Ordinary World | The Story Department | Tips & tools for screenwriters, filmmakers & storytellers

Inciting Incident: Planting the Bomb

Keeping the audience interested throughout the ’setup’ is a major challenge as professional readers...

posted on: Apr 14, 2008 | author: Karel Segers

A structural overview of Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) in 8 Sequences. When I watched the film during its...

posted on: Mar 25, 2008 | author: Karel Segers

If you want to be a professional screenwriter, be open to spoilers. Furthermore, be open to the weaknesses in your...

posted on: Mar 5, 2008 | author: Karel Segers

Inciting Incident, Catalyst, Call to Adventure, Disturbance. All terms referring to the first crucial moment: the...

posted on: Feb 7, 2008 | author: Karel Segers

The first guy to write down that a story needs a beginning, middle and end, was Aristotle. About twenty-four...

posted on: Feb 6, 2008 | author: Karel Segers