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Milestone 4

It was may last chance before making any changes and produce my final submission, so I decided to make my story more convincing (both for audiences and producers). First, I determined couple of logical mistakes in my story, which is also mentioned by my instructor and my advisor. Then, I though and found new scenes to replace those ones, planned, and started working on it.

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Project Revision

As a Milestone 3, I revised my screenplay according to feedbacks. I also read it completely, fixed flashback scenes. There is some additions and subtractions, just like I expected.

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Visual Materials

There will be five analog collages that represents six different characters. Because of Covid-19, I am not able to go to the stationery, but I already have some magazines at home and started drawing since I was quarantined. I am working on my collages, and will upload them along with Midterm Review 2 file.

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Changes in the Story

   After talking to my instructor about the graveyard, I decided it would be much better if I create a smaller graveyard. As a consequence, I created an imaginery graveyard, its name is “Saklı Mezarlık”. Although I am not mentioning its qualifications in my script, it is in Istanbul and extremely small.     Saklı Mezarlık means “hidden graveyard” in English. As it is a hidden graveyard, it is a private place that available through some social connections. Let’s say graveyard for “very important person”.     This placement in my script is giving me an opportunity to describe how powerful “Tengizov” family is (being able to access private graveyard), and fix logic errors in graveyard scenes. 

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Project Progress

I chose the 6th week to finish the first draft completely. The major part of the screenplay had written, will be fully ready in a few days. My advisor read the part I wrote and said there were some shortcomings. I will fix them right after I finish writing.

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Crime board.  Not expected to be in a normal home.

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Depressed person’s home. Let's say we replace papers and documents with empty pizza boxes and tombul efes bottles.  Decoration is almost the same as I described. 

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Yıldız Parkı, a very convenient place to meet the pervert calling from the secret number.

Perfect Places

Since most of the events are taking place in Istanbul, I had to choose some places that everyone knows. There are too many graveyards in Istanbul. I have never been any of them, but I heard “Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı” a lot. Also, Since the Zincirlikuyu is in a central location, the prices of graves are much more expensive than in others. I thought the family grave of a rich man should be here. There is a park scene as the story coming to the end. Plus, I can not describe a place in my story that I have not seen before. I did not want to create an imaginary park in Istanbul, instead, I decided to use a real park. I have been to Maçka Parkı and Yıldız Parkı before. According to my feelings, Maçka Parkı is a happy place. I have been there too many times, and I never saw someone who is crying under the trees. On the other hand, Yıldız Parkı is somewhat gloomy. Maybe I feel in that way depend on my personal experience, I always went there alone, at night, but I swear there are only few people around and most of them are alone. I decided Yıldız Parkı would suit the story much more than Maçka Parkı would do.

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Proof of how accurate graveyard decision I have made.

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Perfect Places

Since most of the events are taking place in Istanbul, I had to choose some places that everyone knows. There are too many graveyards in Istanbul. I have never been any of them, but I heard “Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı” a lot. Also, Since the Zincirlikuyu is in a central location, the prices of graves are much more expensive than in others. I thought the family grave of a rich man should be here. There is a park scene as the story coming to the end. Plus, I can not describe a place in my story that I have not seen before. I did not want to create an imaginary park in Istanbul, instead, I decided to use a real park. I have been to Maçka Parkı and Yıldız Parkı before. According to my feelings, Maçka Parkı is a happy place. I have been there too many times, and I never saw someone who is crying under the trees. On the other hand, Yıldız Parkı is somewhat gloomy. Maybe I feel in that way depend on my personal experience, I always went there alone, at night, but I swear there are only few people around and most of them are alone. I decided Yıldız Parkı would suit the story much more than Maçka Parkı would do.

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just a personal guide for Doctor Stepan / Mengele’s twin obsession 

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Doctors Cult

As I started writing the whole script, I realized that I was starting to solve the confusion about the doctors in the story. If I need to evaluate myself, I would say that I should have done the research about human experiments in more detail last semester. However, it is better late than never.  My main inspiration for those doctors in that cult was Josef Mengele. I think everybody knows who he is, but let me tell you anyway; he is known for his deadly experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. It is also known that he was obsessed with twins, to perform experiments on their bodies, which there is also a twin sisters in Preditaville.  In order to create my “Doctor Stepan” in a more realistic way, the best way would be to better understand Josef Mengele, his main aim and motivation behind his actions. Unfortunately, since he was a real person who lived in the real world, what we see about him in documentaries might not have helped me enough. Consequently, I found a new way; I made a search for the characters of the series inspired from him. I found two results from popular series; Qyburn in Game of Thrones and Dr Arden in American Horror Story Asylum/Freak Show. Based on the results I found, I decided to integrate Doctor Stepan into the story, in terms of his aims, desires, motivation and weaknesses.  To be honest, I always hated Game of Thrones. I didn't want to watch it, even for the development of my project, since it is disgusting for my taste. On the other hand, American Horror Story is delightful. I had already watched related season of it, Asylum, but it was long time ago. Even so, I looked at the Dr Arden parts with a paper pen in my hand. I realized that his main motivation is “hate”, which it is easy to figure out that is common point with Josef Mengele. However, my poor victims of Dr Stepan is not a ethnic group to hate, so I decided he only could be sadistic and crazy. Dr Arden’s weaknesses are being a hopeless romantic and sex obsession; but Doctor Stepan could not have this kind of weaknesses since he would not have been so deep in the story. Due to this reason, I decided to show the reason for him to losing these people for many years as an extreme fondness for his family. He may have stopped looking for these people to spend time with his family, but when he heard about them, he found where they are immediately.  Other doctors in the cult are a group of fools following his path, their only function is obey Doctor Stepan’s orders. I do not find it logical to lose time by creating them one by one because they are only in the story for their physical helps to Doctor Stepan.

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Some changes were decided in the story. The screenplay project designed accordingly.  The beginning and the end of the script has written.  The middle of the story is about to be written. I have to say, I love writersolo script writing software so much! It is way better than celtx. With writersolo and its handy tools, I did not experience any kind of trouble while righting.  

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The meeting room should look like this. USA flags will not be in the room, and there may be less light.  Eight chairs around the rectangle table is exactly what I was planning. I do not want a round table due to my personal perspective. It (round tables have an innocent aura)

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After meeting with my instructor and my advisor today, we all agreed that some changes should be made in the project. - It will be written as a 90-minute movie instead of a 6-part x 45min series.  - It would be better if I make handmade collages to describe places more efficiently. Accordingly, my handmade place descriptions will be available soon! - One of my character is almost “perfect”. No one can be perfect, and fictional characters should not be perfect. As a result, I am working on creating a unique secret sinful obsession for him. - The previous gannt chart that I made for milestones is not working well enough. New one will be created today. 

First things first

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First things first