HNRS 291 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Syd Field, Quickdraw
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Structure of american film (as determined by syd field) Act one: first thirty pages/minutes set-up characters, dramatic premise, situation/circumstances of action, relationships. The most important part of the screenplay, this thrusts the story into motion. Act two: pages/minutes thirty to ninety confrontation conflict is needed for a story to have meaning. Act three: ninety pages/minutes to end (usually one hundred and twenty pages/minutes) Resolution not the end but the solution. Change has occurred; something is irreversibly different between the start and end. Plot points make these acts flow by changing up the direction of the action. Watch the crush on youtube (https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=wqpkm0tcn30) and write a short analysis outlining the acts and plot points. Use the vocabulary presented in the description of the acts. Arnold has a crush on his teacher, which causes him to give her a ring. Arnold writes in a ten-year planner to marry his teacher when he is old enough to satisfy his mother"s age advice.
