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Watch a great movie and you might not be conscious at how all the elements of the story work...

Surprise is the key to holding your audience’s attention. That means you need to entice the audience with what...

Every character, especially the hero, has two goals driven by the mind and the heart. The mind tells the...

Active heroes are responsible for their own fate. That means they take action to put themselves in dire situations,...

Every scene must be interesting or else you risk losing your audience. A dull scene can wreck the best...

Fractals are mathematical images that are composed of identical images that form much larger images. Stories are the same...

Ever since “The Hunger Games” came out and become a worldwide phenomena, Hollywood has been trying to duplicate that...

Every scene needs conflict. To enhance conflict or to make a scene more visually interesting if there’s little conflict,...

To make any story interesting, you need conflict. However, bad movies simply toss all types of conflict in a...

The horror genre is the easiest to study for emotional impact because horror movies strive to create fear and...

Every story is about conflict. Without conflict, you have no story. Watching a character struggle to achieve a goal...