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Structure: Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3 is my favorite movie of the year and it will be hard to beat this. Usually when my expectations are high,...

posted on: Jul 6, 2010 | author: Karel Segers

PART 3: THE ID THEORY In an average life, most people have a very constricted time. Rarely is a person satisfied with...

posted on: Feb 8, 2009 | author: Karel Segers

A structural overview of Jaws (Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb, Novel by Peter Benchley 1975) Steven Spielberg first...

posted on: Aug 23, 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

An intensive program for beginners on a budget. description: An initial Story Diagnosis provides the required...

posted on: Mar 19, 2008 | author: Karel Segers

“A strong inciting incident is an event that happens to the protagonist, never an action by the...

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

ACT ONE SEQUENCE A: Ordinary World + Inciting Incident -...

posted on: Nov 4, 2007 | author: Karel Segers

Often when filmmakers use the term ‘omniscient point of view’, I believe what they really mean is:...

posted on: Oct 27, 2007 | author: Karel Segers