Chapter 5 · World

The place, the time and the rules your story breathes in.

What will you learn in this chapter?

To stop the world being scenery: how the same want becomes two different films in two different worlds
To find the unwritten rules of the world and put them to work for the drama
To bring a whole world onto the page through a few senses — writing your World Card into the Film Lab

01THE WORLD ISN'T SCENERY15 cards · ~7 min

02RULES AND THE CONTRACT15 cards · ~7 min

03THE SENSORY SIGNATURE15 cards · ~7 min

04THE WORLD CARD (CHAPTER FINALE)17 cards · ~7 min · writing assignment

Step-by-step progress: this chapter opens once Chapter 4 is finished and its Film Lab output is written.