Just like every car has four wheels and two axles, each screenplay has the same basic structural parts – the…
The audience has seen the journey through which our protagonist has traveled. Yet the audience still wants reassurance that all…
This is the meat and potatoes portion… AND the most difficult part of writing a screenplay. Most mediocre and flawed…
Usually the story really begins at the moment when the first character faces the difficulty that he or she has…
There is a lot to say about sequences, but the two most important principles to remember about sequences are: 1….
A sequence is a self-contained portion of the entire story, usually about 10 to 15 minutes (pages) in length. It…
Generally speaking there are two (sometimes three) sequences in ACT I, four (sometimes five) in ACT II and two sequences…
Clearly a screenplay is built through scenes, sequences, acts, using tension and conflict, while eliciting hopes and fears, etc., but…
A scene is a complete unit in of itself, with a beginning, middle, and end. And a feature is just…
From the moment a dramatic situation which contains a grave conflict has been created and has to be resolved one…