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    Blake Snyder's beat sheet for screenwriting.

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    Beat Sheet - Save The Cat

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    Blake Snyder's beat sheet for screenwriting.

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    po. SAVE THE CAT ~ bake soyder 1er's pear ir our! 7 looks hike hiss Isn't this pure? And exny? 1 use this simple one-page blank form whenever I have a piteh ‘THE BLAKE SNYDER BEAT SHEET _ meeting. won't let myself go ito that meeting unl I've filed i very pnce and chere are hat many spaces You ean only write PROJECT TITLE, fone, maybe wo sentences explaining what each beat is and that's GENRE: perfect. Like the one-line description of the movie ata whole, 1 DATE Tearned tha cane Bil n he Blank ia one or wo sentences Adon’ have the best ye! Uam just guessing, am weading wate. 1. Opening Image (1) bout to drown. Yet sn unl work onthe form, and ty toil in those blank pace, thit I even Know Ihave a problem! 2. Theme Sated (5) » oe ‘The mumbers in parentheses are the page mambers where the le beats take pice, A seript in terms of page count should be about 4 Carly (9) 14 long at» good jockey weight, H0. Though some deamas run longer the proportions are the same, Cant my net brea mid 45. Debate (ta-25) pins, and All Is Lost moments to hit their marks. And T insist they do. Take «look a Blah Check where, five minutes into the 6. Break into Two (25) movie oughly page 5 of the script, the theme is stated loud and clear: Look at where the midpoint, the Al I Los and break into 7. BStoxy (30): three hit. They're perfect, and stayed that way Irom sript to Serer sereen because Golby and I worked our butte aff to make it 30 5 —— from the first draft ofthat seri to ee la. It worked because Out ‘9: Midpoint (58) structure was sound and we had tried it from every angle to mae sure itwas sounds it defied hove who wanted to overwrite, beenee 10, Bed Guys Close In (65-75): vee had nailed the structure 1, Alls Lose (5) Some ofthese terms maybe unfamiliar to you. What, you may ath, ‘fun and games"? Well that's myname Tort, And not to mor £2, Dark Nigh of the Soul (75-88 e 1y mame 10 more. Dark Night ofthe Soul (75-85) its found in bods dramas and comedies. What is the "Dark Night 1 Break into Three (83): ‘of the Soul"? Agein, another “Fureha” Buta heat you've seen about an 14. Finale (85-110) 5, Pal Hag 0 SAVE THE CAT ~ ite syder ‘The codifing of thete bests is now avaiable ro you anime. The Blake Snyder Best Sheet (The BSa) is hereto help. But before you 0 off hal-baked,oral-baked for tha matter, lt me explain and ffve examples of what I mean by each action of the areenplay a8 ‘uted in thie Form, Do you have «choice im this mater? No, you do not! OPENING IMAGE (2) “The very fest impresion of what a move s — Wt tone, st mood, the ype and scope of the film — are all found in the opening Image. can think of many gest ones: the recess motoreyle ride ‘rough the English countryside leading to the death of Lawrence of Arabia: the gated, looming cate bebind which lurks the myst ous Cen Rane) and even silly ones like the opening image of| Animal Howse ~ who could forget the motto of Faber College ‘Knowledge is good" beneath the statue of the Faber College founder? Don't we know what we're infor with all thre of thee ‘examples? Don't each of these opening images set the tone, type fle, ad stakes ofthe movie asa whole? ‘The opening image i also an opportunity to give ws the starting point of the hero. It give wa moment to 10 before” snapshot ofthe guy or gal or group of people we are about to fallow an thit sdventare wee all going to take. Presumably, if the ereenerieer hss done his job, there wil alt be an "after" snapshot to show how things ie changed. Like many of the beats oa the BS2, the opening image has o matching beats the Final image. These are bookends. And because x good tereenplay ix about chang, these two scenes are a may to abe clear hoo tha hang ke plc your movie, The opening anal ll tage a plus and a minus, showing change vo dramatic it documents the ‘motional uphewal thatthe movie epreients, Often actors wil conly read the firs and last 20 page of script see if that drastic change isin there, and see t's otriguing. you don tahow that change, the seript is often tossed across the room into the Reject” pile So the opening image does ot It sets the tone, mood, and syle ‘of the movie, ad very often introduces the main character and shows us « "before" anapthot of im or her. But monly what t does gets to aerunch down in our sat in the movie theater and sy: "This is gonna be good!” And since you've jus screened ‘doren movies like the one you're about write, you can think of| atleast six that ie standout opening images, All good movies have them, THEME STATED (5) Somewhere in the fist ve minute of well-structured screenplay, someone (usually nat che min cheeses) wll pve «question oF make a statement (usually othe misin characte) that isthe theme ofthe movie, "Re careful what you wish for" this person wll ay oF “Pride goeth before a fll” or "Family is move important than soney.” It won't be this obvious, it wil be conversational at offhand remark that che main