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Jennine Lanouette is a screenwriting and script analysis instructor and story consultant. She has taught at Pixar, Lucasfilm and Sundance Collab, as well as colleges and universities. She has produced media-rich, interactive digital books analyzing Thelma & Louise, Kramer vs. Kramer and The African Queen. In her online course Extraordinary Structure: Analyzing Hidden Story Patterns in the Great Films she analyzes Sunset Boulevard, Network, Parasite, The Farewell and Joker. Additional courses are yet to come. For more information, visit her website: www.screentakes.com.
The Essential Elements of a First Act - 3 Act Structure Series
The first act of your screenplay is where you invite your viewer into the story, setting up the main character, their world, and the challenges ahead. In this video, I break down how to create a compelling setup, introduce characters in a sympathy-creating moment, and use the point of attack to disrupt the normal and launch your story.
Discover how these elements work together to engage your audience and propel your narrative forward. For deeper study on story structure, check out my screenbooks and courses on www.screentakes.com.
Chapters:
Invite your viewer into the story 00:00
The Setup 00:11
Point of Attack or Inciting Incident 00:42
End of the First Act 01:04
The Purpose of the First Act 0...
Discover how these elements work together to engage your audience and propel your narrative forward. For deeper study on story structure, check out my screenbooks and courses on www.screentakes.com.
Chapters:
Invite your viewer into the story 00:00
The Setup 00:11
Point of Attack or Inciting Incident 00:42
End of the First Act 01:04
The Purpose of the First Act 0...
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The 3 Act Structure EXPLAINED
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In this video, I dive into the three act structure and why I consider it a creative ally rather than a constraint. If you're ready to rethink how structure can serve your story, this video is for you. Looking for a script consultant? Click here to learn about my services: www.screentakes.com/story-consulting-with-jennine-lanouette/ Chapters: The Three Act Structure 00:04 Constraining vs Freeing...
How to Start Your Screenplay Rewrite - Simple Screenwriting Tips
Просмотров 7421 день назад
Your screenplay rewrite isn’t just about making a few tweaks; it’s about being ready to take the whole thing apart and rebuild it from the ground up if that’s what’s needed. In this video, I share how to approach your rewrite with a fresh mindset, going back to your outline and 3 by 5 cards to rework the structure of your story. Whether it’s cutting characters or reshuffling scenes, what’s most...
How to Get Script Feedback - Simple Screenwriting Tips
Просмотров 87Месяц назад
Getting feedback on your screenplay is crucial before diving into a rewrite. In this video I share essential tips on gathering and analyzing feedback. Discover why selecting 3 to 5 friends for feedback can make all the difference and learn the art of asking for specific, gut-level insights. How do you gather feedback for your screenplays? Share your methods in the comments below! Chapters: Impo...
How to Write Your First Draft - Simple Screenwriting Tips
Просмотров 215Месяц назад
Analyzing great films is the key to understanding story structure. To join my monthly LIVE webinar analyzing great films, click here: www.screentakes.com/webinar 🔗 Ready to start writing your screenplay? In this video, I share a few techniques to help you get started with your first draft. Remember, the first draft is just the beginning-the real writing happens in the rewriting. Subscribe to th...
How to Foster Your Writing Discipline - Simple Screenwriting Tips
Просмотров 2863 месяца назад
🔗 Register for our latest Story Structure Analysis LIVE Q&A: www.screentakes.com/webinar/ 🔗 Develop your writing discipline by starting with sitting down everyday but not requiring yourself to write anything. With no other distractions around - internet, TV, books, magazines - your unconscious will get bored and your creative juices will begin to flow. 00:00 Ready to start writing your screenpl...
How to Outline Your Story - Simple Screenwriting Tips
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🔗 Register for our latest Story Structure Analysis LIVE Q&A: www.screentakes.com/webinar/ 🔗Learn to use the three-by-five card method of story outlining. In the early stages, you want to keep your story fluid and malleable. Three-by-five cards help you do this. Move them around, add new ones, take others out. Don’t get too attached to any one element. Let the ideas flow. 00:00 How to Develop Yo...
How to Develop Your Idea - Simple Screenwriting Tips
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🔗 Register for our latest Story Structure Analysis LIVE Q&A: www.screentakes.com/webinar/🔗A simple method for growing your germ of an idea into a screenplay by telling your story to your friends. As you gauge their reaction, you get information about what’s working and what’s not. Before you know it, your initial idea has grown into a viable story. screentakes.com/ 00:00 How do I develop my ide...
PART 4 - Simone has the POWER #powerbalance #sceneanalysis #action #powershift #screenwriting
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PART 4 - Simone has the POWER #powerbalance #sceneanalysis #action #powershift #screenwriting
How character progression *REALLY* works
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How character progression *REALLY* works
Power Between Characters Always Shifts on Action
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Power Between Characters Always Shifts on Action
How to Setup a Story with #Action and #Visuals
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How to Setup a Story with #Action and #Visuals
How Rose Sayer Sets the Standard for Complex Female Action Heroes
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How Rose Sayer Sets the Standard for Complex Female Action Heroes
Exploring Deep Character Against a Thematic Background in Joker
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Exploring Deep Character Against a Thematic Background in Joker
Enhancing a Quirky Family Drama with Underlying Character Transformation in The Farewell
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Enhancing a Quirky Family Drama with Underlying Character Transformation in The Farewell
Giving Purpose to an Action Story with an Overarching Theme in Parasite
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Giving Purpose to an Action Story with an Overarching Theme in Parasite
Five Questions to Improve Your Screenplay’s Character and Theme Storylines
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Five Questions to Improve Your Screenplay’s Character and Theme Storylines
Sympathetic Doesn’t Have to Mean Likable | Screentakes
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Sympathetic Doesn’t Have to Mean Likable | Screentakes
Thanks for your explanation! Very helpful!
