쉐도잉 연습: Story Structure: Act 2 - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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In Act 1,
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you've established all the information your audience needs to know and given your characters a set of challenges to overcome.
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now begins the journey to achieve their goals.
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Let's take a closer look at our story spine for Act 2.
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In Act 2, our protagonist often encounters a series of progressive complications.
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These obstacles force them to make difficult decisions as one thing
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leads to another in a chain of events we call the journey.
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The choices
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and actions your main character makes as they attempt to overcome these escalating obstacles is the substance of the second act.
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But how do we make sure the journey of Act 2 is more than just a series of events strung together?
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Let's ask our storytellers, my friends, how they think about the elements of Act 2.
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Act 2 is a place where you beat your character up a lot.
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You have to keep making things hard for your character or the story has no conflict.
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And a story with no conflict has no shape, no pacing, no momentum.
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So you just keep throwing harder and harder things their way and they have to learn.
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It's a growth opportunity in figuring out how to overcome these obstacles.
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So Act 2 is where you see the most growth.
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Yeah, it's really where the character, the metamorphosis happens of the character.
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Oftentimes as editors, we encounter Act IIs that have become too long.
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We don't want Act II to go on and on with a chase
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that just goes on and on and on and on and on and on.
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But basically, you need to create
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a series of challenges
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for your character towards that ultimate fork in the road where they have to make a really difficult decision.
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from which there is no return.
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And my favorite example is in Inside Out where Joy has
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been calling all the shots as she did in the control room.
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She's always been the controlling one.
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And she thinks of sadness as nothing but trouble, a burden that she literally has to drag along.
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But when they meet Bing Bong and they need Bing Bong's help, and Bing Bong gets so sad that he can't be helpful because he's sitting down crying candy
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Joy tries to rally him to get going.
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That's her way of solving problems, right? just rally.
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Whereas sadness goes over and sits down next to him and says, "That must have been hard." And she consoles him.
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and the tears stop.
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and then they're able to move on.
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That's a huge turning point for Joy.
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It's the first time she recognizes that sadness has value.
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Act II may also contain the low point, when it seems that all hope is lost.
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Everything's gone wrong and your character may have failed in all attempts to get what they want or
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They may have achieved everything they want, but still be frustrated or miserable, because there's something else they actually need.
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The low point is a point when it seems like everything is lost for your main characters.
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At the end of Act 2 something really, really bad is meant to happen to your character
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to force them to confront the things that they didn't want to confront at the end of Act 1.
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It's why Act 2 exists.
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And it allows them
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to then demonstrate it in Act 3 and sort of show
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that for the audience and for themselves that this change is permanent.
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I think Pete Docter's Up is my favorite movie, and it's because of the way this low point at the end of Act 2 is handled.
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So all through the movie, Carl has had this goal it's a big irrational goal.
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I have to put my house
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on Angel Falls in Venezuela because a long time ago I told my wife we would go live there.
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but when he finally achieves that goal, and he's sitting alone in the house exactly where he told Ellie it would be.
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He realizes it's a hollow victory.
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Yes, he got what he wanted.
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But in the course of Act II, he learned that what he needs is a relationship with Russell. So let's summarize.
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Act II often begins shortly after the inciting incident
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and is followed by a series of obstacles our characters must overcome in pursuit of their goals.
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By the midpoint of Act II, around the middle of the story, there's often a choice from which they can never turn back.
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We sometimes call this the point of no return.
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Act 2 may also contain the low point.
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This is generally where Act 2 ends.
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In the next exercise, you'll have a chance to identify the second act and its elements in your favorite films, as well as start developing a second act for the story you want to create.
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영어 회화 연습을 하다 보면 스토리telling과 관련된 표현도 자연스럽게 익힐 수 있습니다. 이 비디오는 스토리의 액트 2에 대해 깊이 설명하며, 캐릭터의 성장과 갈등의 중요성을 강조합니다. 액트 2는 캐릭터가 점점 어려워지는 장애물을 만나고, 그로 인해 어려운 결정을 내려야 하는 구간으로, 스토리의 momentum을 이끌어내는 핵심 부분입니다.
일상 대화에 유용한 5가지 표현
- Progressive complications: "점진적인 복잡성"으로, 갈등이 점점 심화되는 과정을 나타냅니다. 예: "The project faced progressive complications."
- Escalating obstacles: "점점 커지는 장애물"로, 캐릭터가 극복해야 할 어려움이 커지는 것을 설명할 때 사용합니다.
- Low point: "최저점"으로, 모든 희망이 사라진 순간을 표현합니다. 예: "He reached the low point of his career."
- Turning point: "전환점"으로, 스토리나 상황이 바뀌는 중요한 순간을 말합니다.
- Metamorphosis: "변신, 변화"로, 캐릭터의 본질적인 성장을 나타냅니다.
Shadowing 연습 가이드: 비디오를 활용한 방법
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1. 비디오를 2-3회 듣고 전체 내용을 이해합니다. 액트 2의 주요 요소(갈등, 성장, 전환점 등)를 파악합니다. 2. 짧은 구절로 나누어 반복해서 듣고 따라합니다. "Act 2 is where you see the most growth"와 같은 문장은 강조하는 어조를 따라해 보세요. 3. 캐릭터의 감정 변화를 표현하는 단어들("beat up", "rally", "console")을 중점적으로 연습하여 자연스러운 발음과 억양을 익힙니다. 4. 자신의 언어로 내용을 요약해 보면서, 학습한 표현을 활용합니다. 이렇게 연습하면 영어 회화뿐만 아니라 스토리telling 능력도 향상됩니다.
좋은 shadowing site를 찾아 꾸준히 연습하면, 복잡한 주제도 자연스럽게 표현할 수 있게 됩니다. 비디오의 논리적 흐름을 따라가면서, 영어의 구조와 표현을 동시에 학습해 보세요.
쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법
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