character doesn't quite get at the ‘moment — but which will have far-reaching and meaning impact ater. ‘This statement isthe movie's thematic premise mv many ways a good sereenplay isan argument posed by the ‘he proc and cons of living «particular kind of ie, ‘or ping tical nal Im hwior, deen, oF goal worth 14 SAVE THE CAT ~ Bloke snyder “fe wo sth gold makes the ries” Preston's thaad Wa 1s Who is grester in the overall scheme of things — the individual or the group? And the res of the xercenplay is the argument ad ou clther proving or diproving this statement, and looking a, pro {nd com, from every angle. Whether you're writing a comedy. dame, ort ei-Ri monster picture, a good movie hat to be “about something.” And the place to wick what your move x about it Fight up front, Say it Out loud. Right there you don't havea move that’s shout something, you're in trouble. Seve to figure ou what te you'e trying to ay. Maybeyou won't ow until you fist drafts dane. But once you do know, be certain thar the subject i raved right up front — page 5 ir where Talay Thus make sure is hove He a SETUP (1-10) The isto pages of the eip, oF fret dozen pager st most, icaled {he "set-up." you'r lie me, adie most readers in Holywood, this isthe make-or-brek section where you have to grab me o ik losing my intrest. Think of al the good set-ups youve seen in dhe first reel ~ the ft ten minutes — which “sts wp” the hero, the stakes nd gos of the story... and docs so with vigor! ‘The set-up ele the pce where, f you're me the writer, mse sure Ive introduced or hinted at introducing every character in the A sory. Watch any good movie und see, Within the firs 10 minutes you meet or reference them all. Make sure by your page 10 you have done the mame. ‘The firs 10 pages is also where we start to plant every character ‘ie, exhibit every behavior that needs tobe addvessed later on, ‘and show how and why the hero will need to change in onder to win. She's an iolated writer who lve in » make believe world Gromencing the Stone), e's a hip, lick, and sty. forelgn-cur Importer who's a lib she cold (ain Man) she's dite atrhead ‘eho doesnt appear to have much substance (Legally Blond) ‘And when there's something that our hero wants or i lacking, ‘hist the pace to stick the Six Things That Need Fiing. This = my phrase, sr an arbitrary number, that stands fo the laundry Uist you must show — repeat SHOW — the audience of what i missing inthe hero's fe, Like itl ime bombs, these Six Things ‘That Need Fixing, there character ths and flaws, wil be exploded Jater in the script, turned on their heads and cused. They wl become running gigs and call-backs, We, the audience, must now why they're Being called back Look at ig and it primary set-ups “You hve tobe his tall t9 go om thir ide." On the list of Six ‘Things hat Need Fixing there are other needs besides 2 It ergutemets le Kid in Bie 7 pvivaey. ste Mt 40 Art Tw Ie gts al tne things whew be SAVE THE CAT ~ Wate vyder magically turns lg, And those callbacks only work because we fave sce then in the et-up. {Joot, but that's Jot of seu to doin the Bist 0 pages But there itis. Ifyou want to play with the Big boy. these are she tasks you must accomplish (One lst word on the set-up a8 i relates Aet One, Hike 0 think fof movies at divided into three separate worlds. Most people ell ‘hone thee st, I cll em these, antithesis, and synthesis. The fies 10 pages and the ret of Ant One iz the movie's thesis t's these we see the world asi i before dhe adventure stars. Tbs 8 full-Redged documentation of the hero's world labeled “before.” "There in calm before the sort in thir world, and especially in the set-up. If events that follow didnot occa, it woul pretty ‘much stay thi way. But there is sense inthe set-up that a storm's Shout to bit, because for things to say ae dhey aren i deat, “Things must change. ‘CATALYST (12) “The package that arrives in Romancing he Stone which will snd Joan Wilder (Kathleen Tarner) to South America: dhe telephone ell that informs Tom Crue his fther har died in Rein Mon; the din= ner at which Rerse Witherspoon's Baned announces e's dumping her in Legely Blonde thew ae the eatalyt moments telegrams, tng firey catching the wife in bed with another man. news that You have three dayto live, the knockat the door, the messenger. I {he setup you, the srecnwriter, have told ur what the word is ike tnd now in the eatalyw moment you knocks all down. Boor! | ean love the eatalst moment nl rally mist when f don't seit done or dane well Ha ha Like my pet pve the Thek advent Save te Ca sere hI, liek arn hei ‘hat Inge ae whew As ot there. 1 Hike the eat ‘moment beenuse — it's life. Those moments happen to al of And life-changing events often come diqguised ar bad neva. Like many ofthe bests in the BS2, the catalyst not wha cecems, I's the opposite of good news, and yet, bythe time the adventare i cover i's what lead the hero to pines. When I'm weiting a screenplay, my eaalyst moment will flout around forthe fret couple of dra, The wt-up wil be too long, the sory is elogged with deal, and that page #2 eats beat somehow, mysteriously. on page 20. Wel, eu t down and put it here it belong: poge 12. And when you ware trimming all your

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