CLASS EXERCISE - character study

CHARACTER STUDY:

Heroes/ heroine that I like is the hero that doesn't look like he/ she will going to be a hero from a start. Actually a hero that we don't expect. Funny and smart

Villain that I like is a kind/ fine person at the first, but because an incident he/ she become changed into a villain. Or, a villain that evil from the start but ended up being stupid or ridiculous or funny.

I enjoy comedy and fantasy stories.

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CLASS EXERCISE - WEEK 5

-Simpsons-

SEASON 1 EP 10 - Homer's Night Out"

1 SENTENCE STORY IDEA: 
Homer caught dancing with a sexy dancer by his mother from his son's spy camera.

1 SENTENCE PLOT SUMMARY:
Bart Simpson took a photo of his father, Homer when he was dancing with a sexy dancer while attending a party and in a short time the photo got spread out until it reached his own wife, Marge.

SYNOPSIS:
Bart Simpson took a photo of his father, Homer when he was dancing with a sexy dancer while attending a party. in a short time the photo got spread out to his friends, president until it reached his own wife, Marge. She got angry and shoo him out of her house. When they attending another party, Homer caught again in the middle of the stage with even more sexy dancer.

3 ACT STRUCTURE:
ACT 1: Homer danced with a sexy dancer in a party
ACT 2: His son, Bart Simpson bought a spy camera and took a photo of his father until Marge found out and got angry with shoo him from her house.
ACT 3: Homer apologized to his wife while he made another mistake in front of the stage, and his wife accepted him again.

CLASS EXERCISE - WEEK 4

FRASIER

1 sentence story idea: 
A Psychiatrist who is trying to be a good son

1 sentence plot summary: 
A psychiatrist who had just divorce and went back to his hometown to start a new life in a new house but he obliged to take in his father who had just retired from being a detective, followed by his dog, his care taker, and his brother.

Synopsis:

Dr. Frasier Crane is a psychiatrist who just had divorce in his life in Boston and decided to return to his hometown os Seattle, Washington. He had a new house and going to be a bachelor on his new life, but certainly got problems. He is obliged to take in his father, Martin who got retired also from being a detective in the Seattle Police Department. He's unable to life alone after being shot in a robbery mission.  Martin's care taker, an epic failed psychic, Daphne Moon and Martin's dog, Eddie also moving in the house making Frasier even more frustrated.

Character bio:
Dr. Frasier Crane is an egoist psychiatrist who don't even care of his father that cannot life alone, but he's trying to be a good son and failed without realizing it. He seems like to be antisocial by wishing to life alone.

3 Act Structure:
ACT 1: Frasier Crane tried to be a good son and wish to life on his own.
ACT 2: His father moving in to his house, following with his dog and his caretaker that make him annoyed
ACT 3: Frasier Crane tried to accept to take in his father

CLASS EXERCISE - WEEK 3

(MTV) IT'S MY LIFE - BON JOVI
1 sentence summary: a guy who rush through all shortcut to go to an event
- Act 1: A man who had to meet someone, but he only got a short time, and he's late already
- Act 2: He run and cut every way that slow him down extremely such as, didn't step properly on the stairs, jump from the second floor, even jump from the bridge and almost hit by a truck.
- Act 3: After so much struggles on his way, finally he make it on time

SNOWMAN:
1 sentence summary: a snowman who wants to get out of the aquarium and meet the sexy toy mermaid
- Act 1: The mermaid took the attention of the snowman and make him want to get out of his aquarium
- Act 2: He tried all funny methods to break through the glass
- Act 3: The snowman finally went out from the aquarium but unfortunately got stuck inside again.

FANTASIA:
1 sentence summary: A flamingo that all he want to do is playing yoyo.
- Act 1: A flamingo pack were dancing harmonically, but there's one who messed up.
- Act 2: That crazy flamingo won't stop playing yoyo and avoiding from other flamingos who tried to stop him.
- Act 3: He won over all the flamingos and keep playing yoyo as he wish.

JURASSIC FARTS:
1 sentence summary: a fart competition
- Act 1: a pack of dinosaur farts one by one.
- Act 2: but there's a pig who fart at the last time.
- Act 3: all animal fainted except that pig itself.

