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Assignment Lesson 8

Subject line: Rich Bradley’s Inviting Obsession Through Mystery

What I learned doing this assignment is you can layer different mysteries so you always have something to hide and always have somethings to be revealed to keep the suspense and interest. Also, how to work the short and long term mysteries together so there is always a reservoir drama and situations to draw from.

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.
Tell us about the mysteries from this show.

• Big Picture mysteries for “The Americans”:
o What is the end game for Phillip and Elizabeth?
o Do they get caught?
o Do they get killed?
o Do they defect? Does just Phillip defect?
o What happens with Phillips real love and his son he just found out about that Elizabeth doesn’t know about?
o Does FBI Stan really know who they are?
o Will Stan get caught cheating?
• Smaller mysteries:
o Will they catch the assassin who went off the grid?
o Will Elizabeth and Claudia tension come to a head?

ASSIGNMENT 2:
Create two mysteries for your show — one that shows up strong in the Pilot and the other that is revealed over time.
1. Create your Shocking Event Mystery and tell us the WWWWW and H, along with the part withheld.
• A. Shocking Event: Dred is shot in the head by Jay on Big Chuck’s orders.
• B. Secret: Why did Big Chuck want Dred dead and why have Jay do it?
• C. Investigation: Who was Dred and what did he do to Big Chuck?
• WWWWW and How:
• WHAT: Jay was picked to do a hit on Dred. Jay took Vic with him without telling him what was happening.
• WHEN: On their way to a BBQ with Vic’s girlfriend’s family. Vic is going to propose to Yossie.
• WHERE: In Miami Gardens.
• WHY: To take back drugs and cash.
• WHO: Big Chuck chose Jay, someone new to be further removed from the situation. He didn’t know Vic would be with him.
• HOW: Looked like a home invasion, but was targeted.
• Part Withheld: Dred was about to become an informant in another murder case-for Det. Kelley- (possibly implicating BC or Big Unc) and saw ARam, BC right hand man at the police station. ARam is a Miami Dade Narcotics detective.
2. Create the Over Time Mystery and tell us the WWWWW and H, along with the part withheld.
• A. Cover up: Who killed Vic’s and Big Chuck’s father.
• B. Secret: Big Unc was the mastermind
• C. Reveals: Jay’s father was involved
• WHAT: Big Chuck’s father was a Miami detective who was murdered with a drug addict,
• Jay’s father.
• WHEN: 15 years ago
• WHERE: Miami in an abandoned apartment in the pork and beans
• WHY: Big Chuck’s father Charles and Big Unc, who are brothers in law, had a falling out over Big Unc’s drug dealing. Vic’s father was a childhood friend of Charles and wanted to warn him about Big Unc’s plan.
• WHO: Big Chuck chose Jay for the Dred hit because he found out Jay’s father may be involved in his father’s death. Wants to try to find leverage with Jay’s family for info. He didn’t know Vic would be with him.
• HOW: Execution with no witnesses.
• Part Withheld: Det. Kelley and the current police chief were responding detectives. They hid evidence to make Big Chuck’s father look clean.

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ASSIGNMENT LESSON 4

Rich Bradley’s Intriguing Character Layers

What I learned doing this assignment is going through the process of working with the characters to reveal deep and intriguing layers for each character often reveals connections of intrigue between the characters.

ASSIGNMENT 1:

1. Think about your Example Show. Make a list of the places you’ve already seen Character Intrigue in the previous episodes.

• Hidden agendas: Phillip and Elizabeth want to take down the US government while looking like upstanding citizens.
• Competition: Phillip and Elizabeth constantly are competing with each on who has a better idea to complete a project. Stan seems to be competing against the whole FBI office to stand out.
• Conspiracy: Phillip and Elizabeth together with the rest of the undercover agents for the KGB are trying to take down the US government.
• Secrets: Elizabeth doesn’t love her husband and puts the KGB and Russia above her family. Phillip wants to leave the KGB and defect to the United States with his family.
• Deception: Stan always seems to know more than what he lets on. Phillip and Elizabeth are deceiving Stan and their entire community.
• Wound: Elizabeth was sexually abused and assaulted in training and has scars from her upbringing. Phillip left the love of his life to join the KGB, he now loves his wife, but she does not love him. Stan has underlying trauma from his last assignment.
• Secret Identity: Phillip is a loving American husband and father. Elizabeth is a woman trapped in an arranged marriage who wants out.

