ABSTRACT

Building story through character is designed to help screenwriters turn simple or intricate ideas into exciting, multidimensional film narratives with fully-realized characters. This chapter presents a three checklists for act one, two, and three covering steps 1-3 of Jule Selbo's unique eleven step story structure, steps 4-9 of the eleven steps, steps 10-11 of the eleven steps respectively. It also provides few reminders in the form of questions and one of them is explained here to get an idea. The main question is whether the screenplay has a point of view, a theme or trying to say something about the human condition or the world. Then the chapter provides suggestions to make the screenplay looks important. Competition in the screenwriting world is fierce. Readers, executives, directors, producers have a wide array of screenplay choices. They will only recommend a few for serious consideration. Screenwriters want their screenplay to get produced; that is their end goal.