Vision, Scope and Finance Homework due Jan. 31st, 2012

The first part of your reading assignment for January 31st is to read the first three chapters in Frank Rose’s Art of Immersion (pages 1-76).

Next, continue your review of screenwriting tools by reading this overview of screenwriting classes.
Then read a post, paying special attention to Jeff Kitchen's ideas about giving your protagonist a dilemma.
Then read about screenwriting for improvisation.

Your written homework, please attach a link to this blogpost as a comment, is the following VISION exercise.

1) State your (newly revised?) premise (the one sentence COP).

2) Explain how your protagonist and antagonist really fit your premise.
Romeo and Juliet have a great love that defies even death. Are your characters also the embodiment of your stated premise?

3) Do your characters make their own decisions?
In providing the details to round out these characters, have you provided sufficient physiological, sociological, and psychological justification so the protagonist and antagonist are acting on their own in the face of conflict? This is important: Your characters should be complex, but your characters must also act in ways that are consistent with traits and experiences. Please explain how Jeff Kitchen’s ideas about an “ethical dilemma” apply to your protagonist.

4) Does your conflict and its resolution prove your premise?