Sunday, March 2, 2014

#3 The 3 Act Structure ( Mind Your Language )


Logline - The adventures of a young english teacher name Mr Brown teaching a group of students that are of different ethnic background.

-ACT1
-How do they set up the story?
Key Character(s): Jeremy Brown
Must-Have Info: He is a patient teacher who is willing to nurture his students to be fluent in english language.
Motive: Jeremy Brown's aim is to coach his students so they are able to speak decent english language.
Conflict/Obstacles: His students have very short attention spend on learning. They are easily distracted by other minor issues that are happening in the classroom. 


Key Character(s): Ranjeet Singh
Must-Have Info: He has a good vocabulary but tends to mix up his general knowledge, and upon being corrected he always puts his hands together and says "a thousand apologies".
Motive: Ranjeet Singh is to learn english language.
Conflict/Obstacles:  He was mistaken for a Pakistani when Mr Brown asked him to sit next to his "fellow countryman" Ali Nadim in the first episode. He constantly argues with Ali, who is a Pakistani Muslim.


-ACT2
-How does the key character struggle with the motive?
-List the obstacles/Conflict
-Which scene is the Climax? How do you know?
Confrontation: Jeremy Brown is unable to keep his students interested in learning English language.
Turning Point: When Ranjeet and Ali decided to exchange blows with each other and the rest of the class had to step in to stop them from fighting. 
Obstacles: Maximillian and Giovanni have been fighting for Danielle's affection. Ranjeet and Ali are unable to accept each other background differences. 

-ACT3
-How does the story end?
-Is the motive resolved?
Climax (Grand Finale): Jeremy Brown decided to hand out homework to all of his students to end the lesson and quickly left the classroom to avoid more inquiries by the class.
Motive resolved: He managed to teach a few basic principles of english by correcting their mistakes.

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