Film Writing (Basic)
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Chapter 1: What is a story?
Chapter 2: Heroes, goals, and obstacles
Chapter 3: Digging deeper into character
Chapter 4: Brainstorming original stories
Chapter 5: Structuring films to grab and hang onto your audience
Chapter 6: Building your movie from the log line up
Chapter 7: Imagining the scenes
Chapter 8: Putting your movie on the page part 1
Chapter 9: Putting your movie on the page part 2
Chapter 10: Finishing your first draft
Chapter 11: Getting notes and planning your next draft
Chapter 12: Emotion and connection: making the audience laugh and cry and scream and cheer
Chapter 13: Learning to speak the language of cinema
Chapter 14: Exploring meaning in film
Chapter 15: Polishing your script and next steps toward writing for film

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Chapter 5: Structuring films to grab and hang onto your audience

Film Writing (Basic)
- Buy now
- Learn more
Chapter 1: What is a story?
Chapter 2: Heroes, goals, and obstacles
Chapter 3: Digging deeper into character
Chapter 4: Brainstorming original stories
Chapter 5: Structuring films to grab and hang onto your audience
Chapter 6: Building your movie from the log line up
Chapter 7: Imagining the scenes
Chapter 8: Putting your movie on the page part 1
Chapter 9: Putting your movie on the page part 2
Chapter 10: Finishing your first draft
Chapter 11: Getting notes and planning your next draft
Chapter 12: Emotion and connection: making the audience laugh and cry and scream and cheer
Chapter 13: Learning to speak the language of cinema
Chapter 14: Exploring meaning in film
Chapter 15: Polishing your script and next steps toward writing for film

6 Lessons

Introduction to movie structure
Short Film: "The Raft"
Tools for structuring movies
The structure of the short "The Raft"
How to structure a feature-length film
Exercise: Locating the first 5 of the...