Dealer's Choice Project: 3 Act Structure:

Act I (Setup)

Exposition- Main character is introduced as a female and artist, and is shown drawing jack-o-lantern designs in her sketchbook. She is alone in her bedroom of her dorm at night.

Main Character- Her objective is to simply make a sandwich and watch T.V.

Dramatic Premise- The story is about a girl who is frightened by unseen forces causing paranormal activity as she prepares her sandwich and attempts to watch T.V.

Dramatic Situation- As the main character goes on with her business, paranormal activity

begins to occur.

Inciting Incident- Paranormal activity commences when a jack-o-lantern begins to stare at the main character without her knowing.

Plot Point#1- The main character is first confronted with the paranormal activity when she finds her remote control mysteriously moved across the room. The T.V. flips through channels on its own and the remote functions without a person activating it.

Act II (Confrontation)

Obstacles- The T.V. and remote continue to act up, preventing the main character to eat or be entertained.

First Culmination- When she finally manages to have the T.V. set and remote in control, all of the kitchen utilities begin to function on their own as well as the strange activity begins to intensify as the T.V. and remote start acting up again.

Midpoint- Unable to watch T.V. or eat her sandwich, the main character get flustered and scared as she wonders why all the chaos is happening.

Act III (Resolution)

Climax- As the main character looks around the vast, dark room wondering what the hell is going in, for the first time she confronts the jack-o-lantern alive, staring right into her eyes and a pair of gloves beside it begin to crawl in her direction. The paranormal activity starts to increase. Overwhelmed by the paranormal activity, the main character throws her uneaten sandwich and makes a dash for her room.

Denouement- Finally the character finds herself safe in her bedroom, believing that she is she had escaped the terrible events even though she does not notice the creeping gloves crawling under her door.

Dealer's Choice: CHARACTER

This character thinks that she is pretty artistic and that the pumpkin she carved is pretty bad-ass. Even though she is drawing and getting into her sketches of jack-o-lanterns she wants to take a break to eat and chill.

This character wants to eat and watch T.V. She wants to do this because she is hungry and wants to be entertained while she eats. She thinks she wants to eat because she is hungry. She wants food because she is hungry and she wants to watch T.V. because she will be bored eating in the quiet, not watching T.V. She does not want to be harmed. This character wants to enjoy her sandwich and television safely and contently. She just wants to chill and take a break from drawing.

This character wants to know if something really is after her because she does not want to be harmed. She think she wants no harm because she wants to live.

This character wants to be safe.

This character believes that something unseen is after/watching her. She thinks that what she believes may just all be in her head. She believes that things such as ghosts and monsters could be real but she is unsure. In the dark, she believes anything can happen to her.

This character's truth is that she is scared to be alone in the dark. Her real truth is, she believes something is after her and she is scared to death.

This character needs food. She thinks she needs food because she is hungry.

The actions this character takes are going to the kitchen to make a sandwich and sit down and watch T.V.

Her hunger drives her to make a sandwich. Her boredom drives her to watch T.V. Her superstitions make her afraid. She runs to her room scared to death because she fears something is after her.

She is very afraid.

This character finds it urgent to seek safety. It is important for her to be safe because she does not want to be harmed.

This character does what she does because she is hungry, then bored, then afraid. She reacts to paranormal activity and suspicion with fear. She runs away from what she fears. She fears what is unseen and act cautiously upon that emotion.

This character is female. She has a larger build than the average woman but not ugly. She is artistic. She is cautious.

The character's flaw is her failure to confront her fears.

Story-Plot Dealer's Choice

The intentions of the main character, a young woman, are to just leave the comfort and safety of her bedroom to go out in to the dark and cold common area of her room to make a sandwich and watch some T.V. While drawing jack-o-lanterns in a sketchbook, the girl gets up and leaves her room heading for the kitchen. Already feeling uneasy and a bit spooked in her lonesomeness in a drafty, dark dorm, she makes her way to the fridge. Emphasis is put on the jack-o-lantern, tools, and gloves set on the counter. She has the feeling that something unseen is right behind her back as she makes a sandwich. At first without her knowing, strange activity begins to happen such as the carved pumpkin and inanimate objects moving on their own then stopping as she looks in their direction. This sense of weird activity happening behind her back makes the character more nervous. After her sandwich is made, character sits down and is about to turn on the television then she goes back to the fridge for a drink. When she sits back down in her previous seat and finds the remote to have moved across the room. Flustered and confused, she gets up to grab the remote. Before she even touches the device it turns on the T.V. itself to a fuzzy channel. The girl is spooked by this and sits back down to continue eating. As she eats, the channels keep turning themselves. Puzzled, she looks around a vast dark, room trying to figure out what is going on. Once again, paranormal activity occurs behinds her back, yet this time she catches it in action. Appliances in the kitchen start to go off by them selves and a jack-o-lantern on the counter stares off at her, while a pair of gloves near the pumpkin begin to crawl near her. Frightened to death, she throws are sandwich down, and makes a run for it while the paranormal activity intensifies and climaxes. She then makes it to her room, feeling that she is now safe, she decides to go to bed, not knowing that the gloves are creeping under her door. As she is sleeping, she suddenly feels something on her face and tries to flick it away a few times. Finally, she quickly turns to find the jack-o-lantern sitting on her pillow and crawling gloves upon her face and the scene ends.

Theme of Dealer's choice

The theme is FEAR.

The theme of this film is about a girl feeling all alone and scared in her own dorm. She has the feeling that something unseen is after her to do her harm, when all she wants to do is make a sandwich and watch some T.V. I want to portray the character's fear of not knowing what is after her and what is causing paranormal activity to happen in her everyday living space. Some humor may be derived from such paranormal events. Out of fear, the character tries to escape these events and seek safety.

Dealer's choice part 2

Like before, I will have the character fearfully roam around the dorm in the dark/at night. her intentions to leave her room would to be make a sandwich or something then sit done in front the T.V. I want weird and bizarre things to happen, paranormal thinks like the T.V. turning on by itself, and inanimate objects coming to life. I want her to be spooked out by these events yet they are humorous. I want these events to drive her back to the safety of her room but end the film abruptly before she gets there suggesting she didn't make it back to safety in time. Maybe i'll end it with a cut-off scream.

Dealer's Choice

For this next project I am planning to go back to the original theme from the very first project in the class. I'm going with the theme of fear, being alone with the feeling someone is there. I'm leaning on using the same actress and no dialog except for a cut-off scream at the end of the film perhaps and will probably set up at the dorm. The dorm already has a cold and creepy feeling to it. Even though fear is my theme, I want to add some humorous twist, maybe i'll do some stop-motion. I want to have a sense of an abundance of space and a slight creepy factor to the film as well as some humor mixed into it. I still have not decided to go b&w or color or something else yet. I can always experiment.