“Unlock Your Script’s True Potential: 5 Game-Changing Questions You Must Ask Before Taking Notes!”
The audience needs to know early on who they are based on what they need (whether it’s healing, overcoming a flaw, leveling up, or all of the above), what they want/desire in life, what their goal is in the film, and what’s at stake if they don’t get it.
Their goal is essentially the plot of the film, but everything that leads to that choice has to be grounded in character. Every setback that follows has to hit those same emotions in a new and bigger way.
If we don’t know what’s at stake or what makes them tick, you’re going to get a lot of wishy-washy questions and pitches on how to fix it that you’re going to want to push back on. Don’t push back. Hear the ideas, there may be some good ones in there, but remember the “note behind the note” is that they just don’t understand your character.
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