A step outline is the feature film’s (and especially the TV film’s) equivalent of the fact film’s sequence outline. It is, indeed, the sequence outline applied to fiction in a dramatic presentation.
This being the case, life will prove simpler for everyone if, forthwith, you will go back and re-read Chapter 4. The basics are there.
A sequence, as noted in said chapter, is a related series of shots, a filmed unit of thought and/or action.
Where the feature film is concerned, each sequence in effect constitutes a step forward in your story’s development. The step outline’s function is to help you check out, strengthen, and clarify said story by breaking it down into its component episodes. To this end, it reduces each ...
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