Sean Lawrence

A series of act s builds the largest structure of all the Story. A story is one huge master event .....each should have the arc of the film , the great sweep of change that takes life from one condition at the opening to a change condition at the end. The final condition, the end change must absolute and irreversible. STORY CLIMAX : A story is series of acts that build to a last act climax or story climax which brings about absolute and irreversible change .

An Act is a series of sequences that peaks in a climactic scene which causes a major reversal of values, more powerful in its impact than any previous sequence or scene.

a SEQUENCE is a series of scenes-generally two to five-that culminates with greater impact than any previous scene. Setup: Scene One: Scene Two: Scene Three:

A BEAT is an exchange of behavior in action/reaction. Beat by Beat these changing behaviors(modes) shape the turning of a scene.

A Story Event creates meaningful change in life situation of a character that is expressed and experienced in terms of a value and ACHIEVED THROUGH CONFLICT .

Scene is action through conflict in more or less continuous time and space that turns the value-changed condition of a character's life on at least one value with a degree of perceptible significance, ideally, every scene is a STORY EVENT.

Structure is a selection of events from the characters' life stories that is composed into strategic sequence to arouse specific emotions and to express a specific view of life.