3 act story exercise

  1.   Explore genre styles and the structure of short film plots
  2. Assess standard screenwriting and storyboarding formats
  3. Demonstrate a clear understanding of short film concepts
  4. Evaluate relevance of historical and contemporary practices
  5. Document progress with reflective commentaries

Storyboarding requires the artist to create the suggestion of movement through illustration, without creating much motion at all in the work.


Use the 3-act structure to develop an idea based on the following:


Jokes – find a joke or use your favourite (keep it clean)
Flash Fiction – see ‘A Very Short Story’ by Ernest Hemingway or The Story of An Hour by Kate Chopin
Inanimate objects – see Luxo or Fulfilament
Write a piece of dialogue between two characters around an object in a room (a vase, a suitcase or box). The object becomes a real force of significance.  

Story/animation ideas


The characters are guarding a mysterious object that can only be awakened by an ancient phrase lost to the history of man, one guard is upset that to be stuck on guard duty instead of fighting the demon horde the other is a bit of a coward whos content with everyday guard.  The eager guard gets frustrated with the cowardly guards attitude and chastises him for his weakness a fight breaks out between the two causing the cowardly guard to matter out a phrase his grandma taught him causing the ancient weapon to awaken.


The 3 acts of the story

Act 1- The guards begin there day on guard duty, begin conversing with each other

Act 2- The guards start to fight with each other as the conversation turns hostile.

Act 3- The ancient weapon awakens. They stare at each other the brave guard is ecstatic and praises the cowardly guard heavily.

Main protagonist

The main protagonists are the two guards tasked with protecting an object. 


what is the ‘conflict’ that the protagonist must overcome?

The protagonists must overcome their differences and come to terms with the fact that despite there differences that they've managed to unlock the power of a mysterious weapon that not even the greatest scholars could unlock.

how do they change/what is the character’s arc?

The confident guard realizes that the cowardly guard may have some things of value after all.

Watching animation

Oktapodi - 3 act structure
  1. The octopus are happy and then are yonked
  2. The orange octopus frees the pink one, almost getting killed by the man driving the car trying to kill them
  3. The octopus are happy until a seagull comes along and takes the orange octopus then the roles are reverse.
Alma - 3 act structure
  1. Alma discovers a doll that looks exactly like her.
  2. The doll didappers to a higher shelf causing alma to climb for it.
  3. Alma gets sucked into the doll and the cycle repeats over again.

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