{"id":1670,"date":"2025-06-04T20:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:26:11","slug":"ethics-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2025\/06\/04\/ethics-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics in Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Logline: Bumbling social scientist Dr. Brightwell sets out to prove the benevolent nature of humanity through a series of ethical experiments \u2013 and inadvertently reveals the opposite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Page Count: 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Genre: Comedy<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cast Breakdown:<b><br \/>\n<\/b>DR. MATTHEW BRIGHTWELL<b> <\/b>(34), a bumbling, idealistic social scientist, hungry to prove himself to the scientific community. Not dumb, but exceptionally short-sighted and unrealistically optimistic.<br \/>\nDR. RACHEL SATURNINE (45), perpetually exhausted, severely overqualified, and painfully pragmatic. Dr. Saturnine is Dr. Brightwell\u2019s assistant, though she shouldn\u2019t be- she has twice his experience and expertise. Doesn\u2019t hold a grudge but can come off as abrasive.<br \/>\nEXECUTIVE LARSON (49), an intimidating man whose life is ruled by the numbers. He has little time or care for personal relations, but matters of business are life and death.<br \/>\nSUBJECT 1 (any age), first experiment participant. Ordinary in every way.<br \/>\nSUBJECT 2 (any age),<b> <\/b>second experiment participant. A little too excited to be here.<br \/>\nSUBJECT 3 (any age), third experiment participant. Cold and uncaring.<br \/>\nSUBJECT 4 (60s\/70s),<b> <\/b>fourth experiment participant. Overly religious.<br \/>\nSUBJECT 5 (any age), fifth experiment participant. Talkative.<br \/>\nSUBJECT 6 (19), sixth experiment participant. Unenthusiastic teenager.<br \/>\n3-6 EXTRAS (any ages), subjects in final experiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Location Breakdown:<b><br \/>\n<\/b>Dr. Brightwell\u2019s Office &#8211; INTLab Chamber &#8211; INT<br \/>\nDr. Saturnine\u2019s Office \u2013 INT<br \/>\nPlanning Room &#8211; INT<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Special\/Visual FX<b>: <\/b>N\/A<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stunts\/Cheats:<br \/>\nSmall group of extras get into a physical altercation (pg 5). Written to be cheated and kept off camera.<\/p>\n<p>Credit:<br \/>\nWritten by Alex Berry<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Contact Info:<b><br \/>\n<\/b>(509) 598-5901,<b> <\/b>alberry@chapman.edu, skyriver509@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read Here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2026\/03\/Ethics-in-Practice-Final-Draft.pdf\">Ethics-in-Practice-Final-Draft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logline: Bumbling social scientist Dr. Brightwell sets out to prove the benevolent nature of humanity through a series of ethical experiments \u2013 and inadvertently reveals the opposite. Page Count: 7 Genre: Comedy Cast Breakdown: DR. MATTHEW BRIGHTWELL (34), a bumbling,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/2025\/06\/04\/ethics-in-practice\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10-pages","category-comedy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/scriptbank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}