Description: SKYY LAR lands near a hairdressing salon, intrigued by the shiny textures of synthetic hair strands scattered around, unaware of the impending danger.

22. Ext. Hair Salon Alley–Ridley Road Market–Day

Description:

SKYY LAR’s feet become entangled in a mess of discarded synthetic hair extensions, the strands wrapping around its legs as it pecks around.

23. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR struggles to free itself, flapping its wings frantically and causing the synthetic waste to tighten around its legs, restricting movement further.

24. Ext. Market Ground–Ridley Road Market–Day

Description:

As the market buzzes with activity, passersby, engrossed in their shopping, ignore the pigeon’s plight. SKYY LAR’s efforts to escape become increasingly desperate.

25. Ext. Near Waste Bin–Ridley Road Market–Dusk

Description:

The market day ends—the crowd thins. SKYY LAR remains trapped and exhausted. It tries to peck at the entangling material without success. SKYY LAR flies off.

26. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Night.

Description:

Perch on the dim streetlights, SKYY LAR’s silhouette shows a lonely and vulnerable figure, struggling intermittently as the market lies deserted.

27. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Early Morning.

Description:

Dawn breaks, and SKYY LAR, now weakened and still trapped, shows signs of resignation. Flies off to look for food.

28. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Day.

Description:

A street cleaner approaches, nearly sweeping SKYY LAR into the rubbish, but the pigeon’s feeble flutters catch the attention of a compassionate onlooker.

29. Ext. Ridley Road Market–Day.

Description:

The onlooker approaches cautiously, attempting to assess and help SKYY LAR, but the pigeon, panicked and mistrusting, tries to escape, hindered by the synthetic trap.

30. Ext. Ridley Road Market – Day.

Description:

Realizing the severity of the situation, the onlooker fetches a pair of scissors from a nearby stall. Carefully cutting through the synthetic strands, the onlooker liberates SKYY LAR, who, although free, is visibly weakened.

31. EXT – KINGSLAND SHOPPING MALL- WALKWAY TO THE LOWER GROUND WALKWAY- DAY

Description:

EMMA, a young girl, arrives on the scene on her three-wheel scooter. She is ahead of her mother, who is far behind at the Ground Car Park, pushing a pushchair with EMMA’s baby brother strapped in it. EMMA’s attention goes to a small crowd gathered around a busker playing the saxophone at the U-turn walkway, entertaining the public.

EMMA and her family enter the shopping mall from the main back entrance and use the Lower Ground Kingsland Shopping Mall Car Park walkway to get to the ground level.

32. Ext. Walkway U-turn – Kingsland Shopping Mall – Day.

Description:

As the crowd disperses, EMMA notices SKYY LAR, not as a performer like a busker but as a struggling creature entangled in waste, contrasting with the lively mall atmosphere. SKYY LAR is in distress, tied up, and unable to move in the corridor. It is challenging to handle the situation and change.

33. Ext. U-turn Brick Bend – Kingsland Shopping Mall – Day.

Description:

Curious and concerned, EMMA approaches SKYY LAR, observing its futile attempts to free itself from the synthetic bindings. SKYY LAR mistrusts humans, and when EMMA approaches, it flies and lands a short distance away/bursts.

34. Ext. Walkway – Kingsland Shopping Mall – Day.

Description:

EMMA’s actions draw her mother’s attention. She gathers grain hidden beneath the pushchair and reaches for SKYY LAR. Determined, she kneels beside SKYY LAR, speaking to it softly, trying to calm the frightened bird.

Slowly, SKYY LAR pecks the grains. EMMA catches SKYY LAR, and her mother retrieves a pair of scissors from a kit for EMMA to de-string SKYY LAR.

35. Ext. U-turn Area – Kingsland Shopping Mall – Day.

Description:

EMMA examines SKYY LAR’s stringings, assessing how to help without causing further harm, showing her compassionate and thoughtful nature.

36. Ext. Walkway Near Busker Spot—Kingsland Shopping Mall—Day. Description:

After retrieving a small pair of scissors from her backpack, EMMA cuts the synthetic material, freeing one of SKYY LAR’s legs while ensuring it does not startle.

37. Ext. U-turn Brick Path – Kingsland Shopping Mall – Dusk.

Description:

As evening approaches, EMMA works and tries to free SKYY LAR’s left leg. The pigeon is now exhausted but looks at EMMA with trust. The synthetic material has injured SKYY LAR’s left leg, making it impossible to save. The leg is dangling.

38. Ext. Mall Entrance Walkway – Kingsland Shopping Mall – Night. Description:

Under the soft glow of streetlights, EMMA sits with SKYY LAR, offering it water and some seeds she finds in her pocket, establishing a bond of care and trust.

39. Ext. U-turn Pathway – Kingsland Shopping Mall – Night.

Description: EMMA gently places SKYY LAR inside a makeshift nest using her scarf. She ensures it’s comfortable and safe, showing her nurturing side.

40. Ext. Kingsland Shopping Mall U-turn – Night.

Description:

Before leaving, EMMA gives SKYY LAR one last reassuring touch, promising to return, her silhouette fading away as she heads back into the mall, leaving SKYY LAR to rest and recuperate.

41. INT. Emma’s Bedroom – Day.

Description:

EMMA observes SKYY LAR trying to balance on its remaining leg, then tries to mimic the bird’s movements herself, hopping awkwardly, showing empathy and a desire to understand its struggle.

42. INT. Emma’s Workshop – Day.

Description:

In her bedroom-turned-workshop, filled with gadgets and eco-friendly materials, EMMA studies SKYY LAR and brainstorms ideas on how to craft a prosthetic leg.

43. INT. Emma’s Crafting Space – Day.

Description:

With a determined look, EMMA sketches designs for a prosthetic leg, surrounded by scattered tools and recycled parts, her creativity is in full swing.

44. INT. Emma’s Innovation Corner – Evening.

Description: Under the soft light of her desk lamp, EMMA carefully selects materials from her collection, choosing eco-friendly and lightweight options suitable for SKYY LAR.

45. INT. Emma’s Bedroom – Night.

Description:

EMMA meticulously assembles the prosthetic leg, using her toys and inventions as makeshift tools. She focuses on creating something functional yet comfortable for SKYY LAR.

46. INT. Emma’s Creative Workshop – Night.

Description: The crafting sounds fill the room as EMMA tests the prosthetic’s durability and flexibility, ensuring it will support SKYY LAR’s weight and movement.

47. Int. Emma’s Testing Area – Night.

Description:

EMMA attaches the prosthetic leg to a toy bird, simulating how SKYY LAR might use it, observing its mechanics, and adjusting for a better fit.

48. INT. Emma’s Room – Early Morning.

Description:

With the first light of dawn, EMMA fits the prosthetic onto SKYY LAR, encouraging it to take its first steps, her face a mix of hope and anxiety.

49. INT. Emma’s Bedroom – Day.

Description:

EMMA watches as SKYY LAR adapts to the new leg, initially stumbling but gradually gaining confidence. Her eyes are filled with pride and relief.

50. INT. Emma’s Launchpad–Day.

Description:

The ultimate test: EMMA creates a small launchpad in her room, encouraging SKYY LAR to attempt flight. The bird hesitates, then takes off, struggling but adapting to the change, symbolizing a new chapter in its life.

Act 2:

51. Ext. EcoHaven – Day.

Description:

EMMA guides SKYY LAR through EcoHaven’s lush greenery, where eco-friendly buildings harmonize with nature. SKYY LAR glances around, both curious and wary.

52. Int. EcoHaven Public Space – Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR sits close to the extensive shared T.V. SKYY LAR becomes engrossed as a news report about deforestation in Asia unfolds onscreen. SKYY LAR tilts its head, gazes intensely, and listens attentively.

53. Ext. Train Bridge – Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR returns to its original home under the train bridge, finding it bustling and changed. The pigeon community reacts with mixed signals—curiosity and distress filling the air.

54. Ext. Train Bridge Roost – Day.

Description:

RAPHAEL notices SKYY LAR approaching with a nonchalant gait. His indifferent demeanor contrasts with the emotional weight of the moment.

55. Ext. Train Bridge – Day.

Description:

As RAPHAEL converses with SKYY LAR, using body movements and brief pecks at the ground, he reveals he rented out SKYY LAR’s spot. His girlfriend, a sleek pigeon, appears briefly and then swiftly departs.

56. Ext. EcoHaven Return – Dusk.

Description:

Under the fading light, SKYY LAR returns to EcoHaven, followed by a crowd of pigeons intrigued by the prosthetic leg and the survival of SKYY LAR.

57. Int. EcoHaven Public Space – Evening.

Description:

As night falls, pigeons from various species gather around SKYY LAR in EcoHaven’s public space, chattering and fluttering in solidarity and concern.

58. Ext. EcoHaven – Night.

Description:

SKYY LAR stands at a newly made perch overlooking the assembly of birds. The community is abuzz with whispers and stares directed at the Marvel prosthetic.

59. Int. EcoHaven Public Space – Night.

Description:

The news continues in the background, but now the focus is on SKYY LAR as it interacts with visitors. Each bird, from its squadron or not, approaches, offering gestures of respect and curiosity.

60. Ext. EcoHaven – Late Night.

Description:

Quiet. Birds settled. SKYY LAR remains awake, gazing at the stars, reflective and poised, as it contemplates the next steps in its newfound role within this sanctuary and beyond.

61. Ext. EcoHaven – Day.

Description:

Dawn breaks over EcoHaven as the first groups of pigeons arrive. They land near SKYY LAR, each with a visible limp or missing a leg, their presence a stark testament to the environmental challenges they face.

62. Int. EcoHaven Public Space – Morning.

Description:

Standing on its prosthetic leg, SKYY LAR surveys the gathering crowd of pigeons. Their varied colors and sizes reflect the diversity of the urban bird community, all united by similar fates.

63. Ext. EcoHaven – Midmorning.

Description:

A large assembly of pigeons forms a semi-circle around SKYY LAR. The communal area buzzes with flutters and coos as the birds share their stories through gestures and brief flights.

64. Int. EcoHaven Nesting Area – Noon.

Description:

SKYY LAR moves through the nesting area, where injured pigeons show their makeshift nests. The scene underscores the bird community’s adaptability and resilience despite its hardships.

65. Ext. EcoHaven – Afternoon.

Description:

In a quieter corner of EcoHaven, SKYY LAR engages in a solemn moment with a small group of pigeons, each sharing a visible bond of shared suffering and mutual respect.

66. Int. EcoHaven Public Space – Late Afternoon.

Description:

The light dims as the day progresses; SKYY LAR stands elevated on a small platform made of recycled materials, looking out at the 20,000 pigeons gathered. The mood is somber yet hopeful.

67. Ext. EcoHaven – Evening.

Description:

As evening falls, shadows cast long over the pigeons who settle down, finding comfort in their numbers and the shared presence of SKYY LAR, who continues to move among them, a figure of leadership and empathy.

68. Int. EcoHaven Public Space – Night.

Description:

Under the glow of eco-friendly lights, the pigeons, including SKYY LAR, roost in an area designed to accommodate their disabilities. The setup showcases various innovations made from recycled materials that aid their daily lives.

69. Ext. EcoHaven – Late Night.

Description:

The night quiets, but SKYY LAR remains awake, perched high, overlooking the vast community. Its silhouette against the moonlit sky is a powerful symbol of resilience and change.

70. Ext. Underneath Train Bridge – Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR approaches its former home, excitement visible in its flutter. RAPHAEL stands aloof, preening himself on a nearby beam, barely acknowledging SKYY LAR’s return.

71. Ext. Train Bridge Ledge – Day.

Description:

As SKYY LAR inspects the area, noting changes, RAPHAEL casually converses with another pigeon, ignoring SKYY LAR’s attempts to engage and discuss the changes.

72. Ext. Train Bridge – Dusk.

Description:

RAPHAEL indifferently watches as SKYY LAR discovers his nest’s occupation. The female pigeon, RAPHAEL’s companion, swiftly departs, leaving a feather behind.

73. Ext. Train Bridge Colony – Night.

Description:

Under darkness, SKYY LAR confronts RAPHAEL about the new tenants. RAPHAEL turns away dismissively, focusing on other pigeons, evading genuine conversation.

74. Ext. Train Bridge Perch – Early Morning.

Description:

SKYY LAR attempts to show RAPHAEL the prosthetic leg, seeking empathy or interest. RAPHAEL barely glances at it instead of flying off to a nearby water puddle.

75. Ext. Train Bridge – Morning.

Description:

SKYY LAR, surrounded by supportive pigeons, watches as RAPHAEL interacts casually with others, laughing and sharing food, unaffected by the communal distress.

76. Ext. Train Bridge Gathering Area – Noon.

Description:

In the bustling community center under the bridge, RAPHAEL organizes grains for a group, deliberately overlooking SKYY LAR’s attempts to participate, further highlighting his indifference.

77. Ext. Train Bridge – Sunset.

Description:

SKYY LAR watches sadly from a distance as RAPHAEL and his girlfriend enjoy a peaceful moment together, utterly detached from the solidarity shown by others.

MIDPOINT:

78. Ext. EcoHaven Community Area – Day.

Description:

The EcoHaven community gathers around as SKYY LAR, standing boldly on a small makeshift platform, watches Sky News on an outdoor screen showing oil spills in the ocean. The news’s gravity strengthens SKYY LAR’s resolve.

79. Ext. EcoHaven – Continuous

Description:

As SKYY LAR addresses the assembly, EMMA, visible in the crowd, nods in agreement, her expression determined. They exchange a meaningful glance, acknowledging their partnership.

80. Int. EcoHaven Command Center – Day

Description:

EMMA and SKYY LAR, surrounded by maps and digital screens, plot their strategy. EMMA sketches out potential rally points and safe routes on a digital map while SKYY LAR observes intently.

81. Ext. EcoHaven Entrance – Dusk

Description:

A suspicious figure sneaks around the perimeter, planting surveillance devices. As the figure hastily conceals a device under a leaf, a pigeon lands nearby, watching curiously.

82. Int. EcoHaven Meeting Hall – Night

Description:

Tensions rise during a heated debate among the coalition members. A pigeon slams its wing on the table, scattering papers. SKYY LAR raises its wings, calling for calm and emphasizing unity.

83. Ext. EcoHaven – Night

Description:

Under darkness, EMMA secretly meets with a contact who hands her a USB drive. She quickly pockets it and returns to the safety of EcoHaven, her expression fraught with worry.

84. Ext. EcoHaven Watchtower – Late Night

Description:

SKYY LAR perches atop the highest point in EcoHaven, looking out over the city. The weight of leadership is evident in its posture, its gaze intense and forward-thinking.

85. Int. EcoHaven Central Hub – Dawn

Description:

The first light of dawn illuminates the EcoHaven central hub, where birds from various species gather, chirping animatedly. SKYY LAR, now fully embraced as a leader, flies in to join them, rallying their support with enthusiastic flaps.

86. Ext. EcoHaven Public Area – Day

Description:

Birds of various species gather around a large screen displaying a BBC News report about deforestation in the Amazon. Their heads tilt, and feathers ruffle as the images of fallen trees flicker.

87. Int. EcoHaven Educational Center – Day

Description:

Young pigeons watch a slideshow about the melting Arctic ice caps. Their reflections flicker in the bright images of shrinking glaciers, instilling a sense of urgency.

88. Ext. EcoHaven Gathering Space – Evening

Description:

As dusk settles, a projector shows footage of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. Birds perched around watch intently, their eyes wide as the coral fades on screen.

89. Int. EcoHaven Command Center – Night

Description:

EMMA scrolls through digital news on a tablet, pausing on an article about rising sea levels in the Pacific. She takes notes, her face illuminated by the screen’s glow.

90. Ext. EcoHaven Rooftop – Night

Description:

SKYY LAR stands alone on a clear night, gazing at the city lights. The distant hum of traffic blends with the faint sound of a news broadcast discussing air pollution in major cities, drifting from an open window.

91. Int. EcoHaven Workshop – Day

Description:

Amidst tools and recycled materials, radio broadcasts a story about a sandstorm in North Africa exacerbated by climate change. The birds working pause to listen, then nod to each other, motivated.

92. Ext. EcoHaven Watering Hole – Dawn

Description:

At dawn, birds gather to drink while a tablet nearby shows a news video about water scarcity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The birds chirp softly amongst themselves, reflecting on the shared challenge.

93. Int. EcoHaven Nesting Area – Late Night

Description:

Several birds perch in safe spots, their silhouettes contrasting against the night sky. A radio quietly updates how urban light pollution affects nocturnal wildlife. The news makes them uncomfortable, and they shift restlessly.

94 Ext. EcoHaven Public Area – Day

Description:

Birds of various species gather around a large screen displaying a BBC News report about deforestation in the Amazon. Their heads tilt, and feathers ruffle as the images of fallen trees flicker.

95 Int. EcoHaven Educational Center – Day

Description:

Young pigeons watch a slideshow about the melting Arctic ice caps. Their reflections flicker in the bright images of shrinking glaciers, instilling a sense of urgency.

96. Ext. EcoHaven Gathering Space – Evening

Description:

As dusk settles, a projector shows footage of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef. Birds perched around watch intently, their eyes wide as the coral fades on screen.

97. Int. EcoHaven Command Center – Night

Description:

EMMA scrolls through digital news on a tablet, pausing on an article about rising sea levels in the Pacific. She takes notes, her face illuminated by the screen’s glow.

98. Ext. EcoHaven Rooftop – Night

Description:

SKYY LAR stands alone on a clear night, gazing at the city lights. The distant hum of traffic blends with the faint sound of a news broadcast discussing air pollution in major cities, drifting from an open window.

99. Int. EcoHaven Workshop – Day

Description:

Amidst tools and recycled materials, radio broadcasts a story about a sandstorm in North Africa exacerbated by climate change. The birds working pause to listen, then nod to each other, motivated.

100. Ext. EcoHaven Watering Hole – Dawn

Description:

At dawn, birds gather to drink while a tablet nearby shows a news video about water scarcity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The birds chirp softly amongst themselves, reflecting on the shared challenge.

101. Int. EcoHaven Nesting Area – Late Night

Description:

Several birds find refuge in their safe spots, their silhouettes contrasting against the night sky as a radio quietly broadcasts the disturbances caused by urban light pollution on nocturnal wildlife. The news makes them uncomfortable, causing them to shift uncomfortably.

102.Ext. London Street Market – Day

Description:

SKYY LAR flutters through the busy market, evading passersby. Sparrows attentively observe and nod in acknowledgment as SKYY LAR skillfully leads, symbolizing their recognition of his leadership.

103. Int. Café Terrace – Dusk

Description:

EMMA sits outside a café and sketches plans on a napkin. Impressed by her drawings, the barista gives a thumbs-up and offers a complimentary cup of tea as a gesture of support.

104. Ext. Urban Park – Evening

Description:

SKYY LAR gathers with different bird species by a pond. SKYY LAR communicates with the birds, earning the wise old owl’s approval.

105: Ext. Schoolyard – Afternoon

Description:

EMMA conducts a workshop on the environment for children. While showing how to recycle, a teacher nods approvingly and later whispers to another teacher about joining EMMA’s efforts to expand her influence.

106. Int. EcoHaven – Night

Description:

In the dark, a hedgehog brings bits of plastic waste into EcoHaven to help EMMA and SKYY LAR with their sculpture. The small act of participation represents a more significant community engagement.

107. Ext. Riverside – Early Morning

Description:

SKYY LAR teaches young ducklings to remove plastics from the water at sunrise. From afar, the parents watch and softly quack in approval, trusting SKYY LAR’s guidance.

108. Int. Community Hall – Day

Description:

EMMA creates an environmental information booth for a local fair. A city councilor visits, carefully examines the displayed information, nods in agreement, and leaves a business card for future collaborations.

109. Ext. EcoHaven Rooftop – Dusk

Description:

SKYY LAR and a flock of crows set up a makeshift wind turbine on the roof. A pigeon delivers a small twig to them, symbolically contributing to their building efforts.

110. Int. Subway Station – Late Night

Description:

EMMA posts flyers about an upcoming environmental rally. As he passes, a subway driver flashes a supportive sign from his cab window, indicating his support for the cause.

111. Ext. City Overlook – Night

Description:

SKYY LAR sits atop the city, surrounded by a diverse group of night birds. They all look out over the cityscape, their silent presence together on the rooftop symbolizing a unified front against environmental threats.

Act 3:

112. Int. EcoHaven Command Center – Day

Description:

SKYY LAR and EMMA lay a big map on a table, with birds and a few people around. Using small flags, they mark strategic locations in the city to show the planning of their upcoming operations.

113. Ext. City Rooftop – Sunset

Description:

RAVEN and a flock of crows construct makeshift communication devices from scavenged electronics. They carefully position antennas in different city areas, creating a secret communication network.

114. Int. EcoHaven Workshop – Night

Description:

In low lighting, EMMA and a squirrel collaborate on constructing eco-friendly gadgets. Each device undergoes a test. When activated, the testers nod in satisfaction, showing they are ready for the field.

115. Ext. Park – Early Morning

Description:

RAPHAEL and SKYY LAR train in evasive maneuvers, maneuvering around a flock of pigeons and dodging trees and bushes. This exercise shows how they prepared to remain undetected on their mission.

116. Int. EcoHaven Library – Afternoon

Description:

EMMA meticulously studies books and digital archives on a tablet, seeking legal precedents and environmental regulations to support their cause. A knowledgeable owl guides, indicating important texts with its wing.

117. Ext. Urban Alley – Late Night

Description:

In a dimly lit alley, raccoons and SKYY LAR convene near a dumpster, practicing the proper disposal of dangerous materials as they prepare for challenging environments in Beauty Industry-controlled industrial zones.

118. Int. EcoHaven Briefing Room – Dusk

Description:

The coalition convenes for their last briefing. EMMA uses a laser pointer on a digital screen to emphasize routes and targets while RAVEN supervises the session, ensuring everyone understands their roles and backup plans.

119. Ext. Riverside – Early Morning

Description:

SKYY LAR and a seagull conduct water sampling tests of the river as part of their plan to monitor pollution levels. Nodding in approval, they meticulously document the findings on a waterproof notepad.

120. Int. EcoHaven Roof – Night

Description:

In EcoHaven, RAPHAEL and a bat set up infrared sensors around the perimeter. By precisely adjusting the angles, they establish a safe zone that detects any unauthorized entries.

121. Ext. Abandoned Factory – Twilight

Description:

SKYY LAR guides a diverse group of pigeons and swifts in a secretive rehearsal, preparing for a simulated break-in at the Beauty Industry’s Headquarters in an abandoned factory. Their training involves practicing opening a simulated security gate and maneuvering through narrow areas, honing their silent approach.

122. Ext. London Park – Day

Description:

Dr. Ava Green watches a public protest against environmental harm, taking notes, while SKYY LAR and EMMA distribute informational flyers. Fascinated, she observes their interaction with the crowd and takes notes.

123. Int. Dr. Green’s Home Office – Evening

Description:

Dr. Green researches online and comes across SKYY LAR and EMMA’s campaign videos and social media posts. She displays environmental data graphs alongside the campaign’s visuals on her screen, revealing her growing interest.

124. Ext. EcoHaven – Morning

Description:

Dr. Green arrives at EcoHaven, her eyes wide with curiosity. She observes SKYY LAR and EMMA as they work with recycled materials and nods in approval, clearly impressed by their resourcefulness.

125. Int. EcoHaven Workshop – Day

Description:

Dr. Green introduces herself to SKYY LAR and EMMA and presents her compact, eco-friendly device to SKYY LAR and EMMA. She captures their interest and respect by demonstrating how it functions.

126. Ext. EcoHaven – Dusk

Description:

Dr. Green, SKYY LAR, and EMMA are gathered at an outdoor lab, surrounded by tools and equipment. Collaborating, they incorporate her device into their strategy and make adjustments while testing settings.

127. Int. EcoHaven Conference Room – Night

Description:

Dr. Green oversees a strategy meeting with SKYY LAR, EMMA, and other coalition members. She highlights key points on an environmentally sensitive area blueprint using a laser pointer while discussing potential protective measures.

128. Ext. Urban Site – Late Night

Description:

Dr. Green helps EMMA, and SKYY LAR set up an environmental monitoring station illuminated by street lamps. They operate discreetly and productively, staying under the radar.

129. Int. EcoHaven Lab – Early Morning

Description:

Full of energy and concentration, Dr. Green improves a pollution filter prototype. SKYY LAR attentively observes as she describes the mechanics, demonstrating her commitment to practical solutions.

130. Ext. Riverbank Cleanup Event – Day

Description:

Dr. Green teams up with EMMA and SKYY LAR and volunteers to clean up a river. Engaged in environmental activism, she rolls up her sleeves to collect samples and test water quality.

131. Int. EcoHaven Quiet Corner – Evening

Description:

Dr. Green contemplates in solitude, observing the vast EcoHaven grounds from a hidden location. Her determined and hopeful face represents her unwavering dedication to the cause, reflecting the transformative journey from academia to activism.

Infiltration:

131. Ext. EcoHaven Assembly Area – Day.

Description:

SKYY LAR and EMMA examine the blueprint of the Beauty Company’s Headquarters. They distribute small, lightweight cameras to the selected birds.

132. Int. EcoHaven Command Center – Late Night

Description:

RAVEN stands over a map lit by moonlight seeping through a skylight. RAVEN uses the crook to show the entry points and escape routes. The pigeons and crows are all ears.

133. Ext. London Skyline – Early Morning

Description:

The team of swifts practices precision flying near the outline of the Beauty Company’s high-rise. The swifts skillfully navigate obstacles to prepare for crucial maneuvers required during the mission.

134. Int. EcoHaven Workshop – Night

Description:

EMMA collaborates with a group of sparrows, outfitting them with miniature harnesses with micro cameras. The birds try out the gear, flapping to check for comfort and camera stability.

135. Ext. Rooftop Near Beauty Company Headquarters – Pre-Dawn

Description:

RAPHAEL and some crows use binoculars to conduct a last surveillance check at Beauty Company Headquarters. They watch security guards’ shift changes.

136. Int. EcoHaven Briefing Room – Night

Description:

The selected birds convene for one last meeting. RAVEN fosters bravery and teamwork through exquisite gestures and gentle cooing.

137. Ext. Alleyway Adjacent to Beauty Company H.Q. – Early Morning

Description:

SKYY LAR commands a group of wild pigeons as they take off together in perfect synchronization, flying towards the Headquarters. Each bird understands its role and the exact timing needed.

138. Ext. EcoHaven Lookout – Night

Description:

Remaining bird community members solemnly perch, watching their comrades venturing into danger, symbolizing hope and collective anticipation.

139. Ext. Beauty Company H.Q. Perimeter – Night

Description:

SKYY LAR and a group of swifts stealthily approach the outer boundaries of the Beauty Company’s H.Q. under the cover of darkness. Quick and agile, the Swifts lead the way, indicating to the rest that it’s safe.

140. Int. Beauty Company H.Q. Security Room – Night

Description:

In the security room, monitors display views from various building parts. Guards observe, unaware of the nearby birds, as they enjoy coffee and monitor surveillance feeds.

141. Ext. Beauty Company H.Q. Air Vents – Night.

Description:

RAVEN and the sparrows reach the air vents. They use their small size and agile flight to navigate within, evading detection from visible sensors.

142. Int. Beauty Company H.Q. Main Hall – Night.

Description:

EMMA uses a makeshift communication setup to coordinate with birds in a nearby hidden location. She watches through a camera feed as pigeons and crows scatter across the hall, searching for evidence.

143. Int. Beauty Company H.Q. – Hidden Room – Night.

Description:

The birds discover a partially open door leading to a room with crucial evidence. Crows and pigeons enter but find the room empty, with shiny floors and spotless desks.

144. Int. Beauty Company H.Q. – Night.

Description:

The building fills with blaring alarms that start from nowhere. Red lights start flashing. The entire facility comes under lockdown. Birds scatter in fear, desperately searching for a place to hide.

145. Int. Beauty Company H.Q. Main Hall – Night

Description:

Security guards in riot gear forcefully infiltrate the hall. They start herding the birds using non-lethal methods like nets and sound cannons. The birds engage in a chaotic aerial dance to avoid capture.

146. Int. Beauty Company H.Q. Ventilation System – Night

Description:

SKYY LAR guides a group of smaller birds through the cramped, dusty ventilation system. They move quickly yet quietly, their wing noise dampened by the narrow metal ducts.

147. Int. Beauty Company H.Q. – Various Locations – Night

Description:

SKYY LAR and a handful of daring pigeons cause a diversion. They intentionally divert the security drones’ attention, guiding them away from the fleeing birds.

148. Ext. Beauty Company H.Q. Back Exit – Night

Description:

SKYY LAR and the birds emerge from an exhaust vent and find themselves at the rear of the Headquarters. Panting heavily, they gather themselves, their feathers disheveled yet relieved to have evaded the immediate threat.

149. Ext. London Alleyway – Night

Description:

Outside, SKYY LAR and the birds land in an empty alley, their hearts pounding. Under the flickering street lamp, they gather in the dim light, their failed mission weighing heavily in the ensuing silence.

Who betrayed us?

Act 4:

150. Int. EcoHaven Meeting Room – Day

Description:

A tense gathering as a secretive figure shrouded in a hood enters. Handing SKYY LAR a USB drive, the figure nods solemnly and departs swiftly. The coalition members gather closer as the data is uploaded to a computer.

151. Ext. City Park – Dusk

Description:

EMMA and a knowledgeable squirrel discreetly meet with a whistleblower from the Beauty Industry under the cover of twilight. The whistleblower passes over documents and hurriedly leaves, looking over their shoulder.

152. Int. EcoHaven Tech Lab – Night

Description:

RAVEN and DR. GREEN analyze the whistleblower’s information on multiple screens, piecing together evidence of illicit activities spanning continents. Their expressions grow graver as the web of deceit unfolds.

153. Ext. Urban Overpass – Late Night

Description:

In the shadow of an overpass, RAPHAEL meets with an informant pigeon who drops a tiny scroll tied to its leg. RAPHAEL quickly retrieves the scroll and flies off before anyone notices.

154. Int. EcoHaven Library – Early Morning

Description:

SKYY LAR pores over old newspapers and digital archives, connecting historical environmental violations by the Beauty Industry with current activities, indicating a long-standing conspiracy.

155. Ext. Rooftop Garden – Day

Description:

Amidst the city’s buzz, EMMA sets up a hidden camera to record a meeting between industry executives and government officials. She watches from a distance, capturing a crucial conversation.

156. Int. EcoHaven Surveillance Van – Twilight

Description:

A small team monitors live feeds from hidden cameras and intercepted communications, piecing together the extent of the conspiracy. The mood is intense as each new information is logged and analyzed.

157. Ext. Secluded Woodland – Night

Description:

Under cover of darkness, RAVEN and a team of owls retrieve a buried cache of incriminating documents left by an anonymous benefactor and swiftly transport them back to EcoHaven.

158. Int. EcoHaven Data Room – Late Night

Description:

The team projects the uncovered data onto large screens, revealing a network of illegal waste disposal and resource exploitation connected to the Beauty Industry. Maps and charts illuminate the global scale of the operation.

159. Int. EcoHaven Briefing Room – Dawn

Description:

As the first light of dawn creeps in, the coalition gathers around a table where the whole conspiracy is laid out on a large digital map. Shock and resolve wash over their faces as they understand the challenge ahead.

160. EXT–THE LONDON EYE – DAY

Description:

SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight above the Thames towards the London Eye.

161. EXT– PROSTHETIC LEG – DAY

Description:

SKYY LAR soars. A unique prosthetic leg shows.

162. EXT– FALCON’S BODY – DAY

Description:

A Peregrine Falcon. Equipped with advanced technology. Dives towards SKYY LAR.

163. EXT– CITY OF LONDON – DAY

Description:

An intense and dynamic battle unfolds in the sky. Both birds are determined. There are strategic maneuvers and close calls. SKYY LAR’s resilience shines through despite the odds, earning the admiration of all who witness the struggle.

164. EXT– LIVERPOOL STREET–DAY

Description:

SKYY LAR drives the prosthetic into the Falcon’s eye amid the chaos.

165. EXT – LONDON CITYSCAPE – DAY

Description: The battle rages. The birds weave through the city’s landscape.

166. EXT – EMMA’s Perspective – DAY

Description:

From the ground, EMMA watches the aerial duel unfold.

167. EXT – LONDON BUSTLING STREET – DAY

Description:

Distracted by the fight, the Falcon does not notice an oncoming car. In a tense moment, the Falcon collides with the vehicle, a stark reminder of urban wildlife’s constant danger.

168. Ext. City Streets – Day

Description:

The coalition organizes a peaceful protest, which turns chaotic as Beauty Industry-hired agitators infiltrate and incite violence. SKYY LAR and EMMA work to calm the crowd while dodging thrown objects.

169. Int. EcoHaven Main Hall – Night

Description:

The lights flicker and go out during a strategy meeting; it’s a cyber attack. Coalition members scramble in the dim emergency lighting to secure communications and safeguard their data.

170. Ext. Urban Alleyway – Evening

Description:

RAPHAEL stealthily meets with a mole in the Beauty Industry to exchange information. Unknown to him, a security drone watches them and records their interaction.

171. Int. EcoHaven Infirmary – Late Night

Description:

Injured birds and animals, victims of a poisoned food supply intended for the coalition, are treated by volunteers. EMMA administers antidotes with urgency, her hands trembling.

172. Ext. Riverside Park – Dusk

Description:

Beauty Industry thugs ripped down Coalition flyers as soon as they were posted. EMMA and a group of pigeons quickly replace them, moving stealthily to avoid confrontation.

173. Int. EcoHaven Security Room – Day

Description:

Monitors show live feeds of coalition activities being disrupted across the city. RAVEN directs teams to regroup and change tactics, his voice firm over the commotion.

174. Ext. City Rooftop – Night

Description:

SKYY LAR leads a small team to turn off a communications jammer installed by the Beauty Industry on a rooftop. They work quietly, avoiding the gaze of patrolling security drones.

175. Int. Underground Tunnel – Midnight

Description:

Coalition messengers navigate underground tunnels to avoid surveillance, delivering crucial updates and plans. Their shadows flicker against the walls as they move swiftly and silently.

176. Ext. Back Alley – Early Morning

Description:

Industry enforcers ambush a covert supply drop for the coalition. Quick-thinking by a group of crows creates a diversion, allowing the supplies to be retrieved safely.

177. Int. EcoHaven Workshop – Day

Description:

DR. GREEN and a team of engineers hastily develop countermeasures against Industry surveillance tech. They assemble devices, test them, and distribute them to field agents.

Act 5:

26. Legal Threats: Introduce the possibility of legal actions by the Beauty Industry, raising the stakes for the coalition.

27. Final Confrontation: The buildup to the climactic confrontation showcases the coalition’s determination and unity.

Cliffhanger:

28. Raphael’s Doubt: End with a scene that casts doubt on RAPHAEL’s allegiance, leaving viewers eager for the next episode.

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BWTV-AI MOD 3 – LESSON 9: SETUPS FOR FUTURE

Moses Quainoo

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Go to your TV Pitch Bible: Look at the future episodes, five seasons, and character descriptions. Go to your BW Framework: Look at all the information there.

2. Make a list of events/character reveals/under-the-surface info that COULD be set up in the Pilot. Just use the obvious ones. You don’t need to create the entire season right now.

3. Decide which you are going to include in the Pilot.

4. Fill those into the Outline and tell us which ones you will use.

5. Use this Prompt to have AI brainstorm possible setups for your Pilot.

I’m going to give you the [Layers], [Character Profiles], and [Season 1 Episodes] for my [Format/Genre] TV series. Can you list possible [Setups] we can build into the [Pilot Structure]?

Setups = Events, moments, or pieces of information that prepares us for the reveal that comes in the future of the season. It could create anticipation; foreshadow future changes, or reveals to come.

For each setup, please use the following:

A. Possible reveal in a future episode:
B. Setup:
C. How it could be set up in the pilot:

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation
Pilot Structure =
5-ACT STRUCTURE =

Teaser:

Essence: SKYY LAR takes a much-deserved solo freedom flight over the London Eye. A mighty Falcon, equipped with a small, almost undetectable device, ambushes SKYY LAR. The birds engage in a fierce aerial battle. EMMA witnesses the ordeal from the ground.

Beginning:

SURFACE: SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight over the London Eye.

As it swoops and glides, we see both legs point backward. One leg is fitted with a prosthetic.

INTRIGUE: MYSTERY: What happened to the feral pigeon’s leg? What led to the injury? Why is one leg fitted with a prosthetic?

PLOT LAYER 1:

SKYY LAR flight is abruptly interrupted by the sudden appearance of a Falcon.

INTRIGUE: CONSPIRACY: What conspiracy is going on in the avian world? What conspiracy is going on involving other species or external forces?

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED:

The Falcon’s sudden appearance with an undetectable technological device.

The ambush forces SKYY LAR into an intense aerial battle. Amid the chaos, the audience catches glimpses of SKYY LAR’s prosthetic leg. (Back story questions:

INTRIGUE: MYSTERY: Where did the prosthetic come from? How has the prosthetic impacted SKYY LAR’s ability?

INTRIGUE: SECRET: The audience sees more of the prosthetic leg during the battle. (The Audience speculates about the events that led to SKYY LAR’s injury and the implications of its prosthetic for the ongoing conflict.)

INTRIGUE: WOUND: The prosthetic leg is a visual reminder of the physical and emotional wounds SKYY LAR endured. Viewers must ponder SKYY LAR’s hardships and how it persevered despite its injury.

INTRIGUE: WOUND: (SKYY LAR’s prosthetic leg hints at a deeper layer to its character, yet to be fully revealed.)

SKYY LAR uses the prosthetic leg to kick the Falcon’s eye.

EMMA witnesses the ordeal from the ground.

Turning Point:

A car coming towards them hit the Falcon.

Act 1: World and Character Introduction

Essence: SKYY LAR mentors young pigeons, goes to the market to seek sustenance, and gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste. EMMA discovers SKYY LAR and intervenes by de-stringing.

Beginning:

Introduction to the World-EcoHaven:

SURFACE LAYER: SKYY LAR is a dedicated squadron leader who mentors young pigeons on survival and thrives in the urban environment.

CHARACTER LAYER 1: SKYY LAR harbors a secret identity, possibly linked to its past or hidden abilities yet to be fully revealed.

He is deeply connected to its habitat and the city.

INITIAL SEEDS OF DILEMMA: However, because of construction, SKYY LAR faces the looming threat of losing its nesting area.

SKYY LAR needs to work on its sense of purpose or identity as a leader, questioning the effectiveness of its efforts to protect and guide its flock amidst growing environmental threats.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Flashbacks or subtle hints throughout the episode suggest SKYY LAR is not just an ordinary feral pigeon.

INTRIGUE: SECRET IDENTITY: What is the true identity of this feral pigeon?

Middle/Incident:

SKYY LAR goes to the RIDLEY market, a hotspot for illegal wildlife trade, unknowingly supported by the Beauty Industry, for sustenance.

SKYY LAR gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste while seeking food and cannot break free for three seasons.

SURFACE LAYER: EMMA, an innocent, compassionate, and resourceful young girl, has a budding interest in environmentalism. She discovers SKYY LAR injured.

She became interested in environmental activism during a school project and had a natural inclination to help others.

She helps a distressed bird, intervenes by de-stringing, and cannot save one leg.

LAYER: Past Transgression: EMMA’s family has ties to the beauty industry and is involved in undercover operations against it.

Turning Point 1:

SKYY LAR loses its left leg, is physically challenged, and has an emotional, how-to, and mental shift crisis.

Turning Point 2:

EMMA knows the family may be connected to the source of the waste and faces a moral dilemma regarding her family’s role in environmental harm.

SURFACE: SKYY LAR’s injury and its subsequent partnership with EMMA form the central mystery of the pilot.

LAYER: Mysteries: The true origin of the synthetic waste and the extent of EMMA’s family’s involvement in environmental harm are mysteries to be uncovered.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Through flashbacks, investigative scenes, and confrontations with industry representatives, the pilot gradually unravels the mysteries surrounding SKYY LAR’s injury and EMMA’s family connections.

Act 2: Conflict and Alliance Formation

Essence:

EMMA takes SKYY LAR to her house and constructs a prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR to overcome barriers. While EMMA investigates the waste’s origin, SKYY LAR returns home to the community’s distress, overwhelming concern, and solidarity. RAVEN makes a strategic proposal.

Beginning:

INTRODUCTION TO THE INTRIGUING WORLD:

EMMA takes SKYY LAR to her home.

SURFACE LAYER: EMMA constructs a prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR to overcome barriers.

Character Layer: Hiding Past Transgressions: EMMA’s family has a hidden connection to the environmental harm that led to SKYY LAR’s injury. EMMA grapples with the connection while concealing her family’s involvement.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: EMMA’s conflicted emotions when faced with evidence that implicates her family in environmental harm hints at deeper secrets she’s trying to keep hidden.

SKYY LAR realizes the extent of the environmental threat that led to its injury and the genuine care EMMA gives her.

SKYY LAR and EMMA bond.

SKYY LAR adapts to the new situation, and their bond strengthens.

Conflict Introduction: EMMA investigates the origin of synthetic waste and uncovers troubling ties to her family’s investment.

SKYY LAR returns to its original home under the train bridges to the extent of the communities’ distress, an overwhelming concern and solidarity.

SURFACE LAYER: RAPHAEL is an English Trumpeter Pigeon with a distinct personality and background who is indifferent. It tells SKYY LAR it rented out SKYY LAR’s roost. SKYY LAR faces a new reality.

SKYY LAR acknowledges the scale of the injury and suffering witnessed among the 20,000 pigeons. The bird community has seen the adverse effects of environmental destruction firsthand. The ecological harm is not just incidental but a deliberate act by the Beauty Industry to monopolize resources, creating a direct conflict with the coalition’s goals.

SKYY LAR can only protect its habitat if it forms and leads a bird coalition against ecological harm.

SURFACE LAYER: Hidden Relationship: RAVEN, a mentor figure mentors SKYY LAR and the Rebellion.

LAYER: RAVEN connects to ancient or mystical environmental knowledge and possibly a deeper connection to the events unfolding in the city.

RAVEN offers guidance but stays out of direct action. He arrives from the Pembrokeshire Coast to spend the weekend.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Through cryptic advice and enigmatic behavior, RAVEN hints at a deeper understanding of the conflict and its implications. As the pilot progresses, revelations about RAVEN’s past and true identity shed light on its motivations and the significance of its role in guiding the rebellion.

TURNING POINT 1:

RAVEN makes a strategic yet mysterious proposal for SKYY LAR to lead a collective action against environmental harm.

TURNING POINT 2:

Having witnessed adverse effects firsthand, the bird community supports SKYY LAR to lead the act against environmental harm.

MIDPOINT: Conflict Expansion and Revelation

IMPOSSIBLE GOAL

SKYY LAR commits to forming and leading the birds’ coalition to dismantle the deeply entrenched and influential Beauty Industry, causing environmental destruction. It is inspired by the overwhelming support from other pigeons and RAVEN’s proposal.

SKYY LAR collaborates with EMMA to broaden the group to a bird-human alliance.

TURNING POINT 3:

EMMA stands up for her environmental beliefs rather than protecting her family’s interests.

SURFACE: SKYY LAR’s injury forces it to confront its limitations and redefine its leadership role.

LAYER: Major Shift in Meaning: The discovery of the global conspiracy reshapes the rebellion’s goals and strategies, leading to a fundamental shift in their approach to combating environmental harm.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: The pilot culminates in a pivotal moment where SKYY LAR and its allies uncover the true scope of the Beauty Industry’s activities, prompting them to reassess their tactics and alliances. This revelation sets the stage for future conflicts and challenges as the rebellion prepares to confront the industry head-on.

Act 3: Challenges, Strategy Development and Infiltration, Discovery.

Deepening of the Conflict:

Essence: SKYY LAR forms a core group, recruits RAVEN and skeptical RAPHAEL, and collaborates with EMMA. DR. GREEN joins. SKYY LAR and allies conduct peaceful fly-pasts, demand action from Industry, and infiltrate a Beauty Company Headquarters to gather evidence. The rebellion uncovers a global conspiracy that threatens their cause.

Beginning:

SKYY LAR recruits RAVEN as a mentor and core member. SKYY LAR recruits RAPHAEL. SKYY LAR recruits RAPHAEL, who grows interested, prompted by realizations about the crisis.

SURFACE LAYER: RAPHAEL shifts his trajectory towards greater involvement.

SKYY collaborates with EMMA to broaden the group with the human alliance.

SURFACE LAYER: DR. GREEN is an environmental scientist working on an ecological technology. She is focused on her research and somewhat detached from grassroots movements.

CHARACTER LAYER: DECEPTION: DR. AVA GREEN has a controversial past in the beauty industry and maintains secret connections to whistleblowers.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Clues about DR. AVA GREEN’s past and hidden agenda emerge as he becomes more deeply involved with the rebellion. His interactions with other characters, especially when he exhibits conflicting loyalties or conceals information, gradually expose his true motivations.

She encounters SKYY LAR and allies and chooses her innovative scientific discovery that could benefit the beauty industry by withholding it to support the coalition’s cause. She aligns her scientific expertise with SKYY LAR and EMMA’s coalition, seeing an opportunity to apply her work more effectively. (DR. GREEN joins and offers technological help).

DR. AVA GREEN is an expert in a specific field of biotechnology that can counteract the harm of the beauty industry, making her role pivotal in the coalition’s strategy.

RAVEN emphasizes the need for logical strategies, focusing on specific campaign targets and methods, while the coalition establishes communication networks, safe havens, and resource channels.

He becomes increasingly aware of the potential risks and consequences of fully committing to the cause, including jeopardizing his interests and safety.

RAPHAEL is approached by factions with conflicting interests who seek to exploit his hesitation for their gain, further complicating his decision-making process.

PLOT LAYER: Blackmail: RAPHAEL is coerced into greater involvement through blackmail, forcing him to make difficult choices to protect himself or his interests.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Subtle hints or cryptic conversations imply that RAPHAEL is being manipulated or pressured into taking a more active role in the coalition, raising questions about his motives and loyalties.

LAYER: CONSPIRACY/SECRET MEETINGS: Raphael is secretly negotiating with factions tied to the Beauty Industry. He is observed having secret meetings with a group of pigeons tied to the Beauty Industry. These clandestine gatherings arouse suspicion among the alliance members, who wonder about Raphael’s true allegiances.

DILEMMA INTENSIFIES:

(SKYY LAR’s dilemma intensifies as the coalition gains momentum and begins confronting the Beauty Industry’s harmful practices.)

SURFACE LAYER: SKYY LAR and allies conducted a peaceful fly-past to raise awareness of the Beauty Industry’s environmental impact. EMMA complements it with a social media campaign.

They write ‘Beauty Industry chemicals harmful’ in the sky. EMMA uses social media platforms to spread the same message and increase awareness.

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adopting sustainable sourcing, reducing waste, and committing to eco-friendly manufacturing processes.

SITUATION LAYER: A wrong person turns good

A member of the Beauty Industry unexpectedly joins the coalition after witnessing the harmful effects of their practices, leading to a shift in alliances and strategies.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED:

A key figure from the Beauty Industry expresses remorse or takes a stand against their own company’s unethical actions, surprising both the coalition and viewers alike and prompting a reevaluation of their goals and tactics.

SKYY LAR meets a Beauty Industry representative, presents the Rebellion’s case, and demands action. The 20,000 pigeons and other coalition members highly expect change and protection.

The Beauty Industry dismisses the Rebellion’s effort as a minor nuisance, exaggerated ‘Sky rats,’ and portrays itself as environmentally responsible.

Some industry players employ intimidation tactics to create internal fear and division. As a result, one fruit pigeon died, and people suspected the industry had caused it.

RAPHAEL doubts the coalition’s potential impact and fears the results of taking a definitive stand. He chooses his benefit for the well-being of the alliance.

RAVEN projects confidence and proposes action plans for the coalition in memory of a dead member. However, RAVEN is concerned that the coalition’s actions might provoke a severe backlash, endangering the movement and the broader avian community.

EMMA fears her actions might expose her to danger as she delves deeper into activism.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: As EMMA delves deeper into activism, she struggles with her family’s involvement in environmental harm, leading to conflicts and moral dilemmas. Clues about her family connections and secret activities are gradually revealed through subtle interactions and discoveries made by other characters.

SKYY LAR is still determining its ability to lead effectively with its new physical limitations and fears potential harm to its followers.

CHARACTER LAYER: Hidden Agenda: SKYY LAR has a hidden agenda to infiltrate and disrupt key facilities of the Beauty Industry.

How the layer is revealed: Throughout the pilot, subtle hints are dropped about SKYY LAR’s true intentions, such as secretive conversations with other birds and moments where it shows knowledge beyond its apparent role as a mentor.

The coalition must now operate under the threat of constant surveillance, complicating their efforts to mobilize and act.

SKYY LAR hides his fears and infiltrates the Beauty Company’s HQ to gather evidence to prioritize avian safety.

The mission is fraught with danger. They identified SKYY LAR as the critical figure.

The Beauty Industry implemented advanced measures to hide its environmentally harmful practices, making it challenging for the Rebellion to find direct evidence.

SKYY LAR and allies stumble on hidden information through a whistleblower revealing the industry’s broader, more sinister involvement in global environmental degradation.

Sabotage Attempts: This is an instance where the alliance’s plans are compromised, leading to failed missions and potential danger for the members. Some evidence points to internal sabotage, and Raphael’s behavior during these incidents raises doubts about his loyalty.

The Rebellion needs concrete evidence to convince the public and authorities. SKYY LAR questions its leadership in the face of a new challenge.

Turning Point 1:

SKYY LAR and allies infiltrate a Beauty Industry facility and gather evidence.

Turning Point 2:

The Industry covered its trail, and the Rebellion uncovered the global conspiracy.

Turning Point 3:

SURFACE LAYER: SKYY LAR and allies uncover a global conspiracy from a whistleblower and become targets.

LAYER: ONGOING CONSPIRACIES: The beauty industry is orchestrating a larger conspiracy involving global environmental degradation.

Act 4: Complications Intensify: (Echoes Teaser)

Mystery 2:

Essence: SKYY LAR takes a much-deserved solo freedom flight over the London Eye. A Falcon, equipped with a small, almost undetectable device, ambushes SKYY LAR, and a fierce aerial battle ensues.

Beginning:

SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight over the London Eye. As it swoops and glides, we see both legs point backward. One leg is fitted with a prosthetic. (Back story questions: INTRIGUE: MYSTERY: What happened to the feral pigeon’s leg? What led to the injury? Why is one leg fitted with a prosthetic?)

SKYY LAR flight is abruptly interrupted by the sudden appearance of a Falcon with an undetectable technological device. The ambush forces SKYY LAR into an intense aerial battle. Amid the chaos, the audience catches glimpses of SKYY LAR’s prosthetic leg. (Back story questions: INTRIGUE: MYSTERY: Where did the prosthetic come from? How has the prosthetic impacted SKYY LAR’s ability?

INTRIGUE: SECRET: The audience sees more of the prosthetic leg during the battle. (The Audience speculates about the events that led to SKYY LAR’s injury and the implications of its prosthetic for the ongoing conflict.)

INTRIGUE: WOUND: The prosthetic leg is a visual reminder of the physical and emotional wounds SKYY LAR endured. Viewers must ponder SKYY LAR’s hardships and how it persevered despite its injury.

INTRIGUE: WOUND: (SKYY LAR’s prosthetic leg hints at a deeper layer to its character, yet to be fully revealed.)

SKYY LAR uses the prosthetic leg to kick the Falcon’s eye.

EMMA witnesses the ordeal from the ground.

Turning Point 1:

A car coming towards them hit the Falcon.

The mission’s outcome reveals sinister aspects of the Industry’s agenda, with RAPHAEL’s loyalty and RAVEN’s intentions under intense scrutiny.

Turning Point 2:

The coalition’s discovery of the Beauty Industry’s cover-up operations intensifies the conflict and sets up future confrontations.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: SKYY LAR and the rebellion delve deeper into their investigation, they stumble on clues suggesting a more significant and sinister agenda behind the industry’s actions. A whistleblower or critical piece of evidence unveils the scope of the conspiracy, setting the stage for future conflicts.

Act 5: Climactic Confrontation and Future Directions

Essence:

The coalition reconsiders its strategies and fortifies its resolve on the ongoing threat from the beauty industry.

The Beauty Industry might initiate legal actions against the Rebellion members, framing them as extremists or criminals who must face arrests or legal battles, diverting the group’s focus and resources.

Responding to these threats and complications requires resources, which might drain the Rebellion’s already limited assets, impacting its ability to operate effectively.

Some members might advocate aggressive actions against the beauty industry, shifting from their original non-violent stance, leading to legal repercussions, public backlash, or even personal harm.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Suspicion arises among the rebellion members as RAPHAEL’s behavior becomes increasingly questionable. Secret meetings and clandestine activities hint at RAPHAEL’s double-agent role, creating tension and uncertainty within the group.

Turning Point:

Cliffhanger: Doubts about RAPHAEL’s allegiance introduce a critical moment of uncertainty, propelling the narrative into future episodes.

Can you tell me who betrayed us?

Lock-In:

After SKYY LAR loses a left leg, forming and leading a birds-human alliance, shifts its role and responsibility to activism, public commitment, and action, becomes a target and venerable, psychologically transformed, committed to community and relationships, conducts a peaceful fly-past, demands action from Industry, infiltrating Beauty HQ’s facility.

SKYY LAR feels alive again. It is doing what he does better and will continue for a very long time until death does it part on the sixth birthday.

Layers =

Surface Layer: SKYY LAR leads a rebellion with EMMA and DR. AVA GREEN.

Layer 1: The beauty industry’s scheme for resource monopoly was revealed.

Layer 2: Synthetic compound had a benevolent original purpose.

Layer 3: Fight expands beyond Beauty to global environmental degradation.

Layer 4: Ancient wisdom/technology discovered, linked to RAVEN’s past.

Layer 5: A mole within the rebellion exposes plans to the industry.

Character Profiles =
1. SKYY LAR – The Rebellion Leader

2. EMMA – Conscientious Ally

3. DR. AVA GREEN – Innovative scientist

4. RAPHAEL – Doubtful Participant

5. RAVEN – Rebellion Mentor

Season 1 Episodes =

SEASON 1 Episode 1: “Feathers Against Stone”

Teaser: SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight over the London Eye. A Falcon with an undetectable device ambushes SKYY LAR, and a dramatic aerial battle ensues. EMMA witnesses the struggle from the ground. A car coming towards them strikes the Falcon.

Main Character Journey: SKYY LAR mentors young pigeons on survival skills, goes to the market for sustenance, and gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste. EMMA discovers SKYY LAR after three seasons, de-strings SKYY LAR, and cannot save the left leg. EMMA constructs prosthetics to overcome barriers and takes on the responsibility of nursing him back to health, forming a bond. SKYY LAR forms and leads a bird-human alliance against environmental harm. SKYY LAR, EMMA, and the Rebellion devise a bold plan and infiltrate the Beauty Company HQ to gather evidence and realize that the Industry has covered its trail.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Emma faces opposition from her family and friends who don’t understand her connection to SKYY LAR. Meanwhile, SKYY LAR struggles to adapt to his injury and the loss of his flock.

Midpoint: SKYY LAR commits to forming and leading a bird coalition and collaborating with EMMA to broaden it with the human alliance. Emma learns about the environmental destruction caused by the beauty industry, which motivates her to take action.

Action/Reaction: Emma and SKYY LAR embark on a journey to raise awareness about environmental issues and the impact of human actions on wildlife. SKYY LAR and allies conducted a peaceful fly-past to raise awareness about the ecological effects of the Beauty Industry. EMMA complements it with a social media campaign. SKYY LAR meets a Beauty Industry representative, presents the Rebellion’s case, and demands action. The Beauty Industry denies and says the accusations are exaggerated. The Beauty Industry implemented advanced measures to hide its environmentally harmful practices, making it challenging for the Rebellion to find direct evidence. The Beauty Industry targets SKYY LAR and its allies. SKYY LAR hides his fears and infiltrates the Beauty Company’s HQ to gather evidence to prioritize avian safety.

Cliffhanger: As Emma and SKYY LAR start their mission, they encounter resistance from individuals protecting the interests of the beauty industry. Can you tell us who betrayed us?

SEASON 1 Episode 2: “Wings of Change”

Teaser: Emma and SKYY LAR encounter a group of activist birds who are also fighting against environmental destruction.

Main Character Journey: Emma and SKYY LAR join forces with the activist birds and learn more about the extent of the damage caused by the beauty industry.

Major Challenge/Conflict: The group faces obstacles as they gather evidence of the beauty industry’s harmful practices.

Midpoint: Emma and SKYY LAR discover a secret laboratory where animals are used to test beauty products.

Action/Reaction: They must find a way to expose the truth without getting caught by the authorities.

Cliffhanger: Just as they are about to gather evidence, security guards discover them and force them to flee.

SEASON 1 Episode 3: “Echoes of Rebellion”

Teaser: Emma and SKYY LAR regroup with the activist birds and plan their next move against the beauty industry.

Main Character Journey: Emma becomes more determined than ever to bring about change and save the environment.

Major Challenge/Conflict: The group faces internal conflicts as they debate the best action against the beauty industry.

Midpoint: Emma and SKYY LAR devise a daring plan to infiltrate a beauty company’s headquarters and gather evidence.

Action/Reaction: They execute their plan, facing numerous obstacles and close calls.

Cliffhanger: Just as they think they’ve succeeded in gathering evidence, they discover that the company has covered up their tracks, leaving them with nothing.

SEASON 1 Episode 4: “Rise of the Resistance”

Teaser: Emma and SKYY LAR refuse to give up and continue their fight against the beauty industry despite setbacks.

Main Character Journey: Emma becomes a symbol of hope for the activist birds and gains support from people worldwide who are inspired by her courage.

Major Challenge/Conflict: The beauty industry opposes Emma and SKYY LAR’s movement, using its influence to discredit them in the media.

Midpoint: Emma and SKYY LAR must find a way to counter the beauty industry’s propaganda and regain public trust.

Action/Reaction: They launch a social media campaign to spread awareness about their cause and gain support from influencers and celebrities.

Cliffhanger: Just as their campaign gains momentum, they receive a threatening message from the beauty industry warning them to stop their activities.

SEASON 1 Episode 5: “Breaking Point”

Teaser: Emma and SKYY LAR grapple with the decision to continue their fight against the beauty industry, knowing the risks involved.

Main Character Journey: Emma struggles with doubts and fears but ultimately stands up for her beliefs with SKYY LAR by her side.

Major Challenge/Conflict: The beauty industry escalates its attacks against Emma and SKYY LAR, using legal threats and intimidation tactics to silence them.

Midpoint: Emma and SKYY LAR face betrayal from someone they trusted, putting their entire movement in jeopardy.

Action/Reaction: They must rally their supporters and devise a new strategy to counter the beauty industry’s tactics.

Cliffhanger: Just as they think they’ve found a way to outsmart their enemies, they receive news that their evidence has been stolen, leaving them with no proof of the beauty industry’s wrongdoing.

SEASON 1 Episode 6: “Flight of Hope”

Teaser: Emma and SKYY LAR refuse to give up hope and continue their fight against the beauty industry, despite the odds stacked against them.

Main Character Journey: Emma finds strength in her friendship with SKYY LAR and the support of her friends and family, who stand by her side no matter what.

Major Challenge/Conflict: The beauty industry launches a smear campaign against Emma and SKYY LAR, spreading lies and misinformation to turn public opinion against them.

Midpoint: Emma and SKYY LAR must find a way to clear their names and prove their innocence before it’s too late.

Action/Reaction: They enlist the help of a trusted ally to uncover the truth and expose the beauty industry’s lies.

Cliffhanger: Just as they think they’ve finally cleared their names, they receive word that the beauty industry has launched a lawsuit against them, threatening to bankrupt them and destroy everything they’ve worked for.

