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Matt Holloway
Writer
Films Discussed 1
- · Iron Man (2008) (w)
Draft Zero Episodes 1
DZ-44: Marvel - First Acts and Establishing Characters
How can your first act effectively establish your character journey?
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… →
Listen if your first act exposition feels clunky--the MCU has a schema for burying backstory inside character introductions.
