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Introduce a Fascinating Protagonist (Protag):
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: TV Drama: The Structure of the One-Hour Television Pilot
Stereotypical stories stay at home, archetypal stories travel.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
the three act structure and advising Greek scriptwriters to, “Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them.”
Peter Levitan • The Levitan Pitch. Buy This Book. Win More Pitches.
your goal is make the Reader feel the same emotion as they read the script as the Audience will feel when they watch the movie.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
make sure I’ve introduced or hinted at introducing every character in the A story.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
Once this tripartite structure is understood, two more things become apparent. All acts have the same underlying shape but take on a different purpose depending on the order in which they appear in any story.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
few fictional examples:
Gerri Brehm • Communicating with Style : A Handbook for DISCovering Yourself & Understanding Others
-External and Internal Goals, the Central Dramatic Question and the Act Two-A Story Engine must be established by the end of Act One, ideally by page 30.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
The stages of the Hero’s Journey can be described as follows (Volger, 1998, pp. 81-235):