...- 15 * 16 - 20 * All Pages Screenwriting is a skilled trade, and a good screenplay must be molded and managed with craftsman hands. But so does a screenwriting career. It takes dedication, fortitude, and time – ten years to have overnight success - but if you’re willing to do the hard work to turn your ideas into completed screenplays as well as build a screenwriting career, follow this 20 step roadmap to screenwriting success: Click Here to Start 1. Watch Tons of Movies Lots of them. Good, bad, old, new. All genres. Make it your quest to become exposed to all things film. It’s a badge of honor to earn film nerd status, because as we all know, “Nerds Rule the World.” The more movies you see, the easier it’ll be to identify plot points, sequences, and act breaks. You’ll even start watching the clockwhen viewing DVD’s at home, as you’ll be inundated with the desire to analyze, but you’ll know when you experienced something truly great when you stop thinking and just enjoy the ride. 2. Read Tons of Screenplays As many as possible. This helps to understand screenplay form as well as see how the pagetranslates to the screen. You get a sense of different screenwriting styles and voices, and most importantly you will be exposed to the application of clear, concise writing, while using creative brevity to maximize the visual medium. Learning how not to direct on the page and maximize white space is all part of it. Check out some websites that offer free downloadable screenplays...
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...Narrative Has a point Moral or lesson to be learned Chronological series of events. IE: timeline Descriptive Sensory 1. Introduction 2. Narrative a. Purpose i. A narrative essay tells a story. It can be fact or fiction, however it does tell a story. Generally speaking the story has a meaning of sort. Narratives are interesting and creative ways to teach a moral to others. In the Narrative I want a Wife, Brady tells a story when her friend, a man, came to her house and made a comment that he wanted another wife. Thinking about what her friend had said, she decided that she would like the same. (Brady, 1971) b. Plot in a chronological series of events ii. The moral of a narrative is what would drive the plot. The plot of a narrative should be in a distinct chronological order. This makes the narrative easy to understand and easy to follow. The chronological order of narratives are mostly in a timeline effect. 1st this happened, then this happened, then something else happened. Or I said this to Bob. Bob replied with this. I did this after Bob’s response. Whether it be in chronological, spatial or built oin dramatic order, the structure of narratives are always easy, and clear to follow. iii. c. Creative tension iv. A good Narrative also contains creative tension. Creative tension will allow the write to build up the reader in suspense. Sometimes, the creative tension actually compels the reader in...
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...Running Head: JUSTICE 1 Seeking Justice: A Film Critique Paul J Baker Jr 11-26-12 ENG 225 Instructor: Hope Umansky Justice 2 A film is a marvelous piece of art to the one who creates it. The story and plot that is told can have some profound meanings and sometimes portray things that we wish would happen. Actors come and go but sometimes they reach the level of a star. Nicholas Cage is one such star. We remember his past works in movies like Faceoff, Gone in 60 Seconds, and National Treasure. These films show this actor as an action star. You can never know if the character he is playing is going to be good or bad. However in recent years critics have stated that Cage has been lost. Performing in movies like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice has appeared that Cage was searching for something. They have wrote him off as the action star that he was but in a triumphant return in 2011, the movie Seeking Justice showed that Cage is still who we remember. This movie, because of its actors, plot, cinemaphotography, and direction bring back the action thrillers that we have been longing for. Seeking Justice is one of the best films made in 2011. “The screenplay has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is the mind of someone who wants nothing more than to tell a story. After all, without a story, Indiana Jones doesn’t recover the Ark of the Covenant, E.T. never phones home, and Batman never catches the Joker. Every movie, from the biggest, loudest...
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...abstract, something broad: The theme in a story is associated with an idea that lies behind the story. Every story narrows a broad underlying idea, shapes it in a unique way, and makes the underlying idea concrete. That's how theme is created. In other words, the theme in a story is a representation of the idea behind the story. To identify a story's theme it's necessary to look beyond the plot. The plot tells you what happens in a story, but the theme tells you what the story is about. What you are required to do, therefore, in identifying theme is to answer the question, How? You should ask questions such as these: How does the writer use setting to narrow the underlying idea? How do characters make particular aspects of the underlying idea clear? How does conflict reveal the strength or worth of the underlying idea? (Clugston) The story of “A Worn Path” theme is in the strength of the woman as she faces adversity. It is from a third-person point of view, giving the reader just enough distance from the main character and her conflict, and to see aspects of conflict that she does not. The plot of the story is by Phoenix Jackson, an elderly woman who travels a familiar path through the woods to town during Christmas. She is in a hurry to get medicine for her grandson and return to him, and...
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...Ethan found out that Lena was the girl in his dreams. Lena had a lot of problems from the time that she moved back her hometown. Lena told Ethan her dark secrets (being a caster) and family history, the story starts with Ethan’s love for Lena and her upcoming problem, which is her 16th birthday. Which medium: the novel or the film is most effective for telling this story? We will answer this question by comparing three parallel scenes from the novel and its filmed adaptation, in terms of how well each scene develops the plot, characters and overall theme of the story. There are hundreds of famous novels, which filmmakers turn them into a movie, whether they could be an unforgettable one or a boring movie, thus it’s important for the audience and the fans to figure out which one was more effective and successful. The plot development in the novel was good enough to represent the main points to the audience meanwhile in the movie the director cut so much of the plot, which made the movie so different from the novel. One was the telepathic conversation Lena and Ethan had in the novel, which was really important since most of the dialogs of the novel were from...
