New video breakdown for a surprisingly old movie still waiting on its preplanned sequel to be released. Seriously, since Avatar was released Disney bought Marvel and Lucasfilm, and put out three Star Wars movies. What are you doing with all that fancy 3D gear, James?
Title: Second Variety
Format: Short Story
Released: 1953
Written By: Phillip K. Dick
Run Time: 45 Pages
Character: Major Joseph Hendricks
Format: Short Story
Released: 1992
Written By: Stephen King
Run Time: 19 Pages
Character: Mary and Clark Willingham
New video breakdown for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I hope to get back on a more regular posting schedule, but the work on the follow-up to Actions and Goals continues. In the interim, enjoy the show! Be sure to hit that like button or drop your thoughts in the comments here or on YouTube.
Released: 2017
Screenplay By: James Gunn
Directed By: James Gunn
Run Time: 127 minutes
Character(s): Peter “Star-Lord” Quill, Rocket “I’m not a raccoon” Raccoon, Yondu Udonta
Format: Movie
Released: 2015
Screenplay By: Taylor Sheridan
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
Run Time: 115 Minutes
Character: Kate Macer, Alejandro Gillick
Format: Movie
Released: 2017
Screenplay By: Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green
Directed By: James Mangold
Run Time: 131 minutes
Character: James “Logan” Howlett aka Wolverine Continue reading
Format: Movie
Released: 2016
Screenplay By: Anthony Jaswinski
Directed By: Jaume Collet-Serra
Run Time: 86 Minutes
Character: Nancy Adams
Salutations, storytellers.
The new Story Structure video breakdown for Wreck-it-Ralph should be posted this weekend. While I’m making the finishing touches, I decided to whip up the below blueprint of Six Act Structure for those who enjoy visuals. As you can see, there are two Acts contained in each of the three traditional Dramatic Phases. With the exception of Act Six (and Act One if there’s a prologue), each Act contains three Dramatic Episodes, the last of which being the Act Turning Point.
I didn’t get to cover The 16 Dramatic Episodes in Actions and Goals, unfortunately. The book was already pushing 400 pages! But, I intend to make the Dramatic Episodes the focus of the follow-up book. I hope to start work on that soon, but I’m currently focused on promoting and gathering feedback on the current book.
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Enjoy the blueprint and feel free to drop a comment to share your thoughts!
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Finally got the first video done! I suppose it’s technically the second one. I originally began work on a video breakdown for Inception, but ran into some copyright content issues that led me to set it aside for awhile. I should have that one posted this month. In the interim here’s the video analysis for The Empire Strikes Back. If you enjoy it don’t forget to “like” on YouTube!