Script
Basics
•Acts
Most
scripts breakdown into 3 acts.
Beginning - set up the story
Middle
- create the conflict
End - resolve the conflict
•Plot
Points
Key
events that change or greatly complicate the action, and keep the story moving
forward in a new direction.
Opening Scene/ Life Balance
Catalyst/ Big Event
Climax/ Resolution
•Scenes
A
dramatic unit that defines the setting in which the action takes place. It
tells whether a scene is interior or exterior, the location and time.
INT.
- Bedroom - Morning
•Beats
Markers
for changes in character relationships and story situations within a scene.