SEASON 1 Episode 7: “Wings of Justice”

Teaser: Emma and SKYY LAR refuse to back down in the face of adversity and prepare to fight the beauty industry in court.

Main Character Journey: Emma discovers her inner strength and courage as she prepares to face her enemies head-on, with SKYY LAR by her side every step.

Major Challenge/Conflict: The beauty industry uses every trick in the book to try and discredit Emma and SKYY LAR’s case, but they refuse to be intimidated.

Midpoint: Emma and SKYY LAR must navigate the complexities of the legal system and prove their case beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Action/Reaction: They present their evidence in court and call witnesses to testify on their behalf, including experts who can attest to the environmental damage caused by the beauty industry.

Cliffhanger: Just as it looks like they’re about to win their case, they receive word that the beauty industry has bribed the judge, threatening to derail it.

SEASON 1 Episode 8: “Flight to Victory”

Teaser: Emma and SKYY LAR refuse to give up hope and continue their fight for justice, determined to expose the truth no matter what.

Main Character Journey: Emma discovers the power of perseverance and determination as she refuses to let the beauty industry win, with SKYY LAR by her side every step.

Major Challenge/Conflict: The beauty industry resorts to increasingly desperate measures to try and stop Emma and SKYY LAR from exposing the truth, but they refuse to be silenced.

Midpoint: Emma and SKYY LAR receive unexpected help from an unlikely source, giving them the edge to turn the tide in their favor.

Action/Reaction: They launch a final assault on the beauty industry, using everything they’ve learned to expose their lies and hold them accountable for their actions.

Cliffhanger: Just as they’ve won, they receive word that the beauty industry has launched a new campaign to undermine their efforts, threatening to undo everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.

AI GENERATED

1. Setup for SKYY LAR’s Leadership Evolution

A. Possible reveal in a future episode: SKYY LAR becomes the undisputed leader of the global environmental movement.

B. Setup: SKYY LAR’s initial hesitance or reluctance to lead even in small-scale situations.

C. How it could be set up in the pilot: In the market scene, show SKYY LAR hesitating to take charge or make decisions, subtly hinting at its future growth into a confident leader.

2. Setup for EMMA’s Family Connection to the Beauty Industry

A. Possible reveal in a future episode: EMMA’s family’s deep ties to the industry play a crucial role in the Rebellion’s strategy.

B. Setup: Brief, subtle references to EMMA’s family’s involvement in the beauty sector without revealing the extent.

C. How it could be set up in the pilot: EMMA displays discomfort or avoids discussions about her family’s business, hinting at a deeper connection.

3. Setup for RAVEN’s Ancient Wisdom

A. Possible reveal in a future episode: RAVEN’s knowledge becomes vital to unraveling a central environmental mystery.

B. Setup: RAVEN makes cryptic remarks hinting at ancient wisdom or knowledge.

C. How it could be set up in the pilot: During a strategic proposal, RAVEN could mention an old saying or wisdom that seems out of context but piques curiosity.

4. Setup for the Beauty Industry’s Global Impact

A. Possible reveal in a future episode: The extent of the Beauty Industry’s environmental harm is global and interconnected.

B. Setup: Introduce a minor character or subplot showing an unrelated environmental issue elsewhere.

C. How it could be set up in the pilot: News snippets or background conversations mentioning environmental issues in other parts of the world, subtly linked to the beauty industry.

5. Setup for the Mole Within the Rebellion

A. Possible reveal in a future episode: A trusted ally within the Rebellion is exposed as a mole.

B. Setup: Show a character acting suspiciously or having secretive conversations without revealing intent.

C. How it could be set up in the pilot: Include a scene where a character quickly hides something or ends a call abruptly when approached, planting a seed of doubt.

6. Setup for the Beauty Industry’s Legal Power

A. Possible reveal in a future episode: The industry uses its legal muscle to fight the Rebellion.

B. Setup: Reference or hint at the industry’s influence in the legal or political arena.

C. How it could be set up in the pilot: Background news or a conversation mentioning a controversial legal victory or political influence of the beauty industry.

7. Setup for the Coalition’s Diverse Allies

A. Possible reveal in a future episode: The coalition includes unexpected allies from various sectors.

B. Setup: Early signs of diverse groups or individuals showing interest or support for the environmental cause.

C. How it could be set up in the pilot: During EMMA’s or SKYY LAR’s journey, they encounter individuals from different backgrounds who express subtle support or interest in their cause.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by  Moses Quainoo.

[Moses Quainoo]

BWTV-AI MOD 3 – LESSON 8: BUILDING IN EMPATHY/DISTRESS

Moses Quainoo

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Look through your Outline and see if any of these as a bigger frame for your story, or if you already have it in the story, can you emphasize or expand it:

A. Crucible – SKYY LAR gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste, three seasons pass and it injures the left leg.

B. Betrayal – RAPHAEL rents SKY LAR’s roost to its girlfriend.

C. Forced Decision – SKYY LAR decides to form and lead a bird coalition against ecological destruction.

D. Hurt those they love –

E. Emotional Dilemma – EMMA must choose to stand with the Rebellion or protect her family’s reputation in the Beauty Industry.

F. Exposed –

G. Must Make Decision with Future Consequences – SKYY LAR and allies infiltrate the Beauty company’s HQ, and they will become targets.

2. Looking at your scenes, are there places you can create situations to cause more Empathy/Distress?

Step 1: Check each scene to see if you can build any of these forms of Empathy/Distress into them.

Undeserved misfortune – A falcon ambushes SKYY LAR’s freedom flight.

External character conflicts – SKYY LAR and Falcon engage in a dramatic aerial battle.

Plot intruding on life – SKYY LAR faces the looming threat of nesting area.

Plans that failed –

Witnessing the pain of others – EMMA witness SKYY LAR battling Falcon.

Extreme consequences –

Major loss – SKYY LAR loses it left leg.

Brings their wound present –

Step 2: Make those situations even worse.

Make it more painful –

Raise the stakes –

Create more loss –

Put any goal, need, value, or wound at significant risk –

Time this to be at the worst moment –

Make it more physically threatening –

3. Fill those into your current Outline and rewrite it.

5-ACT STRUCTURE =

Teaser:

Essence: SKYY LAR takes a much-deserved solo freedom flight over the London Eye. A mighty Falcon, equipped with a small, almost undetectable device, ambushes SKYY LAR. The birds engage in a fierce aerial battle. EMMA witnesses the ordeal from the ground.

Beginning: SURFACE: SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight over the London Eye. As it swoops and glides, we see both legs point backward. One leg is fitted with a prosthetic.

INTRIGUE 1: MYSTERY: What happened to the feral pigeon’s leg? What led to the injury? Why is one leg fitted with a prosthetic? What happened to SKYY LAR’s leg?

PLOT LAYER 1: SKYY LAR flight is abruptly interrupted by the sudden appearance of a Falcon.

INTRIGUE 2: CONSPIRACY: What conspiracy is happening in the avian world? What conspiracy is going on involving other species or external forces? What is the Falcon’s role in the avian world’s conspiracy? INTRIGUE 3: SECRET – The Falcon’s undetectable technological device hints at advanced, hidden agendas.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: The Falcon’s sudden appearance with an undetectable technological device. The ambush forces SKYY LAR into an intense aerial battle. Amid the chaos, the audience catches glimpses of SKYY LAR’s prosthetic leg.

INTRIGUE: MYSTERY: Where did the prosthetic come from? How has the prosthetic impacted SKYY LAR’s ability?

INTRIGUE: SECRET: The audience sees more of the prosthetic leg during the battle. (The Audience speculates about the events that led to SKYY LAR’s injury and the implications of its prosthetic for the ongoing conflict.)

INTRIGUE: WOUND: The prosthetic leg is a visual reminder of the physical and emotional wounds SKYY LAR endured. Viewers must ponder SKYY LAR’s hardships and how it persevered despite its injury. INTRIGUE: WOUND: (SKYY LAR’s prosthetic leg hints at a deeper layer to its character, yet to be fully revealed.) SKYY LAR uses the prosthetic leg to kick the Falcon’s eye. EMMA witnesses the ordeal from the ground.

TURNING POINT: A car coming towards them hit the Falcon.

Act 1: World and Character Introduction

Essence: SKYY LAR mentors young pigeons, goes to the market to seek sustenance, and gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste. EMMA discovers SKYY LAR and intervenes by de-stringing.

Beginning: Introduction to the World-EcoHaven:

INTRIGUE 1: Intriguing World – Introduction to EcoHaven, contrasting with the Ridley market

SURFACE LAYER: SKYY LAR is a dedicated squadron leader who mentors young pigeons on survival and thrives in the urban environment. INTRIGUE 2: Secret Identity – Hints at SKYY LAR’s unique role or abilities CHARACTER LAYER 1: SKYY LAR harbors a secret identity, possibly linked to its past or hidden abilities yet to be fully revealed. He is deeply connected to its habitat and the city.

INITIAL SEEDS OF DILEMMA: However, because of construction, SKYY LAR faces the looming threat of losing its nesting area. SKYY LAR needs to work on its sense of purpose or identity as a leader, questioning the effectiveness of its efforts to protect and guide its flock amidst growing environmental threats.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Flashbacks or subtle hints throughout the episode suggest SKYY LAR is not just an ordinary feral pigeon. INTRIGUE: SECRET IDENTITY: What is the true identity of this feral pigeon? Middle/Incident: SKYY LAR goes to the RIDLEY market, a hotspot for illegal wildlife trade, unknowingly supported by the Beauty Industry, for sustenance.

INTRIGUE 3: Wound – SKYY LAR’s struggle with its new physical reality and identity. SKYY LAR gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste while seeking food and cannot break free for three seasons.

SURFACE LAYER: EMMA, an innocent, compassionate, and resourceful young girl, has a budding interest in environmentalism. She discovers SKYY LAR injured. She became interested in environmental activism during a school project and had a natural inclination to help others. She helps a distressed bird, intervenes by de-stringing, and cannot save one leg. LAYER: Past Transgression: EMMA’s family has ties to the beauty industry and is involved in undercover operations against it.

Turning Point 1: SKYY LAR loses its left leg, is physically challenged, and has an emotional, how-to, and mental shift crisis.

Turning Point 2: EMMA knows the family may be connected to the source of the waste and faces a moral dilemma regarding her family’s role in environmental harm. SURFACE: SKYY LAR’s injury and its subsequent partnership with EMMA form the central mystery of the pilot.

LAYER: Mysteries: The true origin of the synthetic waste and the extent of EMMA’s family’s involvement in environmental harm are mysteries to be uncovered.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Through flashbacks, investigative scenes, and confrontations with industry representatives, the pilot gradually unravels the mysteries surrounding SKYY LAR’s injury and EMMA’s family connections.

Act 2: Conflict and Alliance Formation

Essence: EMMA takes SKYY LAR to her house and constructs a prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR to overcome barriers. While EMMA investigates the waste’s origin, SKYY LAR returns home to the community’s distress, overwhelming concern, and solidarity. RAVEN makes a strategic proposal.

Beginning: INTRODUCTION TO THE INTRIGUING WORLD:

EMMA takes SKYY LAR to her home.

SURFACE LAYER: EMMA constructs a prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR to overcome barriers.

INTRIGUE 1: Deception – EMMA’s internal conflict about her family’s actions

Character Layer: Hiding Past Transgressions: EMMA’s family has a hidden connection to the environmental harm that led to SKYY LAR’s injury. EMMA grapples with the connection while concealing her family’s involvement.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: EMMA’s conflicted emotions when faced with evidence that implicates her family in environmental harm hints at deeper secrets she’s trying to keep hidden. SKYY LAR realizes the extent of the environmental threat that led to its injury and the genuine care EMMA gives her. SKYY LAR and EMMA bond. SKYY LAR adapts to the new situation, and their bond strengthens. Conflict Introduction: EMMA investigates the origin of synthetic waste and uncovers troubling ties to her family’s investment. SKYY LAR returns to its original home under the train bridges to the extent of the communities’ distress, an overwhelming concern and solidarity.

SURFACE LAYER: RAPHAEL is an English Trumpeter Pigeon with a distinct personality and background who is indifferent. It tells SKYY LAR it rented out SKYY LAR’s roost. SKYY LAR faces a new reality. SKYY LAR acknowledges the scale of the injury and suffering witnessed among the 20,000 pigeons. The bird community has seen the adverse effects of environmental destruction firsthand. The ecological harm is not just incidental but a deliberate act by the Beauty Industry to monopolize resources, creating a direct conflict with the coalition’s goals. SKYY LAR can only protect its habitat if it forms and leads a bird coalition against ecological harm.

SURFACE LAYER: Hidden Relationship: RAVEN, a mentor figure mentors SKYY LAR and the Rebellion.

LAYER: RAVEN connects to ancient or mystical environmental knowledge and possibly a deeper connection to the events unfolding in the city. RAVEN offers guidance but, staying out of direct action, arrives from the Pembrokeshire Coast to spend the weekend.

INTRIGUE 2: Hidden Agenda – RAVEN’s mysterious proposal and his more profound understanding of the conflict.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Through cryptic advice and enigmatic behavior, RAVEN hints at a deeper understanding of the conflict and its implications. As the pilot progresses, revelations about RAVEN’s past and true identity shed light on its motivations and the significance of its role in guiding the rebellion.

INTRIGUE 3: HIDDEN LAYER – Community’s distress and the overwhelming support for SKYY LAR’s leadership.

TURNING POINT 1: RAVEN makes a strategic yet mysterious proposal for SKYY LAR to lead a collective action against environmental harm. TURNING POINT 2: Having witnessed adverse effects firsthand, the bird community supports SKYY LAR to lead the act against environmental harm.

MIDPOINT: Conflict Expansion and Revelation

IMPOSSIBLE GOAL: SKYY LAR decides/commits to forming and leading the birds’ coalition to dismantle the deeply entrenched and influential Beauty Industry, which is causing environmental destruction. It is inspired by the overwhelming support from other pigeons and RAVEN’s proposal. SKYY LAR collaborates with EMMA to broaden the group to a bird-human alliance.

TURNING POINT 3: EMMA stands up for her environmental beliefs rather than protecting her family’s interests.

SURFACE: SKYY LAR’s injury forces it to confront its limitations and redefine its leadership role.

LAYER: Major Shift in Meaning: The discovery of the global conspiracy reshapes the rebellion’s goals and strategies, leading to a fundamental shift in their approach to combating environmental harm.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: The pilot culminates in a pivotal moment where SKYY LAR and its allies uncover the true scope of the Beauty Industry’s activities, prompting them to reassess their tactics and alliances. This revelation sets the stage for future conflicts and challenges as the rebellion prepares to confront the industry head-on.

Act 3: Challenges, Strategy Development and Infiltration, Discovery. Deepening of the Conflict:

Essence: SKYY LAR forms a core group, recruits RAVEN and skeptical RAPHAEL, and collaborates with EMMA. DR. GREEN joins. SKYY LAR and allies conduct peaceful fly-pasts, demand action from Industry, and infiltrate a Beauty Company Headquarters to gather evidence. The rebellion uncovers a global conspiracy that threatens their cause.

Beginning: SKYY LAR recruits RAVEN as a mentor and core member. SKYY LAR recruits RAPHAEL, who grows interested, prompted by realizations about the crisis.

SURFACE LAYER: RAPHAEL shifts his trajectory towards greater involvement. SKYY collaborates with EMMA to broaden the group with a human alliance.

SURFACE LAYER: DR. GREEN is an environmental scientist working on an ecological technology. She is focused on her research and somewhat detached from grassroots movements.

CHARACTER LAYER: DECEPTION: DR. AVA GREEN has a controversial past in the beauty industry and maintains secret connections to whistleblowers.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Clues about DR. AVA GREEN’s past and hidden agenda emerge as he becomes more deeply involved with the rebellion. His interactions with other characters gradually expose his true motivations, mainly when he exhibits conflicting loyalties or conceals information. She encounters SKYY LAR and allies and chooses her innovative scientific discovery that could benefit the beauty industry by withholding it to support the coalition’s cause. She aligns her scientific expertise with SKYY LAR and EMMA’s coalition, seeing an opportunity to apply her work more effectively. (DR. GREEN joins and offers technological help). DR. AVA GREEN is an expert in a specific field of biotechnology that can counteract the harm of the beauty industry, making her role pivotal in the coalition’s strategy. RAVEN emphasizes the need for logical strategies, focusing on specific campaign targets and methods, while the coalition establishes communication networks, safe havens, and resource channels. He becomes increasingly aware of the potential risks and consequences of fully committing to the cause, including jeopardizing his interests and safety. RAPHAEL is approached by factions with conflicting interests who seek to exploit his hesitation for their own gain, further complicating his decision-making process. PLOT LAYER: Blackmail: RAPHAEL is coerced into greater involvement through blackmail, forcing him to make difficult choices to protect himself or his interests.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Subtle hints or cryptic conversations imply that RAPHAEL is being manipulated or pressured into taking a more active role in the coalition, raising questions about his motives and loyalties.

LAYER: CONSPIRACY/SECRET MEETINGS: Raphael is engaged in secret negotiations with factions tied to the Beauty Industry. He is also observed having secret meetings with a group of pigeons tied to the Beauty Industry. These clandestine gatherings arouse suspicion among the alliance members, who wonder about Raphael’s true allegiances. DILEMMA INTENSIFIES: (SKYY LAR’s dilemma intensifies as the coalition gains momentum and begins confronting the Beauty Industry’s harmful practices.)

SURFACE LAYER: SKYY LAR and allies conducted a peaceful fly-past to raise awareness of the Beauty Industry’s environmental impact. EMMA complements it with a social media campaign. They write ‘Beauty Industry chemicals harmful’ in the sky. EMMA uses social media platforms to spread the same message and increase awareness. The campaign aims to pressure the industry to change harmful practices, such as adopting sustainable sourcing, reducing waste, and committing to eco-friendly manufacturing processes.

SITUATION LAYER: A wrong person turns good

A member of the Beauty Industry unexpectedly joins the coalition after witnessing the harmful effects of their practices, leading to a shift in alliances and strategies.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: A key figure from the Beauty Industry expresses remorse or takes a stand against their own company’s unethical actions, surprising both the coalition and viewers alike and prompting a reevaluation of their goals and tactics. SKYY LAR meets a Beauty Industry representative, presents the Rebellion’s case, and demands action. The 20,000 pigeons and other coalition members highly expect change and protection. The Beauty Industry dismisses the Rebellion’s effort as a minor nuisance, exaggerated ‘Sky rats,’ and portrays itself as environmentally responsible. Some industry players employ intimidation tactics to create internal fear and division. As a result, one fruit pigeon died, and people suspected the industry had caused it. RAPHAEL doubts the coalition’s potential impact and fears the results of taking a definitive stand. He chooses his benefit for the well-being of the alliance. RAVEN projects confidence and proposes action plans for the coalition in memory of a dead member. However, RAVEN is concerned that the coalition’s actions might provoke a severe backlash, endangering the movement and the broader avian community. EMMA fears her actions might expose her to danger as she delves deeper into activism.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: As EMMA delves deeper into activism, she struggles with her family’s involvement in environmental harm, leading to conflicts and moral dilemmas. Clues about her family connections and secret activities are gradually revealed through subtle interactions and discoveries made by other characters. SKYY LAR is still determining its ability to lead effectively with its new physical limitations and fears potential harm to its followers.

CHARACTER LAYER: Hidden Agenda: SKYY LAR has a hidden agenda to infiltrate and disrupt key facilities of the Beauty Industry.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Throughout the pilot, subtle hints are dropped about SKYY LAR’s true intentions, such as secretive conversations with other birds and moments where it shows knowledge beyond its apparent role as a mentor. The coalition must now operate under the threat of constant surveillance, complicating their efforts to mobilize and act. SKYY LAR hides his fears and infiltrates the Beauty Company’s HQ to gather evidence to prioritize avian safety. INTRIGUE 1: Mystery – Infiltration of the Beauty Industry’s headquarters.

The mission is fraught with danger. They identified SKYY LAR as the critical figure. The Beauty Industry implemented advanced measures to hide its environmentally harmful practices, making it challenging for the Rebellion to find direct evidence. SKYY LAR and allies stumble on hidden information through a whistleblower revealing the industry’s broader, more sinister involvement in global environmental degradation.

INTRIGUE 2: Conspiracy – Uncovering the global conspiracy.

Sabotage Attempts: This is an instance where the alliance’s plans are compromised, leading to failed missions and potential danger for the members. Some evidence points to internal sabotage, and Raphael’s behavior during these incidents raises doubts about his loyalty. INTRIGUE 3: Accusation – RAPHAEL’s loyalty is questioned.

The Rebellion needs concrete evidence to convince the public and authorities. SKYY LAR questions its leadership in the face of a new challenge.

Turning Point 1: SKYY LAR and allies infiltrate a Beauty Industry facility and gather evidence.

Turning Point 2: The Industry covered its trail, and the Rebellion uncovered the global conspiracy.

Turning Point 3: SKYY LAR becomes a target.

SURFACE LAYER: SKYY LAR and allies uncover a global conspiracy from a whistleblower and become targets.

LAYER: ONGOING CONSPIRACIES: The beauty industry is orchestrating a larger conspiracy involving global environmental degradation.

Act 4: Complications Intensify: (Echoes Teaser) Mystery 2:

Essence: SKYY LAR takes a much-deserved solo freedom flight over the London Eye. A Falcon, equipped with a small, almost undetectable device, ambushes SKYY LAR, and a fierce aerial battle ensues. Beginning:

SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight over the London Eye. As it swoops and glides, we see both legs point backward. One leg is fitted with a prosthetic.

INTRIGUE: MYSTERY: What happened to the feral pigeon’s leg? What led to the injury? Why is one leg fitted with a prosthetic? SKYY LAR flight is abruptly interrupted by the sudden appearance of a Falcon with an undetectable technological device.

INTRIGUE 1: Secret Identity – The Falcon’s Connection to the Beauty Industry. The ambush forces SKYY LAR into an intense aerial battle. Amid the chaos, the audience catches glimpses of SKYY LAR’s prosthetic leg.

INTRIGUE: MYSTERY: Where did the prosthetic come from? How has the prosthetic impacted SKYY LAR’s ability?

INTRIGUE: SECRET: The audience sees more of the prosthetic leg during the battle. (The Audience speculates about the events that led to SKYY LAR’s injury and the implications of its prosthetic for the ongoing conflict.)

INTRIGUE: WOUND: The prosthetic leg is a visual reminder of the physical and emotional wounds SKYY LAR endured. Viewers must ponder SKYY LAR’s hardships and how it persevered despite its injury. INTRIGUE: WOUND: (SKYY LAR’s prosthetic leg hints at a deeper layer to its character, yet to be fully revealed.) SKYY LAR uses the prosthetic leg to kick the Falcon’s eye. EMMA witnesses the ordeal from the ground.

INTRIGUE 2: Deception – The true extent of the Beauty Industry’s cover-up operations.

INTRIGUE 3: Wound – SKYY LAR’s personal battle mirrored in the larger conflict.

Turning Point 1: A car coming towards them hit the Falcon. The mission’s outcome reveals sinister aspects of the Industry’s agenda, with RAPHAEL’s loyalty and RAVEN’s intentions under intense scrutiny. Turning Point 2: The coalition’s discovery of the Beauty Industry’s cover-up operations intensifies the conflict and sets up future confrontations.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: SKYY LAR and the rebellion delve deeper into their investigation; they stumble on clues suggesting a more significant and sinister agenda behind the industry’s actions. A whistleblower or critical piece of evidence unveils the scope of the conspiracy, setting the stage for future conflicts.

Act 5: Climactic Confrontation and Future Directions

Essence: The coalition reconsiders its strategies and fortifies its resolve on the ongoing threat from the beauty industry.

INTRIGUE 1: SECRET – RAPHAEL’s potential double-agent role.

INTRIGUE 2: CONSPIRACY – The Beauty Industry’s retaliatory strategies. INTRIGUE 3: STRANGE BEHAVIOR – RAPHAEL’s actions under scrutiny. The Beauty Industry might initiate legal actions against the Rebellion members, framing them as extremists or criminals who must face arrests or legal battles, diverting the group’s focus and resources. Responding to these threats and complications requires resources, which might drain the Rebellion’s already limited assets, impacting their ability to operate effectively. Some members might advocate aggressive actions against the beauty industry, shifting from their original non-violent stance, leading to legal repercussions, public backlash, or even personal harm.

HOW THE LAYER IS REVEALED: Suspicion arises among the rebellion members as RAPHAEL’s behavior becomes increasingly questionable. Secret meetings and clandestine activities hint at RAPHAEL’s double-agent role, creating tension and uncertainty within the group.

Turning Point: RAPHAEL’s allegiance is questioned, creating uncertainty for the next episodes.

CLIFFHANGER: Doubts about RAPHAEL’s allegiance introduce a critical moment of uncertainty, propelling the narrative into future episodes.

LOCK-IN: After SKYY LAR loses a left leg, forming and leading a birds-human alliance, shifts its role and responsibility to activism, public commitment, and action, becomes a target and venerable, psychologically transformed, committed to community and relationships, conducts a peaceful fly-past, demands action from Industry, infiltrating Beauty HQ’s facility. SKYY LAR feels alive again. It is doing what he does better and will continue for a very long time until death does it part on the sixth birthday.

AI GENERATED

5-Act Structure to evoke deeper emotional connections

Teaser:

Undeserved Misfortune: SKYY LAR’s peaceful flight interrupted by an aggressive Falcon showcases a clear instance of undeserved misfortune.

Witnessing the Pain of Others: EMMA witnesses SKYY LAR’s struggle, creating immediate empathy for both characters.

Improve: Delve deeper into SKYY LAR’s reaction to this ambush, emphasizing its confusion and pain to heighten audience empathy.

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Act 1: World and Character
Introduction

External Character Conflicts: SKYY LAR’s mentoring role juxtaposed with its injury showcases external conflicts impacting its life.

Plot Intruding on Life: The looming threat of losing its nesting area intrudes significantly on SKYY LAR’s life and its sense of identity.

Improve: Highlight the young pigeons’ reactions to SKYY LAR’s condition, deepening the sense of community distress and empathy.

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Act 2: Conflict and Alliance
Formation

Plans that Failed: SKYY LAR’s efforts to protect its community are undermined by the waste entanglement.

Major Loss: SKYY LAR loses its leg, a tangible symbol of its sacrifice and commitment.

Forced Decision: EMMA’s confrontation with her family’s role in environmental harm forces her into a moral dilemma.

Improve: Amplify the emotional weight of SKYY LAR’s injury and EMMA’s family revelations, possibly through more direct interactions showcasing their internal struggles.

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Act 3: Challenges, Strategy
Development, and Infiltration

Betrayal: RAPHAEL’s potential hidden agendas and secret meetings introduce the theme of betrayal.

Crucible: The infiltration of the Beauty Company Headquarters serves as a crucible, testing the characters’ resolve and unity.

Improve: Clarify the stakes during the infiltration, showcasing how the discoveries directly impact each character, especially SKYY LAR, to enhance the sense of personal investment and danger.

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Act 4: Complications Intensify

Exposed: The Falcon’s connection to the Beauty Industry and the conspiracy’s unveiling exposes the characters to greater dangers.

Extreme Consequences: The discovery of the cover-up operations reveals the extreme consequences of the Beauty Industry’s actions.

Improve: Intensify the Falcon’s menacing presence, tying its actions back to SKYY LAR’s past and the overarching conspiracy, to reinforce the emotional stakes and the sense of impending danger.

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Act 5: Climactic Confrontation and
Future Directions

Emotional Dilemma: RAPHAEL’s conflicted loyalties create an emotional dilemma that resonates with the audience.

Hurt Those They Love: The potential for the characters’ actions to have unintended negative impacts on their community heightens the emotional tension.

Improve: Deepen the portrayal of RAPHAEL’s inner conflict, showing his emotional turmoil and the repercussions of his actions on his relationships within the coalition, to create a more impactful cliffhanger.

[Moses Quainoo]

Moses Quainoo

GROUP RELEASE FORM

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1. I will keep the class processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models confidential. 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 available to anyone who is not a member of this class.

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I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or discuss this information with anyone outside this group.

3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes. Occasionally, 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 or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea before 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 prove 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 offered them. 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 public manner and/or prevent me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios, or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.

I agree to the terms of this release form.

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[Moses Quainoo]

My Name is Moses Quainoo

Yesterday, 01/04/24, I was looking to introduce myself at Writing Incredible Movies with AI and sign the confidentiality agreement.

I see WIM 9 – Where am I? Can someone please tell me where I am?

Today, 02/04/24, I successfully logged into Writing Incredible Movies with AI, watched the video, and want to sign the confidentiality agreement.

Am I in the right place?

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[Moses Quainoo]

BWTV-AI MOD 3 – LESSON 7: MYSTERIES AND OPEN LOOPS

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Look through your current Outline and find opportunities for at least 5 Open Loops and 5 Mysteries in the plot or about the Characters.

List them like this:

Main Mystery:

What are the global conspiracy and ultimate goals of the Beauty Industry?

Sub-Mysteries:

Who is the undercover ally in the Beauty Industry supporting the Rebellion, and what motivates them?

How do Dr. Ava Green’s secret experiments in the Beauty Industry affect her current behavior?

Who is responsible for the technologically advanced Falcon and its origin?

Main Open Loop:

Can SKYY LAR and the coalition uncover and dismantle the global conspiracy of the Beauty Industry, and what will it take?

Sub-Open Loops:

How will the coalition adjust to the growing targeting from the Beauty Industry?

How will the coalition endure the growing targeting from the Beauty Industry?

How will the coalition’s actions affect urban wildlife and the broader ecosystem?

What will be the resolution to Raphael’s internal conflict and wavering loyalty?

Which side will Raphael ultimately align with?

Why are SKYY LAR’s freedom flights necessary?

What does SKYY LAR represent in its journey?

2. Look through your Outline to see if you can build in at least one mystery and open loop into each Act of your outline.

Teaser

Mystery = Why is the pigeon in the sky?

Open-Loop = What type of pigeon is in the sky? Is it a bionic pigeon? What is it up to? Why is it fitted with a prosthetic leg? What nails/talons are after/chasing/about to attack the pigeon? Why?

Act 1

Mystery = How did SKYY LAR reach squaddie status?

Open-Loop = Will SKYY LAR ever break free from the string/waste?

Act 2

Mystery = Does SKYY LAR’s roost belong to RAPHAEL? Why has it rented it out to its girlfriend?

Open-Loop = How will she pay for the roost?

Act 3

Mystery = How did the Rebellion find the Beauty Company Headquarters?

Open-Loop = How will the five-year-old EMMA transport herself or travel around as an activist without parental knowledge?

Act 4

Mystery = Why is the pigeon in the sky/navigating?

Open-Loop = What type of pigeon is in the sky? Is it a bionic pigeon? What is it up to? Why is it fitted with a prosthetic leg? What nails/talons are after/chasing/about to attack the pigeon? Why?

Act 5

Mystery =

Open-Loop =

3. Add those to the Outline.

4. Tell us which Open Loops and Mysteries you’ve added and what the effect is on the interest level of the Outline.

5. Use this PROMPT with AI to ensure your mysteries are strong.

I’m going to give you my [5 Act Structure] for a [Format/Genre] TV series about [Concept]. Please check the following and tell me each part of the Mystery that is currently shown and how I can improve the A, B, and C. Label each one with the word “Improve:” on its own line, and please bold the word “Improve.”

Mystery 1 provides:

A. Shocking Event:

B. Secret:

C. Investigation:

Mystery 2 starts in the Pilot and continues throughout Season 1, providing:

A. Cover up:

B. Secret:

C. Reveals:

[Mystery 1] begins the Pilot. [Mystery 2] is established at the end of the Pilot. The [Intriguing World] is introduced in Act 2. The [Impossible Goal] is established at the Midpoint or in the 2nd half of the Pilot.

Mystery 1 = What entangled SKYY LAR, and why? What are the properties of the synthetic material and the manufacturer?

Mystery 2 = Impact of the Beauty Industry’s synthetic compounds on wildlife. What is the true extent and nature of the Beauty Industry’s influence and plans regarding environmental destruction?

Impossible Goal = How to dismantle the deeply entrenched and globally influential Beauty Industry, causing widespread environmental destruction.

Intriguing World = EcoHaven: A Dynamic Urban Sanctuary

EcoHaven is a unique sub-world in London that highlights how the Beauty Industry affects the environment and its inhabitants. The sanctuary-like space combines nature, technology, and community in the city’s heart.

Major Conflict = The conflict concerns economic interests and environmental sustainability. The beauty Industry is a powerful business with significant influence and resources that causes widespread ecological harm in pursuit of profit. The Rebellion/alliance is against the Beauty Industry’s detrimental environmental practices.

(Format/Genre) = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

(Concept) = SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

5 Act Structure =

Teaser:

Essence: SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight over the London Eye. A Falcon ambushes and assaults SKYY LAR and a dramatic aerial battle ensues. EMMA witnesses the ordeal from the ground.

Turning Point: A car coming towards them hits the Falcon.

Act 1:

Essence: SKYY LAR mentors young pigeons, goes to the market to seek sustenance, and gets trapped in synthetic waste. EMMA discovers SKYY LAR and intervenes by de-stringing.

Turning Point: SKYY LAR loses its left leg.

Beginning:

Introduction to the World/World and Character Introduction

SKYY LAR, a squadron leader, mentors five hundred young pigeons on urban survival and thrives. He is deeply connected to its habitat and the city. However, because of construction, SKYY LAR faces the looming threat of losing its nesting area.

SKYY LAR needs to work on its sense of purpose or identity as a leader, questioning the effectiveness of its efforts to protect and guide its flock amidst growing environmental threats.

Middle/Incident:

SKYY LAR goes to the Ridley market to seek sustenance and gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste. It cannot break free, and three seasons pass.

Ending: EMMA discovers SKYY LAR and intervenes by de-stringing.

Turning Point 1: EMMA knows that the family may be connected to the source of the waste.

Turning Point 2:

SKYY LAR loses its left leg.

Act 2:

Essence:

Conflict and Alliance Formation

EMMA constructs a prosthetic leg, and SKYY LAR bonds with her. SKYY LAR returns home to the community’s distress, overwhelming concern, and solidarity. RAVEN makes a strategic proposal.

Turning Point: The bird community supports SKYY LAR to act against environmental harm.

MIDPOINT:

Conflict Expansion and Revelation

SKYY LAR commits to forming and leading a birds’ coalition against environmental destruction and collaborates with EMMA to broaden the human alliance.

Act 3:

Essence:

Challenges and Strategy Development

SKYY LAR forms a core group, recruits RAVEN, skeptical RAPHAEL, and collaborates with EMMA. DR. GREEN joins.

Infiltration and Discovery

SKYY LAR and allies infiltrate a Beauty Company Headquarters to gather evidence. It is fraught with danger and moral dilemmas, especially for EMMA, which grapples with conflicting loyalties.

The rebellion uncovers a global conspiracy that threatens their cause.

The mission’s outcome reveals sinister aspects of the Industry’s agenda, with RAPHAEL’s loyalty and RAVEN’s intentions under intense scrutiny.

Turning Point 1: EMMA’s decision to form a coalition against the Beauty Industry marks a pivotal shift from individual struggle to collective resistance as she confronts her family’s legacy.

Turning Point 2: The Industry covered its trail, and the Rebellion uncovered the global conspiracy.

Act 4:

Essence: SKYY LAR enjoys a freedom flight over the London Eye. A mighty Falcon ambushes SKYY LAR, and an aerial battle ensues.

Turning Point 1: A car coming towards them hits the Falcon.

Turning Point 2: The coalition’s discovery of the Beauty Industry’s cover-up operations intensifies the conflict and sets up future confrontations.

Act 5:

Climactic Confrontation and Future Directions

The coalition’s bold actions against the Beauty Industry led to a significant confrontation, underscoring the deep-rooted environmental and ethical issues.

Cliffhanger: A surprising betrayal within the coalition poses a new threat, leaving the future uncertain and the audience eager for the next episode. Doubts about RAPHAEL’s allegiance introduce critical uncertainty, propelling the narrative into future episodes.

Lock In: After losing the left leg, forming and leading a birds-human alliance, publicly committed and action, psychologically transformed, reinforcing community and relationships, infiltrating the Beauty Company’s facility, and becoming targets, SKYY LAR feels alive again. It is doing what he does better and will continue for a very long time until death does it part on the sixth birthday.

AI GENERATED

Mystery 1:

A. Shocking Event: SKYY LAR gets entangled in synthetic waste, leading to a significant injury.
Improve:
To deepen the mystery, provide hints or visual clues during the entanglement scene that suggest the synthetic waste is not just random debris but part of a more extensive, sinister operation by the Beauty Industry.

B. Secret: The synthetic material’s properties and its manufacturer are unknown.
Improve:
Introduce subtle clues or discrepancies at the entanglement scene that pique curiosity about the material’s origin, perhaps hinting at a unique, unnatural quality or a cryptic logo.

C. Investigation: The inquiry into the material and its origins.
Improve:
Showcase a more dynamic investigation process, perhaps involving other characters or experts, to unravel the mystery, which can also serve as a vehicle for revealing more about the world and the stakes involved.

Mystery 2:

A. Cover-up: The Beauty Industry’s efforts to hide the impact of their synthetic compounds on wildlife.
Improve:
Reveal the extent of the cover-up gradually, showing its impact on different levels, from local businesses to global operations, to illustrate the pervasive influence of the Industry.

B. Secret: The true extent and nature of the Beauty Industry’s influence and plans.
Improve:
Peel back layers of the secret in stages, not just through the Rebellion’s findings but also through leaks, insider testimonies, or unexpected discoveries, adding complexity to the narrative.

C. Reveals: The gradual uncovering of the Industry’s global conspiracy.
Improve:
Ensure that each reveal is connected to character development or plot advancement, preventing the disclosures from seeming expositional devices. Each reveal should escalate the tension and stakes.

Regarding the Intriguing World and Impossible Goal:

Intriguing World – EcoHaven:
Improve:
Deepen the world-building by showing contrasts within EcoHaven itself—areas where nature triumphs versus regions under threat. This can symbolize the broader battle and provide a tangible backdrop for the Rebellion’s efforts.

Impossible Goal – Dismantling the Beauty Industry:
Improve:
Highlight early on this goal’s David vs. Goliath nature through character dialogues, media snippets, or the visual scale of the Industry’s influence versus the Rebellion’s humble beginnings, setting the stage for an epic journey.

[Moses Quainoo]

BWTV-AI MOD 3 – LESSON 5: LAYERS AND REVEALS

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Assuming that you can build in one or more of these into each Act, list the Layers and Reveals that could fit into each act of the Pilot.

Act 1

Surface: SKYY LAR is a feral pigeon.

Layer beneath: SKYY LAR is a Squadron Leader.

How Revealed: SKYY LAR mentors five hundred pigeons on survival and thrives in the urban environment.

Surface: EMMA tries de-stringing.

Beneath Surface Layer: The synthetic waste severely injures SKYY LAR’s left leg and leaves it impossible to save.

How Revealed: EMMA carefully cuts through the entangling synthetic waste, only to discover the extent of the injury. The left leg reveals a severe injury, so EMMA pauses.

Act 2

Surface: RAPHAEL tells SKYY LAR its roost has been rented out.

Layer beneath: RAPHAEL is a doubtful character.

How Revealed: A female pigeon emerges behind the pigeon’s spikes and flies off. She was RAPHAEL’s girlfriend.

Act 3

Surface: SKYY LAR recruits RAVEN as its mentor.

Layer beneath: SKYY LAR puts RAVEN into the core group.

How Revealed: RAVEN strategically advises the Rebellion on the campaign.

Act 4

Surface:

Layer beneath:

How Revealed:

Act 5

Surface:

Layer beneath:

How Revealed:

2. Look through your current outline and look for opportunities for Layers and revelations in the plot, situation, or characters.

Situation Reveal: The market where SKYY LAR gets trapped is a hotspot for illegal wildlife trade, unknowingly supported by the Beauty Industry.

Plot Reveal: The environmental harm is not just incidental but a deliberate act by the Beauty Industry to monopolize resources, creating a direct conflict with the coalition’s goals.

Character Reveal: Dr. AVA GREEN is an expert in a specific field of biotechnology that can counteract the harm done by the Beauty Industry, making her role pivotal in the coalition’s strategy.

3. Add those Layers and Reveals to the current version of your Pilot Outline.

I’m going to give you my TV series [Pilot Structure] and lead [Character Profiles], and possible ways [Hidden Layers] could show up in that Pilot structure.

Hidden Layers =

PLOT LAYERS

Ongoing conspiracies.

A scheme to undermine.

Blackmail.

Mystery revealed.

Hidden plan.

Major shift in meaning.

CHARACTER LAYERS

Secret identity.

Hiding their past transgressions.

Conspiring with others.

Deception.

Secret history revealed.

Hidden relationships.

Wound.

SITUATION LAYERS

A good idea turns out to be wrong.

A resource dries up or is taken away.

A trap.

Betrayal.

Been lied to.

An evil person turns good.

A solution is uncovered.

Please do the following with that information. Discover possible layers and ways they can be revealed inside the pilot structure and give them to us like this:

Surface:

Layer:

How the layer is revealed:

Please give us Character layers, Plot layers, and Situation layers that could fit into the pilot.

Pilot Structure =

5 Act Structure =

Teaser: SKYY LAR enjoys a tranquil flight over the London Eye, showcasing the beauty and freedom of its world.

Suddenly, a technologically enhanced Falcon attacks, introducing immediate conflict and hinting at a more significant threat.

Turning Point: An unexpected car collision with the Falcon hints at the broader, unseen dangers in SKYY LAR’s world.

Act 1: World and Character Introduction

SKYY LAR is shown as a dedicated leader and mentor to urban pigeons, establishing its deep connection to the urban environment. A crisis unfolds as SKYY LAR becomes trapped in synthetic waste at the market. This leads to a dramatic rescue by EMMA, who faces a moral dilemma linked to her family’s involvement in the Beauty Industry.

Turning Point: The loss of SKYY LAR’s leg signifies a profound change in its life and introduces EMMA’s internal conflict regarding her family’s role in environmental harm.

Act 2: Conflict and Alliance Formation

As EMMA creates a prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR, their bond strengthens, highlighting a key human-animal relationship. SKYY LAR’s return to its community exposes the broader environmental crisis, prompting RAVEN’s strategic yet mysterious proposal for collective action.

Turning Point: EMMA’s decision to form a coalition against the Beauty Industry marks a pivotal shift from individual struggle to collective resistance as she confronts her family’s legacy.

MIDPOINT: Conflict Expansion and Revelation

The solidifying alliance between SKYY LAR and EMMA is tested as they uncover the Beauty Industry’s broader detrimental impact, escalating the narrative conflict. This midpoint revelation expands the show’s thematic scope, emphasizing environmental and ethical challenges.

Act 3: Challenges and Strategy Development

The newly formed coalition, led by SKYY LAR, begins to strategize, showcasing the diverse strengths of the urban wildlife community. RAPHAEL’s ambiguous loyalty and DR. GREEN’s technological contribution introduce internal complexities and potential external threats.

Turning Point: The act ends with the coalition’s preparation for a confrontation with the Beauty Industry, emphasizing their commitment and the heightened stakes.

Act 4: Infiltration and Discovery (Echoes Teaser)

The coalition’s infiltration mission into the Beauty Industry is fraught with danger and moral dilemmas, especially for EMMA, who struggles with conflicting loyalties. The mission’s outcome reveals sinister aspects of the Industry’s agenda, with RAPHAEL’s loyalty and RAVEN’s intentions under intense scrutiny.

Turning Point: The coalition’s discovery of the Beauty Industry’s cover-up operations intensifies the conflict and sets up future confrontations.

Act 5: Climactic Confrontation and Future Directions

The coalition’s bold actions against the Beauty Industry led to a significant confrontation, underscoring the deep-rooted environmental and ethical issues.

Cliffhanger: Doubts about RAPHAEL’s allegiance introduce a critical moment of uncertainty, propelling the narrative into future episodes.

Lock-In: SKYY LAR’s reaffirmed leadership and the coalition’s resolved stance against the Beauty Industry set a clear trajectory for the series, emphasizing ongoing struggles for ecological justice and the potential for more profound revelations about the characters’ pasts and motives.

Character Profiles =

SKYY LAR – Rebellion Leader

EMMA – Conscientious Ally

DR. AVA GREEN- Environmental Scientist

RAPHAEL- Doubtful participant

RAVEN- SKYY LAR’s Mentor

Enhanced 5-Act Structure with Integrated Changes:

Act 1:

Surface: SKYY LAR is shown as a dedicated leader and mentor to urban pigeons, highlighting its deep connection to the urban environment.

Layer for SKYY LAR: Flashes of SKYY LAR’s past or glimpses of unusual abilities surface during a crisis, suggesting a secret past possibly linked to enhanced intelligence.

Layer for EMMA: While assisting SKYY LAR, EMMA begins to uncover dark secrets about her family’s connection to the Beauty Industry. Her investigation or accidental discoveries trigger a deeper conflict within her, challenging her understanding of her family and her role in the rebellion.

Act 2:

Surface: The bond between SKYY LAR and EMMA strengthens as she creates a prosthetic leg for him while SKYY LAR’s community reels from the environmental crisis.

Layer for EMMA: As EMMA delves deeper into her family’s secrets, her inner turmoil intensifies, revealing her growing conflict and forcing her to question her values and decisions.

Layer for RAVEN: RAVEN presents as a wise mentor and offers strategic advice and propositions that subtly indicate he may have a hidden agenda or a mysterious past affecting the rebellion’s direction and strategy.

Act 3:

Surface: The coalition, now formed, begins to strategize against the Beauty Industry, showcasing the unity and diversity of urban wildlife.

Layer for DR. AVA GREEN: Dr. Green’s contributions are shadowed by veiled references and subtle behaviors that hint at a controversial past project, stirring suspicion and trust issues within the coalition.

Layer for RAPHAEL: RAPHAEL’s loyalty comes under scrutiny as hints of his past associations with the Beauty Industry surface, adding tension and uncertainty to his role within the coalition.

Ongoing conspiracies and a potential trap: The coalition’s actions against the Beauty Industry might be walking into a trap, unveiling the extent of the Industry’s scheming and preparedness.

Act 4:

Surface: The infiltration mission brings the coalition face-to-face with the Beauty Industry’s defenses, heightening the tension and stakes.

Layer for RAPHAEL: The mission becomes a crucible for Raphael as his hidden past and potential ties to the Beauty Industry are exposed, complicating the coalition’s dynamics and testing their trust.

Hidden plan and betrayal: The Falcon’s attack, now understood as part of a broader scheme, signals a significant conspiracy, possibly linked to SKYY LAR’s unique traits. Raphael’s actions or decisions during this act could lead to a substantial betrayal, undermining the coalition’s efforts.

Act 5:

Surface: The climax intensifies as the coalition’s campaign against the Beauty Industry reaches a critical point, with significant revelations and decisions reshaping the battle.

Major shift in meaning: The narrative’s focus shifts as Dr. Green’s past comes to light, revealing his controversial project and its implications for the fight against the Beauty Industry, potentially altering the coalition’s strategy and moral compass.

A solution is uncovered: Amidst the turmoil, a breakthrough related to SKYY LAR’s unique abilities or Dr. Green’s past research emerges as a potential key to countering the Beauty Industry’s threats, offering new hope and direction for the rebellion.

4. Tell us which Layers, Cover Ups, and Reveals you’ve added to the Outline.

Act 1

Surface: SKYY LAR is a dedicated mentor and leader to the pigeons. Layer: SKYY LAR has a secret past possibly linked to enhanced abilities or intelligence.

How the layer is revealed: Flashes of SKYY LAR’s past or unusual abilities surface during moments of crisis or decision-making.

Surface: EMMA is a young girl helping SKYY LAR.

Layer: EMMA discovers her family’s dark secrets connected to the Beauty Industry.

How the layer is revealed: Her investigations or accidental discoveries reveal a deeper conflict within her about her role in the rebellion.

Act 2 =

Surface: EMMA is a young girl helping SKYY LAR.

Layer: EMMA discovers her family’s dark secrets connected to the Beauty Industry.

How the layer is revealed: Her investigations or accidental discoveries reveal a deeper conflict within her about her role in the rebellion.

Surface: A wise mentor to SKYY LAR.

Layer: Raven has a mysterious past and potentially a different agenda than he presents.

How the layer is revealed: Through cryptic advice or actions that subtly influence the rebellion’s direction, hinting at deeper motives.

Act 3 =

Surface: A scientist aiding the rebellion.

Layer: Dr. Green struggles with his past, possibly hiding a controversial project that could impact the current situation.

How the layer is revealed: Subtle hints or a critical revelation about his previous work challenge the group’s trust in him.

Surface: A pigeon with uncertain loyalties.

Layer: Raphael’s past dealings or hidden connections to the Beauty Industry come to light.

How the layer is revealed: Through confrontations or leaked information, adding tension to his interactions with the coalition.

Ongoing conspiracies: The Beauty Industry’s broader schemes are hinted at, affecting the city’s environment and possibly connected to SKYY LAR’s past.

A trap: The coalition’s infiltration mission may walk into a trap, revealing the Beauty Industry’s preparedness.

Act 4 =

Surface: A pigeon with uncertain loyalties.

Layer: Raphael’s past dealings or hidden connections to the Beauty Industry come to light.

How the layer is revealed: Through confrontations or leaked information, adding tension to his interactions with the coalition.

Hidden plan: The Falcon’s attack is part of a larger plan, possibly linked to a conspiracy involving SKYY LAR’s unique traits.

Betrayal: Raphael’s potential betrayal could be pivotal, testing the coalition’s unity.

Act 5 =

Major shift in meaning: The fight against the Beauty Industry takes on a new dimension with the revelation of Dr. Green’s past, shifting the narrative’s focus.

A solution is uncovered: A breakthrough in understanding SKYY LAR’s unique abilities or Dr. Green’s past work might offer a new way to combat the Industry’s threats.

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[Moses Quainoo]

BWTV-AI MOD 3 – LESSON 4: CHARACTER STORY LINES

Moses Quainoo

ASSIGNMENT

1. Start with a main character and your source material: BW Framework and TV Pitch Bible.

2. Create a beginning, middle, and end of the character’s story for the pilot.

CHARACTER: SKYY LAR

Beginning: SKYY LAR a Squadron Leader who mentors young pigeons about survival skills and thriving in the city. SKYY LAR is a competent leader who commands respect within its community.

Due to construction, SKYY LAR faces the looming threat of losing its nesting area. It needs to work on its sense of purpose or identity as a leader, questioning the effectiveness of its efforts to protect and guide its flock amidst growing environmental threats.

Middle:

SKYY LAR gets trapped in synthetic waste. EMMA discovers SKYY LAR and intervenes but cannot save the left leg. EMMA constructs a prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR to overcome barriers, and SKYY LAR realizes the extent of the environmental threat that led to its injury.

SKYY LAR must choose between the safety of avian community and taking bold action against the Beauty Industry. SKYY LAR chooses the latter.

SKYY LAR leads a coalition against the Beauty industry and discovers a global conspiracy.

End:

SKYY LAR was once a leader concerned with survival. Now SKYY LAR heads an environmental movement.

CHARACTER: EMMA’S STORYLINE

Beginning:

EMMA is an innocent, a compassionate and resourceful young girl. She became interested in environmental activism during a school project and has a natural inclination to help others.

Middle:

EMMA discovers SKYY LAR injured and intervenes. She is willing to help a distressed bird but cannot save one of its legs. She creates a prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR and bonds.

She collaborates with SKYY LAR in forming a coalition, showing her commitment to the movement and becoming a young environmental activist.

End:

EMMA transitions from a helpful bystander to an active participant in the environmental cause.

CHARACTER: DR. AVA GREEN’S STORYLINE

Beginning:

Middle:

End:

CHARACTER: RAPHAEL’S STORYLINE

Beginning:

Middle:

End:

CHARACTER: RAVEN’S STORYLINE

Beginning:

Middle:

End:

3. Add the rest of the structure to the characters for the Pilot.

[Moses Quainoo]

BWTV-AI MOD 3 – LESSON 3: CREATING
YOUR PILOT STRUCTURE

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Present the first draft of your Pilot Acts.

Teaser:

Essence: SKYY LAR takes a solo freedom flight over the London Eye. A Falcon, equipped with a small, almost undetectable device, ambushes SKYY LAR, who engages in a fierce aerial battle.

Turning Point: SKYY LAR evades an oncoming car which knocks down the Falcon.

Act 1:

Essence: SKYY LAR mentors young pigeons. He is deeply connected to its habitat and the city. SKYY LAR goes to the market to seek sustenance and gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste. EMMA discovers SKYY LAR, intervenes/de-strings, and cannot save one of the Pigeon’s legs.

Turning Point: SKYY LAR loses its left leg.

Act 2:

Essence: EMMA takes SKYY LAR to her house and constructs a prosthetic leg to overcome barriers. While she investigates the source of the waste, SKYY LAR returns home to an enticing proposal from RAVEN.

Turning Point: 20,000 pigeons with one leg lost will visit SKYY LAR to show concern and support RAVEN’s proposition. SKYY LAR can only protect its habitat if it forms and leads a bird coalition against environmental harm.

Midpoint: SKYY LAR forms and leads a bird alliance. It collaborates with EMMA to broaden human allies. The Rebellion aims to combat the Beauty Industry’s environmental harm.

Act 3:

Essence: SKYY LAR embarks on an operation to rescue birds harmed in a river and build momentum. The Rebellion embarks on its first campaign to infiltrate a Beauty Industry facility.

Turning Point: SKYY LAR and allies uncover a global conspiracy and become a target.

Act 4:

Essence: SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight. A Falcon ambushes it, and an aerial battle ensues.

Turning Point: The Falcon is knocked over by a car.

Act 5:

Essence:

Lock In: After losing the left leg, forming and leading birds and human alliance against the Beauty Industry, infiltrating the Industry’s facility, and embarking on a mission/s to rescue birds harmed by chemical spills in a nearby river, SKYY LAR feels alive again. It is doing what he does better and will continue for a very long time until death does it part on the sixth birthday

2. Use AI to generate a version of your 5-act Structure. For this Prompt, the word “Requirements” means the things you are wholly committed to and need as part of the Pilot structure. For example, I knew my Teaser scene and the final Cliffhanger. Those two were requirements for my Pilot.

Please create the beats of a TV series Pilot 5-Act Structure, including turning points, for [Format/Genre] with the Pilot being [Pilot Logline] with [Characters].

The Pilot aims to set up the journey and engage audiences to watch the entire series. It must deliver an engaging “Inciting Incident” of the whole TV series.

Definition of Turning Point: A surprising major twist at the end of an Act. It will change things for one or more characters and/or the plot.

And please honor the [Requirements] that I need for this Pilot.

5-Act Structure =

Teaser: What opening scene presents a compelling and dramatic hook that sets the tone, introduces a character doing something intriguing, ends with a twist, and compels us to watch the episode?

1ST ACT: Introduce the world and main characters as they look on the surface.

Turning Point:

2ND ACT: How is the conflict that leads to the Midpoint introduced?

Turning Point: What Midpoint twist will reveal the intriguing future of this show?

3RD ACT: With the Midpoint twist, the characters are reeling. How does this uncertainty reveal more profound layers of the characters?

Turning Point:

4TH ACT: What major complications come from the character’s efforts to resolve the uncertainty, and how does that make things worse?

Turning Point:

5TH ACT: How does this final act lock the characters into the journey of this show so that there is no going back?

Cliffhanger: What completely unexpected twist or major reveal will shock us to the core and make us want to watch the next episode?

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Pilot Logline = An injured pigeon SKYY LAR who mentors young pigeons about survival in the urban environment, aided by a girl with a prosthetic leg, unites birds and humans against the Beauty Industry’s environmental harm, embodying resilience and unity in a battle for ecological justice amidst the city’s urban sprawl.

Requirements =

Teaser Scene: SKYY LAR takes a solo freedom flight over the London Eye. A Falcon ambushes SKYY LAR, and the birds engage in a fierce aerial battle, showing SKYY LAR’s resilience.

Turning Point: SKYY LAR evades an oncoming car which knocks down the Falcon.

Act 1: SKYY LAR is a Squaddie (Squadron Leader) who mentors five hundred young pigeons about urban survival. SKYY LAR goes to the market for sustenance, gets its legs trapped in synthetic waste, and cannot break free. Three seasons pass. EMMA discovers SKYY LAR and intervenes. She cannot save one of SKYY LAR’S legs.

Turning Point: SKYY LAR loses its left leg.

Act 2:

EMMA takes SKYY LAR to her home and constructs a prosthetic leg. While EMMA investigates the source and properties of the synthetic waste, SKYY LAR returns to its original home under the train bridges, and RAPHAEL tells it rented out SKYY LAR’s roost/place.

Word travels around the community that SKYY LAR returned alive with a Marvel fake leg which sparks interest. Fifteen thousand pigeons with one lost leg show concern and wish SKYY LAR well, discussing what lies ahead or the future. SKYY LAR’s original flock and many diverse birds visit SKYY LAR. RAVEN arrives from Pembrokeshire Coast to spend the weekend and with an enticing proposition for SKYY LAR to form and lead a bird coalition against environmental harm.

Turning Point: 20,000 pigeons, each with a leg lost to environmental harm, call on SKYY LAR to show concern and solidarity.

Midpoint: SKYY LAR agrees to form and lead a birds’ coalition.

Act 3:

Coalition Formation:

SKYY LAR says, oh my God, there are 20,000 brethren, all without a leg. It asks why the invalid pigeons have come to it. The pigeons say they have lost a leg like SKYY LAR and live with the pain. They are not so lucky to have prosthetics. They say SKYY LAR is one step better and should use the opportunity to bring about change in the community. They support RAVEN that SKYY LAR should form a coalition and lead the community to combat the environmental harm before it swallows all their offspring.

In the open area of London Fields Park, SKYY LAR acknowledges the scale of the injury and suffering witnessed among the 20,000 pigeons. It expresses empathy and solidarity.

SKYY LAR identifies and recruits RAVEN as mentors, key pigeons, and other avian species with leadership potential or unique skills to form the core group. The key avian includes birds affected by or showing resilience in adversity. Each core member has a specific role based on their strengths, such as scouting, communication, medical assistance, or advocacy.

The coalition selects a central location within London Fields Park as their meeting and planning hub. When it snowed or rained heavily, they would congregate at the top of the London Fields Estate Tower block across Lansdown Drive. The Council sealed the top of the Tower block where a large water tank and a television antenna are mounted. The cluster of trees in the park offers some privacy and protection during the summer. The two bases close to each other symbolize their cause and practical space for organizing, training, and strategizing. SKYY LAR recruits RAPHAEL. There was skepticism among birds about joining the Rebellion, saying they could not make an impact. SKYY LAR collaborates with EMMA to broaden the movement with human allies.

DR. AVA GREEN joins the movement and offers technological advice SKYY LAR establishes a communication network among the birds and utilizes bird calls, visual signals, or other means of bird communication to spread messages and coordinate actions. The aim is to ensure rapid information dissemination and the coalition members’ quick mobilization. SKKY LAR launches a widespread recruitment campaign across various boroughs of London. The campaign targets birds affected by environmental issues and emphasizes unity and collective action.

SKKY LAR professes to use dramatic displays, storytelling, and direct engagement to inspire and attract new members, highlighting the coalition’s purpose and successes. SKKY LAR will educate on environmental hazards, survival tactics, and the importance of ecological balance. It will also train birds in specific roles, enhancing their effectiveness in the coalition’s activities. The result will be to empower the avian community with knowledge and skills, fostering a sense of agency and commitment.

The Rebellion will embark on prominent rescue and protection missions, starting with smaller, achievable targets to build confidence and public support. SKKY LAR’S team rescues birds caught in pollution, cleans up small regions of environmental hazard, or disrupts harmful human activities nonviolently. They build momentum.

SKKY LAR will seek alliances with other wildlife groups, environmental organizations, and sympathetic humans like Emma and expand the coalition’s influence and resources.

