3 Acts Story

Act 1 THE SET UP (25 - 30 pages)
Information you need to build the rest of the story
Who What Why When Where
Who is the character, the society, why doing what they're doing
Set up problems/conflicts
Rising problems, to enter Act 2

Act 2 THE CONFRONTATION
What happens when the problem is engaged
The characters deal with the conflicts. The 'turning point'/ The drastic shift "when Titanic start to sink. In 60' for 120' movie. (half of the story).
The more intense of the conflict

Act 3 THE RESOLUTION
The rsolution of the problem.
The hero comes out.

Breaking down script and Budget control
-> Special Effects: time portal, car accident, jumping off the cliff, blood
-> Locations
-> Cutting down the costs by re-engineering the story, re-writing

To develop the characters and give them specific voices that will really speak to the audiences.
The most challenging of scriptwriting is to reveal the characters through actions versus dialogues. Telling about characters without having them to say single word:
- the waya  character reacts to something
- the way a character looks at someone
- we know so much about "Harry Potter" just because his aunt and uncle and how much they hated him and that made us love him so much more
So when you are writing your script you don't want it to just be talking heads. You don't want people just be talking about each other or talking about what's going on, or just doing dialogue for the sake of doing dialogue...
There are many instances in real life that I will see something about someone and I know who they are, like if someone was over there and just dropped their coffee and slowly walked away from it, and left... I would know a lot about that person.
So dialogue exempt action.

How does a script translate in time on screen & how long do people watch that for?
One script page = one minute of screen time

You also can tide your script based on your viewer's level of engagement
In YouTube analytics and see where fans are falling off, you might make your content a little shorter and closer to that engagement level. Or you may find the opposite where your fans are fully engaged throughout when you wanna consider having a bit more content here.

SCREENPLAY FORMAT

#1. The Slug Line
Interior (inside taxi, moving) - Exterior (day, night, location) -> continuous, later

#2. The Action
-> always write in a present tense. WILLIAM takes out a cigar and nods to the cabbie.

#3. The Name
-> the character's names all caps. When speaking: in the center.
-> add (O.S). if a character is speaking from off screen but  physically a part of the scene
--> add (O.V) if a character is not physically a part of the scene but is doing a voice over

#4. The Dialogue
in the centre below the character's name
add details what the character's doing while he's speaking (through the use of parentheticals)

#5. Parentheticals
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