9 days to go and we are ready for the next step. You have to do is find what type of movie you are writing. We are not talking action, thriller, epic drama or anything like that. There are ten categories that a story belongs too. And they are:
Monster in the house: There is a "house" and there is a monster.
Golden Fleece: Any "heist movie" rode movie.
Out of the bottle: any movie that start "I wish.." and the wish come true.
Dude with a problem: A ordinary guy or gal get into deep trouble.
Rites of passages: Every change of life story.
Buddy love: Any buddy move, and also any love story.Whydunit: It is the why that is interesting, not the who.
The fool triumphant: the main character is considered to be a fool, but triumphs in the end.
Institutionalized: Family sagas and movies about a group.
Superhero: Stories about anyone with some special powers, they don't have to be the good guys.
I am not going to discuss every type of move. There are book for that, and this list and in fact any theory that I clamed to know anything about is all Blake Snyder's doing. He wrote a wonderful book called “Save the cat”. Get it, read it.
So what category does my story belong to? I could go several ways with my premise, but “dude with a problem” is what sounds closes to what I want to do.
This category is simple: you have an ordinary person that finds him or her self in big big trouble. And the trouble has to be primal. It has to be big, and it has to seem impossible to conquer.
My hero gets into deep trouble as he tries to solve a case with a crime boss that he knows is dirty. He just can’t prove it. Then he gets into more trouble by blowing it at work and gets thrown of the case. All seems dark, but are we true tormenting this guy? No! Then he figures out that his wife, that he though was little miss-stay-at-home-perfect, really is a CIA agent and she is heading the case. A tough blow for our male chauvinistic hero. So now he risking his work, his marriage and since I plan to make the crime boss really mean, he is risking his life as well. He got a problem, a big problem.
Monster in the house: There is a "house" and there is a monster.
Golden Fleece: Any "heist movie" rode movie.
Out of the bottle: any movie that start "I wish.." and the wish come true.
Dude with a problem: A ordinary guy or gal get into deep trouble.
Rites of passages: Every change of life story.
Buddy love: Any buddy move, and also any love story.Whydunit: It is the why that is interesting, not the who.
The fool triumphant: the main character is considered to be a fool, but triumphs in the end.
Institutionalized: Family sagas and movies about a group.
Superhero: Stories about anyone with some special powers, they don't have to be the good guys.
I am not going to discuss every type of move. There are book for that, and this list and in fact any theory that I clamed to know anything about is all Blake Snyder's doing. He wrote a wonderful book called “Save the cat”. Get it, read it.
So what category does my story belong to? I could go several ways with my premise, but “dude with a problem” is what sounds closes to what I want to do.
This category is simple: you have an ordinary person that finds him or her self in big big trouble. And the trouble has to be primal. It has to be big, and it has to seem impossible to conquer.
My hero gets into deep trouble as he tries to solve a case with a crime boss that he knows is dirty. He just can’t prove it. Then he gets into more trouble by blowing it at work and gets thrown of the case. All seems dark, but are we true tormenting this guy? No! Then he figures out that his wife, that he though was little miss-stay-at-home-perfect, really is a CIA agent and she is heading the case. A tough blow for our male chauvinistic hero. So now he risking his work, his marriage and since I plan to make the crime boss really mean, he is risking his life as well. He got a problem, a big problem.
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