Hello everyone,
I'm new here and new to screenwriting. Briefly, let me just say how much help you've already been during my lurking the last couple of weeks.
As I said I'm new and I think I'm having a problem recognizing the inciting incident and the 1st plot point which ends Act 1. I'll give two movies for examples to show where my confusion lies.
Star Wars:
Is the inciting incident when Vader captures Leia or when Luke sees the message from R2 and decides to find Obi-Wan and help the princess? -- or --
Is the 1st plot point when Luck sees the message from R2 or when he comes back and his Aunt & Uncle have been killed.
Witness:
The inciting incident is the murder, but is the 1st plot point when Harrison Ford realizes the murderer is Danny Glover or when he realized his boss is in on it (after he's shot)?
Told ya I'm new!
So far I've been reading scripts. I started reading ones of movies I've seen, but it felt too familiar, so now I'm mostly reading scripts of movies I haven't seen.
I've been writing short stories for years, but right now I'm working on screenwriting structure.
One of the reasons I'm slightly confused is because some of the books I've read use the same movies, but give different scenes different names (may be the inciting incident in one book and a plot point in the other).
Thanks a mil!
Annie
I'm new here and new to screenwriting. Briefly, let me just say how much help you've already been during my lurking the last couple of weeks.
As I said I'm new and I think I'm having a problem recognizing the inciting incident and the 1st plot point which ends Act 1. I'll give two movies for examples to show where my confusion lies.
Star Wars:
Is the inciting incident when Vader captures Leia or when Luke sees the message from R2 and decides to find Obi-Wan and help the princess? -- or --
Is the 1st plot point when Luck sees the message from R2 or when he comes back and his Aunt & Uncle have been killed.
Witness:
The inciting incident is the murder, but is the 1st plot point when Harrison Ford realizes the murderer is Danny Glover or when he realized his boss is in on it (after he's shot)?
Told ya I'm new!
So far I've been reading scripts. I started reading ones of movies I've seen, but it felt too familiar, so now I'm mostly reading scripts of movies I haven't seen.
I've been writing short stories for years, but right now I'm working on screenwriting structure.
One of the reasons I'm slightly confused is because some of the books I've read use the same movies, but give different scenes different names (may be the inciting incident in one book and a plot point in the other).
Thanks a mil!
Annie
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