Give them what they want:
The audience subconsciously expects certain things to happen at certain points in a movie. Structure reveals this information so seamlessly they forget it’s coming and are hooked to keep watching more. Without even realizing it, a well-structured movie causes your audience’s emotions to run wild and live vicariously through both your Protagonist and main characters.
2. Screenplay structure is about two things:
Content of your story and the form used to tell your story. Two common ways to describe these two parts of narrative screenplay structure are story and plot.
3. Proper pacing:
When it comes to releasing your story’s information, pacing is critical to keep your audience on the edge of their seats. When you keep the pace fast, the Hollywood executive will be anxious to turn the page to see what happens next. Keeper a reader engaged is critical to selling a screenplay.
4. Scenes:
As you write and eventually edit each scene, be clear on at least one overall goal for that scene. A scene that simply describes its location, or even something about a particular character, yet provides no real information, no decision, no action, no change or forward motion to your overall story is a scene without structure.
5. Outline:
Don’t build before you plan. The details are in your preparation, and for the screenwriter, the prep work is what we call The Outline. Outline first. Write second.
- See more at: http://www.scriptmag.com/screenplay-story-structure/#sthash.iQgDvT3C.dpuf