STANDARD TERMS FOR SCRIPTWRITERS

A SCRIPTWRITER'S TERMINOLOGY:


1 sentence pitch
Logline
Synopsis
Character bio
Character bible
3 act structure
Storyline
Treatment
Plots/ subplots
Scene breakdown
Beats
Script




ALL SITUATIONS/ PLOT NEEDED:


Hook/ teaser
Motive
Conflict/ obstacles
Drama/ action
Dramatic sequence
Up the stakes
Chain reaction
Resolution
Outcome
Closure





TERMS AND THE 3 ACT STRUCTURE:


Paradigm = diagram of a screenplay (story map)
Acts - act1 - act2 - act3
Set up
Confrontation
Resolution
Plot points
Turning points
Motive
Conflict
Dramatic entertainment
Up the stakes
Climax

EX2 - Part 2 - 25 Loglines

GENRE	1-SENTENCE PITCH	SYNOPSIS
HORROR	1. Have to Wake up	A girl who wish to sleep and not waking up because she don’t want to face the ugly fact of her life, until she trapped in her own dream and had to do something or she will die.
	2. the Jewel of the Death City	Researchers who are searching a precious jewel in underwater town that has no oxygen for the living things, who knows there’s some creatures who don’t breathe from oxygen.
	3. Another You	A group of people who are trapped in a forest  because of airplane crash, until their true nature comes out by their own doppelganger.
	4. I love You, so Let me Kill You	A girl with a gloomy past who love someone, but being hurt over and over again until she decide to be the only one who will kill someone she love.
	5. Another Dimension of a Nature	A guy who can see a true form of human / the dark side of human. It can be a beast, monster, or a beautiful creature depends on the person’s personality. Public may see him as a crazy guy, but don’t know the truth.
ROMANCE	1. No Time doesn’t Mean Forever	There’s a lonely introverted girl who got no friend tried to kill herself by jumping from the cliff. She fell into a beautiful garden at the bottom of the cliff and didn’t die. The garden where there’s no time who owned by a boy that make her don’t to die anymore, although there’s a limit to get into the garden.
	2. Just the Two of Us Left	The only one girl and boy who are still single in campus and decided to pretend that they are couple, though they are not like each other.
	3. Love on the Another Side of Enemy	A guy and a girl who fall in love but are in different clan that fight each other, which is the girl is in a terrorist gang and she has double personality.
	4. Don’t Fall in Love With Maya World	A hardcore gamer guy that plays game everyday and everytime. Someday he find a good girl character in a game and he love her. Accidentally, he dragged and get into the game. It looks real but still, it’s a maya/ unreal world. He wish to make this girl go out of the game and become real.
	5. The Promise that Will Last	There’s a two boys that are best friends and promise that they will reach their dream together. One of them wish to have a girlfriend that destined for him. Someday, the another boy died of cancer. He become a ghost and help his best friend to find a girlfriend that he wish for.
FANTASY	1. Every Little Pencil Stroke	A little girl who had so many dream, and she likes to draw it when the teacher was teaching in the class. Someday, she drew a door, and it becomes a portal to another planet which all of her other kids drawings are real in there.
	2. Get Your Mount to Finish Line	In the Kingdom of Lufen, there’s a big race, which every candidates will ride their own mount. The first price is the best mount in the Kingdom. That’s why, a little noob boy who had the worst mount ever wanted to participate.
	3. Give the Life of Dead Things	An indigo child who has a unique ability to make the dead thing can move around. Public are scared of her then she’s put into a special school, that the principal is abusing the children.
	4. Impossible Love is Possible	An impossible love between human girl and a beast which are in different and opposite clan and fight each other. She had a hard time dealing with the one she love, because when someone know about it, it’s a disaster. She will find the truth behind the two clans.
	5. A monster in a monster fighting school	A monster child that shunned by his own pack, then he tried to disguise as a human and enter a fighting school to defeat monsters, just because that he think that human is a good creature, and he think that he can be accepted between them.
ACTION	1. Being a Thief for Good	A high school guy who dreamed to be a spy since he was a kid, and ended up being a thief with his friends who disguise as a FBI member, in order to gain money for his mother who suffering from cancer.
	2. The Best Hacker You’ve Ever Seen	A man who hack the main database of the most important company in the world. The only way to erase it, is by entering the database, and fight the virus that controlled by the hacker like a real life game.
	3. Revenge Kills More People	A guy whose parents is killed by a mysterious murder, and intend to take vengeance by being an assassin, in order to find the murder of his parents.
	4. Survive, or Else	A stunman who dared by a terrorist. His girlfriend was kidnapped and the terrorist set a time bomb. The stunman had to beat the terrorist in extreme games that claimed the lives of him.
	5. Fight against His Own Brother	An guy who wants to retire of being an agent, and had a vacation in Venice. He dated a girl who know about his long time missing brother, fortunately still alive and being an assassin leader.
COMEDY	1. A Disaster Way to Holiday	A guy won 4 tickets to California, so It’s a double date holiday. They supposed to travel from New York by plane, but he forgot to extend his passport, but car will do. 47 hours spent in a car, and it all mess.
	2. Even a Dog can Kill you	A very smart and profitable golden dog is kidnapped by a pair of bad guys, but they don’t know that the dog is to smart for them to keep.
	3. Lost in Time	An astronaut is trapped in a planet called Venus for a long time, and being escort by a friendly alien’s space taxy. He confused when he got into the earth since a week in Venus, means 50 years in earth.
	4. The Epic Stupidity	A stupid new spy agent is being trained through the real case. He got a job to free the hostages from a time bomb explosion.
	5. The Game of Disguise	A boy who fell in love at the first sight with a girl, but he doesn’t know that the girl is actually a boy whose friends were teasing at him with girl outfits.

