❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ super love from india

thank u so much

this vid better than StudioBinder one, it focuses analysis on only one film and provides a analogy simple enough for beginner to understand. Whereas StudioBinder puts tons of cuts from other movies :V

Wow! I love the breakdown on all the movies and SE7EN still gives me chills!!

Thank you , your way of teaching is really good. Please take one complete single movie and explain about three act structure then it will be very easy to understand. Thank you.

Its 2024 and its still relevant and helpful..Thanks a ton.. And Im using this for my very first Novel😇

Pretty cool, but I want to create a original thing on Mystery. I get confused with these examples.

Your plot and story descriptions are the same. Plot is simply the order of events. The story has to do with the evolution of the main character.

It feels like there's something a little missing from this video. The dramatic question as framed in your explanation is a 'plot question'. Not a story one. I always thought the dramatic question was associated with the 'theme' of the story. Like Chernobyl 'What is the cost of lies?' feels like it has thematic resonance rather than simply 'will he get the girl?' Am I missing something?

Something I've learned about ACT II is this; in every movie or TV show at the second act break is a moment where one character will basically tell the other I'm sick of you and you need to wake up. Not in those exact words but in some kind of way. It's a conflict that always happens.

Good job

Great video

you should keep spoiler alert for this (sixth sense)

You r talking about a plot .. pls make a video about character's inner journey... that is very important to know about as a writer

Just the answer I need. Thank you so much.

explained very clearly

A request: I’d like to see your personal presentation and video of you, and not an endless series of movie clips.

Very nice.....explaining very well ❤

God bless you. This has answered a long time question in my heart.

what is the plot point 1 and 2 and the mid point in "Who framed Roger Rabbit"?

Thank you so much

This was a mind-expanding video.

Lol. I don't want to go, it smells. It's your mother... that made me laugh so hard.

Every clip of me crying is to be shown to Abhigel.

I’ll be very gentle. Say things at your own pace. Slap me as many times as you want. Downstairs-our house. Do anything you want. Just don’t be nervous.

Abhigel I will not question a single thing you tell me.

It's usually something you'll intuitively feel from watching many movies. You could compare it to when your main character starts the summit attempt on Everest, with act one having introduced the character, inciting incident etc, and act two having seen the character get most of the way up their personal Everest.

Great video! The music playing over the video is distracting. It makes it hard to hear the actual content of the video.

