Thursday, 21 February 2013

Class exercise 2

Mind your language

Logline: Brown has to teach english to the foreign students in order to keep the job.


Choose two characters: Write character character's Bio.

Ms. Dolores Courtney, The principle of the language school. She dislike man because of something that happened in the past with another language teacher. 

Pakistani Muslim (Ali), he is unemployed and is always smiling. His first meeting with Ms. Dolores started out funny because he misunderstands the meaning of the principles words.


 what are each characters' unique "voice", trait or action? 

Ms. Dolores Courtney, her eyes opens wide when she is agitated. And she has the "AIR"  of authority around her.

Pakistani Muslim (Ali), He smiles all the time and is a joyous person. 



3 act structure:

Act 1:

Key character - Brown.
Motive - To teach english to the foreign students in order to keep his job.
Conflict/obstacle: Everyone has difficulty speaking in english and brown can't understand most of them.

Act 2:

Confrontation - He slowly confronts the problem by using various methods to communicate.
Turning point - He starts teaching them simple verbs.
Conflict/Obstacles - A new student joins in and problems arise when two of the students fight for her attention.

Act 3:

Climax - The class turned rowdy and Brown leaves the class and tells the class to write an essay by referring to their textbook.



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