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- Describing what is in a characters head
- Clarify emotions clearly or else the audience might not understand
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- All characters are variation of the theme
- Make characters with their own background story, not only focusing around the main character
- dialogue should reveal characters
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- Good at attacking protagonist weakness
- antagonist must be powerful=compelling story
- Pressure antagonist into difficult choices
- Competing for the same goal as the protagonist
- Direct conflict with protagonist
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- Rooted in hopes and fears
- Creating weaknesses
- well developed flaws adds richness
- flaws must impact characters decisions
- Thinking unfavorably
- IF you can’t relate to a character its hard to feel empathy for them
- character obstacles
- Have a character with their own flaws complete an obstacle
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- First few pages can determine your while story
- Genre
- clarify genre in beginning of film
- Protagonist
- Describe character through actions and situations
- Character should be flawed and interesting as normal people
- Show the world
- powerful element of your story
- build your story with details and characters
- Hint at the theme
- Help you understand your characters motivation throughout your story
- Set up the dramatic situation
- Set the wheels in motion
- can make the reader wanna read more
- usually in the first 10 pages
- build excitement and intrigue
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Notes:
- About 10-15 minutes
- Has beginning, middle, and end
- Length, ownership, tension, framework
- Each sequence can have its own specific character
- a sequence can be devoted to a villan
- not every sequence needs to center your protagonist
- Fearing for your characters is tension
- end with the resolution with the tension leading to another
- framework obstacles can be physical or emotional
- obstacles should have clear consequences
- Framework helps shape story
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- Grab readers attention
- make it interesting within 10 pages
- First sequence is very important
- Inciting incident and lock in
- Tone
- emotional or dramatic pitch to the story
- writing style
- Genre
- Set up and clarified imminently
- Specific genre expectations
- Status quo
- can be positive, indifferent, or negative
- once the character succeeds or fails a new status quo is introduced
- World of the story
- Gives insights to an environment
- The world should be used to serve the story
- Dramatic situation
- Sets the wheels in motion
- Inciting incident
- occurs before your characters main objective
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- Common to go into the enemies layer
- The predicament
- matter of life or death
- your character cant escape
- fuels your entire second act
- Protagonists objective
- Key factor that defines character is objective
- Lock-in
- Your h=character can never return to status quo
- Sequence 2 concludes with lock in
- Main tension
- Culmination of all obstacles
- Glue that keeps your story moving forward
Notes
- Five plot points
- three acts
- Inciting incident-Occasionally this moment occurs within the first few pages
- Lock in-Single most important plot point of your story/when your protagonist can’t walk away
- First culmination (mid point)-between lock and midpoint/midpoint should be victory if your character wins
- main culmination (climax)-The largest obstacle/last point (highest or lowest point)
- Third act twist-pacing is faster/the ultimate “show down”
- Link to Screenplay Form
- Notes
- Brevity-concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.
- Clarity-paint a picture
- creativity-don’t be dull (use figurative language)
- Paragraph spacing-more organized ideas
- emphasize-example: use capital letters to emphasize and event
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- you the viewer are the protagonist
- need(something ain’t quite right)
- go (crossing the threshold)
- search (the road of trials)
- find(meeting with the goddess)
- take(meet your maker)
- return(bringing it home)
- change(master of both worlds)
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- Inciting incident: When the story starts with a certain event
- Throw your character into an event that’s unfamiliar to them where they need to react in way they normally wouldn’t
- Time signature helps engage audience
- add protagonists
- know what kind of audience you’re trying to target
- don’t try to “win” against other authors