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3-Act Structure Class
I'm teaching a class for the screenwriting program at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (University of the Sacred Heart) Thursday evenings on the use of the 3-act structure.
The heart of what we do is read scripts, if available, and view -- on DVD -- the movies made from them, then try to correctly identify the major plot points and figure out whether they work or not and why.
So far this trimester, we've done Ruido (Noise), a newly-released Puerto Rican film that won awards at a couple of film festivals late last year, along with Thelma and Louise, Shakespeare in Love, and The Sixth Sense.
This is evaluation night for me, which means the director of the screenwriting program and a couple of other professors sit in on the class and fill out a questionnaire grading me as a teacher.
Tonight we're doing The Matrix.
Next week: The Devil Wears Prada.
Possibles after that: Crash, Capote, and Amelie.
The heart of what we do is read scripts, if available, and view -- on DVD -- the movies made from them, then try to correctly identify the major plot points and figure out whether they work or not and why.
So far this trimester, we've done Ruido (Noise), a newly-released Puerto Rican film that won awards at a couple of film festivals late last year, along with Thelma and Louise, Shakespeare in Love, and The Sixth Sense.
This is evaluation night for me, which means the director of the screenwriting program and a couple of other professors sit in on the class and fill out a questionnaire grading me as a teacher.
Tonight we're doing The Matrix.
Next week: The Devil Wears Prada.
Possibles after that: Crash, Capote, and Amelie.