ABSTRACT
If it’s true to say that the writer's characters are the heart and soul, and probably the mind, of their screenplay, then their structure is most definitely the skeleton. The writer's main, linear, storyline is the spine and the subplots are the limbs. It is the dramatic blueprint for focusing on and conveying to an audience a complete story told in pictures. There are already several American books on screenwriting which explain the three-act structure, for example, Sid Field’s Screenplay and The Screenwriter’s Workbook; Linda Segar’s Making a Good Script Great. Writers create screenplays to the best of their ability and they honestly believe it works or they wouldn’t do it that way. Structure, however, insists on those bonds and imposes discipline whether the writer like it or not. A screenplay is a story or plot consisting of characters interacting in a series of events or actions which may follow each other or intersect, told in pictures.
