Sunday 9 October 2011

Class Exercise 10.10.2011 - One Sentence Summaries and Movie Examples

STEP1: CREATE & CRAFT 10 STORIES INTO THE 1-SENTENCE SUMMARY

Story1: Character driven story, eg Mr Bean
A deaf-mute man tries to chase his dreams of being a star, joins a talent competition in which his clumsy actions really helped him to reach his dreams at the end.

Story2: Story driven by a location.
A group of spirits strive to keep people away from demolishing the house they haunted, in which they succeed in the end.

Story3: Story driven by an item.
Two brothers embark on an adventure to find gold to unlock a trove to reveal the scroll who can release their stone-cursed mother from her misery.

Story4: Story driven by a situation.
Aliens visited by earthlings, felt threatened and creates a powerful alliance to eradicate the humans from their planet.

Story5: Story driven by Character's motive(s) or conflict with another Character.
Fighting with her protective father, a girl runs away from home only to realize that living alone is not an easy fight and that there's no place like home.

Stories 6 to 10: Combination of above points for your stories.


Story 6
Chased by loan sharks, a Chinese family decided to find a treasure inside a mystical cave to pay their debt.


Story 7
Separated at birth, two brothers boarded the same airplane and got their baggage switched, making them to eventually find each other and found out that they are actually business rivals and thus they must work out their issues.


Story 8
Trapped underground, an ant colony tries to evacuate the place and ended up bumping into an anteater's den and facing a mortal danger who could eliminate their whole clan, but at the end the clan head survived.


Story9
A rag doll, dumped by his owner's mother to a filthy dumpster, found friends there and planned a revenge to his previous owner and all of the other dolls' owners who dumped them as well, only to realize that they actually love them and the owners are just simply growing up and that it's not their intention to do so.


Story 10 
A curious girl, enthralled by a plastic carousel, was hypnotized by the spirits inside the carousel who traps her and wants to change her to be their lowly servant creature, but with the help of another trapped kid, they both returned safely to their own dimension.



STEP2: CREATE STORIES FOR THESE GENRES: 

Story 11: Drama
A young couple, separated by 12 hours time difference, faces hardships in their relationship only to realize that distance is only one of the challenges in a relationship and savor the sweetness of their effort in the end when at last they both meet again.

Story 12: Documentary
A vile politician was documented in detail, until at the end the audience realized that although he seems like a dictator, all he does was for a reason and actually helped them to be a better society.

Story 13: News / Current Affairs
A recent president election was converted into a movie in which the journey of the president was reviewed and altered to be more dramatic with an added romance affair with his secretary.

Story 14: Comedy
Two strangers bumped into each other and found out that they had the same goal, to reach Las Vegas and confess to a very pretty girl they knew from their separate childhood in which the girl chose no one at the end.

Story 15: Horror
A burnt house turns out to be haunted and traps every children who passed their gates and burns them as well, until one fateful day when a housewife succeeded to save her child inside that house.

Story 16: Action
A drug dealer tries to smuggle drugs to the coast of America by playing a cop chase in which he failed in the end because of a double agent who traps him and brings him to the police.


Story 17: Mystery / Thriller / Crime
A guy finds out that tries to find out the cause of his friends' deaths, finds out that he is actually the psychopath who did all that and he killed his own girlfriend in the end.

Story 18: Teenage Drama
A high-school girl clique tries to change the image of dumb blondes by studying hard to beat the nerds in a science decathlon.

Story 19: Romance
A boy and a girl were deeply in love with each other only to realize that they are siblings and are in the dilemmatic situation in which they decided to go their own separate ways.

Story 20: Fantasy / Sci-Fi
A phone application in the year 3012 went awry and attacks all the phone users worldwide and it's up to one little hacker to change this inevitable fate.

Story 21: Children
A little kid found a kitten on the streets and brought him home where they bond together and be best friends until the cat became old and finally dies.

Story 22: Adventure / Swashbucklers 
Three cowboys embark to fetch water to aid their people so that they can escape the drought only to find out that it's the work of a multimillionaire company and they thwarted the company at the end.

Story 23 - 25: Combination of any genre from above. 


Story 23
A kid with a robot embark on an adventure to secure an energy plate who holds the power of the universe from strange aliens and with the help of a friendly alien troop, they prevail.


Story 24
A jungle tribe must consume each other to survive famine, but the strongest lone warrior among them strives to end this tenacity and sacrificed himself for the good of the people by giving his limbs as a trade for freedom.


Story 25

A group of street musicians found out a politician's dirty plan to corrupt the national bank, and tries to foil the plan by hilariously going undercover as some of the secret services and succeeded to thwart their wretched plan.

STEP 3: GIVE ONE OR TWO EXAMPLES OF A BLOCKBUSTER / SUCCESSFUL MOVIE THAT FITS THE ABOVE 25-GENRE-DRIVEN STORIES. 

Examples of Blockbuster/Successful Movies for: 
Story 11: Drama
Forrest Gump, Finding Neverland

Story 12: Documentary
Earth, Babies

Story 13: News / Current Affairs
Milk, Supersize Me

Story 14: Comedy
Johnny English, Ace Ventura

Story 15: Horror
The Grudge, The Ring


Story 16: Action
James Bond: Casino Royale, Rush Hour

Story 17: Mystery / Thriller / Crime
Disturbia, Scream, Cloverville


Story 18: Teenage Drama
Gossip Girl, The OC

Story 19: Romance
Titanic, Romeo and Juliet

Story 20: Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Star Trek, Star Wars

Story 21: Children
Tangled, Toy Story, FInding Nemo


Story 22: Adventure / Swashbucklers 
The Scorpion King, The Prince of Persia, Pirates of the Caribbean

Story 23 - 25: Combination of any genre from above.

Real Steel, From Paris with Love, Australia, King Kong, Vantage Point, Spirited Away

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