You're very welcome!
This is really wonderful and super helpful ❤ thank you
I just list the scenes in my screenwriting software.
Dear Jennine, Thank you for sharing this new series on writing. I read your message and learned what you have experienced. My condolences for your loss; I am glad to be connected with you now in this new chapter in your life and am grateful to see your videos in my screenwriting journey. Thank you for your wisdom. I am writing my first feature, and this is the most exciting time in my life. Thank you!
Thanks for these great tips! I loved them!
Please analyse screenwriting of fight club twist
Hello ma'am, That was very useful. As someone who has written short scripts in the past and is venturing into writing their feature, I had forgotten how many time I must narrate the story before I write it. Your way of conveying the lesson too was very endearing. Here to say that this channel is great before someone else lays claim to that fact. :)
oh my god so happy i discovered this channel so many insight thank you so much and continue the great work!!
I'd also add to the analysis the message on the truck that says "The Vermin have inherited the earth".
I never get tired of watching this scene, or this whole movie in fact. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is the BEST sequel of this franchise. Better than Fury Road.
Thanks for this great lesson!!
My pleasure!
Una gran película 🎥 tan real 👍
Many thanks for sharing with us these great insights!!
Thanks for your great analysis of the film!!
This is so interesting. Please make more analyses of scenes from this particular film. There is so much to interpret and analyse.
Thanks for your excellent explanation! I love the way you analysed the movie "Dont'Look Up"!
Magnfica pelcula,,..
Well done, Jennine!
WATCH the mini analysis: ruclips.net/video/sm6b0PKOloA/видео.html
Great video! I'm a huge fan of the road warrior and the original mad Max and I think you nailed it perfectly. Those are exactly the thoughts and feelings that are going on in the film. Please continue to make more
Thanks! Stay tuned! More videos coming.
Womem should stay at kitchen instead of fighting.😊
Wonderfull recaps
Thanks for all these examples ; it now feels a little bit diabolical to know how we can "engineer" the sympathy...LOL! From starting out with an impermeable or unlikeable character, all the way to drawing that character as just a little bit "more like me". Particularly interesting insight when you identified a character too perfect and ideal (James Bond) losing the simpatico qualities, as opposed to the vile or loathsome type.
This is a very rich and condensed presentation. I appreciate the clarity on Thematic content absolutely needing an Action Story as it's vehicle (and your explanation that this dependency is not mutual). However, I would like to hear a little bit more about what a thematic statement really is. I hear that it "shows us" (the audience) " a new understanding of the world". Yet, how exactly is that really any different from a protagonist transforming *their * view of the world (as in a character-driven Story) for example? I mean, Can you really give the character a new worldview without also having that new weltenshaung being contaigious to the audience... For a beginning writer like me, the difference between Theme Story and Character Story seems tenuous and fuzzy.
Thank you for this deeply thought question! I would not describe character transformation as meaning the character has a new world view. Character change is something that exits internally within the character. How has that character become a different person as a result of all they have experienced? They may have gone from being timid to being assertive, or from being exploitative to having integrity. These are changes in how they interact with the world, changes to their very being, manifestations of growth. Theme, on the other hand, is the larger meaning being communicated by the story. It is an abstract idea manifested in the metaphor of the story's circumstances, as in Don't Look Up. And it is an idea that applies to everyone, not just the main character. One way to think of it is that character change is very individual to that character, whereas theme is a universal truth that applies to all of us, or that we can all learn from. The best way to get a grasp of this difference is to look for how they each show up in the movies you love most. How has this main character become a different person at the end? As a result of watching this story, has a new understanding of the world been revealed or a new universal truth?
Watch the full video here 👉 ruclips.net/video/BZna8BuI1Wk/видео.html
I wanted to be Batman only to find out that the world sees me as a clown.
Here's the link to my mini analysis of Bong Joon Ho's Parasite: ruclips.net/video/T11Y4RHHdOAa/видео.htmlnd Lulu Wang's The Farewell: ruclips.net/video/YQD-JloJvMs/видео.html
Watch the full video here: ruclips.net/video/YQD-JloJvMs/видео.html I'd love to hear your thoughts!
At point 4:43, what are the point Bs for the theme story?
Thanks for your question! The three point B's being referred to there are in the action, character and theme stories. You want to make sure your story arrives at a point B on at least one of those three story lines. Hope that clarifies!
She mentions that delivering a new understanding of the world at Point B of the Theme Story, would fulfill the need for Thematic progression.
This was incredibly helpful to watch as I write my first screenplay. Nice job!
This is an excellent video, and I know you're gonna be serious expertise to this space. If I was you, I'd consider tethering the theory to a popular film, that you can use in your video title and thumbnail to boost you in searches and the algorithm. Please keep it up, these first two are gold dust.
This video was published 6 hours ago and has 18 views, and I didn’t realize until later! Thought it was average 200k view content. Damn!