Saturday, March 27, 2010

Action/Reaction List

One of the biggest problems I have with scriptwriting is not the beginning of the film, nor the end but all the stuff that happens in the middle. It's almost like my brain gets so excited about what I'm going to reveal to my audience at the end that all the stuff in the middle gets muddled up. So, to help myself out, I thought I would make an action/reaction list.

Basically, it's just a table with two columns, one labelled Action, the other Reaction. In the Action column, I write what my characters do and then in the Reaction column, I write how they react to that action. Surprisingly, the whole process was a lot easier to finish then attempting to write out the script straight off. This is what I came up with:

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