2. Watch the next episode and see how Character Intrigue is being used to create the need to see more episodes.

• Hidden agendas: Pres. Reagan is shot and no one knows if it was Russia, a lone actor, or a government coup. Sec of State assumes control at White House. Elizabeth’s agenda is made clear: she wants the war and to try to overthrow the US government. Phillip wants to be an American.
• Competition: Stan is working to separate himself from all the other FBI agents. His partner doesn’t tell him that Stan’s CI is being trailed. Once again Elizabeth and Phillip are competing on who has the best plan of attack.
• Conspiracy: Is there a coup attempt by Haig so the US will attack Russia? Phillip decides to hold intel from Russia so they don’t over react and cause WW3.
• Secrets: Stan is developing feelings for his Russian mole. Phillip still follows KGB orders but is shifting more and more to the American side.
• Deception: Charles Duluth the conservative reporter is actually a sworn communist who helps Phillip. Elizabeth and Phillip act like they are concerned neighbors when they press Stan for information on the assassination attempt.
• Wound: Elizabeth losing her father and her mother not accepting government help. Phillip isn’t respected or loved by Elizabeth. Stan is struggling to reconnect with his wife after going undercover with the KKK. Sandra is feeling isolated and unloved in DC with Stan.
• Secret Identity: Phillip sees himself as an American. Elizabeth is a soldier fighting an active war. Stan is still playing the role of an undercover cop in his mind.

ASSIGNMENT 2

1. For your Inner Circle characters, fill in any of the Intrigue items that apply.

• Character Name:

– Vic:

– Yossie:

– Big Chuck:

– Det. Kelley

• Role:

– Vic: Producer turned drug dealer to build a music studio.

– Yossie: Vic’s loyal girlfriend/fiancé and aspiring music artist.

– Big Chuck: Small time drug dealer trying to go big time.

– Det. Kelley: Homicide detective that is married to Yossie’s sister.

• Hidden agendas:

– Vic: To dismantle Big Chuck’s empire when he gets his studio.

– Yossie: Go to New York and sing on Broadway

– Big Chuck: Wants to find his father’s killer.

– Det. Kelley: wants to be chief of police

• Competition:

– Vic: With BC about the handling certain deals; with other music producers trying to get artists.

– Yossie: With her older sister who had a successful singing career.

– Big Chuck: With Vic over some deals; with other dealers and territory; with Big Unc who is trying to stay relevant in the game.

– Det. Kelley: with other officers for the chief job; with IA about aggressive tactics Kelley uses that work, and a certain case in particular.

• Conspiracies:

– Vic: with Jay, chi chi’s family, Yossie to get info from Kelley on the murder, BC

– Yossie: with her family about her past as an addict and abusive ex; with Vic to get info about as murder from her brother in law Det. Kelley.

– Big Chuck: with Det. Kelley to get info about his father’s murder as well as being an informant, with Big Unc in the drug trade, with Vic trying to take out rival dealers and even his own crew.

– Det. Kelley: With BC for info, with his partner Valsaint on a certain murder case, with his wife about his past undercover work.

• Secrets:

– Vic: Was with a friend years earlier that was killed by BC crew but no one saw him. Vic has great handyman skills and is an excellent bridge player.

– Yossie: Past as an addict; abused by dealer/addict ex.

– Big Chuck: Romantic relationship with his right-hand man Alex; CI for Det Kelley.

– Det. Kelley: was part of the top secret gang unit in Boston PD that was disbanded because they became their own gang. He came to Miami and worked undercover.

• Deception:

– Vic: Deceives his mother, Yossie, family about how he has been making money; Believes BC that they are working together, but he is slowly working to undermine BC.

– Yossie: Deceives Vic about her past addiction and who her ex is.

– Big Chuck: Deceives Big Unc by being an informant; deceives Vic and the fact he has NO real intentions for building him a music studio.

– Det. Kelley: Deceives the police department in how he gets some info on cases;

• Wound:

– Vic: Father was a drug addict that left the family and they had to move in with his grandfather until his grandfather got sick, they took care of him until he died. Saw his hs friend get murdered by BC’s crew.

– Yossie: She could never measure up to her sister in her parent’s eyes; Abused and got hooked on drugs by her hs ex who is a local Miami dealer.

– Big Chuck: Had an ideal home life until 9 when his police detective father was murdered. Was sexually abused by a member of Big Unc’s crew (who he found and murdered as an adult).

– Det. Kelley: As part of a decorated family of Boston police officers, he left Boston in disgrace after the gang unit disbanded and was shamed by his family. He still suffers some PTSD from being undercover in the gang unit.

