Syd field -Three-act Structure

END پایان	MIDDLE میانه	BEGINNING شروع
ACT3 کنش3	ACT2 کنش2 Plot Point II	ACT1 کنش1 Plot Point I
Dramatic context known as RESOLUTION حل	Dramatic context known as CONFRONTATION مواجهه	Dramatic context known as SET-UP مقدمه چینی – برپا کردن
90-120 FROM 120 67-90 FROM 90	30-90 FROM 120 22-67 FROM90	1-30 FROM 120 1-22 FROM 90
Resolution means solution of your story. حل به معنای راه حل داستان است. Does your character live or die? شخصیت تو زنده می ماند و یا می میرد؟ Succeed or fail? پیروز می شود و یا بازنده؟ The end is last scene or sequence of script. پایان به آخرین صحنه و یا پلان فیلمنامه اطلاق می شود.	Your character will confront obstacle after obstacle after obstacle to achieve his or her dramatic need. شخصیت ما برای رسیدن به هدفش با مانع ، پس از مانع، پس ازمانع مواجه می شود. What is the character's dramatic need - what does your main character want to win, gain, get, or achieve during the course of the screenplay? نیاز شخصیت چیست؟ اون چیزی که شخصیت اصلی می خواهد، برنده شود، جذب کند، بگیرد، بدست آورد را در مسیرو مدت زمان فیلم نامه. 1) What is the character moving from or moving towards? 2) What is the character trying to get or do, this moment, short term, long term? 3) What is the character obstructed by? 4) How is the character trying to overcome the obstacle? 5) How is the character changed in terms of goals by his experience of facing obstacles?	Dramatic premise (what the story is about), فرض نمایشی: داستان در مورد چیست؟ Establishes The main character معرفی شخصیت اصلی Illustrates the situation (the circumstances surrounding the action( نشان دادن موقعیت (شرح شرایط و رویدادهای حول واطراف عمل) Creates the relationships between the main character and the other characters ایجاد روابط بین شخصیت اصلی و شخصیت های دیگر

ACT 1 IS THE SET-UP :

Act I, the beginning, is a unit of dramatic action that is approximately twenty or thirty pages long and is held together with the dramatic context known as the Set- Up. Context is the space that holds something in place.

Here in Act I, the screenwriter will do the following things

1) sets up the story

2) establishes character,

3) launches a dramatic premise (what the story is about),

4) Illustrates the situation (the circumstances surrounding the action)

5) Creates the relationships between the main character and the other characters

As a writer you've only got about ten minutes to establish this, because the audience can usually determine,

either consciously or unconsciously, whether they do or don't like the movie by that time.

ACT II IS CONFRONTATION:

Act II is a unit of dramatic action approximately sixty pages long, and goes from the end of Act I, anywhere from pages 20 to 30, and is held together with the dramatic context known as Confrontation. During this second act the main character encounters obstacle after obstacle that keeps him/her from achieving his/her dramatic need, which is defined as what the character wants to win, gain, get, or achieve during the course of the screenplay. If you know your character's dramatic need, you can create obstacles to it and then your story becomes your character, overcoming obstacle after obstacle to achieve his/her dramatic need.

Below are the couple of what's & How's which can create obstacles to the character.

1) What is the character moving from or moving towards?

2) What is the character trying to get or do, this moment, shortterm, longterm ?

3) what is the character obstructed by?

4) How is the character trying to overcome the obstacle ?

5) How is the character changed in terms of goals by his experience of facing obstacles?

"All drama is conflict. Without conflict, you have no action; without action, you have no character; without character, you have no story; and without story, you have no screenplay."

ACT III IS RESOLUTION:

Act III is a unit of dramatic action approximately twenty to thirty pages long and goes from the end of Act II, approximately pages 85 to 90, to the end of the screenplay. It is held together with the dramatic context known as Resolution. I think it's important to remember that resolution does not mean ending; resolution means solution. What is the solution of your screenplay? Does your main character live or die? Succeed or fail? Get married or not? Win the race or not? Win the election or not? Escape safely or not? Leave her husband or not? Return home safely or not? Act III is that unit of action that resolves the story. It is not the ending; the ending is that specific scene or shot or sequence that ends the script. Beginning, middle, and end; Act I, Act II, Act III. Set-Up,Confrontation, Resolution—these parts make up the whole. It is the relationship between these parts that determines the whole.

Plots & Their Importance:

If these parts make up the whole, the screenplay, how do you get from Act I, the Set-Up, to Act II, the Confrontation? And how do you get from Act II to Act III, the Resolution. The answer is to create a Plot Point at the end of both Act I and Act II. A Plot Point is defined as any incident, episode, or event that hooks into the action and spins it around in another direction. Plot Point I moves the action forward into Act II and Plot Point II moves the action into Act III.

Plot Point I occurs at the end of Act I, anywhere from pages 20 to 25 or 30. Plot Point 2occurs to the end of Act II, approximately pages 85 to 90 0r 90 to 95 .
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