Screen writing - Beginning, middle and end

- Plot is what happens
- Story is significance of what happens
- Don't have 'and then' between plot points. Use 'but', 'therefore' etc. Include big 'buts'
- Characters should have twists eg undercover agent who refers gang over officers, bald man with a comb in his pocket
- Ending is the target of your story
- Character should be built up enough so that the audience can try and predict their actions
- Good openings throw up difficult choices and powerful conflicts
- 'Psycho' starts as a heist film, but dramatically twists the film into a horror film. Changes genre
- 'Tin Men' middle changes the significance of the story
- Endings are the biggest 'but' in the film
- Audiences love moments, and tend not to notice character and plot

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Documentary unit: Script first draft

Documentary unit: Jackie interview

So we could get an outside view on fake fear, we were able to secure an interview with an actual adrenaline junkie, only thing was, she's 73! She was amazing to interview, and her answers were so descriptive, which gave us some area to play around with during the edit. We needed to rearrange the house to better suit an interview, and when we realised that we would have to do that, we were glad that we were filming in one of our own homes instead of Jackie's house, or in a public area, as we then had control over the whole environment. Jackie was a pleasure to interview, as she was very relaxed and had a great sense of humour to match.

Decision evaluation

Decision evaluation During the writing phase, I drew inspiration from the surroundings at my dad’s house, as there is an orchard on one side and a field on the other. This inspired me because I could imagine something happening within the orchard, and no one knowing due to them being well hidden. This was the starting point for my script, so I needed to develop a story from this. The idea of a murder came from the effectiveness of the orchard hiding whoever was in it, so I thought that this was the perfect place for a murderer to commit his crime. In wanted my story to have a twist, so I thought of a person stumbling across the murder scene, and the killer giving the innocent person a choice of either possible death, or helping with the body and walking away. I thought that this was a good idea as it is a scenario not often seen in films, so was a unique twist. Between the scripts that I wrote for my short film ‘Decision’, I had to change quite a lot in order to make it more e...

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