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1. Intro to Act 3: Hi, I'm Jordan Mineola. Are ready with many
produced projects, published works, and I've
sold several screenplays. Every great story has
a three-act structure. And in this course, we'll
dive into harder, right, the third act and
climax of your story. I'll be using examples from critically acclaimed and
commercially successful movies, books, and TV shows. But you can use a
three-act structure for any type of story. If you're writing a screenplay, a book, a play, the graphic novel, a TV script, or a short story. You can use the writing
principles in this course to keep your audience entertained and keep them reading until
the end of your storage. Now, let's break down
how to write act three of your story
and an epic finale.
2. The Comeback: After the all is lost moment, your hero has been beaten down, but they are still alive. And where there's a
will, there's a way. It often helps to think about these pages as the comeback. Give your character hope, and prepare for the finale, your team will assemble
and work together here in the Incredibles bile that helps the family escape
from syndromes layer. And they decide
to fight syndrome together for the first
time as a family. Before this, Mr. Incredible was working
alone and hiding it from his family,
but not anymore. Now, everyone is a part of it. An alien, Ripley decides to
self-destruct this spaceship. There's no way she's letting
the alien get to earth. She'll fly out and escape pod. The alien blow up in the
spaceship behind her. In the matrix. The
comeback is when Neo and Trinity go and
save Morpheus. Sometimes your hero
would join forces with someone else they didn't
get along with before. So they can take
down a common enemy. In warm bodies, the zombies and humans joined forces to
take down the bones. In Independence Day, it looks
like the world is over. The aliens are going
to destroy Earth. But one little comment made
by Jeff Goldblum is father makes Jeff Goldblum think of an idea that could
save the world. In these pages, you wanna give you a small glimpse of hope after they experience
they're all is lost moment in the
Marvelous Mrs. Nasal. Mitch goes back to
the comedy club where husband bombed
hours before, so she can get her Pyrex. When she's there, the
mike becomes open image, drunkenly stumbled into it, and tells the audience
about how her husband packed up her suitcase
and left her. She makes the audience
laugh and wins them over. She's not really
trying to do so. But the manager of
the Club, Suzy, sees that this woman is
something your husband is it. Mitch is naturally funny. After or so-called set. Susie goes from stranger to midges new manager and friend, the only person who will
truly be on midges side. Today, write down all
the preparation steps that your hero is
taking for the finale.
3. The Big Event: The middle of Akt3 is where
you have your big event. This is the section
where your pin, your protagonist and antagonist against each other
for the final fight. Focus on the big event or mission that your
heroes must win. In Happy Gilmore is
the PGA championship. Pretty much in any sports movie. This is the championship or the biggest game the
team has to win. And Wonder Woman, It's Diana versus Aries,
the god of war. The entire movie has led to this epic fight
between good and evil. In whiplash, andrew is determined to prove he
could do the drum solo, and he does that in
front of everyone. In the parks and
recreation episode ending April is fancy party. This is where we see
ending April get married. The big event that the entire episode has been
leading to is the wedding. An alien, Ripley thought she
was safe and the escape pod. But she finds out
the alien is there to blowing up the spaceship,
didn't accomplish anything. Now, she has to get the
alien out of the escape pod. In Independence Day. After our heroes learn how to break the barriers of the UFO, it's an all-out battle between aliens and all of humankind. Even the President of the
United States goes into battle. If you're a big event
has already started, this is where your hero will
fight the best of the best. In the Hunger Games. After row is killed, there's only six
players laughed and they all die one-by-one. The very end, It's
only tetanus and peta. The capital tries to kill them both by changing the rules and releasing large amounts that are created by the capital to
use against the rebels. When cabinets and peta
refused to kill each other. And instead planet
double suicide by eating poisonous berries. This force is the
capital to concede. And they announced
that they have both won the games, right? And brainstorm your big event. And think about some
twists and turns that could occur
during your big event.
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5. Wrap It Up: After your big event and
the big bad is destroyed, it's time to wrap up
all your storylines. If you have any be storylines tried to wrap this up as well. If you're obese story
was a love story, either give your main characters a happy ending or a
not so happy ending. The Marvelous Mrs. Nasal midges, old
life may be over, but who knew life in comedy
is just about to begin. In The Godfather, we see the complete story
arc of Michael. He went from the person who
didn't want to be involved in the family business to now officially becoming
the new Godfather. In psycho, Norman Bates is finally found
out for who he is. And Star Wars, a New Hope. All the main characters
are given metals and the galaxy is safe for now
until The Empire Strikes Back. And often helps
if you're ending, can circle back to your opening. In Happy Gilmore, we started
the grandma's house, and we end at my
grandma's house. The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy started
in Kansas and now she's finally back
home in Kansas. Eight mile starts with the rap battle and ends
with a rap battle. But we see how much
rabbit has changed. In the beginning,
he froze on stage, but in the end, it makes the
other guy freeze on stage. After you write and wrap
up your storylines, it's time to rewrite and then
get your story out there.
