If after reading Jennine Lanouette‘s Save the Baby! On the Benefits of the Three-Act Screenplay Structure you really want to go really deep into the subject, A History of the Three-Act Structure in Screentakes is just your thing. Great stuff. But let me warn you: it does go deep…
Jennine Lanouette writes On Finding New Screenplay Structures for Independent Films in Filmmaker Magazine. A fine text about the freedom that the Three-Act Structure really gives and how to balance and develop Plot, Character and Theme, using all of them as concepts at the same level.
“Poor, poor three-act structure. So much to offer. So misunderstood”. Jennine Lanouette‘s article Save the baby! is a first-class, badly needed statement on screenwriting. It deals with the mental process of writing, the structure as a freeing tool and, the light and dark sides of the Save the Cat and the Hero Journey’s schools of thought. It…
