WEDDING RUSH

WEDDING RUSH

by

Laura Susilo

2C

A skunk and rabbit couple who want to get married in just a week must go through a day of bad luck.

EXERCISE 1 / EXERCISE 2 / FINAL ASSIGNMENT (Grade       % )

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Deadline: 31 Jan 2013

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

TITLE:                                   Wedding Rush

GENRE:                                 Comedy, Romance, Life

TARGET AUDIENCE:          13 – 20 years old

THE DOMINANT CULTURAL / SOCIAL ISSUE FEATURED IN MY WORK IS:        

Chinese bridal custom on lucky numbers/date

LOGLINE:

A skunk and rabbit couple who want to get married in just a week must go through a day of bad luck because of their wedding date.

SYNOPSIS:

Bai and Ta is a happy couple who madly in love with each other for many years. Bai is a beautiful stripped skunk who bit of a shot tempered lady and on the other hand, Ta is an English Angora male who weight 4 times than general Angora; never heard before a word came out from his mouth. Despite the difference between their breeds and personality they never argue or even unhappy with their relationships.

However nothing could stop them to be together forever but their wedding date. They have waited 4 years to declare their eternal love on this very special date that they decided. Just one day before their wedding they need to prepare the wedding just as they dream it would be. However, they found more troubles within the days that try to keep them further apart.

CHARACTER PROFILES

CHARACTER LIST (All characters)

Key Character: Bai Chou and Ta Yuzi

Supporting Characters: Their parents and a Marriage officer

CHARACTER BIO OF KEY CHARACTER

Bai Chou

• Breed: Stripped skunk
• Coat type and color: Sleek black with white strippes
• Age: 25 years old
• Personality: A bit short tempered yet very lovely and cheerful

Ta Yuzi

• Breed: English Angora
• Coat type and color: Fuzzy white
• Age: 30 years old
• Personality: Very quiet and passive in nature. He never make the move in the relationship

RESEARCH

REFLECTION PAPER

This story is based from a Chinese wedding culture where couples would search and married in a certain date. Some of the couples even said to be waiting for the perfect day that they would declare their love to each other and be forever bound. It is believed that the date would give them happiness and fortune, or it could simply mean it is the day to get the perfect wedding.

But to me to marriage is not about the perfect date or wedding, it’s about how you would love people entirely and not to just wait to say “I love you”. Because you should cherish your love everyday while it’s still there.

3 ACT STRUCTURE: (in point form below)

ACT1 SETUP	ACT2 CONFRONTATION	ACT3 RESOLUTION
Key Character(s): Bai Chou Ta Yuzi Must-have Info: They live just like human in the city forest.	Confrontation: Bai’s wedding dress is destroyed after a laundry accident and Ta got into an accident and broke his paw.	Climax (Grand Finale): The Bishop get into accident And cannot continue the ceremony Resolution: 2 days later Ta ask Bai to marry him without any formal ceremony
MOTIVE: They want to get married	TURNING POINT: Bai use old wedding dress from her mom and Ta got his arm and an eye shaved to treat his wound.	MOTIVE RESOLVED? They happily married even though it’s not the perfect time.
Conflict/Obstacles: Troubles and bad luck thread their happy wedding day	Conflict/Obstacles: Bai getting mad over the wedding and start to complain to Ta because of his unconcern	Moral of the Story if any: Don’t wait for your love, but to cherish it as soon as possible.

TREATMENT / STORYLINE

In a forest city where wild animal live, there are two of the odd couple who madly in love with each other; they are Bai and Ta. You could say that they are an odd couple, because doesn’t exactly match each other. Bai is a lovely skunk who a bit of short tempered lady, and on the other hand Ta is an English Angora that never spoke a word; no one ever see his face to, because his hair is so long its cover his whole body. But despite their differences, they live harmonically happy and planned to get married exactly tomorrow at 12p.m. You could tell how it is very important to Bai; after all… girls always want to have their dream wedding don’t they. Not to mention this couple has waited 4 years just get married one particular special date; the date that describe as the day of eternal love. Though no one could see or hear a thing, Ta also quite excited behind his fuzzy hair. Sometimes you could hear a faint squeak came from him.

“Tomorrow is the day Ta, we could finally get married!!!” shouts Bai from her living room marking the calendar.

“Now, I should get my dress and prepare the cake order”. And off she goes with Ta’s car, leaving the lovely ball of hair lying on the bed for the evening.

Today is the day when the whole family will gather celebrating the couple, but who would know what would happened with a family of Stripped Skunk and English Angora would be when they gathered in a same room. Well I give you a clue, disaster; that’s what it is. Bai and Ta’s families would never brace each other, and they always argue with the each other about them getting married. Or which of the family are the worst. But nothing could separate the couple apart. Bai would tell to the families that they are happy as they are.

The Lucky day:

With all the dress and cake all prepare Bai is happy, and so does Ta. His tail would wag non-stop just to see the wedding cake displayed in front of him.