• Secret Identity:

– Vic: Murderous drug dealer

– Yossie: Broadway star

– Big Chuck: Real estate broker

– Det. Kelley: Miami Dade Police Commissioner

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ASSIGNMENT LESSON 3

Rich Bradley’s Engaging Main Characters

What I learned doing this assignment is some of my characters were shallow and I really had to work creating depth and intrigue to make them more engaging.

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Tell us the name and Engaging Profile answers for at least one character from your example show.

The Americans: Episode 3

• A. Role in the show:

Elizabeth: An American married mother of two children who is a secret KGB agent.

Phillip: An American married father of two children who is a secret KGB agent.

Stan: A counter terror FBI agent that focuses on Russian spies who lives across the street from Elizabeth and Phillip.

• B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:

Elizabeth: Highly skilled and trained KGB spy who knows how to get the info she needs and is ruthless when she needs to be.

Phillip: Highly skilled and trained KGB spy who is highly skilled technically and can mastermind very complicated plans to achieve the Russian objectives.

Stan: Although he is part of the FBI upholding the law, he has just come out of being undercover for 3 years, so he is a master of lying, deception, and manipulation in his own right.

Irony: Stan is a man of the law, but he is a trained spy just like Phillip and Elizabeth.

• C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?

Elizabeth: A KGB agent pretending to be an all-American wife and mother. She has gone through physical and emotional trauma in her past.

Phillip: A KGB agent pretending to be an all-American husband and father. Phillip’s past is still a mystery.

Stan: Stan is an FBI agent who knows how to keep secrets and deceive. He is a changed person after his last assignment.

• D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing?

Elizabeth: Deceit, sexual manipulation, murder, espionage

Phillip: Deceit, sexual manipulation, murder, espionage

Stan: He will lie, deceive, and push the boundaries of the law to achieve his desired outcome.

• E. Unpredictable: What will they do next?

Elizabeth: Die hard soldier of the KGB, she would be willing to die and leave her husband and kids behind for the cause.

Phillip: Has become fond of America ad although he still carries out missions, would prefer to defect and live the American dream. Elizabeth does not approve.

Stan: He is willing to lie and deceive to get information. He already broke into Phillip and Elizabeth’s house. He is willing to do anything it takes to catch spies.

• F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

Elizabeth: After seeing flashbacks where Elizabeth suffered abuse (emotional and sexual plus an arranged marriage), and through her conversations with Phillip where she talks about being so young and becoming involved, you feel for her because she seems to be trying to find her way.

Phillip: It’s revealed early on that although Phillip is a murderous KGB agent, he really loves his kids and wife and wants the best life for them even if it means betraying the homeland and going against everything he has known and becoming a traitor.

Stan: He has given a lot personally and professionally for his job and his country. However, he tries to do what’s best for both his. Country and family, but it seems like he can’t have it both ways.

ASSIGNMENT 2:

Now, do the process with your show.

1. Tell us the journey of your show.

– Vic’s goal is to have his own music studio and be a successful music producer

2. Who are the main characters that will sell your show?

– Vic, Yossie, Det. Kelley, Big Chuck

3. Answer these questions for each of those characters.

• A. Role in the show:

– Vic: Local music producer who does small handyman jobs to make ends meet.

– Yossie: Vic’s loyal girlfriend/fiancé who is an aspiring artist who works at a gift shop.

– Big Chuck: Small time Miami drug dealer looking to grow an empire.

– Det. Kelley: Miami homicide detective who is Yossie’s brother-in-law.

• B. Unique Purpose / Expertise:

– Vic: Talented music producer with unique problem-solving skills from doing odd jobs and playing Bridge with his grandfather and friends.

– Yossie: Talented singer with charm and an innate ability to keep people together in intense situations.

– Big Chuck: He is a logistics expert with military training who wants to unleash his skills on the drug trade.

– Det. Kelley: A fourth generation detective originally from Boston, he has seen it all, heard it all, and done it all. He has A high IQ for putting the pieces of a case together.

• C. Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface?

– Vic: He is dealing drugs and killing people to fund a legitimate business.

– Yossie: Her ex-boyfriend is a rival drug dealer.

– Big Chuck: He wants to avenge the death of his father, which sent his life into a tailspin as a child.

– Det. Kelley: He left Boston PD when they dismantled the gang undercover unit that got so deep undercover, they forgot they were cops.

• D. Moral Issue: What moral boundaries are they crossing?

– Vic: Dealing drugs and killing people.

– Yossie: Willing to support Vic even though she doesn’t really know what he’s doing when it could destroy her own family.

– Big Chuck: Dealing drugs and killing people.

