ordinary world
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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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Structure: Michael Clayton
A structural overview of Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) in 8 Sequences. When I watched the film during its theatrical…
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Blade Runner: The 8 Mins First Act
If you want to be a professional screenwriter, be open to spoilers. Furthermore, be open to the weaknesses in your…
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Structure: The Lives of Others
A loyal agent for the Stasi spies on a playwright and his actress girlfriend. Intent on revealing their disloyalty to…
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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…
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The Inciting Incident
The first guy to write down that a story needs a beginning, middle and end, was Aristotle. About twenty-four centuries…