Screenplay Profile

The Requirement

The Screenplay Profile assignment is a one-page, double-spaced presentation of the story you intend to develop for the rest of this course. You do not need to adhere slavishly to The Hollywood Structure, but where your story allows, let yourself be inspired by the Screenplay Analysis you wrote last week for Film 2(you help me to write the Structural Analysis of Whiplash).

Use half the profile to set up the 10 pages you will submit as your final assignment. Who is your protagonist, and what is his/her weakness and problem? Is there a past event he/she struggles with, and does this express itself through bad behavior?

Then take us through your inciting incident, the first act break, your mid-point and the second act break. Who is the antagonist, and what choice does your protagonist face at the climax in act three? How can we tell in the resolution that he/she has changed?

Feel free to mention other elements crucial to your screenplay, and don’t be afraid if parts of your story feel corny or undeveloped. This is an early version, and you’ll get to rewrite and expand it for a two-page profile in week 5.