4.7 - Objectives & Beats

Warm Up (10 min)

POTD
QOTD:
Using the following passage, identify the objective and beats on your objectives and beats sheet:

Mel comes to school early to find the classroom door locked and her teacher is nowhere to be found. She takes a seat in front of the class and takes out her binder. Thumbing through the pages she carefully brings a number of pages to the front of her binder and labels them with brightly colored post-its. She looks up and sees her teacher approaching her. Immediately rising to her feet, Mel greets the teacher and the teacher responds with a nod. Mel hands the teacher the binder and points out a couple of key pages and notes. The teacher nods in approval. The teacher reaches into her pocket and produces a stamp which she promptly uses on the students binder. Mel thanks her and scurries down the hall.

END

Identify Objectives & Beats (30min)
It’s possible that in your one minute short film, you will only have one objective (e.g. get the grade changed, return to normal size, cross the street). How many beats will it take to get your main character to achieve the objective?

With your group of three, identify and extract the objective and beats from your story. Change and details of your story if necessary.