Conflict... AM

• Conflict deals with how your characters must react and and act so that they can reach their intended goal

What is a story?

1. Central conflict - Emotional conflict/Physical conflict. Work together to explore character and are 'connected.' Avoiding 'conflict condoms' and other mistakes that drain the life and emotions from your story
2. Character conflict - the three best techniques to make your protagonist three dimensional. Emotional and physical conflict - Why you are your protagonist
3. Bringing your protagonist to life - How your character's jobs, props, clothes, friends, home, traits, slang and car can give the audience important information and bring the characters back to life
4. Conflict and Ideas - How conflict and concept are connected. Brainstorming - Methods for creating original ideas from nothing. Finding the right idea for your script. High concept is MY concept - a story that you will be passionate about that screenwriters will be passionate about
5. Conflict and story - internal and external conflicts and story. Growing story from character or character from story. How story works. The connection between story and character
6. Conflict in theme - Using conflict to explore theme. Theme and nexus, theme and dialogue.
7. Structure and pacing - How the traditional 3 act structure really works - why its been used for over 2, 400 years.
8. Thinking in pictures - film is a visual medium, and we use conflict to 'show' character through actions. Visual characterisation and visual story telling.
9. Conflict and your supporting cast - How each character in your supporting cast helps to explore the central conflict
10. Emotion pictures - A good script emotionally involves the reader. How to involve the the audience by using reverse, suspense, and plot twists.