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7 | Mastering Structure In Your Screenplay: Part II

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The End of Act Two Is Where the Transformation Happens

At the end of act two, your character has to look at themselves and their consciousness. That is self transformation. And if your character can absorb that self responsibility, in self trans formation, you have a drama where they transform. Structurally, to me, is just putting that transformation into action. So what are the mere moments that you can see in your script in act one, in act three, of the poles of your character? This is their behaviour in act one. Here's the transformation in act three. Now, t the end abac to is where the transformation happens. Their original goal is gone. Probably their relationshipsthat you've been tracking are gone. They will not

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