Case Study : The Simpsons

1 sentence story idea : A husband trying to convince his wife that he does not has an affair.

1 sentence plot summary : When Bart capture his dad's photo while dancing with a sexy lady, he print the photo and spread it which cause a big commotion especially for his dad; thus, his father need to make everything goes right back to the way it was.

Synopsis : One day, Homer attending a party and was asked to dance with a sexy lady. His son, Bart, was accidentally saw the scene and he took a picture of his dad while dancing with the sexy lady. After that, he print out the photo and spread it among his friend which make it spread even more that even the whole city know his dad. His wife, Maggie found out about it and chase out his husband from home. Bart was depressed and stay at his friend's house in a mean while. Finally, he went to apologize to his wife and she willing to forgive him with a condition. He need to apologize to the sexy lady for treating her like a thing.

3 act structure
Act 1 : Homer who wanted to lose his body weight attending a party and was asked to dance with a sexy lady.
Turning point 1 : His son took a picture of the scene and spread it out that make the whole city including his wife know about it.
Act 2 : Homer's wife was made and drive him out from home, makes him really sad and was staying at his friend's house for a moment.
Turning point 2 : He apologize to his wife and she willing to forgive with a condition that he must apologize to the sexy lady that he treat like a thing.
Act 3 : He go to find the sexy lady apologize and finally make up with his wife.

Class Exercise 4 - Frasier

1 sentence story idea : about a psychiatrist who trying to live his life peacefully.

1 sentence plot summary : A psychiatrist who come back to his hometown after divorced with his wife and he has to taken in his father who cannot live alone.

Synopsis : Meet Doctor Crane who work as a psychiatrist and become a host for a radio station. He come back to his hometown after being divorced with his wife. His life become more complicated when he need to take in his father and his dog. Doctor Crane has a brother who is a fellow psychiatrist. The brother's relationship is often turbulent and their sibling rivalry intermittently results in chaos.

Character Bio - Frasier Crane : A widow age around 40 who work as psychiatrist. He is a hot-headed person who have a high class lifestyle. A very complicated person but also very intelligent.

3 Act Structure :
ACT 1 : A divorced psychiatrist who trying to live a peaceful life back in his hometown.
ACT 2 : His life become complicated when he need to take in his father who cannot live by himself due to an accident when he was a detective.
ACT 3 : He trying to get along with his father and make him appreciate what he has done for him.

ACT STRUCTURE

(MTV) IT'S MY LIFE - BON JOVI
ACT  STRUCTURE 1 
A boy who trying to meet up his friend at live gig by limited time.
ACT STRUCTURE 2
He need to do some certain thing such as throwing garbage. He also meet some obstacle such as chased by dogs and was asked to take picture for somebody. The girl also send him the message and ask where he is.
ACT STRUCTURE 3
Finally he make it on time to the gig.

SNOWMAN
1 sentence summary :  a snowman who is trying to get out from his crystal ball to have fun with the others.
ACT 1 : Snowman gets lonely in the crystal ball and wanted to join the others to have fun.
ACT 2 : He is tried anything to get out from his crystal ball.
ACT 3 : When the snowman thought finally he is out of the ball, he get stuck again.


FANTASIA
1 sentence summary : the flamingo who wanted to enjoying his yoyo.
ACT 1 : All the flamingos were dancing except for one.
ACT 2 : This flamingo keep playing that makes the other flamingos pissed off.
ACT 3 : His effort succeed and he was able to play yoyo.


JURASSIC FARTS
1 sentence summary : A fart competition.
ACT 1 : The dinosaur farting one by one.
ACT 2 : Finally the last one who is the pig fart.
ACT 3 : Everybody fainted but him.

WEEK 3 – EXERCISE 2 – GENRE / LOGLINES

HORROR

1.       A  ghost  seek  on  revenge  for  his  child  that  has  been  hit  and  run  by  a group  of  teenagers.

Jack,  Tim,  Elena  and  Sussy  driving  back  from  a  party.  They  were  drunk  and  accidentally  hit  a  child  and  killed  him.  Dan  who  is  the  father  of  the child  depressed  and  committed  suicide.  He  resurrect  as  a  ghost  and  begin  to  hunting  them

2.       A  doll  waiting  for  her  master  to  come  back.

In  year  1854  Velouté  family  went  bankrupt  and  was  killed  brutally  by  the  debt  collector.  The  only  daughter  of  the  family  was  kidnapped  and  being  sell  to  the  slave  buyers  leaving  a  doll  behind  called  Luné.  She  believed  that  her  master  will come  back  and  play  with  her  so  she  always  drive  out  whoever  trying  to  live  in  that  house  with  a  horrible  way.

