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Section Five

Chapter 20
The Signpost As Sequence

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Dramatica for Screenwriters by Armando Saldaña Mora

CHAPTER 20

The Signpost As Sequence

So, do we have enough Events for a two-hour movie?

Dramatica gives us sixteen Signposts, each represented by a clearly defined Type such as "The Past" or "Understanding."  When we illustrate them, we end up with concrete Events like:

OS Signpost 1 - The Past: "There's a local legend about the lodge near the Wilsons' new summer cottage.  Some say it staged a murder-suicide ten years ago; others say that gangsters buried their enemies under its floorboards in the 1970's."

Or...

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