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The beginning of a screenplay must be related to the ending somehow. This can be showing the main character...

The five questions that the Exposition has to answer for every movie. Act I, the Exposition, sets the stage...

Titles are your audience’s first impression of what your screenplay is about. Every movie needs a title. The title...

What makes a bad movie is a combination of characters we don’t care about and the lack of primeval...

Nothing should ever come easy to anyone, but obstacles need to be foreshadowed ahead of time or else they’ll...

Act I is the most important part of your screenplay because it introduces the hero, states the hero’s problem,...

Act II is typically the hardest part of a screenplay to write. You have 60 minutes of time, so...

Screenplays are a visual medium. Novels let you peek inside the thoughts of others while stage plays tell a...

What you see in a movie usually isn’t what the story is really about. What you see is the...

The second half of Act II is where the hero starts losing and the villain starts winning. By knowing...