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Choose Me - 5
• Surprise: What was unexpected in the scene?
• Increased curiosity: What new questions were raised?
• Insight: What did you learn about the characters?
– Four Aspects of Turning Points – Emotional Transitions – Take the audience
through the experience that causes the emotion
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Designing a Scene - 3
• You already know your protagonist’s goal. The PURPOSE of every scene is to bring your protagonist closer, or knock him back further from his or her goal.
– What does each character want in the scene? (Scene Objective)
– How does that work in with what they want in the whole story? (Story Objective)
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Choose Me - 4
• Everyone in the scene has a goal, and everyone in the scene should be in conflict, though not all conflict is on the surface.
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Choose Me - 1
• Pause the lecture and watch the clip from Choose Me.
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Designing a Scene - 2
• Every scene is a story unto itself, with a beginning, middle and end.
– Your protagonist should be better off or worse off at the end of each scene
• Exposition Serves 2 Purposes:
– Deepen Conflict – Provide Information
• Expositional dialog that doesn’t deepen the conflict is boring!
– PURPOSE – Turning Points – Transitions
The Turning Point (1977) Screenplay by Arthur Laurents
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In this Lesson (Continued)
• Exposition
– Show, Don’t Tell! – Conflict
Lecture 5: What’s the Point?
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Screenplay by Ted Tally
Professor Christopher Bradley 1
Previous Lesson
• First Act-- The beginning
• Turning Point
– What is the climax of the scene? – How does this represent a Turning Point
for the characters? – What does each character hope for or
expect? – What did each actually get? – How do they contrast? (McKee’s “gap”)
Lesson 5: Part I
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Designing a Scene - 1
• Write freely the first time through. (That’s what a rough draft is for!)
• When you have a few scenes (such as, say, your first ten pages) take a look at what you have.
• Assignments
Return of The Pink Panther (1975) Screenplay by
Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards 4
Designing a Scene
How to ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱurder Your Wife (1965) Screenplay by George Axelrod
• New direction: How did the story change?
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Exposition
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Screenplay by Tennessee Williams
Lesson 5: Part II
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Exposition - 1
• Midpoint-- The Preliminary Solution
• Climax-- The True Solution
The Towering Inferno (1974) Screenplay by
Sterling Sillaphant 2
In this Lesson
• Designing a Scene
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Choose Me - 2
• Finding the love in the scene • Are the characters closer to their
goals or further away at the end of the scene?
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Choose Me - 3
• PURPOSE