“A twist is just telling two stories at the same time, one the audience thinks it’s seeing, and one it’s actually seeing.”

That gun plot twist was crazy!

@meg-k-waldren

5 жыл бұрын

Yeeup

@coloaten6682

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, a great example that all us writers can learn from!

@ants-in-my-eyesjohnson1271

3 жыл бұрын

I assumed that he terribly screwed up the relationship somehow (Like Walter) and was bringing the flowers and chocolate as an apology, but she wasn't having it(Like Skyler).

OMG I LOVED the way he just casually told that story of the man poisoning the chocolate off the top of his head. Would've taken me forever to come up with a twist like that.

1) what does the character Want, & what he wants to avoid? 2) What he knows? What he doesn't know? 3) what the audience know? What the audience doesn't know?

@pvtpike2020

4 жыл бұрын

Wow you just said exactly what the guy said in the video. You should be a screen writer, you're a natural talent.

@demetriusdion286

4 жыл бұрын

@@pvtpike2020 , sometimes people could see better than they could hear. Some of us can comprend with the eyes, and some us with the ears.

@mjolninja9358

4 жыл бұрын

Suhas Naik 1.) the character doesnt want the apple 2.) he knows the apple keeps him away, grandma baked an apple pie 3.) he’s afraid to say no, audience will know he’s a doctor

@TheVeganButcher

2 жыл бұрын

@@pvtpike2020 you're so ungrateful, you must be a writer 🤣🤣

@DairangerSentai7

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I learn better when I see others explain. On 4:30, how many times have you watched this video and how confident do you feel answering this now? What did you learn about these 3 questions?

Paul was a professor of mine in college and his lectures were great! He got mixed reviews on his teaching style but everyone loved him and his class was easy if you just showed up and did the reading. He has a lot of insight to offer as well and I really enjoyed learning from him then and now, through Film Courage.

@filmcourage

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

He needed only nine minutes to sum up the development of a story that could become a two-hour movie or a multiple-season series. That's the kind of advice a screenwriter wants and should not avoid.

When I become successful I will make sure I thank film courage in every acceptance speech You guys are amazing!

@filmcourage

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jason. Keep learning and keep creating!

@DairangerSentai7

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I learn better when I see others explain. On 4:30, how many times have you watched this video and how confident do you feel answering this now? What did you learn about these 3 questions?

Thank you for always popping up on my youtube home with the clues i need to start moving, when i am totally down,sad,blocked. Respect and Love 🖤🎬

Paul is a true master and it comes through in the clarity of his teaching.

This is the third time I've listened to this and I've learned something new every time.

@justincruz5720

3 жыл бұрын

Those experiences are the best kind.

Stories need a lot of twists throughout the script, it's what keeps viewers mentally engaged: the more engaged, the more immersed, the more immersed they are they become emotionally charged, the more emotionally charged, the happier the viewer becomes, falling in love with the story.

Is the main character vulnerable? Are most of my characters relatable? Does the story line up in the way it should? Do the characters need the story or does the story need the characters? There are a lot of questions I ask in terms of my story.

@AltairZielite

4 жыл бұрын

Story & Character co-dependency. Wow. Thank you!

This guy seems a genius! I am not into arts or movies but he makes lot of sense! Fantastic!

I am getting so much help from these videos! And the professors example of a twist gave so much insight to letting the audience to take "wrong" clues

That's what I strive for in my writing: To play the audience, make them expect all the right things, and then either pay them off or add a clever twist they can see coming on a rewatch.

Wow, he's speaking to the congregation! I say the same thing to filmmaker/writer friends all the time about how the audience doesn't need to know every single thing all the time but you as the creator/writer/filmmaker needs to know! Thank you for these videos Film Courage!

You can tell his experience runs deep.

@DairangerSentai7

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I learn better when I see others explain. On 4:30, how many times have you watched this video and how confident do you feel answering this now? What did you learn about these 3 questions?

Nice use of psychology as well as inductive and deductive reasoning examples.

Another great video! The more I watch these, the more I learn about story. Keep it up!

wow this was amazing to listen to.

Great! Thank you. Good timing for me. Those 3 questions are great. The first one we all know. The others one are more fresh.

