Scene choreography part 2

This is a continuation of the pre-open-mic post on choreography. Last time, I was talking mostly about the macro level – the order things happen in the overall story. This week, I’m going to talk more about the scene level.

Choreographing a scene starts with the things that happen in it. There are two kinds: things that have to happen in this scene, and things that could happen in this scene but that could also go somewhere else or not happen at all. Usually, the writer has one particular thing ...