They create a diverse support network that can offer various forms of assistance, from logistical support to advocacy. With each successful mission, leverage media attention (animal or human) to highlight the coalition’s cause, attracting more support and putting pressure on responsible parties. The action will establish the alliance as a significant movement in London, capable of instigating real change and effectively protecting avian habitats. The team maps pollution sources. SKYY LAR embarks on an operation to rescue birds harmed in a river and build momentum. The Rebellion embarks on its first campaign to infiltrate a Beauty Industry facility.

Turning Point: SKYY LAR and allies uncover a global conspiracy and become a target.

Act 4:

SKYY LAR and EMMA plan their first move/campaign against the Beauty Industry. The group faces internal conflicts as they debate the best action against the Beauty Industry. SKYY LAR and EMMA devise a daring plan to infiltrate a Beauty company’s Headquarters and gather evidence. They execute their plan, facing many obstacles and close calls. Just as they think they have succeeded in gathering evidence, they did cover the Company has covered up their tracks, leaving them with nothing and becoming future targets. SKYY LAR takes a much-deserved freedom flight and gets ambushed by a Falcon, and an aerial battle ensues.

Turning Point: SKYY LAR takes a much-deserved freedom flight and gets ambushed by a Falcon hit by an oncoming car in the heart of London’s cityscape.

Act 5:

Turning Point:

Cliffhanger: RAPHAEL’s loyalty is questioned as he
compromises, casting doubt on the coalition’s success and hinting at future
conflicts

Lock In: After losing the left leg, forming and leading birds and human alliance against the Beauty Industry, infiltrating the Industry’s facility, and embarking on a mission/s to rescue birds harmed by chemical spills in a nearby river, SKYY LAR feels alive again. It is doing what he does better and will continue for a very long time until death does it part on the sixth birthday.

Characters Profiles =

1. SKYY LAR – The Unpredictable Leader

2. EMMA – The Conscientious Ally

3. DR. AVA GREEN – The Innovative Scientist.

4. RAPHAEL (English Trumpeter Pigeon) – The Doubtful Participant.

5. RAVEN – SKYY LAR’s Mentor.

(AI GENERATED)

5-Act Structure for SKYY LAR TV Series Pilot:

Teaser:
SKYY LAR takes a solo freedom flight over the London Eye and shows its resilience through a fierce aerial battle with a falcon. This scene sets a dramatic and compelling tone for the series, highlighting SKYY LAR’s leadership and survival skills.

Act 1:

Introduction to the World: SKYY LAR, a Squadron Leader, teaches young pigeons about survival in the urban environment.

Incident: SKYY LAR gets trapped in synthetic waste while seeking food at the market.

Turning Point: EMMA discovers SKYY LAR but is unable to save its left leg, leading to its amputation.

Act 2:

Conflict Introduction: EMMA crafts a prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR, which sparks interest and curiosity among the urban bird community and beyond.

Turning Point: Fifteen thousand one-legged pigeons visit SKYY LAR, showing support and concern. This overwhelming support inspires SKYY LAR to lead a coalition against environmental harm, spurred by RAVEN’s proposition.

MIDPOINT:
With newfound determination, SKYY LAR forms and leads a bird-human alliance. The group, including EMMA and urban birds, begins to map out pollution sources, marking the start of their environmental campaign.

Act 3:

Deepening of the Conflict: The coalition gains momentum with successful rescue operations and campaigns against the Beauty Industry.

Turning Point: SKYY LAR and the alliance uncover a global conspiracy, making them target and escalate the stakes.

Act 4:

Complications Intensify: The coalition’s actions gain public and enemy attention, leading to internal and external conflicts. Dr. Ava Green joins, offering technological assistance.

Turning Point: A significant event occurs—A vehicle hit Falcon during the ambush.

Act 5:

Climax and Resolution: The coalition must rally after the accident, proving their resilience and commitment to the cause.

Cliffhanger: Raphael’s loyalty comes into question, introducing a potential internal conflict and setting up intrigue for the next episode.

LOCK-IN: SKYY LAR reaffirms its dedication to the cause, signifying a more profound commitment to the movement and the long journey ahead.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 3 – LESSON 2: PILOT AS INCREDIBLE INCITING INCIDENT!

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. What is the “Inciting Incident” of your series that this Pilot needs to deliver powerfully?

“Inciting Incident”= Midpoint + Lock In.

(a). SKYY LAR forms and leads a birds’ coalition against the Beauty Industry’s environmental harm.

(b). SKYY LAR becomes the leader of the most successful environmental activism alliance/group/movement in the world.

(c). SKYY LAR forms and leads a birds’ alliance and collaborates with a young girl EMMA to form the human alliance alongside and against the Beauty Industry’s environmental destruction.

2. Give us the main beats of that Inciting Incident:

· Intriguing Concept: SKYY LAR collaborates with EMMA to lead the most successful environmental activism alliance/group/movement in the world.

· Act 1: SKYY LAR is a Squaddie (Squadron Leader) who mentors and teaches five hundred young pigeons about surviving in the urban environment. SKYY LAR goes to the market for sustenance, gets ensnared/trapped in synthetic waste, and cannot break free. EMMA discovers SKYY LAR and she cannot save its left leg and constructs a prosthetic leg for it. While EMMA investigates the source and properties of the synthetic waste, SKYY LAR takes a much-deserved freedom flight and gets ambushed by a Falcon which is hit by an oncoming vehicle in the heart cityscape of London. SKYY LAR returns to its original home under the train bridges and RAPHAEL tells it rented out SKYY LAR’s roost/place.

Word travels around the community that SKYY LAR returned alive and with a marvel fake leg. Fifteen thousand pigeons with one lost leg turn up to show concern and wish SKYY LAR well discussing what lies ahead or the future. SKYY LAR’s original flock, many diverse birds turn up to visit SKYY LAR. RAVEN arrives from Pembrokeshire Coast to spend the weekend and with an enticing proposition for SKYY LAR.

· Midpoint: SKYY LAR agrees to RAVEN’S proposal to join and lead a birds’ coalition/alliance against the Beauty Industry’s environmental harm.

· Lock In: After losing the left leg, forming and leading birds and human alliance against the Beauty Industry, infiltrating the Industry’s facility, and embarks on a mission/s to rescue birds harmed by chemical spills in a nearby river, SKYY LAR feels alive again. It is doing what he does better and will continue for a very long time until death does it part on the sixth birthday.

[Moses Quainoo]

• BWTV-AI MODULE 3 – LESSON 1: PILOT BIG PICTURE COMPONENTS

  Moses Quainoo

  “What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

  ASSIGNMENT

  1. Give us the basic Series Information:

  SERIES INFORMATION:

  · World: EcoHaven: A Dynamic Urban Sanctuary

  EcoHaven is a unique sub-world in London that highlights how the Beauty Industry affects the environment and its inhabitants. The sanctuary-like space combines nature, technology, and community in the city’s heart.

  Main mystery: What entangled SKYY LAR, and why? What are the properties of the synthetic material and the manufacturer?

  Impossible Goal: How to dismantle the deeply entrenched and globally influential Beauty Industry, which is causing widespread environmental destruction.

  Main Conflict: The conflict is about economic interests and environmental sustainability. The Beauty Industry is a powerful business with significant influence and resources causing widespread ecological harm in pursuit of profit. The Rebellion is against the Beauty Industry’s detrimental environmental practices.

  Second Mystery: Impact of Beauty Industry’s synthetic compounds on wildlife. What is the true extent and nature of the Beauty Industry’s influence and plans regarding environmental destruction?

  Season 1 Arc: From SKYY LAR’S injury, discovered by EMMA who constructs a prosthetic leg, to the sparking birds and human alliance against the Beauty Industry’s environmental destruction.

  Season 1 Protagonist Internal Journey: From distrust of humans to bonding and forming an ally with EMMA.

  2. Tell us the basic Pilot Information:

  PILOT INFORMATION:

  Pilot Conflict: The synthetic waste severs SKYY LAR’s left leg and SKYY LAR must form a birds’ coalition against the Beauty Industry.

  Characters Introduced: SKYY LAR, EMMA, RAPHAEL, RAVEN, diverse bids group.

  Inciting Incident of Season 1: SKYY LAR must form and lead a birds’ coalition against the Beauty Industry.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 2 – LESSON 11: EDITING YOUR TV PITCH BIBLE

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

Edited TV Pitch Bible

ASSIGNMENT

Go through these editing steps to make sure your TV Pitch Bible is a quick read, presents absolute clarity, and is highly compelling.

1. Make Sure All Formatting Works

Needs white space. (Big blocks of type).

Consistent fonts and type sizes.

Consistent titles that line up and are done the same way.

Consistent punctuation that is meaningful.

Quotes, all caps, and underlining are used sparingly and purposefully.

2. Discover Problem Areas and Solve Them

Fluff/Meaningless.

Confusing.

Not intriguing.

Overwritten.

Cliches.

3. Identify Areas to Elevate and Improve Them

Intriguing, but could be more interesting.

Doesn’t propel us into the future of the series.

Needs more powerful set up or payoff.

CURRENT TV Pitch Bible DRAFT:

TITLE: SKYY LAR

GENRE: Drama/Family/Animation

FORMAT: 1 hour

CONCEPT: SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl, EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the Beauty Industry’s influence.

INTRIGUING WORLD: EcoHaven: A Dynamic Urban Sanctuary

EcoHaven is a unique sub-world in London that highlights how the Beauty Industry affects the environment and its inhabitants. The sanctuary-like space combines nature, technology, and community in the city’s heart.

SHOW SUMMARY:

PILOT AS INCITING INCIDENT

ROUGH DRAFT 1:

“Can SKYY LAR, a pigeon with a new prosthetic leg, turn personal adversity into a powerful force for environmental change?”

Squadron leader SKYY LAR lives the ordinary life of a feral pigeon. It strategically mentors and educates five hundred young pigeons on surviving in urban environments.

However, when SKYY LAR heads to Dalston Market to seek sustenance, its life takes a different turn.

SKYY LAR’s world turns upside down when its feet become trapped in synthetic waste and struggle to escape.

Three seasons pass before passersby seem to care.

Everything shifts when a five-year-old girl arrives at the scene on her three-wheel scooter ahead of her mother, who pushes a pram with her baby brother. EMMA and her family were entering the Shopping Mall from the Lower Ground Car Park walkway.

What makes the Mall’s walkway the preferred choice? It is the corridor where the pigeon could express its hardship to customers.

SKYY LAR is in distress, tied up, and unable to move in the corridor. It is challenging to handle the situation and change mentally and emotionally. EMMA has participated in an environmental project at school to realize SKYY LAR’s state.

SKYY LAR mistrusts humans, and when EMMA approaches, it flies and lands in short bursts.

EMMA draws her mother’s attention, gathers grain hidden beneath the pushchair, and reaches for SKYY LAR. Gradually, it pecks the grains. EMMA catches SKYY LAR, and her mother retrieves a pair of scissors from a kit for EMMA to de-string SKYY LAR.

SKYY LAR is currently building trust with humans.

SKYY LAR’s left leg is severely injured by the synthetic material, leaving it impossible to save. EMMA tries to imitate SKYY LAR by hopping on one leg but confesses her inability. What is SKYY LAR going to do?

SKYY LAR seeks healing and adaptation after the injury. How can EMMA assist SKYY LAR?

EMMA brings SKYY LAR to her house to care for and watch its movements. She then introduces it to her bedroom workshop, which is filled with toys, eco-friendly fabrications, and inventions. She creates a false leg to help SKYY LAR move past barriers. EMMA’s solution presents a new challenge for SKYY LAR during take-off.

SKYY LAR forms a bond with EMMA. SKYY LAR relearns basic movements after two weeks and flying and landing techniques adaptation through trial and error. EMMA explores the origin of synthetic waste and its impact on city wildlife, while SKYY LAR takes a freedom flight above the London Eye.

TEASER START

But the peace doesn’t last as a Peregrine Falcon ambushes SKYY LAR from above and behind. SKYY LAR engages in a fierce battle with the mighty bird. Surrounded by skyscrapers and bustling streets, two birds engage in a dramatic aerial battle. While the fight escalates, the birds maneuver through the intricate cityscape, avoiding obstacles and spectators.

SKYY LAR is a resilient and strategic thinker despite being physically inferior, thrusts the prosthetic into the Falcon’s eyes as it tumbles into freefall. SKYY LAR’s left foot holds excellent value.

The clash intensifies as the Falcon chases or darts after SKYY LAR and cannot see the approaching traffic. A car hits the Falcon.

TEASER ENDS

Following the terrifying ordeal, SKYY LAR returns to its original roost under a train bridge, and RAPHAEL tells SKYY LAR that it rented out the place in its absence. SKYY LAR expresses curiosity about everything that occurred while he was gone.

Then a female pigeon, RAPHAEL’s girlfriend, emerges and flies away.

Word travels among the bird community and beyond that Squaddie SKYY LAR returned alive with a Marvel prosthetic.

Numerous birds gathered to express their concern and well wishes. SKYY LAR’s entire squadron visited their leader, and visitors and different pigeon species arrived, too.

SKYY LAR expresses a solid commitment to preserving their habitat.

RAVEN, a visitor, arrives from Ramsey Island, off Pembrokeshire Coast. A distinct cue marks RAVEN’S arrival: the left eye is cobalt blue, and the right eye and crook are Brunello red.

RAVEN is always seen with a crook, symbolizing its leadership and guidance among birds.

RAVEN shows seasoned behavior toward SKYY LAR and says it cannot travel to London, catch its face, and then abruptly return. RAVEN shows concern about SKYY LAR’S welfare and the prosthetic and will spend the weekend with them.

RAVEN sees how SKYY LAR adapts to its new prosthetic leg and navigates its environment. It provides insights into SKYY LAR’S resilience, determination, and potential to overcome personal and collective challenges.

RAVEN shares tales of environmental degradation from the outside, which educates SKYY LAR on the broader environmental issues.

RAVEN monitors SKYY LAR’s interactions with other birds to gauge its leadership qualities, decision-making skills, and ability to inspire and unite different groups.

RAVEN proposed that SKYY LAR form a coalition of birds against environmental harm. The crook is a physical support and a metaphorical shepherd’s staff, guiding the avian community. RAVEN’s immediate interest in SKYY LAR’s welfare and the prosthetic leg and shares harrowing tales of environmental destruction seen in its travels.

At dawn on Monday, overlooking the city from a high vantage point, when the city’s noise is lowest, RAVEN proposes SKYY LAR form a coalition of birds against environmental harm. The offer aligns with SKYLAR’s core motivations of community protection and wisdom sharing.

Maybe it’s all wrong because SKYY LAR, an injured pigeon, is rising to prominence. How could this be?

Next, an informant reveals that a chemical leaked into a river nearby, along with secret meetings to promote harmful activities.

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SUMMARY

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION 1: SKYY LAR.

An unlikely two-year-old pigeon with a prosthetic left leg is on a mission to lead a global bird revolt against environmental destruction caused by the Beauty Industry.

However, the action served as the driving force for change, uniting birds and humans in the fight for environmental conservation.

The bird possesses resilience, intelligence, and a deep bond with nature. Surviving a lethal encounter with pollution sparked its commitment to the cause.

Displaying an uncanny ability to strategize and communicate with birds and humans, the pigeon prompts questions about its origins and how humans shaped its intelligence.

It carries out bold missions against the Beauty Industry, occasionally endangering its supporters for the greater good, and its battle for survival clashes with human activities, even those of well-meaning allies.

Its commitment frequently conflicts with the Beauty Industry’s goals and human’ urban development plans, even within its rebel group, where differing opinions on coexistence and strategies arise.

The pigeon’s unpredictability comes from innovative and risky strategies and emotional responses to challenges and betrayals.

SKYY LAR often clashes with the Beauty Industry and urban development plans, even within its rebel faction, with differing views on coexistence and strategies.

It shares a deep bond with a human ally and declares a truce at the peak of the rebellion.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION 2: EMMA

A five-year-old compassionate girl who becomes an integral ally to the pigeon in their quest against environmental destruction, targeting the Beauty Industry’s negative impact.

She is a bridge between humans and birds, bringing a unique human perspective to the rebellion and leveraging her creativity and compassion to support their cause.

EMMA is empathetic, resourceful, and determined. She is personally awakened to environmental activism, spurred by her discovery of her family’s indirect involvement in the Beauty Industry’s harmful practices.

EMMA’s inner conflict and covert efforts against the Beauty Industry risk her family relationships and personal safety. Her support for SKYY LAR and the rebellion drives much of the conflict within the human sphere, challenging societal norms and family loyalties.

EMMA fights against the industry her family benefits from, making her an adversary to her kin for the more significant environmental cause.

EMMA’s environmental activism conflicts with her family’s business interests and the broader societal indifference to environmental issues, placing her in a precarious position between her convictions and familial obligations.

EMMA’s unpredictability lies in her dual life as a pupil and a covert activist. She navigates her family dynamics while undermining the beauty industry’s environmental transgressions.

EMMA’s relationship with SKYY LAR highlights the potential for a cross-species alliance and mutual growth. As her secret life unfolds, her interactions with her family complicate her character.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION 3: DR. AVA GREEN

A fifty-six-years old innovative scientist dedicated to developing cutting-edge environmental technologies that target the detrimental effects of the beauty industry and other pollutants.

He plays a vital ally to pigeons and their human counterparts, offering scientific expertise and innovations to fight environmental destruction.

DR. AVA GREEN is brilliant, conflicted, and committed to environmental preservation. His past involvement with the beauty industry, which he now opposes, adds layers of complexity to his character.

DR. AVA GREEN’s intrigue stems from his transition from the beauty industry to environmental activism. The conflict arises from his struggle to align his past actions with his current mission, causing skepticism about his true intentions.

DR. AVA GREEN goes from causing environmental harm to becoming a prominent advocate against it, playing a crucial role as an ally to pigeons and their human supporters, providing scientific knowledge and innovations to combat environmental destruction.

DR. AVA GREEN’s devotion to preserving the environment causes tension with former colleagues, the beauty industry, and certain factions within the environmental movement who doubt his intentions and approaches.

Their relationship is complicated, with him serving as a mentor and collaborator to EMMA. At the same time, his past connects him to SKYY LAR’s struggle, resulting in an alliance full of tension and mutual distrust that changes over time.

His ability to use unconventional and sometimes questionable tactics to pursue his objectives makes him unpredictable, often surprising friends and foes.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION 2: RAPHAEL AYISA

A two-year-old English Trumpeter pigeon known for his unique looks and cleverness, he must balance loyalty to his avian brethren and human allies in the rebellion in a complex world.

Acting as the Doubtful Participant, he finds himself frequently torn between loyalties and strategies in the rebellion against environmental destruction.

RAPHAEL is known for his sharp wit, deep loyalty, and pragmatic survival skills. The mystery surrounding his past involves unique encounters in human and avian realms.

RAPHAEL’s character is shrouded in intrigue due to his dual loyalties and secretive actions. His true intentions and covert missions remain unclear, causing speculation and conflict among allies and enemies.

RAPHAEL serves as a mediator and could be a double agent, seeking peace and safety for all, yet his actions may cause division and distrust.

RAPHAEL is caught in a balancing act between supporting SKYY LAR’s rebellion and maintaining relationships with its opponents, leading to conflicts with different characters.

RAPHAEL and SKYY LAR have a unique relationship characterized by respect, skepticism, and a shared understanding of their burdens. His relationships with characters like EMMA and DR. AVA GREEN, especially within the human world, bring depth to his role in the story.

His next move is always a mystery because of his ever-changing allegiances and strategies, leaving everyone guessing.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION 2: RAVEN

A seasoned seven-year-old bird with a blue-black body and white breast. The pigeon’s mentor has a Cobalt blue left eye that predicts exceptional events and a Brunello red right eye that foresees danger. The bird is always carrying a crook.
The Protector of Secrets, Mystic Bridge, and Mastermind suggest the pigeon join a coalition of birds against environmental harm.
The RAVEN wants to keep everything he knows private, causing allies to feel mistrustful and frustrated.
Its insistence on ancient methods and wisdom clashes with more modern scientific approaches favored by their allied Scientist.
The bird symbolizes timeless wisdom, yet must adapt to survive in a changing world. It is the connection between ancient avian wisdom and the present environmental challenge. It assists him in rebelling and gaining a profound understanding of the avian and human realms and their interplay with ecological concerns.

RAVEN holds secrets about the natural world and the ancient relationship between birds and humans. His life is proof of survival and adaptation throughout generations of environmental change.

The combination of RAVEN’s secretive nature and ancient knowledge is intriguing. His background and wisdom remain enigmatic, fueling speculation about his past deeds and actual capabilities.

RAVEN preserves traditional wisdom while tackling modern challenges. The ancient wisdom he possesses, meant to provide protection, occasionally conflicts with the contemporary strategies of the rebellion.

The clash between his adherence to ancient avian customs and the modern methods of certain rebels causes tension and strategic dilemmas in the group.

RAVEN and SKYY LAR have a deep mentor-mentee bond filled with respect and growth. Through RAVEN’s interactions with characters like EMMA and DR. AVA GREEN, we witness the intricate balance between ancient wisdom and modern environmental activism.

RAVEN’s unpredictable nature stems from his ability to surprise friends and foes with unconventional strategies derived from his vast knowledge, making him a wildcard in the rebellion’s efforts.

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SEASON 01 EPISODE 01-08 Episode 1: The Awakening

SKYY LAR battles a Peregrine Falcon, highlighting urban wildlife’s unseen struggles. EMMA finds SKYY LAR injured and fabricates a prosthetic, altering their views on humans. Their bond lays the foundation for future activism against environmental harm.

Episode 2: The Coalition

Urban birds unite under SKYY LAR’s leadership despite initial skepticism. A toxic spill catalyzes their cause, and DR. AVA GREEN enhances their efforts. A discovered plan for an environmental protest raises the stakes.

Episode 3: Shadows of Industry

The group, leveraging DR. AVA GREEN’s insights, embarks on a mission to expose the beauty industry’s environmental impact. Their successful infiltration exposes industry practices. A whistleblower’s contact promises more revelations.

Episode 4: The Catalyst

A social media campaign and public demonstration amplify their environmental cause, facing the beauty industry’s countermeasures. Unexpected support hints at a broader network of allies, deepening the intrigue.

Episode 5: Echoes of Truth

Inspired by the history of environmental activism, SKYY LAR leads a united front of animals and humans, testing their resolve. National attention pressures the beauty industry, leading to a significant scheduled event.

Episode 6: The Gathering Storm

As tensions mount, the coalition prepares for a crucial showdown, navigating traps and misinformation. A tense standoff brings global attention and public outrage, hinting at a deeper global conspiracy.

Episode 7: Winds of Change

Reflecting on their impact, the coalition faces internal and external pressures, celebrating victories while bracing for future threats—an attack on their base signals serious opposition.

Episode 8: The Horizon Ahead

Recovering from an attack, the group commits to a global campaign, forming a worldwide alliance. Launching an international initiative, they face a powerful entity, hinting at extensive environmental negligence.

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5 SEASONS DESCRIPTIONS

Season 1: Rise of EcoHAVEN

In the heart of London, SKYY LAR, a pigeon injured by synthetic waste, and EMMA, a compassionate girl, ignite a rebellion against the beauty industry’s environmental havoc. This season tracks their journey to unite urban birds and allies, exposing the industry’s harmful practices. As they uncover a deeper conspiracy, the season ends with a revelation of a global environmental threat, setting the stage for a more significant battle.

Season 2: Coalition Under Fire

The rebellion stumbles upon a secret coalition backing the beauty industry’s exploitation of natural resources. SKYY LAR, EMMA, and their growing band of allies delve into the coalition’s sinister motives, facing betrayal from within. Their quest to dismantle this coalition reveals a complex web of global environmental manipulation. The season concludes with the alarming discovery of an even more extensive network aiming to control the planet’s ecological future.

Season 3: Shadows Within

The rebellion seeks solutions and begins a quest for ancient wisdom rumored to reverse environmental damage. This season combines thrilling adventures with charisma as the characters decode ancient texts and technologies. Their journey is fraught with challenges from a global network determined to erase this knowledge. A cliffhanger reveals a missing artifact crucial for Earth’s salvation, sparking an international hunt.

Season 4: Unveiling the Conspiracy

With the planet on the brink, the rebellion races against time to activate powerful ancient technology. This season is a dramatic fusion of action and discovery, showcasing humanity’s and avians’ united effort to thwart the global network’s destructive agenda. The activation triggers unexpected changes, reshaping life on Earth and revealing the true potential of harmony between nature and human civilization.

Season 5: The Final Fight

After the awakening, a new world emerges, where humans and birds strive to coexist and rebuild in harmony with nature. This final season explores the challenges and triumphs of this new society, navigating mistrust, cultural shifts, and the mysteries of ancient technology. The series culminates in a profound realization: the ancient wisdom was a preparation for a future where all Earth’s inhabitants coexist as equals, hinting at the next evolutionary leap.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 2 – LESSON 10: RIVETING EPISODE TITLES Moses Quainoo “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” ASSIGNMENT

1. Do a quick brainstorming session for each of your episodes and seasons. Use the Title Formats to do it.

SEASON 1 EPISODE 1

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BWTV-AI MODULE 2 – LESSON 9: MAKE EVERY LINE INTRIGUING!

Moses Quainoo

Presents Non-Stop Intrigue ASSIGNMENT

Using Intrigue Patterns, elevate as many lines in your TV Bible as possible.

1. Pull out your TV Pitch Bible. Read through it and highlight any paragraphs that need more interest or that you would like to be even more intriguing.

PILOT AS INCITING INCIDENT

ROUGH DRAFT 1:

“Can SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon with a new prosthetic leg, turn personal adversity into a powerful force for environmental change?”

(Setup) SKYY LAR, a squadron leader, lives an ordinary life as a pigeon. It strategically mentors and educates five hundred young pigeons on surviving in urban environments.

However, when SKYY LAR heads to Dalston Market to seek sustenance, everything takes a different turn.

SKYY LAR’s feet become trapped in synthetic waste and struggle to escape. Two months pass before passersby seem to care.

However, everything shifted when a five-year-old girl arrived in a stroller with her mother and baby brother and entered the Shopping Mall from the Lower Ground Car Park.

What makes the Shopping Mall the preferred choice? Since it was a spot, the pigeon could express its hardship to people passing by.

SKYY LAR is in distress, tied up, and unable to move in the Lower Ground Car Park walkway. It is finding it difficult to handle and undergo a mental and emotional change. EMMA has participated in an environmental project at school to realize SKYY LAR’s situation.

SKYY LAR mistrusts humans and keeps flying away in short bursts.

EMMA draws her mother’s attention, gathers grain hidden beneath the stroller, and reaches for SKYY LAR. Gradually, it begins to peck the grains. EMMA catches SKYY LAR, and her mother retrieves a pair of scissors from a kit for EMMA to de-string SKYY LAR.

SKYY LAR is currently building trust with humans.

The synthetic material severely injured SKYY LAR’s left leg, making it impossible to save. EMMA tries to imitate SKYY LAR by hopping on one leg but confesses her inability. (Open-loop): What is SKYY LAR going to do?

SKYY LAR seeks healing and adaptation after the injury. (Open-loop): How can EMMA assist SKYY LAR?

EMMA brings SKYY LAR to her house to care for and watch its movements. She then introduces it to her bedroom workshop, filled with eco-friendly inventions. She constructs a false leg to help SKYY LAR move past barriers. EMMA’s solution presents a new challenge for SKYY LAR during take-off.

SKYY LAR forms a bond with EMMA. SKYY LAR relearns Basic movements after two weeks and flying and landing techniques adaptation through trial and error. EMMA explores the origin of synthetic waste and its impact on city wildlife, while SKYY LAR takes a solo flight above the London Eye.

A Peregrine Falcon ambushes SKYY LAR from above and behind. SKYY LAR engages in a fierce battle with the mighty bird. Surrounded by skyscrapers and bustling streets, two birds engage in a dramatic aerial battle. While the fight escalates, the birds maneuver through the intricate cityscape, avoiding obstacles and spectators.

SKYY LAR is a resilient and strategic thinker despite being physically inferior, thrusts the prosthetic into the Falcon’s eyes as it tumbles into freefall. SKYY LAR’s left foot holds excellent value.

The clash intensifies as the Falcon chases SKYY LAR and cannot see the approaching traffic. A car hits the Falcon.

Following the terrifying ordeal, SKYY LAR returns to its residence under the London Fields Station train bridge, and (Setup) RAPHAEL tells it that someone rented the space. SKYY LAR expresses curiosity about everything that occurred while he was gone.

Word travels among the bird community and beyond that Squaddie SKYY LAR returned alive with a Marvel prosthetic.

Numerous birds gathered to express their concerns and well-wishes. (Payoff) SKYY LAR’s entire squadron visited their leader, and visitors and different pigeon species arrived, too.

SKYY LAR expresses a solid commitment to preserving their habitat.

RAVEN, a visitor, arrives from Ramsey Island, off Pembrokeshire Coast. A distinct cue marks RAVEN’S arrival: the left eye is cobalt blue, and the right eye and wooden crook are Brunello red. Maybe not a red crook but wooden.

RAVEN is always seen with a crook, symbolizing its leadership and guidance among birds.

RAVEN shows seasoned behavior toward SKYY LAR and says it cannot travel to London, catch its face, and then abruptly return. RAVEN shows concern about SKYY LAR’S welfare and the prosthetic and will spend the weekend with them.

RAVEN sees how SKYY LAR adapts to its new prosthetic leg and navigates its environment. It provides insights into SKYY LAR’S resilience, determination, and potential to overcome personal and collective challenges.

RAVEN shares tales of environmental degradation from the outside, which educates SKYY LAR on the broader environmental issues.

RAVEN monitors SKYY LAR’s interactions with other birds to gauge its leadership qualities, decision-making skills, and ability to inspire and unite different groups.

RAVEN proposed that SKYY LAR form a coalition of birds against environmental harm. The crook is a physical support and a metaphorical shepherd’s staff, guiding the avian community. RAVEN’s immediate interest in SKYY LAR’s welfare and the prosthetic leg and shares harrowing tales of environmental destruction seen in its travels.

At dawn on Monday, overlooking the city from a high vantage point, when the city’s noise is lowest, RAVEN proposes SKYY LAR form a coalition of birds against environmental harm. The offer aligns with SKYLAR’s core motivations of community protection and wisdom sharing.

Maybe it’s all wrong because SKYY LAR, an injured pigeon, is rising to prominence. How could this be?

Next, an informant reveals that a chemical leaked into a river nearby, along with secret meetings to promote harmful activities.

Maybe it’s all wrong because SKYY LAR, an injured pigeon, is rising to prominence. How could this be?

Next, an informant reveals that a chemical leaked into a river nearby, along with secret meetings to promote harmful activities.

Then, an insider spills a report that a chemical spilled into a nearby river, Coupled with clandestine meetings to expand harmful practices.

THE INTRIGUE PATTERNS

SKYY LAR becomes trapped in synthetic waste and struggles to escape.

A. Establish something shocking and point to the terrible things it could mean.

SKYY LAR becomes trapped in synthetic waste and struggles to escape… but isn’t those legs for strutting and scratching? How is he going to defend it from attack?

B. Strong statement; question about something underhanded beneath the surface.

C. Questions that point to Hidden Agendas, Hidden Identity, Conspiracy, etc.

D. Character 1 is convinced/worried/wondering that Character 2 has done _____________.

E. But maybe it is all wrong.

SKYY LAR, an injured pigeon, is rising to prominence.

Maybe it’s all wrong because SKYY LAR, an injured pigeon, is rising to prominence. How could this be?

F. A Pattern that Leads to Future Consequences

G. If he does ________________, that means ___Intrigue_____.

H. State the mystery.

I. Should be/could be _______, but it is even worse.

J. Intense language.

2. Check the Setups/Payoffs and brainstorm possible replacement lines.

3. Rewrite any parts you feel could be improved.

4. Tell us what this has done for your TV Pitch Bible.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 2 – LESSON 8: WRITING WITH INTRIGUE!

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

Using Intrigue Patterns, describe some aspect of your story or Characters.

SKYY LAR TV Show Concept:

A feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the Beauty Industry’s influence.

A. Establish something shocking and point to the terrible things it could mean.

All the pigeon wanted was to peck for food at Dalston Market, in London…but it ensnared in synthetic waste. But the price of human negligence led to its injury- a severed leg.

B. Strong statement; question about something underhanded beneath the surface.

The pigeon was injured and caused by human negligence. Rumors surrounded that the pigeon collaborated with a compassionate girl to spark a worldwide bird rebellion. But it wasn’t against environmental destruction and didn’t focus on the Beauty Industry.

C. Questions that point to Hidden agenda, Hidden Identity, conspiracy, etc.

Injured by human negligence, a feral pigeon sparks a worldwide bird rebellion. How does a bird with one leg, the other in prosthetics suddenly collaborate with a young girl against environmental destruction? And why are they focused on the Beauty Industry?

D. Character 1 is convinced/worried/wondering that Character 2 has done _____________.

A young girl was compassionate about the injured pigeon. No one seemed to care. Even the people who saw it strung.

E. But maybe it is all wrong.

The feral pigeon sparked a worldwide rebellion. But something seemed to be wrong! It was a bird, not human, and it had one leg, the other in prosthetics yet a compassionate girl collaborated with the pigeon.

F. A Pattern that Leads to Future Consequences

More birds joined the coalition the pigeon formed. It is making alliances as skeptics also changed their minds. The pigeon even got the young girl to collaborate with the human world. But how did the injury happen?

G. If he does ________________, that means ___Intrigue_____.

Just because the feral pigeon sparked a worldwide rebellion against environmental destruction doesn’t mean it should focus on the Beauty Industry and take over the world.

H. State the mystery.

How does a feral pigeon with injury caused by human negligence suddenly spark a bird rebellion? And who are they against?

I. Should be/could be _______, but it is even worse.

It should be a Bird success story that a pigeon injured by human negligence should ignite a bird rebellion against environmental destruction, but the pigeon’s path to the revolt is focused on the Beauty industry.

J. Intense language.

A feral pigeon injured by human negligence collaborates with a compassionate young girl to spark a worldwide rebellion. But what is it against? And who is it focused on?

1. Pull out your TV Pitch Bible. Read through it and find ONE line you would like to be more intriguing.

SKYY LAR TV Show TV Pitch Bible:

In a complex world, RAPHAEL AYISA must balance loyalty to its avian brethren and human allies in the rebellion.

More intriguing…

A. Establish something shocking and point to the terrible things it could mean.

All RAPHAEL AYISA wanted was to balance its loyalty to its avian brethren and human allies in the rebellion world but the price of duality led to internal struggles in the complex world.

B. Strong statement; question about something underhanded beneath the surface.

All RAPHAEL wanted to balance its loyalty to its avian brethren and human allies in the rebellion world. Rumors surrounding it point to duality. But it wasn’t its avian brethren and human allies and the Beauty Industry.

C. Questions that point to hidden agendas, hidden identity, conspiracy, etc.

D. Character 1 is convinced/worried/wondering that Character 2 has done _____________.

E. But maybe it is all wrong.

F. A Pattern that Leads to Future Consequences

G. If he does ________________, that means ___Intrigue_____.

H. State the mystery.

I. Should be/could be _______, but it is even worse.

J. Intense language.

2. Rethink that line using ALL of these patterns, as I did above:

A. Establish something shocking and point to the terrible things it could mean.

B. Strong statement; question about something underhanded beneath the surface.

C. Question that points to hidden agendas, hidden identity, conspiracy, etc..

D. Character 1 is convinced/worried/wondering that Character 2 has done _____________.

E. But maybe it is all wrong.

F. A Pattern that Leads to Future Consequences

G. If he does ________________, that means ___Intrigue_____.

H. State the mystery.

I. Should be/could be _______, but it is even worse.

J. Intense language.

INTRIGUING PATTERNS

An unlikely pigeon with a prosthetic left leg is on a mission to lead a global bird revolt against environmental destruction caused by the Beauty Industry.

A. Establish something shocking and point to the terrible things it could mean.

SKYY LAR, a pigeon with a prosthetic left leg is on a mission to lead a global bird revolt. But EMMA is convinced it is against environmental destruction caused by the Beauty Industry.

B. Strong statement; question about something underhanded beneath the surface.

As SKYY LAR talks dribs and drabs against environmental destruction caused by the Beauty Industry leaks. Should we view this as evidence that it is psychologically ready on a mission to lead a global bird revolt?

C. Questions that point to Hidden Agenda, Hidden Identity, Conspiracy, etc.

Is SKYY LAR a rebel leader? How reliable is EMMA?

D. Character 1 is convinced/worried/wondering that Character 2 has done _____________.

But EMMA is convinced that SKYY LAR was turned by the prosthetic left leg.

E. But maybe it is all wrong.

EMMA is convinced of the proposition that SKYY LAR will lead a rebellion. The evidence flies in the face of her utter conviction that he is not guilty. Is it all in her mind? Does this mean she is all wrong? Not

F. A Pattern that Leads to Future Consequences

What begins as an unlikely pigeon with a prosthetic left leg on a mission transforms into a movement against environmental destruction caused by the Beauty Industry, only to lead a global bird revolt.

G. If he does ________________, that means ___Intrigue_____.

But if an unlikely pigeon with a prosthetic left leg is on a mission against environmental destruction caused by the Beauty Industry, that means the pigeon will lead a global bird revolt.

H. State the Mystery.

We know an unlikely pigeon with a prosthetic left leg is on a mission to lead a global bird revolt against environmental destruction caused by the Beauty Industry. And he isn’t lying about it. What happened to SKYY LAR?

I. Should be/could be _______, but it is even worse.

And though SKYY LAR is devastated that he has a prosthetic left leg, a smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. This is now his plan. A mission to lead a global bird revolt against environmental destruction caused by the Beauty Industry.

J. Intense language.

3. If you discover a more intriguing version of the line, replace the old one in the TV Pitch Bible.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 2 – LESSON 7: INVESTIGATING YOUR SHOW

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Do a complete investigation on your TV Pitch Bible to discover more depth, layers, and intrigue.

Depth,

Environmental Activism

Layers,

The complications of Humans and Animals coexisting

Intrigue.

The effects of industrialization on the Natural World.

1. Starting with your BW Framework and the current draft of the TV Pitch Bible, ASSUME there is something beneath the surface that you absolutely MUST discover.

2. Investigate by picking situations and characters and asking:

Tool 1: Dig: What’s beneath that?

(a) Environmental Activism

(b) The complications of Humans and Animals coexisting

(c) How industries affect the Natural World or Nature’s order of things

(d) Greed

Tool 2: Extrapolate: If __________, then ____________.

Tool 3: Wonder: What if ______________?

Tool 4: Backtrack: How could ______________ have happened?

Tool 5: Forecast: How could this get even worse?

3. Evaluate the possibilities and decide what you are going to use in the different parts of your TV Pitch Bible. Divide the answers into three categories:

Use in TV Pitch Bible.

The Complexities of Human and Animal Coexistence.

Use in Episodes.

Environmental Activism.

Effect of Industrialization on the Natural World.

The Complexities of Human and Animal Coexistence.

Don’t use.

4. For any parts where there is a substantial improvement, rewrite those parts of the TV Pitch Bible. Then, tell us what parts you changed and give a quick description of what you did.

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 6: OPENING SUMMARY THAT SELLS THE SEASON

Moses Quainoo ASSIGNMENT

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

1. Choose the Summary Format you like best.

· A. Pilot as Inciting Incident

· B. Highlights of the Entire Season

· C. Engage Us in the Main Mystery

I choose…

A. Pilot as Inciting Incident

2. Create an Outline using this Structure or something similar:

1. Set up — The character’s normal situation

2. Twist/Hook

3. Real situation – Major Empathy / Distress

4. Twist/Hook

5. Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery.

6. Final Hook into the Series – Extreme Dramatic Question

3. Turn it into a rough draft.

PILOT AS INCITING INCIDENT

ROUGH DRAFT 1:

Set up – (Character’s normal situation)

Squadron leader SKYY LAR, mentors and educates five hundred young pigeons in London, about survival in the urban environment. On a lone freedom flight above the London Eye, SKYY Lar fiercely battles a Falcon that was crashed by an oncoming car.

Twist/Hook – SKYY ALR flies east to Dalston market to feed and gets ensnared in synthetic waste that severs its left foot hanging. But all that ends when a young girl EMMA discovers SKYY LAR and fits him with prosthetics. What SKYY LAR going to do? SKYY LAR forms a bond with EMMA, navigates the city anew in the prosthetics, and returns to its original abode after a week.

Real situation – Major Empathy / Distress

Twist/Hook

Among the many well-wishers were RAPHAEL and the RAVEN with the latter proposing SKYY LAR form a bird coalition against environmental harm.

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery –

Final Hook into the Series – Extreme Dramatic Question

Then an insider spills out a report that a chemical spills into a nearby river. How many birds get harmed?

4. Return to your Binge-Worthy Framework and add any of the key Binge-Worthy components that will elevate the intrigue while working for the flow of the Summary.

· Engaging and Intriguing Character

· Intriguing World

· Empathy/Distress

· Mystery

· Layers

· Open Loops

· Conflict

· Relationship Hooks

· Irony

ROUGH DRAFT 2:

Set up – Squadron leader SKYY LAR, mentors and educates five hundred young pigeons in London, about survival in the urban environment. On a lone freedom flight above the London Eye, SKYY Lar fiercely battles a Falcon that was crashed by an oncoming car.

Twist/Hook – SKYY ALR flies east to Dalston market to feed and gets ensnared in synthetic waste that severs its left foot hanging. But all that ends when a young girl EMMA discovers SKYY LAR and fits him with prosthetics. What SKYY LAR going to do? SKYY LAR forms a bond with EMMA, navigates the city anew in the prosthetics, and returns to its original abode/base (underneath one of the train bridges) after a week.

Real situation –

Twist/Hook –

Among the many well-wishers were RAPHAEL and the RAVEN with the latter proposing SKYY LAR form a bird coalition against environmental harm.

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery –

Final Hook into the Series – Extreme Dramatic Question

Then an insider spills out a report that a chemical spills into a nearby river. How many birds got harmed?

Engaging and Intriguing Character –

Intriguing World –

Empathy/Distress –

Mystery –

Layers –

Open Loops –

Conflict –

Relationship Hooks – Formed a bond after EMMA aided SKYY LAR

Irony – Injured pigeon SKYY LAR becomes a leading figure.

5. Use either of these two prompts to generate another version of your Opening Summary.

PROMPT V1: Pilot Structure to Summary

I’m going to give you [Pilot Structure] for a TV Series Bible that is a [Format/Genre] about [Concept]. Please write a half-page summary using this [Summary Structure].

Summary Structure =

1. Set up — The character’s normal situation

2. Twist/Hook

3. Layer beneath the surface – Major Empathy / Distress

4. Twist/Hook

5. Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery.

6. Final Hook into the Series – Extreme Dramatic Question

Twist/Hook = A single sentence or question (10 words or less) that is surprising, demanding the reader’s attention and causing them to read every word of the summary.

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Concept = SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Pilot Structure =

Episode 1: The Awakening

Teaser:
SKYY LAR engages in a fierce battle with a Peregrine Falcon above London, showcasing urban wildlife’s unseen struggles. The falcon crashes due to a vehicle, underlining city dangers.

Main Character Journey:
After the fight, EMMA finds SKYY LAR ensnared in synthetic waste in Dalston, with its leg severely injured. Crafting a prosthetic, she alters SKYY LAR’s view on humans.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
SKYY LAR grapples with human distrust; EMMA faces prosthetic creation challenges. The injury from human waste propels EMMA to restore SKYY LAR’s mobility and trust.

Midpoint:
In her eco-friendly workshop, EMMA successfully fits SKYY LAR with a prosthetic, symbolizing new beginnings and mutual advocacy for environmental protection.

Action/Reaction:
SKYY LAR’s acceptance of EMMA’s care leads to newfound determination and confidence, navigating the city anew. Their bond forms the foundation for future activism.

Cliffhanger:
Raven suggests a bird coalition against environmental harm. A chemical spill linked to the Beauty Industry and a secret meeting reveal a larger crisis.

AI GENERATED

PILOT SUMMARY: (Episode 1: Awakening)

In the heart of London, SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon, lives its day-to-day life amidst the bustling cityscape until a life-altering encounter with a Peregrine Falcon above the iconic London Eye, sets the stage for an unprecedented journey. The falcon’s unexpected downfall, caused by a speeding vehicle, marks the first twist in SKYY LAR’s otherwise ordinary existence.

Following this harrowing experience, SKYY LAR faces another twist of fate when it becomes entangled in synthetic waste in Dalston, leading to a severe injury. This incident draws the attention of EMMA, a compassionate young girl whose desire to help alters both their lives. EMMA’s struggle to create a prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR, amidst his distrust and her technical challenges, lays bare the deep empathy and distress at the core of their story.

Their budding partnership takes a significant turn when EMMA’s innovation allows SKYY LAR to walk and eventually fly again, symbolizing a new chapter of advocacy and mutual support. This evolution is punctuated by RAVEN, who proposes an ambitious plan: to form a coalition of urban birds to combat environmental destruction—a twist that thrusts SKYY LAR into a leadership role he never imagined.

The discovery of a chemical spill linked to the beauty industry, coupled with clandestine meetings to expand harmful practices, presents an impossible-to-solve conflict that threatens their city’s natural inhabitants. This looming crisis raises the final dramatic question: Can SKYY LAR and EMMA, with their newfound alliance, ignite a rebellion strong enough to challenge the beauty industry’s global influence and protect their urban environment?

Their story is more than a fight for survival; it’s a call to arms against environmental negligence, marking the beginning of a series that promises to explore the depths of empathy, the complexities of interspecies cooperation, and the relentless pursuit of justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

PROMPT V2: Season Episodes to Summary

I’m going to give you [Season Episodes] for a TV Series Bible that is a [Format/Genre] about [Concept]. Please write a half-page summary using this [Summary Structure].

Summary Structure =

1. Set up — The character’s normal situation

2. Twist/Hook

3. Layer beneath the surface – Major Empathy / Distress

4. Twist/Hook

5. Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery.

6. Final Hook into the Series – Extreme Dramatic Question

Twist/Hook = A single sentence or question (10 words or less) that is shocking, demanding the reader’s attention and causing them to read every word of the summary.

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Concept = SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Season Episodes =

Current Episode List =

Episode 1: The Awakening

Teaser:
SKYY LAR engages in a fierce battle with a Peregrine Falcon above London, showcasing urban wildlife’s unseen struggles. The falcon crashes due to a vehicle, underlining city dangers.

Main Character Journey:
After the fight, EMMA finds SKYY LAR ensnared in synthetic waste in Dalston, with its leg severely injured. Crafting a prosthetic, she alters SKYY LAR’s view on humans.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
SKYY LAR grapples with human distrust; EMMA faces prosthetic creation challenges. The injury from human waste propels EMMA to restore SKYY LAR’s mobility and trust.

Midpoint:
In her eco-friendly workshop, EMMA successfully fits SKYY LAR with a prosthetic, symbolizing new beginnings and mutual advocacy for environmental protection.

Action/Reaction:
SKYY LAR’s acceptance of EMMA’s care leads to newfound determination and confidence, navigating the city anew. Their bond forms the foundation for future activism.

Cliffhanger:
Raven suggests a bird coalition against environmental harm. A chemical spill linked to the Beauty Industry and a secret meeting reveal a larger crisis.

Episode 2: The Coalition

Teaser:
Diverse urban birds rally, uniting under SKYY LAR’s lead amid pollution-induced strange behaviors.

Main Character Journey:
SKYY LAR and EMMA work to merge varied bird factions, recruiting RAPHAEL amidst skepticism.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
Resistance within urban birds and skepticism from RAPHAEL challenge the coalition’s formation.

Midpoint:
A toxic spill rallies birds to SKYY LAR’s cause, gaining momentum with DR. AVA GREEN’s arrival.

Action/Reaction:
Small-scale activism draws community attention, solidifying the coalition with DR. AVA GREEN’s support.

Cliffhanger:
A spy bird discovers plans for an environmental protest; a secret waste pipeline is uncovered.

Episode 3: Shadows of Industry

Teaser:
DR. AVA GREEN exposes the beauty industry’s environmental impact as rare birds flee.

Main Character Journey:
The group plans their rebellion, utilizing AVA’s insights for a covert evidence-gathering mission.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
They face industrial espionage while attempting to document the beauty industry’s waste practices.

Midpoint:
Their infiltration succeeds, marking AVA GREEN’s crucial scientific collaboration.

Action/Reaction:
Technology traces the pollution to beauty factories, raising industry awareness of their actions.

Cliffhanger:
SKYY LAR is contacted by an industry whistleblower, promising crucial evidence.

Episode 4: The Catalyst

Teaser:
A social media campaign showcases gathered evidence, sparking public interest.

Main Character Journey:
EMMA emerges as an environmental activist, leading a significant public demonstration.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
The beauty industry’s counter-efforts threaten the group’s safety.

Midpoint:
The demonstration captures widespread support, amplifying their cause.

Action/Reaction:
The industry’s retaliation highlights the group’s growing influence.

Cliffhanger:
An ally offers unexpected support, suggesting deeper connections.

Episode 5: Echoes of Truth

Teaser:
The history of environmental activism inspires the group, deepening their resolve.

Main Character Journey:
SKYY LAR evolves into a leader, advocating for unity across species.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
Organizing a large-scale protest tests the coalition’s resolve and logistics.

Midpoint:
Animals and humans unite, forming a powerful coalition.

Action/Reaction:
National news coverage pressures the beauty industry to respond.

Cliffhanger:
The industry schedules a major event, signaling a confrontation.

Episode 6: The Gathering Storm

Teaser:
Both sides are preparing for a pivotal event, heightening tensions.

Main Character Journey:
The coalition strategizes their demonstration, anticipating industry countermeasures.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
Misinformation and traps challenge their plans.

Midpoint:
A tense standoff at the event captures global attention.

Action/Reaction:
Revealed evidence sparks public outrage, shifting perspectives.

Cliffhanger:
Hints of a global conspiracy emerge, broadening the conflict.

Episode 7: Winds of Change

Teaser:
The event’s aftermath sees the group reflecting on their journey and gains.

Main Character Journey:
The coalition contemplates its impact and future challenges.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
Internal tensions and external pressures test their unity.

Midpoint:
Some beauty companies have begun to pledge environmental changes.

Action/Reaction:
The coalition’s achievements are celebrated but overshadowed by ongoing threats.

Cliffhanger:
An attack on their base signals targeted opposition.

Episode 8: The Horizon Ahead

Teaser:
Determined, the group plans a global environmental campaign from their recovered position.

Main Character Journey:
They solidify their commitment, readying for broader challenges.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
A powerful entity’s involvement hints at extensive environmental negligence.

Midpoint:
A global alliance forms, prepared to tackle environmental issues worldwide.

Action/Reaction:
The launch of a global initiative marks a significant step in their fight.

Cliffhanger:
A document hints at the conspiracy’s next target, promising future struggles.

AI GENERATED

EPISODE 1: AWAKENING

Set up — SKYY LAR’s existence is forever changed when entangled in synthetic waste, leading to a profound partnership with EMMA, who crafts a prosthetic leg, symbolizing hope and the start of a unique rebellion.

Twist/Hook — “A battle in the skies changes everything.”

Layer beneath the surface — This partnership evolves into a broader coalition, including the innovative DR. AVA GREEN and the skeptical RAPHAEL, aiming to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion. Their mission: to combat the environmental havoc wreaked by the beauty industry.

Twist/Hook — “An unlikely alliance forms.”

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery — As their movement gains momentum, they face espionage from the industry, uncovering a global conspiracy that threatens their very cause. The beauty industry’s countermeasures and a deeper layer of corruption pose insurmountable challenges.

Final Hook into the Series — “Can a pigeon and a girl change the world?”

EPISODE 2: “THE COALITION,”

Set up — Amidst the city’s chaos, SKYY LAR leads a burgeoning movement, rallying diverse bird species, each affected by the city’s relentless pollution.

Twist/Hook — “An unexpected leader emerges.”

Layer beneath the surface — Their journey is fraught with skepticism, notably from RAPHAEL, an English Trumpeter Pigeon, whose doubts mirror the broader challenge of fostering unity among the birds. EMMA’s dedication to the cause and her innovative approach to environmental activism inspire both hope and a profound sense of distress over the task ahead.

Twist/Hook — “Unity is tested by doubt.”

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery — The discovery of a toxic spill, attributable to the beauty industry, acts as a catalyst, propelling the fledgling coalition into the spotlight. However, the revelation of a secret waste pipeline and plans for an environmental protest unveil a layered conspiracy, posing an insurmountable challenge that threatens to unravel their efforts.

Final Hook into the Series — “Can a coalition of birds and humans outsmart industry giants?”

EPISODE 3: “SHADOWS OF INDUSTRY.”

Set up — Life in London is no longer the same for SKYY LAR and EMMA as they embark on a daring mission to unveil the environmental atrocities committed by the beauty industry, with DR. AVA GREEN’s expertise lighting their path.

Twist/Hook — “A covert mission reveals hidden truths.”

Layer beneath the surface — As they delve into the underbelly of corporate greed, the team encounters not just physical barriers but also the emotional toll of battling an entity far larger than themselves. This journey is marked by a significant empathy for the natural world and distress over the pervasive damage inflicted upon it.

Twist/Hook — “Espionage challenges the rebellion’s heart.”

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery — Their mission uncovers more than they bargained for, revealing a network of industrial waste practices that taint the city. However, it’s the unexpected contact from a whistleblower within the industry that presents an insurmountable conflict, offering evidence that could alter the course of their fight but at potentially great personal risk.

Final Hook into the Series — “Will the whistleblower’s evidence change the game?”

EPISODE 4: “THE CATALYST.”

Set up — Amidst their newfound mission, EMMA takes center stage, transforming from a supportive ally to a leading voice in the environmental activism sphere. Their cause gains traction through a strategic social media campaign that brings the beauty industry’s environmental negligence to the forefront of public discourse.

Twist/Hook — “A demonstration turns the tide.”

Layer beneath the surface — Beneath their growing success lies a tumult of empathy for the victims of environmental destruction and distress over the looming threats they face. EMMA’s journey of becoming an activist is fraught with challenges, not least of which is the beauty industry’s menacing response to their efforts.

Twist/Hook — “The industry strikes back.”

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery — As their demonstration garners widespread support, the beauty industry’s counter-efforts escalate, posing a dire threat to the safety of the group and their cause. This conflict is intensified by the murky waters of corporate power and the lengths it will go to protect its interests.

Final Hook into the Series — “An unexpected ally emerges.”

EPISODE 5: “ECHOES OF TRUTH”

Set up — Within the vibrant yet challenged environment of London, SKYY LAR and EMMA’s movement finds itself at a crossroads. Drawing from the rich history of environmental activism, they are inspired to escalate their efforts, embarking on an ambitious journey to organize a large-scale protest.

Twist/Hook — “A historic protest is born.”

Layer beneath the surface — Beneath their rallying cry lies a deep well of empathy for the planet and distress over the hurdles they face. The challenge of mobilizing a coalition of diverse species and humans brings to light the emotional and logistical strains on SKYY LAR, now emerging as a unifying leader, and EMMA, whose determination is as unwavering as ever.

Twist/Hook — “Unity faces its ultimate test.”

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery — The task of bringing together voices across the spectrum of life in London proves to be fraught with complexities. As their planned protest gains momentum, attracting national attention, the beauty industry’s ominous response looms large, casting a shadow over their efforts and presenting a conflict that seems insurmountable.

Final Hook into the Series — “Will unity prevail against power?”

EPISODE 6: “THE GATHERING STORM”

Set up — London serves as the backdrop for an impending showdown between the coalition and the beauty industry, with both factions gearing up for a pivotal event that promises to be a watershed moment in their ongoing conflict.

Twist/Hook — “A showdown looms over London.”

Layer beneath the surface — Underlying the strategic preparations are deep-seated empathy for the environment and distress over the deceptive tactics employed by their adversaries. This episode delves into the emotional and ethical turmoil experienced by SKYY LAR and EMMA as they navigate the murky waters of activism, betrayal, and the quest for truth.

Twist/Hook — “Deception clouds the battlefield.”

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery — The coalition’s efforts to unite and mobilize against the beauty industry are met with a barrage of misinformation and traps, setting the stage for an intense standoff that captures the world’s attention. The revelation of evidence that incites public outrage adds a layer of complexity, challenging the coalition’s unity and resolve.

Final Hook into the Series — “Is the truth enough to win?”

EPISODE 7: “WINDS OF CHANGE”

Set up — In the wake of their most significant demonstration yet, SKYY LAR, the resilient feral pigeon, and EMMA, the heart of the human element of the rebellion, along with their diverse coalition, find themselves at a crossroads. They reflect on the path they’ve taken, the impact they’ve made, and the uncertain road ahead.

Twist/Hook — “Reflection turns to resolve.”

Layer beneath the surface — Beneath their achievements lies a complex layer of empathy for the cause and distress over the internal tensions and external pressures threatening to unravel their unity. The coalition faces a critical moment, testing the bonds formed in the heat of activism and the shared vision that brought them together.

Twist/Hook — “Unity is their strength and their challenge.”

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery — As some beauty companies begin to pledge environmental changes, a semblance of victory emerges. However, this progress is overshadowed by ongoing threats and a sudden, targeted attack on their base. This assault introduces a new level of conflict, revealing that their fight against environmental destruction has provoked powerful adversaries determined to silence their movement.

Final Hook into the Series — “Can they withstand the storm they’ve summoned?”

EPISODE 8: THE HORIZON AHEAD

Set up — Recovering from the aftermath of their previous battles, the coalition, with renewed determination, embarks on planning a worldwide campaign. Their local efforts have laid the groundwork for a much larger fight against environmental negligence.

Twist/Hook — “The battle goes global.”

Layer beneath the surface — Beneath their strategic planning and alliances lies a deep sense of empathy for the planet and distress over the sheer scale of the challenge ahead. The involvement of a powerful entity, indicative of widespread environmental negligence, adds a layer of complexity and urgency to their mission.

Twist/Hook — “A new adversary emerges.”

Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery — As they rally a global alliance, the coalition faces an insidious challenge: the revelation of a document hinting at the next target of the conspiracy. This information unveils a broader, more intricate web of environmental negligence than previously imagined, threatening to undermine their efforts on an unprecedented scale.

Final Hook into the Series — “What lies at the heart of the conspiracy?”

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BWTV-AI MODULE 2 – LESSON 5: ENGAGING EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” ASSIGNMENT:

1. Check the sequence of episodes you did in Lesson 4 and see if it flows well for you. Feel free to change the sequence in any way that you think might be better as you create the full season of episode descriptions.

2. For each episode, go through the event bullet points and organize them in this fashion.

· Hook/Intrigue:

· Main Character journey:

· Major Challenge/Conflict:

· Action/Reaction:

· Cliffhanger:

EPISODE 1- Awakening

Hook/Intrigue: SKYY LAR battles a Peregrine Falcon above the London Eye. The bird of Prey crashes into an oncoming car.

Main Character Journey: After the fight, SKYY LAR navigates to Dalston Market, ensnares in synthetic waste, loses the left leg, and gets prosthetics. SKYY LAR must form and lead a bird rebellion to expose the Beauty Industry.

Major Challenge/Conflict: SKYY LAR struggles with human distrust as Emma faces prosthetic creation challenges and restores mobility and trust.

Action/Reaction: SKYY LAR accepts EMMA’s care leads to newfound determination and confidence, navigating the city anew. RAVEN suggests SKYY LAR must rally urban birds and form a bird coalition against environmental harm. SKYY LAR and EMMA’S bond forms the foundation for future activism and the rebellion against the Beauty Industry. Reaction: The Beauty Industry issues denials and cover-ups.

Cliffhanger: A chemical spill links to the Beauty Industry and a secret meeting reveals a larger crisis.