Another Great Video!!! As a GM, I have to concern myself with how much information I can trust my audience/Players with... SO consistently through-out the telling part, I have to check myself and my notes for how much should I let the Players know, versus what I need to Player-Characters know... Sounds kind of meta? Yep. BUT There's the big difference from an RPG and a Theatrical Storytelling, even the old-school "round the campfire" kind of thing that almost nobody does anymore outside a few festivals or fairs... In Literal Storytelling, you govern what you're explaining to the audience by pacing it out over the show. You're going to end up telling them about everything sooner or later... Usually since they're (really old school) allowed to ask questions along the way, SO you (Storyteller) don't even always know what direction a "show" is going to take from one telling to another... (lolz) In RPG's you have a bit more control, but ONLY if you work just a little in the "meta" sense. Yes, it's often repeated how people (especially GM's) HATE that "meta-gaming" stuff... BUT it's ongoing anyway, exploit it where you can. Lots of stuff works better if the Players know things the Characters won't necessarily be taught "in school" or "by momma"... whatever. Like the origins of their culture. You probably don't really get the whole origins of your culture either, and I sure as hell don't have "the whole story" either... BUT if Players at least get the "radically shortened overview" they can make a little better informed choices about how their Characters would or "should" act in various situations and stresses... The same can be said for any kind of storytelling or construction... What does the audience REALLY KNOW, as in that concrete and tangible sense of "knowing it versus thinking it"... AND what can you actually "get away with"? That's what makes a story interesting. Whatever the Characters want or avoid, or how much trouble they're having getting it or avoiding it... and all is more about making reasonably sensible logic so the whole thing doesn't instantly unravel. ;o)

Great insights in this video. One of my faves, definitely!

Love you film courage

That was informative, relaxed and on point. Thanks.

This is one of your best videos, holy shit thank u FC. I am gonna FINISH this fucking script tonight 🔥🔥

Ok, this is fantastic.

That's very interesting. It's slight of hand and decoy and deception all rolled into one. I like it.

So good! Great insight.

This one blew my mind a little. Love it. Buying the book.

This is an enlightening clip!

Great video and inspiring too! I love the gun/chocolate exemple. Gives me ideas!

GREAT INTERVIEW👍👍👍👍😁😁😁✌✌✌✌

WOW ! Great Info !

Very insightful

Wow! He makes it so simple.

@DairangerSentai7

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I learn better when I see others explain. On 4:30, how many times have you watched this video and how confident do you feel answering this now? What did you learn about these 3 questions?

Film Courage your wonderful output is getting me through these locked down times superbly.

@filmcourage

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kyle. We hope you're well!

@kyletitterton

4 жыл бұрын

@@filmcourage Thank you, you too!

Does the story grab me and keeps me however they accomplish that? Does it have a natural flow? Does it make me want to turn the pages? Your story should stand out in the pile of many many stories let it be either by the story being so different or the traits of the character or their arcs. When writing the story be sure to write all the information and details you have in your head be written down like when writing a train of thoughts because when the audience is watching it they arent already in that space they need all the necessary facts and information to come into the train of thoughts in which you were and the only way of accomplishing that is by putting all the information there in front of them or sometimes doesnt if you wanna be creative. Its never what the story is but how you execute your approach in the best way to tell the story. Creating suspense by with holding some information from the audience or thr character. Most of our experiences in life isn't based on our knowledge but on the deductions me make based on the clues and thats what makes us scared or happy or to expect things, maybe the stuff wont happen but the deduction had some emotional effect on me, so you have a top down processing unlike u see things and then see the results (this is like my consequences before actions technique). In top down you makes deductions by the clues on the basis of previous experiences, so this can be used creatively by showing a result of an action and then later on showing the same result to make anticipation or do a bluff. What if the back of the chair was a dragon? Now that would be a surprise for your normal deductions and make u surprised. You have to understand how the audience responds that is the writers job. They are always looking for clues and they are going to put them together and they are actively involved in constructing the reality. Now u the storyteller by giving them the clues and making them deduce stuff from the clues are making them the smartest person in the world in the words of Frank Daniel. Like Christopher Nolan uses in his films he makes the audiene think they are really smart by watching and deducing because not many people experience that as their lives are dull so you make their lives special by putting them in a really intelect and complex world where they can deduce things by the clues given by you themselves. They are trying to anticipate where you are taking them by figuring out the clues given by you (use this creatively by using 3rd or 4th result). You can create worlds and drive people crazy and manipulate them because throughout the story you are constantly manipulating the audience and facinating is the fact that audience likes to be manipulated subconsciously aslong as they dont know they are being actually manipulated. The gun and the chocolate story, you are telling two stories simultaneously the one which you are telling through actions and dialogues and the other using the clues and where the clues are taking them but in the end using the clues to manipulate the audience and after they have been manipulated they are so surprised and fascinated by the story. Make the audience think that they are smarter than the story teller than again and again pushing them back to their seats.

