Hey, welcome back, we're going to be talking about endings. Either you remember, a movie from having a good ending or a bad end. A forgettable ending in a way is worse than a bad one. If I forget how a movie ended, I might as well never have seen. Of course, we have seen films that started well, that had disappointing endings, you start to think, Why can the writer figure out the ending? endings can be a source of a lot of anxiety for writers.

Many novelists plug away writing hundreds of pages before knowing what the ending will look like. Well as a screenwriter, you're not going to have that luxury. You're going to have to have some idea of the ending before you start writing the first draft. Creating the ending early allows you to have an ending that you can tweak. Figuring out the ending of your script is important not only to reward the audience for their effort to engage with your characters, it is also important as a story retro engineering tool. This allows you to figure out what needs to happen backwards and the timeframe of your script.

That way the actions of your characters will make sense and be logical and justifiable. Now the ultimate aim of most endings is to wrap up all the struggles of your characters and show how they win at the end. It's also to emphasize the theme of your story. I say most endings because there are types of stories that are not just about heroic triumph, but also about heroic failures. There are also unhurt failures and unheroic triumphs. Let's take a look at some common types event.

Okay, the most common one is the crowd. This is a heroic trial, the audience likes or respects the protagonist. And the protagonist wins in the end. The audience takeaway is, as I want to be like that. The other type of ending is the Don't do this. This is the unheroic failure.

The audience dislikes the protagonist loses in the end, and the audience takeaway is I don't want to be like that. The other type of ending is, what's wrong with people? This is a heroic failure. The audience likes or respects the protagonist loses in the end, and the audience feels, what sucks. What's wrong with people on society. The other type of ending is, what's wrong with the world?

This is an unheroic try. The audience this likes to protectionist winds up winning, the audience feels I got to rethink what I believe about my society people. The other type of ending could be labeled as the vague and one in which the audience is left hanging and wondering what happens after the film has ended. The audience gets to stay engaged. After the ending, they will try to come up with their own conclusions. Now the vague ending is tricky to pull off because they can irritate the audience, leaving them feeling manipulated and cheap.

They will not stay engaged after the movie is over. When you work with your ideas and construct a story, think of what type of ending you want. Knowing what type of point you're trying to make can help you narrow down the type of ending that fits. Make sure the ending wraps up the story so that all the characters actions will have been logical, justifiable, surprising, and effect. A lot of endings are weak because the writer didn't have a firm idea what all the drama and adventuring was all about. That's why having the predicament in the solution part of the story is important and creates the plan the obstacles and sticks.

A very important part of making a story is making sure that there are consequences to your characters actions. These can be considered as the stakes. Those are the things that will happen if your characters don't get what they need and don't get what they want. It's what will happen if they don't make changes, and actually step up and do what needs to get done in order to overcome the obstacles. A lot of films, you see that they're not very effective. Engaging because the stakes aren't high enough.

Now you have to be careful not making mistakes too high. Because then it could be unbelievable. It's almost like it's gonna be too much to expect from the characters to overcome their obstacles and avoid those stakes. So it's a fine balance of basically creating something that's believable and justifiable. And something that's going to keep the audience engaged in watching the characters go through their struggles. So that basically wraps it up for ending, and we're going to look at getting ideas of writing the script