3.       The  victims  of  failure  project  of  human  experiments  come  back  and  revenge.

A  failure  project  of  creating  super  human  that  makes  all  the  victims  of  human  experiments  to  come  back  after  being  thrown  to  the  sea  by  more  than  100  years  ago.  They  have  mutated  and  now  are  going  to  attacking  the  modern  city  of  Willowdale

4.       A  mother  who  cursed  a  village  because  her  baby  who  is  believed  as  the  son  of  Satan  was  killed  brutally.

In  1672  a  small  village  called  Deathfall  was  abandoned  because  the  people  live  in  there  were  unable  to  bear  a  child  because  of  the  a  curse  that  make  them  do  not  have  any  ancestor.  They  cannot  escaped  from  the  village  itself  due  to  the  curse.  In  1999  a  historian  writer  called  Flynn  trying  to  discover  the  truth  behind  the  curse.

5.       A  group  of  children  struggling  to  get  back  to  their  own  world.

A  group  of  children  spend  their  summer  holiday  for  jungle  trekking  and  went  in  to  another  side  of  the  world  where  they  become  pray  for  the  spirits  and  monsters  who  lived  there.  Knowing  they  have  crossed  the  line  of  the  both  world,  they  struggling  to  get  back.

ROMANCE

1.       A  girl  who  fell  in  love  with  the  most  wanted  serial  killer  in  the  city.

Irene  thought  that  she  is  only  fell  in  love  with  her  classmate,  until  he  then  revealed  that  he  is  the  serial  killer  that  is  very  popular  in  the  news.  Somehow  she  just  can’t  hate  him  and  even  make  a  cover   for  him.

2.       A  daughter  of  a  marshal  and  a  soldier  fight  for  their  love.

Victoria  who  fell  in  love  with  one  of  the  special  trained  soldier  that  trained  by  the  government  secretly  to  face  the  world  war  three  that  soon  to  happened.  These  soldier  are  actually  a  human  experimental  which  is  one  of  the  reason  that  her  father  oppose  their  relationship.

3.       A  boy  from  a  future  encounter  with  a  girl  from  the  past  and  begin  to  develop  their  feelings.

Clover  the  future  boy  named  after  a  leaf  who  come  to  the  current  world  through  time  leap  happened  to  appeared  in  front  of  a  girl.  With  her  help  he  is  hoping  to  find  a  four-leaf-clover  that  he  believed  to  bring  good  luck  so  that  his  mother  can  recovered  from  her  sickness.  Before  then  their  feeling  towards  each  other  begin  to  develop.

4.       A  pigeon  that  wanted  to  show  gratitude  to  the  girl  that  he  love.

One  day  a  pigeon  make  a  contract  with  a  devil  to  make  him  become  human  so  that  he can  repay  the  girl  who  treat  him  while  his  wing  is  injured.  But  under  one  condition  that  he  have  to  do  one  bad  deeds  each  day.

5.       A  guy  who  is  trying  to  find  the  girl  in  his  dream.

Every  night  Mervin  dream  about  a  girl  that  he  don’t  even  know.  Every  dream  seems  to  be  real  and  so  is  his  feeling  towards  her.  He  begin  to  looking  for  the  girl  with  no  clue  believing  that  destiny  will  make  him  found  her.

SCI-FI

1.       A  police  trying  to  catch  the  identity  thieve.

Every  human  in  the  world  is  registered  by  a  chip  that  planted  in  their  hearts  that  makes  human  trying  to  kill  to  possessed  different  identity.  Hubert  and  Marc  are  good  friends  not  knowing  that  they  are  enemy  in  their  society life.  Hubert  is  an  assassin  and  Marc  is  a  police.

2.       A  prophecy  about  the  end  of  the  world.

Based  on  the  prophecy,  when  “something  unknown”  fall  from  the  sky  the  world  will  end  and  the  only  way  to  stop  it  from  happening  is  to  destroy  the  key  that  will  open  the  dimension  to  the  other  universe.

3.       A  guy  who  wanted  to  make  human  realized  how  selfish  they’ve  become.

About  a  future  world  where  everything  were  controlled  by  computer  where  human  do  not  need  to  walk  as  the  machine  will  carry  them  around  which  make  every  human  become  a  selfish  being  even  when  someone  die  the  machine  will  still  move  them  unless  someone  notice  that  that  person  is  dead.  Story  about  a  guy  who  is  struggling  to make  human  come  to  their  common-sense.

