Write a Script in 10 Weeks

It's about clarity of story purpose: what is your story ultimately about? What is it trying to say? And how is it saying it through the protagonist's experience and ultimate story outcome?

A story’s theme is dramatised through the protagonist’s choices and behaviour, affecting how the story is resolved in a positive or negative manner.

Well, everything you set up in act one regarding your protagonist and their situation should probably be paid off or resolved in act three. The resolution should be causally and emotionally connected rather than the plot going off on indulgent tangents and giving the audience a vague sense of conclusion.

If your stakes all feel a bit pointless and random, consider this – have you raised the stakes for your antagonist too?

TV STORY SHAPE Once you nail your core concept, you're ready to tackle the story shape for the pilot episode. In TV, this is pretty straightforward: a teaser and four acts. The teaser is usually something dramatic or intriguing to pull the audience in. The first act develops the situation (the cops discover the murder) and ends on a story developme

You could use a variety of intellectual, physical and emotional challenges for them to overcome.

Syd Field says the midpoint is where the protagonist seems furthest from fulfilling the dramatic need or objective.

This is identifying what the protagonist stands to lose if he doesn’t take part in the story.

the hurdles don’t hurt the protagonist, they aren’t strong enough.