A guest post by Trevor Mayes of ScriptWrecked.
Hallowed or Hackneyed?
When it comes to mainstream Hollywood story structure, there tends to be two schools of thought.
1) Hallowed — “There is a mystical reason we humans respond to the same basic story told over and over again.”
2) Hackneyed — “Movies have become far too formulaic, with their clichéd heroes journeys and fill-in-the-blanks beat sheets.”
Both are slightly off.
The Simple Truth
It all boils down to presentation and maximum impact.
Whether it’s a movie, 30 second commercial, blog post, or office gossip — an effective storyteller will …

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Solid structure, as we all know, is the foundation of crafting a good screenplay. It is one of a screenplay’s most crucial core components and immediately gives the writer who has mastered it the edge over one that hasn’t. A studio script reader simply won’t read past page 25 unless they have noted a clear set up, catalyst and crisis event that pushes the script into Act Two. At ScriptReaderPro, however, we receive many many scripts …