EPISODE 2- The Coalition

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character Journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

EPISODE 3- Shadows of Industry

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character Journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

EPISODE 4- The Catalyst

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character Journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

EPISODE 5- Echoes of Truth

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character Journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

EPISODE 6- The Gathering Storm

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character Journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

EPISODE 7- Winds of Change/Wings of Change

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character Journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

EPISODE 8- The Horizon Ahead

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character Journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

3. Write a rough draft of each of the episode descriptions for your first season.

EPISODE 1 – Awakening

SKYY LAR fiercely battles a Falcon above the London Eye and the bird of prey crashes because of oncoming traffic. After, SKYY Lar flies to East London Dalston market and gets ensnared in synthetic waste which severs the left leg.

SKYY LAR struggles with human distrust as EMMA faces prosthetic creation challenges and restores SKYY LAR’s mobility and trust. SKYY LAR’S acceptance of EMMA’S care leads to a newfound determination and confidence, navigating the city anew. Their bond forms the foundation for future activism. Raven suggests a bird coalition against environmental harm. A chemical spill linked to the Beauty Industry and a secret meeting reveals a larger crisis.

EPISODE 2 – The Coalition

EPISODE 3 – Shadows of Industry

EPISODE 4– The Catalyst

EPISODE 5– Echoes of Truth

EPISODE 6– The Gathering Storm

EPISODE 7– Winds of Change/Wings of Change

EPISODE 8– The Horizon Ahead

4. Use this Prompt to have AI create a version for you.

Beginning with the [Current Episode List] for my [Format/Genre] TV series about [Concept], please create a highly compelling description of the episode that is 2 or 3 sentences with [Maximum wordcount] for each episode.

As you are doing this, please honor the content of the episodes and titles I list. All the episodes combined need to tell the story of the season. We need the most important part of each Episode, focused on the Main Conflict, Intriguing Event, Engaging Pursuit, and/or the Setup/Cliffhanger. For key info, focus on the Teaser, Midpoint, Journey, Conflict, and/or Cliffhanger.

Please list each episode with the Episode number, title, and then the intriguing description below that.

Maximum wordcount = 60

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Series Concept = SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Current Episode List =

Episode 1: The Awakening

Teaser:
SKYY LAR engages in a fierce battle with a Peregrine Falcon above London, showcasing urban wildlife’s unseen struggles. The falcon crashes due to a vehicle, underlining city dangers.

Main Character Journey:
After the fight, EMMA finds SKYY LAR ensnared in synthetic waste in Dalston, with its leg severely injured. Crafting a prosthetic, she alters SKYY LAR’s view on humans.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
SKYY LAR grapples with human distrust; EMMA faces prosthetic creation challenges. The injury from human waste propels EMMA to restore SKYY LAR’s mobility and trust.

Midpoint:
In her eco-friendly workshop, EMMA successfully fits SKYY LAR with a prosthetic, symbolizing new beginnings and mutual advocacy for environmental protection.

Action/Reaction:
SKYY LAR’s acceptance of EMMA’s care leads to newfound determination and confidence, navigating the city anew. Their bond forms the foundation for future activism.

Cliffhanger:
Raven suggests a bird coalition against environmental harm. A chemical spill linked to the Beauty Industry and a secret meeting reveal a larger crisis.

Episode 2: The Coalition

Teaser:
Diverse urban birds rally, uniting under SKYY LAR’s lead amid pollution-induced strange behaviors.

Main Character Journey:
SKYY LAR and EMMA work to merge varied bird factions, recruiting RAPHAEL amidst skepticism.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
Resistance within urban birds and skepticism from RAPHAEL challenge the coalition’s formation.

Midpoint:
A toxic spill rallies birds to SKYY LAR’s cause, gaining momentum with DR. AVA GREEN’s arrival.

Action/Reaction:
Small-scale activism draws community attention, solidifying the coalition with DR. AVA GREEN’s support.

Cliffhanger:
A spy bird discovers plans for an environmental protest; a secret waste pipeline is uncovered.

Episode 3: Shadows of Industry

Teaser:
DR. AVA GREEN exposes the beauty industry’s environmental impact as rare birds flee.

Main Character Journey:
The group plans their rebellion, utilizing AVA’s insights for a covert evidence-gathering mission.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
They face industrial espionage while attempting to document the beauty industry’s waste practices.

Midpoint:
Their infiltration succeeds, marking AVA GREEN’s crucial scientific collaboration.

Action/Reaction:
Technology traces the pollution to beauty factories, raising industry awareness of their actions.

Cliffhanger:
SKYY LAR is contacted by an industry whistleblower, promising crucial evidence.

Episode 4: The Catalyst

Teaser:
A social media campaign showcases gathered evidence, sparking public interest.

Main Character Journey:
EMMA emerges as an environmental activist, leading a significant public demonstration.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
The beauty industry’s counter-efforts threaten the group’s safety.

Midpoint:
The demonstration captures widespread support, amplifying their cause.

Action/Reaction:
The industry’s retaliation highlights the group’s growing influence.

Cliffhanger:
An ally offers unexpected support, suggesting deeper connections.

Episode 5: Echoes of Truth

Teaser:
The history of environmental activism inspires the group, deepening their resolve.

Main Character Journey:
SKYY LAR evolves into a leader, advocating for unity across species.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
Organizing a large-scale protest tests the coalition’s resolve and logistics.

Midpoint:
Animals and humans unite, forming a powerful coalition.

Action/Reaction:
National news coverage pressures the beauty industry to respond.

Cliffhanger:
The industry schedules a major event, signaling a confrontation.

Episode 6: The Gathering Storm

Teaser:
Both sides are preparing for a pivotal event, heightening tensions.

Main Character Journey:
The coalition strategizes their demonstration, anticipating industry countermeasures.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
Misinformation and traps challenge their plans.

Midpoint:
A tense standoff at the event captures global attention.

Action/Reaction:
Revealed evidence sparks public outrage, shifting perspectives.

Cliffhanger:
Hints of a global conspiracy emerge, broadening the conflict.

Episode 7: Winds of Change

Teaser:
The event’s aftermath sees the group reflecting on their journey and gains.

Main Character Journey:
The coalition contemplates its impact and future challenges.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
Internal tensions and external pressures test their unity.

Midpoint:
Some beauty companies have begun to pledge environmental changes.

Action/Reaction:
The coalition’s achievements are celebrated but overshadowed by ongoing threats.

Cliffhanger:
An attack on their base signals targeted opposition.

Episode 8: The Horizon Ahead

Teaser:
Determined, the group plans a global environmental campaign from their recovered position.

Main Character Journey:
They solidify their commitment, readying for broader challenges.

Major Challenge/Conflict:
A powerful entity’s involvement hints at extensive environmental negligence.

Midpoint:
A global alliance forms, prepared to tackle environmental issues worldwide.

Action/Reaction:
The launch of a global initiative marks a significant step in their fight.

Cliffhanger:
A document hints at the conspiracy’s next target, promising future struggles

DESCRIPTION OF EPISODES 1-8

Episode 1: The Awakening

SKYY LAR battles a Peregrine Falcon, highlighting urban wildlife’s unseen struggles. EMMA finds SKYY LAR injured, and crafts a prosthetic, altering their views on humans. Their bond lays the foundation for future activism against environmental harm.

Episode 2: The Coalition

Urban birds unite under SKYY LAR’s leadership, despite initial skepticism. A toxic spill catalyzes their cause, with DR. AVA GREEN enhancing their efforts. A discovered plan for an environmental protest raises stakes.

Episode 3: Shadows of Industry

The group, leveraging DR. AVA GREEN’s insights, embarks on a mission to expose the beauty industry’s environmental impact. Their successful infiltration brings industry practices to light. A whistleblower’s contact promises more revelations.

Episode 4: The Catalyst

A social media campaign and public demonstration amplify their environmental cause, facing the beauty industry’s countermeasures. Unexpected support hints at a broader network of allies, deepening the intrigue.

Episode 5: Echoes of Truth

Inspired by environmental activism’s history, SKYY LAR leads a united front of animals and humans, testing their resolve. National attention pressures the beauty industry, leading to a significant scheduled event.

Episode 6: The Gathering Storm

As tensions mount, the coalition prepares for a crucial showdown, navigating traps and misinformation. A tense standoff brings global attention and public outrage, hinting at a deeper global conspiracy.

Episode 7: Winds of Change

Reflecting on their impact, the coalition faces internal and external pressures, celebrating victories while bracing for future threats. An attack on their base signals serious opposition.

Episode 8: The Horizon Ahead

Recovering from an attack, the group commits to a global campaign, forming a worldwide alliance. Launching a global initiative, they face a powerful entity, hinting at extensive environmental negligence.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 2 – LESSON 4: GENERATING EPISODE IDEAS

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” ASSIGNMENT

1. Use the Cheat Sheet above to do Steps 1 – 5, answering the questions.

Question A: What is the Beginning of the Season 1 and the End of the Season 1?

Season 1 Beginning:

SKYY LAR, after injury, meets EMMA. They start a small-scale rebellion against environmental destruction.

Season 1 End:

SKYY LAR and Allies expose a local Beauty Industry’s harmful waste practices but uncover hints of a larger global conspiracy.

Question B: What possible Cliffhanger could be in that last scene of the Season, thus demanding that we watch the next season?

Cliffhanger: Uncover hints of a global Conspiracy. (So put it in a question: What is the global Conspiracy? Or What is the global scale of the environmental destruction? or What is the global scale of the Conspiracy? )

2. Season 1 Mystery Set up…………………………………..………………Season 1 Mystery Solved.

Question A: What is the Mystery?

Mystery = What entangled SKYY LAR and severed its left leg?

Question B: How could the Mystery be set up? What parts will be left out that must be solved?

Who,

When,

Where did the material come from or originate?

Why would the manufacturer create such a material with the potential to harm wildlife?

What material injured SKYY LAR? and

How did it end up injuring or cutting deep and severing SKY LAR’s left leg?

Question C: What is the ultimate solution that the characters must work to discover?

3. Journey begins……………………………………………………….Journey peaks, but continues.

Question A: Where does the Lead Character’s journey begin and end for this season?

Lead Character’s journey Begins in Season 1

SKYY is a two-year-old adult feral pigeon who mentors and educates young pigeons on survival in the urban environment and is unnoticed by humans. Then SKYY LAR is injured by synthetic material caused by human negligence in the Beauty Industry.

The

Lead Character’s journey Ends in Season 1

SKYY LAR takes on the role of leading the rebellion against environmental harm. SKYY LAR unites diverse bird groups and human allies to the cause

Question B: Think about where this Character goes in future Seasons. That might give you an idea also.

SKYY LAR can expand the rebellion, form new alliances, and face new Antagonists or Adversaries.

4. ……Layer….…Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer……Layer

Question A: What layers have you already discovered in your BW Framework?

Role = Leader of Bird Rebellion

Unique Purpose = Challenge the environment

Moral Dilemma =

Relationships = with EMMA

Question B: Are there any other layers that you could think of?

5. Make a list of the Major Story Lines.

Question A: What main characters have storylines that affect everyone else?

SKYY LAR, EMMA, Dr. GREEN, RAPHAEL, and RAVEN have storylines that affect everyone else.

Question B: What are the most important storylines of this show?

2. Turn those answers into a list of 8 to 13 Episodes with one-sentence explanations.

a. Episode 1 –

b. Episode 2 –

c. Episode 3 –

d. Episode 4 –

e. Episode 5 –

f. Episode 6 –

g. Episode 7 –

h. Episode 8 –

3. With each episode, make a list of bullet points that describe the most important events of that episode.

a. Episode 1 –

b. Episode 2 –

c. Episode 3 –

d. Episode 4 –

e. Episode 5 –

f. Episode 6 –

g. Episode 7 –

h. Episode 8 –

4. Use this Prompt to brainstorm an AI version:

PROMPT: Generate 8 Episodes

Please brainstorm the first season of a TV Series in [Number of Episodes] in [Format/Genre] with this [Series Concept], these [Main Characters], and this [Season Beginning] and [Season Ending]. Each [Episode] will include a Teaser/Opening Hook, Main Character Journey, Major Challenge/Conflict, Midpoint, Action/Reaction, and End with a cliffhanger. The story will flow throughout the Episodes, culminating in a powerful finale.

Episode =

Teaser:

Main Character Journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Midpoint:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Number of Episodes = 8

(Format/Genre) = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

(Series Concept) = SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Season Beginning =

SKYY LAR, after injury, meets EMMA who constructs a prosthetic leg for it. They start a small-scale rebellion against environmental destruction.

Season Ending =

SKYY LAR and allies in the Rebellion expose a local Beauty Industry’s harmful waste practices but uncover the Hints of a larger global conspiracy.

Main Characters =

1. SKYY LAR – The Unpredictable Leader

2. EMMA – The Conscientious Ally

3. DR. AVA GREEN – The Innovative Scientist.

4. RAPHAEL (English Trumpeter Pigeon) – The Doubtful Participant.

5. RAVEN – SKYY LAR’s Mentor.

An AI version:

EPISODE 1: AWAKENING

Teaser: SKYY LAR’s dramatic battle above London, showcasing its resilience.

Main Character Journey: SKYY LAR meets EMMA, starting their unique friendship.

Major Challenge/Conflict: SKYY LAR’s injury and entanglement in synthetic hair, symbolize human negligence.

Midpoint: EMMA’s compassion shines as she helps SKYY LAR, and builds trust.

Action/Reaction: Together, they brainstorm ways to prevent further harm to urban wildlife.

Cliffhanger: A mysterious chemical spill in a nearby river hints at a deeper environmental issue.

EPISODE 2: COALITION FORMATION

Teaser: Birds across London exhibit strange behaviors because of pollution.

Main Character Journey: SKYY LAR and EMMA recruit RAPHAEL and other urban birds.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Skepticism among birds about joining the rebellion.

Midpoint: A successful rescue operation by the team builds momentum.

Action/Reaction: The team starts mapping pollution sources.

Cliffhanger: They uncover a secret pipeline dumping waste into the river.

EPISODE 3: THE HIDDEN ENEMY

Teaser: Rare birds are seen fleeing their habitats.

Main Character Journey: The group investigates the pollution’s source.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Confronting industrial spies trying to sabotage their efforts.

Midpoint: DR. AVA GREEN introduces herself, offering scientific assistance.

Action/Reaction: They use technology to trace the pollution back to Beauty Industry factories.

Cliffhanger: A whistleblower from the industry contacts SKYY LAR, promising evidence.

EPISODE 4: UNDERCOVER WINGS

Teaser: SKYY LAR and team receive secret documents.

Main Character Journey: Infiltrating a factory to gather evidence.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Evading security and collecting proof without being caught.

Midpoint: They discover the scale of waste mismanagement.

Action/Reaction: A daring escape with evidence in talon.

Cliffhanger: The industry’s CEO announces a new, supposedly “eco-friendly” product line.

EPISODE 5: ALLIES AND ADVERSARIES

Teaser: Public protests against environmental destruction grow.

Main Character Journey: Forming alliances with environmental activists.

Major Challenge/Conflict: A smear campaign tries to discredit their findings.

Midpoint: A massive bird and human demonstration is organized.

Action/Reaction: Public opinion starts to shift, putting pressure on the industry.

Cliffhanger: A betrayal from within threatens to dismantle the rebellion.

EPISODE 6: THE GREAT DEBATE

Teaser: A televised debate is set between DR. AVA GREEN and the Beauty Industry CEO.

Main Character Journey: Preparing AVA with all the evidence gathered.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Overcoming the industry’s powerful PR machinery.

Midpoint: A surprise testimony from an insider supports AVA’s arguments.

Action/Reaction: Public support swells for the rebellion.

Cliffhanger: The factory initiates a covert operation to eliminate the bird coalition.

EPISODE 7: NIGHT BEFORE THE STORM

Teaser: The coalition learns of the imminent threat.

Main Character Journey: Rallying all urban birds for a massive countermove.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Planning a strategy to protect their homes and expose the industry further.

Midpoint: A synchronized display of unity among birds across London.

Action/Reaction: The city’s residents are awoken by the environmental crisis.

Cliffhanger: The coalition intercepts a plan to poison the city’s bird population.

EPISODE 8: DAWN OF CHANGE

Teaser: The final showdown begins at dawn.

Main Character Journey: SKYY LAR leads a daring mission to thwart the poisoning.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Facing off against the industry’s mercenaries.

Midpoint: EMMA and the environmentalists provide crucial support.

Action/Reaction: The rebellion’s efforts are broadcast live, rallying widespread public support.

Cliffhanger (Season Finale): As the beauty industry’s crimes are exposed, hints emerge of a larger, global conspiracy, setting the stage for the next season.

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 2: COMPELLING CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

Moses Quainoo

I am not happy with my 5 character descriptions. I believe I can do better and will elevate them again.

ASSIGNMENT

1. Pull out your BW Framework as source material.

2. Select a main character and answer the following questions:

• Who is the character? Role in the show?
• Noteworthy traits
• Intriguing history:
• Intrigue? Mystery?
• How do they support or drive the conflict with others?
• Irony — Opposites or paradoxes that exist with the character
• Opposing agendas/etc. that naturally cause conflict with
  other characters
• Unpredictable?
• Intriguing relationship with one or more characters

3. Organize the answers and choose which you are going to use in your description of that Character.

4. Sequence the information and write a START, MIDDLE, and END. Write a ROUGH DRAFT of the Character Description.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: SKYY LAR

Role: A feral pigeon with a prosthetic leg seeks to unite birds and ignite a rebellion against environmental harm, focusing on the Beauty Industry.

Noteworthy traits: Resilient, exceptionally intelligent, Tactician.

Intriguing history: becomes an unexpected leader and embodies the struggle between nature and industrialization, highlighting the underexplored impact of human activities on urban wildlife.

Intrigue?

Mystery?

Drive conflict: It organizes and strategizes actions that disrupt harmful Industry practices. Forces humans, including allies like EMMA and adversaries within the industry, to face/play/confront their roles in the ecosystem’s degradation.

Irony: SKYY LAR’s injury by human negligence meant to harm, instead sparked a movement to protect the environment, turning a victim into a champion for change.

Intriguing relationships:

How to write:

START: Present the character as someone we can relate to.

A feral pigeon with a prosthetic leg seeks to unite birds and ignite a rebellion against environmental harm, focusing on the Beauty Industry.

Resilient, exceptionally intelligent, Tactician.

MIDDLE: Conflict, intrigue, and issues.

Secret scientific Victim. Enhanced Intelligence. Witnessed the destruction of habitat and betrayal by humans. Mentors share knowledge and survival skills with young pigeons/ birds and how to thrive in urban environments. Overcome life-threatening injury by humans. Organized, inspired, and united diverse bird coalition. Through actions and perseverance, SKYY Lar is a symbol of hope. Embodies the potential for change and the positive impact of standing up against environmental exploitation. It becomes an unexpected leader and embodies the struggle between nature and industrialization, highlighting the underexplored impact of human activities on urban wildlife.

Mystery surrounds the undisclosed purpose behind the scientific experiment that altered it. The mystery deepens as SKYY LAR navigates the dangers of confronting powerful industries. SKYY LAR unravels their hidden agendas. Faces unforeseen results of the rebellion actions against the backdrop of a rapidly changing urban ecosystem.

SKYY LAR challenges the Beauty industry and other human activities threatening urban wildlife. Organizes and strategizes actions that disrupt the harmful practices and forces humans, including allies like EMMA and adversaries within the industry, to confront their roles in the ecosystem’s degradation.

This rebellion creates conflicts: with industry executives determined to protect their interests, government officials navigating public and private pressures, and even within the bird and human communities over the best course of action. SKYY LAR’s commitment underscores the tension between preserving nature and advancing human industry.

SKYY LAR’s injury by human negligence meant to harm instead sparks a movement to protect the environment, turning a victim into a champion for change. SKYY LAR is disregarded as a city nuisance, and sky rats become the guiding force for Emma, a human girl. The reversal role challenges the perception of the value of intelligence across species. SOMETIMES THOSE CONSIDERED THE LEAST SIGNIFICANT CAN HAVE THE MOST IMPACT.

SKYY Lar and allies use human-developed technologies and strategies to combat human-caused environmental issues. EMMA created a prosthetic leg for SKKY LAR using human innovation to benefit nature. It turned the tools of destruction into a means of salvation.

SKYY LAR’s injury resulting from human disregard for the environment sparks its enlightenment and leadership. SKYY LAR finds purpose and strength in suffering. SKYY LAR’s protection of all urban wildlife even benefited humans responsible for its plight. SKKY LAR’S mission to combat environmental destruction conflicts with the Beauty Industry and other businesses contributing to pollution and habitat loss. The opposition creates tension with characters who have stakes in the Industry, like EMMA’s family, who support the Beauty Industry. SKKY LAR’S approach to Problem-solving and its priorities clash with EMMA and Dr. GREEN. The different perspectives lead to disagreements on tactics, strategies, and the broader implications of their actions on the environment. SKYY LAR relies on innovative and direct action strategies that conflict with the RAVEN’s preference for traditional approach, more secretive or diplomatic methods. the tension between embracing new methods versus sticking to established ways leads to strategic disagreements within the rebellion. SKYY LAR’s straightforward and sometimes blunt approach to leadership and activism clashes with RAPAEL, who operates under secrecy and subtlety because of his double life.

Will SKYY LAR and allies succeed in their mission and make the Beauty Industry bow to rebel pressure?

ENDING: A final punchline that hooks and sends us into the story’s future.

Secretly aiming to establish birds as the dominant species in urban areas.

EDITED VERSION

A feral pigeon equipped with a prosthetic leg strives to bring together birds and spark a rebellion against the Beauty Industry’s impact on the environment.

SKYY LAR, a victim of a secret scientific experiment, possesses extraordinary intelligence. Humans betrayed it by destroying its habitat.

SKYY LAR is an educator and mentor who teaches young pigeons and other birds survival skills in urban environments.

It conquers a life-threatening injury resulting from human carelessness. SKYY LAR organizes and motivates a diverse bird coalition to fight against environmental destruction. It takes an unexpected turn and assumes leadership.

SKYY LAR faces challenges when taking on influential industries. SKYY LAR exposes their hidden motives and encounters unexpected consequences of the rebellion amidst a changing urban environment.

SKYY LAR challenges the Beauty industry and other human activities threatening urban wildlife. Coordinates and plans actions to challenge harmful practices and compel humans, including allies and adversaries within the industry, to acknowledge their impact on ecosystem decline.

The rebellion sparks conflicts among industry executives, government officials, and even within the bird and human communities.

SKYY LAR’s injury by human negligence meant to harm instead sparks a movement to protect the environment, turning a victim into a champion for change. SKYY LAR, disregarded as a city nuisance, ‘sky rats’ become the guiding force for EMMA, a human girl. The reversal role questions how intelligence is valued between species. The ones who are often seen as insignificant can create the biggest impact.

SKYY LAR and its allies rely on human technologies and strategies to fight environmental problems caused by humans. EMMA uses human innovation to create a prosthetic leg for SKKY LAR, benefiting nature. It transformed weapons of destruction into tools for salvation.

SKKY LAR’s mission to fight environmental destruction clashes with the Beauty Industry and other polluting businesses. Characters with stakes in the Beauty Industry, like EMMA’s family, contribute to the tension created by the opposition. SKKY LAR’S problem-solving approaches and priorities clash with EMMA and Dr. GREEN. The different perspectives lead to disagreements on tactics, strategies, and the broader implications of their actions on the environment. SKYY LAR’s reliance on innovative and direct action strategies clashes with RAVEN’s preference for traditional and secretive approaches. Strategic disagreements within the rebellion arise from the tension between adopting new methods and adhering to established ways. The straightforward and occasionally blunt approach to leadership and activism by SKYY LAR clashes with RAPHAEL’s preference for secrecy and subtlety because of his double life.

Can SKYY LAR and their allies successfully make the Beauty Industry yield to rebel pressure?

Secretly aiming to establish birds as the dominant species in urban areas.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: EMMA

Role: A young girl who constructed a prosthetic leg for the pigeon

Noteworthy traits: Compassionate, Resourceful, Activist.

Intriguing history: She struggles with her family’s support for the Beauty Industry which is against her activism.

Intrigue?

Mystery? Emma leads a secret life that involves undercover operations and activism against environmental destruction.

Drive conflict. Her activism conflicts with the family’s support for the Beauty Industry.

Irony: Her youthful innocence contrasts her deceptive tactics to further her environmental activism.

Intriguing relationships: Emma is cautious about collaborating with the doubtful RAPHAEL. Sometimes it leads to conflicts.

How to write:

Start:

A young girl who constructed a prosthetic leg for the pigeon

Compassionate, Resourceful, Activist.

Middle:

She struggles with her family’s support for the Beauty Industry which is against her activism.

Emma leads a secret life that involves undercover operations and activism against environmental destruction.

Her activism conflicts with the family’s support for the Beauty Industry.

Her youthful innocence contrasts her deceptive tactics to further her environmental activism.

Ending:

Emma is cautious about collaborating with the doubtful RAPHAEL. Sometimes it leads to conflicts.

EDITED VERSION:

A naïve young girl with curiosity for the welfare of a stringed pigeon has one goal: to remove the string. Emma builds an artificial leg for the bird and becomes a critical link between the human world and the avian characters.

Under unusual circumstances, she formed a bond with SKYY LAR. EMMA became aware of environmental issues through a school project. Emma’s compassion for SKYY LAR and other birds is a driving force behind her actions.

The rebellion relies heavily on Emma’s inventive thinking and problem-solving abilities.

She struggles with the indirect involvement of her family in supporting the beauty industry, which contributes to environmental damage.

Emma struggles with her identity and beliefs when learning about the more significant impact of environmental destruction.

Her optimism and belief in the possibility of change inspire those around her, even facing daunting challenges.

Given her family’s ties to the beauty industry, she will question and push back against their actions.

In her role, Emma must often deceive and engage in fraud to gather intelligence within the beauty industry.

EMMA transforms from a naïve girl into a determined and resourceful activist.

There are times when she feels doubt, guilt, and resilience.

Emma’s undercover work aims to reveal harmful beauty industry practices, putting her up against influential corporations. Gathering evidence and rallying support for the rebellion often results in confrontations with industry representatives, security forces, and even unsuspecting colleagues within her family’s company, increasing the risks of her mission.

Emma’s willingness to go to great lengths to achieve her goals can create tension with allies like SKYY LAR, DR. AVA GREEN, and others who may have different views on the acceptable boundaries of their fight against the beauty industry.

Emma regularly puts forward strategies that might contradict those of her allies.

Emma’s call for transparency on environmental effects contradicts the industry’s goal of hiding harmful practices for financial gain and reputation.

Emma’s drive for systemic reform clashes with characters who benefit personally or resist change by clinging to the status quo. This includes industry insiders, lobbyists, and even activists who fear challenging powerful corporations.

Emma defies expectations by taking bold, occasionally impulsive actions. Her romantic nature often clashes with the pragmatic and cynical perspectives of others, causing her to seek unconventional solutions.

Her unpredictable behavior can result in unexpected decisions that complicate her relationships and the rebellion’s plans.

By learning and adapting, Emma transforms from innocence to activism. As her understanding grows, she may suddenly change tactics, surprising allies and adversaries.

Dr. Green enlightens Emma on environmental technology and practical strategies to combat industrial harm. Sometimes, their collaboration doesn’t go smoothly.

Emma and Raphael’s interactions encompass cautious collaboration and moments of conflict, examining trust, betrayal, and fighting a common enemy from various perspectives.

Will her actions inadvertently endanger birds and provoke the Beauty Industry to retaliate and put the rebellion at risk? How far should she push her fight against the beauty industry and balance it with her family’s ties?

She lives a secret double life, hiding her activism from her family and friends.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: DR.AVA GREEN

Role: The Innovative scientist. Behind the environmental technology to resolve the issues highlighted by the rebellion.

Noteworthy traits: Innovative Mindset, Redemption Seeker,

Intriguing history. Has a mysterious background. Gets funding from the Beauty Industry.

Intrigue?

Mystery?

Drive conflict: His controversial technologies pose moral questions. It clashes with other characters’ values or the community’s safety concerns.

Irony: He is trying to protect nature while risking harm with untested technologies.

Intriguing relationships: Dr. Green is a scientific mentor to Emma. He guides her through the complexities of environmental science and activism.

How to write:

Start:

The Innovative Scientist. Behind the environmental technology to resolve the issues highlighted by the rebellion.

Middle:

Innovative Mindset, Redemption Seeker,

Has a mysterious background. Gets funding from the Beauty Industry.

The reasons behind his drastic shift from an industry insider to a dedicated environmentalist remain unclear. His controversial technologies pose moral questions. It clashes with other characters’ values or the community’s safety concerns.

He is trying to protect nature while risking harm with untested technologies.

Ending: Dr. Green is a scientific mentor to Emma. He guides her through the complexities of environmental science and activism.

EDITED VERSION:

The scientist was responsible for the environmental technology that addressed the concerns raised by the rebellion.

He has a mindset that embraces innovation, seeking redemption.

He has a mysterious background and gets funding from the Beauty Industry which he now opposes.

It is still uncertain why he made such a dramatic change from being an industry insider to a committed environmentalist. His technologies that stir controversy raise moral dilemmas. It conflicts with the values of other characters or the safety concerns of the community.

Emma looks up to Dr. Green as her scientific mentor. He assists her in understanding the complexities of environmental science and activism.

In his efforts to protect nature, he is taking risks with untested technologies.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: RAPHAEL

Role: An English Trumpeter Pigeon who is The Doubtful Participant

Noteworthy traits: Duality, Strategic mindset,

Intriguing history: A double agent. Navigates between the rebellion and opposing forces.

Intrigue?

Mystery?

Drive conflict: His covert operations are unknown to most characters, and lead to unexpected consequences that complicate the rebellion’s plans.

Irony: A guardian of hidden knowledge and a revealer of deception.

Intriguing relationships: His ambiguous allegiance creates tensions.

How to write:

Start:

Role: An English Trumpeter Pigeon who is The Doubtful Participant.

Duality, Strategic mindset,

Middle: A double agent. Navigates between the rebellion and opposing forces.

His covert operations are unknown to most characters, leading to unexpected consequences that complicate the rebellion’s plans.

His ambiguous allegiance creates tensions.

Ending: A guardian of hidden knowledge and a revealer of deception.

EDITED VERSION:

An English Trumpeter Pigeon, known as The Doubtful Participant.

Duality, Strategic mindset.

An agent who works for both sides. He moves back and forth between the rebellion and the opposing forces.

His covert operations are unknown to most characters, leading to unexpected consequences that complicate the rebellion’s plans.

The protector of secret wisdom and the expositor of deceit.

His ambiguous allegiance leads to tension.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: RAVEN

Role: An experienced bird and SKYY LAR’s Mentor. Navy blue black and white breasted bird. Cobalt blue left eye, Brunello red right eye. Always carrying a staff.

Noteworthy traits: Guardian of Secrets, Mystic Connector, Strategist,

Intriguing history: RAVEN’s reluctance to share all he knows can create mistrust and frustration among allies,

Intrigue?

Mystery? his true motivations and ultimate goals remain obscured.

Drive conflict: His insistence on ancient methods and wisdom may clash with more modern, scientific approaches favored by characters like DR. AVA GREEN.

Irony: The bird embodies ancient wisdom but faces a world where adaptability and change are necessary for survival.

Intriguing relationships: RAVEN and DR. AVA GREEN hint at past collaborations or conflicts that have significantly impacted the course of environmental science and activism.

How to write:

Start:

An experienced bird and SKYY LAR’s Mentor. Navy blue black and white breasted bird. Cobalt blue left eye, Brunello red right eye. Always carrying a staff.

Middle: He who proposed the pigeon form a bird coalition

Guardian of Secrets, Mystic Connector, Strategist,

RAVEN’s reluctance to share all he knows can create mistrust and frustration among allies,

Mystery?

Drive conflict: His insistence on ancient methods and wisdom may clash with more modern, scientific approaches favored by characters like DR. AVA GREEN.

The bird embodies ancient wisdom but faces a world where adaptability and change are necessary for survival.

RAVEN and DR. AVA GREEN hint at past collaborations or conflicts that have significantly impacted environmental science and activism.

Ending: His true motivations and ultimate goals remain obscured.

EDITED VERSION:

A seasoned bird and mentor to SKYY LAR. Navy blue, black, and white-breasted bird. Cobalt blue left eye, Brunello red right eye, never without a staff.

He is the Protector of Secrets, Mystic Bridge, and Mastermind.

The fact RAVEN doesn’t want to share everything he knows can cause allies to feel mistrustful and frustrated.

DR. AVA GREEN and others may clash with his preference for ancient methods and wisdom over modern scientific approaches.

The bird symbolizes timeless wisdom, yet must adapt to survive in a changing world.

Past collaborations or conflicts involving RAVEN and DR. AVA GREEN have had a major impact on environmental science and activism.

His real intentions and end objectives are still hidden.

5. Go to AI and give it a version of your Character Description.

PROMPT 3: Lead Character Pitch

In 3 sentences, can you write an intriguing description of this [Character] for [Format/Genre] about [Concept] in [Intriguing World] that comes from the best parts of the character’s dilemmas, mystery, hidden layers, secrets, wounds, and intriguing points for the [character pitch]. Especially focus on what it is about this character that will cause problems for others or the storyline.

Character Pitch = A 3 sentence introduction to this character that has us see why this is the “perfect character” for this role and will instantly intrigue the reader and cause them to want to know more.

Format/Genre =

Concept =

Intriguing World =

Character = (profile here)

6. Continue steps 2 – 4 for each Main Character.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: SKYY LAR.

An unlikely pigeon with a prosthetic left leg is on a mission to lead a global bird revolt against environmental destruction caused by the Beauty Industry.

However, the action served as the driving force for change, uniting birds and humans in the fight for environmental conservation.

The bird possesses resilience, intelligence, and a deep bond with nature, and when it survived a lethal encounter with pollution, it sparked a commitment to the cause.

Displaying an uncanny ability to strategize and communicate with birds and humans, the pigeon prompts questions about its origins and how humans shaped its intelligence.

It carries out bold missions against the Beauty Industry, occasionally endangering its supporters for the greater good, and its battle for survival clashes with human activities, even those of well-meaning allies.

Its commitment frequently conflicts with the Beauty Industry’s goals and the urban development plans of humans, even within its rebel group, where differing opinions on coexistence and strategies arise.

The avian’s unpredictability comes from innovative and risky strategies and emotional responses to challenges and betrayals.

SKYY LAR often clashes with the Beauty Industry and urban development plans, even within its rebel faction, with differing views on coexistence and strategies.

It shares a deep bond with a human ally and declares a truce at the peak of the rebellion.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: EMMA

A young, compassionate girl who becomes an integral ally to the pigeon in their quest against environmental destruction, targeting the Beauty Industry’s negative impact.

She is a bridge between humans and birds, bringing a unique human perspective to the rebellion and leveraging her creativity and compassion to support their cause.

EMMA is empathetic, resourceful, and determined. She is personally awakened to environmental activism, spurred by her discovery of her family’s indirect involvement in the Beauty Industry’s harmful practices.

EMMA’s inner conflict and covert efforts against the Beauty Industry risk her family relationships and personal safety. Her support for SKYY LAR and the rebellion drives much of the conflict within the human sphere, challenging societal norms and family loyalties.

EMMA fights against the industry her family benefits from, making her an adversary to her kin for the more significant environmental cause.

EMMA’s environmental activism conflicts with her family’s business interests and the broader societal indifference to environmental issues, placing her in a precarious position between her convictions and familial obligations.

EMMA’s unpredictability lies in her dual life as a pupil and a covert activist, navigating her family dynamics while undermining the beauty industry’s environmental transgressions.

EMMA’s relationship with SKYY LAR highlights the potential for cross-species alliance and mutual growth. Her interactions with her family, as her secret life unfolds, add complexity to her character.

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CHARACTER
DESCRIPTION: DR. AVA GREEN

An innovative scientist dedicated to developing cutting-edge environmental technologies that target the detrimental effects of the beauty industry and other pollutants.

He plays a vital ally to pigeons and their human counterparts, offering scientific expertise and innovations to fight environmental destruction.

DR. AVA GREEN is brilliant, conflicted, and committed to environmental preservation. His past involvement with the beauty industry, which he now opposes, adds layers of complexity to his character.

DR. AVA GREEN’s intrigue stems from his transition from the beauty industry to environmental activism. The conflict arises from his struggle to align his past actions with his current mission, causing skepticism about his true intentions.

DR. AVA GREEN goes from causing environmental harm to becoming a prominent advocate against it, playing a crucial role as an ally to pigeons and their human supporters, providing scientific knowledge and innovations to combat environmental destruction.

DR. AVA GREEN’s devotion to preserving the environment causes tension with former colleagues, the beauty industry, and certain factions within the environmental movement who doubt his intentions and approaches.

Their relationship is complicated, with him serving as a mentor and collaborator to EMMA. At the same time, his past connects him to SKYY LAR’s struggle, resulting in an alliance full of tension and mutual distrust that changes over time.

His ability to use unconventional and sometimes questionable tactics to pursue his objectives makes him unpredictable, often surprising friends and foes.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: RAPHAEL

An English Trumpeter pigeon known for his unique looks and cleverness. In a complex world, he must balance loyalty to his avian brethren and human allies in the rebellion.

Acting as the Doubtful Participant, he finds himself frequently torn between loyalties and strategies in the rebellion against environmental destruction.

RAPHAEL is known for his sharp wit, deep loyalty, and pragmatic survival skills. The mystery surrounding his past involves unique encounters in human and avian realms.

RAPHAEL’s character is shrouded in intrigue due to his dual loyalties and secretive actions. His true intentions and covert missions remain unclear, causing speculation and conflict among allies and enemies.

RAPHAEL serves as a mediator and could be a double agent, seeking peace and safety for all, yet his actions may cause division and distrust.

RAPHAEL is caught in a balancing act between supporting SKYY LAR’s rebellion and maintaining relationships with its opponents, leading to conflicts with different characters.

RAPHAEL and SKYY LAR have a unique relationship characterized by respect, skepticism, and a shared understanding of their burdens. His relationships with characters like EMMA and DR. AVA GREEN, especially within the human world, bring depth to his role in the story.

His next move is always a mystery due to his ever-changing allegiances and strategies, leaving everyone guessing.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION: RAVEN

A seasoned bird and a mastermind in the rebellion’s ranks. He is the connection between ancient avian wisdom and the present environmental challenge.

The pigeon’s mentor assists him in rebelling and gaining a profound understanding of the avian and human realms and their interplay with environmental concerns.

RAVEN holds secrets about the natural world and the ancient relationship between birds and humans. His life is proof of survival and adaptation throughout generations of environmental change.

The combination of RAVEN’s secretive nature and ancient knowledge is intriguing. His background and wisdom remain enigmatic, fueling speculation about his past deeds and actual capabilities.

RAVEN preserves traditional wisdom while tackling modern challenges. The ancient wisdom he possesses, meant to provide protection, occasionally conflicts with the contemporary strategies of the rebellion.

The clash between his adherence to ancient avian customs and the modern methods of certain rebels causes tension and strategic dilemmas in the group.

RAVEN and SKYY LAR have a deep mentor-mentee bond filled with respect and growth. Through RAVEN’s interactions with characters like EMMA and DR. AVA GREEN, we witness the intricate balance between ancient wisdom and modern environmental activism.

RAVEN’s unpredictable nature stems from his ability to surprise friends and foes with unconventional strategies derived from his vast knowledge, making him a wildcard in the rebellion’s efforts.

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 3: EASY WAY TO FIVE SEASONS

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

I will come back and elevate all Season descriptions etc etc etc and more.

1. Brainstorm to find the entire journey, from Season One to Five.

Season One: SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon, mentors his squadron of young pigeons about how to survive in the urban environment. SKYY LAR is injured by synthetic material through human negligence. EMMA discovers SKYY LAR, constructs a prosthetic leg, and they bond. All different pigeons and birds hear of the injury and visit SKYY LAR. Raven also arrives and during their deliberation proposes to SKYY LAR to form a coalition of birds to revolt against environmental harm. SKYY ALR forms the citywide coalition and they take action against the Beauty Industry.

Season Two: The rebellion spreads nationwide and they gain support and enemies. The Beauty Industry hits back seriously.

Season Three:

Season Four:

Season Five: SKYY LAR and allies work together to organize a revolutionary GLOBAL EVENT that reveals the full effects of the Beauty Industry’s harm to the environment. They use Public Opinion and Media influence to ‘Call for Change’

2. Brainstorm the Stair Step version.

BIGGER MYSTERY

Season 1: Investigation into the synthetic material that injured SKYY LAR leads to the discovery of a complex web of illegal waste disposal and unethical practices within the beauty industry. The mystery revolves around who is directly responsible and how deep the corruption goes within the industry.

Season 2: Uncover evidence of a larger, more sinister plan by the beauty industry not only to manipulate environmental regulations but also to develop and release products that could irreversibly harm the environment. The mystery concerns the ultimate goal of this agenda and who stands to benefit.

Season 3: Revelation of a spy within the rebellion sparks a hunt for a secret coalition that includes members of the beauty industry, political figures, and even environmental groups. This mystery explores the coalition’s reach, its members’ identities, and its connections to global environmental degradation.

Season 4: As the rebellion goes global, they encounter a mysterious network that not only funds the beauty industry’s environmental destruction but also controls other key industries affecting the planet’s health. The mystery involves uncovering the network’s leaders, their motivations, and their plans for the future.

Season 5: In the final stand against the global network, RAVEN reveals hints of ancient wisdom and technology that could counteract the environmental damage. The mystery unfolds as the team searches for this ancient knowledge, its origins, and how it was lost to time. They must discover how to use this wisdom before it falls into the wrong hands or is forever silenced by those who wish to maintain the status quo.

BIGGER CONFLICT

Season 1: Overcoming Skepticism. Raising bird awareness. Forming alliances. Action against the Beauty Industry and facing stiff opposition. Growing leadership.

Season 2: Undercover missions against Beauty Industry events and facilities. The beauty Industry hits rebellion with threats, legal challenges, and disinformation.

Season 3: Emma’s internal struggles, internal divisions, and Revelation of a doubtful participant. Rebellion expands to fight numerous Beauty industries.

Season 4: Uniting birds worldwide with different cultures and how to coordinate. Dr. Green’s Technology

Season 5:

BIGGER OPPONENT

Season 1: Conflict with the executives of the Beauty Industry.

Season 2: Standing up to the corporate lobbyists and lawyers who manipulate legal and political systems to protect the Beauty Industry’s interests.

Season 3: Revelation of corrupt government officials who collude with the beauty industry to suppress environmental regulations and silence activists.

Season 4: The fight escalates to the international level, with global conglomerates that own multiple beauty brands.

Season 5: The ultimate opponent is not a single entity but the widespread human apathy and denial about environmental issues.

MAJOR LAYER EXPOSED

Season 1: Discovery of synthetic materials causing harm to birds.

Season 2: Uncovers a deep-seated corporate conspiracy within the beauty industry, involving the deliberate suppression of information regarding the environmental and health impacts of their products.

Season 3: Collusion between certain government officials and the beauty industry comes to light, showing how environmental policies are influenced and often hindered by corporate interests.

Season 4: The global scale of the beauty industry’s environmental impact is revealed, highlighting the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the international effort required to address the crisis.

Season 5: The potential for inter-species communication and collaboration is unveiled, demonstrating how humans and birds can work together to restore environmental balance and forge a new path forward for planetary stewardship.

EXPLORING MORE DANGEROUS GROUND

Season 1: The hidden results of the Beauty Industry’s waste on urban wildlife. Investigation into the synthetic material that injured SKYY LAR exposes the broader, often overlooked environmental hazards.

Season 2: The lengths to which corporations will go to silence dissent and hide their detrimental impact on the environment. The search for the cause behind the disappearing avian unveils a network of corporate espionage and manipulation, highlighting the dangers faced by those who challenge powerful interests.

Season 3: The dangers whistleblowers face when exposing industry secrets.

Season 4: Uncovering a global conspiracy by industries to exploit and degrade the environment for profit.

Season 5:

BIGGER ARENA FOR THE FIGHT

Season 1: A Borough in London. The sprawling urban environment of London.

Season 2: The Heart of the Beauty Industry. Corporate offices, secretive labs, and global operations.

Season 3: Into political arenas and the court of public opinion.

Season 4: global level –Worldwide.

Season 5: inter-species collaboration

Season 1:

Season 2: Main Conflict

Season 3:

Season 4: Main Mystery

Season 5:

3. For each season, brainstorm the Building Blocks.

Season 1: Title:

· A. High Concept or major hook of the season.

· B. Big Picture Arc/Journey:

· C. Main Conflict:

· D. Mystery/Open Loops:

· E. Cliffhanger:

Season 1: “Wings of Rebellion”

High Concept: The discovery of a synthetic material that injures SKYY LAR ignites a bird rebellion against the beauty industry’s environmental destruction.

Big Picture Arc/Journey: SKYY LAR rallies urban birds and allies, including EMMA, to expose the Beauty Industry’s harmful waste practices.

Main Conflict: Battling the beauty industry’s denial and cover-up of their harmful environmental impact.

Mystery/Open Loops: Unraveling the true source of the synthetic material and its environmental repercussions.

Cliffhanger: The exposure of a broader conspiracy within the beauty industry, hinting at a deeper and more global environmental threat.

Season 2: “The Shadow Coalition”

High Concept: The rebellion uncovers a secret coalition promoting the beauty industry’s agenda to monopolize resources.

Big Picture Arc/Journey: Investigating the coalition’s reach and dismantling their influence while protecting endangered wildlife.

Main Conflict: Infiltrating and exposing the coalition, dealing with internal betrayal.

Mystery/Open Loops: Identifying the mole within the rebellion and uncovering the coalition’s ultimate goal.

Cliffhanger: The revelation of a global network beyond the beauty industry, aiming for environmental domination.

Season 3: “Echoes of the Past”

High Concept: The search for ancient wisdom that could counteract the environmental damage caused by the global network.

Big Picture Arc/Journey: Bridging ancient secrets with modern resistance to heal the planet.

Main Conflict: Facing the global network’s attempts to silence the ancient knowledge and its guardians.

Mystery/Open Loops: Deciphering ancient texts and technology that hold the key to sustainability.

Cliffhanger: The discovery of a hidden artifact capable of neutralizing the global network’s influence, but it’s missing.

Season 4: “The Awakening”

High Concept: Activating ancient technology to cleanse the environment while combating the global network’s escalating attacks.

Big Picture Arc/Journey: Uniting human and avian forces worldwide to implement the ancient solutions.

Main Conflict: Thwarting the global network’s final plan to irreversibly damage the earth’s ecosystems.

Mystery/Open Loops: The race to find and activate the ancient artifacts before they are destroyed.

Cliffhanger: The activation of the ancient technology, with unforeseen consequences altering the planet.

Season 5: “New Dawn”

High Concept: Navigating the new world reshaped by ancient technology, establishing a balance between nature and civilization.

Big Picture Arc/Journey: Rebuilding society in harmony with the environment, addressing the fallout and new challenges post-activation.

Main Conflict: Overcoming divisions and mistrust among the newly united human and avian communities.

Mystery/Open Loops: Solving the puzzles left by the ancients to ensure the technology’s sustainable use.

Cliffhanger: A final revelation that the ancient wisdom was not just about saving the earth but preparing it for a future where humans and animals coexist as equals, hinting at the next evolution of life on the planet.

4. Write a description of each season and give us the 5 seasons.

DESCRIPTION OF SEASONS:

Season 1: Wings of Rebellion

How does the discovery of synthetic material that injured SKYY LAR, spark a bird rebellion against the Beauty Industry’s environmental destruction?

After losing the left leg and being fitted with a homemade prosthetic leg, SKYY LAR must rally urban birds and allies including EMMA to expose the Beauty Industry’s harmful waste practices. Battling the Beauty industry’s denials and cover-up of harmful environmental impact. Unraveling the true source of the synthetic material and its environmental repercussions. What is the true source of the synthetic material that injured SKYY LAR? What are its environmental repercussions?

Season 2: The Shadow Coalition

How did the rebellion uncover a secret coalition promoting the Beauty Industry’s agenda to monopolize resources? While investigating the source of synthetic material, to dismantle their influence while protecting endangered wildlife, the rebellion stumbled upon a secret coalition with a far reach, backing the beauty industry’s exploitation of natural resources. SKYY LAR, EMMA, and their growing band of allies infiltrated and exposed the coalition, and dealt with their internal betrayal. Who identified the mole within the rebellion and why was the mole uncovering the coalition’s ultimate goal? The rebellion’s quest to dismantle this coalition reveals a complex web of global environmental manipulation. Who is behind?

Season 3: “Echoes of the Past”

<div>How could the search for ancient wisdom that could counteract the environmental damage be caused by the global network? Seeking solutions, the rebellion embarks on a quest for ancient wisdom rumored to reverse environmental damage. They aimed to bridge ancient secrets with modern resistance to heal the planet. But their journey is fraught with challenges from a global network determined to erase this knowledge. Facing the global network’s attempts to silence the ancient knowledge and its guardians. How can they decipher ancient texts and technology that hold the key to sustainability? Why is a hidden artifact capable of neutralizing the global network’s influence missing?</div>

Season 4: The Awakening

Who will activate the ancient technology to cleanse the environment while combating the global network’s escalating attacks? Uniting human and avian forces worldwide to implement the ancient solutions. Thwarting the global network’s final plan to irreversibly damage the earth’s ecosystems. The race to find and activate the ancient artifacts before they are destroyed. The activation of the ancient technology, with unforeseen consequences altered the planet.

Season 5: New Dawn

Navigating the new world reshaped by ancient technology, establishing a balance between nature and civilization. Rebuilding society in harmony with the environment, addressing the fallout and new challenges post-activation. Overcoming divisions and mistrust among the newly united human and avian communities. Solving the puzzles left by the ancients to ensure the technology’s sustainable use. A final revelation that the ancient wisdom was not just about saving the
earth but preparing it for a future where humans and animals coexist as
equals, hinting at the next evolution of life on the planet.

5. Use these TWO PROMPTS one after another in the same AI chat. Do Prompt 1, then wait for an answer. Then do Prompt 2 right underneath the answer that Prompt 1 gave.

PROMPT 1: Stair Steps of 5 Seasons

Please brainstorm the [Stair Steps] for five seasons of a TV Series in [Format/Genre] with this [Series Concept], this [World], and these [Main Characters]. Every season takes the show to a new level. With each season, create the beginning and end of the season, along with how it stair-steps the conflict.

Stair Steps =

One or more of the following:

• Bigger mystery

• Bigger conflict

• Bigger opponent

• Major layer exposed

• Exploring more dangerous ground

• Bigger arena for the fight

Format/Genre =

Series concept =

World =

Main characters =

Season 1: “Awakening of the Rebellion”

Beginning: SKYY LAR’s injury sparks the formation of an unlikely alliance between birds and humans, led by EMMA, to combat environmental destruction caused by the beauty industry.

End: The rebellion publicly exposes a major beauty company for harmful environmental practices, gaining significant support and media attention.

Stair Step: Reveals the initial layer of the beauty industry’s impact on nature, setting up a larger battle against corporate environmental negligence.

Season 2: “The Coalition Unveiled”

Beginning: The rebellion investigates deeper, discovering a coalition of corporations, including some within the beauty industry, involved in a broader scheme affecting global ecosystems.

End: A high-stakes mission uncovers and leaks documents proving the coalition’s plans to monopolize natural resources under the guise of eco-friendly initiatives.

Stair Step: Expands the arena to a global conflict, introducing a more formidable opponent in the corporate coalition, and explores more dangerous ground in activism.

Season 3: “Ancient Secrets and Modern Wars”

Beginning: The search for solutions leads SKYY LAR and allies to uncover ancient wisdom and forgotten technologies that could counteract the environmental damage caused by modern industries.

End: The successful activation of an ancient technology reveals a network of hidden allies but also attracts a new, shadowy opponent determined to control or destroy it.

Stair Step: Exposes a major layer of hidden history and knowledge, significantly raising the stakes with the introduction of a mysterious new opponent threatening both the rebellion and global ecology.

Season 4: “The Global Awakening”

Beginning: The rebellion goes global, with SKYY LAR and EMMA mobilizing worldwide support to implement ancient technologies and sustainable practices against escalating corporate sabotage.

End: A climactic showdown not only thwarts the shadowy opponent’s last-ditch effort to seize control but also initiates a worldwide ecological recovery process.

Stair Step: The fight expands to a global arena, confronting the rebellion with its biggest challenge yet and exploring the most dangerous ground in their mission.

Season 5: “Harmony Restored”

Beginning: As the world begins to heal, the rebellion faces the challenge of maintaining balance between human progress and nature’s resurgence, dealing with factions resistant to change.

End: A sustainable coexistence is achieved, with EcoHaven becoming a model for global communities. SKYY LAR and EMMA reflect on their journey, passing on their roles to a new generation.

Stair Step: Culminates in the ultimate reveal of a harmonious world, solving the biggest mystery of coexistence and overcoming the final and most formidable opponent: human resistance to change.

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PROMPT 2: Turn List of 5 Seasons into Season Descriptions

Using the list of 5 seasons above, brainstorm answers to these questions that match the version that is created above.

Season 1: Title:

A. High Concept or major hook of the season.

B. Big Picture Season Arc/Journey:

C. Main Conflict:

D. Main Mystery/Layers:

E. Cliffhanger:

Once you have the main information from Questions A – E above for each season, give us all 5 seasons with a summary of 50 words or less for each season. Title it “5 SEASON SUMMARY.” Write each Season’s description in a way that is intriguing and ends with the Cliffhanger.

5 SEASON SUMMARY

Season 1: “Awakening of the Rebellion”

· A. A pigeon and a girl unite London’s birds and humans against the beauty industry’s environmental harm.

· B. The birth and rise of a rebellion, sparking a city-wide movement.

· C. Combatting the beauty industry’s harmful practices.

· D. The origin and impact of the synthetic material injuring SKYY LAR.

· E. The rebellion exposes a major company, but a larger threat looms. Summary: In “Awakening of the Rebellion,” SKYY LAR’s injury by synthetic material ignites a movement against the beauty industry. As EMMA and SKYY LAR rally support, they expose a major company’s wrongdoing, only to uncover a greater menace threatening their cause.

Season 2: “The Coalition Unveiled”

A. The rebellion uncovers a global conspiracy to exploit nature.

B. Expanding the fight against a coalition of corporate giants.

C. The broader scheme affecting global ecosystems.

D. The coalition’s plan to monopolize natural resources.

E. A critical ally turns out to be a spy. Summary: “The Coalition Unveiled” escalates the rebellion’s mission globally, as they discover a coalition’s scheme to exploit natural resources. Their struggle to expose the truth is shaken when they identify a spy among their ranks, threatening their unity.

Season 3: “Ancient Secrets and Modern Wars”

A. Ancient wisdom meets modern environmental activism.

B. A quest for ancient technologies to combat modern damage.

C. Opposition from a shadowy new adversary.

D. The power and potential of ancient knowledge.

E. The activation of ancient technology attracts a dangerous foe. Summary: “Ancient Secrets and Modern Wars” sees the rebellion seeking ancient wisdom to heal the planet, leading to the discovery of powerful allies and technologies. Their success, however, draws a formidable enemy out of the shadows, targeting the very heart of their mission.

Season 4: “The Global Awakening”

A. The rebellion goes worldwide, facing corporate sabotage.

B. Mobilizing global support for a sustainable future.

C. The worldwide implementation of ancient solutions.

D. The global effort to restore ecological balance.

E. A significant victory hints at unresolved challenges. Summary: In “The Global Awakening,” the rebellion’s influence spreads globally, challenging corporate sabotage with ancient solutions. As they edge closer to a sustainable future, a significant victory suggests the battle is far from over, hinting at deeper, unresolved challenges.

Season 5: “Harmony Restored”

· A. Achieving a sustainable balance between humanity and nature.

· B. Navigating the aftermath of global ecological recovery.

· C. Maintaining harmony amidst resistance to change.

· D. The final struggle for a truly sustainable world.

· E. Passing the torch to a new generation. Summary: “Harmony Restored” concludes the saga with the world on the brink of recovery. As SKYY LAR and EMMA navigate the delicate balance of a healing planet, they face the ultimate test: ensuring the rebellion’s legacy endures through the next generation, passing on the torch under the shadow of lingering threats.

6. Those two prompts will give you a version of the 5 Seasons. Feel free to work with it, but don’t obsess about having it perfect. Just edit it so it fits your vision.

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 1: WHAT MAKES A GREAT TV PITCH BIBLE?

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“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

Present your Concept and World.

1. Present your Concept.

Concept = SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to spark a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 1 – LESSON 13: CREATE YOUR BW FRAMEWORK

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“What I learned doing this process is…?”

SKYY LAR Binge-Worthy Framework completed. Will elevate it over again.

ASSIGNMENT

Create the framework for your show.

“What I learned doing this process is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

Create the framework for your show.

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BWTV-AI MODULE 1 LESSON 12: DISCOVERING IRONY

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“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show

Watch the next episode of your Example Show and notice where irony shows up in this show — both in this episode and throughout the episodes you’ve already seen.

Tell us the irony you have already discovered in the Example Show.

Example show: Hijack

Episodes 1 – 7 only

IRONIES

Sam Nelson is a flight passenger who wants to join the Hijackers.

A female passenger shoots the captain and takes over the aircraft manually.

Sam Nelson is a potential Hijacker who is trying to save the life of a Hijacker.

John Collins is a hijacker who threatens and can’t shoot dead any passenger.

The Hijacker is threatening the passengers with fake guns.

John Collins is an airplane hijacker who can fly an aircraft.

ASSIGNMENT 2: Your Show

1. Look back through your previous assignments and find at least 10 different situations or character components that you could go opposite to create irony.

10 DIFFERENT SITUATIONS IRONIES.

It took losing a left leg to get SKYY LAR to lead a rebellion against environmental destruction.

Rebellion is SKYY LAR’s answer to environmental destruction but SKYY LAR uses it to infiltrate Beauty Industry’s events and facilities.

SKYY LAR must concede to some of the Beauty Industry’s demands to stop the slaughter of its community.

CHARACTER IRONIES:

SKYY LAR is the best Tactician whose strategies are questioned by the new members.

EMMA is an activist whose parents have an interest in the Beauty Industry.

Dr. Ava Green can’t balance his scientific integrity with the needs of the rebellion.

SKYY LAR is the unassuming feral pigeon who became a rebellion leader.

RAPHAEL is a rebel who is the target of conspiracies because of dual loyalties.

SKYY LAR leads a rebellion but new alliances are forming underground.

Dr. Ava Green is a rebellious ally whose past is linked to the Beauty industry

RAPHAEL is a rebellion ally whose true allegiances and next moves are uncertain.

EMMA is an undercover activist whose activities put her allies in danger.

SKYY LAR is an injured feral pigeon who is the best Tactician.

RAPHAEL is a rebellion ally who passes secrets to the adversaries.

SKYY LAR is a rebellion leader whose mission to expose the Beauty Industry can lead to its capture.

RAPHAEL is a rebellion ally with internal conflicts and pressures from both rebellion and adversaries.

RAVEN is SKYY LAR’S mentor who faces challenges from younger birds who question RAVEN’S methods.

RAPHAEL is a rebellious ally who is forced to reveal its true loyalties affecting their relationship.

2. With each, brainstorm ideas for ways it could go opposite.

OPPOSITE OF THE IRONIES.

SKYY LAR did not lose a left leg to lead a rebellion for environmental destruction.

Rebellion is not SKYY LAR’s answer to environmental destruction and SKYY LAR uses it to infiltrate Beauty Industry’s events and facilities.

SKYY LAR’s community cannot face slaughter as it has not conceded to any of the Beauty Industry’s demands.

CHARACTER IRONIES:

SKYY LAR is the best Tactician whose strategies are unquestioned by the new members.

EMMA is an activist whose parents have no interest in the Beauty Industry.

Dr. Ava Green balances his scientific integrity with the needs of the rebellion.

