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CHARACTERIZATION
Believable and consistent with human nature?
Protagonist clear and sympathetic or identifiable?
Goals and obstacles?
Growth, arc, journey?
Active or passive?
Complex or cliched?
Actions motivated by events?
Supporting characters help delineate main ones?
Dimensional?
Antagonist evenly matched?
PACING
Exciting opening?
Scenes choppy or smooth?
Episodic?
Transitions?
Momentum?
Suspense?
Ticking Clock?
CRAFT
Set-ups?
Pay-offs?
Devices.
Logic.
Coincidence.
Exposition.
Deus ex machina.
Rear view clues?
THROUGHLINE
Strong narrative drive or meandering?
Motor (Engine, fuel?)
Events organic or arbitrary?
Acts, sequences, scenes, beats.
An MDP Script Analysis includes:
Other elementse examined:
STRUCTURE
Conflict: Clear early?
Build steadily?
Strong enough?
Tension? Jeopardy?
Stake? Dynamic?
THEME/PREMISE
High or low concept?
Clear theme?
Timely?
Familiar? New twist?
Universal/Particular?
Guiding idea.
Theme worked through sub-plots?
Denouement; Tone; Writing; Description; Technicalities; Setting/Production; Values; Millieu; Budget; Marketability; Genre Requirments — and more.
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