DESIGNING GREAT-FILM STORY PROBLEMS!
WANNA KNOW a crucial key to designing great stories? Here it is: In your current story, what is the “OVERALL-STORY PROBLEM”? And is it complex enough — masked, multi-sided, arguable, twisty enough — that it will fully occupy the audience’s (and the characters’) attentions and energy for the story’s entire running length?? Is it an inequity that may at first appear to be easily solvable in one “act,” but actually is only... Read More
