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Breaking Down the Elements of a Story
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8 Sections
36 Lessons
10 Weeks
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Chapter 5: Unpacking Your Idea
8
1.1
I Have This Great Idea. Now What?
10 mins
1.2
Getting to Know Your Audience
10 mins
1.3
Knowing What Happened Before Your Story Began: Creating the Backstory
10 mins
1.4
Identifying the Tone of Your Piece
10 mins
1.5
Establishing Your Story’s Time Clock
10 mins
1.6
Deciding When to Start Your Story
10 mins
1.7
Getting to Know Aristotle: A Dramatist’s Best Friend
10 mins
1.8
What’s It All About?: Writing an Effective Synopsis
10 mins
Chapter 6: Plot Part I: Beginnings
2
2.1
Crafting an Eye-Opening Opener
10 mins
2.2
Three Compelling (and Contrasting) Movie Beginnings
10 mins
Chapter 7: Plot Part II: Middles
7
3.1
Muddling through the Middle
10 mins
3.2
From Lights to Camera to … ACTION!
10 mins
3.3
Status: Where’s the Upper Hand?
10 mins
3.4
What’s Your Problem? Introducing Conflicts and Obstacles
10 mins
3.5
Exposition: From Clunky to Creative
10 mins
3.6
Determining What to Write from What You’ve Written
10 mins
3.7
Three Compelling (and Contrasting) Movie Middles
10 mins
Chapter 8: Plot Part III: Endings
3
4.1
Are We There Yet? How to Know When You’re Done
10 mins
4.2
Danger Will Robinson: Threats to an Otherwise Healthy Plot
10 mins
4.3
Ultimate Success: Tracking Three Movies through Their Triumphant Conclusions
10 mins
Chapter 9: Character Building
3
5.1
Portrait of a Person: Constructing a Physical World
10 mins
5.2
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Constructing an Internal World
10 mins
5.3
From the Inside Out: Making the Inner World Visible
10 mins
Chapter 10: Delivering Dynamic Dialogue
4
6.1
Diction: What’s in a Word?
10 mins
6.2
Name That Tune: Crafting Your Character’s Music
10 mins
6.3
Letting the Listener Lead
10 mins
6.4
Putting It Together: Characters in Conversation
10 mins
Chapter 11: The Nontraditional Film
6
7.1
Breaking with Tradition: Other Ways to Get the Job Done
10 mins
7.2
Tinkering with Time
10 mins
7.3
Song and Dance: The Movie Musical
10 mins
7.4
One Click Away: Writing a Web Series
10 mins
7.5
Scripting the Short (Film)
10 mins
7.6
Finding the Festival for You
10 mins
Chapter 12: Maintaining an Audience’s Trust
3
8.1
Screenwriting and Ethics
10 mins
8.2
Screenwriting and Responsibility
10 mins
8.3
A Gift for Gab: How to Conduct a Meaningful Interview
10 mins
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