So, Jurassic Park…the worker gets killed. The family complains and the investors insist that the park then needs to be signed off on which requires for experts to weigh in. Hammond seeks out and invites Dr. Alan and the paleo biologist to the Island. Go back to the part where the guy gets killed and let’s see how many other things could have happened after that: Hammond could have given up. The investors could have said “one man? Regrettable but that’s acceptable- keep moving forward with no conditions.” Hammond could have gone to another expert - Not Dr. Alan. Contrary to what’s said here, I have seen other sources cite that the inciting incident DOES have to happen to the protagonist and I’ve heard that it is the thing that makes a movie THAT movie and no other. If any of the scenarios I named above had happened, clearly it would not have been the same movie. Now, when Hammond comes to the dig and issues his invitation to Dr. Alan and the other expert - THAT is putting us on the path to the movie we know as Jurassic Park. At that point, either the protagonists will either say yes or no and there are not six other things that could happen. If anyone other than Dr. Alan (who hates kids but risks his life to save two kids that aren’t even his) is chosen to go - this is not Jurassic Park. Do you see how the story grows out from the protagonist? The inciting incident should be something that directly involves the protagonist. It’s an opportunity that is interrupting the protagonist’s status quo (in this case his dig / his normal job). The two Drs. refuse at first but then they accept. That’s the decision they’ve made to go on the adventure or take advantage of the opportunity and leave the ordinary world whatever you want to call it. That decision is the first plot point which shifts us into - Act 2 surviving the island. In this case, the inciting incident and first plot point happen in short time. I’ve also heard the example of ET where people say the inciting incident is when ET gets left behind. No. He could have gotten hit by a truck. He could’ve gotten captured by the police. He could have walked to Mexico. The inciting incident is when Elliot, the protagonist and ET see each other for the first time. Elliot is then obsessed with ET and ET finds comfort and safety with Elliot. But again, until the two meet, anything could have happened before that. Finding ET presents the protagonist an opportunity. Yes It happens TO him. The protagonist is the yardstick by which the audience measures the importance of everything in the Story. They are the North Star. It’s their story. The story doesn’t start / is not incited unless and until a plot event directly affects the protagonist by bumping them out of their comfort zone. Story is about someone that wants something very badly, has trouble getting it and either succeeds or doesn’t. Dr. Alan wants vindication and proof that his theories about the behavior of dinosaurs are correct which he cannot prove with just the skeletons. The inciting incident is when Hammond shows up giving him a chance to obtain that vindication; not when some random guy gets killed on the island off the coast of Costa Rica. Armageddon. Inciting incident is when NASA first discovers the asteroid? No. NASA could have said “make your peace we’re all dead.” They could have chosen some other expert. Armageddon is not Armageddon unless and until the military guy shows up on Harry Stamper’s oil rig and takes him to NASA to hear the bad news. It’s simple. If inciting incident is the interruption of the status quo, whose status quo are we talking about? Some random guy who gets killed at the beginning of the movie with no connection to the protagonist? No. The standard is for the protagonist’s status quo is interrupted - and it shouldn’t be by six degrees of separation. If too many other things “could” happen instead of it coming down to an opportunity or a problem etc that the protagonist is presented with and must either accept or decline via the first plot point, it’s not the inciting incident. It should be something they don’t initiate / control / seek out. It should be something that happens to them or some opportunity or problem that is presented to them. So respectfully, I disagree with the poster of the video. Just to finish it out, Armageddon / the first plot point is when Harry says the NASA personnel will screw up the digging of the hole and if that’s all that’s involved - digging (no astronaut stuff) he will go up and dig the hole and ask his team to come with him. That’s the decision he makes after HIS status quo is interrupted. Not the status quo of the random dude at NASA who first sees the asteroid…which eventually leads to NASA calling on Harry Stamper. That’s too early and it’s not protagonist centric. Like Harry, Dr. Alan makes his decision after he is incited to do so by Hammond’s direct invitation and offer to fund his continuing research for another three years.

so he bribed them. money got them to leave their normal world and go to Jurassic park. lol. i love these examples. thank you. thank you. thank you. XD you make it so clear. you're very right, going backwards helps.

Thank you.

Thank you for your clear explanation. I just want to ask you don’t mind, how can you upload scenes with no copyright?

It's often more of a "when" than a "what if". What happens when a selfish man is forced to examine his life and then becomes generous? What happens when a man-child becomes a man by repeating the same day over and over? What happens when alcoholism leads to enlightenment? An effective premise includes a transformation. It determines what you include or exclude in the story.

This was great!

Thank you!! The explanation is pretty clear

I am definitely creating a character called Apollonia.

Thanks

Thanks for sharing,pls I want you to mentor me on screenwriting. Reply pls🙏🏿

Thanks so much for sharing. Pls could you show a good example of a treatment or send me a link 🙏🏿

So, is the inciting incident when a character reacts to something of great value being absent? Such as when a character losing something or realizes that something is missing in their life?

Love your video, so clear and easy to follow

hello pleas maake a more vidieos about tv shows and seres b couse very deficult to write screenplay for seres and haw to know the act1/act2/act3 on seres or tv shows

please expline act 3

I heard the saying that "this happens therefore,not this happens but',any clarity on these meanings?

I have finally learned that Theme has to tie in with your characters flaw.

This is one of the best videos about theme I’ve seen. Great job 👏🏾

This was really helpful. I am still working on my premise, but I have my guiding question, and I'd love to know what you think of it. What if the only way to stop the global ecocidal elite was a global movement based on the idea of pure observation?

can someone drop a link to other vid she talked bout

Thank you for doing this

Why do we only write characters who appears for the 1st time in capital letters