#1 Screenplay & storyboarding Lesson

What makes a good story:
1) Character w/ motive, conflict

2) Motive - Conflict (conflict makes the 'drama') - Turning point (decision, *motive will change)

*every character has a motive

2) Theme, so the reader/viewer can get a rough idea what the story is about. It is also a way to prevent the story from drifting away.

3) Plot

4) Story Structure

5) Climax

The meanings/definitions of these terms:

• Screenplay: The script and often shooting directions of a story prepared for motion-picture production
• Storyboard: Sketches outlining plot: a set of sketches, arranged in sequence on panels, outlining the scenes that will make up something to be filmed, e.g., a motion picture, television show, or advertisement
• Plagiarism: Stealing somebody's work or idea: the process of copying another person's idea or written work and claiming it as original
• Pitch: A form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something . 
• Genre: Category of artistic works: one of the categories, based on form, style, or subject matter, into which artistic works of all kinds can be divided.
• Conceptualise: Interpret observations with concept: to arrive at a concept or generalization as a result of things seen, experienced, or believed
• Log line: A one sentence definition of a film or theatre play
• Synopsis: A rough summary of a story
• 3 Act Structure: The three-act structure is a model used in writing and in evaluating modern storytelling that breaks down into three parts, the Setup, the Confrontation and the Resolution 
• Set Up: With key characters with motives and situations
• Confrontation: Story involves conflicts, obstacles and dramas. Whereby key characters struggles to fulfil motives. 
• Resolution: The climax or the story leads to the outcome ending be it good or bad ending, or a twist, maybe?
• Treatment: The act, manner, or method of handling or dealing with someone or something
• Storyline:  The plot of a story or dramatic work
• Motive: In a story, motivation is what drives the characters to do what they do.
• Conflict: The struggle of opposing forces in a story. 

Starship Troopers
1. Logline: Human soldiers fight an army of large insects seeking to destroy Earth.

2. Key Character: "Johnnie" Rico (Actor:  Casper Van Dien)
Motive: Son of a wealthy Filipino family who volunteers for "Federal Service". He ends up in the Mobile Infantry. He does his basic training at Camp Arthur Currie in Western Canada, and then he is assigned as a Private to "Willie's Wildcats". His first big combat experience (other than raids) is the Battle of Klendathu. He is then transferred to the platoon called "Rasczak's Roughnecks" aboard the spaceship Rodger Young, where he earns the rank of corporal and survives several battles. He later is promoted to Sergeant and enters an Officer Candidate School upon the encouragement of his friend "Ace". Rico eventually became a lieutenant after commanding a platoon (as an intern) during the successful "Operation Royalty". At the end of the novel, he is in command of Rico's Roughnecks, back on the Rodger Young, with his father as a sergeant there.

3. 3-act structures 

Home Alone
1.Logline: An 8-year-old boy who is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas must defend his home against idiotic burglars.

2.Key Character: Kevin McCallister (Actor: Macaulay Culkin)
Motives: Kevin is left behind and the family is unaware until they are already airborne. Meanwhile, Kevin wakes up to find the house empty and is overjoyed with his new freedom. The Chicago Police Department arrive to check on Kevin but are unable to locate him. Kevin's joy soon turns to fear as he deals with his next door neighbor "Old Man" Marley (who is rumored to have murdered his family many years earlier) and a pair of burglars, Harry and Marv (the "Wet Bandits"). The duo are burglarizing the neighborhood's vacant homes and have targeted the McCallisters. Kevin keeps the duo at bay by tricking them into thinking the house is still inhabited, but they eventually realize Kevin is alone. He was extremely clever and resourceful enough to get the two burglars out of the house with all his successful tricky traps.

3.

Transporter2

1. Logline: Mercenary Frank Martin, who specializes moving goods of all kinds, surfaces again this time in Miami, Florida when he's implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.

2. Key Character: Frank Martin (Actor: Jason Statham)

Motive: 

3.

Men in Black

1. Logline: A streetwise NYPD detective joins a secret organization that polices extraterrestrial affairs on Earth.

2. Key character: Agent J, (Actor:Will Smith) & Agent K, (Actor:Tommy Lee Jones)

Motive: In present-day America, Agent K is a member of an organization that has been keeping track of extra-terrestrial aliens on Earth for over 40 years. When K finds himself in need of a new partner, a brash NYPD detective, James Edwards fills the position, becoming Agent J. Armed with space-age technology (which J barely understands) and their razor-sharp wits, J and K investigate a newcomer who is bad news for Earth.