SKYY LAR is not a rebellion leader as it is the unassuming feral pigeon.

RAPHAEL has dual loyalties and cannot be a target of conspiracies.

SKYY LAR leads a rebellion and no new alliances exist underground.

Dr. Ava Green’s past is not linked to the Beauty industry

RAPHAEL’s true allegiances and next moves are certain.

EMMA’s activities do not put her allies in danger because she is not an undercover activist.

SKYY LAR is not the best Tactician.

RAPHAEL does not pass secrets to the adversaries.

SKYY LAR cannot be captured as he has no mission to expose the Beauty Industry.

RAPHAEL has no internal conflicts and pressures from both rebellion and adversaries.

RAVEN’S methods are not questioned by the younger birds and faces no challenge as SKYY LAR’S mentor.

RAPHAEL’s relationship with the rebellion allies is not affected because no one forces it to reveal its true loyalties.

With AI, use this Prompt to generate even more ways to use irony.

I’m going to give you the [Concept], [Lead Characters], and [Main Conflict] for my TV Series in [Format/Genre] and I’d like you to brainstorm forms of [Irony] that could show up in the show.

IRONY = Put two opposites together in a meaningful way. Those opposites could be on any of these levels: Plot, character, relationships, situations, cover-ups, layers, actions, dialogue, or dramatic irony where the audience knows something one or more of the characters don’t or other forms of irony that meets the definition.

Main Conflict = Can SKYY LAR spark a Worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence?

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Concept = SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Lead Characters =

1. SKYY LAR – The Unpredictable Leader

2. EMMA – The Conscientious Ally

3. DR. AVA GREEN – The Innovative Scientist.

4. RAPHAEL (English Trumpeter Pigeon) – The Doubtful Participant.

5. RAVEN – SKYY LAR’s Mentor.

Plot Irony

Environmental Savior Turned Villain:

The beauty industry launched a new “eco-friendly” product that causes more harm to the environment, exacerbating the issues SKYY LAR and EMMA are fighting against.

Character Irony

DR. AVA GREEN’s Dual Roles:

As an innovative scientist working to save the environment, he relies on funding from the Beauty industry causing the pollution he’s trying to combat.

Relationship Irony

EMMA’s Family Ties:

She fights against environmental destruction while her own family’s company is secretly one of the main contributors, making her the inadvertent enemy of her lineage.

Situational Irony

RAVEN’s Ancient Wisdom:

The mentor seeking to preserve avian traditions finds the old ways might no longer be effective in the new fight, leading to a need for adaptation he was initially resistant to.

Cover-up Irony

Hidden Agendas Revealed:

A character or organization that outwardly supports environmental causes is found to be involved in activities that harm it, leading to a betrayal of public trust.

Actions Irony

RAPHAEL’s Double Life:

His efforts to mediate and bring peace led to greater conflict within the rebellion, challenging his intentions with unintended consequences.

Dialogue Irony

Promises vs. Reality:

Characters may make grandiose promises about saving the environment in speeches or declarations, which are ironically contrasted with the reality of their actions or the outcomes.

Dramatic Irony

Audience Knowledge:

The audience is aware of the true source of the synthetic hair that injured SKYY LAR, but the characters spend much of the season uncovering this truth, leading to frustration and anticipation.

Irony of Expectations

SKYY LAR’s Leadership:

Initially seen as an unlikely leader because of its injury and nature as a pigeon, SKYY LAR becomes the most effective and inspirational leader the rebellion could have, subverting expectations about capability and resilience.

3. Select the ones that work well for the show and share the character and situational irony ideas with us.

Initially seen as an unlikely leader because of its injury and nature as a pigeon, SKYY LAR becomes the most effective and inspirational leader the rebellion could have, subverting expectations about capability and resilience.

RAPHAEL’s Double Life:

His efforts to mediate and bring peace led to greater conflict within the rebellion, challenging his intentions with unintended consequences.

RAVEN’s Ancient Wisdom:

The mentor seeking to preserve avian traditions finds the old ways might no longer be effective in the new fight, leading to a need for adaptation he was initially resistant to.

EMMA’s Family Ties:

She fights against environmental destruction while her own family’s company is secretly one of the main contributors, making her the inadvertent enemy of her lineage.

DR. AVA GREEN’s Dual Roles:

As an innovative scientist working to save the environment, he relies on funding from the Beauty industry causing the pollution he’s trying to combat.

Environmental Savior Turned Villain:

The beauty industry launched a new “eco-friendly” product that causes more harm to the environment, exacerbating the issues SKYY LAR and EMMA are fighting against.

Promises vs. Reality:

Characters may make grandiose promises about saving the environment in speeches or declarations, which are ironically contrasted with the reality of their actions or the outcomes.

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Have fun with your Character Profiles.

………..Well…….

5 LEAD CHARACTERS PROFILES COMPLETED.

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Module 1 – Lesson 10: Creating Intriguing Layers

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“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show

Watch the next episode of your Example Show and notice how layers show up in this show — both in this episode and throughout the episodes you’ve already seen.

Tell us the layers you have discovered in the Example Show.

Example Show: Hijack

PLOT LAYERS =

EPISODES 1 to 7 only

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CHARACTER LAYERS =

ASSIGNMENT 2: Your Show

Discover the layers that could exist for your show.

1. Brainstorm a list of possible PLOT layers.

PLOT LAYERS – Story beneath the story.

Major scheme revealed =

When SKYY LAR pecking about in a Shopping Mall cum market, stepped on a fake hair strand, got entangled, and strung itself. Everyone thought it was caused by human neglect. But it was more/ larger than that.

Mystery revealed =

SKYY LAR and allies thought they were fighting environmental destruction alone.

Thought the story was one thing, but it is another =

I thought it was a story about negligence but it was more than that.

Major shift in Meaning =

Hidden history =

Hidden plan =

Major betrayal =

2. Brainstorm a list of possible CHARACTER layers.

CHARACTER LAYERS – identity beneath the identity.

Secret identity =

RAPHAEL is part of the rebellion and part of the Beauty Industry. A double Agent.

Character intrigue =

Hidden relationships and conspiracies =

Hidden Character history =

1. Organize them each into a possible sequence of reveals.

Plot Surface:

Layer 1:

Start with how SKYY LAR got strung and was freed by EMMA who constructed a prosthetic leg for it. Set the stage for conflict. Set the stage for conflict.

Layer 2:

EMMA investigates when the string/fake hair strand originated.

Layer 3:

Introduce RAVEN mentoring the injured SKYY LAR to form a coalition of Avian for a rebellion.

Layer 4:

Introduce Raphael, the spy within.

Etc.

Character Surface:

Layer 1:

Layer 2:

Layer 3:

Layer 4:

Etc.

4. Use this prompt with AI to see what kinds of layers it brainstorms. When you list the characters, include the one or two things that are most intriguing about them.

I’m writing a TV Series that is [Format/Genre] about [Concept] with [Lead Characters]. Can you generate [Plot Layers] and [Character Layers] that could play beneath the surface and be revealed in Turning Points or Cliffhangers?

Definition of Layer = A new level of meaning beneath the surface that changes things. It makes us rethink what has happened up to that point and/or causes us to anticipate a new future. You start with a Surface Layer. Then a new layer is revealed. That new layer becomes the new surface. It is what we know as the “reality.” When the next layer is revealed, it surprises us, but soon becomes the next new surface.

PLOT LAYERS = Story beneath the story.

– Major scheme revealed
– Mystery revealed
– Thought the story was one thing, but it is another
– Major shift in Meaning
– Hidden history
– Hidden plan

CHARACTER LAYERS = identity beneath the identity.
– Secret identity
– Intrigue layers
– Hidden relationships and conspiracies
– Hidden Character history
– Hidden Agenda
– Wound

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

(Concept) = SKYY LAR, a feral pigeon injured by human negligence,
collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a
worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on
the beauty industry’s influence.

Lead Characters =

1. SKYY LAR – The Unpredictable Leader

2. EMMA – The Conscientious Ally

3. DR. AVA GREEN – The Innovative Scientist.

4. RAPHAEL (English Trumpeter Pigeon) – The Doubtful Participant.

5. RAVEN – SKYY LAR’s Mentor.

PLOT LAYERS

Surface Layer: The initial setup of SKYY LAR leading a rebellion against the beauty industry due to its environmental destruction, with EMMA’s support and DR. AVA GREEN’s scientific contributions.

• Layer 1: Major Scheme Revealed: Mid-season, it’s uncovered that the beauty industry’s destruction is not just negligence but part of a larger, intentional scheme to monopolize resources or manipulate the environment for profit.

• Layer 2: Mystery Revealed: A shocking turn reveals that the synthetic compound causing harm to birds was originally developed for a benevolent purpose, complicating the rebellion’s stance against the beauty industry.

• Layer 3: Shift in Meaning: The rebellion discovers that their fight is not only against the beauty industry but also against a global network of industries contributing to environmental degradation, widening the scope of their mission.

• Layer 4: Hidden History: The rebellion uncovers ancient wisdom or technology that can counteract the environmental damage, possibly connected to RAVEN’s past and the origins of the avian species’ intelligence.

• Layer 5: Hidden Plan: Towards the season finale, it’s revealed that there’s a mole within the rebellion, secretly forwarding their plans to the beauty industry, leading to a betrayal that shifts the dynamic within the group.

CHARACTER LAYERS

SKYY LAR

• Secret Identity: Initially seen as a mere pigeon, SKYY LAR is revealed to have been part of a secret experiment enhancing its intelligence, connecting it directly to the beauty industry’s scientific endeavors.

• Hidden Agenda: SKYY LAR’s ultimate goal is to establish a new world order where avian species are safeguarded against human threats, challenging the rebellion’s human-centric approach.

EMMA

• Intrigue Layers: EMMA struggles with her family’s direct involvement in the beauty industry, leading to personal conflicts and a moral dilemma about exposing them.

• Hidden Character History: It’s revealed that EMMA’s activism was inspired by a personal tragedy linked to environmental harm, driving her passionate involvement in the rebellion.

DR. AVA GREEN

• Secret Identity: DR. AVA GREEN is eventually discovered to have once spearheaded the development of the very compounds now harming wildlife, seeking redemption by aiding the rebellion.

• Wound: His guilt over past actions fuels his commitment to finding a solution, but also causes internal conflict about the ethical implications of his work.

RAPHAEL

• Hidden Relationships and Conspiracies: RAPHAEL’s true allegiance is ambiguous, with ties to both the rebellion and opposing forces, culminating in a pivotal reveal about his double agent role.

• Hidden Agenda: His actions are motivated by a desire to protect a specific segment of avian life affected by the industry, leading to morally grey decisions.

RAVEN

• Hidden Character History: RAVEN holds ancient knowledge about the natural world that could be key to reversing environmental damage but fears its power.

• Wound: A past betrayal by humans, leading to a deep-seated distrust, complicates his mentorship of SKYY LAR and his involvement in the rebellion.

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Module 1 – Lesson 9: Inviting Obsession Through Open Loops

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ASSIGNMENT 1

1. Think about your Example Show. Make a list of the Big Picture open loops that were established early in the season.

Big Picture open loops

2. Go back and watch the pilot again. As you do, notice how many open loops are being used to create the need to see future episodes.

How many open loops

ASSIGNMENT 2:

1. Use this list to brainstorm Big Picture Open Loops for your first season that you will use to keep the audience captivated.

GOALS:

New goals? =

Can SKYY LAR form a bird alliance? Can he extend the alliance to major cities in the UK? Can he extend its reach to the five continents of the world? Can SKYY LAR succeed in sparking a worldwide bird alliance? How would SKYY LAR organize it? How will SKYY LAR handle different ideas?

Goals related to the big picture?

Can SKYY LAR uncover the extent of environmental destruction by the Beauty industry? Will these adversaries sit tight and watch SKYY LAR do damage?

Crushed goals?

Can earlier efforts to legislate against harmful practices be quashed by powerful lobbyists and force the rebellion to seek alternative strategies?

Competition/Conflict around goals?

Will there be internal differences about SKYY LAR’s direction with the alliance? Will new members call for direct action, others for diplomacy and awareness campaigns?

CONSEQUENCES:

Are they going to be caught?

Will EMMA risk exposure and backlash from her family for their ties to the Beauty Industry?

Problems created from past actions?

Will Dr. Green’s past involvement affect the future of the alliance/

Good plans gone wrong?

Will a planned protest backfire, paint the rebellion in a negative light and lead to a public relations crisis?

SOLVING PROBLEMS:

What is the major problem for this character?

Will SKYY LAR and allies find a way to neutralize the effect of synthetic compound’s widespread and its catastrophic effect on wildlife?

What are they trying to solve?

Can RAPHAEL undertake a secret mission to gather intelligence about the Beauty industry’s next moves and potential weaknesses?

Major change imposed on the character?

Previous solutions cause new problems.

RELATIONSHIPS:

Relationships in peril?

Will SKYY LAR and RAVEN’s relationship be strained under the pressure of leadership decisions and different visions for the future?

New relationships forming?

Will allies from unexpected quarters including whistle-blowers from the Beauty Industry and sympathetic politicians offer new dynamics and strategic advantages?

Conflict inside relationships?

Will EMMA’s activism create friction within her family, leading to a deep ideological divide that challenges her sense of belonging and loyalty?

Relationships changing?

Will RAPHAEL’S loyalty be tested as his dual role brings him closer to some members of the rebellion while alienating others?

DANGER / SURVIVAL / RISKS:

Can they survive X?

Can the entire avian population in urban areas face an existential threat from the compounds?

Putting themselves in danger / making dangerous decisions?

Can SKYY LAR and a chosen team put their lives at stake to retrieve vital data from a dangerous Beauty Industry facility?

Who else is pulled into their danger?

Will EMMA’s family be at risk of involving in a conflict and facing threats from industrial enforcers seeking to silence her?

Internal dangers (drug addiction, need for medicine, inner demons)?

2. Use this Prompt with AI to generate even more Open Loops.

I’m writing a TV Series that is [Format/Genre] about [Concept] and [Conflict] with [Lead Characters]. Can you generate [Open Loops] and Setups that could play out throughout Season 1?

Definition of “Open Loops”: Questions that can only be answered in future episodes. An Open Loop is a rhetorical device to instill curiosity by creating anticipation for what will come next.

Open Loops opportunities:

GOALS:

· New goals?

· Goals related to the big picture?

· Crushed goals?

· Competition/Conflict around goals?

CONSEQUENCES:

· Are they going to be caught?

· Problems created from past actions?

· Good plans gone wrong?

SOLVING PROBLEMS:

· What is the major problem for this character?

· What are they trying to solve?

· Major change imposed on the character?

· Previous solutions cause new problems?

RELATIONSHIPS:

· Relationships in peril?

· New relationships forming?

· Conflict inside relationships?

· Relationships changing?

DANGER / SURVIVAL / RISKS:

· Can they survive X?

· Putting themselves in danger / making dangerous decisions?

· Who else is pulled into their danger?

· Internal dangers (drug addiction, need for medicine, inner demons)?

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Concept = SKYY LAR, a pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Conflict = Worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Lead Characters =

1. SKYY LAR – The Unpredictable Leader

= Intrigue: Ignites rebellion targeting the beauty industry.

Hidden Agenda: Aims to make birds the dominant urban species.

2. EMMA – The Conscientious Ally

= Intrigue: Struggles with her family’s ties to the beauty industry.

Secret Identity: Undercover environmental investigator.

3. DR. AVA GREEN – The Innovative Scientist

= Intrigue: Secret past with beauty industry.

Secrets: Controversial industry history, whistleblower ties.

4. RAPHAEL(English Trumpeter Pigeon) – The Doubtful Participant

= Intrigue: Loyalty tested, potential double agent.

Deception: Pretends neutrality, plans covertly.

5. RAVEN – SKYY LAR’s Mentor

= Intrigue: Deep knowledge of human-avian dynamics.

Conspiracies: Leads covert actions against industry harm.

OPEN LOOPS AND SETUPS:

GOALS:

• SKYY LAR: New Goal: To infiltrate a major beauty industry facility to uncover evidence of environmental harm. Big Picture Goal: Establish a safe urban environment for birds.
• EMMA: Crushed Goal: Her initial attempts to persuade her family to change their company’s policies fail, deepening her commitment to the rebellion.
• DR. AVA GREEN: Competition: Faces resistance from industry peers aiming to discredit his eco-friendly alternatives.
• RAPHAEL: Conflict: Torn between his loyalty to SKYY LAR and the temptation to revert to his old life for personal safety.
• RAVEN: New Relationship: Forms an unlikely alliance with a human environmentalist group, adding a new dynamic to the rebellion’s strategy.

CONSEQUENCES:

• SKYY LAR: Risk of Being Caught: As SKYY LAR’s actions become bolder, the risk of capture by industry enforcers increases.
• EMMA: Problems From Past Actions: Emma’s undercover activities lead to an unexpected backlash against her family, complicating her loyalties.
• DR. AVA GREEN: Good Plans Gone Wrong: A well-intentioned demonstration of his new technology inadvertently harms local wildlife, questioning his methods.
• RAPHAEL: Consequences of Double Life: Raphael’s double-agent role is suspected, endangering his place in both the rebellion and the industry.
• RAVEN: Internal Danger: The strain of leading covert operations takes a toll on RAVEN’s health, risking the mentorship and guidance he provides.

SOLVING PROBLEMS:

• SKYY LAR: Major Problem: Navigating the rebellion while protecting his flock from retaliatory attacks by the beauty industry.
• EMMA: Solving Family Conflict: Emma seeks a way to reconcile her environmental activism with her family’s business interests.
• DR. AVA GREEN: Ethical Dilemmas: Struggles to find a balance between his ambitious scientific goals and the ethical implications of his work.
• RAPHAEL: Loyalty Crisis: Must decide whether his future lies with the rebellion or his previous life, impacting his role in upcoming strategies.
• RAVEN: Adapting Strategies: Finds innovative ways to educate urban birds on survival amidst environmental threats, changing his traditional approach.

RELATIONSHIPS:

• SKYY LAR and EMMA: Their alliance deepens, but secrets between them threaten to undermine their trust.
• EMMA and her Family: Tension escalates as her activism directly conflicts with family interests, leading to a pivotal confrontation.
• DR. AVA GREEN and Whistleblowers: New alliances form as Green seeks out industry insiders willing to expose the truth, creating a network of informants.
• RAPHAEL and SKYY LAR: A critical moment forces Raphael to reveal his true loyalties, dramatically affecting their relationship.
• RAVEN and Younger Birds: Challenges arise as younger birds question RAVEN’s traditional methods, pushing for more aggressive tactics.

DANGER / SURVIVAL / RISKS:

• SKYY LAR: Faces a dangerous mission that could either expose the beauty industry’s darkest secrets or lead to his capture.
• EMMA: Her undercover activities put her at risk of being outed, with potentially dire consequences for her and her allies.
• DR. AVA GREEN: A sabotaged experiment endangers not just his project but his life, forcing him to reconsider his approach.
• RAPHAEL: Caught in a dangerous game of espionage, Raphael risks everything for a chance to make things right.
• RAVEN: His pursuit of ancient knowledge leads him into perilous territory, revealing hidden threats to avian life in the city.

3. Tell us your top Big Picture Open Loops that could be in your Pilot.

SKYY LAR: New Goal: To infiltrate a major beauty
industry facility to uncover evidence of environmental harm. Big Picture
Goal: Establish a safe urban environment for birds. How will SKYY LAR infiltrate a major beauty
industry facility? Can he establish a safe urban environment for birds?

EMMA: Problems From Past Actions: Emma’s undercover
activities lead to an unexpected backlash against her family,
complicating her loyalties. What is EMMA’s loyalty if her undercover
activities lead to an unexpected backlash against her family?

A public demonstration orchestrated by SKYY LAR inadvertently leads to a crackdown on all environmental activism. How will the rebellion adapt?

DR. AVA GREEN’s controversial past with the beauty industry is leaked to the media. Who is behind this, and what fallout will there be?

RAVEN begins to see SKYY LAR not just as a mentee but as a true leader. How does this shift their dynamic?

RAPHAEL struggles with the psychological toll of his double life, affecting his missions and personal well-being. How will he cope?

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MODULE 1 – LESSON 8: INVITING OBSESSION THROUGH MYSTERY

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch the next episode of your Example Show and focus on the Mysteries that have been created in that show. Also, notice the difference between the big picture mysteries that are a big part of the plot across the entire season versus the smaller mysteries.

Example Show; Hijack

Episodes 1 – 7 only

Mysteries

The released prisoner is shot dead in the farmhouse. Who shot him? Why?

A female passenger suddenly stands up, opens the headroom locker, and pulls a handgun. She loads bullets, walks to the first class, unhindered, and shoots the captain dead. She enters the cockpit, slams the door, and locks herself. She takes over the aircraft manually. Who is she?

Tell us about the Mysteries from this show.

ASSIGNMENT 2:

Create two mysteries for your show — one that shows up strong in the Pilot and the other that is revealed over time.

Mystery Type 1 = What stringed SKYY LAR’S legs? And why couldn’t SKYY LAR free itself or move?

Mystery Type 2 = The Beauty Industry has been experimenting with new synthetic compounds that have had catastrophic effects on wildlife, and birds, disrupting their navigational and reproductive abilities.

1. Create your Shocking Event Mystery and tell us the WWWWW and H, along with the part withheld.

• A. Shocking
  Event: SKYY LAR’S legs are stringed together at
  the Shopping Mall. It cannot walk, or free itself to peck for food. Every
  effort to free self-worsens its plight. It is the worst nightmare of every
  feral pigeon. EMMA comes to the rescue and together with her mother tries to de-string SKYY LAR who loses its left leg.
• B. Secret: The manufacturer of the synthetic hair and its intended purpose are kept secret.
• C.
  Investigation: EMMA investigates.
• Who: = SKYY LAR.
  
• Where: = At the big Shopping Mall.
  
• What: = SKYY is stringed
• When: = While pecking about for food/ looking for grain drops.
  
• Why: = Lying/Floating about.
  
• and How: Entangled
  
• Part
  Withheld: The manufacturer of the synthetic hair.
• A. Cover-up: The Beauty Industry has been experimenting with new synthetic compounds that have had catastrophic effects on wildlife, and birds, disrupting their navigational and reproductive abilities.
• B. Secret: The population of one-legged pigeons, environmental destruction, and compounds used, are withheld.
• C. Reveals: EMMA traces the synthetic hair back to the nearest Hairdressing shop, linked to a beauty company product,
• Who = The Beauty Industry
• Where = The World
• What = New synthetic compounds
• When = Experimenting
• Why = Eco-friendly
• and How =
• Part Withheld: =The one-legged pigeon population, extent of destruction.

2. Create the Over Time Mystery and tell us the WWWWW and H, along with the part withheld.

3. Use these two prompts to generate a list of possible mysteries and then design the main components of the Shocking Event mystery and Over Time mystery.

PROMPT 1:

With this TV [Concept] in [Format/Genre], and these [Lead Characters], give me a list of possible Mysteries that could be created for Season 1.

Mystery Definition: The intriguing secret, question, or puzzle that must be solved by the hero, often connected to high stakes and consequences for the Main Characters.

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Concept = SKYY LAR, a pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Lead Characters =

1. SKYY LAR – The Unpredictable Leader

2. EMMA – The Conscientious Ally

3. DR. AVA GREEN – The Innovative Scientist.

4. RAPHAEL(English
Trumpeter Pigeon) – The Doubtful Participant.

5. RAVEN – SKYY LAR’s Mentor.

List of possible Mysteries:

1. The Origin of the Synthetic Threat: Unraveling the true source of the synthetic material that injured SKYY LAR, leading to a broader investigation into illegal waste disposal practices by the beauty industry.

2. The Disappearing Avians: Investigating the mysterious disappearance of several urban bird populations, which leads to uncovering a secret chemical testing site affecting avian navigation and health.

3. Dr. Ava Green’s Secret Past: Delving into Dr. Ava Green’s hidden history with the beauty industry, revealing his involvement in developing a now-banned compound and his reasons for switching sides.

4. The Underground Lab: Discovering an underground laboratory where the beauty industry conducts experiments on wildlife, including avians, to test the environmental impact of their products.

5. The Whistleblower: A beauty industry insider ready to expose dangerous practices disappears under mysterious circumstances, prompting a risky mission to find and protect them.

6. The Corporate Spy: Identifying a spy within the rebellion, planted by the beauty industry to sabotage their efforts and gather intelligence on their plans.

7. Raphael’s Double Life: Uncovering the full extent of Raphael’s covert activities and true loyalties, including his connections to a rival faction within the beauty industry aiming to take down the consortium from within.

8. The Poisoned Sanctuary: Investigating a sudden ecological disaster in a key urban wildlife sanctuary, later revealed to be caused by runoff from a beauty product manufacturing plant.

9. Raven’s Ancient Secret: Unlocking the ancient wisdom or technology Raven possesses that could either save or doom the urban bird populations, depending on who gains control over it.

10. The Environmental Hacker: Tracing the source of a series of cyber-attacks on environmental databases and activist networks, leading back to a tech genius funded by the beauty industry to discredit and disrupt environmental movements.

11. Emma’s Dilemma: Emma discovers her family’s investment in a controversial beauty industry project threatening local ecosystems, forcing her to choose between family loyalty and her environmental convictions.

12. The Synthetic Organism: The revelation that the beauty industry has been funding the development of synthetic organisms designed to replace natural pollinators, with unforeseen and potentially catastrophic effects on global ecosystems.

13. The Coalition Collapse: Addressing fractures within the rebellion as diverging strategies and visions for the future create conflict, leading to a mystery of who or what is intentionally stirring dissent.

14. The Forbidden Partnership: Exploring a forbidden partnership between avian species and a group of renegade scientists, aiming to develop a countermeasure to the beauty industry’s synthetic compounds.

15. The Secret of the City’s Birds: Solving the mystery of why urban birds in London are exhibiting unusual behavior patterns, eventually linking it to a new, untested beauty product that affects animals’ sensory functions.

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PROMPT 2

I’m going to provide [Mystery 1] and [Mystery 2] for my TV series about [Concept] in [Format/Genre], and these [Lead Characters]. Please create them through [Mystery Strategy 1] and [Mystery Strategy 2].

Mystery Definition: The intriguing secret, question, or puzzle that must be solved by the hero, often connected to high stakes and consequences for the main characters.

Mystery strategy 1 = For the opening Shocking Event Mystery, please include:

A. Shocking Event:

B. Secret:

C. Investigation:

Mystery strategy 2 = For ongoing Over-Time Mystery please include:

A. Cover up:

B. Secret:

C. Reveals:

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Concept = SKYY LAR, a pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates
with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird
rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty
industry’s influence.

Lead Characters =

1. SKYY LAR – The Unpredictable Leader

2. EMMA – The Conscientious Ally

3. DR. AVA GREEN – The Innovative Scientist.

4. RAPHAEL(English Trumpeter Pigeon) – The Doubtful Participant.

5. RAVEN – SKYY LAR’s Mentor.

Mystery 1 = What stringed SKYY LAR’S legs? And why couldn’t SKYY LAR free itself or move?

Mystery 2 = The Beauty Industry has been experimenting with new synthetic compounds that have had catastrophic effects on wildlife, and birds, disrupting their navigational and reproductive abilities.

Mystery Strategy 1: Opening Shocking Event Mystery

A. Shocking Event: SKYY LAR is found trapped and immobile in an urban park, its legs entangled in an unusually resilient, synthetic material that doesn’t resemble any known waste product typically found in the bird’s urban environment.

B. Secret: The synthetic material is a prototype for a new, eco-friendly beauty product that has been illegally dumped during secretive field tests. The true nature and origin of the material are obscured, with the beauty industry denying any knowledge of its existence.

C. Investigation: EMMA begins a grassroots investigation into the mysterious substance, enlisting the help of DR. AVA GREEN for his scientific expertise. Their search leads them through a maze of corporate deceit, requiring them to break through layers of bureaucracy and corporate espionage. They face challenges from both the industry and secretive elements within the city that benefit from keeping the beauty industry’s new developments under wraps.

Mystery Strategy 2: Ongoing Over-Time Mystery

A. Cover-up: The beauty industry has been conducting secret experiments to develop synthetic compounds aimed at creating a new line of “eco-friendly” products. However, these compounds have unforeseen toxic effects on wildlife, particularly avian species, causing disruptions in their navigational and reproductive abilities. The industry has gone to great lengths to hide these experiments, manipulating data and silencing whistleblowers.

B. Secret: A hidden research facility exists where the most hazardous experiments are conducted, far from prying eyes. The location and existence of this facility are closely guarded secrets, known only to a select few within the industry’s upper echelon. There, they’ve developed a compound that, while harmless to humans, is lethal to avian DNA structures.

C. Reveals:

• Start: The initial discovery of the synthetic material around SKYY LAR’s legs leads to the first hints that the beauty industry’s waste management practices are not as transparent as claimed.
• Next: Through their investigation, EMMA and DR. AVA GREEN uncovered documentation of missing shipments of experimental compounds, pointing to the existence of unauthorized testing sites.
• Middle: An insider comes forward, providing them with the location of the hidden facility and evidence of the catastrophic environmental impact of the compounds being tested.
• End: The season climaxes with a daring expose of the beauty industry’s practices, leading to public outrage and a legal battle to shut down the facility and hold those responsible accountable. Meanwhile, RAPHAEL and RAVEN work from within to mobilize the avian community, using their unique positions to gather evidence and protect affected bird populations.

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Mose Quainoo

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As a member of this group, I agree to the following:

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I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.

3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.

4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea before 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.

[Moses Quainoo]

Hi Ya,

I am Mose Quainoo.

I want to create a Binge-Worthy Serial TV Show and have come to this class to learn Scene Mastery. So help me God.

[Moses Quainoo]

MODULE 1 – LESSON 7: EMPATHY/DISTRESS, THE BINGE WORTHY DRUG!

Moses Quainoo

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

1. Watch the next episode of your Example Show and focus on the Empathy/Distress that shows up in this episode and throughout the season so far.

Episodes 1- 7

Example Show – Hijack

Empathy/Distress

In a scuffle, an Arab passenger stabs the Collins brother Hijacker. He bleeds silently, and profusely and loses lots of blood. Almost passes out.

Sam insists Collins lands the plane to seek medical help in Bucharest.

Collins smashes the Captain’s headphones and they cannot communicate with the ground.

Collins shouts at passengers and points the guns at heads and hopes they will stay calm.

Collins fears he must use the intercom or a passenger gets killed.

The Cleaners want to track Sam Nelson’s residence and call his ex-wife.

The infight crew bandages the Hijacker’s bleeding.

Collins thinks the fighter Pilots can’t shoot a British civil plane over Hungary.

An inflight crew wants to communicate with a fighter jet and needs to know how the Hijackers could respond.

The fighter Pilot declares on the radio the Hijackers are armed.

Non-communicative aircraft heading straight for the capital Bucharest and the Captain fears the plane is like an incoming missile to the Hungarians.

Sam tells a healthy Hijacker to get medicine from anyone to save the bleeding Hijacker.

Sam sends a copy of the conversation between the bleeding Hijacker and his mother to his ex-wife.

The inflight crew tells passengers to open their window blinds.

2. Notice the difference between Big Picture Empathy/Distress and detail-oriented Empathy/Distress. Big Picture will have an impact across multiple episodes.

Deadline: 24 hours

ASSIGNMENT 2:

1. Make a list of BIG PICTURE difficult situations and decisions your TV Show characters could make because of the main conflict of this series.

Just ask yourself: “Knowing the concept, what are the big picture Empathy/Distress situations that could occur?”

List of BIG PICTURE difficult situations and decisions.

SKYY LAR is torn between a risky plan that could advance the rebellion or endanger avian lives, including close allies.

EMMA struggles with her family’s connection to the beauty industry and must act against them to support the rebellion.

DR. AVA GREEN’S previous connection to the beauty industry is revealed. This endangers his position in the rebellion and forces him to confront his past.

RAPHAEL faces a dilemma as a double agent, risking his safety and relationships.

RAVEN’s choice of which areas or species to prioritize for protection is difficult. It knows that not all can be saved.

SKYY LAR

Distress:

• A. Undeserved misfortune.
• SKYY LAR enters resistance from its avian community.
• B. External Character Conflicts.
• SKYY LAR wants to collect evidence against the beauty industry and leads EMMA to a pollution waste dump. SKYY LAR publicly criticized Dr.
  Green’s scientific approaches to solving environmental issues.
• C. Plot intruding on life.
• The Beauty Industry carries out a misinformation campaign to shift public opinion about SKYY LAR. SKYY LAR faces a challenge when Unexpected RAPHAEL forms a new alliance.
• D. Moral dilemmas.
• SKYY LAR should either protect the bird community or expose human environmental destruction.
• E. Forced decisions they’d never make.
• A Chinese dissident arrives in London, captures a significant flock of birds (500,000 pigeons), and threatens to export the meat for food in China.
• Empathy
• A. Put the character in distress.
• SKYY LAR….
• B. Make them relatable.
• SKYY LAR…….
• C. Universal experiences that are emotional.
• SKYY LAR……
• EMMA
• A. Undeserved misfortune.
• EMMA is making a big sacrifice at the age of five and could be held captive.
• B. External Character Conflicts.
• C. Plot intruding on life.
• D. Moral dilemmas.
• E. Forced decisions they’d never make.
• Empathy:
• A. Put the character in distress.
• B. Make them relatable.
• C. Universal experiences that are emotional.

DR. AVA GREEN

• A. Undeserved misfortune.
• B. External Character Conflicts.
• C. Plot intruding on life.
• D. Moral dilemmas.
• E. Forced decisions they’d never make.
• Empathy:
• A. Put the character in distress.
• B. Make them relatable.
• C. Universal experiences that are emotional.

RAPHAEL

• A. Undeserved misfortune.
• B. External Character Conflicts.
• C. Plot intruding on life.
• D. Moral dilemmas.
• E. Forced decisions they’d never make.
• Empathy:
• A. Put the character in distress.
• B. Make them relatable.
• C. Universal experiences that are emotional.

RAVEN

• A. Undeserved misfortune.
• B. External Character Conflicts.
• C. Plot intruding on life.
• D. Moral dilemmas.
• E. Forced decisions they’d never make.
• Empathy:
• A. Put the character in distress.
• B. Make them relatable.
• C. Universal experiences that are emotional.

2. Once you’ve created your version, use this prompt to see what AI generates for you. When you list your lead characters, just put in their role, main goal, and main intrigue in one or two sentences.

I’m going to provide my TV series [Format/Genre], [Concept], and [Conflict]. Can you give me ways to create [Distress] and [Empathy] for each of my [Lead Characters]? Please be detailed and provide unique and specific answers for each character in short, precise sentences.

Distress =

A. Undeserved misfortune.

B. External Character Conflicts.
C. Plot intruding on life.
D. Moral dilemmas.
E. Forced decisions they’d never make.

Empathy =

A. Put them in distress.

B. Make them relatable.

C. Universal experiences that are emotional.

Format/Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Concept = SKYY LAR, a pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Conflict = Worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Lead Characters =

SKYY LAR

• Distress:

  • A: An unexpected injury during a crucial mission increases SKYY LAR’s physical challenges.
  • B: Conflict with newer rebels who question SKYY LAR’s leadership style.
  • C: A pivotal rebellion strategy fails, directly due to misinformation or sabotage.
  • D: Choosing between a dangerous mission that could end the conflict or keeping the flock safe.
  • E: Being forced to abandon a fellow injured bird to evade capture by humans.

• Empathy:

  • A: Show SKYY LAR’s struggle with its new limitations, yet its determination to lead.
  • B: Highlight SKYY LAR’s efforts to unify and inspire the flock despite differences.
  • C: Depict SKYY LAR’s sacrifices for the rebellion’s cause.
  • D: Focus on SKYY LAR’s moral anguish over difficult leadership decisions.
  • E: Illustrate SKYY LAR’s moments of doubt and vulnerability, enhancing relatability.

EMMA

• Distress:

  • A: EMMA’s family faces a crisis that indirectly results from her activism.
  • B: Tension arises when her environmental efforts directly conflict with her family’s business interests.
  • C: EMMA discovers her actions have inadvertently harmed innocent wildlife.
  • D: Facing the dilemma of exposing her family’s role in environmental harm.
  • E: Being forced to choose between her loyalty to SKYY LAR and her family’s well-being.

• Empathy:

  • A: Show the emotional toll of EMMA’s dual life on her relationships.
  • B: EMMA’s struggles with her identity and beliefs resonate with viewers.
  • C: Her genuine distress and guilt over the unintended consequences of her actions.
  • D: The heavy burden of her moral decisions showcases her depth of character.
  • E: EMMA’s youthful optimism and dedication to making a difference inspire empathy.

DR. AVA GREEN

• Distress:

  • A: His groundbreaking project is legally challenged by his past employer.
  • B: Conflicts with activists who view his scientific approach as unethical.
  • C: A critical component of his project fails, causing a setback.
  • D: Struggling with the decision to use risky technology for the greater good.
  • E: Forced to destroy his work to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

• Empathy:

  • A: His frustration and fears about the future of his work are palpable.
  • B: Dr. Green’s commitment to his principles, even when unpopular.
  • C: His vulnerability in the face of failure humanizes him.
  • D: Internal conflict over ethical dilemmas adds layers to his character.
  • E: The pain of sacrificing his life’s work for the greater good is deeply moving.

RAPHAEL

• Distress:

  • A: RAPHAEL is captured and his secret role is at risk of being exposed.
  • B: His loyalty is questioned by both sides, isolating him.
  • C: A decision he makes leads to unintended harm to a close ally.
  • D: Torn between revealing crucial information and maintaining his cover.
  • E: Forced to betray a friend to protect his deep cover.

• Empathy:

  • A: The stress of living a double life and the constant fear of discovery.
  • B: RAPHAEL’s longing for a place to belong and be understood.
  • C: His regret and self-blame for the consequences of his actions.
  • D: The agony of keeping secrets from those he cares about.
  • E: His internal battle between self-preservation and doing the right thing.

RAVEN

• Distress:

  • A: A new technology threatens the traditional ways of avian life.
  • B: Younger birds challenge his authority, causing a rift.
  • C: A trusted protégé turns against him, aligning with human interests.
  • D: Must decide whether to adapt or resist changes to avian traditions.
  • E: Faces exclusion from the community he helped to build.

• Empathy:

  • A: RAVEN’s struggle to protect his community in a changing world.
  • B: His pain in seeing his teachings and guidance questioned.
  • C: The betrayal by a protégé highlights his sense of loss and failure.
  • D: His internal conflict between preserving traditions and embracing change.
  • E: The isolation he feels from being misunderstood and sidelined.

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MODULE 1 LESSON 6: BUILD YOUR CHARACTER RELATIONSHIP MAP

What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch the next episode of your Example Show and focus on ONE of the main characters and how they interact with others. Notice how much you discover that could go into their Relationship Map.

Create a Relationship Map for one lead character and their relationship with three others.

Purpose: Give you a deeper experience of the relationships in a well-written show.

SAM NELSON/ JOHN COLLINS/ CAPTAIN / INVESTIGATOR

Surface / Passengers / Passenger & Captain Passenger/Scotland Yard

Common Ground / On the Same Flight. / Hostages.

Conflict / Holds Sam hostage.

History /Board the same flight. / Sam is a passenger.

Subtext / Major Competition / Conspirators

Relationship Arc / Unknown to Hostages./ Passenger/Hostages

ASSIGNMENT 2:

1. Create a Relationship Map for THREE lead characters from YOUR SHOW IDEA.

2. Using the Relationship map, pick a main character (place in the upper left-hand corner), and with each character he or she is in a relationship with, give us the 6 relationship experiences listed below:

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MODULE 1 LESSON 5: DEPTH OF EMOTION

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‘What I learned doing this assignment is ‘

ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show

Watch the next episode of your Example Show and create an Emotional Profile for two or three Main Characters in the Show.

MODULE 1 LESSON 5: DEPTH OF EMOTION

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“What I learned doing this assignment is

ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show

Watch the next episode of your Example Show and create an Emotional Profile for two or three main characters in this show.

MAIN CHARACTER 1: SAM NELSON

A. Situational:

Hope:

Sam hopes the flight will arrive safely in London.

/ Fear: Sam fears if the two other passengers try to overpower the Hijackers, they will put all the other passengers in danger.

B. Motivation:

Want: Sam wants to ensure the safety of the passengers.

/ Need: He needs to be careful what he says to the Hijackers.

C. Mask:

Base Negative Emotion /Public Mask

D. Weaknesses:

E. Triggers:

F. Coping Mechanism:

MAIN CHARACTER 2: Lead Hijacker Collins

A. Situational :

Hope: Collins hopes the flight passengers will calm down.

Fear: He fears if the two desperate passengers try to overpower the Hijackers, the plane may go down with everyone on board.

B. Motivation:

Want: He wants to play safe where possible

Need: He needs to know time is ticking.

C. Mask:

Base Negative Emotion: Collins in terrified /Public Mask: He portrays a brave person.

D. Weaknesses:

E. Triggers:

F. Coping Mechanism:

ASSIGNMENT 2: Your Show: SKYY LAR

1. For each of your main characters, brainstorm an Emotional Profile, filling in the following:

CHARACTER: SKYY LAR

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MODULE 1 LESSON 4: LAYERS OF CHARACTER INTRIGUE

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“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.

ASSIGNMENT 1:

1. Think about your Example Show. Make a list of the places you’ve already seen Character Intrigue in the previous episodes.

SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 – 4

EXAMPLE SHOW – Hijack

HIDDEN AGENDA:

The hijackers made the Captain contradict an earlier statement of a security incident on the aircraft.

The flight attendant raises the window blind so the fighter jet pilot can record events on board.

The Captain adjusted the flight’s course from 320 to 323 to signal ground controllers for help.

The pastor tried to bribe a male in-flight crew to sit in first class.

The cleaners at Lilac’s house tricked the Air Traffic Controller into going upstairs, where they killed him.

COMPETITION:

The hijackers are competing with the in-flight crew to gain control of the aircraft.

CONSPIRACY:

The hijackers planned to advance their takeover of the aircraft by three hours. Sam Nelson and the passengers nearby form a conspiracy to overpower the hijackers.

SECRET:

The hijackers have chosen to remain silent about their demands.

The Captain switches on a button to alert ground control.

Sam receives water from the flight attendant and discreetly gives her a note.

A woman hijacker placed a bullet in the toilet ahead of another female passenger.

DECEPTION:

The Captain was coerced by the hijacker into misleading ground control, denying any incident onboard.

Hijackers are employing counterfeit guns and bullets.

A male passenger feigns illness, requesting to use the restroom, only to scribble a message and toss it in the aisle for others to read.

Sam tricked the Hijacker to ensure the safety of the Arab couple in first class.

The male hijacker permitted the girl to use the restroom first to locate a bullet that his female accomplice had hidden.
WOUND:

SECRET IDENTITY:

2. Watch the next episode and see how Character Intrigue is being used to create the need to see more episodes.

SEASON 1 EPISODE 4

EXAMPLE SHOW – Hijack

Character Intrigue =

Hidden Agenda –

Competition –

Conspiracies –

Secrets –

Deception –

Wound –

Secret Identity –

ASSIGNMENT 2

1. For your Inner Circle characters, fill in any of the Intrigue items that apply.

SKYY LAR – She can communicate with animals and humans. Fake a truce with the Beauty industry. Sabotage
a major beauty industry event.

EMMA- She is naive and feels compelled to expose her family’s involvement with the Beauty Industry.

DR. AVA GREEN- He infiltrates and exposes a secret environmental hazard.

RAPHAEL- Questionable
methods for goals; secret alliances for the greater good; withholding critical
information.

RAVEN- Establish an autonomous avian front;
prioritize avian interests;

2. Answer the question, “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.

3. Go to AI and use this prompt to generate the Intrigue items for your main characters:

For each of the [Main Characters] for this [Genre] about this [Concept], please brainstorm the [Intriguing Layers] of that character that fit in this TV series well.

(Intriguing Layers) =

Character Name:

Role:

A. Hidden Agenda:

B. Competition:

C. Conspiracies:

D. Secrets:

E. Deception:

F. Wound:

G. Secret Identity.

Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation
Concept = SKYY LAR, a pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

(Main characters) =

1. SKYY LAR

• Role: The Unpredictable Leader
• Hidden Agenda: To infiltrate and disrupt key facilities of the Beauty Industry, secretly aiming to establish birds as the dominant species in urban areas.
• Competition: Targeting influential individuals in the beauty industry, contending with rival urban wildlife leaders, and challenging local governments.
• Conspiracies: Orchestrating covert operations against the Beauty Industry’s environmentally harmful activities.
• Secrets: Possesses enhanced intelligence due to a secret scientific experiment, possibly linked to Dr. Ava Green.
• Deception: Conceals plans for rebellious activities and maintains a facade of cooperation with humans.
• Wound: Trauma from witnessing the destruction of its original habitat and experiencing betrayal by humans.
• Secret Identity: A result of an advanced cognitive development experiment, possibly connected to Dr. Ava Green’s research.

2. EMMA

• Role: The Conscientious Ally
• Hidden Agenda: Plans to infiltrate the Beauty Industry, potentially exposing her family’s involvement in environmental harm.
• Competition: Needs to influence her family, beauty industry executives, and local politicians. Also, aims to sway public opinion against harmful environmental practices.
• Conspiracies: Involved in exposing and disrupting major industry initiatives.
• Secrets: Has family ties to the beauty industry and leads a secret life as an environmental activist.
• Deception: Uses her connections for undercover operations and hides her true intentions to protect the rebellion.
• Wound: Driven by a personal tragedy linked to environmental negligence.
• Secret Identity: An undercover investigator or environmental watchdog with a prominent online presence.

3. DR. AVA GREEN

• Role: The Innovative Scientist
• Hidden Agenda: Developing radical environmental technology and pushing the boundaries of scientific ethics to combat industry harm.
• Competition: Influences key players in the beauty industry, competes with other scientists, and lobbies government bodies.
• Conspiracies: Involved in secret operations to expose environmental hazards.
• Secrets: Holds a controversial past in the beauty industry and has connections to whistleblowers.
• Deception: Conceals aspects of his research and past industry connections.
• Wound: Haunted by a past failure in an environmental project.
• Secret Identity: A former industry insider or a leader in a secret environmentalist group.

4. RAPHAEL

• Role: The Doubtful Participant
• Hidden Agenda: Aims to avoid prolonged conflict, engaging in secret negotiations for a compromise.
• Competition: Manages delicate relationships within the rebellion and negotiates with industry executives.
• Conspiracies: Involved in sabotage plans against the Beauty Industry.
• Secrets: Holds undisclosed ties to the industry and has experienced a personal loss due to their actions.
• Deception: Maintains a facade of neutrality while orchestrating covert operations.
• Wound: His actions are colored by past betrayals and community losses.
• Secret Identity: Possibly an undercover agent or a former industry executive.

5. RAVEN

• Role: SKYY LAR’s Mentor
• Hidden Agenda: Establishing an autonomous avian front and manipulating bird groups for surveillance and interference against the Beauty Industry.
• Competition: Strives to influence avian and human members of the rebellion and challenges government policies.
• Conspiracies: Orchestrates intelligence gathering and disruptions to industry operations.
• Secrets: Guardian of ancient or mystical environmental knowledge, or a survivor of a past environmental catastrophe.
• Deception: Hides critical environmental threats and keeps strategic plans secretive.
• Wound: Suffers from the devastation of his native habitat.
• Secret Identity: Could be an emissary from a hidden avian society or a transformed human with a deep connection to environmental activism.

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“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch the next episode of your Example Show to see any places the lead characters might fit this model.

Example Show: Hijack

Season1 Episode 3

Lead Character:

Sam Nelson

Lead Hijacker

Air Traffic Investigator

Tell us the name and Engaging Profile answers for at least one character from your example show.

Lead Character:

Sam Nelson

A. Role in the show: A passenger on the flight from Dubai to London

B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:

To ensure the safety of the passengers and flight crew.

C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?

D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing?

E. Unpredictable: What will they do next? Sam will sabotage the Hijackers on the flight

F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

ASSIGNMENT 2:

Now, do the process with your show.

1. Tell us the journey of your show.

JOURNEY:

SKYY LAR, a pigeon in London, lives a typical life alongside its flock. SKYY LAR heads to the market to search for food. It confidently enters a mall and accidentally gets its feet tangled in synthetic hair. SKYY LAR becomes completely immobilized and cannot break free.

EMMA, along with her mother and baby brother in a stroller, is walking by. EMMA locates SKYY LAR and contacts her mother, who retrieves a pair of scissors from a kit to remove SKYY LAR’s strings. SKYY LAR loses the left leg.

EMMA tries to imitate SKYY LAR by hopping on one leg but confesses her inability. EMMA and her mom designed a homemade prosthetic leg for SKYY LAR. SKYY LAR visits a London benefits office, to seek help, blurring the boundaries between human and animal rights.

SKYY LAR receives an enticing proposition from her mentor, the RAVEN. The RAVEN proposes an initiative to form a coalition of urban birds to address the challenges posed by human encroachment and environmental degradation.

This offer aligns with SKYLAR’s core motivations of community protection and wisdom sharing. SKYLAR has the chance to take on a leadership role and make a big difference.

SKYY LAR gains power and awakens to human-induced environmental destruction.

SKYY LAR recognizes its special talent for communicating with birds and humans. Rallying birds worldwide, it organizes a rebellion to stand against environmental neglect.

SKYY LAR encounters many obstacles, such as uniting various bird species, planning demonstrations, and safeguarding its flock.

SKYY LAR wrestles with moral dilemmas, including how far the rebellion should push for its cause and the ethical consequences of its actions, particularly when innocent individuals are affected.

The rebellion reaches its climax as birds confront a symbol of environmental harm, like the significant incident tied to the beauty industry. Five birds from five continents travel to the Grand meeting at Hackney Marshes in London with their stories. They are the Swift Kingfisher from South Africa, the South American Macaw, the North American Eagle, the Chinese crane, the Asian urban sparrow, and the dancing bird from Australia. The leadership of SKYY LAR needs to show wisdom, courage, and innovative thinking.

SKYY LAR’s leadership undergoes tests and requires wisdom, courage, and innovative thinking.

The journey of SKYY LAR and the fight for environmental justice continue.

2. Who are the main characters that will sell your show?

SKYY LAR

EMMA

RAVEN

DR. AVA GREEN

RAPHAEL (English
Trumpeter Pigeon)

3. Answer these questions for each of those characters.

1. SKYY LAR (Homing Pigeon)

A. Role in the show:

B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:

C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?

D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing?

E. Unpredictable: What will they do next?

F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

2. EMMA

A. Role in the show:

B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:

C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?

D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing?

E. Unpredictable: What will they do next?

F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

3. DR. AVA GREEN

A. Role in the show:

B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:

C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?

D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing?

E. Unpredictable: What will they do next?

F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

4. RAPHAEL (English
Trumpeter Pigeon)

A. Role in the show:

B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:

C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?

D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing?

E. Unpredictable: What will they do next?

F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

5. RAVEN:

A. Role in the show: SKYY LAR’S Mentor

B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:

C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?

D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing?

E. Unpredictable: What will they do next?

F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

4. Go to AI and use this prompt to generate another version of your characters:

PROMPT: For each of the [Main Characters] for this [Genre] about this [Concept], please brainstorm the [Character Basics] of that character that fits this TV series well.

(Character Basics) =

A. Role in the show:

B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:
C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?
D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing?
E. Unpredictable: What will they do next?

F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation
Concept = SKYY LAR, a pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Main characters =

1. SKYY LAR:

Role in the show: The Unpredictable Leader

Unique Purpose / Expertise: Leader of the bird rebellion, skilled in communication with birds and humans.

Intrigue: Mysterious past and abilities, possibly linked to human activities.

Moral Issue: Struggles with the extent of the rebellion’s actions, balancing the cause with potential harm to innocents.

Unpredictable: Unpredictability in strategies for the rebellion and in interactions with humans.

Empathetic: Overcoming injury and adversity, fighting for a cause bigger than itself.

2. EMMA:

Role in the show: The Conscientious Ally

Unique Purpose / Expertise: Brings a human perspective to the rebellion, and bridges the gap between animals and humans.

Intrigue: Internal conflict with her family’s indirect support of the beauty industry.

Moral Issue: Navigating the clash between her family ties and her commitment to the environmental cause.

Unpredictable: Unpredictability in how she balances her family life with her role in the rebellion.

Empathetic: Young and innocent, her journey into environmental activism is relatable and inspiring.

3. DR. AVA GREEN:

Role in the show: The Innovative Scientist

Unique Purpose / Expertise: Develops environmental technology, and provides scientific insight into the rebellion.

Intrigue: Mysterious past with possible connections to the beauty industry.

Moral Issue: Ethical dilemmas in his scientific methods and past affiliations.

Unpredictable: Uncertainty in how he balances his scientific integrity with the needs of the rebellion.

Empathetic: His struggle with personal redemption and the ethical challenges of his work.

4. RAPHAEL (English
Trumpeter Pigeon):

Role in the show: The Doubtful Participant

Unique Purpose / Expertise: Holds a dual perspective, potentially acting as a mediator or a double agent.

Intrigue: Conflicted loyalties and possible double agent role.

Moral Issue: His decisions could sway the rebellion’s course, testing his ethics.

Unpredictable: His true allegiance and next moves are uncertain.

Empathetic: His internal conflict and the pressures he faces from both sides make him relatable.

5. RAVEN:

Role in the show: SKYY LAR’s Mentor

Unique Purpose / Expertise: Wise and experienced, offers guidance and proposes forming a coalition of urban birds.

Intrigue: The RAVEN’s long history and deeper understanding of human-bird dynamics.

Moral Issue: Challenges SKYY LAR to consider broader implications and responsibilities of leadership.

Unpredictable: The RAVEN’s methods and teachings might hold unexpected wisdom or challenges.

Empathetic: Represents the wisdom of age and the importance of mentorship in movements.

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“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch the next episode of your Example Show to see how the characters fit into these three circles:

Binge-Worthy Example Show: Hijack

Season 1 Episode 2

Give us a quick list of each Character Circle.

A. Main Characters Circle:

Sam Nelson,

Lead Hijacker,

Captain,

B. Connected Circle:

Cabin Crew,

Dubai Air Traffic Controller,

Co-Pilot

Two Male first-class passengers.

Cleaners

C. Environment Circle:

Passengers

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 2:

1. Create the Three Circles of Characters for your show.

TV Show Title:

SKYY LAR or SKYY LAR: Avian Uprising

A. Main Characters Circle:

SKYY LAR

EMMA

DR. AVA GREEN

RAPHAEL

B. Connected Circle:

URBAN PREDATORS

RAVEN

C. Environment Circle:

MARKETS,

STREET SIDEWALKS,

2. Give us a one-sentence description of each of the Main Characters.

SKYY LAR–A homing pigeon that lost a leg because of entanglement in discarded synthetic hair used by hairdressing saloons, and hair weavers of the beauty industry.

EMMA–A 5-year-old kind-hearted and observant girl who went to the shopping mall with her mother and baby brother in a pram and noticed Skyy Lar’s stringed feet and asked her mother’s help to de-string Skyy Lar.

DR. AVA GREEN –

RAPHAEL –

3. After you create your version, use this prompt with A.I. to have it create a version:

PROMPT: Please create three groups of characters for my TV Series that is [Genre] about [Concept] that is set in [Sub-World] and is unique to this story.

A. Main Characters: 3–5 key characters that the journey is about. Tell us the following:

Unique Role:

Secret or Intrigue:

B. Connected Characters: These are characters that the main characters interact with during the season. They play a part in the journey in some way and sometimes affect the main character’s actions.

C. Environment Characters: These are background characters that are necessary to fulfill the “standard roles” for your kind of story, but rarely do anything significant. List them for their jobs only.

Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation

Concept = SKYY LAR, a pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Sub-World =

EcoHaven: A Dynamic Urban Sanctuary

EcoHaven is a unique sub-world in London that highlights how the beauty industry affects the environment and its inhabitants. The sanctuary-like space combines nature, technology, and community in the city’s heart.

THREE GROUPS OF CHARACTERS

A. MAIN CHARACTERS

1. Skyy Lar:

Unique Role:

The Unpredictable Leader

Secret/Intrigue:

Skyy Lar possesses erratic yet powerful abilities and a mysterious past that are gradually revealed, including her unique understanding of human and animal worlds.

2. EMMA:

Unique Role:

The Conscientious Ally

Secret/Intrigue:

Struggles with the realization of her family’s indirect support of the beauty industry, leading to internal conflicts about her role in the rebellion and her lifestyle choices.

3. DR. AVA GREEN:

Unique Role:

The Innovative Scientist.

Secret/Intrigue:

He has a mysterious past, potentially with previous connections to the beauty industry, and is currently working on innovative environmental technology while dealing with acts of sabotage.

4. RAPHAEL.

Unique Role:

The Doubtful Participant

Secret/Intrigue:

Opposing forces test his loyalty, tempting him and potentially placing him in a dual role as a reluctant ally or a double agent.

B. CONNECTED CHARACTERS

1. Mayor of London:

A figure grappling with the political and environmental challenges in the city.

2. Mia, Beauty Industry CEO:

A charismatic leader whose company’s actions impact the rebellion and who may play a role in tempting Raphael.

3. Local News Reporter:

A key figure in documenting and influencing public opinion about the rebellion.

4. ROBIN, The Streetwise Pigeon:

A source of wisdom and humor, providing a different perspective on the challenges faced by the rebellion.

5. EcoHaven Volunteers & Scientists.

Represent the broader community involved in environmental protection and the spread of Dr. Green’s technology.

C. ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERS

1. Park Rangers & Groundskeepers:

Ensure the maintenance of London’s green spaces, sometimes interacting briefly with the main characters.

2. Urban Wildlife Experts & Veterinarians:

Provide occasional support or advice on matters related to urban wildlife.

3. London Residents & Families:

They reflect the city’s diverse population and their varying responses to environmental issues.

4. Tourists:

Highlight the global appeal of London and the challenges of maintaining sustainability amidst a bustling urban environment.

5. Street Vendors and Small Business Owners.

Represent everyday life in the city, occasionally contributing to the narrative on environmental impact and awareness.

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“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch the next episode of your Example Show to see how the characters fit into these three circles:

Binge-Worthy Example Show: Hijack

Season 1 Episode 2

Give us a quick list of each Character Circle.

A. Main Characters Circle:

San Nelson,

Lead Hijacker,

Captain,

Female Air Emergency investigator

B. Connected Circle:

Cabin Crew,

Dubai Air Traffic Controller,

Co-Pilot

Two men first-class passengers.

Cleaners

C. Environment Circle:

Passengers

School children

Dubai Public

CCTV Operators

Children playing football around the garage

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Create the Three Circles of Characters for your show:

TITLE: SKYY LAR/SKYY LAR: AVAIN UPRISING

A. Main Characters Circle:

SKYY LAR

EMMA

DR. AVA GREEN

RAPHAEL

B. Connected Circle:

URBAN PREDATORS

RAVEN

C. Environment Circle:

MARKETS,

STREET Sidewalks.

2. Give us a one-sentence description of each of the Main Characters.

SKYY LAR–A homing pigeon that lost a leg because of entanglement in discarded synthetic hair used by hairdressing saloons, and hair weavers of the beauty industry.

EMMA–A 5-year-old kind-hearted and observant girl who went to the shopping mall with her mother and baby brother in a pram and noticed Skyy Lar’s stringed feet and asked her mother’s help to de-string Skyy Lar.

DR. AVA GREEN –

RAPHAEL –

3. After you create your version, use the prompt with AI to have it create a version:

Genre = 1 hour Drama/Family/Animation
Concept = SKYY LAR, a pigeon injured by human negligence, collaborates with a compassionate girl EMMA, in London to ignite a worldwide bird rebellion against environmental destruction, focusing on the beauty industry’s influence.

