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Scriptnotes 403 - How to Write a Movie

John August
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In this special solo episode of Scriptnotes, Craig Mazin talks through the basics of story. This episode -- along with the entire back catalogue of Scriptnotes -- is available to premium subscribers at scriptnotes.net. http://scriptnotes.net We've had many requests from instructors for a link to this episode, which is why we're making it available here. Please credit Craig and Scriptnotes if you're using it as part of your class. Full transcript here: https://johnaugust.com/2019/scriptnot... ...more
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Intro

0:00

Structure

2:03

Structure is a Symptom

4:08

Wheres the Why

5:36

Create a Story

6:27

Story Structure

7:11

Theme

10:24

Practicals

14:08

Ordinary

15:09

Inciting Incident

16:26

First Thing Your Character Wants to Do

18:01

Fear and Empathy

18:51

Antitheme to Theme

20:39

Doubt Example

22:56

Midpoint Change

24:26

Reversed Theme

26:01

Dramatic Reversal

26:38

Death is Death

28:35

Ironic

29:06

Pixar

31:04

Joe

32:08

Marlon

32:58

The Low Point

33:23

The Second Act

35:27

The Third Act

36:32

Synthesis

36:58

Relapse

37:51

Rejection

39:06

Let them go

40:02

The denominator

40:42

Creating your character

41:32

Outro

42:27
Scriptnotes 403 - How to Write a Movie
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2020Sep 11
In this special solo episode of Scriptnotes, Craig Mazin talks through the basics of story. This episode -- along with the entire back catalogue of Scriptnotes -- is available to premium subscribers at scriptnotes.net. http://scriptnotes.net We've had many requests from instructors for a link to this episode, which is why we're making it available here. Please credit Craig and Scriptnotes if you're using it as part of your class. Full transcript here: https://johnaugust.com/2019/scriptnot...

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John August

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