Middle, Beginnings and Ends with Steve Coombes

Today we learned about what's needed for middles, beginnings and ends in story writing.
Plot - what happens and how you get to the story
Story - Significance of what happens

Stories need to keep you on the edge of your seat and each line should have you thinking either 'therefore' or 'but' and no 'and thens'.  The story should be a combination of the audience knowing and not knowing. Use dramatic irony, where the words or actions of a character mean something else to the audience.

Beginnings:

Before you can begin you need to know your ending as the ending is the most important part.
Think moments. A good opening is one which grabs the attention straight away and has conflict.

Middle:

The story you think that is being told usually becomes something else. Turns on it axis.

Endings:

The most important part, a goal to which you work towards. This is the biggest but of the story.

Moments:

This is what the audience remembers. Audiences don't tend to notice things such as the plot, story or character. We was told a good film would have about 6 moments at least and that in our script we should count our moments. The ending is our biggest moment.

For my script, I have thought of two moments to use, one at the beginning and one for the ending. My beginning moment is a scene in the car with a friend dancing and singing together, my ending moment is 10 promises given to someone.