“We are going to have our perfect wedding no matter what, now I will get in shower”

The beautiful wedding dress is on the chair and the cake is stood up so deliciously high on the table. Just as high as Ta’s covered eyes could see from his hair, he drooled. He tried to just taste a bit of the cake.” Just a little bit …” he thought, reaching the cake. And then…

*CRASH*

The cake fell. And what a mess it makes in the kitchen. In the end Bai comes and have a surprise looks in her face. Now she got no cake for her wedding, a dress covered in chocolate and a broken arm groom; Ta is rushed to the hospital. Four years have passed for them to get married and they won’t miss this day. An hour later Ta came back from the hospital; and there they are, the odd couple; standing in front the altar with a dirty dress and a wounded groom.  You couldn’t tell what the worse that could happened, but it is get worsen. Just a moment before they got married, the bishop fell from his first step from the altar. The wedding is off and Bai cries.

One day later, Ta came to Bai and married her just like that. No big celebration, no big cake, and no beautiful wedding dress. Just a simple golden ring and a smile on her face, on his to… just you couldn’t see it. And they happily married ever after.

Story Material

NOTE: How to use...

sample of 1 Sentence Summary: (S1, Ep1/ Mind Your Language)
Jeremy Brown starts his new job as the teacher of English as a Foreign Language class, and meets his students for the first time.

How to: imply it to a synopsis

Synopsis:
Jeremy Brown starts his new job as the teacher of English as a Foreign Language class, and meets his students for the first time. A diverse group of ten foreign adult students in London, hailing from nine different countries. From Europe come two au pairs, the flirtatious and beautiful Danielle (France) and prim and proper Anna (Germany); two young single men, Giovanni (Italy) and Max (Greece); and a laid-back middle-aged bartender, Juan (Spain), who speaks no English. From Asia come a revolutionary-minded secretary from the Chinese Embassy (Su-Li) and a Japanese businessman (Taro), as well as three students from the Subcontinent: a devout Punjabi Sikh (Ranjeet); and an unemployed Pakistani Muslim (Ali), who are constantly at each other's throats; and finally an Urdu-speaking housewife (Jamila) who can't speak a word of English. The school principal, Ms. Dolores Courtney, nearly dismisses Mr. Brown immediately as she had requested a female teacher, but he is allowed to stay on a trial basis.

IDENTIFY & OBSERVE
- character's unique traits
- character's unique voice
- character's cultural, social, racial, political background, etc
- character's conflict
- relationships - how characters relate to each other 
- location (London, classroom)
- situation (learning English in a foreign country)
- protagonist, antagonist, comic relief
- key message 
- stereotypes / cliches 
- genre / theme / issue 


Observe:
- characters relating to each other
- a huge setup
- comic relief 

Comic Relief
What is a comic relief?
What is the role of a comic relief?
give some examples...

case study

key character : Austin Power
what so unique :
> so sassy
> way he talk, walk, and act in certain situation
> fancy yet smart outfits that he wear
> ridiculously funny

MIND YOU LANGUAGE
log line
Mr.Brown need to teachs english as a second language class in-order to get his fix job, yet the class he teach gather all of the odds from different countries.

ACT1: New english class teacher, Mr. Brown need to coop with his foreign students to get his fixed
job.
ACT2: When the class has started, Mr. Brown just know that his temper is the challenge for his new job
ACT3: When every students' problem arrive, he give himself a second chance by dismissing the class early, in order to get himself still sane.

key char : Mr. Brown
motive : want to teach, because he needs a job

Just a Story to share :)

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Message In A Bottle Reunited With Family


A message in a bottle found 76 years after it was thrown into the sea has been reunited with the family of the man who wrote it.

The bottle was found on a beach in New Zealand by Geoff Flood in November 2012, but had been set adrift in 1936.

Inside was a note, dated March 17, which said: "At sea. Would the finder of this bottle kindly forward this note, where found, date, to undermentioned address."

Underneath the note was written the name: "H E Hillbrick, 72, Richmond Street, Leederville, Western Australia".

The message had been written on headed paper bearing the mark of the shipping company P&O and the ship's name SS Strathnaver.

Mr Flood had been out for a walk on Ninety Mile Beach at the top end of New Zealand's North Island when he made the discovery.

He told local media he was astonished and quickly decided to find out how the bottle had got there.

He said: "As I picked it up and started looking, I could see it was an old envelope with P&O on it and I thought this might be something special.

"There was a bit of mad panic to carefully extract it. I carefully cut a couple of bits of wire and quietly wound it up with the bits of wire so we didn't damage it.

"[I thought] Who knows where it's been. How many times around the world, you just wouldn't know, would you?"

It took him a couple of months to find the sender, who turned out to be a man called Herbert Ernest Hillbrick.

Sadly, Mr Hillbrick had died in the 1940s, but further investigation led Mr Flood to Herbert's grandson Peter Hillbrick, who was living in Perth, Western Australia.

Peter Hillbrick, who was also amazed by the discovery, said: "For this one to be floating around in the ocean for 76 years and just all of a sudden pop up in New Zealand. Where has it been? What story is it going to tell?"

His only theory was that his grandfather had dropped it into the sea during a P&O cruise. His family still have photos that Herbert and his wife Ethel took on board the ship.

The SS Strathnaver was a British Royal Mail Ship that carried people between England and Australia, but which also travelled between ports Down Under at the time.

