You're always using Dan Harmon's story circle, but I've noticed you've never used the quadrant system Dan talks about on the Channel101 site and his tumblr. Is there a reason for that or just a personal methodology? It would be awesome if you find a way to combine your views on creating/finding philosophical conflict and structure it into the quadrants. It seems like often we talk about the ordinary world vs the special world as the external character conflict or something more related to the plot. This method makes sense to me because explicitly stating the conflict can help the the descension into and through the special/unconscious world be driven by the philosophical conflict (Dan calls it conflicting or charged values), but something I greatly struggle with when writing . Thanks Tyler!
Unlike with Breaking Bad, I noticed that Better Call Saul’s pilot ends at step 6 to allow a cliffhanger ending, and then resolves steps 7 and 8 during the first 15-20 minutes of the second episode.
I think BCS is working a lot with spreading the usual story circle over multiple episodes, which really feeds into the "addiction" you get to it. Another thing worth noticing is that BCS did not need it's pilot to be able to stand for itself because it is a Netflix show.
One of my favorite Pilots is "Smallville" in 2001. It starts with a meteor attack on a town (filmed just before 9/11).Halfway through the Pilot, teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling) finds out from his (adoptive) father that he is an alien, and that explains his unusual gifts and "powers". In NBC's series "The Event" (2010-2011), at the finale end, computer geek Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) finds out he is an alien (as I interpreted the ending).
Hey! ive stumbled upon your channel, these stuff's great! I like how you explain :)) May I suggest a a study of the film "The peanut butter falcon" ( 2019 ) or "Honey Boy" (2019) and how the story flows and more on a character based story line? Thanksss~
Thank you for breaking it down! Almost got it down, knowing the Harmon circle. Just need to know the set up better for the transition on scences I see on the circle. Best believe!!
About to embark on my first tv show pilot, I'll comment under this one to show progress, and if this show sees the light, I'll be sure to say it here. I normally wouldn't say this here, but screw it.
I know this is not a common trope in screenwriting like shows like POWER on STARZ and other shows similarly written where there's the protagonist but all these surrounding characters w/ their own struggles etc but still their problems intwines with the central main focused character how would you go about that while still maintaining this entire arc, would the same apply to the others? with my current story I have my main central one, but his love interests is also a secondary main character that story intwines with his own in a way as they're love interests. Idk if that made sense but idk what it's called w/ stories written like that.
Hey I have been watching Christopher Nolans films, and I feel I will only have the motivation to write a screenplay if I have an incredible story like Nolan's films do. Do you have any tips on thinking of great stories
I have 8 adult characters. My pilot features one of them but this story involves all 8. After watching this, I can see that using this for each character will result in an 'A' story, with other characters making up the 'B' and 'C'. Not sure if that makes any sense. I've written quite a few episodes already and this is working for me. I can't see how featuring one of them will make for an interesting show.
Laughing... I have 48 characters through out... and each one of them build on the other... Probably... 12 main ones... it is a story of a small town... The Town rather a STATE is the main character... LOL My editor of the regional manuscript was amazed how I kept 48 characters in order... They're my family... How is your Pilot going... and what is it about?
Great content but just an observation that I recently came across from one of my daughters teachers. He says RIGHT after or between every other word. I can't not hear this. It's all I can concentrate on because it happens so much. Maybe keep an ear out for how man times you say this. It may be a generational thing, but it's overwhelming. I used to say LIKE all the time after every other word and sometimes still do. I believe this is the same thing. Just a a little advice, do what you will with it. Great work otherwise!
Would this work if the main theme is my character doesn’t have a purpose? I think they could search for it but that’s the whole theme of the show for me.
Think you might be waiting a while for him, The favoured format for most writers is 5, however tv shows can be any amount of acts realistically think of them as micro-acts, 3 act used to be popular, but as long as you have that build up , climax and resolution your free to do whatever in between If it makes sense
@@jamprod It’s a coming of age story set aboard an interstellar rescue vessel, a literal Spaceship Earth you could say, about a young girl’s quest to uncover the truth about her military mother’s death in the line of duty.
