Anyhoo, I've got to the Structural Checklist, and having read that like my tutor, Hauge believes your first draft should simply be written without consideration to anything but your own imagination, I now get to the meat of what goes into the second draft and beyond...
Note: I personally can't write a whole draft without considering first what is about to follow. Let's hope that doesn't stump me at any point.
- Every scene, event, and character in the screenplay must contribute to the hero's outer motivation
- Early in the screenplay, show the audience where the story is going to lead them
- Build the conflict
- Accelerate the pace of the story
- Create peaks and valleys to the action and the humor
- Create anticipation in the reader
- Give the audience superior position
- Surprise the audience and reverse the anticipation
- Create curiosity in the reader
- Foreshadow the major events of the screenplay
- Echo particular situations, objects, and lines of dialogue to illustrate character growth and change
- Pose a threat to one of the characters
- Make the story credible
- Teach the audience how to do something vicariously
- Give the story both humor and seriousness
- Give the movie an effective opening
- Give the story an effective ending
This list will seem obvious to some and cryptic to others, but I can't go putting the whole of Hauge's book online can I? Needless to say, Pages 90-107 cover this in more depth
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