He said that because his grandfather had died so many years ago, he had never got to know him so was delighted another link had turned up.

"The only connection I have with Grandfather is now that bottle. That's about all. So, it's a fascinating story," he said.

Mr Hillbrick has decided to donate the bottle to a maritime museum in New Zealand.

TOP NEWS #

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“Rabbit abusing girl” uses videos of abusing and killing animals to make money

Recently, a video of a woman abusing a rabbit appeared on this website, with the rabbit-abusing woman’s actions arousing the intense anger amongst netizens. This video has already been viewed over 5 million times, with over a hundred pages of comments by netizens one after another demanding that the woman’s identity be investigated. This incident first appeared on Mop in a post made by a netizen named “ＳevＥn” on November 14th (over 500,000 views that day, now over 1.7 million views), becoming the hottest post of that day, then being reposted on Tianya and other major internet discussion forums, arousing the intense attention of netizens!

The video is 4 minutes and 9 second long in total. In the video, several little white rabbits are locked in a metal cage in the corner. Then, an approximately 20-year-old young girl wearing white takes out a rabbit from the cage, first kissing it, then holding the little rabbit closely while facing the camera saying “hello”. Following, the girl lifts the little rabbit high and then suddenly throws the little rabbit onto the desk. After a little white, the young girl again holds the little rabbit closely, stroking it affectionately, then puts it into her pocket, walking and swaying back and forth, mumbling/singing. Afterward, the girl picks up a thick plate of glass, makes a face, and puts it on top of the little rabbit. Here, the little rabbit’s body is already a little deformed, its four limbs struggling. However, the little rabbits struggles doesn’t illicit any sympathy from the girl, and instead, she sits her entire body on the glass plate until the little rabbit is crushed flat, its body no longer moving. As the camera rotates, we discover that there are the bodies of two more little rabbits lying on the floor.

(THESE GIRLS NEED TO BE KILLED) (- = - #)

CASE STUDY

STARSHIP TROOPERS

A group of soldier prepared to battle for their planet from an alien invasion not knowing that their enemies are far more powerful than they imagine

Johnny Rico and his motive is to destroy the entire alien army while staying alive

Act 1: In the future, human are exposed to the thread of alien invasion. A young soldier named
          Johnny just join the frontier to banish all of the aliens
Act 2: However, the alien army is far more powerful than they though it would be, and they faced
          on the tragic fact that many died in the battle

Act 3: With the lack number of soldier they overcome the nastiest alien and banish them all

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HOME ALONE
Kevin who accidentally left home alone by his family need to protects his own house from a burglar who attempt to get into the house.

Kevin and his motive is to protects himself and his home from burglars.

Act 1: Kevin left alone by his family who went far away from home, yet 2 burglar hatch a plan to
          rob Kevin house while his parents away.
Act 2: Kevin sets traps around his house to prevent the burglars to rob his house, however he ran
          out of ideas
Act 3: Just seconds before the burglars attempt to do bad thing to Kevin his mom come
          home to the rescue.

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TRANSPORTER 2 :
a special transporter named Frank has assigned to drive a rich man's boy back home safely from the terrorist clan.

Frank Martin and his motive is to get the boy to his parent safe from the terrorist who kidnap him.

Act 1: Transporter Martin has copped with his way of work, driving his important client son back
          home safely on occasional time
Act 2: But one day he had a big obstacle which are terrorist who find their way to kidnapped the
          boy
Act 3: With his professionalism he rescue the boy and drive him back home from the terrorist hand

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MEN IN BLACK :
a newly recruited special agent must fight a great alien who want to destroy planet earth, while himself is facing a hard time working on the line

Agent J and his motive is to do well in his new job and terminate alien attempt to invade the world

Act 1: new MIB secret agent named agent J must deal around his uptight partner agent K while
          learn the whole new alien game
Act 2: Having a hard time cooping around, he face a greater mission of alien invasion on the line
Act 3: With the help of his new best friend agent K, agent J terminate the alien once and for all

LESSON #1

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What makes a good story :

• The personality of characters
• Plot, and what it related to. (ex: tragic love, in relate to world war)
• Detailed narratives that enhance audience filling to the character situation
• The way that the story is told. (Flash back, part by part, progressive)

TERMS :

• Screenplay : is written work or script that is purposely made for television or film.

• Storyboard : is a set of illustration complete with an explanation that serves as a visual guideline of a screenplay.

• Plagiarism  : is an act of copying a copyrighted work
• Pitch          : it's a one sentence selling point summary 
• Genre        : refers to category of literature
• Conceptualise : form of interpreted idea or concept
• Log line     : one sentence summary
• Synopsis    : is one paragraph summary of a story
• 3 act structure : is a standard structure form for story telling, it consist of 3 parts which set-up, confrontation, and resolution.
• Set-up, Confrontation, Resolution: settings, conflicts, outcome
• Treatment : is a detailed summary of a story in prose.
• Storyline   : the development of a story from beginning to end
• Motive      : is the goal or things that need to be done by the characters
• Conflict    : is problem that is face by the character in their way to achieve his motive