Day 4: What I learned …?

[Anis Taylor]

I learned a lot today rewriting my scene. Today I was able to create an all hope is lost moment, a rise of the Phoenix moment, a change of power moment, and a set up and payoff moment at the end all with dialogue in one space without having to have any physical action.

[Rice Rice]

Viewing the 3rd Act Climax of A Few Good Men helped me see the value of putting the protagonist in a land-mine type situation, one fraught with grave, life-altering danger, if the protagonist is successful or fails as the ultimate conflict unfolds.

[Courtney Hill]

I feel like I say this in all my posts, but I learned to keep dialogue to the minimal. It would be easy to have cheesy or cliche dialogue in the climax. The action of the climax is what is important. The scene is its own story. it shows what the character’s have learned, and apply their new skills or knowledge. They are challenged by the antagonist, and hopefully beat them. They can’t win the same way they would’ve won in the beginning.

[Anna Burroughs-Merrill]

What I learned rewriting my scene?

At this point, my “rewrite” is more scribbled notes and drabbles in the existing script, as this is the climax of a 5-season television series, not just a 2 hour movie, and I keep “discovering” loose ends that need to be paid off. But I’ve added a bit of back-and-forth in the dialogue, and also a moment where the hero reflects on the consequences of unleashing his dark gift.

[Renee Miller]

I learned that when you have a 3rd act climax without a lot of action, you can elevate it through the dialog.

[Susan Willard]

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What I learned, from the Third Act Climax of A Few Good Men, is that the story depends upon the closely intertwined action/dialogue interplay. Only then is the progression of the story entertaining and mesmerizing.

Both action and dialogue, when varied appropriately, often in opposite manners are powerful, leaving emotional and thought-provoking moments.

The action and reaction moments are story driven, but character enhanced.

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[Zev Ledman]

It’s critical that the audience be totally engaged in every scene, but especially in the climax. That’s where we need as many Interest Techniques incorporated into the science as possible. I rewrote my low of lows to do just that. Then, in the buildup to the climax, I added some additional Interest Techniques to make that scene more entertaining.