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    Screenplay Beat Sheet

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    Matthew Kennedy
    This document outlines a standard beat sheet structure for screenplays, providing 15 typical story beats or plot points and their approximate page or minute placements in a screenplay or film. These beats include an opening image, establishing the theme and protagonist, a catalyst event that kicks off the main conflict, debates and struggles, a midpoint twist or revelation, rising action with antagonists intensifying problems, an all is lost low point, climax, and final resolution.

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    Screenplay Beat Sheet

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    This document outlines a standard beat sheet structure for screenplays, providing 15 typical story beats or plot points and their approximate page or minute placements in a screenplay or film. These beats include an opening image, establishing the theme and protagonist, a catalyst event that kicks off the main conflict, debates and struggles, a midpoint twist or revelation, rising action with antagonists intensifying problems, an all is lost low point, climax, and final resolution.

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    Useful template for story structure in a screenplay.

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    This document outlines a standard beat sheet structure for screenplays, providing 15 typical story beats or plot points and their approximate page or minute placements in a screenplay or film. These beats include an opening image, establishing the theme and protagonist, a catalyst event that kicks off the main conflict, debates and struggles, a midpoint twist or revelation, rising action with antagonists intensifying problems, an all is lost low point, climax, and final resolution.

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    434 views2 pages

    Screenplay Beat Sheet

    Uploaded by

    Matthew Kennedy
    This document outlines a standard beat sheet structure for screenplays, providing 15 typical story beats or plot points and their approximate page or minute placements in a screenplay or film. These beats include an opening image, establishing the theme and protagonist, a catalyst event that kicks off the main conflict, debates and struggles, a midpoint twist or revelation, rising action with antagonists intensifying problems, an all is lost low point, climax, and final resolution.

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    Beat Sheet

    Project Title:
    Genre:
    Date:

    1. Opening Image (1):

    2. Theme State (5):

    3. Set-Up (1-10):

    4. Catalyst (12):

    5. Debate (12-25):

    6. Break into Two (25):

    7. B Story (30):

    8. Fun and Games (30-55):

    9. Midpoint (55):

    10. Bad Guys Close in (55-75):

    11. All is Lost (75):

    12. Dark Knight of the Soul (75-85):

    13. Break Into Three (85):

    14. Finale (85-110):

    15. Final Image (110):

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