POST #1

1.    One- line summaries for the five stories from ex2

The Psyre: Something insignificant yet so powerful in many ways.

The Blue Envelope:  Just when Arianna thought she had done enough as a physicist.

Marcus: Everyone warned her about him. She never listened.

Agony: Read through a soldier, a father, one second in life while he compares  his world, which he cares about to the one, he is presently in.

Insatiable Punishers: I woke up in the dark not knowing when would be the next time I could see daylight.

2. Character Bio

Ariana

She is a well-known scientist specializing in the studies of quantum physics.

Dave

He is a friend and colleague of Ariana. They studied at the same university and were chosen specially to practice quantum physics at the lab.s

The Boss

He is the head of the laboratory where Ariana and Dave practice physics.

Another man

Supporting character in the one scene.

3. Script

“Using Word Styles to Format Screenplays”

The Blue Envelope

Characters:

Ariana

Dave

The boss

Another man

Scene 1

Ariana wakes up to a phone ringing

Loudly beside her.

Ariana

[Groans]

[Pause]

Dave comes and shakes her, holding

Her tight to wake her up.

Dave

Ariana! It’s me!

Ariana whacks him instinctively and is shocked.

Ariana

Dave?

What?

Why are you here?

[Pause]

How did you get in?

Dave

That’s not important.

Quick!

Get dressed.

We need you at the office!

Ariana

At two in the morning?

Dave

Yes! Now! Quick!

Scene 2

Dave is driving while Ariana is confused

As she doesn’t know where he is taking her.

Ariana

Why are we here?

Ariana

Everything has changed around here

What has happened?

Scene 3

The both of them walk into a posh room filled with plush

Lighting and settings. She still doesn’t know what is going on. She sees her boss a little away

From her ready to make a speech.

He walks towards her, expecting something from her.

The Boss

[Clears throat]

Hello, to all present here.

I would like to introduce one of my very trusted colleagues, Dr. Ariana, a renowned physicist at our lab.

[Walks to Ariana]

Ariana, we are on the verge of a major turning point in quantum physics.

What you see here at the center of the room is.. well.. a time machine.

She is shocked and excited at the same time.

Ariana

A time machine?

The Boss

Yes, and we want you –as the best physicist we have- to be the first

Person to use it.

Another man

Sir, we must hurry. We only have an hour.

The Boss

[To the man]

Yes.

[Turning to Ariana]

Ariana, are you willing to do so?

[Turning back to the spectators]

We welcome the President to this occasion, which will not be forgotten

in many years that will come ahead of us and those which will be

by our future. [contd.]

Without further ado, I would like to present to you an invention

so powerful that a few months ago we could only dream of.

Scene 4

Wakes up in the bed she used to sleep when she was a teenager with the exact same setting. She recognizes it immediately but also knows that she doesn’t have time to spend looking at it.

Ariana

[Groans, sleepy]

[To herself]

Need to find a pencil and paper.

[Reading while writing]

It works.

Here is the date.

See you later.

Scene 5

Wakes up at five in the morning, in her present house thinking she just had a very elaborate dream.

Ariana

[Wakes up from sleep]

[Pause]

It was only a dream.

[Laughs]

[Sighs]

[Goes back to sleep]

Scene 6

She sees the same note she had left in her dream with the same hand- writing and exactly what she had written.

Ariana

[Looking at the paper]

It works.

Suddenly, she realized it wasn’t a dream. Suddenly, the world had changed. Suddenly, she became the first person to travel through time.