YOUR concept?
What IF ?
Rock their world
Story that YOU WILL want to/ WON’T tell your grandchildren
A STORY THAT IS WORTH TELLING
Your story is : FOOTPRINTS LEFT IN SAND BY A CHARACTER IN QUEST OF HIS HEATS DESIRE AGAINST IMPOSSIBEL ODDS
The 3 essentials
PLOTS
STRUCTURE
CHARECTERS
watch - inception / training day / grand turino ( Clint Eastwood)
no country for old men/ real steal /
PLOT: is the building block
The string of events / actions, reactions resolving the main story portrayed in the script.
Superficial story line about what it is ABOUT
More challenge
More conflict
Adheres to central conflict or through line or central line.
In plots there is reversal, twists and up down roads
Avoid holes in stories, it might be far fetched, but must be believable,
Backstory – what happened to character before this, via- flashback / dialogue, though best is through Visuals
movie- fugitive/ pans Labrinth
ABOUT - treasure or love or revenge
About- the immediate what’s trying to be achieved
In the scrip for “ growing up flat chested “
It’s about – getting bigger boobs, but it was ABOUT accepting oneself.
STRUCTURE:
ACT 1.
Meet the lead character in everyday life
New elements will push pull the hero called INCITING INCIDENT
We meet the key antagonist
Main character is pushed into dangerous situations
1st PLOT POINT , 1ST TURNING INCIVENT
ACT 2A.
Hero makes new friends and enemies
Some will flip flop as pals , or enemies
Often spend crawling out of deep holes or slowly slipping from relatively high points
All will eventually lead up to MID POINT (could be string of events too)
It’s usually after a major low or followed by one.
It also refreshes the plot, if the plot was getting weak; sometimes it saves the movie,
A reversal will turn the plot around
ACT 2B
Spend in reacting to new info PLOT POINT 2
Could be a reversal after 1st plot point, where the hero is worse off then what he started out at, or even worse.
Hero might achieve his goal – but does eh want it now?
(Change of heart, or change of desire)
ACT 3.
New ticking clock
Into the hornets nest , might lead to death or near death
Climax- inevitable main event of the script
Quick resolution
Resolution
CHARACTER : is the heart soul dimension, emotion , universal appeal ,
Question of “ Likability “
Sympathy for the DEVIL
What does the character WANT?
What does the character DESIRE?
How does the character PERSUE HIS DESIRE?
DESIRE TRUMPTS MORALITY
EMPATHY HUMANITY
Real bad Vs something else
What is the backdrop that the character leads us to?
Character arc:
Protagonist undergoes changes
What’s at stake?
He has to be active
Dimensions
Protagonist is antagonist driven
Character vs. plot driven
YOUR concept?
What IF ?
Rock their world
Story that YOU WILL want to/ WON’T tell your grandchildren
A STORY THAT IS WORTH TELLING
Your story is : FOOTPRINTS LEFT IN SAND BY A CHARACTER IN QUEST OF HIS HEATS DESIRE AGAINST IMPOSSIBEL ODDS
The 3 essentials
PLOTS
STRUCTURE
CHARECTERS
PLOT: is the building block
The string of events / actions, reactions resolving the main story portrayed in the script.
Superficial story line about what it is ABOUT
More challenge
More conflict
Adheres to central conflict or through line or central line.
In plots there is reversal, twists and up down roads
Avoid holes in stories, it might be far fetched, but must be believable,
Backstory – what happened to character before this, via- flashback / dialogue, though best is through Visuals
ABOUT - treasure or love or revenge
About- the immediate what’s trying to be achieved
In the scrip for “ growing up flat chested “
It’s about – getting bigger boobs, but it was ABOUT accepting oneself.
STRUCTURE:
ACT 1.
Meet the lead character in everyday life
New elements will push pull the hero called INCITING INCIDENT
We meet the key antagonist
Main character is pushed into dangerous situations
1st PLOT POINT , 1ST TURNING INCIVENT
ACT 2A.
Hero makes new friends and enemies
Some will flip flop as pals , or enemies
Often spend crawling out of deep holes or slowly slipping from relatively high points
All will eventually lead up to MID POINT (could be string of events too)
It’s usually after a major low or followed by one.
It also refreshes the plot, if the plot was getting weak; sometimes it saves the movie,
A reversal will turn the plot around
ACT 2B
Spend in reacting to new info PLOT POINT 2
Could be a reversal after 1st plot point, where the hero is worse off then what he started out at, or even worse.
Hero might achieve his goal – but does eh want it now?
(Change of heart, or change of desire)
ACT 3.
New ticking clock
Into the hornets nest , might lead to death or near death
Climax- inevitable main event of the script
Quick resolution
Resolution
CHARACTER : is the heart soul dimension, emotion , universal appeal ,
Question of “ Likability “
Sympathy for the DEVIL
What does the character WANT?
What does the character DESIRE?
How does the character PERSUE HIS DESIRE?
DESIRE TRUMPTS MORALITY
EMPATHY HUMANITY
Real bad Vs something else
What is the backdrop that the character leads us to?
Character arc:
Protagonist undergoes changes
What’s at stake?
He has to be active
Dimensions
Protagonist is antagonist driven
Character vs. plot driven
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