Sublime

All dramatic structure is built on the chassis of change.

the work of Kuleshov and Eisenstein (the father of the montage, effectively the Kuleshov Effect in action),

Another way of describing an artistic vision is that we create a unique universe in which the audience can live.

‘When the film turns narrative rather than dramatic, when it stands in for the viewer’s imagination, the viewer’s interest is lost … The garbage of exposition, backstory, narrative, and characterization spot-welds the reader into interest in what is happening now. It literally stops the

Screenwriting is showing not telling; structure is the presentation of images in such a way an audience are forced to work out the relationship between them.

fundamental unit of dramatic construction – something is confronted by its opposite and revealed to be something else.

set-up, confrontation and resolution.

The first 10 pages and the rest of Act One is the movie’s thesis; it’s where we see the world as it is before the adventure starts.

‘proscenium arch’