Episode 7: A Screenplay Scene: How Screenwriters Understand Scene Structure 

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This is the best explanation of scene structure I've come across. Your whole series is dense with information. I'll probably need to rewatch a few times to really absorb it all. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this.

This series is so helpful. Totally different and practical approach to learning screenwriting!

Thanks Andy! I have been reviewing lots of content on RU-vid to learn this craft. Yours is so great! great teaching style. Please keep this going!

I really love your series, please don't stop! It's very rare to be teached by an actual professional.

Once again- THANK YOU! Always sad when each of these ends because I learn so much. I’m currently reading as much material as I can on the subject, along with watching videos here from a variety of sources, and I find your method exceeds at getting all these ideas to really stick in my noggin. Splicing in clips as examples is so helpful for visual learners like me. I’ll ride your train of screenwriting expertise until it runs off the rails!

I think I went too far, as I found six. Rookie mistake. I paused your video and did the excersice. You are right. I mean, I just broke it down into verbs. Sorry my misspelling. 1. Sees the life and glamour of a pilot. 2. Frank pretends to be a student. 3. Gets information from Mr. Morgan. 4. Calls for a uniform. 5. Pick up the uniform. 6. Transforms into a pilot/sets his father´s values (exposition?)/ transform them into a lie. But, after, watching the rest of your video, I realized now that 2/3/4/5 are part of the same unit of information (becoming a pilot). Thank you so much, I am learning a lot.

You are providing a lot of practical information. Thank you.

Dear Sir Andy, your advices are MOST USEFULL to me thank u very much.

Thanks Andy, I'm loving this series!

I love you man. Thanks for this information. I wish happiness on you, sensei.

I work almost 70 hours a week and when I get home, I can't even leave my eyes open to write a script I'm so tired. I've written several scripts but only two placed in contests which got me nowhere. I want to be thankful for what I have but it's so hard when you have nothing. I'm tired. I'm just tired. I just wanna give up and die sometimes but then I know I would be leaving so many who love me... I just for once want to be happy at what I do for a living. Is that so much to ask... I'll start watching you're channel and maybe I can get the help I need to push my writing forward.

Another incredible video. Thanks for this.

Thank you so much Andy! Cheers!!

I've watched the series almost religiously! Thanks for the free knowledge

Hi Andy, been watching your interviews on Film Courage and think your interviews are really resonant and informative and was inspired to find your RU-vid channel. Keep up all the great info!

Again. ¡Muchas gracias!

first thing, thank you for the vids. same day, i discovered your knowledge was the day i got an idea for a script. you have no idea the help, your giving me. and, im torn. one hand, i'm happy seeing your channel grow. the other, i wanna keep your vids to myself....lol thanks again.

Thanks for the video Andy! This is a really useful way of thinking about scenes. I've always thought of scenes as discrete sections of narrative which have a particular purpose in advancing the story. It's important to highlight that a scene isn't limited to a particular time or location. For example, montages are made up of clips from multiple times and locations, but together they form one scene, e.i. the 'montage scene', which is cut together to communicate a particular point.

Always excited to see that you have a new video up. You said you wrote for archie bunker. It reminds me of one of those funny lines you hear in a TV show when youre a kid and you never forget it. I was watching the show with my mom. I dont remember the story line anymore, but archie was talking about edith having to go to see a doctor. Archie said something like, "edith has to go see a groinecologist." My mom laughed pretty hard. I have used that word as a joke where ever i get the chance. Of course people either laugh or look at me strangely.

Master class. I would love to see how you aproach dialogue, because even when the advice was tray to avoid it, I really love these movies like the "before trilogy". Great teacher. Im starting to write whit my feealings and not just structure.

Catch me if you can holds a special place in my heart. I had to write some sort of essay when it came out, when I was studying Audio and Visual Design here in Buenos Aires. For some reason, I googled Frank Abagnale and found his email address. I wrote to him, and soon after he replied asking what my personal address was. Couple of weeks later, I received his biography book (the one the movie is based on), translated to spanish, and signed by him, dedicated to me. I have it right here still.

I would love to see some videos where you tell us lines or scenes that you wrote for various movies and TV shows. Such a great history and would love to hear about it. Writing and history are the two biggest interests i have.

For the scenes that contain a continuous flow, you categorize as two separate scenes because they give two diff units of information, but wouldn’t that just be considered multiple beats in the one scene because the information is coupled in that one moment? And if not, would that continuous flow be considered a sequence? Sorry, I’m trying to unlearn some things I’ve picked up from elsewhere but that’s how I always looked at it. Love the series!

Loving this masterclass! Much appreciated. Based on my own understanding, I'm a little confused about the differentiation of a traditional story beat within this explanation of what is a scene. Are they the same thing?

Speilberg said he watches The Searchers before he goes to make a movie. He did make a historical mistake on the beach though. The boat obstacle pole ramps are pointing the wrong way. Kind of crazy that something like that would be gotten wrong with him and so many others preparing the set.

Besides the depressing long shot feeling that goes with a script ever being turned into a movie, i also feel torn when i hear people on film courage talk about how a script had better grab them in the first two pages or i am throwing it in the trash can because my time cannot be wasted. I get the sense that these days we had better trot out the glow in the dark space monkeys shooting lasers from their bum in the first few pages or else the reader will become bored and toss it aside like an empty clam shell. We cannot have the characters say too much and we cannot have them ever be silent and every page and scene needs to have someone driving a flaming car out of a 14 story building or else. I guess my question is, would anyone in hollywood these days put up $10 million dollars to make a movie like tender mercies?

Am i mistaken? Did you release episode 8 then remove it? I thought i saved it to my playlist then it disappeared. Episode 8 How to attack a scene. Thx!!

What is the difference between a scene and a sequence?