[Timothy Allen]

Tim Allen Horror Situation Track

What I learned doing this assignment was that it will definitely help you keep your plot in order as well as show you what may need adjusting.

Act 1. Atmosphere of evil established: The group of six adrenaline junkies are sitting around a night campfire near their cabins reading a riddle of how each one will die by their worst fear.

Horror Situation: Creepy howling animal noises are coming from the trees behind them.

Reaction-Denial: The group begins haggling over the notes, whether it’s just the campground owners making an attempt to heighten the experience with dramatics.

Horror Situation: In all the excitement the group didn’t even notice one of the members who went by the trees to take a whiz, was hit over the head, gagged, and taken away by the killer undetected.

Connect with the characters: The next morning they discover they’re missing a member from their group, and the leader who put this trip together devises a plan to create a map and go into the forest grounds to find him. Two men from the group who always seem to be in competition with one another begin searching the living quarters for weapons of survival. Another member, who usually makes the wiser decisions now second guesses the notes passed around at the campfire.

The characters are warned not to do it: The group gets halted by the managers of the campground warning them not to go into areas that are not on the sights brochure they received the first day. That doing so poses a danger from nearby animals that need guides or experience to handle.

Denial of Horror: The group warns the camp managers that the scare tactics are not a part of the experience, and that their buddy had better turn up by daybreak or they will demand a full refund.

Safety taken away: The group head down the first path of their makeshift map and at the end of the trail they find the three vehicles used for safety and transportation on the camp tires were all flattened.

Reaction-Try to solve: The group begin walking around the vehicles looking at the visible damage to see if they could find tools of any sort.

Horror Situation: Fresh blood and a particle from the missing group member’s clothing is spotted on one of the vehicles. Then high pitch moaning is heard.

Reaction: The group panics and begin running into each other heading back to the living quarters.

Monster – The nature of the beast: During the panic one member pushes another right into the path of the killer, as he stands there just staring at her with a bear trap in his hands.

Horror Situation: She turns to run away from the mauled-faced killer, but he hurls the bear trap at her feet catching her by the ankle and nearly cutting her foot off.

Reaction: The group is now terrified and bundling together inside the cabin too scared to aid their screaming friend.

Act 2 – The point of no return
The rest of the group trapped inside the cabin decide to build up courage to see if they can find their friends while hesitant that this is really happening. They break open the locker filled with safety items grabbing an axe, a flare gun, and a bow & arrow set.

Horror Situation: The last four of the group walk down the path where their friend was last seen and are met by the high pitch moaning right beneath their feet, and they begin digging. The killer reappears.

Reaction: One of them shoots the flare gun and misses, and they all run for cover.

Horror: The last four run into a trap, falling in a dark pit underground while the screams from the first missing friend just got louder.

Reaction: They try to find their way through the dark and wind up separated from one another.

Horror Situation: One of them feels the killer on his heels and turns around shooting blindly causing him to stumble in another hole sliding down a muddy trail right into an alligator pit.

Character Death: The killer returns to the victim dangling from the bear trap clinging to her ankle, and he pokes her in the face with a blade while rabid stricken raccoons eat of her flesh, and she dies a slow agonizing death.

Midpoint: The monster is worse than we thought!

Act 3 – Full Out Horror

Fight to the death:
One of the group members finds himself underground with the killer in the dark in a maze. He’s so hysterical he forgets he has a bow & arrow in hand. He’s being chased by a mangy wolf and turns around shooting the wolf in the neck killing it instantly. He turns around in pre-celebration and is met by an axe slung by the killer, splitting his head right down the middle.

Hysteria:
The member who slid down the mud hole into the alligator pit is in the swim of his life as the predators are closing in. He reaches the bank and met by a strange hand fishing him out only to chop off his hand. In his hysteria, he jumps up running into bear traps clamping on to both his feet so hard they chop them off at the ankles.

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[Timothy Allen]

This is quite the experience for me. I’m seeing such good writing, that my head is spinning. This combined with my daily responsibilities, I wonder if I have bitten off more than I can chew? Buuuut, seeing how I am not a quitter, I will continue.

[Timothy Allen]

Tim Allen Horror Plot

What I learned from this assignment is good brainstorming!

Act1 Set up for horror
Atmosphere of evil established

The group of six thrill seekers are sitting around in the dark around a campfire haggling over an old newspaper clipping of a man presumed to be dead, hanging upside down from a tree from the very camp they decided to come to. The newspaper clipping revealed that local authorities were called on the scene of a man falling off a cliff while onlookers took photos. But once they cleared the area and went to retrieve his body, it was never found. It also claims the park to be haunted by his spirit.

Connect with the characters

Danny the rebel is bragging about how he isn’t afraid of anything and wants to go lurking around the camp to find this famous tree. Niles the complainer is doing exactly what she does, complaining about how it’s too dark to go anywhere. Jarred who just follows anyone anywhere for no reason wants to follow Danny. Jarred, who wants to be just like Rueben wants to know his opinion. Rueben like the leader he is or thinks he is, wants to wait until morning and draw a map so they don’t get lost. And Christie who usually makes moral and sound decisions thinks it’s not safe to wander in an area they don’t know no matter how exciting of a challenge it is.

The characters are warned not to do it

The owners of the camp warn the group not to wander in areas not posted on the arrival pamphlet, as they are not liable for incidents in non-designated areas. That there are also wild animals present that you need an experienced guide to handle.

Denial of horror

The group all agrees that the park owners are just trying to frighten then to heighten the experience.

Safety taken away

The only key to the weapons held on ground in case of emergency is missing.

