Name the Movie
A young woman arrives at a Capitol, gets a makeover, and is presented to an audience before being sent to a deadly competition.
What is The Hunger Games?
Finding Nemo: Nemo is captured by a diver. What does Marlin do next?
What is Goes after him/begins the journey to find Nemo?
A character walks into Starbucks, orders coffee, gets coffee, and leaves.
What is Nah? That's a scene. Not a dramatic sequence.
Get Out
Why spend time showing Chris meeting Rose’s family instead of immediately revealing what’s happening?
What is Establishes relationships, unease, information, suspicion, etc?
What is Cherish studying?
What is Writing for Screen?
A man travels with his girlfriend to meet her family. The weekend starts getting increasingly uncomfortable.
What is Get Out?
Get Out
Chris discovers photos showing Rose with previous Black partners. What Happens next?
What is He tries to leave?
Across several scenes, a detective interviews three suspects while trying to identify who had access to a murder weapon. The final interview reveals a major lie.
What is Sequence?
The Devil Wears Prada
What does the makeover/transformation portion accomplish structurally?
Shows Andy adapting to the world and changing within it.
What genre does Cherish write?
If you get both you get an extra 100.
What is Thriller/Speculative?
A fashion-obsessed woman gets hired by an intimidating magazine editor and realizes she is completely unprepared for the job.
What is The Devil Wears Prada?
The Hunger Games
Katniss volunteers for Prim. What major phase comes next?
What is She leaves District 12 and enters preparation/training for the Games?
Seven scenes occur in seven different locations, but they’re all organized around the protagonist trying to accomplish one immediate objective.
What is Sequence?
Parasite
Why show each Kim family member infiltrating the Park household separately?
Escalates their plan while establishing how the family operates and increasing the deception/stakes.
What is one of Cherish's favorite movies?
What is The Princess Bride/The Matrix/Sinners?
A family takes a job working for a wealthy household one member at a time without revealing they’re related.
What is Parasite?
If a sequence ends with the protagonist discovering that their original plan has failed, what would you generally expect the next sequence to do?
A. Repeat the same plan
B. Introduce a new approach/consequence
C. Resolve the entire movie
D. Introduce unrelated information
What is B. Introduce a new approach/consequence?
Two characters argue in a kitchen for four screenplay pages, and the argument completely changes their relationship.
What is Nah? It may be a major scene but the length alone doesn't make it a sequence.
In The Hunger Games, why does the screenplay spend a sequence showing Katniss and Peeta training and being evaluated before the Games, instead of moving directly from the Reaping to the arena? (Need at least 2 things)
It establishes the competition, introduces Katniss’s opponents, shows how the Capitol turns survival into spectacle, and raises Katniss’s perceived threat level when she earns a high score.
How old is Cherish?
What is 23?
A family goes on a trip across for a big competition. Every stop causes a new problem.
What is Little Miss Sunshine?
In Knives Out, Marta confesses the truth about Harlan’s death to Ransom, believing she accidentally gave Harlan a lethal dose of morphine. What happens next?
Ransom offers to help Marta avoid being caught.
A protagonist spends several scenes preparing to confront their boss: rehearsing what they’ll say, gathering evidence, asking a coworker for advice, and finally entering the boss’s office. The sequence ends BEFORE the confrontation begins.
What is Sequence? The scenes are unified by a dramatic objective.
The Princess Bride:
If we take out the man in black defeating all of Vizzini's henchmen (Sequence 3), what later moment would stop working?
What is Sequence 6 the henchmen bring Westly back to life scene wouldn't make sense we need to see the henchman gain respect for him?
What is Cherish's unpopular opinion about movies?
What is she thinks Toy Story is the worst Pixar series/movie?