Narrative structure rough
Greg was supposed to do this and his team were excited to go along with it. Burt was too, but Greg and his team are incompetent and decided to just put everything on Burt to sit in a room doing nothing.
Enjoy and be sure to let Greg know how you feel about him
Set up
Greg escapes from the cube. His handlers (production team) wrangle him back. To make sure the experiment is seen to its true conclusion, they bring in Burt. Black-op Urban Response Torturer. A mad scientist in his own right, he utilizes military, psychological and pharmaceutical techniques, but does he have an ulterior motive? What drives him, an urge to dominate? Something psycho-sexual motivates, where the mind of a man with a 160 IQ can only come up with these methods. There were whispers, repeated, as the voice of an eldritch AI predicting 5000 years of BBC. GNF. gag, spit, suck.
Greg, our hero, beaten down over days of experimentation is confronted with his biggest challenge yet. After making a daring escape, our protagonist was unfortunately found outside the facility and brought back to the cube.
This brings clippable moments and will be very good for an edit.
3 Act Narrative Arc
Act 1 - Greg escapes and recaptured. Interrogation by Burt.
Act 2 - False memory implants - marriage - Jessica
Act 3 - Rejection of false memories, Greg gets the upper hand, roles switched. Audience decides if Greg escapes or not (can either have it be a competing TTS poll or just make it a revenue goal)
Begin arc
Logistically and structurally aiming for about 10-15 min before show time cameras come back. Pitch black, only sounds of struggle and setting up Greg’s restraints. There is a back and forth, Greg speaks in a way to show his defiance.
Kick and everything is promoted on Burt’s end, blasted on all socials etc. ominous promo etc for everywhere.
Lights cut on. Framed as just Burt’s face looking directly into the camera. Emotionless but with a tinge of madness.
Reference : Funny Games, lots of looking back at the camera.
Back and forth, Burt gets to play a split personality good cop bad cop etc, takes TTS for material to use on Greg. you can implement safe words (green yellow red).
This goes for a few hours, and reconvene the next day.
Marriage gaslight arc
Burt is more doting to Greg, he believes they were married and has the photos to prove it.
Album of about 20 images going through a dating, marriage, honeymoon and mpreg Greg. Could add a death bed image as the last image to really make it even more surreal.
$50 unlocks a new image that drives tts, narrative and revenue.
For moving through the arc and depending on heat, could bump the price but $1k increments will at least drive narrative and you can throw in things to slow it down or speed it up. Goal is to have this play out the stream and project.
End of act 2 pt 1 is Greg accepting he has been with Burt for years and is his husband.
Act 2 pt 2
Jessica
1k goal while married couple, Greg becomes Jessica. Opens up space for improv, can modify rev goal to shorten. Can continue to use the motif of showing him pictures of them as such. Remake false memories, show stills from Segregated of the date. Remake the previous images from first false memory implants to have Greg as Jessica.
1k goal while Jessica is to defeat the false memories and turn the tables. Instead of 1k goal for a lot of these should be gradual. Think add a wig, etc for Jessica act for $100 or however else to divide it. Sub goals and main goals are the best way to structure this. Hint at the act, but $100 increments fulfilled.
This is the same structure for breaking out. Give Greg, Greg-like things that bring him back to his old self. $100 increments etc.
As build up and punchline when goal is hit
Greg: I’m beginning to think I am just a part of an experiment. You are mad, you are insane, I’m not Jessica! I wasn’t married to you! I am Greg!
Burt: You are talking crazy, you are crazy. I’m not crazy. Look, remember, where are these images from?
*Burt take the photos one by one showing them to Greg*
Burt: Remember our life. We lived a full life together, even until death did us part.
*Burt frantically shoves the photos into his backpack, a pill bottle falls out*
As Burt is doing this a few more bottles fall out.
Greg: No, I am beginning to remember now. I have lived a much different life. I worked at a gas station, I worked at a dog food factory. I am asexual (can use this space to improvise). You are crazy, a lunatic, a mad man!
Burt: NO! I AM PERFECTLY SANE. I AM PERFECTLY SANE.
*Burt fumbles with his bag, shoving in the last photo*
Burt: I AM PERFECTLY SANE AND THESE PHOTOS PROVE OUR MEMORIES
*Burt dumps the bag on the ground, pill bottles scatter about the floor*
*As Burt cleans up the pill bottles and photos, the lights cut*
Act 3
Tables turned
Scene transition the same as act 1 started. Cut lights, sound of struggle. Greg is the only thing in frame, but a reversal of shots. Even move Burt to a different corner. Repeat of Act 1 but with Greg in his own role, interrogating on how to escape. Use pies and sounds of women laughing to make Burt break. Geeked up playing Xbox all day, etc.
Hit goal? Greg escapes.
Don’t hit goal, Burt escapes his position and it goes back to Act 1 intro with a fade out and lights cutting leaving it unresolved.
Act 1
Act 1/Prelude - Greg escapes and is recaptured by the lab. Interrogation by Burt.
Logistically and structurally aiming for about 10-15 min before show time cameras come back. Pitch black, only sounds of struggle and setting up Greg’s restraints. There is a back and forth, Greg speaks in a way to show his defiance.