Sub-World =

EcoHaven: A Dynamic Urban Sanctuary

EcoHaven is a unique sub-world in London that highlights how the beauty industry affects the environment and its inhabitants. The sanctuary-like space combines nature, technology, and community in the city’s heart

THREE GROUPS OF CHARACTERS

A. MAIN CHARACTERS

1. Skyy Lar:

Unique Role:

The Unpredictable Leader

Secret/Intrigue:

Skyy Lar possesses erratic yet powerful abilities and a mysterious past that are gradually revealed, including her unique understanding of human and animal worlds.

2. EMMA:

Unique Role:

The Conscientious Ally

Secret/Intrigue:

Struggles with the realization of her family’s indirect support of the beauty industry, leading to internal conflicts about her role in the rebellion and her lifestyle choices.

3. DR. AVA GREEN:

Unique Role:

The Innovative Scientist.

Secret/Intrigue:

He has a mysterious past, potentially with previous connections to the beauty industry, and is currently working on innovative environmental technology while dealing with acts of sabotage.

4. RAPHAEL.

Unique Role:

The Doubtful Participant

Secret/Intrigue:

Opposing forces test his loyalty, tempting him and potentially placing him in a dual role as a reluctant ally or a double agent

B. CONNECTED CHARACTERS

1. Mayor of London:

A figure grappling with the political and environmental challenges in the city.

2. Mia, Beauty Industry CEO:

A charismatic leader whose company’s actions impact the rebellion and who may play a role in tempting Raphael.

3. Local News Reporter:

A key figure in documenting and influencing public opinion about the rebellion.

4. ROBIN, The Streetwise Pigeon:

A source of wisdom and humor, providing a different perspective on the challenges faced by the rebellion.

5. EcoHaven Volunteers & Scientists.

Represent the broader community involved in environmental protection and the spread of Dr. Green’s technology.

C. ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERS

1. Park Rangers & Groundskeepers:

Ensure the maintenance of London’s green spaces, sometimes interacting briefly with the main characters.

2. Urban Wildlife Experts & Veterinarians:

Provide occasional support or advice on matters related to urban wildlife.

3. London Residents & Families:

Reflect on the city’s diverse population and their varying responses to environmental issues.

4. Tourists:

Highlight the global appeal of London and the challenges of maintaining sustainability amidst a bustling urban environment.

5. Street Vendors and Small Business Owners.

Represent everyday life in the city, occasionally contributing to the narrative on environmental impact and awareness.

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Now, I have moved Lesson 2 to the rightful place. Failed to post the Lesson 2 Assignment using my desktop computer. Finally, succeess on my mobile phone.

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‘What I learned doing this assignment’

ASSIGNMENT 1:

1. Pick a Binge-Worthy EXAMPLE SHOW from our list below and watch the first episode, making a light outline of the episode. Just the beats and anything that seems important to you.

Binge-Worthy Example Show: Hijack

Season 1 Episode 1

Outline

Passengers are boarding a flight from Dubai to London. Sam walked on the transfer escalator and crossed the boarding gate just as the ground staff closed the barrier.

A passenger carrying a bag rushes through the airport to make it onto the flight. At the security check, a female officer signals her colleague to allow the man to pass. The man halts at the boarding gate, which is now closed.

Sam steps in and the ground hostess allows the late passenger to cross over. The captain contacts the air controller and departs the airport. While using the toilet, a young woman discovers a bullet on the floor. She informs a man that he needs to let the cabin crew know. The man informs his accomplice, the leader, of the discovery of a bullet. The leader suggests advancing on the act now.

The hijackers, including a woman, seize control of the plane and confiscate phones and tablets from all passengers. The captain discovers the issue and contacts ground control about a security emergency on the plane.

The Hijackers choose an air hostess who is the captain’s lover to enter the cockpit. They force the Captain to deny any security emergency to ground control. Sam informs the hijackers that he wants to become one of them.

1. Big Picture Hooks
What is the big hook of the ‘Hijack’ TV Show? Hijackers take over a plane flying from Dubai to London and radio to ground control of no security emergency.

2. Amazing and Intriguing Character
What makes these main characters intriguing and interesting? Sam has nothing to lose by joining the hijackers. The gang smuggles handguns onto the aircraft, loses a bullet on the floor of the toilet, and lies to the girl who found the bullet and her friends. They reported the incident to the cabin crew. A female hijacker, Sam, wants to join the Hijackers.

3. Empathy / Distress
What situations cause us to feel both empathy and distress for these characters? A detective has taken over and is making love to Sam’s ex-wife. Hijackers point handguns at passengers, mothers, fathers, and vulnerable people. Collecting tablets, and phones, switching off Wi-Fi, and forcing passengers into other empty seats. Using the captain’s lover against him to gain access to the cockpit, the Captain has to fight the copilot against opening the door for the Hijackers, forcing the captain to deny to Dubai, United Arab Emirates control tower, there is no security incident aboard the plane.

4. Layers / Open Loops
What questions are created by this first episode that can only be answered by watching the entire season? Will the Captain open the cockpit door? Who are the two men planning to fight the Hijackers? Why would the black man want to work with the Hijacker? What is beneath the request? How can he con them that easily? Where will the Hijackers take the plane? Now, which country is the plane going? How will this happen to passengers who need medication? What are the hijackers’ demands?

5. Inviting Obsession
How does this pilot create the need to see every single episode? The Pilot leaves many questions unanswered. Who was the late passenger? Why was a handgun removed from his bag? Why is he not an active hijacker? What will happen next? Who is the pastor and why is he bribing the cabin crew with ten pounds? Why is someone making love to the black man’s wife?

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Hi Ya.

I am Moses Quainoo.

I want to create a Binge Worthy Serial TV Show.

So Help me God..

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Name: Moses Quainoo

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<b align=”center”>MODULE 4 – LESSON 2: WRITE ACT 1

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

Write Act 1 in the next two days!

1. With each scene in your Outline, transfer it to your writing program and write the scene.

2. Continue to do scene after scene until you have Act 1 complete.

3. Do a quick edit, but try not to make the words perfect. We’ll do that in the final draft.

4. We’re not posting the first drafts of any of the Acts. But please tell us how you used the High-Speed Writing Rules and your insights about writing a first draft.

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MODULE 4-LESSON 1: TEASER AND HIGH-SPEED WRITING.

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

Assignment

Write your TEASER. Do the first draft as fast as possible, focusing on the High-Speed Writing Rules. Tell us your experience using the High-Speed Writing Rules as you wrote your teaser.

Post your assignment in the forums.

TEASER<b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>-FIRST DRAFT

Algiers -Algeria.

0327 hours, August 13, 1979

INT – THEATRE -NIGHT

Start: A Ballerina comes to perform on stage. Who is the Ballerina on the stage?

INT – ROOM -NIGHT

Challenging Situation: The BALLERINA busts the front door down. She enters

The BALLERINA engages the knife fighter, blocking with her left arm and dodging his forward thrust. The fighter drops on his haunches to strike, but The BALLERINA lifts her knee-high to stop it. She continues with a stealthy kick to the mouth and sees blood soak his lower gum.

Conflict: She meets a ferocious knife attack. The BALLERINA rolls over, dodges three returning streams of gunfire which miss her, Fio, and rises to her feet as the armed killer recoils from the dog.

The BALLERINA drives a series of hard chops in him. He utters a sound and drops flat, overpowered. He isn’t a Kung Fu fighter. This militant bleeds. She ties him.

Action: The BALLERINA defends herself. She attacks a militant and floors the suspect in seconds for TeamLOVEDAY. She captures one.

The second-armed killer escapes through the window from Fio.

Finish: She shoots the other gunman with many bullets, ripping through his body.

Sanaa-Yemen.

EXT – DESERT- DAY

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish: Team AC captures their suspects.

The Do-Wells emphasizes team spirit.

INT – AKOSOMBO CAMP BUBBLEROOM VAN – NIGHT

Challenging Situation: ‘Core’ Mission Supervisor and third-in-Command Loveday’s sister, Jennifer Sebastian, documents the mission times and declares this mission a partial success.

Inside Van. On her communications headset, Jennifer reports, “Love 3.58 seconds, A.C. 3.31 seconds. The mission is a success. TeamLOVEDAY stopped a man against ‘orders’.”

EXT-LEARJET-NIGHT

Challenging Situation: Learjet air bonne from Sanaa. TEAMAC is on board. Fly to Algiers.

EXT – ALGIERS AIRPORT -NIGHT

Action: The Learjet takes off from Algiers. TEAMLOVEDAY gets on board.

EXT-KOTOKA AIRPORT – DAY

The teams leave the airport through VIP Lounge.

Finish: They return to Airport Hub early morning in four yellow Hammers. Neighborhood sleeps. No one is the loser. Everyone is lone triumphant except Loveday.

INT- THE DO-WELLS CLUBHOUSE -DAY

Start: The BALLERINA

Challenging Situation: The BALLERINA fails the assignment — capture the two militants and bring them out of the guest house alive — because one dies. She has trouble following orders, preferring to do it her way.

Conflict: Lt. Col. FRANK Sebastian, her father, rubs his eyes and tries to calm his nerves. The briefing is a rendezvous of ‘core’ members for ‘Talent Hunt.’ Settings for such events change to new places every time.

He reminds her that justice is not up to her discretion. FRANK, the founder, states that her flaw made her lose the Presidency to AC. She must learn to take orders as given. The BALLERINA contends the most important goal was to stop the targets, which she did.

Action: For punishment, BALLERINA receives orders from FRANK to scout for talent at the Center.

Finish: She must recruit a handful of spies, as three have recently died in Algeria and Yemen.

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MOD 3 – LESSON 12: OUTLINE WITH
INTRIGUE

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

Complete your Outline.

THE DO WELLS – OUTLINE

TEASER

ESSENCE: Two teams of The DO-Wells are on a mission.

The Do-Wells takes three seconds to capture four militants hiding among the populace. A BALLERINA busts the front door down and enters, meeting a ferocious knife attack and gunfire from her enemies. (MYSTERY): Why does a Ballerina performing on stage suddenly attack an audience member? (INTRIGUE): Who is the Ballerina on the stage?

LOVEDAY defends herself, attacks and floors the suspect in seconds for TeamLOVEDAY. They kill the gunman who tries to escape.

Team A.C. captures their suspects. The Do-Wells emphasizes team spirit and is one powerful organization today.

Jennifer Sebastian documents their times and declares this mission a success. They return to base early in the morning.

LOVEDAY fails the assignment — capture the militants alive — because one dies. She has trouble following orders, preferring to do it her way. Lt. Col. FRANK Sebastian, her father, reminds her that justice is not up to her discretion. LOVEDAY contends the most important goal was to stop the targets, which she did. FRANK states that her flaw made her lose the Presidency to A.C. She must learn to take orders as given.

TURNING POINT: One female teamleader failed her assignment because a militant died. As punishment, BALLERINA receives orders from FRANK, the founder, to scout for talent at the Center. She must recruit a handful of spies, as three have recently died in Algeria and Yemen. (SURFACE LAYER 3): A.C. gets orders to help her.

MAIN MYSTERY: Three men get killed. Two men die in action in Algeria and one in Yemen. (SUB OPEN LOOP): Who are they, and what were they up to? Why does The Do-Wells want to recruit talents? Can the dead be replaced easily? What do scouts look for in a recruit? The Origins of THE DO-WELLS. The Origins of The Do-Wells.

(MAIN OPEN LOOP): Who will replace the dead? What did the scouts spot in Brader HEW that made them record the fight?

SIGNIFICANT MYSTERY/CONFLICT: The Do-Wells recruit talents to replace the dead members. HEW is an expert BOXER.

Act 1:

Essence:

BRADER HEW is a flour Loader who handles his extended family. HEW has no girlfriend.

Beginning:

(HEW – OPENING): (SURFACE LAYER 1) BRADER HEW handles his extended family. He starts his day by checking the family house at sunrise to determine how his relatives are faring. Why is HEW, in early adulthood, handling the extended family?

(CHARACTER HISTORY): HEW is the first male adult in an extended family house. He has two paternal Aunts and supports his aged mother, ailing grandmother, and four cousins who are girls. HEW gets little help from the sole male cousin, who is sixteen. (BENEATH SURFACE LAYER 1): HEW’S father died when he was sixteen, and the burden fell on him.

He faces life head-on like many and knows to take an opportunity when one strikes. One day, a prospect presented itself that HEW noticed.

(INTRIGUE 1): He enters his family house compound. (INTRIGUE 1-HIDDEN LAYER): His thirteen-year-old female cousin washes last night’s dinner plates. When she lifts her head and sees HEW, she utters that her Champion is home this early. Once she has seen him, she knows she will not go hungry. Her fifteen-year-old sister sweeps the leaves from the trees on the compound.

(INTRIGUE 1-MYSTERY): He finds a Final Warning sticker on the main building. The HEWs must pay property tax or face an auction. OPEN LOOP: How will he get the money to cover the family members?

Auction a family house? The statement has never been overdue. (OPEN-LOOP): Why is he concerned about the sticker? HEW is the first adult son and must pay the bills. How much is the assessment? One year in arrears. Auction the family house because of one-year arrears? The youngest cousin says rumors circulate the A.M.A. officials delayed the bill. The threat is unjust. (IRONY): The family house is owned by family members, alive and yet unborn.

HEW will look for the money to clear the tax.

The odd jobs he endeavors to get daily are never specific and require strength and endurance. When the day closes, his wages vary as the compensation package is unnegotiated beforehand, and the final decision is up to the customer who pays.

(INTRIGUE 2): HEW meets with his eldest AUNT on the way to the separate bathroom. (HOW SURFACE LAYER 1 REVEALED): She asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax.

(DILEMMA): What about his four female cousins still in middle school? Shouldn’t he pay to cover them? And his sixteen-year-old male cousin? Now he is a second-year student cadet at the Military’s Bad Boys Company.

(OPEN-LOOP): How will he get the money to cover the family members? His three female COUSINS are scared about where to get their tax portion and shout that HEW covers them. Are their fathers not responsible for their daughters? What happened to their fathers? The girls live in the family house and must contribute. How does HEW expect them to find the money? Here is a bill pile up, and he does not have a girlfriend and can’t start a family. The fear of where to get their portion of the tax provokes his three female cousins to shout that HEW cover.

(INTRIGUE 3): He promises to pay when he returns from the Center. MUST MAKE DECISIONS WITH FUTURE CONSEQUENCES: HEW is handling his extended family now and must find a girlfriend to woo, marry and start a family someday. His Aunt is concerned he has to be lucky to get a job there.

HEW is third in the queue to the bathroom.

(ENDING): (HOW SURFACE LAYER 1 REVEALED): (INTRIGUE 4-MYSTERY): His mother strides into the compound to say his grandmother’s malaria is worsening. HEW had no idea why she had come and what she wanted to tell him. He was yet to step into the sick grandmother’s bedroom to find out how she was doing this morning. HURT THOSE THEY LOVE: Leaving his sick grandmother till sundown when he returns from the Center. The hospitals in the country operate on a Cash and Carry basis.

She tells HEW she needs money to buy anti-malaria drugs. The need for money is even greater. HEW asked what happened to the money he gave her last night, and she answered she went to pay off the debt later that night. HEW bath and leaves for the Center wearing his Fugu trousers.

(HEW -TURNING POINT 1): HEW’s need for cash is even greater.

HEW is the first male adult in his family. HEW and the eldest Aunt are the only breadwinners. His sick grandmother has malaria that threatens to stop him from going to look for work. Must he charter a taxi to take Granny to the hospital? He needs cash. No family member has the money to buy anti-malaria drugs at the chemist. HEW needs a bank account or girlfriend to borrow money from.

Act 2:

Essence:

Two female RIDERS, 1 and 2, are scouting at the INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR CENTER to recruit talents secretly into their business model.

RIDER 1 CHARACTER ARC: RIDER 1 failed her last mission, gets an order to scout for talent to recruit, and snatches the meal from HEW.

RIDER 2 CHARACTER ARC: RIDER 2, a friend and coworker, gets an order to help RIDER 1 and approve a technical innovation for this year’s Arena.

(INTRIGUE 1): (HORSE RIDERS–OPENING): Two female RIDERS, 1 and 2, (INTRIGUE 2-HIDDEN AGENDA:): fasten their horses to a short tree in the light forest behind the Center. (OPEN-LOOP): Why are they at the Center? (LOVEDAY -OPENING): RIDER 1 failed her last mission and got an order to scout for talents and recruit secretly.

(AC-OPENING): RIDER 2 has orders to help RIDER 1. (HIDDEN LAYER): The RIDERS know one of Ferdinand Chopstones’ loyal followers who frequents the Center. Who is Chopstones?

RIDER 2 talks of retiring when her term ends. She will look for a man to marry and raise kids. RIDER 1 says she will be her bridesmaid when the time comes.

The RIDERS walk across the rear car park and enter the back pedestrian gates.

RIDERS 1 and 2 show up in a crowd of men in the street. (OPEN-LOOP): Who are these men? (EXPLANATION): At the COOP FLOUR DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION Portakabin offices, an A-signboard on the left side of Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire.

ISHEY’s CHARACTER ARC: A friend and teammate joins HEW to work at the Center to start adult life and faces the job vanishing.

(ISHEY–OPENING): ISHEY GARFUNK is a school leaver who wants to pursue a career and start an adult and family life. ISHEY cannot find a job after one week of leaving school. He met HEW in the entrance hall of Cameo Cinema and inquired about a job.

(HEW/ISHEY–OPENING): HEW meets ISHEY GARFUNK in the vast car park in front of the INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR CENTER. ISHEY is joining HEW for the first time to look for work at the Center. (SURFACE LAYER 2): HEW says they will be loading and dealing out of goods. The truth is each good weighs fifty pounds. ISHEY needs a job badly. He needs to ask what kind of work he will be doing. HEW says ISHEY’s work gear(P.P.E.) is manageable, and the top is nonstick. They go into the yard.

RIDER 2 suggests to RIDER 1 that they stroll to the Foreign Exchange shop on the first floor of the Administrative block. She is thirsty.

HEW and (HEW- TURNING POINT 2): THE GAZE: ISHEY pass by RIDERS 1 and 2. HEW loves attractive women, and the two RIDERS meet the taste.

(HEW/ISHEY TURNING POINT 1): HEW and ISHEY get to the Coop Offices and unite with the crowd.

(MAJOR CONFLICT): The MANAGER emerges out of his Portakabin 1 into the street. A referee’s whistle dangles around the neck. (OPEN-LOOP): What is the MANAGER going to do with the whistle? HEW and ISHEY come into the open.

(MAIN CONFLICT): The MANAGER talks to over three hundred JOB SEEKERS. He says he wants a workforce rather than people holding paper qualifications. (OPEN-LOOP): How is the MANAGER going to pick the right workers?

(HEW -MIDPOINT 1): (INTRIGUE 5: HIDDEN LAYER): The MANAGER points to ten lengthy unfilled VEHICLES sleeping two hundred yards distant and says he has sixty jobs for them. They will leave the capital to load and dispense goods. (CRUCIBLE): When the whistle goes, JOB SEEKERS should hasten to grab six spots on each VEHICLE to qualify. RIDERS 1 and 2 are on the first-floor landing and have their backs against the railing, and the VEHICLES are asleep below.

INTRIGUE 4: HIDDEN LAYER: Everyone focuses on the MANAGER. No one can tell when the MANAGER’S whistle will go. (OPEN-LOOP): Everybody stays alert to find out when the race will start. The RIDERS heard the shrill whistle and turned to look—the swarm races to seize spots on the lengthy sleeping VEHICLES below. The SUPERVISOR blows his whistle from PORTAKABIN 2. The RIDERS heard the shrill and turned around to see what goes. The shrill was not from the MANAGER’s whistle. What do I do? Ishey gets a head start and sprints. The shrill comes from SUPERVISOR’S whistle, who sits unnoticed in Portakabin 2.

(ISHEY TURNING POINT): No one told ISHEY the SUPERVISOR could also blow the whistle. HEW, ISHEY, and the JOB SEEKERS receive the day’s opportunity and sprint to seize six places on each VEHICLE. ISHEY gets a head start.

(INCITING INCIDENT): (INTRIGUE 5: DANGER): HEW joins the furious race. (EXPOSED): A JOB SEEKER boots another in his path to gain an advantage. RIDERS 1 and 2 see the cheating among the runners. ISHEY assumes HEW is behind, running to the exact VEHICLE as him. ISHEY leaps onto VEHICLE 8 and occupies the fourth spot. Cheats among them.

(HEW-MAIN TURNING POINT ): INTRIGUE 3: DANGER): HEW hops onto VEHICLE 8. (CRUCIBLE): He connects with another job seeker, the cheat for the sixth spot. HEW will go home full-handed. (EXPOSED): The others expose the aspirant as unfair. HEW will fight to win the place. Now every vehicle is filled. Did other JOB SEEKERS connect on the other VEHICLES?

(DILEMMA): Give up the position? Return home empty-handed and face his sick grandmother or clash with the person standing before him?

HEW can only make money in the day if he wins the spot. His opponent strikes first.

PILOT CONFLICT:

TURNING POINT: (FORCED DECISION): HEW’S competitor strikes first. (LAYER BENEATH SURFACE 2): INTRIGUE 6: HIDDEN AGENDA: HEW is an expert Boxer. (HOW SURFACE LAYER 2 REVEALED): HEW involves in a proficient and delicate MARTIAL ARTS/BOXER fight to keep the spot. (INTRIGUE 7: HIDDEN AGENDA): Both men show rare abilities and fighter skills.

INTRIGUE 8: CONSPIRACY:

MAIN MIDPOINT: (UNCOVER DEEPER LAYER): RIDERS 1 and 2 spot HEW’S fighting skills (LOVEDAY/AC MIDPOINT): RIDERS 1 and 2 are scouts looking to recruit talents. They depress the buttons on their riding hats to capture the event on cameras built into the crests.

(MAIN OPEN LOOP): What will the SCOUTS do with the recording? S.U.B.-(OPEN LOOPS): What interested the scouts? Did HEW know about the recording? What will the SCOUTS do next?

(SECRET IDENTITY): RIDER 1 is LOVEDAY SEBASTIAN, and RIDER 2 is A.C. They are core members of THE DO-WELLS Intelligence Gathering organization. A.C. and LOVEDAY are Master Spies and Kung Fu champions. LOVEDAY is the Second-In-Command. (BENEATH SURFACE LAYER 3): But AC is the PRESIDENT.

SUB-MYSTERIES: How did the RIDERS get to the Center? Does HEW know the scouts? Do the scouts learn HEW? What are the scouts looking for in HEW? Why are the scouts capturing the fight covertly? What is it about HEW that interest the scouts? What do the scouts see that we cannot? How did HEW pique the interest of the scouts?

HEW begins his journey to become a successful Master spy in Africa.

(EXPLANATION): AC and LOVEDAY are core members of The Do-Wells, and they watch the events below. ISHEY is surprised at HEW’s performance and excited about his fighting skills. HEW is under pressure to win the fight and get on board the departing vehicle. A.C. and LOVEDAY are under pressure to track HEW.

ISHEY impress on their driver to await the results of the fight. Time is ticking.

HEW wins the fight, and ISHEY extends a helping hand to HEW to board VEHICLE 8. LOVEDAY’s interest in HEW piques.

On the trip, ISHEY is determined to follow through with what lies ahead.

(INTRIGUE 6: CONSPIRACY): LOVEDAY launches the Kingfisher drone to keep track. Riding back, she reports she found the man of her dreams. She will issue her orders.

Act 3:

Essence:

Eighteen miles away, at the Port /City, VEHICLE 8 reverses into the Flour Mill loading bay.

HEW discovers from the Production Supervisor the Mill runs low on wheat. HEW, ISHEY, and the boarding team fill the trailer and travel around neighboring towns and cities, dealing out the bags for payment.

(AC TURNING POINT): (HOW SURFACE LAYER 3 REVEALED): A.C. announces that The Do-Wells Annual Contests will come in December. (INTRIGUE): What are the Contests, and how many are there? How long does the Contest last? Why fix annual competitions in December when Christians celebrate X’mas? What are the various events? Where will the contests take place? How big is the area? Sixty miles square? The MARTIAL ARTS/BOXER tournament will take up the final three days. Why is the BOXER contest slated for the last three days? Is it three days to the end of December? A.C. says members must enter and win this event before induction into The Do-Wells as Master Spies. The prize is six million dollars. What category of membership has The Do-Wells?

At headquarters, agents are wagering on possible contest entrants and voting on choices for the Arena, which is technologically heightened each year as an added challenge to entrants.

(MAIN TURNING POINT): (AC ENDING): A.C. approves one technical innovation to this year’s Arena: (SETUP): The Essel Poles cauldron. (MYSTERY): What is the technological innovation called the Essel Poles cauldron? (INTRIGUE): What is this technological innovation?

Late that night, VEHICLE 8 returns to the Center’s car park. The management turned off the car park floodlights to save cash. (HEW TURNING POINT 1): HEW jumps down from the back of the vehicle.

ISHEY, two others drop off and part ways.

INTRIGUE 8: INTRIGUING WORLD: (LOVEDAY TURNING POINT 2): LOVEDAY sits on a car bonnet near them and reaches up to recover her drone.

(DILEMMA): LOVEDAY wants to know where HEW lives. (SETUP): (OPEN LOOP): Will HEW be LOVEDAY’s man? Will she use a cold approach? She must choose between business and pleasure.

(INTRIGUE- DANGER): She follows HEW across the central Giffard Road and stops him. Who are you?

(LOVEDAY TURNING POINT 3): LOVEDAY introduces herself. What are the reasons for stopping me? She mentions the morning’s fight.

(HIDDEN AGENDA): She says she wants to engage HEW services for a job. My hands are full. LOVEDAY says the job makes use of his fighter skills. HEW says LOVEDAY sees the fun in fighting. Do you know how my body aches from constant blows? LOVEDAY says she knows the pain after. (UNIQUE PURPOSE/EXPERTISE OF LEAD CHARACTER): LOVEDAY says HEW has fighting skills, and she recruits people with the exact skills. (REAL REASON BEHIND ACTIONS): The first step is HEW must join their Club. HEW thinks he will need more time for clubs and mingling.

(INCITING INCIDENT OF SEASON 1):

(IMPOSSIBLE GOAL): LOVEDAY says HEW must partner with her (DEEPER MYSTERY) to enter the six-million-dollar BOXER/MARTIAL ARTS contest. How long has the BOXER Contest been going on?

(MAIN CONFLICT): He must win the tournament in December before training as a spy. HEW never considered becoming a spy. Why do you want me to be a spy? I want to act.

How could he say no? And HEW is a competent BOXER. She will snatch his daily meal.

(LOVEDAY MIDPOINT): LOVEDAY says she built a weak profile of him and will snatch his daily meal unless HEW agrees. (SUB OPEN LOOP): Is (SETUP): HEW safe with LOVEDAY? How will HEW explain his association with the organization to his extended family?

(HEW DILEMMA): How will he handle his family if what LOVEDAY says is true? He has no bank account and never owned one thousand dollars, talk of six million. She is a scaremonger to get him to enlist in their Club. He knows his beliefs.

(HURT THOSE THEY LOVE): By entering the BOXER contest, HEW is setting up problems for his extended family. He wants LOVEDAY to prove something. Asking LOVEDAY to confirm something, HEW has become the prisoner and the vanquisher. (MAJOR CONFLICT): LOVEDAY gives HEW a choice between starvation, six million dollars, and a job. (MYSTERY): Faced with a job crisis (OPEN-LOOP): why is HEW wary of the offer?

INTRIGUE 9: WOUND/DANGER: She says HEW decided his grandmother and relatives starve. (SETUP): Will the family find out? (SUB-OPEN-LOOP): What can LOVEDAY do next to snatch the meal from HEW?

(HEW’s TURNING POINT): HEW demands LOVEDAY to prove who she is or nothing.

(TURNING POINT 3):

LOVEDAY says unless HEW agrees, she will snatch HEW’s daily meal.

FRANK is home early to review LOVEDAY’s report. LOVEDAY tells him about the discovery of HEW and the sign he wants. She tells him of her email to the Convener of Contests asking for a place for HEW in the BOXER tournament.

Loveday is making a significant change outside The Do-Wells regulation. She is making mistakes. Her life has gone in an unexpected direction.

Her goal is to feature her discovery, HEW, in the Contest. She believes he can win and then pair up with her to do one job no one is taking:

An oil minister in Brunei steals $8.9bn of oil money and seeks asylum in Cuba. Apart from police protection, teams of BOXER experts guard him. The Sultan of Brunei wants him captured and brought alive to face his people. This job is vital to LOVEDAY because it will raise the tally of her mission successes and make an incredible $1bn income for the organization.

LOVEDAY believes that will promote her to The Presidency when A.C. steps down. FRANK wants HEW’SHEW’S ability to fight seriously tested, and if he wins the BOXER tournament, HEW must train as a Master Spy before FRANK considers pairing him up with his daughter.

Her problem is that Contestants must be serving members to gain registration. LOVEDAY asks FRANK if he will ask for special eligibility for HEW.

(LOVEDAY DELIMMA): She tells FRANK about shutting the country out of the Capitals Markets. Creditors should refrain from giving the country money to import wheat. New plans lead to worse results.

At home, HEW finds his mother and grandmother still awake and hungry. They assume HEW’SHEW’S found a new woman and has spent all his money on her. They discuss their readiness to negotiate with her to stop them from starving. HEW goes to sleep in the communal DEN where transient workers sleep, leaving no space for HEW. HEW prays and rests while standing.

Two hours later, a thunderstorm floods The Den with one inch of water. The roof leaks several places, and water drips onto HEW, soaking him. The squatters share the few remaining dry spaces.

Act 4:

Essence:

An effort to resolve the wheat shortage worsens the situation. The following day, western creditors pull the strings on the country. Western creditors influence the Government to dip.

TURNING POINT 1: A PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR says HEW that the current Government needs to secure funding to continue importing wheat.

When the trucks are gone, the Supervisor lies back to read newspapers whose headlines point to the Government’s inability to pay for wheat imports. The shortage is a real threat.

(MAIN TURNING POINT):

The Coop MANAGER regulates the daily trips each vehicle can make to the loading bay.

LOVEDAY forces Teamleader Wah Wah Rah to bolt with the team’s money moments to the end of work to prove her power.

(CRUCIBLE): Two weeks, the Flour Mill runs out of wheat and stops production. (LAYER BENEATH): FORCED DECISION: The Government needs Foreign Exchange to import grain in the next six months.

(LOVEDAY ENDING): LOVEDAY threatens HEW again, telling him his grandmother and cousins will starve. LOVEDAY says starvation is only the beginning.

(MAJOR CONFLICT): TURNING POINT 2: HEW’s team makes diminishing trips to the loading bay and makes less money. (SURFACE LAYER 4): The wheat shortage is real.

(SECOND MYSTERY): Introduce MYSTERY 2 – How will HEW and Ishey reach the impossible goal with HEW’s unaddressed hernia? Where will they get funding?

TURNING POINT): LOVEDAY demands HEW join their Club, enter and win the six million dollars BOXER contest, or his grandmother and relatives die.

Act 5:

Essence:

(BENEATH SURFACE LAYER 4): Realize the current GovernmentGovernment needs to secure funds to pay for wheat importation.

The Coop Flour Distribution Association closes offices. HEW and Ishey need a job to go to at the Center. HEW must cater to the family and look for work that hardly exists.

It turns out ISHEY flopped his G.C.E. Examination out of high fertility disorder.

DILEMMA: No job, lost family trust, sleeps in the Den. He has kicked the meal from the table of his relatives, him and countrywide. HEW is desperate to find a position to provide for the family. HEW must determine when and how the next wages will come from. He needs to learn the power of the organization and what it can do.

(HEW/ISHEY – ENDING):

Turning Point:

Lock In: The job dries away. Asking LOVEDAY to prove something, HEW has become the prisoner and the vanquisher. He has kicked the meal from the table of his relatives, him and countrywide. (HOW SURFACE LAYER 4 REVEALED): (HEW/ ISHEY ENDING): (HOW REVEALED): FORCED DECISION: HEW needs a job at the Center. HEW’s worst fears. He must cater to the family. The Do-Wells aim to hire him. What are HEW and Ishey going to do? (MAIN OPEN LOOP): What will HEW discover about the MARTIAL ARTS/BOXER contest? (SETUP): Will The Do-Wells recruit HEW?

(SEASON 1 A.R.C.): From the entire flour loading job drying away, winning the Contest, and the need to cash the prize cheque.

(SEASON 1 PROTAGONIST INTERNAL JOURNEY): From handling his extended family to wooing A.C. for his girlfriend.

1. With MAIN INTRIGUE that you will emphasize in that scene.

Intriguing World:
Mystery:
Secret:
Deception:
Conspiracy:
Secret Identity:
Wound:
Hidden Agenda:
Hidden Layer:
Strange Behavior:
Imminent Threat:
Suspicion:

1. Finding the MAIN INTRIGUE of the scene.

EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – DAY (INTRIGUE/HIDDEN LAYER)

SCENE ARC:

HEW checks into the family house, sees two cousins doing chores, and finds a Warning sticker on the building.

DESCRIPTION:

BRADER HEW checks in the family house daily to determine how his extended family is faring.

He finds his thirteen-year-old female cousin washing last night’s dinner plates and the fifteen-year-old sweeping the compound.

A Final Warning sticker on the main building asks the HEWS must settle their property tax assessment or face an auction. The statement has never been overdue.

START: HEW’s first call of the day at the family house.

CHALLENGING SITUATION: HEW aims to determine how the extended family is faring.

CONFLICT: A Final Warning sticker is on the main house. The HEWS must pay or face auction.

ACTION: HEW promises to pay when he returns from the Center.

FINISH: HEW believes there is no justice in the statement.

EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – DAY (HIDDEN LAYER)

BRADER HEW is checking in the family house. First time today. He wants to determine how his extended family is faring.

His thirteen-year-old female cousin washes last night’s dinner plates, and the fifteen-year-old sweeps the compound.

A Final Warning sticker on the main building asks the HEWS to pay a one-year property tax assessment or face an auction. The statement has never been overdue. His youngest cousin says the A.M.A. officials delayed the bill.

HEW says the threat to auction the family house out of one-year arrears is unjustified.

HEW meets with his eldest Aunt on the way to the separate bathroom. She asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax. The fear of where to get their portion of the tax provokes his three female cousins to shout that HEW cover. HEW promises to pay when he returns from the Center.

EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – DAY (HIDDEN LAYER)

ACT 1: OUTLINE WITH INTRIGUE

BRADER HEW is checking the family house. First time today. He wants to determine how his extended family is faring.

His thirteen-year-old female cousin washes last night’s dinner plates, and the fifteen-year-old sweeps the compound.

A Final Warning sticker on the main building asks the HEWS to pay their property tax or face an auction. The bill has never been late. His youngest cousin says rumors circulating that the A.M.A. officials delayed the bill.

MYSTERY: The bill has never been late. Who delayed the bill? Why? What is the assessment?

EMPATHY/DISTRESS: HEW is worried. A need for cash is added to him.

OPEN LOOP: What is the family going to do about this bill?

PAYOFF: None.

OPEN LOOP: How is he going to handle the payment?

SETUP: HEW must pay to cover the frail, teenagers, and those still at school.

SETUP: Red Flag. As the first male adult HEW cannot be left off the hook except by family members in employment.

HEW says the threat to auction the family house out of one-year arrears is unjustified.

HEW meets with his eldest Aunt on the way to the separate bathroom. She asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax. The fear of where to get their portion of the tax provokes his three female cousins to shout that HEW cover. HEW promises to pay when he returns from the Center.

MYSTERY: Auction of the family house? Because of one-year arrears? Is such a move justified?

OPEN LOOP: What is the purpose of delaying the bill? Will the officials who delayed the bill be found out? And prosecuted? Or get away with it?

IRONY: The bill that was delayed finally came to light.

SETUP: The bill was delayed to deprive the military junta of cash to run the country.

SETUP: We are about to meet the super-secret spies who can hold the nation to more ransom by cutting the economy from Capital Markets.

CONCEPT: The Do Wells in our midst.

. Put the main intrigue of your scene in the Slugline. Then give us the open loops, mystery, empathy/distress, payoff, irony, and setups that will show up in this scene.

INT. LOCATION – DAY: MAIN INTRIGUE

Description:

Open Loop:
Mystery:
Empathy/Distress:
Payoff:
Irony:
Setup:

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Moses Quainoo MOD 3 – LESSON 11: OUTLINE REQUIREMENTS

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. PASS 1: For each scene in your Beat Sheet, answer the following questions to create your scene requirements:

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

2. PASS 2: Then turn that into a full description. It will look like this:

INT. LOCATION – DAY

Full description here.

· Start:

· Challenging Situation:

· Conflict:

· Action:

· Finish:

TEASER

INT – THEATRE -NIGHT

A Ballerina comes onto the stage. She Performs.

SCENE ARC

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2:

ACT 1

1. SCENE ARC

BRADER HEW comes to check on his extended relatives at the family house, and when he finds out his grandmother’s malaria is worsening, the need for money is even greater.

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

1. EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – DAY.

BRADER HEW ascertains how his relatives are doing and finds a Final Warning Sticker asking the HEWS to pay their property tax or face auction.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start: BRADER HEW comes to the family house to find out how his extended family is doing.

Challenging Situation: A Final Warning sticker on the building ask the HEWS must pay their property tax or face auction.

Conflict: His eldest Aunt asks HEW for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax.

Action: HEW promises to pay when he returns from the Center.

Finish: His female cousins blurt out that they, too, be covered.

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

BRADER HEW steps into the family house compound to find out how his extended family is doing this morning. His thirteen-year-old female cousin is washing yesternight’s dinner plates, and the fifteen-year-old cousin is sweeping the compound.

A Final Warning sticker on the main building asks the HEWS to pay a one-year property tax assessment or face an auction. HEW says it is not justice to sell auction a family house because of the arrears. His female cousin says the officials delayed the bill.

HEW ran into his eldest Aunt on the way to the separate bathroom. She asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax. The fear of where to get their portion of the tax provokes his three female cousins to shout that HEW cover. HEW promises to pay when he returns from the Center.

Start: BRADER HEW comes to the family house to find out how his extended family is doing.

Challenging Situation: A Final Warning sticker on the building ask the HEWS must pay their property tax or face auction.

Conflict: His eldest Aunt asks HEW for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax.

Action: The fear of where to get their portion of the tax provokes his three female cousins to shout that HEW cover.

Finish: HEW promises to pay when he returns from the Center.

2. SCENE ARC

HEW is in the queue to the separate bathroom when his mother barges into the compound to say his grandmother’s malaria is worsening, and HEW thinks he will bring money from the Center.

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

BRADER HEW joins the queue to the bathroom and realizes his grandmother’s malaria is worsening.

2. EXT – DETACHED BATHROOM – DAY

HEW is third in the queue to the separate bathroom. His mother barges into the compound to say his grandmother’s malaria is worsening. The need for money is even greater.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start: HEW is third in the queue to the bathroom.

Challenging Situation: His mother barges into the compound to say his grandmother’s malaria is worsening. She needs money to buy anti-malaria drugs.

Conflict: HEW asked what happened to the money he gave her last night, and she answered she went to pay off the debt later that night. The need for money is even greater.

Action: The need for money is even greater.

Finish: HEW finish bathing and leaves for the Center.

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

HEW is third in the queue to the separate bathroom. His mother barges into the compound to say his grandmother’s malaria is worsening. She needs money to buy anti-malaria drugs. The need for money is even greater. HEW asked what happened to the money he gave her last night, and she answered she went to pay off the debt later that night. HEW finishes bathing and leaves for the Center.

Start: HEW is third in the queue to the bathroom.

Challenging Situation: His mother barges into the compound to say his grandmother’s malaria is worsening. She needs money to buy anti-malaria drugs.

Conflict: HEW asked what happened to the money he gave her last night, and she answered she went to pay off the debt later that night.

Action: The need for money is even greater.

Finish: HEW finish bathing and leaves for the Center.

3. SCENE ARC

HEW leaves home, takes the primary street to meet GIFFARD road, and crosses to the Center.

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

3. EXT – FAMILY HOUSE PRIMARY STREET – DAY

HEW leaves the family house, takes the primary street to meet GIFFARD road, and crosses to the Center.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start: HEW leaves the family house compound.

Challenging Situation: HE turns right onto the primary street.

Conflict: He walks to meet GIFFARD Road.

Action: He crosses to the Center.

Finish: HEW is on the green lawn before the vast car park.

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

HEW steps out of the family house compound. The short wooden gates return to place. He turns right by the hedge plant and walks on the primary street to meet GIFFARD road. He crosses to the lawn before the vast car park.

Start: HEW leaves the family house compound.

Challenging Situation: HE turns right onto the primary street.

Conflict: He walks to meet GIFFARD Road.

Action: He crosses to the Center.

Finish: HEW is on the green lawn before the vast car park.

ACT 2

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4. SCENE ARC

Two female RIDERS fasten their horses to a short tree in the forest behind the Center’s back car park and cross the rear car park to the back gates.

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

4. EXT – FOREST – DAY

Two female RIDERS fasten their horses to a short tree in the forest behind the Center’s back car park. They walk across the rear car park to the back gates.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start: Two RIDER fasten their horses to a short tree.

Challenging Situation: The RIDERS walk across the rear car park.

Conflict: AC talks of retiring when her term ends and marrying.

Action: LOVEDAY says she will be her bridesmaid when the time comes.

Finish: The RIDERS enter the Pedestrian gates.

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

Two female RIDERS fasten their horses to a short tree in the forest behind the Center’s back car park. The RIDERS walk across the rear car park and enter the Pedestrian gates. AC talks of retirement when her term ends and marrying. LOVEDAY says she will be her bridesmaid when the time comes.

Start: Two RIDER fasten their horses to a short tree.

Challenging Situation: The RIDERS walk across the rear car park.

Conflict: AC talks of retiring when her term ends and marrying.

Action: LOVEDAY says she will be her bridesmaid when the time comes.

Finish: The RIDERS enter the Pedestrian gates.

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5. SCENE ARC

The RIDERS emerge into the yard and meet a crowd of men in the street. A-signboard on the left side Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire at the Coop.

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

5. INT – CENTER’S PEDESTRIANS BACK GATES – DAY

The RIDERS emerge into the yard and meet a crowd of men in the street. A-signboard on the left side Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire at the Coop.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start: The RIDERS emerge into the yard.

Challenging Situation: They meet a crowd of men in the street.

Conflict: A-signboard on the left side Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire at the Coop.

Action: The RIDERS walk through the crowd.

Finish: They are going to the ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

The RIDERS emerge into the yard and meet a crowd of men in the street. A-signboard on the left side Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire at the Coop. The RIDERS walk through the public to the ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK.

Start: The RIDERS emerge into the yard.

Challenging Situation: They meet a crowd of men in the street.

Conflict: A-signboard on the left side Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire at the Coop.

Action: The RIDERS walk through the crowd.

Finish: They are going to the ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK.

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6. SCENE ARC

HEW meets ISHEY GARFUNK in the vast car park, and they enter the Pedestrian gates at the main entrance.

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

6. INT-CENTER’S FRONT CAR PARK – DAY

HEW meets ISHEY GARFUNK in the vast car park in front of the Center. He tells ISHEY he is a flour loader. They enter the Pedestrian gates at the main entrance.

<strong style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start: HEW meets ISHEY GARFUNK in the vast car park.

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

7. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

7. EXT – STREET-DAY

HEW and ISHEY join the gathering.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start: HEW and ISHEY join the gathering

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

INT – DAY

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

8. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

8. EXT – COOP PORTAKABIN (1) OFFICES – DAY

The MANAGER emerges from his Portakabin into the street. A referee’s whistle dangles around his neck.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

9. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

9. EXT – CENTER STREET – DAY

HEW and ISHEY arrive at the Coop Flour Distribution Offices.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

10. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

10. EXT – CENTER STREET – DAY

The MANAGER addresses the JOB SEEKERS and points to the ten LENGTHY VEHICLES sleeping two hundred yards away.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2:

11. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

11. EXT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

The RIDERS are on the first floor of the block. Their backs lean on the railing, and the VEHICLES are asleep below.

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Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

12. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

EXT – CENTER STREET – DAY

HEW, ISHEY, and the JOB SEEKERS are alert and watch for the whistle to go.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

13. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

13. EXT – PORTAKABIN OFFICE (2) – DAY

The SUPERVISOR blows his whistle.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

14. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

EXT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

AC and LOVEDAY hear the whistle shrill and turn around to see.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

15. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

EXT – CENTER STREET- DAY

HEW, ISHEY, and the JOB SEEKERS sprint towards the VEHICLES.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

16. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

16. INT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

The job seeker boots another in his path to get an advantage. AC and LOVEDAY see the cheat among the runners.

SCENE ARC

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

07. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

ISHEY gets a head start, leaps onto Vehicle 8, and occupies the fourth spot.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

18. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

HEW joins the intense race and hops onto Vehicle 8. HEW connects with an aspirant for the sixth spot. The others expose the aspirant as unfair.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

19. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

19. EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

HEW’S competitor strikes first. HEW is an expert Boxer. He fights the opponent to keep the spot, and both men show rare fighting skills.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

20. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

INT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

The two RIDERS capture the fight on cameras built into the crest of each riding hat.

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Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

21. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

21. EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

SCENE ARC

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.:

22. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

22. INT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

ACT 3

23. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

23. EXT – PORT CITY – DAY

VEHICLE 8 is eighteen miles away from the capital and at Port City.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

24. <b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

24. EXT – FLOUR MILL – DAY

VEHICLE 8 reverses into the loading bay.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

25. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

INT – VEHICLE 8 – DAY

HEW, ISHEY, and the boarding team fill the trailer.

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Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

26. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

26. EXT – VEHICLE 8 – DAY

VEHICLE 8 travels around neighboring towns and cities and deals out the bags for payment.

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Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

27. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

27. INT – PRESS CONFERENCE – DAY

AC announces THE DO-WELLS Annual Contests will come up in December. The BOXER tournament takes up the last three days. Members must enter and win this event before joining the organization as Master Spies. The prize is six million dollars.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

28. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

28. INT – TECHNICAL ROOM – DAY

AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s Arena.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

29. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

29. EXT – CENTER’s CAR PARK – NIGHT

HEW jumps down from the back of VEHICLE 8. ISHEY and two others disembark.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

30. <b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

30. EXT – CAR BONNET – NIGHT

LOVEDAY sits on a car bonnet near them and reaches up to recover her drone.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

31. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

EXT – CENTER’s CAR PARK – NIGHT

VEHICLE 8 moves to sleep inside the Center’s yard. HEW bids ISHEY bye and walks to GIFFARD ROAD. LOVEDAY follows him.

32. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

EXT – MAJOR ROAD – NIGHT

HEW crosses the road. LOVEDAY calls out to him.

SCENE ARC

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

33. BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

33. EXT – ROAD SHOULDER – NIGHT

LOVEDAY tells HEW she wants to engage him. HEW must enroll with their Club and win the six million dollar BOXER contest, which comes up in December, before training as a spy.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

34. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

34. EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

HEW will need more time for clubs and mingling.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

36. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

36. EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

LOVEDAY says she built a weak profile of him and will snatch his daily meal unless HEW agrees.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

37. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

37. EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

He wants her to prove something.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

38. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

38. EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

LOVEDAY gives HEW a choice between starvation, six million dollars, and a job.

SCENE ARC

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

39. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

39. EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

HEW demands LOVEDAY to prove who she is or nothing.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

40. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

She says HEW decided his grandmother and relatives starve.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

ACT 4

41. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

41. EXT – COCONUT TREE – DAY

In the morning, the JOB SEEKERS talk of rumors that Western creditors influence the country to dip.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

42. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

472. EXT – VEHICLE 3 – DAY

The Coop MANAGER regulates each VEHICLE’S daily trips to the loading bay.

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Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

43. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

INT- PRODUCTION UNIT – DAY

A Production SUPERVISOR tells HEW the Mill is running short of wheat.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

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BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

INT –

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Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

45. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

INT-

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

ACT 5

46. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

46. EXT – CARPENTER’S WORKBENCH – DAY

HEW and ISHEY need a job at the Center.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

47. SCENE ARC

BEAT SHEET ESSENCE

47. EXT – COOP PORTAKABIN OFFICES – DAY

The Coop closes offices.

Pass 1: Determine the scene requirement.

Start:

Challenging Situation:

Conflict:

Action:

Finish:

Pass 2: Turn Scene Requirements into Description.

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MOD 3 – LESSON 10: CREATE A BEAT
SHEET

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Tell us your Show Concept and Inciting Incident.

SHOW CONCEPT:

BRADER HEW, a flour loader who handles his extended family, enters The Do-Wells annual BOXER contest for what he has and be hired.

INCITING INCIDENT:

BRADER HEW connects with another job seeker and shows his BOXER abilities when he fights to keep the sixth spot, captured on camera. He enters The Do-Wells Annual BOXER contest and must win the six million dollars to get hired.

2. List your A, B, and C Stories.

A Story

BRADER HEW is a flour loader who goes to the Center on weekdays to look for work. The Do-Wells want to replace three master spies who died on a mission.

The Founder orders LOVEDAY, helped by AC, to scout at the Center for talents to hire secretly. The two women witness the fight and capture the event on their riding hat cameras and later approach HEW coldly to join their Club.

B Story

AC tells LOVEDAY she plans to retire when her term as PRESIDENT ends and find a man to marry and raise children. When they arrive at the center and capture the fight on camera, LOVEDAY declares she has found the man of her dreams and will issue her orders.

C Story

ISHEY GARFUNK story

3. Present your current Beat Sheet with no dialogue.

TEASER

INT – THEATRE -NIGHT

A Ballerina comes onto the stage. Performs.

INT –

INT –

ACT 1

EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – HEDGE FENCING – before SUNRISE

BRADER HEW is returning to the family house.

EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – COMPOUND – SUNRISE

HEW finds a Final Warning sticker on the main house. He goes to read the notice.

INT – FAMILY HOUSE – DETACHED BATHROOM – SUNRISE

HEW is taking his bath. His mother barges into the compound to say Grandmother’s malaria is worsening.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – SUNRISE

HEW is going to the Center nearby to look for work.

ACT 2

EXT – CENTER BACK CAR PARK – FOREST – SUNRISE

Two female RIDERS hitch their horses in the forest after the car park. They walk across the park to the pedestrian back gates and enter.

INT – CENTER BACK GATE – COOP PORTAKABIN OFFICES – SUNRISE

The RIDERS walk into a large gathering of men.

EXT – CENTER FRONT CAR PARK – SUNRISE

INT – CENTER BACK GATE – COOP PORTAKABIN OFFICES

INT –

ACT 3

INT

INT

INT

INT

INT

ACT 4

INT

INT

INT

INT

ACT 5

INT

INT

INT

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2. List your A, B, and C Stories.

A Story

BRADER HEW is a flour loader who handles his extended family. He goes to the Center on weekdays to look for work.

The Do-Wells lost three master spies on missions in Algeria, Yemen and want them replaced. For punishment, FRANK order LOVEDAY to scout at the Center for talents to hire secretly.

HEW connects with another JOB SEEKER for the sixth spot on top a lengthy VEHICLE and fight to keep the place. LOVEDAY and AC, capture the event on their riding hat cameras.

Later LOVEDAY approach HEW to join their Club, win the BOXER/MARTIAL ARTS contest and get hired.

B Story

AC has no man in her life in a long time. When FRANK ordered AC to help LOVEDAY scout at the Center, tells LOVEDAY she plans to retire when her term as PRESIDENT ends.

She will switch her attention to looking for a humble man to marry and raise kids. LOVEDAY wishes her luck, adding that she will become the bridesmaid; AC has always wanted her to be. LOVEDAY and AC embrace, happy.

HEW loves attractive women, and the two coming up to them meet the taste.When the women walk past HEW and ISHEY, HEW and LOVEDAY catch one another’s eye. AC laughs at her love-struck coworker / best friend and pulls her away.

Now AC must work with creditors to push the country
out of Capital Markets so they cannot import wheat

C Story

ISHEY

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3. Present your current Beat Sheet with no dialogue.

TEASER

INT – THEATRE -NIGHT

A Ballerina comes onto the stage. Performs.

ACT 1

EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – DAY.

BRADER HEW enters his family house to see how the extended family is doing and finds a Final Warning sticker. He goes to read the notice.

EXT – DETACHED BATHROOM – DAY

HEW is third in the queue to the bathroom. His aunty asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax. He promises to pay when he returns from the center.

INT – FAMILY HOUSE COMPOUND – DAY

His mother barges into the compound to say Grandmothers malaria is worsening.

EXT – PRIMARY STREET – DAY

HEW is going to the Center nearby to look for work.

ACT 2

EXT – FOREST – DAY

Two female RIDERS fasten their horses to a short tree in the forest behind the Center’s back car park.

EXT – CENTER’S BACK CAR PARK – DAY

The RIDERS walk across the back car park and enter the Pedestrian gates.

INT- PEDESTRIAN GATES – DAY

The RIDERS emerge into the yard and meet a crowd of men in the street. A-signboard on the left side Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire at the Coop.

INT-CENTER’S FRONT CAR PARK – DAY

HEW meets ISHEY GARFUNK in the vast car park in front of the Center. He tells ISHEY he is a flour loader. They enter the Pedestrian gates at the main entrance.

EXT – STREET-DAY

HEW and ISHEY join the gathering.

EXT – COOP PORTAKABIN OFFICES – DAY

The RIDERS walk through the gathering. AC suggests they stroll to the Foreign Exchange shop on the first floor of the Administrative block.

EXT – COOP PORTAKABIN (1) OFFICES – DAY

The MANAGER emerges from his Portakabin into the street. A referee’s whistle dangles around his neck. EXT – CENTER STREET – DAY

HEW and ISHEY arrive at the Coop Flour Distribution Offices.

EXT – CENTER STREET – DAY

The MANAGER addresses the JOB SEEKERS and points to the ten LENGTHY VEHICLES sleeping two hundred yards away.

EXT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

The RIDERS are on the first floor of the block. Their backs lean on the railing and the VEHICLES asleep below.

EXT – CENTER STREET – DAY

HEW, ISHEY and the JOB SEEKERS are alert and watch for the whistle to go.

EXT – PORTAKABIN OFFICE (2) – DAY

The SUPERVISOR blows his whistle.

EXT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

AC and LOVEDAY hear the whistle’s shrill and turn around to see.

EXT – CENTER STREET- DAY

HEW, ISHEY and the JOB SEEKERS sprint towards the VEHICLES.

INT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

The job seeker boots another in his path to get an advantage. AC and LOVEDAY see the cheat among the runners.

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

ISHEY gets a head start, leaps onto Vehicle 8, and occupies the fourth spot.

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

HEW joins the intense race and hops onto Vehicle 8. HEW connects with an aspirant for the sixth spot. The others expose the aspirant as unfair.

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

HEW’S competitor strikes first. HEW is an expert Boxer. He fights the opponent to keep the spot, and both men show rare fighting skills.

INT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

The two RIDERS capture the fight on cameras built into the crest of each riding hat.

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

INT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

ACT 3

EXT – PORT CITY – DAY

VEHICLE 8 is eighteen miles away from thr capital and at the Port city.

EXT – FLOUR MILL – DAY

VEHICLE 8 reverses into the loading bay.

INT – VEHICLE 8 – DAY

HEW, ISHEY, and the boarding team fill the trailer.

EXT – VEHICLE 8 – DAY

VEHICLE 8 travels around neighboring towns and cities and dealing out the bags for payment.

INT – PRESS CONFERENCE – DAY

AC announces THE DO-WELLS Annual Contests will come up in December. The BOXER tournament takes up the last three days. Members must enter and win this event before joining the organization as Master Spies. The prize is six million dollars.

INT – TECHNICAL ROOM – DAY

AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s Arena.

EXT – CENTER’s CAR PARK – NIGHT

HEW jumps down from the back of VEHICLE 8. ISHEY and two others disembark.

EXT – CAR BONNET – NIGHT

LOVEDAY sits on a car bonnet near them and reaches up to recover her drone.

EXT – CENTER’s CAR PARK – NIGHT

VEHICLE 8 moves to sleep inside the Center’s yard. HEW bids ISHEY bye and is walking to GIFFARD ROAD. LOVEDAY follows him.

EXT – MAJOR ROAD – NIGHT

HEW crosses the road. LOVEDAY calls out to him.

EXT – ROAD SHOULDER – NIGHT

LOVEDAY tells HEW she wants to engage him. HEW must enroll with their Club and win the six million dollar BOXER contest, which comes up in December, before training as a spy.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

HEW will need more time for clubs and mingling.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

LOVEDAY says she built a weak profile of him and will snatch his daily meal unless HEW agrees.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

He wants her to prove something.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

LOVEDAY gives HEW a choice between starvation, six million dollars, and a job.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

HEW demands LOVEDAY to prove who she is or nothing.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

She says HEW decided his grandmother and relatives starve.

ACT 4

EXT – COCONUT TREE – DAY

In the morning, the JOB SEEKERS talk of rumors that western creditors influence the country to dip.

EXT – VEHICLE 3 – DAY

The Coop MANAGER regulates each vehicle’s daily trips to the loading bay.

INT- PRODUCTION UNIT – DAY

A Production supervisor tells HEW the Mill is running short of wheat.

INT

INT

ACT 5

EXT – CARPENTER’S WORKBENCH- DAY

HEW and Ishey need a job at the Center.

EXT – COOP PORTAKABIN OFFICES – DAY

The Coop closes offices.

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MOD 3 – LESSON 9: SETUPS FOR FUTURE
EPISODES

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Go to your TV Pitch Bible: Look at the future episodes, five seasons, and character descriptions. Go to your BW Framework: Look at all the info there.

2. Make a list of events/character reveals/under-the-surface info that COULD be set up in the pilot. Just use the obvious ones. You don’t need to create the entire season right now.

THE DO WELLS

a) Future missions.

(b) Will HEW be LOVEDAY’s man?

(c) Is HEW safe to visit LOVEDAY?

(d) Who will build the psychological profile of HWE?

(e) Entering the Intelligence gathering world of The Do-Wells.

(f) Will HEW be safe?

(g) How is HEW going to explain his association with The organization to his extended family?

(h) Will the family find out?

(i) Will the family allow HEW to marry AC?

(j) How will it change who HEW is?

(k) Plot to test HEW’S readiness to fight using surprise.

(l) Love story between NEW and AC.

(m) Essel Poles cauldron.

(n) Will The Do-Wells recruit HEW?

(o) Will ISHEY woo LOVEDAY?

3. Decide which you are going to include in the Pilot.

4. Fill those into the Outline and tell us which ones you are going to use.

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MOD 3 – LESSON 8: BUILDING IN
EMPATHY/DISTRESS

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Look through your Outline and see if any of these as a bigger frame for your story, or if you already have it in the story, can you emphasize or expand it:

A. Crucible:

(a) Sunrise at the Coop
Flour Distribution offices inside the Center where job seekers are told to
hasten or rush to occupy spots on ten lengthy vehicles.

(b) Connecting with
another job seeker for the sixth spot.

(c) The Flour Mills at the
harbor/city run out of wheat and stops production.

B. Betrayal:

(a) LOVEDAY plots to Test
HEW’S readiness to fight using surprise and did not inform him. She only
said HEW should pay her a visit at the weekend. She had also told
FERDINAND CHOPSTONES to kill HEW.

(b) HEW is part of the team whose leader
ran away with all the money collected for the day leaving them distressed.

C. Forced Decision:

(a) HEW
realizes he cannot go home empty handed so he must fight and keep the
sixth spot. (b)HEW and ISHEY need a job to go to at the center. The
government says the nation’s coffers are empty and it needs to find Foreign exchange
to import wheat in one year.

D. Hurt those they love – (a) Leaving
his sick grandmother till sundown when he returns from the center.(b) On entry
into the BOXER contest, HEW is setting up problems for his extended family.

E. Emotional Dilemma –
F. Exposed – The job seeker boots
another in his path to get an advantage. He connects with HEW on the vehicle
and is exposed by the others as unfair.

