So Scene one is complete with three "acts". That leaves me with a hole to fill called Scene two and three.
Now that Jodie and Will are progressing with their relationship, two things are realized by them both. One, Will loves Jodie and will do anything to be with her. Two, Jodie isn't sure of her love for anything much less about Will. She is unsure if he likes her because she is a dancer or for herself. Will has to prove his love to her by rushing to her side when she gets sick and is admitted to the hospital. There at the hospital, Will and the world find out that Jodie has an eating disorder and her life must change drastically for her to continued health. Jodie is to attend counseling and therapy for her issue. She tries to push Will away because she believes that she isn't good enough for him and that it is for his own good but Will hangs on. Through thick and thin. Time goes on and Jodie starts to get things straight in her head.
Scene three is the day that Jodie is released from the clinic where she has been staying for therapy and counseling and Will is there to help her to her new apartment. Some changes have been made by Jodie and her mom who has now been made aware that Jodie is sick and needs help. The dreams of Jodie's mom go up in smoke but at least she has her daughter and after time she realizes that is better than having a dancer.
Jodie figures out that Will isn't leaving and settles down to a new start of attending a college where she won't be dancing anymore. She wants a normal life doing normal things.
2 comments:
Backwards! Act one is complete with three scenes--though there's no magic number of scenes required. The hole to be filled is acts 2 & 3.
Okay, so we see here the outline of an outline for acts 2 & 3--good!--, but that material has to be pushed much harder.
In act 2, for example, brief descriptions of the scenes where Jodie collapses at her fancy dance recital, her hassles in counseling with the incredibly obese eating disorders counselor, her dumping a loaded pizza on Will's head and telling him she never wants to see him again, his sneaky way of getting back to her that involves a motor scooter and some big balloons.
"Thick and thin" sounds right--but you can't skip away from a little more development with a verbal formula like that.
And it sounds like her mom is a major character, so she needs set-up scenes and character scenes and so on.
I thought we were just going to outline scenes two and three not get into detail. I thought scene one was where we were going to go crazy. I'm obviously confused about the assignments because I thought I was done outlining scene one and only had to outline scene 2and three but you want major detail for both of them also?
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