Kick and everything is promoted on Burt’s end, blasted on all socials etc. ominous promo etc for everywhere.
Lights cut on. Framed as just Burt’s face looking directly into the camera. Emotionless but with a tinge of madness.
Back and forth, Burt gets to play a split personality good cop bad cop etc, takes TTS for material to use on Greg. you can implement safe words (green yellow red).
This goes for a few hours. Allows for recovery and setting the stage for the next day. Coach Greg and Burt to interact with TTS as much as possible. Try to improv off of SFX, see if they can gauge the heat from SFX and so on.
Act 2
Act 2 - False memory implants - marriage gaslight - Jessica returns
The next day Burt is more doting to Greg, like something changed inside of him. The once hardened inquisitor now has a new personality. He believes they were married and has the photos to prove it.
Album of about 20 images going through a dating, marriage, honeymoon and mpreg Greg , ending with a photo of Greg on his deathbed with Burt by his side holding his hand. Was this a life already lived? Was this the life he is living now?
$50 unlocks a new image that drives tts, narrative and revenue.
Keep a pace in case of off hours, have them re-reference images previously shown and then improv off of them. Have Burt come up with a story of the image. As it gets deeper into it, have Greg then start to agree thats what happened or act fuzzy on details.
Aiming for $1k increments for bigger goals to move through narrative, if getting steam then you can have some sort of intermission goals. Just don’t let it struggle.
If need be, push it through to pt 2 of Act 2. By showing more images, dropping goal for an image etc.
End of act 2 pt 1 is Greg accepting he has been with Burt for years and is his husband.
Act 2 pt 2
Jessica
Repetition of earlier narrative device, but the photos are now of Jessica instead of Burt. Burt starts using Jessica and Greg interchangeably, moving through it proportionally until Greg goes by Jessica. Add ons are both images and a part of the Jessica costume.
This drives into Greg undoing Jessica. Revenue goals are now to give things that are quintessentially Greg. Candy, mountain dew, etc. Time and his items that make him his true self begin to break the chains of Burt and Jessica.
Climax of Act 2
Greg: I’m beginning to think I am just a part of an experiment. You are mad, you are insane, I’m not Jessica! I wasn’t married to you! I am Greg!
Burt: You are talking crazy, you are crazy. I’m not crazy. Look, remember, where are these images from?
*Burt take the photos one by one showing them to Greg*
Burt: Remember our life. We lived a full life together, even until death did us part.
*Burt frantically shoves the photos into his backpack, a pill bottle falls out*
As Burt is doing this a few more bottles fall out.
Greg: No, I am beginning to remember now. I have lived a much different life. I worked at a gas station, I worked at a dog food factory. I am asexual (can use this space to improvise). You are crazy, a lunatic, a mad man!
Burt: NO! I AM PERFECTLY SANE. I AM PERFECTLY SANE.
*Burt fumbles with his bag, shoving in the last photo*
Burt: I AM PERFECTLY SANE AND THESE PHOTOS PROVE OUR MEMORIES
*Burt dumps the bag on the ground, pill bottles scatter about the floor*
no
*As Burt cleans up the pill bottles and photos, the lights cut*
It is back to how it began….
Act 3
Tables turned
Scene transition the same as act 1 started. Cut lights, sound of struggle. When lights/camera are back Greg is the only thing in frame, but a reversal of shots. Move Burt to a different corner. Repeat of Act 1 but with Greg in his own role, interrogating on how to escape, why he was here. Why did Burt implant those false memories.
Use pies and sounds of women laughing to make Burt break. Geeked up playing Xbox all day, etc. If you can get the menu like congregated, this is a good time.
Hit goal? Greg escapes.
Don’t hit goal, Burt escapes his position and it goes back to Act 1 intro with a fade out and lights cutting leaving it unresolved.
Images to generate
Images to generate
- Burt and Greg at a sadie hawkins dance meeting for the first time
- Burt and Greg 1st date, with Burt pushing Greg in a wheelchair at a carnival.
- Burt proposing to Greg
- Burt and Greg getting married
- Greg is pregnant, they are at a gender reveal and the cake is blue.
- A remake of the loss comic with Burt and Greg.
- Burt and Greg getting into an argument about finances
- Burt and Greg making up, implying make up sex in some way
- Burt and Greg with a chinese child
- Burt and Greg at chinese child performing mean girls musical
- Burt and Greg marching against Trump
- Burt and Greg getting covid shots
- Burt and Greg buying a house together
- Burt and Greg at child’s graduation
- Burt and Greg at child’s wedding
- Burt and Greg on a cruise together
- Burt and Greg celebrating their job promotion at the SPLC
- Burt and Greg retiring together
- Burt and Greg welcoming chinese grand children
- Burt holding Greg’s hand while Greg is on his death bed.
These images then get remixed and remade for instead of Greg it is Jessica and the child instead of Chinese will be white. Instead of the SPLC it will be TPUSA or Fox News. Instead of marching against Trump it will be J6. Instead of covid shots it will be shooting guns together. Do a conservative bend to an ideal life.
Album of about 20 images going through a dating, marriage, honeymoon and mpreg Greg , ending with a photo of Greg on his deathbed with Burt by his side holding his hand. Was this a life already lived? Was this the life he is living now?