– Det. Kelley: Planting evidence, lying, and murder were things he did in the gang unit. Would he go back to that to solve a homicide?

• E. Unpredictable: What will they do next?

– Vic: Make a move to break away from Big Chuck, or even take him out.

– Yossie: Steal files from Det. Kelley to get info on a murder he is investigating.

– Big Chuck: Cooperate with the police to take down other drug dealers?

– Det. Kelley: Work undercover in a drug crew himself.

• F. Empathetic: Why do we care?

– Vic: His father was an addict left/died when he was in high school. He didn’t go to college and has been working odd jobs trying to help support his family.

– Yossie: Loving parents and sister, recovering addict coming out of an abusive relationship.

– Big Chuck: Father was a police officer working undercover who was murdered when Chuck was a boy. The murder is still unsolved. His mother and siblings had to move in with Big Unc. Chuck was sexually abused by one of Big Unc’s crew.

– Det. Kelley: Despite his faults, he volunteers his time to mentor kids at risk and even stopping by past victims’ families to check in and give them money. His kid, who is fully recovered, also had leukemia when they were a year old.

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ASSIGNMENT LESSON 2

Rich Bradley’s Three Circles of Characters

What I learned doing this assignment is that I really needed to tighten up my main character circle. Also, it helped breakdown the amount of characters in a scene and their roles.

ASSIGNMENT 1:

Three circles of characters for “The Americans”:

A. Main Characters Circle: Phillip, Elizabeth, Stan Beeman (FBI agent/neighbor)

B. Connected Circle: Stan’s FBI agent partner, Stan’s FBI boss, General Zhukov, Viola (maid), Henry and Paige, Vasilli, KGB guy talking to Vasilli, Annelise/wife of the undersecretary, Russian embassy woman

C. Environment Circle: stereo shop owner, Grayson/poisoned son, cabinet members at party, Viola’s brother Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Weinberger, FBI agents in van, ppl walking around the farmers market, students/ppl walking around the university, FBI agents in office with Beeman president’s call, Russian embassy workers

ASSIGNMENT 2:

1. Create the three circles of characters for your show.

• A. Main Characters Circle:

– Vic: The beat maker, music producer, and the leader of the group of four friends trying to make their music dreams come true by way of drug dealing.

– Yossie: Vic’s loyal girlfriend who is also an artist. Her sister Yessie is married to Det. Kelley. This complicates Vic’s business plans.

– Det. Kelley: Seasoned Miami homicide detective who starts investigating drug related murders. He is on the heels of a new crew but doesn’t know who they are.

– Big Chuck: A Miami drug kingpin who has to navigate promises made to Vic and his crew, while staying ahead of Det. Kelley.

• B. Connected Circle: Jay, Chi Chi, Monty, Yessy, Det. Valsaint, Internal affairs det., Alejandro “Alex” Ramirez, Big Unc

• C. Environment Circle: Chief of police, another detective (skeptic/ball buster), main drug connect for Big Chuck, Big Chuck’s competition, Chi Chi’s opportunistic uncle/cousin, flashbacks of Vic’s grandfather with wisdom, the main street level dealer Vic interacts with, Jay’s girlfriend of the moment, Big Chuck’s wife, Alejandro’s wife or boyfriend, Other police officers/detectives, other street level dealers, family members, ppl associated with the connect, other muscle for Big Chuck and Big Unc, Det. Kelley’s and Yossie’s kids

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ASSIGNMENT LESSON 1

THE AMERICANS

5 Star Model

What I learned from this assignment is even with a great/unique show concept, becoming conflated with the characters, their emotions and motivations is critical to wanting to keep watching the next episode.

THE AMERICANS

5 Star Model

1. Big Picture Hooks: An All-American couple with two kids living just outside of Washington DC in the 1980s are really uncover KGB agents.

2. Amazing and Intriguing Character: The couple, Phillip and Elizabeth, who were raised in the USSR to speak English with no accent and be “American”, have very different views of their relationship and who they are.

3. Empathy / Distress: Elizabeth has gone through abuse and rape because she believed in the cause. Phillip actually loves Elizabeth, their kids, and their life in America. Elizabeth’s number one priority is unflinching loyalty to the mother land.

4. Layers / Open Loops: Although they seem to be the perfect American family, things get complicated when counter terrorism FBI agent moves in across the street. Elizabeth thinks it’s a coincidence, but Phillip senses it could be something more. He wants to come clean and go into witness protection, but she is too committed to the cause and refuses to.

