The plot of your screenplay is the series of events that serve as the foundation of your tale and are propelled forward by your protagonist's goals and actions. This article will look at the typical three-act format as well as five story aspects. When thinking about your screenplay, it is helpful to break down each scene into its basic elements - setting, character, emotion - to ensure that you have covered everything necessary for your audience to understand and connect with the story. Acts are generally identified by specific events that happen within the script and which propel the story forward: the first act focuses on introducing the characters and establishing their relationship to one another and to the situation they are in; the second act develops the conflict between these characters as they struggle with what action to take next; and the third act resolves this conflict and returns the characters to their original state or reveals the consequences of their actions. Actors will usually only be involved in a film from start to finish once. Therefore, it is important to keep their involvement as limited as possible while still telling your story. This can be done by splitting up your screenplay into acts which allow for new scenes to be written without having to stop production. Writing multiple short scenes rather than one long one allows actors to develop their characters and the story while not disrupting the flow of the film.