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Structuring The Story: Worksheet

The document discusses the three-act structure used in screenwriting. Act I is used to set up the story and protagonist. Act II involves the protagonist confronting obstacles and problems. Act III resolves the story through the protagonist achieving their goal or overcoming challenges. The document provides tips on crafting plot points and story events that force the protagonist to change or confront issues in Acts I, II, and III to drive the narrative from beginning to end.

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Structuring The Story: Worksheet

The document discusses the three-act structure used in screenwriting. Act I is used to set up the story and protagonist. Act II involves the protagonist confronting obstacles and problems. Act III resolves the story through the protagonist achieving their goal or overcoming challenges. The document provides tips on crafting plot points and story events that force the protagonist to change or confront issues in Acts I, II, and III to drive the narrative from beginning to end.

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Structuring the story

The Three Act Structure represents a screenplay. You already know:

What and who your story is about;


How it ends.

Act I Set up

Act II Confrontation
I

Act III Resolution

II

Use the model above to design the structure of your story. Draw
three columns with these headings on an A4 sheet of paper. In the
third column summarise the ending of your story.
Now consider the following:

How will your protagonist get from the beginning to the end?
What sorts of obstacles will they have to overcome?
What will the first Plot Point (I) be the one that forces them to
confront something?
What will the second Plot Point (II) be the one that drives them
towards the resolution?

Some tips

The first act must set up who the protagonist is and should tell us
if they have a particular need, flaw or quality.
Plot Point I must be a story event that forces the protagonist to act
differently it should give the character a goal.
In Act II we often see the protagonist confronting a problem in the
wrong way, or looking in the wrong place for something.
Plot Point II should be something that makes the protagonist
realise the right way to confront the problem they may even
realise that its a different problem or the right place to look for
something.
In the final act the protagonist is properly focused on the goal. It
should build towards a climax the high point of the story and a
final encounter, after which the protagonist is changed they may
have learned something, achieved something or satisfied a need
for something.

bfi Education 2003


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