FAV2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dramatic Structure, Final Crisis, The Climax
5 Jun 2018
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WEEKLY READINGS: CHP4: The three-part nature of film structure
• The script is the blueprint, the plan that provides the planners, the filmmakers, with
the means to bring all the ideas together.
• The filmmaker must imagine how to bring all the elements of their story together to
make sense, build tension and move all audience.
• Your asi aterials reole aroud the protagoist’s ad other haraters’
individual wants and needs. They are what force the characters to take action and
that leads to conflict.
• Plot structure can be viewed as a two-part process. First is the overall form the story
takes. Second is the actual plotting of the scenes. the order and arrangement of
specific events that creates specific meanings.
STORY LINE
STRUCTURE IN GENERAL:
• If a film runs for 3 minutes, you must set up the problem quickly, develop the
oflit ad the hit our pa off lia ith o tie to aste. If ou’re deelopig a
10-20min longer film, the overall plot structure tends to become a little more
complex.
• 3-act construction
ACT1: Encompasses the set-up of the problem for the protagonist, but your inciting
incident serves as the act 1 climax, develops character and establish setting.
ACT2: Develops the action and conflict to a final crisis point.
ACT3: Builds from that final crisis to a main climax and resolution that resolves the
story situation.
MIDPOINT: is the point in a film where it advances the action or conflict in some
significant way to keep the story interesting.
IN THE BEGINNING- THE SET-UP:
• Provides important information the audience needs to get the story moving.
• Remember, the main point of the set-up is to establish conflict.
The Main Exposition: Determine what is vital for the audience to know. In a short
screenplay, every word, every line must advance the action and reveal only what is
necessary for us to understand the story.
The inciting incident: The incident forces conflict into the open and demands the
hero to respond and take action which puts him on the path towards his goal.
Beginning:
Set up a dramatic problem
that the audience
understands.
Middle:
Builds the stor’s risig
action, which intensifies
to the final climax and
resolution.
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