Treatment:
Its 1:00 in the afternoon and Sydney and Brian are deciding their futures. They are exchanged students at a private school in California. They fell in love earlier this year, but they must go home. For Sydney, that’s in Australia, and for Brian, that’s in Italy. Their parents don’t understand their relationship and just want them to come home. They have officially spent enough time at the school to get the degrees in which they desired, but their jobs are waiting for them back at home.
Both of them don’t want to leave each other. They have spent a lot of time dealing with this, and think they have made a decision for themselves and not their families. What will that decision be?
Conversations:
Conversation 1: STARBUCKS; boy and girl; exchanged students
Person 1: im sorry
Person 2: Its ok when am I leaving
Person 1: Tomorrow afternoon
Person 2: When is your plane
Person 1: 7pm
Person 2: is your family here
Person 1: no they are not
Person 1: im going to cry and pack at the same time
Person 2: they were supposed to put me far, if I part from them I will feel very disconnected
Person 1: how many classes do you have
Person 2: just one
Person 1: I don’t want to leave this school
Person 2: Why
Person 1: I have to stay here
Person 2: These days are very hard, we are human, and we care about a lot of things
Person 1: Sometimes I just don’t know
Person 2: I think you wont know until you see
Person 1: you have to make the best of your time here
Conversation 2: STARBUCKS; boy and girl; studying/hanging out; American students
Person 1: you have to move the total minus this?
Person 2: yes
Person 1: wait so you use that same formula?
Person 1: I guess I was just looking for total distance
Person 1: I don’t get this at all
Person 2: yes, just do it this way
Person 1: Isn’t it caught by the receiver?
Person 2: its 13% of this number here
Person 1: did you multiply that by 2 then?
Person 2: um, I am not sure
Person 1: because you are rolling the ball here and here?
Person 2: well this is the answer here, I just don’t care anymore
Response:
I really enjoyed doing this assignment. It was interesting to eavesdrop for a purpose. I tend to eavesdrop when I am not even noticing, but when you are sitting and actually taking notes on someone elses conversation, you learn things about each person. One of my conversations was not interesting at all. 2 people were sitting at Starbucks studying. My other conversation was interesting, but extremely heard to understand parts of it. They seemed like they had just met, but were talking about emotional and private things. They seemed to confide in each other, while giving advice. I enjoyed making a screenplay out of these conversations. I focused more on the first one than the second one because it was easier to make a story with the first one. I turned it into a love story, and connected it back to the people who were in my first conversation. The program celtx, was very easy to use and helpful during this process. Overall, I would like to continue with my screenplay and add more characters and plot to it.
lewisjen 
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