Cynematik • Cyndi Greening

Podcast on Sunday, April 17th, 2005
Posted from Phoenix, Arizona

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Karen Copeland and Cyndi Greening discuss they seven key steps to an effective screenplay using the TRUBY METHOD.

• Key steps are described and examples given in well-known films
  1. Problem/Need - Problems (known and unknown) to the character at the start of the script

  2. Desire Line - Yes or No Question about the outcome; the track the audience rides on
  3. Plan - Hero’s decision about how to solve the problem; must fail
  4. Battle - Difficult and painful for hero; irrevocably altered
  5. Self-Revelation - What the hero discovers about how he’s been behaving
  6. New Equilibrium - Hero is left at higher (or lower) point at the end
• Purpose of B and C storylines
• Common structure mistakes that new screenwriters/filmmakers make

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