Recent content by rayortiz313

A plot needs to be both exciting and surprising and logical at the same time. If it were easy then every Hollywood movie would work. Even professionals can fail: MARTHA!!?!?!?!? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!??! No easy answers for you. Just do your best!

that may be true- keep in mind these types of things are only guidelines, approximations. you don't need to be too rigid about the page numbers. I know when were learning we try to do things "right" , but art doesn't work like that, you have to mix the guidelines with your own tastes and...

Learn from robert rodriguez: Get two lights, "scoops" (I call em) with stands. Get diffusion material. Get some 100 watt bulbs, if you feel you need 200 wattasget those Y adaptors that will let you put two 100 watt bulbs in there. Ignore those high wattage (500W) photofloods they sell. They...

its both at around the 3/4 mark usually something super bad happens that throws the movie into the third act (keep in mind tho bad stuff/setbacks/crises should be happening all over your script- that's what drama is- bad stuff happening). whats this 3/4 point in ghostbusters? Could be the...

This "dark-moment " : 1. It doesn't have to happen at the 3/4 mark; it actually often happens much closer to the end of the movie, often on or near the last page! 2. It often involves a moment of self-sacrifice; the MC makes a leap of faith or otherwise sacrifices winning or safety for the...