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Screenplay Beat Sheet

This document outlines a standard beat sheet structure for screenplays, providing 15 typical story beats or plot points and their approximate page or minute placements in a screenplay or film. These beats include an opening image, establishing the theme and protagonist, a catalyst event that kicks off the main conflict, debates and struggles, a midpoint twist or revelation, rising action with antagonists intensifying problems, an all is lost low point, climax, and final resolution.

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Screenplay Beat Sheet

This document outlines a standard beat sheet structure for screenplays, providing 15 typical story beats or plot points and their approximate page or minute placements in a screenplay or film. These beats include an opening image, establishing the theme and protagonist, a catalyst event that kicks off the main conflict, debates and struggles, a midpoint twist or revelation, rising action with antagonists intensifying problems, an all is lost low point, climax, and final resolution.

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Beat Sheet

Project Title:
Genre:
Date:

1. Opening Image (1):

2. Theme State (5):

3. Set-Up (1-10):

4. Catalyst (12):

5. Debate (12-25):

6. Break into Two (25):

7. B Story (30):

8. Fun and Games (30-55):

9. Midpoint (55):

10. Bad Guys Close in (55-75):

11. All is Lost (75):

12. Dark Knight of the Soul (75-85):

13. Break Into Three (85):

14. Finale (85-110):

15. Final Image (110):

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