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Draft Zero Ep44 - First Acts and Establishing Characters

How can your first act effectively establish your character journey?

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First Acts are hard. They have to set so much in motion, especially setting up characters. To help them understand how to write effective first acts better, Stu and Chas turn their analytical gaze to a franchise that has been refining and reiterating its first act “schema” for over a decade… THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE.

Even if you don’t care for MCU films, there is plenty to learn from how they approach their first acts.

Iron Man: overcast.fm/+BvXlTciWg/00:07:42
Guardians of the Galaxy: overcast.fm/+BvXlTciWg/00:39:08
Doctor Strange: overcast.fm/+BvXlTciWg/01:18:13

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  • Iron Man
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Doctor Strange