Post 4 - Beats

For this post we are asked to look into what is meant by 'Beating', this is an Hollywood term for beating out an idea, it is also like beats to a bar in music. A beat is when something happens.
An demonstration of this is like in the example below, this is a typical structure to a story in the style of beats.

• Beat 1 – Introduce the world the film will be in
• Beat 2 – Introduce the character
• Beat 3 – Introduce the problem
• Beat 4 – How the character chooses to solve the problem
• Beat 5 – The character experiences a major set back
• Beat 6 – The character is almost defeated
• Beat 7 – The character rejects a solution
• Beat 8 – The character discovers a solution

An example of what beats look like is this.

• Beat 1 - A man walks into the elevator
• Beat 2 - A man stands alone in the elevator
• Beat 3 - 3 Large people walk into the elevator
• Beat 4 - 3 more large people walk into the elevator
• Beat 5 - 1 more large person walks into the elevator, the man from the beginning notices the 'maximum weight' sign.
• Beat 6 - The man from the beginning calculates the current maximum weight and realises the weight of the current elevator is over the average.
• Beat 7 - A huge man walks towards the elevator
• Beat 8 - The man from the beginning flees the current elevator
• Beat 9 - The man enters a new 'normal' elevator
• Beat 10 - All of the people in the new elevator are sick and begin to cough, so does the man from the beginning.
• Beat 11 - The man from the beginning realises that the sick people are en route to a Swine Flu examination.