Concept 40 #3

In the film I want to write my character would the complete the following sentences with:

1) The Fates have cursed me with: fear of the unknown

2) The Fates have blessed me with: great health and physical strength

3) No one would believe me if I said I was: scared of heights

4) The thing I most regret about my past is: not using my strength and abilities my whole life

Concept 39 #1-3

1) I am most afraid of drowning and situation where you don’t know what is going to happen.  I would somehow be trapped underwater and have to go through a dark tunnel or an unexpected path in order for me to face my fear.

2) I was invited to an important dinner, and was asked to say a mini speech in front of everyone and I was nervous about it, but once you start talking and see that people are really listening to what you’re saying you overcome your nervousness.

3) The hero of my film is afraid of doing anything out of their comfort zone. When he has to navigate through a forest and work together with his wife to survive, he has to overcome his fear of trying new foods and living in a different habitat.

Concept 37 #1 and #2

Three films with ending that blew me away:

1)      Troy: the main character ended up dying even though he was supposedly invincible

2)      Clue: the victim ended up being the murderer

3)      Titanic: the main character ended up dying

All three movies used the element of surprise to have a shocking ending. They led the audience to think that the ending couldn’t possibly happen.

2) In order to make the audience say “Wow!” you have to employ such things as surprises, and make the audience think that they know exactly what is going to happen by leaving clues and foreshadowing, and then have the ending be unexpected and the opposite of what everyone thought.

Concept 36 #3

In the film I am writing, the conflict is that the main characters go on a vacation and they end up getting shipwrecked and stranded.

1) They work together and find their way off the island

2) Find more people on the island and learn to live like them.

3) Real outcome: Find an alternate reality and universe through an alien object and get sucked into that dimension.

Concept 35 #1-3

From least risk to most risk:

1)      It’s a Wonderful Life

2)      Norma Rae

3)      Joan of Arc

4)      The Client

5)      Silkwood

6)      Braveheart

7)      Dave

8)      Spy Games

9)      Harry Potter

10)   Robin Hood, the prince of thieves

2) I ranked Robin Hood number 10, because his conflict was related to real life and the poverty problems and the inequality in the social system. I would deal with it by doing the same thing as Robin Hood, but not being as violent and doing things that would result in being put in jail.

3) The last time I took a risk was in order to help out a friend. The consequences would have resulted in them not getting the job that they wanted. They did end up getting the job, and it was worth the time helping them go through the application process.

Non-Linear Scripts:

Almaz’s script: The premise is that there is a girl who has to try to fight to keep her memory before the government erases it. The main character is Jenny, and she battles against someone named X division. X division works with the group that erases memories, so Jenny tries to stop them. It’s non-linear because she keeps going backwards in her life unless she writes everything down.

Natalie’s Script: The premise is that there is an elderly couple that remembers their life back when they were younger. It is non -linear because when they remember the events in their life the story jumps around, and you can tell because they are different ages.

Concept 34 #2

If I could possess any superpower it would be flying, because you have the ability to go anywhere and not have to worry about the restraint of having to drive or fly. You also wouldn’t have to worry about paying for gas or any kind of transportation fee. The superpower would also have an advantage over any villain.

Quickwrite: Multiple perspectives

Most reality shows take one event and replay it to show the idifferent characters and their reactions to the event. They focus on the long term effects of an event, and the immediate effects that take place. The perspectives that they use are different because they focus on the emotions that occur from the characters, and the way that the scenes are filmed.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Structure:

I really enjoyed watching this movie, and I think the non-linear structure made the story even better. Even though it could have been told in chronological order, I think the fact that they kind of cut the story into chunks made it more interesting. I liked that you didn’t know why Clementine didn’t remember him,. And that when Joel was getting his memory erased Clementine was with him in his memories and she explained to him what was going on, which helped us understand what was going on. I think out of all the non-linear movies we have watched this format was the most difficult to follow, but the techniques that they used like having her hair a different color, and their change of clothes made it easier to follow.

Concept 33 #1:

1) I haven’t experienced a situation where someone did something so nice for me that it directly inspired me to do something nice for someone else. But people do good deeds everyday and it inspires me to be kind to people, knowing that when someone is kind to me it makes my day better, and hopefully I can make someone’s day better or help them out in some way.

Concept 32 Questions:

1) I can’t think of a movie where the audience’s relation to the plot was predominantly objective, but I assume that they used emotions and images to evoke empathy.

2) The movie How to Train a Dragon was made to show people the importance of animals and how they are important in nature. Specifically wild animals should be protected and not messed with.

3) For a 30 second commercial about the importance of insuring one’s possessions against damage or theft I would capture the audience by showing them examples of times when if people would have just got insurance things like their cars and identities would still be theirs. I could show someone acting like they are someone else by identity theft, and someone getting their car stolen right in front of them and they can’t do anything about it because they don’t have insurance.

Concept 31 Questions:

1) 3 most recent movies I’ve seen:
Footloose: her brother dies from a car accident after he was drinking, and the city puts up a law restricting the kids’ right to dance and have fun
In Time: he finds out that their lives are numbered and the times is not given out equally
Breaking Dawn: Bella gets pregnant
-Each inciting incident occurred pretty early in the movie, probably with the first 30 minutes the most.

2) 1) the fight would cause me to look at life in a new way; 2) The student in the wheelchair would appreciate that someone stood up for him and raise awareness against that stuff happening; 3) My peers would look up to me for what I did and decide to stand up for themselves; 4) The bad bunch would realize that they shouldn’t be picking on people, and just because someone is in a wheelchair doesn’t make them any less of a person or deserved to be picked on.

