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Davy and Kristin McGuire

This document outlines a beat sheet template for planning a story or performance. It includes sections for the title, logline describing the protagonist's desire and goal, details about the protagonist, desire, goal, and necessity. The bulk of the template is dedicated to planning the act structure, with each act broken down into sequences and prompts to describe the sequence synopsis, movement quality, visual ideas, and genre. The performance will be composed of 3 acts broken down into sequences, scenes, and shots or beats to visualize the narrative structure.

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Beat Sheet Story/performance title: Log line/ initial idea in 2 sentences: “Someone (protagonist) wants (desire) something (goal) badly (necessity) and is having difficulties getting it.” OR: “Someone badly wants to get away from something but is having difficulties escaping.” Protagonist: Who is the main character and how does he naturally move? Desire: What is he looking for? Which movement quality is he looking for? Goal: What should be the result of his actions? Which movement quality corresponds with his goal? Necessity: Why is it so important that he achieves his goal? Which movement quality corresponds with the reasons?
Act Sequence Title Sequence synopsis Movement quality Visual ideas 1 E X P O S I T I O N 1 (±1min) Inciting incident 2 (±1min) 2 C O N F R O N T A T I O N 3 (±1min) 4 (±1min)
Genre (underline your chosen genre/s): action, adventure, comed, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, sport, thriller, war, western Key words: Your performance will be composed of 3 acts; each act includes 2 - 4 sequences; sequences can be subdivided into scenes or e.g. movement phrases; and scenes are built out of shots (e.g. dance moves if one is thinking visually) or beats (if one is thinking in narrative or musical terms). 5 (±1min) 6 (±1min) 3 R E S O L U T I O N 7 (±1min) 8 (±1min)

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  • 1. Beat Sheet Story/performance title: Log line/ initial idea in 2 sentences: “Someone (protagonist) wants (desire) something (goal) badly (necessity) and is having difficulties getting it.” OR: “Someone badly wants to get away from something but is having difficulties escaping.” Protagonist: Who is the main character and how does he naturally move? Desire: What is he looking for? Which movement quality is he looking for? Goal: What should be the result of his actions? Which movement quality corresponds with his goal? Necessity: Why is it so important that he achieves his goal? Which movement quality corresponds with the reasons?
  • 2. Act Sequence Title Sequence synopsis Movement quality Visual ideas 1 E X P O S I T I O N 1 (±1min) Inciting incident 2 (±1min) 2 C O N F R O N T A T I O N 3 (±1min) 4 (±1min)
  • 3. Genre (underline your chosen genre/s): action, adventure, comed, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, sport, thriller, war, western Key words: Your performance will be composed of 3 acts; each act includes 2 - 4 sequences; sequences can be subdivided into scenes or e.g. movement phrases; and scenes are built out of shots (e.g. dance moves if one is thinking visually) or beats (if one is thinking in narrative or musical terms). 5 (±1min) 6 (±1min) 3 R E S O L U T I O N 7 (±1min) 8 (±1min)