6. Act 3 Review and Writing Advice: Here's a quick review
of what to do and act three and some advice that
may help you write more. And act three, you will make a comeback after experiencing
and all is lost moment. This is when they build their team and get ready
for the big event. The big event is the
climax of your story. The most exciting, intense, and important part
of your story. If you don't have a
big event already, think of one and make sure
to add it to your story. After the big event, wrap
up all your storylines, including your a
story and NAB story, sea story, the story, etc. Writing advice. Celebrate
when you finish. Take a few hours to celebrate when you finish
your first draft, maybe you go to dinner or
see a movie you want to see. You might still have a
lot of work ahead of you. But once you get
to the very end, you'll have a better idea
of your whole story. And finishing a first draft
is a huge accomplishment. So many people think of ideas
and never take the action. You took the action. And yes, there may
be work ahead, but there's also
work behind you. So be proud. You did it. Keep the first
draft just for you? Once you get a first draft done, I recommend taking a few days
to a couple of weeks off, but don't take too
much time off, you still want to keep
the momentum going. You might have several ideas
that you want to change. Some scenes that are not good, but you wrote them just to
keep the story moving forward. Rework those scenes before you send another draft
to other people, set a date to get it
out into the world. What's the point of
writing something? It was going to sit on a shelf or stand your computer forever. But if you set a date to
get it out into the world, or at least try to
get it published. This will drive you
to make sure it gets better and better
with every revision. Rewriting tips,
tightened relationships. As you write, you'll
discover more about your characters
and their relationships. After a first draft tightened the
relationships even more. E.g. I. Made to my characters
who were best friends. I made them sisters because
friends come and go. But family is forever define
your characters more. I'm sure you've
discovered a bunch about your characters as
you're writing. So now you can use those details to draw your
characters even more. I've added a character
questionnaire that can help to find your
characters even more. So feel free to fill
this out as you write your first draft or after
you write your first draft, have emotional shifts
in each scene. It often helps to
think about how your heroes can go
through ups and downs. If you're stuck on a scene. Think about how to
start the scene on a positive note for
your hero and ended on a negative note or started on a negative note and
ended on a positive. Makes sure that main
characters have arcs by the end of your story, your hero should not be the same from when your
story started. Make sure they learned
all the lessons they need by the
end of your story. Don't let perfect be
the enemy of the good. Be happy with what you got done. It's easy to
criticize ourselves. When, when would you
have done isn't perfect. But even if you struggled
to write this and you know, there's a lot of
rewriting ahead. You're still a lot farther than when you started
this journey. Get notes and set
more deadlines. Get notes and set
deadlines for those two. After you take a brief time
off, after the first draft, back to work and set
deadlines to send your writing to friends or people who will read your work. Tell them a date as to when
you want to send it out. So you have accountability. Don't wait until the day
after or week after, either. Do it that day. Even if it's at 11:59
P.M. that night. If you say a date, sent
it to them on that date, also, ask for deadlines as
to when you want notes back. I always find out there
without deadlines, things just fall to the wayside. But if you have a hard deadline, people will stick
with their deadlines. Listened to everyone,
but follow your heart. When you ask for notes, you're gonna get a lot of notes. But that doesn't mean people know what they're talking about. They didn't slay away for hours reading your project. You did. So only take notes
that you really love or you truly think will
improve your work. If you're getting the same
note from different people, then definitely take that
note into consideration. But if you apply a note that
you really disagree with, chances are you're
going to regret it later when your
work is published. So stay true to your
writer's heart. Know when the story is cooked. After you do several drafts and you know it's in good shape, let yourself be done with it. We can drive ourselves crazy,
making things perfect. And often perfection is
what prevents us from getting things done or putting
it out into the world. At some point, you
have to embrace the imperfections and let it go. And chances are if your book is getting published or your
film is getting produced, people like editors or producers are going to
change things anyway. But we should embrace
imperfections and really just be proud that
we've finished something. It's out there. I hope all this helped. If you liked this class, please follow me on Skillshare and check out my other classes. You go watch my
courses on act one, act two, by clicking
on my profile. I hope this course helps
written amazing story. I very much appreciate
you watching this course and please show
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Jordan Imiola, Screenwriter
