Snatch Movie Beat Sheet

1. Opening Image
	The back of the head of a "mysterious man". (quickly we see Tommy & Turkish sitting in front of this mystery man)
2. Theme Stated
	Franky 4 fingers disguised as a Jewish man robs a Jewish jeweler of a huge diamond.
3. Set-Up
	Franky 4 Fingers is given Boris' number to call when he gets to London. He carries the diamond. Turkish sends Tommy & Gorgeous George to buy a caravan. Tommy carries a gun he got from Boris.
4. Catalyst - Inciting Incident
	Tommy & Turkish fear Brick Top, a boxing promoter who has no trouble killing people.
5. Debate
	Turkish and Tommy have their fighter Gorgeous George in a fight promoted by Brick Top. Boris plans to steal Franky 4 Fingers' diamond, but they can't kill him, need to make sure robbery doesn't point to them. Avi sends Franky 4 Fingers to Doug the Head (a jeweler) to evaluate the diamond. Franky 4 Fingers buys a gun from Boris, who asks Franky to place a bet for him. Franky has a gambling problem. Tommy gets shafted on the caravan by Mickey. Gorgeous George decides to fight Mickey over the caravan.
6. Break into Two
	Mickey injures Gorgeous George.
7. B Story
	Boris hires Sol to rob Franky 4 Fingers at the bookie shop. They have a new dog that they got from Mickey & the gypsies.
8. Fun and Games
	Sol, Vinny and Tyrone prepare to rob the bookies. They accidentally trap Frank 4 Finger's in the van. Botched robbery of bookies, but finally end up kidnapping Franky 4 Fingers. With Gorgeous George hurt, Turkish & Tommy come up with getting Mickey to fight BUT they owe Brick Top in a fixed fight. Avi finds out that Franky 4 Fingers will be gambling & travels from NY to London. Mickey doesn't drop in the 4th round. He knocks out the opponent. Boris kills Franky 4 Fingers & leaves the body at Sol's place, taking the diamond. Brick Top allows Trukish & Tommy to live BUT they have to do another fight where Mickey must drop in the 4th or they all die.
9. Tentpole - Midpoint - Reversal
	Turkish & Tommy must convince Mickey to fight again. They lose a bet & Turkish ends up not only not getting Mickey to fight, but they owe Mickey a caravan. He's getting deeper in debt. Brick Top learns that Sol, Vinny and Tyrone robbed the bookies, The bookies belongs to him.
10. Bad Guys Close In
	Brick Top threatens Sol, Tyrone & Vinnie, who claim they could get a huge diamond. Avi hires Bullet Tooth Tony to find Franky 4 Fingers. Their trail leads to Sol, Vinny & Tyrone , who tell Avi about Boris stealing the diamond. Brick Top kills Mickey's mother & attempts to injury Turkish, who gets away with Tommy's help. Mickey agrees to fight Boris shows up a Doug's place. Avi has Boris in the truck. They steal the diamond from Boris' home.
11. All Is Lost
	Car accident: Boris is free.
12. Dark Night of the Soul
	Sol, Vinny & Tyrone attempt to rob Bullet Tooth Tony, but Tony is too bad ass. They along with Boris find Avi (who has diamond). Bullet Tooth Tony shoots and kills Boris. Sol, Vinny & Tyrone escape with the diamond.
13. Break into Three
	Vinny & sol have the diamond.
14. Finale - Confrontation
	In Sol's pawn shop: Sol, Vinny, Avi, Bullet Tooth Tony and the dog. The dog swallows the diamond and takes off. Avi tries to kill the dog & ends up killing Bullet Tooth Tony, then flies back to NY. Mckey doesn' drop, he knocks another guy out. Brick Top is ready to kill them, BUT Mickey and his boys take out Brick Top. Turkish & Tommy still are broke and have no promoter.
15. Aftermath
	Turkish & Tommy looks for Mickey, but he's gone. They find the dog and take him in order to avoid suspision from the police who are there. They say they are walking the dog. Sol & Vinny are there, see Tommy take the dog, but they have their own problems as they are being arrested by those police officers for having the dead body of Franky 4 Fingers in their trunk, who they were going to dump at Brick Top's after they found the dog/diamond. Turkish & Tommy found the diamond. Back to first scene. They are selling the diamond to Doug The head, who calls AVI, who then gets on the first plane back to London.
16. Final Image
	Avi’s Passport with "the end" stamped across it.

Which Software for NaNoWriMo?

For my screenwriting, I’ve been using Final Draft 8. I also have & used Movie Magic Screenwriter 6.

But formatting a novel is quite different, and Word just doesn’t cut it. It takes too much time to fix the chapter/scene spacings etc. The thing about Chapters (for example) is that I want to shift down the page without hitting the tab button multiple times. I tried creating a chapter element which starts at a certain point (in other words spaces before). But what if I want to put “Part One” just before it? It was becoming cumbersome. And I want my time to be spent getting those 50,000 words down.

So I tried Final Draft 8. It has a novel template, but it doesn’t auto tab. You have to do this manually. Huh? There’s gotta be something better. So I moved on.

Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 does do auto tab. WoooHooo! Their website also had a novel template which auto set my Chapter, Part numbers etc. No need to tab down the page. It already does this when you insert a page break. So far so good!

I researched and found Liquid Story Binder XE. This program seems like it can do so much. It’s very complicated. I went through many tutorials, which can be found on YouTube. For my needs, I just want to start writing, sectioning my chapter & sections in an easy to read linear pattern. But this program seemed to compartmentalize things. You have to open a Chapter (with a box that pops up), then open something else (another pop box). I come from an intense Excel background and like to have things laid out for me. Excel is what I use for my synopsis, loglines, character bios etc… I like how things are right in from of me in a tabular format. No need to search for things.

Regarding Liquid Story Binder XE, maybe there’s an easier way, but I found that things were too hidden. I spent so much time trying to figure things out that I never found a way to set the Chapter/scene spacing that I wanted. So I decided to work on this another time.

On the NaNoWriMo website, there’s a promotion to try Scrivener. They have a Mac version available, but I don’t have Mac. Luckily, they made a beta version for Windows. You can try it till early December for free and post any issues you have. So you become the bug finder. And when they fix the bugs and it’s ready for sale, those who used it for NaNoWriMo get a discount.

So I gave it a shot. I really liked Scrivener because it’s very user friendly with very little learning time. You can just start. I watched their short tutorial and was ready to go. It contains a corkboard, and a place to put your synopsis, which is very easy to view and manipulate. The synopsis viewer is structured very much like Excel, which I love.

But as far as formatting, that will come in the next version. Presently, you can’t double space. Also, it seems you have to tab down the page for your Chapters. So it’s not a program that you can use right now, without having to format somewhere else. But I think it will turn out to be a wonderful program in the future.

Bottom line: for NaNoWriMo, I will be using Movie Magic Screenwriter 6. It practically takes the formatting out of my hands.

Ciao!

NaNoWriMo 2010 Countdown

November is around the corner, which means it’s about that time for National Novel Writing Month – a contest geared to inspire writers to fill up those blank pages with their story.

GOAL: to write 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. You begin on November 1^st and not a moment before.

You don’t win prizes, but you do win by having a one month deadline to motivate you into writing, which I find helpful to beat the sloth monster that frequents my home on a regular basis.

On completion of 50,000 words you receive a badge.

Here is their webpage for more information:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano

This is my first time joining NaNoWriMo, and I’m excited to participate. I’ll be writing a fantasy novel, which will more than likely end up well exceeding the 50,000 word mark. I may not finish it by the end of the month, but I will reach my goal!

Ciao!