3) The inciting incident in the film I want to write is it will show the audience the background of the characters life and how it relates to why she acts the way she does.

Concept 30 Questions:

1) Kelly: a) to be popular and fit in with the in crowd
b) to hang out with her geeky cousin all summer
Mom: a) make sure her niece and her daughter hang out
b) not be too controlling in her daughter’s life
Cousin: a) spend her summer and have fun with her cousin and her friends
b) to become cool and bond with her cousin
The A objectives of Kelly and her cousin are not compatible, but the A objectives of Kelly’s mom and her cousin are compatible

2) Win/win: Kelly turns out thinking her cousin is actually not geeky and she’s cool, so she introduces her to her popular friends and they all have a good summer.
Win/no win: Kelly doesn’t hang out with the popular kids and her cousin gets on her nerves.
Win/lose: Kelly realizes that she doesn’t really like the popular kids, and she wants to bond with her cousin and hang out instead.

3) In the film I want to write the primary A objective is for the main character to not fall into peer pressure, and the primary B objective is for her to find something else to focus on besides her social life.

Concept 29 #2:

INT. PARENT’S PARTY- NIGHT
Parents at their friend’s party leaving. They call their daughter KIM saying that they are on their way home.

INT. PARENT’S HOUSE-NIGHT
Kim hangs up the phone and furiously starts cleaning and picking up trash and cups around the house.

Parents get in their car, realize they are empty on gas, and head to the gas station.

Kim is looking frantically for trash bags and the broom, when she gets a call from her mom saying they stopped for gas and they will be 10 minutes later than usual.

Parents get back in their car and are set to arrive in 15 minutes.

Kim has cleaned up the downstairs area, but remembered that the upstairs was filled with party evidence too.

Parents pull into the driveway and park.

Kim throws the last bag of garbage on the side of the house, runs into the house, sits down on the couch.

Parents open the front door, and find Kim sitting on the couch watching television.

Concept 28 #3:

3) My last birthday was on a Sunday, but I had my birthday party with my friends that Friday afterschool at my sister’s house.
1) INT. MY HOUSE-MORNING
2) INT. SCHOOL-MORNING
3) INT. OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL-AFTERNOON
4) INT. CAR-AFTERNOON
5) EXT. SISTER’S HOUSE-AFTERNOON
6) INT. SISTER’S LIVING ROOM-AFTERNOON
7) EXT. SISTER’S BACKYARD-AFTERNOON
8) INT. RESTAURANT-EVENING
9) EXT. SISTER’S HOUSE- EVENING
10) INT. SISTER’S LIVING ROOM AND KITCHEN-EVENING
11) INT. SISTER’S LIVING ROOM- NIGHT

Concept 27 Questions:

1) Thatcher should ask the question while they are at lunch at their favorite café. I think it makes sense since they are classmates and friends, so it seems like a place where they would go. Thatcher would already be at the café waiting for Linda. Linda would walk in the café, and Thatcher would call he over and ask her to sit with him and talk. In order for Linda to say yes, Thatcher would be really personable and ask her how she likes the math class, and how her school year is going. But since Linda is really smart, she’s used to people wanting to cop off of her homework, so at first she would say no, But the Thatcher would tell her the real reason why he wants her help, so he wont get kicked off the team, and she agrees to help him study but not just give him the answers.
2) At this very moment I am sitting in a classroom filled with people that are working and talking. There would be one person that suddenly disappears, and everyone has to find out where they went. Everyone would split up into groups and search the school to find them, only to realize that the person never disappeared they just were never there. The moral would be that sometimes people get so caught up in themselves and their own gossip that they don’t notice their surroundings and their fellow classmates.
3) My film would be set in a carnival or sometime of theme park, because the students went on a field trip. I’m not quite sure what he conflict would be, but I know that this would be the final episode and all the characters would have to unite. Since our opening pilot scene started with almost all the characters divided, it makes sense to have them come together in the end.

Groundhog Day Reflection:

In this movie they used a non-linear structure in order to show what the main character was going through. The fact that he had to deal with reliving Groundhog Day everyday, meant that they almost had to use the non-linear structure to compare each day to one another. They also used it to show what he did in the past, like when they showed him trying to kill himself many times to prove that he was invincible. The structure was kind of similar to Run Lola Run, because she basically relived the same day 3 times. It was different from Citizen Kane, because there were no objective people giving their opinion on his life like they did for Kane. In Groundhog Day he was basically alone in his journey because he was the only one that was reliving the same day over and over.

Period 6 Pilot #2 Review:

I like this Pilot, because of the interesting ending of it. The formatting is good overall. I also like the way the story flowed, and how the characters weren’t typical characters. I think the future episodes will be fun to read.

Period 6 Pilot #1 Review:

This story was a little but complicated to follow, because of all the characters seeming to have a leading role. It was interesting though, I think the future episodes should focus on the relationships of only a couple of characters. The format needed a little but of work, but overall I like where the story is going.

Pilot Script #4 Review:

The message of the script was interesting, and how it spotlighted teen pregnancy. I thought the characters were kind of similar, in that there wasn’t anything to specifically set them apart except that they were either a boy or a girl. I liked the plot, and I think it could be turned into a good show.

Pilot Script #3 Review:

I liked the storyline overall, but what I didn’t like was the dialogue. It seemed kind of unrealistic and it didn’t fit with the story sometimes. But the plot and the characters were interesting, and the way the story flowed was good.

Pilot Review, Savina’s group:

I thought the story was interesting, and was relatable. I liked that the dialogue was realistic, and that the story wasn’t just about a teenager with a perfect life and that the characters had problems in their life that they had to overcome.