4.       Human’s  DNA  were  being  send  to  outer  space  so  that  it  is  save  until  the  world  back  to  it  used  to  be.

In  year  2222  the earth  is  not  capable  anymore  to  become  a  proper  living  place  for  human  as  it  is  almost  destroyed  so  the  scientist  send  the  human  DNA  to  Mars  through  robots  and  will  be  send  back  again  when  the  earth  recover.  Some  robots  are  being  left  to  record  what  happened  and  give  signals  when  it  is  save.

5.       Human  trying  to  stop  the  computer  to  take  over  the  world.

A  group  of  people  called  HACKERS  trying  to  shut  down  the  main  computer  that  turned  back  to  controlled  everything  through  hacking   but  not  a  usual  hacking  as  their  consciousness  need   to  go  in  to  the  computer  world  and  need  to  stake  their  lives  in  their  mission.

FANTASY

1.       A  prince  trying  to  find  back  his  beloved.

Journey  of  Prince  Keefé  travelled  through  time  to  find  his  beloved  that  is  being  cast  away  by  the  witch  because  of  jealousy  of  her  beauty  and  love  from  the  prince  towards  his  beloved.

2.       A  man  trying  to  find  the  lost  island  that  sink  into  the  ocean.

Flint  on  his  voyage  to  find  the  lost  island  that  said  to  be  sink  in  the  7^th  ocean.  He  fall  into  the  deep  blue  sea  and  is  being  saved  by  a  mermaid  and  was  being  helped  by  them  to  find  the  lost  island  that  now  is  a  home  for  the  mermaids.  Flint  was  seduced  by  mermaid  to  stay  and  he  was  lured  until  he  realized  that  his  wife  and  children  are  waiting  for him.

 

3.       A  group  of  teenagers  learn  about  themselves  through  illusion  before  becoming  adults.

A  group  of  teenagers  were  trapped  in  the  beautiful  world  of  mirror  by  a  magician.  The  world  is  full  of  illusion  and  hallucination.  They  meet  their  other  inner-self  that  they  created  from  their  inner-self.  Confused  and  fear  mixed  into  one  trying  to  figure  out  who  they  are.

4.       A  boy  trying  to  solve  psychological  case  of  a  person  by  go  in  and  talk  to  their  inner-self.

Giovanni  who  can  manipulated  human’s  mind  become  one  of  the  member  of  police  detectives  to  find  the  mastermind  of  the  chain  suicide  that  frequently  happened  among  the  young  girls.

5.       Venus  trying  to  stop  her sister  from  turning  all the  people  into  vampires.

Venus  and  Jade  are  twin  vampires.  They  grow  up  in  different  kind  of  society  that  makes  them  have  different  personality.  Each  of  them  have  their  own  chevalier  to  command.  Jade  wanted  to  transform  all  human  to  become  vampires  and  ruled  the  world  where  Venus  need  to  stop  her  and  killed  her  using  her blood.

 

ACTION

1.       A  man  protected  his  village  from  vicious  animals.

Solomon  born  in  the  ancient  time  of  ice  age  where  he  need  to  protect  his  village  from  some  vicious  animals  that  always  attacking  their  village.

2.       An  information  broker  trying  to  get  an  information  to  change  his  life.

Hyne  a  clumsy  young  man  work  as  information  broker  who  always  trying  to  steal  the  information  for  his  client.  One  day  he  was  offered  a  job  where  the  client  will  pay  him  enough  to  change  his  life.  But  the  job  isn’t  as  easy  as  he  thought  after all.

3.       A  spy  trying  to  find  his  real  identity.

Being  picked-up  and  trained  as  a  spy,  Neile  trying  to  find  his  true  identity.  Beside  his  name,  his  only  memory  was  his  name  and  a  blur  vision  of  his  mother.  The  organization  promised  to  tell him  when  he  finished  all  missions  that  he’s  given.

4.       Á  woman  trying  to  fulfilled  her  promise  to  meet  her  beloved.

Alex,  a  sexy  woman  who  has  been  out  and  in  to  from jail  for  several  times  set  a  journey  to  the  promised  place  to  meet  his  beloved.  It  won’t  be  easy  as  there  are  a  lot  of  enemy  will  find  her  when  they  know  she  has  free  from  the  jail.

5.       A  group  of  orphan  wanted  to  revenge  for  their  parents.

A  group  of  orphan  children  were  trained  to  become  ninja  to  revenge  the  death  of  their  parents  who  were  killed  by  the  imperialist  and  to  take  control  of  the  government  as  the  people  were  treat  cruelly.