G. Must Make Decision with Future Consequences – HEW is handling his extended family now, but must find a
girlfriend to woo, marry and start a family someday.

OUTLINE

THE DO WELLS – DRAFT 4

(H) stands for BRADER HEW

(I) stands for ISHEY GARFUNK

(L) stands for LOVEDAY SEBASTIAN

(AC) stands for AC

(F) stands for FRANK

Act 1:

BEGIN:

BRADER HEW, a flour loader, handles his extended family.

MIDDLE:

Before sunrise, he enters his family house and finds a final warning sticker asking the HEWS to pay property tax or face an auction.

MYSTERY:

Why is he worried about the tax?

DILEMMA:

His Aunt asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax. What of his four female cousins who are still in middle school? Who pays for them? And his sixteen-year-old male cousin, a student cadet at the Military’s Bad Boys Company?

OPEN LOOP:

How will he get the money to cover the family members?

HEW promises to pay when he returns from the Center.

END:

His mother barges into the yard to say grandmother’s malaria is worsening.

HURT THOSE THEY LOVE:

TURNING POINT:

The need for money is even greater.

(Strong Turning Point: HEW and the eldest Aunt are the only breadwinners in the family. His grandmother’s malaria threatens to stop him from going to look for work. He needs to charter a taxi to the hospital, and HEW has no cash. No family member has the cash to send their grandmother to the hospital or buy anti-malaria drugs at the chemist. HEW has no bank account or girlfriend to borrow money from.)

(ISHEY-OPENING): A school leaver who wants to pursue a career and start an adult and family life. He asks HEW for a job.

(ISHEY TURNING POINT):

Act 2:

BEGIN:

(MYSTERY): Two female riders hitch their horses behind the Center.

(OPEN-LOOP): Why are they at the Center?

HEW meets Ishey in the vast car park and enters the Center.

MIDDLE:

The riders enter through the back gates. They walk amidst a large gathering of men in the street forward. An A-signboard on Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire.

HEW and Ishey get to the Coop Flour Distribution offices, where the Manager hires men to offload flour in the open.

With a referee’s whistle dangling around the neck, the Manager asks for a workforce and no paper qualifications. He has few jobs for the many on ten lengthy vehicles sleeping two hundred yards distant.

CRUCIBLE: To meet the cut, job seekers must rush to occupy six spots on each vehicle.

The Manager has a referee’s whistle around his neck. Everybody looks to ascertain when the whistle will go for the race to start. The shrill comes from the supervisor’s whistle.

HEW joins the heated race and hops onto the vehicle.

CRUCIBLE: He connects with another job aspirant for the sixth spot.

DILEMMA:

Give up the position? Return home empty-handed and face his sick grandmother or clash with the person standing before him for the chance.

FORCED DECISION:

END:

He contends, and his opponent strikes first.

TURNING POINT: HEW fights to keep the spot.

MIDPOINT: The two riders capture the fight on cameras built into the crest of each riding hat.

(OPEN-LOOP): What are they going to do with the recording?

(ISHEY – TURNING POINT 1):

Present the Impossible Goal: Win the six-million-dollar BOXER contest.

HEW begins the journey to becoming a successful Master spy in Africa.

Act 3:

Essence:

Present the Impossible Goal: Win the six-million-dollar BOXER contest.

BEGIN:

Vehicle 8 reverses into the Flour Mill loading bay.

MIDDLE:

(HEW – OPEN LOOP): HEW, ISHEY, and the boarding team fill the trailer and travel around neighboring towns and cities, dealing out the flour load for compensation.

(AC – OPEN LOOP): AC announces THE DO-WELLS Annual Contests coming up in December. The BOXER tournament takes up the last three days. Members must enter and win this event before joining the organization as Master Spies. The prize is six million dollars.

At headquarters, agents are wagering on possible contest entrants and voting on choices for the Arena, which is technologically heightened each year as an added challenge to entrants.

AC approves one technical innovation to this year’syear’s Arena: The Essel Poles cauldron- a 144-pole formation hanging above a bar lattice mounted over a bottomless pit of burning fire.

That night, Vehicle 8 returns to the Center’s car park and drop off HEW, ISHEY, and two others.

(LOVEDAY – OPEN LOOP): LOVEDAY, waiting on a car bonnet not far from them, reaches up to recover her drone.

LOVEDAY follows HEW to the major streetlights. As he crosses the road to the junction leading to the family house she calls out to him. LOVEDAY introduces herself and says after seeing HEW’s BOXER abilities she wants to hire him. HEW is wary. She says HEW must join their club and win the six million dollar BOXER contest, which comes up in December before training as a Spy. HEW wants her to show something. She says unless HEW agrees she will snatch his daily meal.

(HEW – MIDPOINT): HEW asks LOVEDAY to show him something as he hardly knows her.

END:

LOVEDAY says she will knock over HEW’s source of livelihood.

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT):

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT 2 / HEW – TURNING )

(LOVEDAY – DELIMMA)

(HEW – DELIMMA)

TURNING POINT: LOVEDAY will snatch HEW’s daily meal.

Act 4:

Essence:

The next morning, western creditors pull the strings on the country. The Coop MANAGER rations the daily trips each vehicle can make to the loading bay.

TURNING POINT 1: A Production supervisor tells HEW the Mill is running short of wheat.

END: Two weeks, the Flour Mill runs out of wheat and stops production. The Government needs Foreign Exchange to import wheat in the next six months.

(HEW – MAJOR CONFLICT)

TURNING POINT 2:

HEW‘s team makes diminishing trips to the loading bay and takes home less money.

MYSTERY 2: Introduce MYSTERY 2 – How will HEW and Ishey reach the goal with Hu’s unaddressed hernia? Where will they get funding?

CRUCIBLE: The Flour Mill runs out of wheat and stops production. The Government needs Foreign Exchange to import wheat in the next six months. The Coop Flour Distribution Association closes offices.

Act 5:

Essence:

The Coop Flour Distribution Association closes offices. HEW and Ishey need a job to go to at the Center. HEW must cater to the family and look for work that hardly exists.

DILEMMA:

Hu must determine when and how the next wages will come from.

(HEW/ISHEY – ENDING):

The jobs dry away.

LOCK IN: The job dries away at the
center. HEW must cater to the family. The Do-Wells aim to hire him. What are HEW
and Ishey going to do?

CRUCIBLE: The Flour Mill runs out of wheat and stops production. The Government needs Foreign Exchange to import wheat in the next six months. The Coop Flour Distribution Association closes offices. HEW and Ishey need a job to go to at the Center.

(MAIN OPEN LOOP): What is HEW going to discover about the BOXER contest?

2. Looking at your scenes, are there places you can create situations to cause more Empathy/Distress?

Step 1: Check each scene to see if you can build any of these forms of Empathy/Distress into them.

Undeserved misfortune
External character conflicts
Plot intruding on life
Plans that failed
Witnessing the pain of others
Extreme consequences
Major loss
Brings their wound present

Step 2: Make those situations even worse.

Make it more painful
Raise the stakes
Create more loss
Put any goal, need, value, and wound at
significant risk
Time this to be at the worst moment
Make it more physically threatening

3. Fill those into your current outline and rewrite it.

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MOD 3 – LESSON MYSTERIES AND OPEN
LOOPS 7:

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Look through your current outline and find opportunities for at least 5 Open Loops and 5 Mysteries in the plot or about the characters.

List them like this:

Main Mystery: What are the scouts looking for? What do they see in Brader HEW that warrants them to capture the fight?

Sub-Mysteries:

Does HEW know the scouts?

Do the scouts know HEW?

Does he have something to do with them?

What are the scouts looking for?

Why are the scouts capturing the fight covertly?

What is it about HEW that interest the scouts?

Why did they come to the Center?

How did they come to the Center?

When did they come to the Center?

What are the scouts see that we don’t?

How did HEW pique the interest of the scouts?

Main Open Loop:

What will they do with the recording/film?

Sub-Open Loops:

What interested the scouts?

Did HEW know he was being recorded?

What will the scouts do next?

2. Look through your outline to see if you can build in at least one mystery and open loop into each Act of your outline.

3. Add those to the Outline.

OUTLINE

THE DO WELLS – DRAFT 3

(H) stands for BRADER HEW

(I) stands for ISHEY GARFUNK

(L) stands for LOVEDAY SEBASTIAN

(AC) stands for AC

(F) stands for FRANK

Act 1:

BEGIN:

BRADER HEW, a flour loader, handles his extended family.

MIDDLE:

Before sunrise, he enters his family house and finds a final warning sticker asking the HEWS to pay property tax or face an auction.

MYSTERY:

Why is he worried about the tax?

DILEMMA:

His Aunt asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax. What of his four female cousins who are still in middle school? Who pays for them? And his sixteen-year-old male cousin, a student cadet at the Military’s Bad Boys Company?

OPEN LOOP:

How will he get the money to cover the family members?

HEW promises to pay when he returns from the Center.

END:

His mother barges into the yard to say grandmother’s malaria is worsening.

TURNING POINT:

The need for money is even greater.

(Strong Turning Point: HEW and the eldest Aunt are the only breadwinners in the family. His grandmother’s malaria threatens to stop him from going to look for work. He needs to charter a taxi to the hospital, and HEW has no cash. No family member has the cash to send their grandmother to the hospital or buy anti-malaria drugs at the chemist. HEW has no bank account or girlfriend to borrow money from.)

(ISHEY-OPENING): A school leaver who wants to pursue a career and start an adult and family life. He asks HEW for a job.

(ISHEY TURNING POINT):

Act 2:

BEGIN:

(MYSTERY): Two female riders hitch their horses behind the Center.

(OPEN LOOP): Why are they at the Center?

HEW meets Ishey in the vast car park and enters the Center.

MIDDLE:

The riders enter through the back gates. They walk amidst a large gathering of men in the street forward. An A-signboard on Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire.

HEW and Ishey get to the Coop offices, where the Manager hires men to offload flour in the open. With a referee’s whistle dangling around the neck, the Manager asks for a workforce and no paper qualifications. He has few jobs for the many on ten lengthy vehicles sleeping two hundred yards distant. To meet the cut, job seekers must rush to occupy six spots on each vehicle.

The Manager has a referee’s whistle around his neck. Everybody looks to ascertain when the whistle will go for the race to start. The shrill comes from the supervisor’s whistle.

HEW joins the hot race, hops onto the vehicle, and connects with another aspirant for the sixth position.

DILEMMA:

Give up the position? Return home empty-handed and face his sick grandmother or clash with the person standing before him for the chance.

END:

He contends, and his opponent strikes first.

TURNING POINT: HEW fights to keep the spot.

MIDPOINT: The two riders capture the fight on cameras built into the crest of each riding hat.

(OPEN-LOOP): What are they going to do with the recording?

(ISHEY – TURNING POINT 1):

Present the Impossible Goal: Win the six-million-dollar BOXER contest.

HEW begins the journey to becoming a successful Master spy in Africa.

Act 3:

HEW is pressured to win the fight and climbs aboard the departing vehicle. The scouts are under pressure to trace HEW’s steps. With the uncertainty and fears, let us see the deeper layers of the characters, weaknesses, and strengths of HEW, Loveday, and AC.

IMPOSSIBLE GOAL: Introduce/ Present the Impossible Goal

(LOVEDAY – OPEN LOOP): Why is she tracing HEW’S steps?

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT)

(ISHEY – DELIMMA)

(HEW – MIDPOINT)

(ISHEY – MIDPOINT)

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT 2 / HEW – TURNING POINT 2)

(ISHEY – TURNING POINT 2)

(LOVEDAY – DELIMMA)

(HEW – DELIMMA)

(ISHEY – MAJOR CONFLICT)

TURNING POINT:

Act 4:

Essence:

Major complications for HEW. The rationing of daily trips to the loading bay. Mills run short of wheat. An effort to resolve the wheat shortage worsens the situation. HEW‘s plans fail as he takes less money. AC. Loveday is making a significant change outside The Do-Wells regulation. Her life has gone in an unexpected direction. She is making mistakes. New plans lead to worse results.

(HEW – MAJOR CONFLICT)

(ISHEY – MAJOR CONFLICT)

(LOVEDAY – ENDING)

TURNING POINT 1: A Production supervisor tells HEW the Mill is running short of wheat.

TURNING POINT 2:

HEW‘s team makes diminishing trips to the loading bay and takes home less money.

MYSTERY 2: Introduce MYSTERY 2 – How will HEW and Ishey reach the goal with Hu’s unaddressed hernia? Where will they get funding?

END:

The Flour Mill runs out of wheat and stops production.

Act 5:

Essence:

Realize the current Government needs to secure funds to pay for wheat importation.

DILEMMA:

Hu must determine when and how the next wages will come from.

(HEW/ISHEY – ENDING):

The jobs dry away, and the Coop Flour Distribution Association closes offices.

LOCK IN:

The Flour Mill runs out of wheat and stops production. The Government needs Foreign Exchange to import wheat in the next six months. The Coop Flour Distribution Association closes offices. HEW and Ishey need a job to go to at the Center. HEW must cater to the family and look for work that hardly exists. Loveday will approach him cold.

(MAIN OPEN LOOP): What is HEW going to discover about the BOXER contest?

4. Tell us which Open Loops and Mysteries you’ve added and the effect on the interest level of the outline.

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MOD 3 – LESSON 6: STACKING INTRIGUE

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Make a list of your Turning Points.

Act 1

Turning Point: Hu’s mother barges into the compound/yard to say grandmother’s malaria has worsened. Hu’s need for money is even greater.

Act 2

Turning Point: Hu leaps onto the flat-topped long vehicle and connects with another job seeker for the sixth position.

Midpoint: The two scouts capture the fight with their riding hats.

Act 3

Turning Point: AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s arena: The Essel Poles cauldron.

Act 4

Turning Point: The Supervisor calls for added truck and neb to get flour while stocks last.

Act 5

Turning Point: Hu and Ishey have no work to go to –Hu’s worst fears.

2. Before each Turning Point, brainstorm ways to create intrigue for the Turning Point. Give us the TECHNIQUE and one sentence that tells how you’ll create intrigue for the Turning Point.

Use these intrigue techniques to brainstorm:

Intriguing World:

Intrigue:

Mystery:

Secret:

Deception:

Conspiracy:

Secret Identity:

Wound:

Hidden Agenda:

Hidden Layer:

Strange Behavior:

Accusation:

Act 1 Turning Point:

Act 1

Turning Point: Hu’s mother barges into the compound to say grandmother’s malaria has worsened. Hu’s need for money is even greater.

Intrigue 1:

Mystery: Hu enters the family house compound and finds a final warning sticker.

Intrigue 2:

His Aunt asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the property tax.

Intrigue 2:

Hu says he will pay when he returns from the center. His eldest Aunt says he must be one of the lucky ones to get a job at the Center. What goes on at the Center? Why does he need luck daily to get a job there?

TURNING POINT:

When his mother barges into the compound to say grandmother’s malaria is worsening. Hu has no idea why she has come and what she wants to say to him. He was yet to step into the sick grandmother’s bedroom to find out how she was doing this morning.

(Strong Turning Point: Hu and the eldest Aunt are the only breadwinners in the extended family. His grandmother’s malaria threatens to stop him from going to look for work. No family member can raise the cash to send their grandmother to the hospital or buy anti-malaria drugs at the chemist. He needs to charter a taxi to the hospital, and Hu has no cash. He has no bank account or girlfriend to borrow money from.)

Act 2

Turning Point: Hu leaps onto the flat-topped long vehicle and connects with another job seeker for the sixth position.

Midpoint: The two scouts capture the fight with their riding hats.

Intrigue 1: INTRIGUING WORLD: The two scouts are members of The Do-Wells, an Intelligence Gathering organization.

Intrigue 2: HIDDEN AGENDA: The scouts hitch the horses behind the Center and enter through the back gates.

Intrigue 3: DANGER: Hu connects with another job seeker on the long vehicle.

Intrigue 4: HIDDEN AGENDA: Hu fights the other job seeker.

Intrigue 5: HIDDEN LAYER: The manager tells the gathering he has few jobs for the many.

Intrigue 6: CONSPIRACY: Scouts at the center with the Kingfisher drone.

(Strong Turning Point: Hu gets the opportunity of the day. He will not go home empty-handed. He must fight and win. Hu must pay property tax to cover his mother, grandmother, four female teenage cousins still schooling, and himself. His only male cousin is sixteen and joined the Military cadet for Bad Boys Company. He can’t return home empty-handed. Job seekers have filled the positions on the nine remaining vehicles. Others needed to be luckier to connect.)

Act 3

Turning Point: AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s arena: The Essel Poles cauldron.

Intrigue 1:

Intrigue 2:

Intrigue 3:

Intrigue 4:

Intrigue 5:

Act 4

Turning Point: The Supervisor calls for added truck and neb to get flour while stocks last.

Intrigue 1:

Intrigue 2:

Intrigue 3:

Intrigue 4:

Intrigue 5:

Act 5

Turning Point: Hu and Ishey have no work to go to –Hu’s worst fears.

Intrigue 1:

Intrigue 2:

Intrigue 3:

Intrigue 4:

Intrigue 5:

3. Select the ideas you like and add them to your growing outline.

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MOD 3 – LESSON 6: STACKING INTRIGUE

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Make a list of your Turning Points.

Act 1

Turning Point: Hu’s mother barges into the compound/yard to say grandmother’s malaria has worsened. Hu’s need for money is even greater.

Act 2

Turning Point: Hu leaps onto the flat-topped long vehicle and connects with another job seeker for the sixth position.

Midpoint: The two scouts capture the fight with their riding hats.

Act 3

Turning Point: AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s arena: The Essel Poles cauldron.

Act 4

Turning Point: The Supervisor calls for added truck and neb to get flour while stocks last.

Act 5

Turning Point: Hu and Ishey have no work to go to –Hu’s worst fears.

2. Before each Turning Point, brainstorm ways to create intrigue for the Turning Point. Give us the TECHNIQUE and one sentence that tells how you’ll create intrigue for the Turning Point.

Use these intrigue techniques to brainstorm:

Intriguing World:

Intrigue:

Mystery:

Secret:
Deception:

Conspiracy:

Secret Identity:

Wound:

Hidden Agenda:

Hidden Layer:

Strange Behavior:

Accusation:

Act 1 Turning Point:

Act 1

Turning Point: Hu’s mother barges into the compound/yard to say grandmother’s malaria has worsened. Hu’s need for money is even greater.

Intrigue 1: <b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Mystery: Hu enters the family house compound and stops by the Carpenter’s big wooden workbench. He sees his grandfather sawing a fresh Wawa board. Who is he? What is he up to? What happened to him? Why is Hu imagining him?

Intrigue 2: <b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Hidden layer: Hu’s thirteen-year-old female cousin blurts out. My champion is here. We will never go hungry. Champion of what? Money, survival?

Intrigue 3: <b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Secret: the cousin knows that come what may his champion will win at every game and come home with cash.

Intrigue 4: <b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Wound: His father died when Hu<b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”> was sixteen. Could he have prolonged his father’s life? Why should he discontinue his schooling? Could he combine finding the money to handle the extended family and school together?

Intrigue 5: <b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Mystery: His eldest Aunt says he must be one of the lucky ones to get a job at the Center. What goes on at the Center? Why does he need luck daily to get a job there?

TURNING POINT: When his mother barges into the compound where he works out (fitness), Hu has no idea why she had come and what she wanted to say to him. He was yet to step into the sick grandmother’s bedroom to find out how she was doing this morning.

Act 2

Turning Point: Hu leaps onto the flat-topped long vehicle and connects with another job seeker for the sixth position.

Midpoint: The two scouts capture the fight with their riding hats.

Intrigue 1: INTRIGUING WORLD: The two
scouts are members of The Do-Wells, an Intelligence Gathering organization.

Intrigue 2: HIDDEN AGENDA: The scouts
hitch the horses behind the Center and enter through the back gates.

Intrigue 3: HIDDEN AGENDA:<b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”> Hu<b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”> fights the other job seeker for the sixth position.

Intrigue 4: HIDDEN LAYER: The manager of the Coop Distribution Association tells the gathering he has few jobs for the many.

Intrigue 5: CONSPIRACY: The two scouts are at the center with a Kingfisher drone.

Act 3

Turning Point: AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s arena: The Essel Poles cauldron.

Intrigue 1:

Intrigue 2:

Intrigue 3:

Intrigue 4:

Intrigue 5:

Act 4

Turning Point: The Supervisor calls for added vehicles and men to get flour while stocks last.

Intrigue 1:

Intrigue 2:

Intrigue 3:

Intrigue 4:

Intrigue 5:

Act 5

Turning Point: Hu and Ishey have no work to go to –Hu’s worst fears.

Intrigue 1:

Intrigue 2:

Intrigue 3:

Intrigue 4:

Intrigue 5:

3. Select the ideas you like and add them to your growing outline.

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MOD 3 – LESSON 5: LAYERS AND REVEALS

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Assuming that you can build one or more of these into each Act, list the Layers and Reveals that could fit into each act of the Pilot.

Act 1

Surface: Hu handles his extended family.

Layer Beneath: His aunt asks for his and
his grandmother’s share of the property tax.

How revealed: His mother barges in to say
grandmother’s malaria worsens.

Act 2:

Surface: Hu is a flour loader.

Layer Beneath: He is an expert boxer.

How Revealed: He fights another job seeker, and both show their rare abilities and fighter skills.

Surface: Two female horseriders hitch horses behind the Center and enter

Layer Beneath: They are scouts seeking talents to recruit covertly.

How Revealed: The risers capture the fight with riding hat cameras built into the crest.

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<b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Surface:

A. All eyes are on the Manager.

B. The referee’s whistle dangled around his neck.

C. Everyone waits for him to lift his whistle.

Layer Beneath:

No one has set eyes on the supervisor who has a similar whistle.

How revealed:

The shrill resonates from the supervisor’s Potakabin.

Act 3:

Surface: AC gets orders to help Loveday scout for talents at the Center.

Layer Beneath: AC and Loveday are Master Spies, Kung Fu champions, and the President and Second-In-Command of The Do-Wells organization.

How Revealed: AC announces The Do-Wells Annual contests are coming up in December. The BOXER contest takes up the last three days. Members must enter and win the contest before induction into The Do-Wells organization as Master spies.

Act 4:

Surface: Loveday

Layer Beneath:

How revealed:

Act 5:

Surface: Wheat shortage is real.

Layer Beneath: The government needs money to import wheat

How revealed: Hu has no job to go to at the Center.

Act 1

Surface: Hu handles his extended family.

Layer Beneath: His aunt asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the property tax.

How revealed: His mother barges in to say grandmother’s malaria worsens.

Essence:

Brader Hu is a flour loader who handles his extended family and enters his family house to find a sticker asking for unpaid property tax. His aunt asks for his share of the tax. He promises to pay when he returns from the center.

His mother barges into the yard
where he does his workouts to say grandmother’s malaria has worsened. Hu’s need for money is even
greater.

(ISHEY-OPENING): A school leaver who wants to pursue a career and start an adult and family life. He asks Hu for a job.

(ISHEY TURNING POINT):

Act 2:

Surface: Hu is a flour loader.

Layer Beneath: He is a Kung Fu buff/expert.

How Revealed: He fights with another job seeker, and both show their rare fighting skills.

Essence: Loveday and AC represent The Do-Wells organization. They are at the Center scouting covertly to recruit talents.

For punishment, Loveday gets orders to scout at the Center for talents to recruit. AC gets orders to help Loveday—AC talks of retiring when her term ends and starting married life.

The female scouts ride eight miles, hitch their horses behind the Center, and enter through the back gates.

The scouts hear the shrill whistle and turn around to look at what’s going on—the gathering sprints toward the sleeping long vehicles on the street below.

The lucky six men leap onto the vehicles and seize positions. AC sees Hu leaps onto the flat-topped vehicle and connects with another job seeker for the sixth position. He is a Kung Fu buff/expert. Hu fights with another job seeker, showing their rare fighting skills.

(ISHEY – TURNING POINT 1):

(LOVEDAY MIDPOINT)

TURNING POINT/MIDPOINT:

Act 3:

Surface: AC gets orders to help Loveday scout for talents at the Center.

Layer Beneath: AC is a Master Spy, Kung Fu champion, and the President of The Do-Wells organization

How Revealed: AC announces The Do-Wells Annual contests are coming up in December. The Kung Fu contest takes up the last three days. Members must enter and win the contest before induction into The Do-Wells organization as Master spies.

Essence:

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT)

(ISHEY – DELIMMA)

(HU – MIDPOINT)

(ISHEY – MIDPOINT)

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT 2 / HU – TURNING POINT 2)

(ISHEY – TURNING POINT 2)

(LOVEDAY – DELIMMA)

(HU – DELIMMA)

(ISHEY – MAJOR CONFLICT)

TURNING POINT:

Act 4:

Surface: Loveday

Layer Beneath:

How revealed:

Essence:

(HU – MAJOR CONFLICT)

(ISHEY – MAJOR CONFLICT)

(LOVEDAY – ENDING)

TURNING POINT:

Act 5:

Surface: Wheat shortage is real.

Layer Beneath: The government needs money to import wheat

How revealed: Hu has no job to go to at the Center.

Essence:

(Hu – ENDING):

(ISHEY – ENDING):

Lock In:

2. Look through your current outline and find opportunities for Layers and Reveals, either in the plot, situation, or characters.

Act 1:

Essence:

A flour loader who handles his extended family enters his family house to find a sticker asking for unpaid property tax. His aunt asks for his share of the tax, and he promises to pay when he returns from the center.

(HU -TURNING POINT): His mother barges in the yard
while doing workouts to say grandmother’s malaria has worsened. Hu’s need for money is even
greater.

(ISHEY-OPENING): A school leaver who wants to pursue a career and start an adult and family life. He asks Hu for a job.

(ISHEY TURNING POINT):

Act 2:

Essence: Loveday and AC represent The Do-Wells organization. They are at the Center scouting to recruit talents.

(AC-OPENING): AC talks of retiring when her term ends and starting married life.

(LOVEDAY -OPENING): The female scouts are at the Center to covertly scout for talents and hire them.

(HU- TURNING POINT 1): Hu jumps unto the flat-topped vehicle and ties in with another job seeker for the sixth position.

(ISHEY – TURNING POINT 1):

(LOVEDAY MIDPOINT)

TURNING POINT/MIDPOINT:

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<strong style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Act 3:

Essence:

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT)

(ISHEY – DELIMMA)

(HU – MIDPOINT)

(ISHEY – MIDPOINT)

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT 2 / HU – TURNING POINT 2)

(ISHEY – TURNING POINT 2)

(LOVEDAY – DELIMMA)

(HU – DELIMMA)

(ISHEY – MAJOR CONFLICT)

TURNING POINT:

Act 4:

Essence:

(HU – MAJOR CONFLICT)

(ISHEY – MAJOR CONFLICT)

(LOVEDAY – ENDING)

TURNING POINT:

Act 5:

Essence:

(Hu – ENDING):

(ISHEY – ENDING):

Lock In:

3. Add those Layers and Reveals to the current version of your Pilot Outline.

4. Tell us which Layers, Cover Ups, and Reveals you’ve added to the outline.

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MOD 3 – LESSON 4: CHARACTER STORY
LINES

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Start with a main character and your source material: Binge Worthy Framework and TV Pitch Bible.

2. Create a beginning, middle, and end of the character’s story for the Pilot.

BRADER HU’S STORYLINE

CHARACTER ARC:

A dutiful son who goes to work at the Center to support his extended family and faces the job vanishing.

Act 1

Essence:

A flour loader who handles his extended family.

BEGINNING:

Weekday. Hu scrutinizes the inoperative International Trade Fair Center (now a National Food Depot) for work.

MIDDLE:

He makes his way into his house to find a warning sticker.

DILEMMA:

As he undertakes the day’s workouts, his aunty requests his contribution to the property tax. He promises to pay up when he returns from the Center.

TURNING POINT 1:

His mother strides into the yard to say his grandmother’s malaria is worsening.

He heads to the Center’s Cooperative Flour Distribution Association office to look for a job as a flour loader. They ask for no paper qualifications but what you can do. Hu sprint two hundred yards and leaps onto the long flat-topped vehicle. He connects with another job seeker for the sixth position.

DILEMMA:

Go back home empty-handed and face his sick grandmother or clash with the person standing before him for the chance.

MIDPOINT:

He contends it out with the opponent who strikes first.

At the Flour Mills, a day shift supervisor tells Hu the Mill is running short of wheat. He says the current government needs to secure funding to continue importing wheat.

The next day, the manager says he is rationing the number of trips each vehicle can make to the loading bay.

TURNING POINT 2:

Hu’s team makes diminishing trips to the loading bay and makes less money.

MAJOR CONFLICT:

Hu and Ishey compete in two hundred yards sprints to secure the job/ places on along vehicle. Hu connects with another prospector for the sixth place and they fight it out to determine the winner. Hu labor with all thy might on an unfilled stomach. Generate money home to provide for granny, two aunties, four girls cousins, and mother. Realize the current government needs to secure funds to pay for wheat importation.

DILEMMA:

No job, lost the trust of family, sleeps in the Den. Hu must determine when and how the next wages will come from. Hu is desperate to find a job to provide for the family.

ENDING:

The job dries away and Hu has no job to go to at the Center.

3. Add the rest of the structure to the characters for the Pilot.

ISHEY GARFUNK’s STORYLINE

BEGINNING:

A school leaver who wants to pursue a career, and start an adult and family life.

MIDDLE:

He cannot find a job after one week. He meets Hu in the Cinema coming attraction lobby and inquiries about a job.

Hu replies that he should meet him in the immense car park in front of the Center at sunrise.

TURNING POINT:

Ishey does not ask what type of work he will be doing.

Hu says Ishey should find his own PPE, preferably trousers that won’t give way behind when the legs are stretched and non-stick tops.

DILEMMA:

No one told him about the supervisor blowing a whistle.

He sprints two hundred yards. And assumes Hu is behind running to the same vehicle as him.

MIDPOINT:

Secures the fourth position on the same vehicle as Hu. Surprised and excited about Hu’s fighting skills.

TURNING POINT:

MAJOR CONFLICT:

Turns out Ishey flops his GCE Examination out of high fertility disorder.

The scouts are on the first floor of the Administration block watching the events below.

Ishey impress their driver to await the results of the fight. Time is ticking. Ishey extend a helping hand to Hu to board the vehicle.

On the trip, Ishey is determined to follow through with what lies ahead.

END:

The job dries away and he has no job to go to at the Center.

LOVEDAY SEBASTIAN STORYLINE

BEGINNING:

She is a Master Spy, Kung Fu superstar, and the Second-In-Command of The Do-Wells Organization on a mission to capture three militants in the populace.

MIDDLE:

She fails her mission because one militant is killed. For her punishment, (retired Lt. Col.) Frank, her father orders her on a covert mission to scout for talent at the Center and recruit.

Three Agents of the organization were killed in Algeria and Yemen. They are not easy to replace.

TURNING POINT:

Before sunrise, Loveday and helper, AC ride eight miles through the forest and hitch behind the Center, and enter through the back gates.

MAJOR CONFLICT:

She suggests they stroll to the Foreign Exchange shop on the first floor of the Administrative block. She is thirsty.

TURNING POINT 2:

They hear the shrill of the whistle and turn to look. A heated sprint towards the long vehicles parked further away and cheats among them.

The scouts press the crest on the helmet they are wearing and the CAMERAS capture the event.

MIDPOINT:

They witness Hu and another job seeker fight and become excited about the rare fighting skills.

DILEMMA:

Loveday assumes they are in for luck. AC tells Loveday to finish setting up the Kingfisher drone. They discover the vehicles allow a maximum of six men on board.

Loveday chooses to track Hu and launches the drone.

Riding back later, she reports that she has found the man of her dreams. She will issue her own orders.

Late that night, Hu’s truck returns to the Center to drop off Hu and the rest. Loveday, waiting on a car bonnet not far from them, reaches up to recover her drone.

Frank is home to review Loveday’s report. She tells him of the email she sent to the Convener of Contests asking for a place for Hu in the Kung Fu tournament. Her goal is to feature her new discovery, Hu, in the Contest. She believes he can win and then pair up with her to do one job no one is taking:

An oil minister in Brunei steals $8.9bn of oil money and seeks asylum in Cuba. Apart from police protection, teams of Kung Fu experts guard him. The Sultan of Brunei wants him captured and brought alive to face his people. This job is important to Loveday because it will raise the tally of her mission successes and make a cool $1bn income for the organization.

Loveday believes that will promote her to The Presidency when AC steps down. Frank wants Hu’s ability to fight seriously tested, and if he wins the Kung Fu tournament, Hu must train as a Master spy before Frank considers pairing him up with his daughter.

Her problem is that Contestants must be serving members to gain registration.

END:

Loveday asks Frank if he will ask for special eligibility for Hu.

AC

BEGIN:

AC gets orders to help Loveday

MIDDLE: AC announces The Do-Wells Annual Contest is coming up in December. The BOXER tournament will take up the final three days. Members must enter and win this event before induction into The Do-Wells as Master Spies. The prize is six million dollars.

END:

AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s Arena: The Essel Poles cauldron. This is a 144-pole formation hanging above a bar lattice mounted over a bottomless pit of burning fire.

4. Return to another main character and repeat the process.

5. Create the first version of your outline by adding the character storylines to the structure from Lesson 3. (OZARK Example Below)

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

THE DO WELLS – FIRST DRAFT

OUTLINE

Act 1:

THE DO WELLS – FIRST DRAFT

OUTLINE

Act 1:

BRADER HU, a flour loader who handles his extended family, finds a final warning sticker asking the Hus to pay property tax or face an auction. His Aunt asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the property tax. He promises to pay up when he returns from the Center. His mother barges into the yard to say grandmother’s
malaria is worsening. The need for money
is even greater.

(ISHEY-OPENING): A school leaver who wants to pursue a career and start an adult and family life. He asks Hu for a job.

(ISHEY TURNING POINT):

Act 2:

Two female riders hitch their horses behind the Center and enter through the back gates.

They are The Do-Wells scouts covertly recruiting talents. They walk into a large gathering of men on the street ahead. An A-signboard on Kerbing advertises Loaders for Hire.

Hu meets Ishey in the big car park at the front and enters the Center.

Hu and Ishey arrive at the Coop offices, where the Manager hires men to offload flour. With a referee’s whistle around his neck, the manager wants a workforce and not paper qualifications. He has few jobs for the many on ten long vehicles sleeping two hundred yards distant. To qualify, job seekers must race to secure six positions on each vehicle.

His supervisor carries a similar whistle. It has yet to be determined when he will blow the whistle for the race to start. The shrill comes from the supervisor’s whistle.

Hu joins the race and leaps onto the vehicle.

(ISHEY – TURNING POINT 1):

He connects with another aspirant for the sixth position.

Relinquish the position? Return home empty-handed and face his sick grandmother or clash with the person standing before him for the chance.

He contends with the opponent who strikes first.

MIDPOINT: Two talent scouts capture the fight on their cameras built in the crest of each riding hat.

Hu begins his journey to become a successful Master spy in Africa.

Act 3:

Hu is pressured to win the fight and get on board the departing vehicle. The scouts are under pressure to track Hu. With the uncertainty and fears, let us see the deeper layers of the characters, weaknesses, and strengths of Hu, Loveday, and AC.

IMPOSSIBLE GOAL: Introduce/ Present the Impossible Goal

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT)

(ISHEY – DELIMMA)

(HU – MIDPOINT)

(ISHEY – MIDPOINT)

(LOVEDAY – TURNING POINT 2 / HU – TURNING POINT 2)

(ISHEY – TURNING POINT 2)

(LOVEDAY – DELIMMA)

(HU – DELIMMA)

(ISHEY – MAJOR CONFLICT)

TURNING POINT:

Act 4:

Essence:

Major complications for Hu. The rationing of daily trips to the loading bay. Mills run short of wheat. An effort to resolve the wheat shortage worsens the situation. Hu’s plans fail as he takes less money. AC. Loveday is making a significant change outside The Do-Wells regulation. Her life has gone in an unexpected direction. She is making mistakes. New plans lead to worse results.

(HU – MAJOR CONFLICT)

(ISHEY – MAJOR CONFLICT)

(LOVEDAY – ENDING)

TURNING POINT 1: A Production supervisor tells Hu the Mill is running short of wheat.

TURNING POINT 2:

Hu’s team makes diminishing trips to the loading bay and takes home less money.

MYSTERY 2: Introduce MYSTERY 2 – How will Hu and Ishey reach the goal with Hu’s unaddressed hernia? Where will they get funding?

END:

The Flour Mill runs out of wheat and stops production.

Act 5:

Essence:

Realize the current Government needs to secure funds to pay for wheat importation.

DILEMMA:

Hu must determine when and how the next wages will come from.

(HU/ISHEY – ENDING):

The jobs dry away, and the Coop Flour Distribution Association closes offices.

LOCK IN:

The Flour Mill runs out of wheat and stops production. The Government needs Foreign Exchange to import wheat in the next six months. The Coop Flour Distribution Association closes offices. Hu and Ishey need a job to go to at the Center. Hu must cater to the family and look for work that hardly exists. Loveday will approach him cold.

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I have posted my assignment for Lesson 3.

Act 2

Before the end of Act 2, I introduce the intriguing world of The Do-Wells with two female scouts.

Then I get to the MIDPOINT where the Main Character fights another Job Seeker to clarify whose wins the sixth position. The two scouts capture the fight.

When I get the Act 3, I introduce the Impossible goal. Then the plot begins to act on the main character.

Question: The two female scouts are also main characters. Are they wrong to have taken over the story in Acts 3, 4, and 5?

In the Teaser the mystery is the death of three Master Spies. They are difficult to replace that is why Frank sent the scouts to look for talents.

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MOD 3 – LESSON 3: CREATING YOUR PILOT
STRUCTURE

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Present the first draft of your pilot Acts.

Teaser:

Essence:

The Do-Wells takes three seconds to capture four militants hiding among the populace. Loveday Sebastian busts the front door down and enters, meeting a ferocious knife attack and gunfire from her enemies.

Loveday defends herself, attacks and floors the suspect in seconds for TeamLOVEDAY. They kill the gunman who tries to escape.

Team AC captures their suspects. The Do-Wells emphasizes team spirit and is one powerful organization today.

Jennifer Sebastian documents their times and declares this mission a success. They return to base early in the morning.

Loveday fails the assignment — capture the militants alive — because one dies. She has trouble following orders, preferring to do it her way. Lt. Col. Frank Sebastian, her father, reminds her that justice is not up to her discretion. Loveday contends the most important goal was to stop the targets, which she did. Frank states that this flaw of hers made her lose the Presidency to AC. She must learn to take orders as given.

Turning Point: Loveday receives orders from Frank to scout for talent at the Center and recruits a handful of spies, as three have recently died in Algeria and Yemen. A C gets orders to help her.

Act 1:

Essence:

Hu is a flour Loader who handles his extended family. When he returns from work, he promises to pay his and his grandmother’s share of unpaid property tax. His mother barges into
the yard to say grandmother’s malaria is worsening.

Turning Point:

The need for money is even greater.

Act 2:

Essence:

Hu arrives at the offices, where the manager hires men to offload flour. He has few jobs for the many and wants six men on each of ten long vehicles sleeping two hundred yards distant. To qualify, job seekers must race to secure positions on them. No one can tell when the whistle will go.

Turning Point: Hu connects with another job seeker for the sixth position and fights on top of the long vehicle.

Midpoint: Two female scouts capture the event on their riding hat cameras.

Act 3:

Essence:

Loveday’s interest in Hu piques. Hu stops fighting and makes it onboard his vehicle, last departing. She launches the Kingfisher drone to keep track.

Riding back, she reports she found the man of her dreams. She will issue her orders.

Eighteen miles away at the Flour Mill, Hu and Ishey’s vehicle reverses into a loading bay. And is filled by the boarding team. Hu discovers from the Flour Mills Production Supervisor the Mill is running low on wheat.

Hu buys a meager meal at the Mills canteen and saves the exact amount for a Cameo Cinema ticket. Ishey, Hu, and the workers team up again to travel around neighboring towns and cities, dealing out the flour load for compensation.

At a press conference, AC announced The Do-Wells Annual Contest is coming up in December. The Kung Fu tournament takes up the last three days. Members must enter and win this event before induction into the organization as Master Spies. The prize is six million dollars.

At headquarters, agents are wagering on possible entrants to the contests and voting on choices for the Arena, which is technologically heightened each year as an added challenge to entrants.

AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s Arena: The Essel Poles cauldron. This is a 144-pole formation hanging above a bar lattice mounted over a bottomless pit of burning fire.

Turning Point:

Hu’s ratings are soaring; everybody likes his earlier display.

Act 4:

Essence:

Late that night, Hu’s vehicle returns to the Center to drop off Hu, Ishey, and the rest. Loveday, waiting on a car bonnet not far from them, reaches up to recover her drone.

Frank is home to review Loveday’s report. She tells him of the email she sent to the Convener of Contests asking for a place for Hu in the Kung Fu tournament. Her goal is to feature her discovery, Hu, in the Contest. She believes he can win and then pair up with her to do one job no one is taking:

An oil minister in Brunei steals $8.9bn of oil money and seeks asylum in Cuba. Apart from police protection, teams of Kung Fu experts guard him. The Sultan of Brunei wants him captured and brought alive to face his people. This job is vital to Loveday because it will raise the tally of her mission successes and make an incredible $1bn income for the organization.

Loveday believes that will promote her to The Presidency when AC steps down. Frank wants Hu’s ability to fight seriously tested, and if he wins the Kung Fu tournament, Hu must train as a Master Spy before Frank considers pairing him up with his daughter.

Her problem is that Contestants must be serving members to gain registration. Loveday asks Frank if he will ask for special eligibility for Hu.

Back at home, Hu finds his mother and grandmother still awake and hungry. They assume Hu’s found a new woman and has spent all of his money on her. They talk of their readiness to negotiate with her to stop them from starving. Hu goes to sleep in the communal Den where transient workers sleep, leaving no space for Hu. Hu prays and sleeps, standing.

Hours later, a thunderstorm floods the Den with one inch of water. The roof leaks in several places, and water drips on Hu, soaking him. The squatters share the few remaining dry spaces.

When the trucks are gone, the Supervisor lies back to read newspapers whose headlines point to the government’s inability to pay for wheat imports. The shortage is a real threat.

Turning Point:

Quickly, the Supervisor calls for added trucks and men to get more flour while stocks last.

Act 5:

Essence:

Loveday reads the same headlines in news feeds on her computer and later talks to Maria, The Do-Wells’ best driver, working on a psychological profile on Hu. They discuss their following line of action – a cold approach. Loveday gauges Hu’s interest in spying.

The next day, the manager rations the trips each vehicle makes to the loading bay by day. Hu’s team makes diminishing trips to the loading bay and makes less money.

One week later, the flour Mill ran out of wheat and stopped production. He depends on himself and hates asking for help;
he discontinued his schooling after his Dad and Grandpa died. Because no one could pay for his schooling, he opted to work to support the extended family.

Turning Point:

Hu and Ishey have no work to go to – Hu’s worst fear.

Lock In: The flour Mill runs out of wheat and stops production. The government needs money to import wheat in one year. The Coop offices close down. The job dries away at the center. All other jobs at the center are secured. Hu must cater to the family. Loveday will approach him coldly. What are Hu and Ishey going to do?

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MODULE 3 – LESSON 2: PILOT AS
INCREDIBLE INCITING INCIDENT!

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. What is the “Inciting Incident” of your series that this Pilot needs to deliver powerfully?

Inciting Incident:

Hu connects with another job seeker for the sixth position on top of a long vehicle. He is desperate not to go home empty-handed and as he fights his opponent to keep the position, two talent scouts capture the event on their riding hat cameras.

2. Give us the main beats of that Inciting Incident:

Intriguing Concept:

Hu is going to become the most successful Spymaster in The Do-Wells organization.

A flour loader who is pushed into a plot Testing his readiness to fight using surprise and is entered into The Do-Wells Annual Kung Fu contest.

Act 1:

Hu is a flour Loader and dutiful oldest son who handles his extended family. His Aunt asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the unpaid property tax. He says he will pay up when he returns from work. When his mother barges in to say grandmother’s malaria worsens, the need for money is even greater.

Midpoint:

Hu connects with another job seeker on top of a long vehicle at the Center. He is desperate not to go home empty-handed. A fight ensues with neither man backing down. Two talent scouts capture the event with their riding hat cameras.

Lock In:

The mill runs out of wheat. The regime cannot find Foreign Exchange to import wheat. The job at the center dries away. Loveday will approach him cold. Hu must cater to the family and must look for work that hardly exists.

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MODULE 3 – LESSON 1: PILOT BIG PICTURE COMPONENTS

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

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ASSIGNMENT

1. Give us the basic Series Info:

SERIES INFORMATION: THE DO WELLS

World: The deregulated Intelligence gathering world of The Do-Wells/ The perilous world of Intelligence gathering. / The
world of Intelligence gathering of The Do-Wells. / The world of recruiting
for The Do-Wells Organization.

Main mystery: The Origins of
The Do-Wells.

Impossible Goal:
Win
the $6 million dollar Kung Fu contest

Main Conflict: Hu must win the fight for the sixth position. / The extended
family won’t accept failure to come home with cash. / Hu needs to
win the contest to provide for the family and himself. / Hu must win the contest to get hired by The Do-Wells Organization. / Chopstones, Entrants of
the contest, will not permit Hu to win.

Second Mystery: How are Ishey
and Hu going to reach the goal with the unaddressed hernia? Where is Hu going to get the money to finance/train/prepare himself now he is
an entrant?

Season 1 Arc: From the entire flour
jobs drying away and winning the contest and the need to cash the cheque. Ishey leaves the city to seek opportunities in Black Gold land.

Season 1
Protagonist Internal Journey: From handling the extended family to wooing AC as his girlfriend.

2. Tell us the basic Pilot Information:

PILOT INFORMATION: THE DO WELLS

Pilot Conflict: Hu fights another job applicant for the sixth position and two talent scouts capture the event on their riding hat CAMERAS.

Main Characters
Introduced: Brader
Hu, Ishey Garfunk, Loveday Sebastian, AC, Job Seekers.

Inciting
Incident of Season 1: Hu enters the Kung Fu Contest to win
the six million dollar prize.

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Module 2 – Lesson 10: Riveting
Episode Titles

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Do a quick brainstorming session for each of your episodes and seasons. Use the Title Formats to do it.

SEASON 1

DESCRIPTION:

How does an overlooked Kung Fu buff win millions without getting killed?

When his father died suddenly when Brader Hu was sixteen, he left the extended family for him to care for and to find money Hu patronizes the Trade fair center on weekdays to look for jobs.

One day he tied with another job seeker for sixth place on board a long vehicle, fought and defeated him. Two Talent scouts covertly discerned his Kung Fu skills and later followed with a cold approach……

Season 1:

Conflict: Do Well

Journey: Enter The Do-Wells

Dilemma: I or No one

Issues faced: Join

Irony: Die and let live

Hero’s
challenging situation: Win Trying

Threat to hero: Pit of fire

Discovery: Carpenter’s Fist

Metaphor: Fighting Chopstones

Season 2:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Season 3:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:
Issue faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Season 4:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Season 5:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issue faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:
Metaphor:

Episodes 1:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issue faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 2:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 3:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 4:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 5:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 6:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 7:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 8:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 9:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 10:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 11:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 12:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

Episodes 13:

Conflict:

Journey:

Dilemma:

Issues faced:

Irony:

Hero’s challenging situation:

Threat to hero:

Discovery:

Metaphor:

2. Select the titles that stand out, but be open to even better ideas in the future.

Season 1 – The Do Wells

Season 2 –

Season 3 –

Season 4 –

Season 5 –

Season 6 –

Episodes 1-

Episodes 2 –

Episodes 3 –

Episodes 4 –

Episodes 5-

Episodes 6-

Episodes 7-

Episodes 8 –

Episodes 9-

Episodes 10-

Episodes 11-

Episodes12 –

Episodes 13-

3. Sequence the titles so you can see what story they tell. Replace any titles that create genre confusion.

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 9: MAKE EVERY LINE
INTRIGUING!

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

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ASSIGNMENT

Using Intrigue Patterns, elevate as many lines in your bible as you can.

1. Pull out your TV Pitch Bible. Read through it and highlight any paragraphs that need more interest or that you would like to be even more intriguing.

2. Check the Setups/Payoffs and brainstorm possible replacement lines.

3. Rewrite any parts you feel could be improved.

4. Tell us what this has done for your TV Pitch Bible.

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

BY THE EVENING FIRE Serial TV Show

contents

SEASON 1 – THE DO WELLS (Also a Show that can reach five seasons)

SEASON 2 – BLACK GOLD (Also a Show that reaches five seasons)

SEASON 3 – MONEY COUNTERS (Also a Show that reaches five seasons)

SEASON 4 – LEAVE SURFACE (Also a Show that reaches five seasons)

SEASON 5 – JOYSTICK ROV (Also a Show that reaches 5 seasons)

SEASON 6 – OLD TOMS (Also a Show that reaches 5 seasons)

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 8: WRITING WITH
INTRIGUE!

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

Using Intrigue Patterns, describe some aspect of your story or characters.

Brader Hu, a Kung Fu buff discovered at the Trade Fair Center during a covert mission by two female scouts to recruit Talents, falls in love with AC.

And Loveday becomes jealous and convinces herself Hu is working for a rival Organization. A visit by Ishey to Hu at the workplace raises many questions.

As the love relationship deepens, Loveday pursues Hu to visit her at the headquarters when AC had traveled outside the country. Has Ishey sent Hu to infiltrate The Do-Wells?

How reliable is Loveday’s version as she has fallen for Hu? What begins as visiting Loveday at the Headquarters turns out to be a Test of Hu, using surprise.

Loveday knows if Hu won’t change his mind her plan will be to kill him.

1. Pull out your TV Pitch Bible. Read through it and find ONE line you would like to be more intriguing.

2. Rethink that line using ALL of these patterns, as I did above:

A. Establish something shocking and point to the terrible things it could mean. All Hu wanted was a chance to take care of his ailing grandmother and mothers. And he found odd jobs at the Trade Fair Center that were never guaranteed. But the inciting incident on the long vehicle change that morning changed everything, his destiny.

B. Strong statement; question about something underhanded beneath the surface. Hu is the eldest born in the extended family and the sole son of his mother, the breadwinner of his four female cousins still in middle school. It is not a rumor that there is no welfare state.

C. Question that points to hidden agendas, hidden identity, conspiracy, etc. Coming straight from the Center, Hu does an unemployed find the money to take care of the mothers and the extended family?

D. Character 1 is convinced/worried/wondering that Character 2 has done _____________.

Hu’s aunty asks for his and the grandmother’s share of the property tax or faces action and she worries he wouldn’t be able to pay unless he is one of the lucky few who gets the work there.

E. But maybe it is all wrong. The two scouts admired Hu and the fighting art. But something seems wrong. The grandfather who taught Hu died long ago. Whatever happens Hu would need a Coach /Trainer.

F. A Pattern that Leads to Future Consequences.

All The Do-Wells ‘ordinary’ members turned their eyes on Hu when they saw his first fight on the long vehicle played out to them. But where will all this lead to?

G. If he does ________________, that means ___Intrigue_____.

Just because Brader Hu came forward and wooed AC, The President of The Do-Wells doesn’t mean he belongs to a rival Organization.

H. State the mystery.

How does a Kung Fu buff with no connections ever come forward to woo The President of the Do-Wells? And who is that friend/contact he goes out with?

I. Should be/could be _______, but it is even worse.

It could be an African Kung Fu story that Hu is entered into The Do-Wells Annual Kung Fu Contest and he takes the fighting arts to the other entrants and fares better than the Chinese at their own game.

It could be an African love story, where Brader Hu woos The President of The Do-Wells, beds her and becomes jealous of her Second-in-command, Loveday. But his path here has been gruesome.

It could be an alliance story that Ishey trains/coaches Hu to win the six million dollars contest and fought on the one hundred and forty-four Poles cauldron.

J. Intense language. Hu went to the Trade Fair Center, fought to get his place on board a long vehicle, and worn the admiration of the two secret scouts who had come there to search for Talents.

But who did he beat on the vehicle? And now who owns him now he is on onboard the vehicle.

3. If you discover a more intriguing version of the line, replace the old one in the TV Pitch Bible.

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 6: OPENING SUMMARY
THAT SELLS THE SEASON

“What I
learned doing this assignment is

1. Choose the Summary Format you like best.

A. Pilot as Inciting Incident
B. Highlights of the Entire Season
C. Engage Us in the Main Mystery

Answer: Highlights of the Entire Season

2. Create an outline using this structure or something similar:

Season 1 – THE DO WELLS

(Setup)

School leaver (Expertise) Ishey Garfunk can’t find a job after the first week of completing his secondary education.

<b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>(Empathy/Distress) And his mother run a bakery at home. No one told him during the five years at Old Toms to see the bakery as a serious vocation. He dreamt of white and blue-collar jobs. His mother had ten mouths to feed and cloth. Ishey was son number nine looking for a job.

(Twist /Hook/Secret Identity) One night a meeting between him and a friend Brader Hu changed everything and his outlook on life.

Why night? It is because Ishey goes to watch film shows at Cameo cinema at the nearby Military barracks since 1970

Kung Fu buff (Expertise) Brader Hu faces life head-on like many and knows to take an opportunity when one strikes.

The odd jobs he endeavors to get daily are never specific and require strength and endurance. (Empathy/Distress) When the day closes, his wages vary as the teamleader negotiates the compensation package beforehand, and it is up to the customer who pays.

Hu, the only child, is the eldest in an extended family house of three sisters, supports his aged mother, ailing grandmother, and four girls, and gets little help from the sole male cousin.

(Twist /Hook/Secret Identity)One sunrise, a prospect presented itself that Hu noticed.

Why Sunrise? It is when Hu goes to the Trade Fair Center every weekday to look for jobs, and the exceptional Intelligence Organization sends two women on a covert mission.

One night after the film show, Ishey asked Hu for a job. Hu told Ishey to meet him for a job at the Ghana Trade Fair Site (GTF) the following morning.

Loveday Sebastian, Second-In-Command of The Do-Wells Organization, receives orders from Frank to scout for talent at the Trade Fair Center and recruits a handful of spies, as three have recently died in Algeria and Yemen. The President, AC, gets orders to help her. Hu loves attractive women.

The women know one of Ferdinand Chopstones’ loyal followers frequents the Center. Who is Chopstones?

The shrill referee’s whistle sound surprised the beauties off guard on the first floor of the Administrative block. They spurned around to see Hu and another job seeker involved in a proficient and delicate Kung Fu fight on one of the long vehicles parked on the streets.

That Talent is what the organization is looking for. The struggle was to secure eighth and final place…..

Loveday gauges Hu’s interest in spying and later talks to Maria, the best driver, working on a psychological profile of Hu. They discuss their following line of action – a cold approach.

(Mystery )Jealous, Loveday plans to test Hu’s readiness to fight using surprise.

But AC who knows nothing about the plot arrives at Headquarters and calls for the fight to stop. She lies, saying that she wants to stop the war because she disapproves of it as President when she’s just protecting her boyfriend.

Hu asks Coach Ishey Garfunk to train him.

AC takes Hu on tour of the Camp ending at Kung Fu Arenas 1 and 2 completed. At Arena 1, AC stops by the edge of the bottomless pit and turns to face Hu.

He slows down, learns from others, and starts to trust. He accepts help, he accepts love, and he admits he must leave the communal Den.

Chopstones kicks and stamps till the sweating Hu dangles on the one hand. AC hides her face. Close to death, Hu makes an effort by moving along the bar into the open, where Chopstones is waiting.

In the Control room, the Technician starts the Poles cauldron. One hundred and forty-four poles spread out above the bar lattice. Sixteen are false. No one has a clue what will send them to their deaths.

<b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;”>(Twist /Hook/Secret Identity) Hu collapses in the backseat. AC sees he is tired but later discovers it’s a severe medical problem and tells Maria to head to the doctor.

1. Set up — Character’s normal situation

2. Twist/Hook

3. Real situation – Major Empathy / Distress

4. Twist/Hook

5. Impossible to solve conflict or major mystery.

6. Final Hook into the Series – Extreme Dramatic Question

3. Turn it into a rough draft.

School leaver Ishey Garfunk can’t find a job after the first week. During his five years of secondary education, no one made him see the bakery as a serious vocation. he was made to dream of white and blue-collar jobs. His mother ran a bakery on the estate and had ten mouths to feed and cloth. Ishey was son number nine who went looking for a job when.

One night a meeting between him and a friend Brader Hu changed everything and his outlook on life.

It is because Ishey goes to watch film shows at the Cameo cinema at the nearby Military barracks since 1970

Kung Fu buff Brader Hu faces life head-on like many and knows to take an opportunity when one strike.

The odd jobs he endeavors to get daily are never specific and require strength and endurance. (Empathy/Distress) When the day closes, his wages vary as the teamleader negotiates the compensation package beforehand, and it is up to the customer who pays.

Hu, the only child, is the eldest in an extended family house of three sisters, supports his aged mother, ailing grandmother, and four girls, and gets little help from the sole male cousin.

One sunrise, a prospect presented itself that Hu noticed.

Why Sunrise? It is when Hu goes to the Trade Fair Center every weekday to look for jobs, and the exceptional Intelligence Organization sends two women on a covert mission.

One night after the film show, Ishey asked Hu for a job. Hu told Ishey to meet him for a job at the Ghana Trade Fair Site (GTF) the following morning.

Loveday Sebastian, Second-In-Command of The Do-Wells Organization, receives orders from Frank to scout for talent at the Trade Fair Center and recruits a handful of spies, as three have recently died in Algeria and Yemen. The President, AC, gets orders to help her. Hu loves attractive women.

The women know one of Ferdinand Chopstones’ loyal followers frequent the Center. Who is Chopstones?

The shrill referee’s whistle sound surprised the beauties off guard on the first floor of the Administrative block. They spurned around to see Hu and another job seeker involved in a proficient and delicate Kung Fu fight on one of the long vehicles parked on the streets.

That Talent is what the organization is looking for. The struggle was to secure eighth and final place…..

Loveday gauges Hu’s interest in spying and later talks to Maria, the best driver, working on a psychological profile of Hu. They discuss their following line of action – a cold approach.

(Secret Agenda/Deception) Jealous, Loveday plans to test Hu’s readiness to fight using surprise.

( Shocking Event/ Undeserved Misfortune) AC arrives at Headquarters, calling for the fight to stop. She lies, saying that she wants to stop the war because she disapproves of it as President when she’s just protecting her boyfriend. Hu asks Coach Ishey Garfunk to train him.

AC takes Hu on tour ending at Kung Fu Arenas 1 and 2 completed. At Arena 1, AC stops by the edge of the bottomless pit and turns to face Hu.

(Forced decision they will never take )

He slows down, learns from others, and starts to trust. He accepts help, he accepts love, and he admits he must leave the communal Den.

Chopstones kicks and stamps till the sweating Hu dangles on the one hand. AC hides her face. Close to death, Hu makes an effort by moving along the bar into the open, where Chopstones is waiting.

In the Control room, the Technician starts the Poles cauldron. 144 poles spread out above the bar lattice. Sixteen are false. No one has a clue what will send them to their deaths.

(Twist)

Hu collapses in the backseat. AC sees he is tired but later discovers it’s a severe medical problem and tells Maria to head to the doctor.

(Cliff hanger)

How would Brader Hu cash the cheque?

4. Return to your Binge Worthy Framework and add any of the key Binge Worthy components that will elevate the intrigue while working for the flow of the summary.

Engaging and Intriguing Character
Intriguing World
Empathy/Distress
Mystery
Layers
Open Loops
Conflict
Relationship Hooks
Irony

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 7: INVESTIGATING YOUR SHOW

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Do a complete investigation on your TV Pitch Bible to discover more depth, layers, and intrigue.

1. Starting with THE DO WELLS Binge-Worthy Framework and the current draft of the TV Pitch Bible, ASSUME there is something beneath the surface that you absolutely MUST discover.

