Acts, sequences & episode architecture · Working

Prologue

Also called: opening preface

ELI5

An opening section set before or outside the main story that provides framing or essential context.

“The prologue needs to land without a long explanation.”

An opening section set before or outside the main narrative that provides framing or essential context.

Here “Prologue” means: An opening section set before or outside the main narrative that provides framing or essential context.

Use this when explaining how the story works on the page or across the finished screen experience.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

When the words have to travel

Bring the script, brief or half-formed thought. We help find the shape people need to understand.

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