AGENDA - DAY ONE
Session One:
The critical four questions about your main character
Ensure your main character fulfills his or her story destiny by transitioning through each of the four archetypes
Construct a compelling ‘QuickPitch’ (aka, the ‘elevator pitch’) that lays out your entire story from start to finish
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LUNCH BREAK
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Session Two:
Determine the thematic question, thematic argument, and thematic synthesis of your story
Incorporate thematic opposites into your story through characters, props, and architecture.
Use the Unity of Opposites to align both the positive and negative characters with theme.
Create your cast of as many as 14 characters, both positive and negative, that inform and amplify your hero and villain
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AGENDA - DAY TWO
Session One:
Work through the 12 foundation plot points of act one.
Craft a Central Question that charts your hero’s physical, emotional, and spiritual journey.
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POOLSIDE WORKING LUNCH (brown bag it, we've got work to do!)
Chart a story course with approximate page counts for the 12 major landmarks of your story
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Session Two:
Use the Central Question to craft the plot points of act two so that they build upon each other in an organic, can't-stop-reading fashion
Build act three using the four essential plot points
Tearful farewell, with optimistic looks to the future
I noticed there aren’t a lot of high concept projects in that list. The one I liked the best was Roundtable – – Merlin trying to find knights in the modern day to defeat an ancient evil. That’s a ‘why didn’t I think of that’ pitch.
Also a lot of projects that read like episodes of CSI. Must have been the execution that got the deal done.
Doesn’t Roundtable sound awesome? I’d pay to see that one lol
While I managed to download the 2009 and 2010 Black Lists before the studios took them down, I’ve scoured the internet for the 2011 version, even Pirate Bay, and found nothing. Anyone have the full 2011 Black List zip with all the scripts? Or pre-2009?