no11. CASE STUDY2 - SIMPSONS

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CASE STUDY: SIMPSONS "Homer's Night Out"

1-SENTENCE SUMMARY
Bart's photo, showing Homer dancing with a woman during a party, gets distributed all over Springfield and causes tension at home - Marge throws Homer out of the house.


SYNOPSIS

Bart uses his new miniature "spy" camera to take candid pictures around

the household; meanwhile, Homer is preparing to go to a bachelor party

for his co-worker at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. While at the

party, Homer is invited to dance on stage with a stripper. Bart (who is

dining with the rest of the family in the next-door restaurant) uses his

camera to snap a photo of Homer and the dancer having a great time. At

school, Martin develops the picture, which - after he compliments Bart's work - gets distributed around school, and eventually around town. Marge sees the photo and is outraged. Homer arrives home, where Marge immediately confronts her husband and kicks him out of the house. Eventually, Marge agrees to let him back in on the condition he take Bart around to meet the stripper and show that she is not a sex object. After almost winding up on stage at another of the dancer's performances, Homer does as he is asked and all is forgiven.

Bart purchases a mini spy camera and manages to take a picture of Homer dancing with a stripper named Princess Kashmir at a co-worker's strip club party. He gives copies of the picture to his friends, and eventually the picture starts to circulate around until eventually Marge sees it. She kicks Homer out of the house, but the next day explains that she is not upset about him dancing, but rather that Bart saw it. She demands that he take Bart and go apologize to Princess Kashmir. Homer agrees and says that he is ready to start respecting women.

PLOTS:

Plot1 (MAIN) 
- Homer's party/ caught on Bart's photo >> consequences

Plot2 (SUBPLOT) 
- Bart gets spy camera, plays with it, distribute photo >> consequences

3 ACT STRUCTURE
Act1 - Setup
Act2 - Confrontation
Act3 - Resolution

Conflict
Turning Point
Motive

SCRIPT FORMAT
- slugline (scene description) - INT / LOCATION / TIME OF DAY
- action description/storyline (visual)
- dialogue/sfx/music (audio)