Three Act Structure: Review.

Early on in the process we researched the three act structure, which consisted of these rules..

"1. The premise, the story is set

2. This act pushes the narrative forwards and normally ends with a climax

3. A visual montage consisting of noteworthy, strong moments from the movie and emotional scenes, a cast run may be included if the cast is well known enough to drive sales. Often includes powerful music."

Personally I feel we did this well, when watching the film the three act structure is clearly defined, at the start of the film we see the protagonist heading to his mothers, we also see a flashback of him speaking to a lawyer, about his mothers death, with this the story is set.

Next the narrative is driven forwards as the main character explores the house, as he is looking he begins to uncover secrets and things surrounding the Red Room, we get the impression a supernatural force is stalking him, this act ends in a four part climax, the picture discovery, the neck grab scene, the nurses line "There is no escape" echoing continuity again between all aspects of our work and finally the door slam.

After the doors slam, we hear a powerful driving drum song, played over a montage of clips from the film, before having a cast run at the end of the trailer.

All in all I feel we put the three act structure into use. To help reinforce the boundaries between acts we divided them up with inserts.