Sie fällt und fällt.
Rein in die Dunkelheit.
Sie wartet auf einen Arm. Eine Hand – ein Zeichen.
Doch nichts erscheint. Sie fällt.
To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say “I’m a writer” out loud. This is especially so among the spec screenwriting crowd I like to hang with.
Snyder, B. (2005). Save the cat! : the last book on screenwriting you’ll ever need. Studio City, CA: Michael Wiese Productions. Page 11.
Script Scene vs. Story Scene
The scene is an important building block when creating a screenplay. It is used to beat out a script before sitting down for the first draft. Every scene has a certain purpose, it has a protagonist with a goal, it ideally has a three-act-structure of its own. This is all very fine when put on index cards, but when you’re actually putting the scenes to paper, suddenly different rules apply: A new scene starts when the place or the time change.
Want-Need Triangle
This is a storytelling model that can be applied to a protagonist’s inner journey – their growth and change. I came up with it in my own work.
Let’s look at the diagram:
