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Here’s a valuable tip for building your story. You have a guy, in a plot, and he sleeps with his friend’s girlfriend. That is legit story. Things will happen because of that. That will turn into other things. Conflict, confrontation, crisis. Yay! What is not particularly important is that he did it because in fifth…
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boojum.as.arizona.edu Spec scripts have this tendency to fall back on dramatic near misses. Like, if Jane found out Pedro cheated, the wedding would be off, but thank goodness that didn’t happen fifteen different times, and here comes the bride. Actually, no. Jane finds out. Impact. Now Jane and Pedro have a megaton of ejecta material…
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OCCAM’S RAZOR AND YOUR SCREENPLAY
Here’s a valuable tip for building your story. You have a guy, in a plot, and he sleeps with his friend’s girlfriend. That is legit story. Things will happen because of that. That will turn into other things. Conflict, confrontation, crisis. Yay! What is not particularly important is that he did it because in fifth…
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Tone + Genre + Story + Universal Message = Target Audience The first thing you decide is what story you want to tell, and the second thing to decide is who you want to tell it to. Really, it will make so many of your choices so much simpler. You can’t please everyone, but you…
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