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...problems for readers unfamiliar with the conventions of pastoral, especially those who find it just too artificial and incredible to grasp imaginatively. After all, how are we to understand the unmotivated family hatreds which launch the action? We are simply not given any sufficiently detailed look at why Oliver hates Orlando (he himself does not understand the reason) or why Duke Frederick hates Duke Senior and turns on Rosalind so suddenly or, what is most surprising of all, why the nasty people whose animosities have given rise to the plot so suddenly and so conveniently convert and become nice people just in time to wind the plot up happily under the supervision of the goddess Hymen, the Greek deity of marriage, who arrives as an unexpected but welcome guest. But these features of the plot which we might find unconvincing if we demand naturalism (that is, if we insist on treating the play as a "Hence" story) are little more than standard plot devices in "And then" stories, common in a genre like pastoral, which makes no claims to naturalistic motivation. Such plotting serves to launch and to conclude the comic confusion. The main point of the play here,...
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...will give a clear correlation. If I was to investigate the relationship of two other categories, like the eye colour and the IQ, I believe that however interesting and amusing the results would be, they would not provide too clear a relationship, or any conclusive information. The data provided gives information about 1183 girls and boys at Mayfield High School, who have been categorized into their year groups. These year groups begin with the students entering their teens, and end in their mid-teenage years. In order to be able to compare girls and boys in each year, I will represent the distribution of heights and weights for both sexes in each year in various forms. I plan to use stem and leaf plots, scatter graphs and box plots, and a wide range of calculated data, like the mean of the heights and weights, their interquartile range and their Body Mass Index. The data that will be represented will not be all the data provided, as if I were to do this, then I would be plotting 2366 datum points which would be ideal, however time does not allow for this number of points. So, instead I will take a stratified sample of the total data and use this sample in the investigation. From these representations of the data, conclusions will be drawn as to how the relationship between height and weight changes with age and sex, but before this is done, any anomalous data points will be considered, so that they do not affect the overall...
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...Name __________________________________ Period _______ Plot: Freytag’s Pyramid Gustav Freytag was a Nineteenth Century German novelist who saw common patterns in the plots of stories and novels and developed a diagram to analyze them. He diagrammed a story's plot using a pyramid like the one shown. [pic] Freytag's Pyramid: The Breakdown 1. Exposition: setting the scene. The writer introduces the characters and setting, providing description and background. 2. Inciting Incident: something happens to begin the action. A single event usually signals the beginning of the main conflict. The inciting incident is sometimes called 'the complication'. 3. Rising Action: the story builds and gets more exciting. 4. Climax: the moment of greatest tension in a story. This is often the most exciting event. It is the event that the rising action builds up to and that the falling action follows. 5. Falling Action: events happen as a result of the climax and we know that the story will soon end. 6. Resolution: the character solves the main problem/conflict or someone solves it for him or her. 7. Dénouement: (a French term, pronounced: day-noo-moh) the ending. At this point, any remaining secrets, questions or mysteries which remain after the resolution are solved by the characters or explained by the author. Sometimes the author leaves us to think about the THEME or future possibilities for the characters. You can think of the dénouement as the opposite of the exposition:...
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...R.J Meaddough, III: The Death of Tommy Grimes Setting: When and where does the story take place? Characterize the social environment. Comment on their language, hobbies, the setting and their class. In what way does the setting influence the plot of the story? Back your arguments by finding quotations in the text. Point of View and narrative technique: Which point of view is used in this story, and how does it affect the readers’ comprehension of the text? Account for the plot of the story in a chronological order. What is the effect of the extensive flash back technique that the author uses in this story? Back your findings with quotations from the text. Character characterization: Characterize the father. Among other things you should account for his values. What reasons are there to kill, according to Pa? Account for the nature of the relationship between father and son. In what way does Tommy’s father succeed as a father and in what ways doesn’t he? Back your findings with quotations from the text. The beginning and the ending: Account for what is going on in the opening paragraph, and compare this to its closing counterpart. Pay special attention to the symbols used in both sections. What development has Tommy undergone during this day? Symbols: In this text, nature is often used to describe the characters’ feelings as well as the general atmosphere. Find at least five examples of this in the text...
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...case, the father is not here yet, therefore. The kid soon forgets the question and turns to other thing. In the same way, Little Tango is the first penguin in the zoo has two daddies. This is a challenge for the parents to search information inside the book to explain for their kid at home. There is a lot of way to be a family and here is a lot of way to leave family as the birds have different feather. (Claim) The story children’s book should not contains sexually and violence because their awareness will not property into the plot of story. I agree that because children’s comprehending has a limited into a point of view. They just cannot image how could it happen and they will continually be confusing themselves by the details of story. (Rebuttal) However, if the children’s story books cover with violence and sexually the kids will be having an open-mind in their perspective. They will have awareness to what is right and what is wrong in the plot. They are going to solve their curiousness by their own critical thinking way. It is possible happening to the children whom have their questioning...
