After that, it’s up to you to decide what happens in the end. Now that you understand three-act structure, it's time to get started on that screenplay.

I had been teaching script analysis, a lecture class analyzing the dramatic structure of successful films, for a few years by then, and it had led me to notice ways that character elements were able ...

Her website, Screentakes.com, offers in-depth studies on story structure for film professionals. She studied screenwriting at Columbia University and the history of drama at New York University.

Pamela Mara’s lighting represents a valiant struggle to deal with the script’s contradictory inclinations. Due to Johnson’s reliance upon a sense of lingering mystery, only the setup ...

In the late 1990s, after teaching herself screenplay structure by way of reading Viki King’s seminal go-to manual “How to Write a Movie in 21 Days,” Andrea Berloff emerged with her first ...

While there is no hard-and-fast rule for this, here’s an example of what a five-act structure may look like in a typical, 110-page feature screenplay: Act 1: Exposition (pp. 1–25) Act 2 ...