[Tracy McMahan]

Concept: Two time travelers from the future fight during different periods of Earth’s past. The hero wants to prevent changes to the past that could endanger Earth and his family and the villain wants to change the past to obtain power in the future, regardless of the consequences to Earth’s future.
• Hero Morally Right: Ian MacAllister is stopping the Time Changers to protect humanity and save the future world and his family.
• Villain Morally Wrong: The human leader of the Time Changers, Peter Draclus, wants to use his band of robots and humans to change the past and enable his family to be the most powerful family in the future.
Hero: Ian MacAllister, known as Mac. An engineer
• A. Unique Skill Set: An engineer who can build almost anything including weapons from what is available in different time periods.
• B. Motivation: Save his family and Earth.
• C. Secret or Wound: His brother has disappeared in the future because of changes the Time Changers made in the past.
Villain: Peter Draclus, Wealthy banker and leader of the Time Changers. Wants to become President of Earth by changing the past.
• A. Unbeatable: Has used his money to create a band of robots and humans that travel through time making changes to enable him to dominate Earth and become President of Planet Earth
• B. Plan/Goal: Has used his money to buy top engineers to learn when and where Mac will be at any given time so that he can kill him and stop Mac’s efforts to thwart Peter’s plans to change the past. He’s been chasing Mac through different time periods and hasn’t been able to kill him, so he is also trying to find Mac’s grandfather and prevent Mac from ever being born.
• C. What they lose if Hero survives: His family will not dominate the future with their wealth and power.
Impossible Mission: Mac must stop the Time Changers’ latest effort to change the past and return home where his brother should now be okay.
• A. Puts Hero in Action: He needs to do more than fight the robots. He needs to destroy Peter without changing the future.
• B. Demands They Go Beyond Their Best: He is fighting a group of well-trained robots and humans who want to kill him and the woman from the past whom he now loves. He must also prevent the robots from killing his great great grandfather, but he doesn’t know who is grandfather was.
• C. Destroy the Villain: Mac has to fight and capture some of the robot fighters in various past times and take them apart to find out where Peter is hiding in the future. He must do this without drawing attention to himself or the Time Changers. Then he must go to the future where Peter is hiding and destroy Peter in the future in their own time, so that Mac avoids changing the past.
What I learned in this assignment is to think of more than one strategy that the villain is using to make my hero have to come up with more than one way to fight the villain.

[Tracy McMahan]

Tracy’s Conventions
I learned how to elevate the ultimate mission and the importance of the antagonist’s goals and rationale for stopping the hero’s mission.
Conventions
• Hero: MacAllister, nickname Mac. Knows several languages. Can build almost anything including weapons.
• Demand For Action: Stop the Time Changers who want to change the past to make certain changes in the future.
• Mission: Prevent the destruction of Earth in the future and save his family.
• Antagonist: The human leader of the Time Changers. He wants to make changes to the past that will make him and his family the most powerful people in the future.
• Escalating Action: MacAllister falls in love with a woman from a past time and endangers her life. Protecting her jeopardizes his mission and gives the Time Changers a new way to hurt MacAllister and manipulate him.

[Tracy McMahan]

Tracy Mayhan
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[Tracy McMahan]

1. Name? Tracy Mayhan

2. How many scripts you’ve written? Several non-fiction scripts for NASA that were produced and released. I have tried to write fiction scripts before. I just started a new project that has lots of action.

3. What you hope to get out of the class? I hope to learn how to elevate my action scenes. My script is science fiction, but the action scenes need more tension and elevation.

4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you?
As part of my career, I have worked with many brilliant scientists, engineers, and astronauts.

We look forward to working with you all!