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...Unit 2 Journey to Identity Text Analysis |Title: Boy in The Striped Pajamas |Author: John Boyne |Publication Date: 1/05/06 | |I chose this book because (respond in at least 2 sentences): I chose this book because I heard it was fantastic and I’m fascinated with stories from the past. | Connecting with Character: Protagonist ________________Bruno__________________________________ |How do you relate to this character? | |Similarities |Differences | |Beginning: none |Beginning: We are in completely different age groups | | | | | | | |End: We are both curious and have a taste for adventure. |End: I wouldn’t have been so naive ...
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...In the show “Doc Martin”, there is conflict between many different characters acting in the show. According to McCornack, “Conflict is the process that occurs when people perceive that they have incompatible goals or that someone is interfering in their ability to achieve their objectives” (246). The characters I will be writing about from the episode “Erotomania”, Doc Martin and Louisa, Danny and Louisa, and Mark and Julie. First, the conflict between Doc Martin and Louisa occur in several different situations. One situation is when Doc and Louisa get drunk together. They express feelings and then Doc falls asleep. The next morning when Louisa confronts Doc about his feelings, he does not remember. Doc and Louisa have avoidance during their conversation in town when Louisa just says she wants to have a drink. She doesn’t come out and say right then her feelings about Doc. According to McCornack, “Avoidance is ignoring the conflict, pretending it isn’t really happening or communicating indirectly about the situation” (255). When they talk in the town, they have some under lying tension between them. Louisa has cumulative annoyance toward Doc. Cumulative annoyance is irritation that grows towards someone else (McCornack, 255). Next, Danny and Louisa have conflict during this episode as well. Danny decides he wants to marry Louisa and move himself and her to London. A problem Danny and Louisa have is personality difference. Danny wants to go and do things, and Louisa wants...
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...Costs of Quality 1. What are the three costs of quality? Explain each. GOOD Appraisal – Costs of activities designed to ensure quality or uncover defects; during the process Prevention – Costs of preventing defects from occurring; prior to manufacturing product BAD Failure - costs caused by defective parts or products or by faulty service Internal – failures discovered during productions (i.e. increases costs, material and products losses, scrap, downtime) External – failures discovered after delivery to the customer (i.e. returned goods, reworking costs, liability claims, loss of goodwill, penalties- loss of customer, warranty costs 2. What is the point at which costs associated with improvement are no longer warranted? 3. What is the costs of customer dissatisfaction? Quality Tools 1. Flowcharts - identifies the sequence of activities or the flow of materials and information in a process. a picture of the steps needed to accomplish a task. Compares and contrasts actual versus ideal flow of a process. Allows a team to reach agreement on process steps and identify activities that may impact performance. Serves as a training tool 2. Check sheets - special types of data collection forms in which the results may be interpreted on the form directly without additional processing. An organized method of recording data. Hash marks 3. Distribution Repair time (minutes) Frequency Distribution Repair time (minutes) Frequency Histograms...
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...artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions…Every tragedy, therefore, must have six parts, which parts determine its quality – namely, plot, characters, diction, thought, spectacle, melody”. The work Oedipus Rex fits very well into this structure using the specific characteristics of; late point of attack, exposition, several key incidents, climax, catharsis, protagonist, antagonist, hamartia, anagorismos, metabasis, and perpetia. Aristotle’s first principle of tragedy is that of the plot. He defines the plot as how the incidents are presented to the audience in the structure of the play. This is the most important of the parts and holds the meat and potatoes of a tragedy. According to Poetics the best plots should be complex, arouse fear and pity, and involve a high degree of suffering for the protagonist. These are all seen in Oedipus Rex as there are plot twists, we learn to care about Oedipus and the decisions he makes, and finally understand his pain when he eventually claws out his own eyes. The plot of Oedipus Rex utilizes a late point of attack and exposition as it begins after many of the several key incidents in the play have already occurred, but the audience is given all the information it needs over the course of the...
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...The Author vs. The Reader My Experience Trying to Get Ahead of Ernest Cline’s Plot Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One gives its reader plenty of hints and foreshadowing events that nearly gives the reader full power to always be one step ahead of the plot. Throughout my experience, I was in constant battle with Cline to see if i could prove myself in a sense where either I could predict exactly what was to happen based off of what he fed me, I could not predict anything and simply let him lead me through the plot, or I thought I was getting ahead of him but he had just led me to a dead end to potentially mask another plot twist. The Wins On multiple occasions, I was able to predict the way in which the Cline would eventually take his plot. Right from Cline’s introductions and depictions in the third chapter of the novel, I easily identified that Aech would be a major ally for Wade throughout the book while I-r0k would take an antagonist role in the novel. Consequently, it came to me as no surprise when I-r0k finally turned on them and attempted to blackmail Wade in the thirteenth chapter. In between those two points in the story, I also succeeded in predicting how Morrow and Halliday had a falling out, as Cline disclosed on page 121. Back on page 55, Cline had portrayed Morrow and Halliday’s relationship as if they had...
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