5. Inviting Obsession: After the kidnapping and removal of a high-profile former KGB traitor got messy, the FBI agent moving across the street has the husband concerned. Will they stay committed to the espionage cause, risking everything including life imprisonment and even death? Or will they take millions from the US for info to betray the USSR?

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Rich Bradley’s Terrifying Monster

What I learned doing this assignment is you need to really envision and tap into the fear and terror your monster needs to evoke in the audience. Not just on the surface, you need to feel it.

Create an early version of your monster.

1. Tell us what or who your monster is. The Luminous Palms Society is a secret group. They are a group of powerful citizens (in the public’s eye) whose lives would be ruined if it was revealed who they were. They would be shunned, imprisoned, and executed. Anyone in the group who brings attention or suspicion to the group disappears. The high priests are no exception.

2. Give us a few sentences for each of the following for your monster:

Their Terror: The Society members continually need fresh blood, literally. The members use a cabal to identify, kidnap, and cover the sacrifices.<div>

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Their Mystery: When sacrifice victims are kidnapped and held in the sanctum, they don’t know why and don’t know what will happen. It is only at the last moment during the ceremony is it revealed to them what is about to happen. They see the ghoulish faces in the hooded robes as the blood drains from their body. One member may even be the secret leader, higher than the priest, alive for centuries.

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Their Fear Provoking Appearance: The society members wear hooded robes during the ceremony. They can appear ghoulish and frail until they get a taste of fresh blood, when they become animated and alive.

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Their Rules: 1. They must be upstanding citizens in involved in the community. 2. They are bound by a lifelong blood oath. This becomes a curse if they try to leave. 3. There is a council of elders who hold the most power and knowledge within the society. NEEDS MORE

Their Mythology: The society believes that their blood rituals grant them extended lifespans and the ability to resist aging. They are driven by the fear of mortality and a desire to achieve immortality through their practices.

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The Visit Horror Conventions

I learned how to outline the high points and necessary elements of a horror film.

Title / Concept: The Visit

Terrorize The Characters: Over the course of week the walls slowly close in. “Grandma” asking Becca to get in the oven. Chasing them under the house. Scratching and banging at night. Finding out they aren’t the real grandparents but still trapped in the house with them. Finding the real grandparents dead in the basement.

Isolation: The grandkids are trapped on a farm with their grandparents that they just met who appear to be going through mental health crises.

Death: The real grandparents were murdered as well as the Stacy who was checking on them.

Monster/Villain: The mentally ill “grandparents”

High Tension: The “grandparents” behavior begins to get more erratic and creepier. “Grandma” sundowning every night, scratching the walls every night naked. “Grandpa” hiding dirty diapers, cleaning guns, attacking innocent bystanders in public.

Departure from Reality: Trapped on a farm with demented, mentally ill elderly murderers and only finding out after a week of staying there.

Moral Statement: A woman who didn’t appreciate her parents is now in a situation where she lost her parents and could even lose her kids because of it.

3. Anything else you’d like to say about what made this movie a great horror film?

I thought the film did a great job starting from a normal spot and gradually isolating Becca and Tyler. Slowly the fear and terror were increased with small, strange interactions with their “grandparents”.

4. With your concept, fill in each of these Conventions for your story.

Concept: A Miami detective with a dark history and psychic powers of his own has been investigating missing people. He starts to find links to a secret society, “The Luminous Palms Society”. The society practices an ancient religion called “Mystara” and uses the kidnapped victims as sacrifices so their members can have wealth, power, and long lives. The more similar the victim is to the member, the more effective the sacrifice is. And the younger the victim, the more powerful. But it must be renewed consistently.

Terrorize The Characters: The characters are kidnapped, tortured, and sacrificed in various ways. The detective sees visions but can’t decipher them.

Isolation: Victims are kidnapped and held in the “Sanctum” where they are tortured until their ceremony.

Death: throat cut while hanging inverted to drain blood, decapitation, mutilation.

Monster/Villain: The cult, the high priest, the socialite

High Tension: Disappearing people held in captivity until sacrifices, a missing pregnant woman that will die with her baby when she gives birth. A detective that has visions but can’t piece it all together in time.

Departure from Reality: Being kidnapped and held for sacrifices.

Moral Statement: When society celebrates wealth, fame, and success above all else, people will go to unspeakable lengths to attain them.

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1. Hi my name is Rich Bradley and I live in Pembroke Pines, FL.

2. I have written 4 scripts and several show and film concepts to develop.

3. I hope to get a fully marketable horror film concept developed while being held accountable by a timeline.

4. When I work out, I don’t listen to music. I only play Alfred Hitchcock Presents, both 30 min and 1 hour versions.

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