The story is the journey they go on to sort out the problem presented. On the way they may learn something new about themselves; they’ll certainly be faced with a series of obstacles they have to overcome; there will likely be a moment near the end where all hope seems lost, and this will almost certainly be followed by a last-minute resurrection

All scenes proceed on the basis of action/reaction/action/reaction until the moment when they suddenly hit an unexpected reaction: the moment when one character achieves their goal and the other loses it. That’s what a turning point is.

diegetic.

they are the product of the writer’s argument with reality.

just as story is dependent on structure, structure is dependent on the demands of each story.

three-act form allows us to access the root structure of storytelling,

Kuleshov discovered that the extraordinary new medium of film took advantage of the human need to impose order on the world.

next week they went back to how they were to learn the same lesson

TOTAL MASTERY