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    Writing TV Drama Course Outline

    7 Basic Structure Steps Beneath All Stories

    The All-Important Premise of the Show

    How to Analyze A Show and Write Your Spec Script

    TV Drama Story Structure Beats

    TV Drama Genre Beats

    How to Create Your Own TV Drama

    For structure breakdowns of television and film,

    www.truby.com
    Breaking Bad 2–13 Scene List

    -previously, bear in the water and bodies

    eyeball in drain, bear

    titles

    -Jesse tries desperately to bring Jane back to life

    -Walt gets the call from Jesse

    -Mike cleans up the scene, tells Jesse what to say

    -Jr. shows Walt and Skylar all the people on the net who have given
    money for Walt’s cure that Jr. set up for him

    -Jane’s dad, Don, calls Jane to tell her to be ready to go to rehab, he sees
    paramedics unloading stretcher

    commercial

    -Don sees his daughter bagged

    -Jesse questioned as Don is there; Don sees daughter’s Apology Girl


    drawing

    -Walt calls from the bathroom while Skylar and Jr. watch money raised on
    the web

    -Hank sends around donation jar for Walt at the DEA office; shows a dead
    low life who was dealing the blue meth; thinks Heisenberg is still out
    there

    -Jr. and Skylar celebrate another donation at dinner; Walt calls Saul for an
    address

    -Walt checks out a run down drug house littered with druggies; Jesse is
    passed out; Jesse cries; “I killed her. I loved her.”

    commercial

    -Don sees Jane’s beautiful drawings, pulls out blue dress for her to be
    buried in, cut to Walt’s baby
    -Walt asks Jr. to turn the dinger off; Skylar says Jr. is going to be
    interviewed for the paper

    -Hank’s boss introduces him to businessmen, including Gus Fring; Gus


    donates to Walt’s fund

    -Jesse, in rehab, learns from Walt that Walt is having his operation soon
    and Saul has Jesse’s money

    -Walt walks in to find a TV crew

    -Jr. says Walt is a great father, teacher, is decent, does the right thing,
    my hero

    -pre-op hugs; when Walt is drugged, Skylar asks about his cell phone
    and he says which one; Skylar shocked

    commercial

    -operation

    -doctor says Walt should be optimistic

    -Don returns to work, gets condolences

    -Don in control tower

    -Skylar wants Walt out of the house; calls him a liar, two cell phones, his
    disappearances; says money didn’t come from Gretchen and Elliot, over
    $100,000; she leaves

    -Don at work having trouble

    -Walt, alone by the pool, sees an explosion in the sky, teddy bear falls
    into the pool
    ER "The Dance We Do"

    7 Step Breakdown of a 5-Strand Story

    A= Abby - visited by her mother who is bipolar


    B= Elizabeth - being deposed for negligence in an operation
    C= Peter - encounters his nephew’s girlfriend who was beaten
    D= Mark - has been hiding the cause of his headaches
    E= Carter - is on probation for a drug problem

    Teaser

    A Problem-Weakness -

    • Mom finds Abby counting Mom's pills; Abby wants to give her a
    blood test

    Titles

    B Problem

    • Mark assures girlfriend Dr. Elizabeth Corday her deposition will


    go fine

    C Problem

    • Peter deals with nephew’s girlfriend who is beaten

    D Problem-Revelation

    • Dr. says Greene has an inoperable tumor

    Commercial

    B Opponent
    • Elizabeth was upset when she operated on lawyer's client

    D + E Opponents

    D + E Lines combine personal stories – opposition between


    doctors

    • Greene says Carter hasn't been taking his medicine and Greene
    collapses

    Commercial

    A Battle

    • Mom attacks Abby and runs

    Commercial

    B Battle

    • Elizabeth tells lawyer she did a full inspection

    A Self-Revelation

    E + A combine personal stories; one drug addict learns about


    another

    • Carter tells Abby her mom took off; Abby says it’s the "dance we
    do"

    B Self-Revelation + Revelation

    • Elizabeth admits she lied. Greene explains the headaches

    A Old Equilibrium

    • Abby gets up from bed, turns on the tub and cries

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