Screenplay: The Foundations
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- 8. Two incidents
- 8.1. The inciting incident
7. Setting up the story
Everything is related . If we go back to the second definition of structure, it states that there is a causal "relationship between the parts and the whole." If you change a scene or a line of dialogue on page 10, it impacts and influences a scene or a line of dialogue on page 80. A screenplay is a whole, and exists in direct relationship to its parts. Therefore, it becomes essential to introduce your story from the very beginning, from page one, word one. Setup your story visually : Setting up your story by explaining lings through dialogue slows down the action and impedes the story progression. A screenplay is a story told with pictures, remember, so it's important to set up your story visually. 18 8. Two incidents The definition of incident : "a specific event or occurrence that occurs in relation to something else." The inciting incident serves two important and necessary functions in the craft of storytelling: 1. It sets the story in motion 2. It grabs the attention of the reader and audience. Seeing the relationship between this first incident and the story line is essential to an understanding of good screenwriting. Essence of tragedy : Hegel, the great eighteenth-century German philosopher, maintained that the essence of tragedy derives not from one character being right and the other being wrong, or from the conflict of good versus evil, but from a conflict in which both characters are right, and thus the tragedy is one of "right against right," being carried to its logical conclusion. All drama is conflict : Without conflict you have no action; without action you have no character; without character you have no story; and without story you have no screenplay. 8.1. The inciting incident Depending on the kind of story you're writing, the inciting incident will either be action-driven or character-driven. It does not have to be a tense action or dramatic sequence The inciting incident always leads us to the key incident, which is the hub of the story line, the engine that powers the story forward. The key incident reveals to us what the story is about. Download 439.35 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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