@nanisarkar8246

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks dude.

@f.j282

3 жыл бұрын

Thx

Wonderful anecdote, i.e. Paul remembered a script he tried to doctor for/at Showtime. Two decades later!

6:30 -- the golden nugget...

@keeperofwhatyouseek

5 жыл бұрын

Channing Parker amennnnn

Wow! This guy is so so cool! 🤩

Good!

Psychologists in california have to take classes to re-certify their license to be therapists and one class just deconstructs the grail myth and whatever movie the phd guy feels like. He did gone with the wind and matrix 2 in the lecture I went to

Questions start at 4:20 😎😎

2:20 So like the book Starship Troopers vs the movie.

I just bought the kindle book the science of screen writing on Amazon

Is there an audio version of both of his books???

The content related to the title begins at 4:20

I think I have his book. Is he the sequence method guy?

OMG how does this not have 100k views?

@DairangerSentai7

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, I learn better when I see others explain. On 4:30, how many times have you watched this video and how confident do you feel answering this now? What did you learn about these 3 questions?

Woow Twist.

The anniversary storyline about the gun and the chocolate is a lesson in screenwriting in itself. BUT , all his books are relatively expensive - why ?

i like this guy - Peanskean Riddler #TheRiddler

My guess for the circa-2003 movie that bombed: Gigli.

Holy f*ck. This is a huge epiphany for me.

very interesting, what was the name of the book?

@filmcourage

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. We have two of Paul's books linked in the information section above.

This is so hard

🙏🙏🙏🙏

I think I know this man I might've watched him in a comedy horror movie

Talk about the potential for cultural brainwashing! And yes that is a double-edged sword. The intention must be clear in the writer's mind and in the production assembly otherwise confusion will ruin the outcome. Secondly, of course, is whether the intention is apparent to the recipients (the audience) and also whether the intention is benign or malicious.

Seems that a good story benefits from a sting in the tail.

can you judge your own script ?

@scottslotterbeck3796

5 жыл бұрын

Of course you can! But more eyes on your writing, the better.

@justincruz5720

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottslotterbeck3796 You can’t have too many cooks in the kitchen, since it might drown out your focus/voice/vision of the script. You also can’t have too many people completely agree with your script to the point where you’re in an echo chamber and you’re only hearing things you want to hear. Interesting balance you gotta keep.

He said books what books?

@jjkhawaiian

5 жыл бұрын

+Cody Eason Check the listing in the description of this video.

Agreed... not just with “movies” but with any project that involves multiple people, personalities... agendas. Ultimately ONE Grey Back needs to take over and we pray that they are Right!

Does each page leave the reader wanting to read the next? Is there a setup and payoff opportunity that I''m missing? How does this scene fit into the storyline? Is the protagonist, or main character, driving this scene?

Interesting how the closed caption won't write the word 'gun'. Just skipped it every time he said it. I guess deaf people don't get to learn about his plot device.

0notnow

un-in-formative (IF you have experience with scripts)

4:25 you're welcome

@yocomet

5 жыл бұрын

@Theresa L. Dowling if you're asking if I am 4 years old, no

The challenge is to have two, three, four... a DOZEN characters EACH following this line of expectation, knowledge or ignorance and have it all coalesce into one consistent story.

@bluerabbit1236

4 жыл бұрын

George Rady You only need this for the lead characters not the entire cast and crew 🙄

@justincruz5720

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds overwhelming.

@TheGeoDaddy

3 жыл бұрын

Tolkien, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky... Shakespeare could do it within thee hours...

Started this segment too early

My guess is he's talking about The Happytime Murders

Seems like an interesting twist, but a weak story tbh

@justincruz5720

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, it seems like he did come up with it on the spot.

@ronaldmayle1823

Жыл бұрын

@@justincruz5720 LOL Sure he did.