ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses on the events in a screenplay. Thinking of the screenplay as a series of events helps to give a sense of action to the film story. It enables the writer keep the story moving forward. Choosing specific events helps to make the screenplay more unique. Choosing to use events gives the story shape, ground the audience and help the audience "tell time" in the story. The events one choose makes the telling different from every other writer's story. Going from event to event helps to keep the screen story's motor humming. The chapter suggests to use obstacles and reversals to get from one event to another. Nothing should go smoothly, nothing should be easy. Explore the obstacles that could be inherent in the chosen events. By finding the main events in the film story, one can see how the plot can be quite simple.
