21 Ways To Structure A Screenplay [WRITING MASTERCLASS]

1) 0:00 - Intro
2) 1:44 - 3 Act Story Structure
3) 3:07 - 4 Act Story Structure
4) 7:16 - 4 Archetypes
5) 10:28 - B.M.O.C.
6) 16:26 - Michael Hauge’s Six-Stage Plot Structure
7) 21:28 - 7 Act Story Structure
8) 29:14 - 7 Step Story Process
9) 36:45 - Jill Chamberlain’s The Nutshell Technique
10) 45:45 - 8 Sequence Approach
11) 53:47 - Jule Selbo's 11 Step Structure
12) 57:08 - 12 Sequences
13) 1:01:11 - 12 Beats
14) 1:05:35 - Story Maps
15) 1:09:51 - Save The Cat
16) 1:23:41 - The Hero’s Journey
17) 1:27:29 - Daniel Stamm’s Overview Of Classic Story Structure
18) 1:34:20 - Eric Edson’s Story Solution - 23 Actions All Great Heroes Must Take
19) 1:40:25 - Sequence Proposition Plot
20) 1:50:38 - Story Structure In 3 Words
21) 1:55:04 - Television Structure
22) 2:09:41 - Short Film Structure

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This is a priceless compilation. I'll be listening to this one several times.

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[nikkinewbie]

What I would LOVE to see is ONE movie broken down one by one using each of these structures…whether by ‘beat’ or by breaking out the sequences or sections the structures use😀. The one I’d really love to see tracked through a single movie the most would be Mr. Edson’s hero goal sequence model.

Absent that, this is about as close to a “live spreadsheet” to compare structures against each other (done for you) as I think can be found. It’s a great starting point for exactly that.

I figure that the common elements across many multiple forms of structure are maintained across the different structures for a reason. I really want to pull those down and figure which are best for the story I want to tell.



I’ve gotten a lot out of the screenplay approach to telling story even though my project is to write a novel.

Thanks so much for this.

Update: I just found Eric Edson’s webpage where he is offering the very thing I asked 😂😂. He does Back To The Future, Bridesmaids and Finfing Nemo and gives the sequences for each. Free pdf. Pdf to first pages of book. Link to book. Should really illuminate the approach for anyone interested.

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I’m learning SO MUCH from this video. Thank you for putting all these methods for story structure in one video.

[chilidogcats]

Nice to see all these different approaches posted in one place. Study them all, but then pick the approach that you feel most comfortable with when writing your first few screenplays. There's a few here I'm not familiar with. I went to Writer's Boot Camp and Jeff Gordon has another method too.
I'll have to watch this later because I just got notes back from the producer who optioned my script . . . hooray! More work!

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