Here is a tip from a screenplay structure and genre site. (Check out link to see more):
Don't Confuse Genre with Structure
I'll repeat: Genre and structure are not the same thing.
Genre refers to the story elements the audience expects the movie to explore, like romance, danger, humor, horror, war, alien worlds, crime, or technology. The structure of a movie is the arrangement of scenes that reveals character and unfolds action - path of the storytelling.
Don’t let your story genre limit your structural choices. Writers are often led to believe that a romantic comedy unfolds a certain way; and an action picture must unfold another way. These are generational prejudices. Great story structure transcends any trendy genre elements that attempt to stifle it.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
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