RTV 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tetherball, Lord Voldemort
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Even cheesy movies that make fun of themselves (ex. Set the tone tone in first act. Prison exit interview with daniel ocean (main character) Set the rules of the game/world that your characters are in. Hook the audience in the first 10 pages. Set up dramatic moments for payoff later in the movie. You can pull off almost anything in the third act if it"s properly set up in the first. Ellie gives carl a lot of things that come into play later on. Get your hero to the inciting incident. Carl and ellie want to have a kid but can"t. Make us care about them before act 1 ends. Shaun of the dead the events that happen later on. Show them going about their daily lives. Let the right one in outcast which draws him to the strange girl that moves in next door (american remake: let me in. All the drinks mentioned in the opening act foreshadow.