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Intro to screen wk 8 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Lack
      - Complete opposite of card 9 - dramatically, visually, verbally, even chronologically.
      - Emotional Lack
      - Physical Lack
    - - Go back and do the same for card 2. Write on it a transitional scene in emotion and/or character development that follows on from card 1 and leads to card 3.
      - As a dramatic scene, it should advance the plot closer to the sudden change that will occur on card 3 which starts the plot that powers the rest of the film.
    - - On card 3 write a scene that directly addresses or confronts the problem set up in the character on card 1.
      - Turning point 1
      - This is turning point 1, and comes at the end of the first act. It should be a sudden surprise in the plot that triggers act 2.
      - What ever is described on this card should introduce the challenge or twist that drives the rest of the film.
      - You'll immediately know if you have the right scene for plot point 1 because if the challenge or twist isn't introduced here at this point, then the film would be over.
      - Whatever happens after this card should take the film off into a new direction that will test, and eventually lead the character to find what they are lacking on card 1.
    - - Write a scene that carried on from card 3 (the new direction) and further develops what it has set up.Q
      - It should nudge the plot and story towards card 5 (the mid-point) in a positive way, in regard to what the character is after, their quest, the attainment of their goal.
    - - A strong transitional scene that sits somewhere between these two emotional extremes.
      - Card 5 usually represents a scene where the hero's commitment to their quest is tested. This card is the mid-point of the film and occurs in the middle of act 2.
    - - Write a scene that follows on from what happens on card 5 (the middle of the film) and which leads towards card 7 (the plot point that ends act 2 and triggers act 3, the final act.
      - This normally in direct opposition to the tone or emotion descibed on card 4 and is usually a negative development (ie, whatever was hanging in the balance or tested on card 5 is now further weakened or tested on card 6, usually with negative results.)
      - This makes the arrival of plot point 2 (card 7) all the more dramatic when it seems all hope is lost.
    - - The Lowest Point
      - Card 7 is the hero's lowest point, a time when all is lost, where the quality, the quest or the goal he/she has been in pursuit of for the whole film seems out of their grasp. Everything has either stalled or is not progressing.
      - Again, like turning point 1, the film would stop here unless something surprising occurs to power up the plot and run it until the ned. Hence this is turning point 2.
      - On this card write a scene that offers another new or surprising direction for the hero - the receipt of some information or knowledge, the arrival of a stranger, the understanding of a limitation - anything that gives the hero one last hope or a final chance at redemption.
      - The new direction written on card 7 signals the end of act 2 and the beginning of act 3 and triggers the end of the movie.
      - From card 7 onwards, the film must build and build and build in tempo and action until the dramatic last event on card 9.
    - - Write card 8 as a transitional scene in emotion and/or character development coming after card 7 and before card 9, that moves the plot towards this final card.
    - - GAIN
      - The feeling you want to leave the audience with - the end point of the story
      - Emotional Gain
      - Physical Gain