Moral Premise Storycraft Training: Inciting Incident

Sunday, April 25, 2021

6. Act 1 Beats

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LESSON NO. 6 VIDEO PARTS: 1 LENGTH: 21-min SLIDES: 20 CLIPS: 4
PREREQUSITES: Lessons 1-5
DESCRIPTION: This lesson explains and provides examples for the critical story beats found in Act 1: First/Last Image, Life Before, The Inciting Incident, Rejecting the Journey, Act 1 Climax, and Crossing the Threshold.

SPECIFICALLY, this lesson covers:
-- How story structure is part of Natural Law of Life's Structure
-- The importance (with examples) of the First and Last Image
-- Why visual storytelling is important, even in novels.
-- Two examples of the Inciting Incident and why it's important
-- The Act 1 Climax beat from Ratatouille's co-protagonists.
-- Crossing the Threshold Beat in Harry Potter's Sorcerer's Stone

Saturday, April 24, 2021

7. Act 2 Beats & Casablanca

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LESSON NO. 7 VIDEO PARTS: 3 LENGTH: 59-min SLIDES: 25 CLIPS: 10
PREREQUSITES: Lessons 1-6
DESCRIPTION: This lesson explains Act 2 beats: Threshold Crossing, B-Story, Pinch Point A, Pinch Point B, and Act 2 Climax/Near Death. (The Moment of Grace is reserved to another Episode.) It provides example from two motion pictures (Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, and Casablanca). A special feature of Parts 2 & 3 is the macro breakdown, with example clips of CASABLANCA's 8 major turning points from Act 1 through Act 3.

SPECIFICALLY, this lesson covers:
-- Secrets to Successful Stories 11, 13 and 16
-- Turning Point Beats vs. Sequence Beats
-- Act 1 Climax and Act 2 B-story start beats
-- Act 1-2 and Act 2-3 transitions in The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship....
-- The Eight major turning point beats in Casablanca
-- The Mid-Act 2 Beats in Casablanca
-- Beat contribution to the story's emotional Roller Coaster
-- The difference between Protagonist and Antagonist beats
-- Act 2 Climax and Act 3 transition in The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship...

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Stan is a multi-hyphenate media writer, producer, director, editor, distributor and author. Since the mid-1970s he's written, produced, directed, edited, and distributed hundreds of programs for corporations, entertainment and cable television...oh, and one PBS documentary. He has a BA in Physics, an MA in Mass Communications, and a PhD in Narrative Theory. In 2006 Michael Wiese Books published Stan's book, The Moral Premise: Harnessing Virtue and Vice for Box Office Success. Almost immediately he was asked to give workshops on the topic, which he has done across the country, most notably in Los Angeles and S.E. Michigan where he resides. He has also been asked to consult on numerous obscure and major motion picture projects, the latter of which have grossed over a billion dollars worldwide. The training linked on this blog is an outgrowth of all that work and repeated requests to make the training widely and readily available. He very much appreciates your interest and purchase of this training, as it allows him to continue the work and the development of good stories that are the bedrock of culture...or so he says.