The Writing Secret That Can Make Your Story Come Alive! - Shannan E. Johnson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2020
- In this Film Courage video interview, Shannan E. Johnson on What Writers Need To Know About Raising The Stakes.
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Raising stakes can only begin with a solid foundation. Make the viewer care first!
Takes a lot of effort, and you can lose it in an instance ...
Such good advice. You need to get the audience invested in this character and her goal. Mom's going to die unless she wins that competition, now that's intense. We like her before, but seeing her care for her sick mom, wow. SHE MUST WIN! We want her to win! Put a few obstacles in the way. Maybe the guy who plays the piano for her, the guy she leans on, gets in a car wreck and broke his arm. Now, she's all alone on stage. She was worried and nervous before. Now she's terrified.
Make it personal to the character. Don't just say that, "the world is in danger and we have to save it". Make us, viewer care why the characters want to save the world. The good example for me is Madoka Magica, an anime tv series.
Omg her example was awesome
Just found this channel a couple days ago and have really enjoyed Shannan's videos. Really appreciate how she talks about not just the craft of screenwriting but the business of it in a matter--of-fact way, always with the caveat of hey things may happen differently but this is generally how things go.
Welcome to the channel. Great to see you finding value here.
Shannan is always so wise. Thanks for another great video! :)
add points of no return.
also, coincidence is good for problems, but not solving them.
This is not raising the stake! This is adding a new one, which by the way comes in conflict with the first one: how will the character pay for both the dorm and the medication if he wins the competition?
A way to raise the stake would be if his mother has been kicked out of her place by her drunken boyfriend and she now needs to stay at his dorm for a while (which brings a lot of new problems with it). Now, he couldn’t possibly lose the room or they‘d both end up on the street... and since she has a severe case of pneumonia, well she wouldn‘t survive a night outside.
You see what I mean?
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE with your criticism. I was thinking the exact same thing. Her example would pivot the movie into a completely different story. The character's goal is to get the dorm room, the competition is just the way to achieve that goal. Now her goal has completely changed.
I'm thinking of 'Detroit Rock City' right now: when the kids finally get to Detroit, we believe they made it and now they just have to retrieve their tickets. Wrong. we're halfway through the story and with a new threshold comes a new raise of the stakes: they never won any tickets in the first place (it is the revealed that one of the kids had made a fatal mistake early in the film), so now they have only a few hours to get the tickets some other way.
Great advice. Thank you.
Great vid. Been binging Star Trek Voyager lately. They raise stakes and ticking clocks differently each episode really well. Strong recommend for writers.
Excellent Advice!
Very well explained.
Awesome video
Move that makes me think of raising the stakes? Stripes. Not sure what that says about me, but I stand by it.
Great.
Ha, 1,000 dollars for a dorm. What a dream.
$1,000 a month...
@@scottslotterbeck3796 Nice so she's only going to go study for a month
@@gloomsdoom649 Ha ha ha. Maybe she's so smart she graduates college in a month.
Maybe it was decades ago and the speaker hasn't gone to college since then and that's how she remembers it
@@hufficag Maybe
I want to watch that movie now 😂
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Thank you. Now I see why rasing stakes in "Space Jam 2" is so weak