A Tip from Our Screenwriting Workshops: Avoid “Blurry Beats”
Are your beats too soft to see?
Save the Cat!® Podcast: How to Make Your Midpoint Masterful
What’s the right halfway point for your story? What is the signal that the Fun and Games are over?
Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Power of Value-Added Tension
Discover a way to raise the stakes for your hero.
Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Theme Stated Beat of Little Miss Sunshine
How characters can resonate.
Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Bad Guys Close In Beat of Nebraska
How set-ups can really pay off.
Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Opening and Final Image Beats of Dallas Buyers Club
If the Opening and Final Images show the true transformation of a hero, the story will really resonate. A powerful example comes from Jean-Marc Vallée’s fact-based drama, Dallas Buyers Club, and the changes we see in Ron Woodroof as played by Oscar®-winning Best Actor Matthew McConaughey….
Save the Cat!® Podcast: What Is the Genre of Captain America: The Winter Soldier?
Can a Superhero be in a Whydunit… and if so, why? That’s the question Master Cat! Jose Silerio tackles in this podcast that considers what makes this big box-office hit resonate. Listen to Jose and Guy Thompson talk about Blake Snyder’s genres and this Marvel-ous…
Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Opening and Final Image Beats of Frozen
Master Cat! Jose Silerio shows how the Opening and Final Images in this year’s Best Animated Picture Oscar® winner do exactly what they should, contrasting the world at the beginning of the story with the world at the end, and emphasizing the transformation of the…
Save the Cat!® Podcast: The Debate Beat in 12 Years a Slave
Master Cat! Jose Silerio shows how the Debate beat in this year’s Best Picture Oscar® winner does exactly what it should, setting up the Theme Stated and telling the audience what this story is about: how Solomon Northrup will live… and not just merely survive. Listen…
