LESSON #1

What makes a good story??

• Key character
• Key character's motive

*Definitions of these term : 

1. Screenplay : description of the scene
2. Storyboard : planning of the one scene that explained what happen in that scene
3. Plagiarism : fully copying the other's work
4. Pitch : writer's description of a potential story to an editor
5. Genre : a specific type of the story
6. Conceptualise : a story that has a concept on its structure
7. Logline : 1 sentence summary of the main story
8. Synopsis : the story plot summary
9. 3 act structure : a structure that gives you the story's direction
10. Set up, confrontation, resolution : part of the 3 act structure
11. Treatment : prose that is more detail than an synopsis 
12. Storyline : a plot of the story
13. Motive : the reason of the character to run the story
14. Conflict : cause by the main character and the antagonist character that makes the obstacle for the main character to make the story interesting

STAR TROOPERS

Logline : The group of people that tried to destroy the alien to survive

Key character : the soldier

3 ACT STRUCTURE

ACT 1

Set up : a key character that showed up with a group of people 

Situation : a lot of aliens showing

ACT2

Confrontation : when the key characters is fighting with the aliens

ACT3

Resolution : the result of the battle

HOME ALONE

Logline : a boy named Kevin that protect his house from the thief

Key character : Kevin

3ACT STRUCTER

ACT1

Set up : Kevin's parent going to a trip and left him alone

Situation : Kevin knows that there were a burglar who wanted to rob his house

ACT2

Confrontation : Kevin fights against the robbers using the things on his house

ACT3

Resolution : Kevin wins against the robbers and he saved his christmas

TRANSPORTER 2

Logline : a transporter who needs to deliver the boy 

Key character : the driver

ACT1

Set up : a deliver who has a mission to fetch a boy

Situation : the boy being kidnaped

ACT2

Confrontation : He feels responsible and then he is going to save the boy

ACT3

Resolution : He succeed to save the boy

MEN IN BLACK

Logline : two agents that fight against the alien's invasion

Key character : Will Smith

ACT1

Set up : the new recruited aget K who needs to terminate the aliens

ACT2

Confrontation : the battle against the alien, there was a bad guy behind the alien

ACT3

Confrontation : the agents succeed eliminate the aliens and the bad guy