SEASON 1 – THE DO WELLS

Characters – AC and Loveday Sebastian.

What is beneath these two Characters AC and Loveday?

They are core/founding members of The Do-Wells Organization. AC is the President of the Organization and Loveday is the Second-In-Command.

Situation – AC and Loveday’s presence at the Trade Fair Center.

What is beneath that?

Retired Lt. Colonel Frank Sebastian ordered her daughter Loveday to scout at the Trade Fair Center for a handful of talents, who could become spies as three of their members died in Algeria and Yemen. The mission is covert and AC should get orders to help her.

2. Investigate by picking situations and characters and asking:

SEASON 1 – THE DO WELLS

Situation – Jealous Loveday planned and is testing Hu’s readiness to fight using surprise. But AC arrives at the Headquarters and calls the fight to stop.

Tool 1: Dig: What is beneath that?

AC lies that she wants to stop the war because she disapproves of it as President when AC is just protecting her boyfriend Hu.

Tool 2: Extrapolate: If Loveday is jealous that Hu wooed AC, then she plots for their Kung Fu Champion to beat up Hu.

Tool 3: Wonder: What if Hu fought back and won’t take defeat and save himself? What if Loveday’s plot is best for Hu?

Tool 4: Backtrack: How could Hu’s test have happened?

Tool 5: Forecast: How could the fight get even worse?

3. Evaluate the possibilities and decide what you are going to use in the different parts of your TV Pitch Bible. Divide the answers into three categories:

Use in TV Pitch Bible.

Use in Episodes.

Don’t use.

4. For any parts where there is a substantial improvement, rewrite those parts of the TV Pitch Bible. Then, tell us what parts you changed and give a quick description of what you did.

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 5: ENGAGING EPISODE
DESCRIPTIONS

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Check the sequence of episodes you did in Lesson 4 and see if it flows well for you. Feel free to change the sequence in any way that you think might be better as you create the entire season of episode descriptions.

Season 1 – THE DO WELLS

Episode 1 – Ishey completes five years of secondary education at Old Toms.

After a film show, he meets Brader Hu late at night and asks for a job.

Ishey arrives at Trade fair Center to wait for Hu and the job.

Two women, AC and Loveday, come into the Center with their car and park.

*

*

*

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episodes 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 2 – BLACK GOLD

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 3– MONEY COUNTERS

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 4 – LEAVE SURFACE

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5-

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 5 – JOYSTICK ROV

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 6 – OLD TOMS

Episode 1 – Apps Advice

Ishey goes grocery shopping.

He meets former classmate Van Pee in the Supermarket.

Van invites Ishey to join Old Toms group and give them eighty pounds. He told Ishey to send the money through him.

Ishey resent the ask for lousy governance and was deeply infuriated.

At home, Ishey talks to his wife about financial difficulties and what Pee asked for.

Ishey changes his mind avoids Pee, and boycotts the group.

Facebook recommends Frank Bibio as a friend to Ishey, and since they are classmates he accepts.

Ishey and Frank switch communication from Facebook to WhatsApp.

Later, Frank sends WhatsApp advice and attachment to Ishey.

What is in the attachment that Ishey needs to see?

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 –

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

2. For each episode, go through the event bullet points and organize them in this fashion.

Season 1 – THE DO WELLS

Episode 1 – TALENT HUNT

Ishey completes five years of secondary education at Old Toms.

After a film show, he meets Brader Hu late at night and asks for a job.

Ishey arrives at Trade fair Center to wait for Hu and the job.

Two women, AC and Loveday, enter the Center with their car and park.

*

*

*

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 2 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 3 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episodes 4 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 5 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 6 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 7 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 8 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 9 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 10 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 11 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 12 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 13 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Season 2 – BLACK GOLD

Episode 1 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 2 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 3 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 4 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 5 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 6 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 7 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 8 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 9 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 10 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 11 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 12 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 13 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Season 3– MONEY COUNTERS

Episode 1 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 2 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 3 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 4 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 5 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 6 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 7 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 8 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 9 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 10 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 11 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 12 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 13 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Season 4 – LEAVE SURFACE

Episode 1 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 2 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 3 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 4-

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 5-

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 6 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 7 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 8 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 9 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 10 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 11 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 12 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 13 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Season 5 – JOYSTICK ROV

Episode 1 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 2 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 3 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 4 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 5 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 6 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 7 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 8 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 9 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 10 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 11 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 12 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 13 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Season 6 – OLD TOMS

Episode 1 – Apps Advice

Ishey goes grocery shopping and meets his former classmate Van Pee in the Supermarket. Van invites Ishey to join their Old Toms group and give them eighty pounds.

Ishey resent the ask for lousy governance, think it is a scam and badly timed with the money, and becomes deeply infuriated.

At home, Ishey talks to his wife about financial difficulties and what Pee asked for. Ishey changes his mind avoids Pee, and boycotts the group.

Facebook recommends Frank Bibio as a friend to Ishey, and he accepts.

Ishey and Frank switch communication from Facebook to WhatsApp. Later, Frank sends WhatsApp advice and attachment to Ishey.

Hook/Intrigue: Old Tom Johnny Banko, a close friend and mentor of Ishey, dies without his knowledge.

Main Character journey:

Ishey wants to attend the funeral o Johnny Banko.

Major Challenge/Conflict:

To pay his last respects to Johnny. The Old Toms group must be unanimous in contributing to the death. Ishey will be the missing puzzle. He must fly six thousand miles distant. Corvid rules apply, and it locks down the world. Major airlines cancel their flights and ground their planes. Need for double jabs and booster vaccinations. His employers are yet to approve urgent holiday applications.

Action/Reaction:

Ishey rescinds avoiding and boycotting the Old toms group. He telephoned Frank Bibio in New York. He tells him he craves to join the group. Frank contacts one member on the group’s podium in West Africa, and Ishey is added to the platform.

Cliffhanger:

But Johnny Banko did not join the Old toms group. The death has lured Ishey into the group.

Episode 2 – Ishey

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 3 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 4 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 5 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 6 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 7 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 8 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 9 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 10 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 11 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 12 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

Episode 13 –

Hook/Intrigue:

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict:

Action/Reaction:

Cliffhanger:

3. Write a rough draft of each episode description for your first season.

Season 1 – THE DO WELLS

Episode 1 –Talent Hunt

Description.

Ishey completes his education at Old Toms and is without a job after one week’s search. The next night he meets Brader Hu late at night after the film show at Cameo Cinema and asks for a job.

Ishey tells Hu it never occurred to ask what type of work Hu does. Hu tells Ishey to meet him at The Trade Fair Center at seven am for the job.

Two women on a covert mission come to the Center and park their car inside the yard.

Ishey secures a place on one of the long vehicles that travel to the port city to load flour at the Mills. The job involves loading and offloading fifty pounds of bagged flour.

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 4: GENERATING
EPISODE IDEAS

THE CHEAT SHEET

1. Beginning……………………………………………………………………….Season End/Cliffhanger

Question A: What is the beginning of the season and the End of the season?

Season 1: (THE DO WELLS)

Old Toms School on the last day of the academic year. The handbell clanks many times at 13:30 to signal the end of the school day.

Ishey Garfunk, a fifth former, and all the student stops whatever they are doing and hurry to the school chapel. Ishey is standing on the terrace and, together with six hundred students, sings the final hymn.

STARTING:

Ishey Garfunk completes five years of secondary education at Old Toms. Ishey meets Brader Hu in the foyer of Cameo Cinema after the film show and joins a cluster of movie-goers who live outside the military barracks and walk home together. Ishey inquires about a job from Hu and asks what work he does.

ENDING: Ishey leaves his birthplace and crosses two francophone countries to seek opportunities in a third country called Black Gold.

Season 2: BLACK GOLD

STARTING: Ishey is in the La houses and neighborhood. He looks at his girlfriend’s family house and his last paycheck and decides not to tell her he is traveling. Ishey thinks he won’t stay and destroy himself if he can’t find a job. He altered his course towards the Aflao lorry station.

ENDING: Ishey returns to his birthplace with nothing but personal clothes after ten years’ stay. He holds a promise to get to Europe and is shat down as ‘Shit Sticks’ by friends and Old Tom.

Season 3: MONEY COUNTERS

STARTING: Ishey start Technician training.

ENDING: Ishey exchanges a vow with his sweetheart of many years in a lavish wedding ceremony and jetted off to the UK.

Season 4: LEAVE SURFACE

STARTING: Ishey undergoes Commercial Air Diver training in Fort William, Scotland.

ENDING: Ishey returns to London and finds it challenging to secure CAD roles because of social mobility issues.

Season 5: JOYSTICK ROV

STARTING:

ENDING:

Season 6: OLD TOMS

STARTING: Ishey goes grocery shopping and meets Van Pee, who invites him to join the Old Toms group and give them eighty pounds.

ENDING: Biola, the affluent and sought-after black soap maker, order a gang-style execution of Ishey, and he is hit by a volley of bullets.

Question B: What possible cliffhanger could be in that last scene of the season, thus demanding that we watch the next season?

Season 1

Season 1: THE DO WELLS

CLIFFHANGER – Brader Hu receives the six million-dollar check and must travel to the USA to collect it. He has no local passport or cash to buy a return ticket and travel.

Season 2: BLACK GOLD

CLIFFHANGER – Ishey’s girlfriend sends him a message to return to his birthplace to make it feasible to join her when she gets her indefinite leave to stay in the UK.

Season 3: MONEY COUNTERS

CLIFFHANGER –

Season 4: LEAVE SURFACE

CLIFFHANGER –

Season 5: JOYSTICK ROV

CLIFFHANGER –

Season 6: OLD TOMS

CLIFFHANGER –

2. Season 1 Mystery Set up…………………………………..……………… Season 1 Mystery Solved

Question A: What is the mystery?

Who are the Do-Wells Organization?

Why are the two females covertly recruiting Talents?

Season 1: THE DO WELLS

Mystery: Two women, the President AC and her Second-In-Command Loveday Sebastian of The Do-wells Organization have come to the Trade Fair Center just as it opened to the public.

The women are casually dressed and should draw no attention to the covert mission in search of Talents. The women know what to find except that the unemployed men looking for jobs around the many long vehicles parked inside could be Kung Fu Talents. Ferdinand Chopstones keeps one of the job seekers as his henchman. Hu finds AC attractive and wants her to himself.

Question B: How could the mystery be set up? What parts will be left out that must be solved?

Season 1: THE DO WELLS

Mystery Set Up: AC and Loveday are looking for Talents to recruit into their organization. Their mission is coveted and they entered the Trade Fair Center minutes after the opening time. They know one of Chopstones’ henchmen is an abled Kung Fu thug. They have information he frequents the Center for livelihood.

Mystery parts left out:

The Do-Wells identity, the recruiters are on trying a lucky mission.

Mystery Solved: AC and Loveday witness a fight between two men on the long vehicle. Loveday launches a drone designed like a Kingfisher to track the long vehicle.

Question C: What is the ultimate solution that the characters must work to discover?

3. Journey begins………………………………………………………. The journey peaks but continues.

Question A: Where does the Lead Character’s journey begin and end for this season?

Season 1: THE DO WELLS

Lead Character Journey begins: Ishey completes five years of secondary education at Old Toms and leaves the school.

Lead Character Journey peaks: Ishey travels from his birthplace to seek opportunities in Black Gold country.

Question B: Think about where this character goes in future seasons. That might give you an idea also.

4. ……Layer….…Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer………Layer……Layer

Question A: What layers have you already discovered in your BW Framework?

Layer – A private car entering the Trade Fair Center turn out to belong to The Do-Wells Organization.

Layer – AC and Loveday in the car are the President and her second-in-Command.

Layer – The flattened chassis of one of the many long vehicles parked in the Center is the arena for a fight

Layer –

Layer –

Layer –

Layer –

Question B: Are there any other layers that you could think of?

5. Make a list of the Major Story Lines.

Question A: What main characters have storylines that affect everyone else?

Ishey enters the Trade Fair Center when the two security men open the main entrance gates. The brethren of The Den, Brader Hu, and odd job seekers are heading towards the Center. AC and Loveday will soon arrive at the large car park and steer towards the main gates.

Question B: What are the most important storylines of this show?

2. Turn those answers into a list of 8 to 13 Episodes with one-sentence explanations.

Season 1 – THE DO WELLS

Episode 1 – Ishey completes Old Toms, meets Brader Hu late at night after the film show, and asks for a job.

Episode 2 – Ishey gets to the Trade Fair Center, scrambles for a place onboard one of the long vehicles, and travels thirty miles to the port city.

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episodes 12 –

Episodes 13 –

Season 2 – BLACK GOLD

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 3 – MONEY COUNTERS

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 4 – LEAVE SURFACE

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5-

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 5 – JOYSTICK ROV

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 6 – OLD TOMS

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 –

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

3. With each episode, make a list of bullet points describing the most important events.

Season 1 – THE DO WELLS

Episode 1 –

*Ishey completes five years of secondary education at Old Toms.

*After a film show, he meets Brader Hu late at night and asks for a job.

*Ishey arrives at Trade fair Center to wait for Hu and the job.

*Two women, AC and Loveday, enter the Center with their car and park.

*

*

*

Episode 2 –

*Ishey

*

*

*

Episode 3 –

*Ishey

Episodes 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 2 – BLACK GOLD

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season – MONEY COUNTERS

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 4 – LEAVE SURFACE

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5-

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 5 – JOYSTICK ROV

Episode 1 – Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 – Ishey

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

Season 6 – OLD TOMS

Episode 1 –

Ishey goes grocery shopping.

He meets former classmate Van Pee in the Supermarket.

Van invites Ishey to join Old Toms group and give £80.

Ishey resent the ask for lousy governance and was deeply infuriated.

At home, Ishey talks to his wife about financial difficulties and what Pee asked for.

Ishey changes his mind; avoids Pee, and boycotts the group.

Facebook recommends Frank Bibio as a friend to Ishey, and he accepts.

Ishey and Frank switch communication from Facebook to WhatsApp.

Later, Frank sends WhatsApp advice and attachment to Ishey

Episode 2 – Ishey

Episode 3 –

Episode 4 –

Episode 5 –

Episode 6 –

Episode 7 –

Episode 8 –

Episode 9 –

Episode 10 –

Episode 11 –

Episode 12 –

Episode 13 –

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MODULE 2 – LESSON 3: EASY WAY TO FIVE
SEASONS

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT:

1. Brainstorm to find the arc of the entire journey from Season One to Five.

Summary: Season One – The Do Wells

Ishey leaves Old Toms with grades on a certificate that cannot get him a job or government-funded further education.

He meets Brader Hu and joins him to do odd jobs at the Trade Fair Center. The Do-wells Organization spot talented Hu and, with ally Ishey as the Coach and Trainer, admit Hu into their annual contest, which he wins.

Ishey’s contract as Pupil Teacher ends, and he decides to travel to ‘Black Gold’ country to seek opportunities.

Summary: Season Two – Black Gold

Summary: Season Three – Money Counters

Summary: Season Four – Leave Surface

Summary: Season Five – Joystick ROV

Summary: Season Six – Old Toms

Afterward, from the above, write the shortest synopsis of the six seasons and find the season’s arc.

Ishey leaves school with the worse grades and makes over six million dollars for himself using the GoFundMe Old Toms group.

2. Brainstorm the Stair Step version.

Season One: – The Do Wells

Ishey Garfunk left Old Toms school in 1979 with ‘Division Three’ at the GCE ‘O’ Level Examinations when the economy of his birthplace was in tatters.

The three credits on the certificate won’t guarantee him a chance at government-funded further education or an office job.

He must find an unusual job to survive daily.

Ishey has been going to Cameo Cinema at the nearby Military Barracks every night since 1970 and later made friends with Brader Hu. On June 30, late at night after the Cameo show, Ishey asked Hu for a job and what he did for a living. Hu instructed Ishey to join him at the Ghana Trade Fair Site (GTF) the following morning for his career.

The odd job was loading and off-loading hundreds of fifty-kilogram bags of flour delivered from long vehicles to bakers; that traveled within the metropolis.

After the laborious work on long vehicles, Ishey put his strength to work to save money but had his high fertility to worry about and paid for sex, the cause of attaining low grades at school.

One week after, the female President called AC, and her Second-In-command, Loveday Sebastian of The Do-Wells Organization, covertly came to the Trade Fair Center to hunt for talents. Luckily, in a scramble for places on board one of the long vehicles parked there, they saw Hu engage another worker in a fight and noticed his unique Kung Fu skills.

Ninety days later, Ishey found the job at the GTF finished, and thousands of trained teachers were moving out of his birthplace to Nigeria to find better opportunities.

The intellectual exodus left thousands of teacher vacancies and the pressing need to hire fresh Pupil Teachers. Even those with lower grades of three credits, like Ishey, participate in in-service training to fill the role for one year.

Ishey and Hu earned recognition from The Do-Wells Organization, and Loveday tracked Hu to find out he sleeps in ‘The Den’ with twenty-three brethren. She wants Hu to herself and admires the strength and stature of the workers. Secretly she puts Hu through a trial. Meanwhile, Hu wants AC.

Loveday arranged for an undeclared fight between Hu and their current Kung Fu Champion to observe the result.

What was Hu’s reaction? Face Ricky, the Champion—the outcomes.

It was a tie.

The Do-Wells have a purpose for the abilities of Hu and Ishey.

As a Pupil Teacher, Ishey’s agreement ends unless he chooses to attend a four-year Teacher Education Institute nationwide, no more contract. But he must first study and retake the exam papers he flopped/failed.

As a Kung Fu Coach/Trainer of Hu, Ishey is the one to watch out for. As Hu’s hernia worsens and the Contest date draws nearer, Ishey feels energized as an ally. So this is what he was? Get a modest amount of the prize?

Season 2: Black Gold

Season 3: Money Counters

Season 4: Leave Surface

Season 5: Joystick ROV

Season 6: Old Toms

3. For each season, brainstorm the Building Blocks.

Season 1: (The Do Wells)

A. High Concept or significant hook of the season. Winning The Do-Wells
Annual Kung Fu Contest with a $6 million prize.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: From a school
leaver with a useless certificate
to pupil teaching and Coaching/ Training Brader Hu diagnosed with
hernia untreated to defeat the best fighters on an arena of poles
arrangement.

C. Main Conflict: Coaching his way
into the Kung Fu World and building a reputation as the best Trainer.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: will Ishey get a
share of the $6 million prize?

E. Cliffhanger: Ishey is left in
limbo about the prize money and decides if he cannot make it to America,
he will not stay here and continue experiencing deteriorated living
standards. He travels from his birthplace to Black Gold country Nigeria using
the last paycheck from the Ministry of Education as his only funds. He seeks
opportunities.

Season 2: (Black Gold)

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Migrate/Travel to Europe,
get further education, and pursue a
career.<div>

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: Froom ex-Pupil Teacher to private Tutor and
plotting with Joe Ampiah, the three of them out of the deep
hole they find themselves in black Gold country.

C. Main Conflict: From the onset, Ishey did
not like the idea Joe Ampiah brought to him. He pondered over it carefully, found it viable, and later succumbed. It was great and wise and he agreed.
Everyone benefitted. The ablest person with knowledge about Europe and the UK and who has visited the place before would go out first and lay a rope to connect the
other two to climb out of the Black gold country. Ishey
tutors his way into cash and builds a solid, trustworthy reputation.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will the first person to
get out of the hole bother to throw a lifeline for those at the hole bottom to
climb out? Will Ishey scale the fence at Harmondsworth Detention Center near
Heathrow Airport and enter the UK illegally?

E. Cliffhanger: Ishey is left in limbo as
the supposed host denied ever knowing him. The truth. Ishey decides he cannot remain at the detention center for twenty-four hours without knowing
his fate. He wouldn’t let down Joe Ampiah, and if, for any reason, he would want
to see him face to face in thin and thick. He tells the officials to remove him from the center and put him on the next flight from Heathrow Terminal 3. He wants to go back to Black Gold country
and to Joe Ampiah.

Season 3: (Money Counters)

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Completing the Canadian established Technical
Training, getting a job, and going out to make money.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: From a less or improperly skilled
woodworker to a committed Technician who decides to work in the Currency
Counting Machines distributor.

C. Main Conflict: Fighting his way into the
Money Counting machines trade and building a reputation.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: How long can Ishey continue to pay for sex, refuse to get a girlfriend, and stay without a concubine
or unmarried? Will Ishey’s girlfriend get her residency status in Europe and
return to him? Will she marry him?

E. Cliffhanger: Ishey can still get money
to pay for sex during his nationwide tours and is emboldened to carry on waiting
for his sweetheart.

Season 4: (Leave Surface)

A. High Concept or major hook of the season:

Attain the Commercial Air Diver certification
and go on to become a Saturation Diver.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: From a Kitchen Hygiene operative to a
committed student at the Underwater Center who stays at the school for ninety
days without a weekend break or commutes the six hours of train journey home in
London.

C. Main Conflict: Fighting his way into the
Underwater world, the comedy, and catching up with the intensive course.

D. Mystery/Open Loops: How will Ishey pay
for the training? Will Ishey succeed at the intense training and become a
Commercial Diver? How will he repay the course fees without breathing space
between graduation and the preceding month? Will Ishey get a job?

E. Cliffhanger: Ishey qualifies with world-class accreditation and decides to come home and see his wife before
looking for a job.

Season 5: (Joystick ROV)

A. High Concept or major hook of the season: Add another secure career prospect for old age.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey: From qualified Commercial Air Diver,
Security Officer to committed student seeking added prospects in the ROV World
during retirement.

C. Main Conflict:

D. Mystery/Open Loops

E. Cliffhanger:

Season 6: (Old Toms)

A. High Concept or major hook of the season.

B. Big Picture Arc/Journey:

C. Main Conflict:

D. Mystery/Open Loops: Will Ishey

E. Cliffhanger: Ishey

1. Write a description of each season and give us the 5 seasons.

Description:

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

Season 4:

Season 5:

Season 6:

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Moses Quainoo Module 2 – Lesson 2: Compelling Character Descriptions

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Pull out your Old Toms Binge-Worthy Framework as source material.

2. Select a main character and answer the following questions:

Ishey Garfunk

Who is the character? Ishey Garfunk

Role in the show? A stingy Security Officer, who lost a close friend and mentor has to create money for the GoFundMe Old Toms group as his contribution to the funeral.

Noteworthy traits: Astute, Exceptional, Thoughtful.

Intriguing history: Ishey formed an alliance with Brader Hu to b, e his Coach/Trainer to win THE DO WELLS Kung Fu Contest and somehow is yet to reap/lost out to the $6 million prize investment. Where did his share of the money go? Will he allow it to happen a second time around?

Intrigue: Willing to commit a crime, fights with the creators of the GoFundMe group, risk being busted by the Bureau of National Investigations filled with three Old Toms. Will the veterans bust Ishey?

Mystery: Ishey formed an alliance with Brader Hu to be his Kung Fu Coach/ Trainer. How did Ishey lose out on the $6 million dollar prize money which Hu won?

How do they support or drive the conflict with others? Ishey pushes himself, Van Pee, Senakay, Gilly, and other old Toms into dangerous situations.

Irony — Opposites or paradoxes that exist with the character: Makes many dangerous mistakes, is totally unprepared for the GoFundMe world, Became a criminal to protect himself.

Opposing agendas:

Unpredictable: Unpredictable

Intriguing relationship: Gilly, Senakay, Van Pee, and others.

3. Organize the answers and choose which you are going to use in your description of that character.

4. Sequence the info and write a START, MIDDLE, and END. Write a ROUGH DRAFT of the character description.

CHARACTER 1 – ISHEY GARFUNK

START – An avaricious security guard, who would not jeopardize his life for his birthplace for its deficient governance, lost a tight friend and mentor, six thousand miles apart, and yearns to contribute to the memorial service.

MIDDLE – Ishey, an astute, exceptional, and thoughtful security guard believes life can rock but his former classmates see the satire that grooving does not bring money.

But he blew an initial invitation to join the Old Toms GoFundMe group and give them eighty pounds and must rescind avoiding Van Pee and boycott the group to get what he wants.

When he was added to the group, he discerned his peers gossiped and seem inactive. His conception of the $6 million became attainable. He must create money for the group by changing the setup.

With pension time at 67, a decade off, he will commit a crime, involving the creator and group leaders, and risk being caught by the BNI, beneath the retired Old Toms who were ex-servicemen’s watch.

To take care of his old age, wife, and extended family. Ishey will take the risk he longed for, offend a few Old Toms and make hazardous blunders.

END – He recognizes it as the consequence of life.

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An avaricious security guard, Ishey, who would not jeopardize his life for his birthplace for its deficient governance, lost a tight friend and mentor, six thousand miles apart, and yearns to contribute to the memorial service.

Ishey, an astute, exceptional, and thoughtful security guard believes life can rock but his former classmates see the satire that grooving does not bring money.

But Ishey blew an initial invitation to join the Old Toms GoFundMe group and give them eighty pounds and must rescind avoiding Van Pee and boycott the group led by Gilly Selor to get what he wants.

When Ishey is added to the group, he discerns his peers’ gossip, some inactive members, and lacked ideas on the podium. Ishey’s conception of the $6 million of earlier years became attainable. Ishey must create money for the group by changing the setup.

With pension time at 67, a decade off, he will commit a crime, involve Gilly and group leaders, and risk being caught by the retired Old Toms in the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), beneath the ex-servicemen’s watch.

Ishey wants to take care of his old age, wife, and extended family and will take the risk longed overdue, offend any Old Toms and make hazardous blunders.

Ishey recognizes it as the consequence of life.

Continue steps 2 – 4 for each main character.

CHARACTER 2 – GILLY SELOR

START – A retired Agricultural Engineer, whose uncle was executed by Firing Squad by the State, created the GoFundMe Old Toms group to make his classmates one family. He has one purpose in life to make more money in the country than the fifty thousand bank loan he took and was killed for.

MIDDLE –

END –

CHARACTER 3 – FÉLIX SENAKEY

START –

MIDDLE –

END –

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Moses Quainoo Intriguing Concept and World

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

Module 2 – Lesson 1: What Makes a Great TV Pitch Bible?

ASSIGNMENT:

Present your concept and world.

1. Present your Concept.

A. Engaging and highly proactive hero…

A security officer turns to fundraise for the Old Toms group

B. …up against a major conflict…

When he gets advice his leading buddy dies

C. …goes on unique transformational journey…

Enacting his brutal past

D. …Into an intriguing world.

As he grows from Fundraiser to financier in the GoFundMe world.

2. Tell us the World of this show.

Unique Sub-World: The milky
underworld of GoFundMe.

Previously unexplored: How to make
money and power

The unknown: How Old Toms (TZ) Tuo Zafi gang will
react.

The unseen: Veterans investigations, TZ gang’s
determination to keep the group

Unheard of Dangers: TZ gang kill for a minor infraction.

Reason to explore it: Quick way to
make money

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Module 1 – Lesson 12: Create Your BW Framework

“What I learned doing this process is…?”

#I filled in the blanks with answers from previous assignments. I turn the answers into bullet points. I am not posting the Framework yet. However, I could do with Professional Framework feedback from SU at $25.

ASSIGNMENT

Create a framework for the Old Toms TV show.

Download FRAMEWORK:
https://s3.amazonaws…Template-2.docx

To fill in each box, go to the lesson
mentioned. You already answered these questions, so you can easily just
fill in the blanks.

Turn those parts into BULLET POINTS (not
prose) for each box. Make sure each key point can be accessed at a glance.

Take a few hours off to let that process, then
return to your framework to improve parts or to fill in gaps that stand
out to you.

Don’t post the framework for now, but answer the question, “What I learned doing this process
is…?” and share your experience of putting it together, along with any
breakthroughs or insights you’ve had.

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Module 1 – Lesson 11: Discovering Irony

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Mr. Robot TV Show<div>

Watch Season 02 Episode 01 of Mr. Robot TV Show and notice where irony shows up in the show — both in this episode and throughout the episodes you’ve already seen.

Irony

Elliot dreams of saving the world but himself.

Wellick shoots himself as James Plouff on TV and is alive again.

Elliot can’t trust him to save the world and yet listen to the advice.

Mr. Robot shoots Elliot on the forehead and after a while, Elliot rises from the bed.

The swimming pool, shower, and media system of the female lawyer’s house are hacked and Darlene is called a first responder.

Gideon tells Elliot the FBI thinks he is the hack and Elliot is right there sitting in front of him.

Gideon asks Elliot to do anything to help him and Elliot sits there staring at him.

Gideon threatens to go to the FBI with everything he knows about Elliot.

Customers cannot access their bank accounts and the cashier cannot log in to the backup systems.

Evil Corporation is hacked and the CTO who dislikes negotiating with hackers agrees to meet them.

Tell us the irony you have already discovered in the Mr. Robot TV Show.

ASSIGNMENT 2: Old Toms
TV Show

1. Look back through your previous assignments and find at least 20 different situations or character components that you could go opposite to create irony.

A. Dancing is a ‘hobby’ for Ishey and he had to use it to raise money for the group.

B. Ishey gets an invitation from his former classmates who gained Divisions One and Two to join their group while Ishey got Division Three at the GCE ‘O’ Levels.

C. Ishey is a failed Old Tom at the finals of the school certification and in the real world a big-time fundraiser.

D. Ishey is revamping an idea for the group who are part academicians.

E.

F.

G.

H.

I.

J.

Etc

2. With each, brainstorm ideas for ways it could go opposite.

3. Select the ones that work well for the Old Toms TV show and share the character and situational irony ideas with us.

CHARACTER IRONY – It took the death of Johnny Banko for Ishey to join the Old Toms.

SITUATIONAL IRONY – Ishey has to rescind the decision to avoid Van Pee and boycott the Old Toms to join the group.

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Moses Quainoo “What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

Module 1 – Lesson 10: Creating Intriguing Layers

ASSIGNMENT 1: Mr. Robot Show

Watch Episode 10 of Mr. Robot Show and notice how layers show up in this show — both in this episode and throughout the episodes you’ve already seen.

Tell us the layers you have discovered in Mr. Robot Show.

Plot Surface: Krista goes to a dinner meeting with his ex-boyfriend Michael.

Layer 1:

Secret Agenda – Lenny wants Krista’s help to get Elliot arrested by the police.

Layer 2:

Hidden history – Lenny says Elliot hack into his phone and it is illegal.

Layer 3:

Hidden plan – Elliot confronts Krista’s boyfriend Michael and says Michael cheated with seven women and he has digital evidence to prove it. He tells Michael to stop seeing Krista from now.

Layer 4:

Major shift – Lenny says one of Krista’s patients Elliot hacked him and made him say all those things to Krista.

Layer 5:

Major betrayal – Lenny is not seriously dying like he told Krista

Layer 6:

Wound – Elliot confiscate or took ownership of Michael’s dog.

Layer 7:

Character Surface: Michael is at Pierre Late, waiting at the dinner table when Krista arrives at the meeting.

Layer 1:

Secret Identity – Krista forgets, mentions Michael’s name, and remembers that is not the real name. She tells him.

Layer 2:

Character Intrigue – Michael says his real name is Lenny.

Layer 3:

Secret Agenda – Lenny wants Krista’s help to get Elliot arrested by the Police

Layer 4:

Hidden relationship – Lenny says his wife found out and left him

Layer 5:

Hidden conspiracies – Elliot and fsociety plan to take down Evil Corporation

Layer 6:

Hidden character history –

Layer 7:<div>

<b style=”background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Layer 8:

Etc.

ASSIGNMENT 2:

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Old Toms TV Show

Discover the layers that could exist for Old Toms TV show.

PLOT SURFACE

Layer 1

Layer 2

Layer 3

Layer 4

Layer 5

CHARACTER SURFACE

Layer 1

Layer 2

Layer 3

Layer 4

Layer 5

1. Brainstorm a list of possible PLOT layers.

PLOT LAYERS – Story beneath the story.

Major scheme revealed – Elliot sleeps for two days and the world systems crashed. Everyone’s debt is wiped off the face of the world.

Mystery revealed – Mr. Robot is dead and his real name is Edward Alderson. Wellick’s wife leaves him after the birth of their daughter.

Thought the story was one thing, but it is
another – Mr. Robot did not push Elliot from the rail in real life. Gideon’s secretary says Gideon has no debt.

Major shift in Meaning – Elliot is the spearhead of everything that’s going on. Mr. Robot says he is Elliot. Wellick goes for a facelift to change looks and takes a new identity as James Plouff and shoots himself on national TV.

Hidden history –

Hidden plan – Wellick commits suicide on national TV. Lenny tells Krista, that Elliot is the enemy.

Major betrayal – Angela turns down the invitation to the Press conference.

2. Brainstorm a list of possible CHARACTER layers.

CHARACTER LAYERS – identity beneath the identity.

Secret identity

Character intrigue

Hidden relationships and conspiracies

Hidden Character history

3. Organize them each into a possible sequence of reveals.

Plot Surface:

Layer 1:

Layer 2:

Layer 3:

Layer 4:

Etc.

Character Surface:

Layer 1:

Layer 2:

Layer 3:

Layer 4:

Etc.

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Module 1 – Lesson 9: Inviting Obsession Through Open Loops

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1

1. Think about Mr. Robot Show. Make a list of the Big Picture open loops that were established early in the season.

Big Picture open loops

Is Elliot guilty of Hacking into Ron’s restaurant?

Will Elliot rescind his decision to work at AllSafe Security?

Will Gideon ever catch Elliot hacking into the boss’s computer?

Will Elliot revenge on Mr. Robot for pushing him over the rail?

Will Elliot bring down the Evil Corp?

Can Angela free Colby?

Will Mr. Robot Angela be Elliot’s woman?

Will the Customer revenge for the theft of the twenty dollar bill?

Will Mr. Robot reveal himself?

Elliot does not know what is happening.

Mr. Robot is Edward Alderson.

Elliot pushes out of the window.

Mr. Robot is a ghost of Elliot’s father.

Who burnt down the Blank’s Disc shop?

Wellick is fired. What will he do next?

Wellick’s wife wants a divorce.

Will Angela get a job at the law office?

2. Watch Episode 9 and see how those open loops are being used to create the need to see future episodes.

ASSIGNMENT 2:

1. Use this list to brainstorm big-picture open loops for the first season of Old Toms Show that you will use to keep the audience captivated.

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GOALS:

New goals?

Ishey went grocery shopping at the supermarket to get more honey for the household.

Ishey rescinds avoiding his classmate Van Pee and boycotting the GoFundMe group or Old Toms group.

Goals related to the big picture?

Ishey wants to join the group and contribute to the burial of Old Tom Johnny Banko.

Ishey wants to work with Gilly to revamp the Old Toms idea to create money for the group.

Ishey challenges his brother to a Borborbor dance contest.

Ishey put up one thousand pounds as the prize. His target was the Old Toms group but the event went viral around the world and brought in many millions of pounds sterling.

Ishey changes his mind when the cash starts to fill the GoFundMe account. He is the one who presented the bait and now they hit big-time money all should come to him.

Crushed goals?

Ishey avoids Van Pee and boycotts the Old Toms group

Competition/conflict around goals?

Gilly wants the money.

Van Pee wants the money.

Senakey wants the money.

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CONSEQUENCES:

Are they going to be caught?</div><div>

Problems created from past actions?

Have good plans gone wrong?

The plan was to organize a dance competition between Ishey and Senakry. Ishey presented the prize money of one thousand pounds. Whether he wins or not the prize money will go to the Old Toms group. The good plan went viral around the world and the GoFundMe group started to rake in millions and millions of pounds sterling. The main characters got into conflict.

SOLVING PROBLEMS:

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What is the major problem for this character?

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What are they trying to solve?

Major change imposed on the character?

Do previous solutions cause new problems?

RELATIONSHIPS:

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Relationships in peril?

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Are new relationships forming?

Conflict inside relationships?

Relationships changing?

DANGER / SURVIVAL / RISKS:

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Can they survive X?

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Putting themselves in danger / making dangerous decisions?

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Who else is pulled into their danger?

Internal dangers (drug addiction, need for medicine, inner demons)?

2. Tell us your top 5-8 Big Picture Open Loops that could be in your pilot.

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Module 1 – Lesson 8: Inviting Obsession Through Mystery

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch Episode 8 of Mr. Robot Show and focus on the mysteries that have been created in that show. Also, notice the difference between the big picture mysteries that are a big part of the plot across the entire season versus the smaller mysteries.

Tell us about the mysteries of the Mr. Robot Show.

Mysteries type 1:

Darlene tells Elliot they have to protect each other from the men.

Darlene searches for a secret compartment in the house and removes a gun.

Elliot compiles many discs and keeps them in a bag.

Angela tells Elliot a guy blackmailed them with the hard drives.

Wellick and Mr. Robot are allies.

Wellick is disturbed and will not speak to the Police.

Elliot has 50 hours and 19 minutes at his disposal.

Mysteries type 2:

Elliot tells Darlene they are taking down the Evil Corp.

Elliot kisses Darlene who is angry and asked him to reveal who she is.

Darlene is Elliot’s sister.

Darlene noticed two men following her on the train and overhear them saying ‘tell him to follow the proper command and the sequence will initiate.

Elliot’s father is Mr. Robot.

Mr. Robot comes to Elliot’s house to talk.

ASSIGNMENT 2:

Create two mysteries for the Old Toms show — one that shows up strong in the Pilot and the other that is revealed over time.

Mysteries type 1:

Van Pee invites Ishey to join the GoFundMe group and give them eighty pounds

Mysteries type 2:

Ishey raises many millions and says the cash belongs to him since he provided the bait of one thousand pounds.

1. Create your Shocking Event Mystery for Old Toms show and tell us the WWWWW and H, along with the part withheld.

A. Shocking Event: Old Tom Johnny
Banko dies and Old Tom Frank Bibio WhatsApp the attachment to Ishey Garfunk.

B. Secret: The date Johnny will be
buried.

C. Investigation: Ishey
investigates to find the part withheld.

WWWWW and How:

Who sent the information to Ishey? Frank Bibio

What was the information about? The death of Johnny Banko

When Frank WhatsApp the attachment late at night. Where In New York, Frank WhatsApp the information to Ishey in London.

Why Johnny Banko was Ishey’s leading buddy and he needed to know of the pass on.

How Frank sent the information on WhatsApp.

Part Withheld: The group withheld the
information till five days before the burial.

2. Create the Over Time Mystery and tell us the WWWWW and H, along with the part withheld.

A. Cover-up: the GoFundMe group is lining
the core members’ pockets with the cash

B. Secret:

C. Reveals:
WWWWW and How:
Part Withheld:

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Module 1 – Lesson 7: Empathy/Distress, The Binge-Worthy Drug!

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

1. Watch Episode 7 of Mr. Robot and focus on the Empathy/Distress that shows up in the episode and throughout the season so far.

Wellick is forced to kill the secretary by pretending to make love to her on the rooftop.

Elliot keeps Krista in the dark and never tells her the truth.

Elliot lost his mother early in his life.

Elliot’s dog Flipper picks up a chip on the floor and swallows it.

Elliot tells Krista the truth and she is in awe.

Elliot tells Krista he hacked her and everyone and he does so looking for a way out of loneliness.

Mr. Robot pulls a revolver at a fsociety hacker and threatens to pull the trigger.

Wellick overhears a coworker in a discussion and screams at them

Wellick thinks the secretary did a bad job by not giving him the right information.

Wellick disappoints he was not elected as Chief Technology Officer.

Angela believes it’s her fault Colby was arrested and fired from his job.

Colby does not take Angela seriously or answer her questions.

Wellick strangles the secretary on the top of the high-rise building.

Elliot was forced to change the evidence file that incriminates Terry Colby.

2. Notice the difference between Big Picture Empathy/Distress and detail-oriented Empathy/Distress. Big Picture will have an impact across multiple episodes.

Elliot lost his father to leukemia.

Elliot is on drugs Morphine and takes Molly for sex with Shayla.

Elliot must decide to finish off the evil corporation.

ASSIGNMENT 2:

1. Make a list of BIG PICTURE difficult situations and decisions your characters in Old Toms could make because of the main conflict of this series.

Just ask: “Knowing the concept, what are the big picture Empathy/Distress situations that could occur?”

A. Undeserved misfortune.

Ishey must work ten years
longer to get a State payment. He faces higher living costs and deteriorating living standards.

B. External Character conflicts.

Ishey and
Van Pee are classmates. Pee invites Ishey to join the GoFundMe group and
wants Ishey to give eighty pounds.

C. Plot intruding on life.

Ishey
communicates with Frank Bibio who sends him WhatsApp advice with an attachment and follows with a call.

D. Moral dilemmas.

Ishey cannot
overlook Johnny’s death. He cannot go it all alone since they are
classmates.

E. Forced decisions they’d never make.

Ishey will never join the Old Toms group if Johnny Banku had
not died.

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Module 1 – Lesson 6: Build Your Character Relationship Map

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch Episode 6 of Mr. Robot Show and focus on Elliot, the main character, and how he interacts with the others. Notice how much you discover that could go into their Relationship Map.

Create a Relationship Map for one lead character and their relationship with three others.

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Elliot Mr. Robot Tyrell Wellick Shayla

Surface (Fsociety, teammates,) (Co-workers) (Neighbor,
friends)

Common ground (group of hackers) (Both work on Computers) (Drug dealer,)

Conflict (Tyrell wants a CTO job)

History (Elliot halted the computer attack) (have sex after taking the
drug called ‘Molly’,)

Subtext (Underdeveloped love)

Arc (From suspicion to believers
in the other) (From friends to enemies) (From drug dealer to
girlfriend)

ASSIGNMENT 2:

1. Create a Relationship Map for THREE lead characters from OLD TOMS TV SHOW IDEA.

Ishey Garfunk, Jay Van Pee, Gilly, and F. Senakey

Ishey Garfunk Jay Van Pee Gilly Felix Senakey

Surface (friends) (friends,) (brothers)

Common ground ( Classmates,) (Classmates) (Classmates, common enemies)

Conflict (Money, power, Different views) (Money, Pee is Gilly’s business partner) (Money, power)

History (Dance competitors, Ishey never accepts Senakey as Champion)

Subtext

Arc (From friends to competitors) (From suspicion to enemies) (From brothers to enemies)

2. Using the Relationship map pick a main character (place in the upper left-hand corner), and with each character, he or she is in a relationship with, give us the 6 relationship experiences listed below:

Surface:
Common Ground:
Conflict:
History:
Subtext:
Relationship Arc:

3. Do the same process for the second lead character and the third lead character.

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Module 1 – Lesson 5: Depth of Emotions

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1: Mr. Robot TV Show

Watch Episode 5 of Mr. Robot Show and create an Emotional Profile for two or three main characters in the show.

Elliot Anderson:

A. Hope: He wants to bring down the Evil Corporation. / Fear: He will be found out. B. Want: / Need:
C. Base Negative
Emotion: / Public Mask: D. Weaknesses: Drugs E. Triggers:
F. Coping Mechanism: More drugs

Tyrell Wellick

A. Hope: / Fear:
B. Want: He wants the job of the CTO / Need:
C. Base Negative
Emotion: Miserable Gay who can’t give his wife enough sex at home. / Public Mask: Happy married man. D. Weaknesses:
E. Triggers: Failure F. Coping Mechanism: Pays people to get a beating from him. Pays for gay sex.

Mr. Robot

A. Hope: / Fear:
B. Want: / Need:
C. Base Negative
Emotion: / Public Mask:
D. Weaknesses:
E. Triggers:
F. Coping Mechanism: <div>

ASSIGNMENT 2: Old Toms TV Show

1. For each of your main characters, brainstorm an Emotional Profile, filling in the following:

Ishey Garfunk

A. Situational:
Hope: To win the dance contest he is staging for the thirty Old Toms and give them
the prize of £1000 or to the GoFundMe. / Fear: The world is now the stage and
the box office cash runs into many millions of pounds.
B. Motivation:
Want: He wants to create cash for the Old Toms group / Need: He needs to
know his friends and classmates are lining their pockets secretly.
C. Mask:
Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask
D. Weaknesses:
He is ignorant about the true/income /account of the GoFundMe group.
E.
Triggers: Selfish talk or people.
F. Coping Mechanism: evasion,

Senakey

A. Situational:
Hope / Fear
B. Motivation:
Want / Need
C. Mask:
Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask
D. Weaknesses
E.
Triggers
F. Coping Mechanism

Van Pee

A. Situational:
Hope: To sell tickets through his church to 500,000 people for the contest. / Fear: of sharing
the cash with the Old Toms.
B. Motivation:
Want money and power / Need: To show he is tough.
C. Mask:
Base Negative Emotion: / Public Mask: Pastor
D. Weaknesses:
E.
Triggers
F. Coping Mechanism

Gilly

A. Situational:
Hope / Fear
B. Motivation:
Want: Power and Money. / Need: Control
C. Mask:
Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: Meek Agricultural Engineer.
D. Weaknesses:
E.
Triggers:
F. Coping Mechanism: </div>

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Module 1 – Lesson 4: Layers of Character Intrigue

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

1. Think about Mr. Robot TV Show. Make a list of the places you’ve already seen Character Intrigue in the previous episodes.

Episode 1

Hidden Agendas –Elliot goes to Ron’s restaurant and introduces himself to the owner at the coffee table. He reveals Ron’s secrets including porn on the dark web. Elliot provides evidence and tells Ron the Police who are on the way to arrest him.

Competition – Tyrell Wellick is competing for Terry Colby’s job.

Conspiracy – the fsociety involves Elliot in a conspiracy to bring down Evil Corp.

Secrets – Elliot is on drugs and he has sex with a drug dealer. Gideon is gay.

Deception – Elliot deceives the cab company to get to the address.

Wound – Elliot lost his father to leukemia because of a company.

Secret Identity – Mr. Robot

Episode 2

Hidden Agendas:
Competition:
Conspiracy:
Secrets: Wellick is violent. He pays someone
to take a beating from him.
Deception:
Wound:
Secret Identity:

Episode 3

Hidden Agendas:
Competition:
Conspiracy:
Secrets: Wellick is a homosexual. He is too
tired to have sex with his pregnant wife.
Deception: Angela’s boyfriend has been
deceiving her
Wound:
Secret Identity:

2. Watch Episode 4 and see how Character Intrigue is being used to create the need to see more episodes.

Episode 4

Hidden Agendas;
Competition:
Conspiracy:
Secrets:
Deception:
Wound:
Secret Identity:

ASSIGNMENT 2

1. For your Inner Circle characters, fill in any of the Intrigue items that apply.

Character Name: Ishey Garfunk
Role: A security officer who wants to contribute to
the funeral of Old Tom Johnny Banko.
Hidden Agendas: Ishey suspects the group
and wants to find out what money comes into the GoFundMe account, what goes out, and what discrepancies.
Competition: competes with Gill for the
power to revamp, run the group, and create money.
Conspiracies:
Secrets:
Deception:
Wound: Ishey is aggrieved his origin country governs
badly. They did not invest further in his education.
Secret Identity:

Character Name: Jay Van Pee

Role: Pastor
and Fundraiser
Hidden Agendas: The Old Tom wants to use
his status to make money from the GoFundMe account.
Competition: competes with Gill for the
power to run the group.
Conspiracies: Van Pee planned with three
Old Toms to withhold vital information about the death of Johnny Banko from
Ishey. When it was five days to the burial the trio asked Frank Bibio to
release the proper information to Ishey.
Secrets: He did not pay for his journey to the UK. His
elder sister who was a resident, remitted £1000 to enable Pee to travel to
the UK.
Deception:
Wound:
Secret Identity:

Character Name: Gilly alias G Selor
Role: Creator of the Old Toms GoFundMe group on
Whatsapp
Hidden Agendas: To make money from the fund
Competition:
Conspiracies:
Secrets:
Deception:
Wound: The military junta in his origin country
executed his beloved uncle. The
uncle was a Major in the Armed Forces and was charged with taking a 50,000
loan, in local currency from the bank.
Secret Identity:

Character Name: Felix Senakey
Role: Dance Champion and Antagonist
Hidden Agendas: To prod, Ishey to pay up.
Competition: A champion who wants to
remain undisputed
Conspiracies:
Secrets:
Deception:
Wound:
Secret Identity:

[Moses Quainoo]

Moses Quainoo

Engaging Main Characters

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch Episode 3 of Mr. Robot to see any places the lead characters might fit this model.

Role in the Show:

Elliot is a computer hacker who finds himself working for a company he resents and says they are evil.

Tyrell is the Senior Vice President of technology of the Evil Corporation.

Unique purpose/Expertise:

Expertise: Elliot is a computer hacker using his expertise to fight the Evil Corporation.

Purpose: He wants the world to be a safe place.

Tyrell wants Colby’s job.

Intrigue:

Elliot: works normally at Allsafe providing computer security. Then he is on drugs and has sex with the drug dealer.

Tyrell: has a good position in the business and wants Colby’s job.

Moral Issue:

Elliot: Is it right to continue with the drugs than go for rehabilitation? Is it right to continue associating with the fsociety?

Tyrell: Is it right to pay someone to take a beating from him? Is it right to draw closer to the boss’s secretary to get more information about the new CTO?

Unpredictable:

Elliot joins Mr. Robot seated on a side rail. As they talk Elliot loses guard and Mr. Robot pushes him over and Elliot drops from the height.

Elliot invites Shayla to come to a party with him as his girlfriend.

Tyrell pays someone three hundred dollars to take a beating from him.

Empathy:

Elliot is in the hospital, bruised, and suffers a cut on the forehead that needs stitching.

Tyrell’s appointment for the job is rescheduled.

ASSIGNMENT 2:

Tell us about the journey of Old Toms.

Ishey gets an invitation to join a GoFundMe group on WhatsApp and raises money when he challenges his brother to the Borborbor dance.

Who are the main characters that will sell Old Toms?

Ishey Garfunk

Senakey

Van Pee

Gilly alias G Selor

Answer these questions for each of those characters.

A. Role in the Show:

Ishey Garfunk – Ishey is a security officer going grocery shopping after work, and meets an old friend who invites him to join their group and give eighty pounds.

Senakey – He who suggests the group get every Old Tom to join and contribute.

Van Pee – A retired security officer and a recently qualified pastor. He wants to make money from GoFundMe.

Gilly alias G Selor – A retired agricultural engineer, he created the GoFundMe for the 1979 Old Toms year group on WhatsApp.

B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:

Ishey Garfunk – Ishey wants to contribute to the funeral of his leading buddy and ended raise money in the GoFundMe.

Ishey is a gifted dancer, knows about studio recording, and uses his knowledge to create Borborbor fusion. He is an experienced administrator and manages cash inflow to the group.

Ishey got a ‘Division 3’ at the GCE O Levels and was put down by his fellow Old Toms.

In the challenging world, Old Toms who got ‘Divisions 1 and 2’ and went to universities to pursue degrees in various fields cannot create money for the group.

In everyday life, Ishey is the hero.

Senakey – A Champion dancer.

Van Pee – Knows how to organize a contest and people.

Gilly alias G Selor –

A. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?

Ishey Garfunk – Ishey challenged his brother to a contest, and will take all monies raised beyond the prize. Ishey signs a Film deal with recording studios, radio, and TV stations. Ishey is using the contest to raise money for him.

Senakey

Van Pee

Gilly alias G Selor

D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they
crossing?

Ishey Garfunk – Is it right to swindle money for charity? Sign deals without the consent of the other Old Tom players?

Senakey –

Van Pee –

Gilly alias G Selor –

E. Unpredictable: What will they do next?

Ishey Garfunk – Ishey threatens to withdraw the prize. Ishey introduce a fused version of the Borborbor songs without consulting the group. He set up Gilly. Ishey demanded that Old Toms bring their books to stage the contest to raise more money.

Ishey is a gifted dancer stepping into new territory – traditional Borborbor music. Ishey reports for work early and hand on in the standard room till start time.

Ishey finds out Gilly made an outstanding donation to Serpentine contrary to what the group gives to bereaved families. He supports the idea of knowing the coffers are emptied at will and accounts reconciled to look right.

Senakey – Prod his brother to pay up

Van Pee –

Gilly alias G Selor

F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

Ishey Garfunk – Ishey is facing financial difficulties and Van Pee asks him to give the group money. His origin country did not further his education because he got ‘Division 3’. So he is worthless? The same worthless Old Tom is asked to give money and came back to raise money beyond every dream.

Ishey asks for leave to attend a funeral and the company needs to approve it. He searches for the group and fails. The world locks down.

Senakey –

Van Pee –

Gilly alias G Selor –

[Moses Quainoo]

Module 1 – Lesson 2: Three Circles of Characters “What I learned doing this assignment is…?” ASSIGNMENT 1:

Watch the next episode of Mr. Robot to see how the characters fit into these three circles:

A. Main Characters Circle: Elliot Andersen, Mr. Robot, Tyrell Wellick

B. Connected Circle: Angela Moss, Shyla, Krista Gordon, Gideon, Terry Colby, Darlene

C. Environment Circle: Michael Hansen, Men in suits, fsociety hackers, Fernando Vera,

Give us a quick list for each circle.

ASSIGNMENT 2:

1. Create the three circles of characters for your show.

A. Main
Characters Circle: Ishey Garfunk, Senakey, Van Pee, Gilly.
B. Connected
Circle: Pat, Frank Bibio, B Selor, Kay-Tachie
C. Environment
Circle: Saqib, Abdul, Old Toms

2. Give us a one-sentence description of each of the Main Characters.

Ishey Garfunk, the hero, a security officer, is a good dancer.

Van Pee is a pastor who loves money.

Gilly, the creator of the GoFundMe group (Old Toms group) is disciplined and loves the food called TZ.

Senakey, the antagonist, is a champion dancer.

[Moses Quainoo]

CONCEPT

ASSIGNMENT:

NAME OF SHOW:

Old Toms

TYPE OF SHOW:

Serial TV

PLOTLINE:

Plotline 1 – An innocent on a mission in a strange world.

TELL US EACH PART OF YOUR CONCEPT.

What makes Old Toms unique?

(I) A former student considered a dropout after secondary school uses his vast knowledge gained in the challenging world to raise money for his former school. At the same time, the achievers of good grades sit dormant and are corrupt.

(II) A former student who would not stick his neck out for the origin country he resents on bad governance needs to contribute to his leading buddy’s funeral and raise money for the GoFundMe group (created by his classmates) and the school.

(III) A former student challenges his brother to a dance contest and raises millions of pounds.

(IV) A former student raises money for the former school by contributing to the funeral of his best friend.

(V) A former student who is considered a waste comes back after 41 years to raise millions of pounds for the school that did not help.

What is the unique world Old Toms is set in?

Old Toms sets in the social media world -WhatsApp, Europe, West Africa, and America.

What is the major transformational journey the hero goes through?

A hero is on his way to work when he gets a call from his wife. She wants the hero to get more honey after work.

In the morning, the hero goes to the supermarket to buy the honey and meets a former classmate who invites him to join their GoFundMe group and give £80 to their former school.

The hero blames the origin country for bad governance. He smells of a scam.

The hero avoids his friend and boycotts the group until he gets advice on Social Media Apps that his best buddy is dead. The burial is in five days, and he is six thousand miles away.

The hero wants to go to the funeral, and the world is locked down. He rescinds the boycott, joins the group, and realizes the group cannot make money.

He suspects his friends may have taken the money and put it in their pockets. He has no proof.

No member has raised the motion that he wants to contribute to the funeral on the platform. His lead buddy did not join the group, contrary to his belief.

The hero challenged his brother to a dance contest and after putting down a £1000 prize.

AND FILL IN THE ITEMS BELOW EACH PART:

A. Engaging and highly proactive hero…

Relatable: Ishey is a security officer who is upset about high living costs and losing his job. The government has changed the retirement age to 66 and 70 for men.

Motivation: The wife was about to retire. What a shock. She wants to take advantage of the pension before she dies.

The hero’s wife reduced her hours from 48 to 20 a week. The burden is now on the hero.

B. …up against a major external and internal conflict…

External: Trying to raise money for the family. Retire in comfort if you build a house and buy a car. Life expectancy is unpredictable. The hero faces the greedy members of the GoFundMe group. Swindling.

Internal:

The hero’s need to raise money has conflicted with the group’s creator and the TZ gang as the cash flows non-stop. Can he beat the champion in the dance contest? How do you raise money with a £1000 prize?

C. …goes on a unique transformational journey…

Start:

The hero is a security officer and reports for work early. His co-workers think he is charitable.

Challenge: The Hero goes up against his friends, notably Van Pee, Gilly, Serpentine, and Kay-Tachie, in the group.

Finish:

Unique: The dropout who comes back after 41 years to raise money for the former school and country that neglected him.

D. …into an intriguing world.

The GoFundMe World

Sub-World:

Alms-giving

Contribution

Relief

Hand out

Philanthropy

Endowment

Fund

Benefance

Dole

Gifting

Offering

Write-offs

Assistance

Benefaction

Designed to explore this conflict/transformational journey:

A security officer faces an extension to the retirement age, must secure his family, puts up a £1000 dance contest prize with his brother, and raise millions.

SHORT PITCH:

After getting advice about the death of his leading buddy, an Old Tom joins the GoFundMe group (already set up by his classmates) to contribute to the funeral and challenges his brother to a dance contest with a £1000 prize forward by him and raises millions of pounds.

[Moses Quainoo]

ASSIGNMENT ONE

What I learned doing this Assignment:

Serial Binge-Worthy TV – Mr. Robot

(A) What is the big picture hook? A computer hacker fights the evil within the company he works for.

(B) What makes Elliot Anderson intriguing? Elliot knows hacking best, can stop attacks, and reveal messages, and information in servers.

(C) What situation causes viewers to feel empathy and distress for Elliot? He is lonely and takes morphine to cope with depression. He also takes suboxone in case he goes through withdrawal. He also goes to a therapy session where he says men in suits follow him.

(D) What questions are created by the first episode that only is answered by watching the entire season? Will Terry Colby come back to destroy Elliot? Who are the accomplices? What is their motive? Will Elliot wane himself off the drugs? Will he find a compatible partner? Will he be cured off the depression? Is he tough?

(E) How does this pilot create the need to see every episode? Is Elliot going to survive in the company? How can Elliot trust the fsociety? Will there be a twist? Is his relationship with Angela going to blossom? What will happen to Shayla? And Krista? Will Elliot build a better relationship with the coworker who loves Angela?

[Moses Quainoo]

I MOSES QUAINOO agree to the release

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 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.

[Moses Quainoo]

I am Moses Quainoo.

I have a handful of uncompleted scripts namely 1. OLD TOMS, 2. THE DO WELLS, 3. JOYSTICK ROV and more.

Each is a complete serial TV show with the same lead Character and a continuation memoir spanning 45 years.

I want to compile my works under one Binge-Worthy serial TV show titled BY THE EVENING FIRE.

I joined the Scribophile writing community and often post one or two chapters of my work.

Hope I can accomplish my ambition here.

[Moses Quainoo]

Hello Jean-Pierre,

Check your email for the SKYY LAR TV Show Binge-Worthy Framework. I look forward to your feedback.

Sincerely

Moses Quainoo

[Moses Quainoo]

My email is moses.quainoo@yahoo.com. I just sent my Binge-Worthy Framework to Marie for Feedback.

[Moses Quainoo]

Can we exchange BW Framework for feedback? Do we have to go through ScreenwritingU to do so? Okay.

Meanwhile, my Email address is…

moses.quainoo@yahoo.com

[Moses Quainoo]

Hi Jean. I would like to exchange BW Framework for feedback. Marie suggests we go through the ScreenwritingU email. How do I do so now?

[Moses Quainoo]

Hello Marie,

I emailed the SKYY LAR TV Show Binge-Worthy Framework. I look forward to your Feedback.

Sincerely

Moses Quainoo

[Moses Quainoo]

Can we exchange BW Framework for feedback? Do we have to go through ScreenwritingU to do so? Okay. What are the steps to take?

Meanwhile, my Email address is…

moses.quainoo@yahoo.com

[Moses Quainoo]

What are the steps through ScreenwritingU email? waiting to send you the BW Framework.

[Moses Quainoo]

Yes. How do I do it? I am ready right now.