Developing the Plot

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Developing the Plot
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Developing the Plot

• Story Idea -gt Character -gt Plot -gt Script

Plot the circumstances and events that occur
around a character over the course of a film

• 7 values to help turn your story idea into a plot
• Frame
• Event
• Plot concept
• Problem
• Dramatic Crisis
• Conflict
• Theme

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• Frame supplies the settings and locations as
  well as the mood and style.
• - the frame effects the style and overall visual
  look of the movie.
• - the frame effects the overall feel of the
  script.
• - background research of the frame leads to
  ideas for scenes and a more authentic script.

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• Event the ultimate occurrence of the plot what
  happens after everything else happens.
• -knowing the end first makes it easier to write
  the steps to reach that end

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• Dramatic problem reaching the event
• Solving the dramatic problem How does the
  event end up happening?

• The event aims the idea in a single direction
  and suggests, in a general way, what happens in
  the plot.
• The problem indicates what happens in the
  climactic scene, during which the problem is
  solved.
• By adding the word how to the event, the problem
  is defined.
• Paul Lucey Story Sense

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• Story Concept a summary sentence that indicates
  what generally happens in a story its the story
  idea plus the dramatic problem.

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• Crisis (usually plot point 1) creating a crisis
  demands the writer to invent an incident or
  situation that challenges the protagonist with a
  life-shaping or life-threatening challenge.

Crisis should interrupt the status quo of the
story.
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• Drama/Conflict is the reaction of character to
  crisis.
• Dramatic Conflict the heros struggle against
  another person, system, nature, or psychological
  force comes from combination of event, problem,
  and crisis.

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• Theme writerly perspective on the significance
  of the story what the message of the movie is.

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Developing the Plot
Story the characters actions and behaviors
when put into the plot the writer writes the
plot and the character writes the story.