Post Series
If you like longer contributions, check out these articles that run over several posts.
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Structure: Terminator 2
A structural overview of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (J. Cameron, 1991). Terminator 2 offers amazing entertainment, with groundbreaking visual effects…
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Inciting Incident: Planting the Bomb
Keeping the audience interested throughout the 'setup' is a major challenge as professional readers won't last until the Inciting Incident…
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POV: Ratatouille’s Deleted Scene
RATATOUILLE has 1 (one) deleted scene. It is a long, uninterrupted travel from a wide establishing shot of the Paris…
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Michael Hauge Interview – Part 1
MICHAEL HAUGE is a story consultant, author and lecturer who works with writers and filmmakers. He has coached or consulted…
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Inciting Incident: Event, not Action.
When talking about story structure, many people talk about where exactly in the story the structural element needs to happen.…
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Inciting Incident: Definitions
Inciting Incident, Catalyst, Call to Adventure, Disturbance. All terms referring to the first crucial moment: the point where your story…