Screenplay: The Foundations

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Document Outline

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• Description from amazon
• 1. Intro
• 2. What Is a Screenplay?
  • 2.1. The three acts
    • ACT I IS THE SET-UP
    • ACT II IS CONFRONTATION
    • ACT III IS RESOLUTION
    • Plot Point
• 3. The Subject
• 4. The Creation of Character
  • 4.1. Character Creation Process
  • 4.2. Building a Character
    • Dramatic need
    • Point of view
    • Attitude
    • Transformation
• 5. Story and Character
• 6. Endings and beginnings
• 7. Setting up the story
• 8. Two incidents
  • 8.1. The inciting incident
  • 8.2. Key incident
  • 8.3 Dramatic premise
• 9. Plot points
  • 9.1. Plot points exercise
• 10. The scene
  • 10.1. Place and time
  • 10.2. Creating a scene
• 11. The sequence
• 12. Building the storyline
  • 12.1. Act 1
  • 12.2. Act 2
  • 12.3. Act 3
• 13. The cards
  • 13.1. How to use the cards
• 14. Screenplay form
• 15. Writing the screenplay
  • 15.1. Recap
  • 15.2. Dialogue
  • 15.3. 3 stages
    • "Words on paper" - stage
    • Taking a cold, hard, objective look at what you've written.
    • Where the story really gets written
  • 15.4. Writers block
• 16. After it´s written
  • 16.1. The three essays
  • 16.2. After the essays
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