{"id":1539,"date":"2020-05-25T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/propathscreenwriting.flywheelsites.com\/staging\/7934\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2020-05-25T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T23:38:08","slug":"the-basics-of-act-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/2020\/05\/25\/the-basics-of-act-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basics of Act 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PROTAGONIST:&nbsp; Every scene, relationship, and event of conflict revolves around the Hero and his\/her goal.&nbsp; The goal should be concrete, something you can shoot with a camera.&nbsp; Establish a goal you can build a climax scene around that creates a dramatic and cinematic confrontation with the Antagonist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ANTAGONIST:&nbsp; The Antagonist is a character of obstacle.&nbsp; The Antagonist must be motivated just as your Hero is motivated.&nbsp; The Antagonist is a personification of the Hero\u2019s fear and must be built into the plot of the script to force your Hero to overcome his\/her fear.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OPENING HOOK:&nbsp; The Opening Hook should be the entry point to the movie. It should compel and fascinate the viewer.&nbsp; It should give evidence of conflict, tension, tone, mood, genre.&nbsp; It should be the first indication of the Central Question. It is the first line of tension that escalates toward the Climax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ORDINARY WORLD:&nbsp; The Ordinary World establishes the Hero\u2019s world when the movie starts. What is the Hero\u2019s place in his\/her world?&nbsp; What is the unfinished, unresolved part of the Hero that has him\/her stuck?&nbsp; Is it based on fear?&nbsp; What does the Hero hold on to as a value that allows him\/her to cope in this world?&nbsp; What is the dominant fear of the Hero in this world that will be resolved as the Hero progresses through this plot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>INCITING INCIDENT:&nbsp; The scene should be visual, active and cinematic.&nbsp; The scene occurs just after the Opening Hook.&nbsp; The scene is the first tickle of the true quest that Hero typically rejects.&nbsp; The Hero is reluctant and rejects this first tickle because of the fear established in the first pages of the script.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MINI SET-UP:&nbsp; The mini set-up is the defining scene in conflict, dialogue, and action that conveys the premise and central question for the audience.&nbsp; This is the scene that defines what the movie is about.&nbsp; This is the scene that compels the Hero toward the Act Break.&nbsp; The Hero still has a choice to turn down the quest, but because&nbsp; of the stakes paired with the goal is forced to go forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACT BREAK:&nbsp; The act break is a reversal.&nbsp; The Hero should take the first big hit for deciding to go forward and be punished for that decision.&nbsp; The Hero should be in crisis and conflict.&nbsp; The Hero should go into Act Two in a weakened state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROTAGONIST:&nbsp; Every scene, relationship, and event of conflict revolves around the Hero and his\/her goal.&nbsp; The goal should be concrete, something you can shoot with a camera.&nbsp; Establish a goal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,33,25,27,31,34,14,32,21,15],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-act-one","tag-antagonist","tag-film-school","tag-filmmaker","tag-filmmaking","tag-inciting-incident","tag-opening-hook","tag-protagonist","tag-screenwriter","tag-screenwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propathscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}