CLASS EXERCISE - WEEK 2

MULAN:
A girl who is far from feminism that fail her dut to be a desirable bride, but she has a better way for her life then being a girly girl. Fighting

THE MONEY PIT:
A couple who spent their money building a house but destroyed just from a single move

CRAZY OLD WOMAN:
A crazy old woman got a so strange hobby by squeezing foods in a supermarket that the owner  had a hard time trying to stop her.

EX2 - Part 1 - What Makes a Good Story

1 Sentence Summary:  A Good Story is the Story that You Never Expected

When thinking of good story, the first thing that appear in my mind is “outside of the box”. That means a creative story that hard or even cannot be predicted by the readers. A story unique that can make us want to read more and more because of the curiosity. A split in a story is the main impression, to surprise the readers. We can call it the art of surprise.

Beside split, a good opening and e­­­nding is important also. Opening is so important to make the readers interested then they decide to continue reading. If they interested and started to like the story, they will automatically desire a good ending. They may even guess the ending all the time while reading. That’s why, a good ending is very important. Ending without split would disappoint by several readers who are expert in guessing. ­­­

Creative climax also make a good story because, this part will be the most memorable part in the story. It can be sad, stunning, thrilling, cool, etc.

Good elements is needed in a good story. Love is always what people are searching for. Without it, story may become less interesting, but not always. 

The last thing is, we as the writer have to enjoy it both ways. If you won’t enjoy reading it, you won’t enjoy writing it. Write your joy, and good things will follow. 

3 ACT STRUCTURE

DEVELOPMENT: FROM STORY TO SCRIPT


1. 1- sentence story idea


2. Synopsis & story angle


3. Character Bio (or character bible)
- character motives
- situations, outcomes, key message
- dramatic sequence - one thing leads to another / chain reaction


4. 3 act structure
- identify setup, plots & subplots
- create a hook / teaser
- turning points
- climax


5. Storyline
- follow 3 act structure
- use beats
- use scene breakdown


6. Script - Draft1
- use standard format


7. Story & Script Editing

CLASS EXERCISE 1

GENRE:

class, classification, grouping, or type of story. 

eg: fantasy, adventure, horor, thriller, action, romance, comedy, ...

CLICHE:

a condition when a story is too typical and predictable

eg: happily ever after, the bad characters lose in the end

STEREOTYPE:

An assumption of character to be a bad guy, or a loser character. An inaccurate expectation of  what will a character is going to be.

Eg: Mr. Bean

 ANTAGONIST:

The main bad or evil character in a story or movie, and should be the enemy of the protagonist character

Eg: Plankton in Spongebob Squarepants

PROTAGONIST:

The good character or the leading character in a story or movie, and should be against the antagonist character

Eg: Spongebob himself

SUPPORTING CHARACTER:

The character that will be the partner, friend, comrade or etc for the main character to make the story more interesting.

Eg: Patrick

COMIC RELIEF:

A character that always make the story funny and raise the mood of the audience with the joke he make. Have a cheerful, stupid, ridiculous, or even nonsense personality.

Eg: Scratch the squirrel in ice age

CHARACTERIZATION:

Something to describe what type of character that is.

Eg: protagonist, antagonist, supporting character, …

CONCEPT/ CONCEPTUALIZATON:

The main idea of what is the story/ movie about.

THEME:

Kind of mood or style of the whole story/ movie from the beginning to the end.

PITCH:

The short summary of the story/ movie

LOGLINE:

The main idea that telling the story just in one sentence.

CHARACTER BIO:

All the information or the background that explain the character.

SYNOPSIS:

The main summary of the story.

STORYLINE:

All the detailed and completed of the story script from beginning to ending.

TREATMENT:

Rough / draft version of movie. Can be in animatic

DEVELOPMENT HELL:

A time when a movie is freezing in progress because of the development. It may takes a long time to start or never does.

Storytelling and Script writting module - NAFA

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