Trayce
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PROMOTING LIFE STORIES
OF THE RICH
US !
"Until the Lions have their own historians,
the history of the hunt will always glorify the Hunter. "
You're Entering the Lair of a Seasoned Lioness* —
battle-tested, self-made historian
— fiercely devoted to working-class truth.
She's crafted her own unique arsenal of powerful StoryTelling curriculum and formats — designed to:
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1. Surprise
2. Challenge
3. Demystify The Process of Creating
4. Explore Strategies for Buildomg Community & Creative Teams
5. Help You Discover The Untold Story Inside Your Own Life
This site is also our workshop and window — for my co-conspirators and me — to build strategy, deepen knowledge, and attract the supportive community needed to lift my original series NEXT DOOR off the page and onto the screen." -- Trayce *
"This site is me, one Black woman....
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making the most of what she knows to reach working-class people like her: not connected — but committed to figuring out what it means to live out your potential when no one hands you a map and your travel starts with bus tokens.
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NEXT DOOR - Gripping Coming-Of-Age Thriller Series !
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Season #1, 7 episodes, 30+ minutes each
$1 Million (the low-budget)
Our first move in launching a campaign to secure a Series Producer for NEXT DOOR is simple: rally working-class community champions. We’re inviting you inside the world of the series — through story excerpts and provocative discussion questions — so you can help prove why this story matters right now --- while you learn about the the building blocks of a series designed to hook viewers and keep them on edge and wondering, episode to episode.
LESSONS
HEAR ME SPEAK !
Intro To My StoryTelling Work (1)
00:00 / 06:10
Helping Working-Class Adult & Teen Beginners (& The Self-Taught)
Unlock, Tell, And Refine Their Stories; Personal & Imagined !
STORYTELLING LESSONS
Introducing
ONE BLACK WOMAN
MY MISSION: To help everyday working people embark on transformative journeys within their own familiar world. From the simplest form of StoryTelling -- verbally sharing a simple personal story — to exploring the most intricate form of StoryTelling there is: filmmaking — these formats can unlock new worlds, voices, and perspectives while helping you reshape your human relationships — including to yourself — for the better.
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In addition to the in-person lessons I offer, I’m creating LESSONS in multiple formats—written, video, and audio — that you can study on your own. Each lesson is rich with ideas to reflect on and hands-on exercises to complete. Don’t just read or watch straight through — pause, think, and do the exercises — they're meant to be covered in several sessions.
The lessons are even better with a 'think buddy' — someone to spark ideas with, swap “aha” moments, and volley your insights back and forth !
NEXT DOOR
At a budding age, when nothing fits,
and she think she's the problem....
What if someone is counting on that ?
OPENING: MEET THE FAMILY
Thirteen-year-old CHARLIE — watchful, awkward, quiet, old-souled — carries the weight of parenting her eight-year-old sister, MAX, and her spirited but unstable mother, JASMINE. Then one night her mother announces she’s leaving for a temporary job far away — but as she walks out the door, it’s unclear when… or if… she’s coming back.
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MEET THE FAMILY YOURSELF !
Study Excerpts From
The NEXT DOOR Pilot Episode: 'Born In A Box'
To help you focus on the family members and their dynamics — and how their communications and relationships might echo real people you know — I’ve minimized the film script formatting and removed the action and visual descriptions that paint the picture of what you'll see on the screen.
What remains is the dialogue alone, so it reads like a play. Go a head, read it aloud and become the characters ! To push your thinking further, you’ll find DISCUSSION QUESTIONS after each scene.
When Jasmine walks out the front door late in the Pilot Episode, an intense new presence enters the story — overshadowing the entire family dynamic and deepening the sisters’ vulnerability....
INTRODUCTION OF A KEY CHARACTER:
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THE SETTING
RICHMOND, CA (1972): At the end of a dead-end street sit three weathered, attached townhouses. The sisters live in the middle house --- next to one with a FOR RENT sign. Across the street looms a spooky old white house. Beyond the houses, a vast, barren field stretches out, leading to a trashed, abandoned housing development — rows of half-built wooden skeletons. An forbidding, forgotten place....
The mother is barely gone before a new concern takes her place. In an instant, the larger world closes in — and the sisters' isolated existence is seen as even more fragile. The FOR RENT sign stands there, ominous. Someone is coming.....
HOW WRITING A SERIES DIFFERS
FROM WRITING A SHORT OR FEATURE
There are far more series being produced than feature films — with more money and broader distribution. So every ambitious self-taught filmmaker wants to shoot a web series as a calling card.
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But a series isn’t just a stretched-out story. It’s the creation of a living world — characters with deep backstories, multiple narrative threads unfolding at once, constant turns, escalating tension, and episode endings that deepen the mystery rather than resolve it. How do you start creating that world ?
THE PILOT IS THE MOTHER OF ALL EPISODES — FROM IT GROWS THE ENTIRE FOREST
I’m kicking off the NEXT DOOR Blog by showing how I packed the Pilot with tiny details — little character hints, small moments, and props that seem minor at first, but grow, ripple out, and plant seeds that keep sprouting across the episodes to come.
A Beautiful Relationship To Anchor Our
NEXT DOOR Campaign
Trayce & Andrew -- A picture of the two and brief intro, with a link to box with more info about Andrew.
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