Monster: Being that his face was partially eaten off by animals, he likes to return the favor.

Act 2 The point of no return

The next morning the group meet up to take on the hike to find this famous hanging body tree. They are met by the owners of the camp handing them a disclosure that they all signed before arriving at the park. After reading the disclosure they discover in small print that once they arrive at the park and have already stayed one day they cannot leave or request a refund. After passing the disclosure around arguing for fifteen minutes they realize Niles is missing. After checking the grounds, they can’t find him, but what they did find is that all three vehicles for use on the campgrounds have been sabotaged.

One of us killed

Niles is lying in a box screaming at the top of his lungs while insects and poisonous ones at that, are crawling over his body. Niles has succumbed to his worst fear; buried alive.

Midpoint: The monster is worse than we thought!

Full pursuit by the killer

Danny the rebel quickly turned into Danny the weasel while taking a whiz he came face to face with the mauled-faced killer that wasn’t just a spirit. He ran past Chris pushing her directly in the killer’s path.

Terrorized

The rest of what was left of the group, not one of them braved up to go see why Chris screamed in agony. But they did not have to for long as they all fell in a hole in the ground sending them in four different directions. The next day they woke up to each one’s worst fear.
Act 3 Full out horror

The last four members of the group are at the peril of an animal eating its way to their death. And if they get by the animal, they still have to face the killer. They hysterically try to free themselves from one another’s demise, but there is no resolution and no escape. They will all face the killer one by one without any weapon of choice.

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[Timothy Allen]

Tim Allen Characters for Horror

I learned from this doing this assignment, is that giving your characters more to their individual characters makes the concept and plot more interesting.

Concept: Thrills seekers take a vacation to visit a new concept adventure park designed to scare to beyond your imagination, hence making you a much stronger person consciously.

Dying Pattern: B; each character experience the horror beyond the camp's provision, but only three dies and three survive.

Characters: Kniles; he complains about everything the group does but is still thrilled to be involved.
Whittaker; a serious rebel who has been to prison numerous times and brags he doesn’t fear anything.
Rueben; Leader/Carier responsible for convincing the group to try this new camp.
Followers: Ron, Jarred, and Christie the three survivors but left mentally stained.

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[Timothy Allen]

Tim Allen – Terrifying Monster

What I learned doing this assignment is that sometimes the unknown can be more frightening than just popping up with a weapon of choice in the killer's hand.

Thier Terror: He stalks relentlessly; and you know it.

Their Mystery: He leaves clues of how you're going to die that are not always easy to figure out until it's too late.

Their fear-provoking appearance: His face is gruesome, partially eaten off by animals.

Their rules: He has none "per se;" if you meet him or see him you will die. There is no bargaining or play on sympathy.

Thier mythology: He has none at this particular time.

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[Timothy Allen]

Movie Title
Horror Conventions

Tim Allen
What I learned from this assignment is that it caused me to pay more attention to the small details I would not have normally.

Title: Thanksgiving (Netflix)

Terrorize the characters: gruesome photos are being sent to certain individuals randomly

Isolation: small Massachusetts town

Death: Dismembered bodies are set at a dinner table as a thanksgiving style feast

Monster/Villian: The deputy is taking revenge for the death of his wife caused by a towns stampede during a shopping spree

High Tension: The entire town is in a panic frenzy on who's the next victim

Depart from reality: Cannibalism isn't acceptable (which brings me to the next bullet)

Moral statement: No one is going to invite you to their home and serve you human flesh

I believe this was a great movie because it did its job. I wasn't frightened because I love horror movies, but it did surprise me with who the actual killer was. I was way off. And the gore was very sufficient. It looks like the budget might have been within reason, and for all the horror movies on the market this one had something unique to bring.

My Story

Title: Last Rush

Terrorize the characters: 7 adrenaline junkies are brought to the edge of their worst fears

Isolation: A remote mountain adventure park

Death: One by one adrenaline junkies are brutally murdered

Monster/Villian: A disfigured man left for dead is exacting revenge

High tension: The park closes, entrances are locked, but no-one gets to leave

Departure from reality: After the first death, investigators would be on scene and the park truly would be closed

Moral statement: You shouldn't play around with death

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[Timothy Allen]

Tim Allen

“I agree to the terms of this release form”

GROUP RELEASE FORM
As a member of this group, I agree to the following:
1. That I will keep the processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class available to anyone who is not a member of this class.

2. That each writer’s work here is copyrighted and that writer is the sole owner of that work. That includes this program which is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that idea.
I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.

3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.

4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea prior to the beginning of the class. If Hal deems them to be the same idea or close enough to cause harm to either party, he’ll request both parties to present another concept for the class.

5. If you don’t present proof to Hal that you have the same idea as another person, you agree that all ideas presented to this group are the sole ownership of the person who presented them and you will not write or market another group member’s ideas.

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

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[Timothy Allen]

Good morning, afternoon, or evening depending on which side of the world you are. My name is Timothy Allen and I’m not that fond of it, so everyone just calls me Tim. Which brings another issue, as I can’t get them to stop calling me the Tim the Tool Man ;-)!
I have written only two screenplays and have seven on the back burner as ideas, but never written anything on a professional level.
My goal from this class is to learn all that I possibly can, so that maybe I can polish up my characters and make my scenes more interesting. And just maybe one day sell at least one of these works in progress.
I’m not sure if there is anything special, unique, or strange about me because many probably have gone through similar or are similar. Buuuuut, I have survived three near death experiences and I can be inspired to write by something as simple as a mosquito landing on a twig. Oh, I’m simple but there is no simplicity in me! Now how is that possible? lets find out together shall we?