Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Name this subtextural action with an active gerund phrase, such as “

fictional realities

All stories are “character-driven.

We now convert treatment description to screen description and add dialogue.

The camera is the dread X-ray machine of all things false.

The Controlling Idea has two components: Value plus Cause.

way that when the audience first sees them, they have one meaning, but with a rush of insight, they take on a second, more important meaning.

binary qualities of experience that can reverse their charge at any moment are Story Values.

Third, it should have purpose.