A Screenplay's First Ten Minutes
Screenplay writers have no longer than 2 hours and 8 minutes, or 128 pages to tell their story.
Within the first 10 minutes of your visual storytelling, the first unit of dramatic action is the set-up, and you must convey three things: who the main character is, what the story is about, and what the dramatic tension is—the circumstances surrounding the action.
G. Mark Sumpter
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I wonder if this applies to sermons.
Does a pastor have 5 minutes to make plain 3 points: the main point of the Scripture text, what virtue (or sin) is in view, and the tension between obedience and disobedience?
Or is this part of the problem with modern preaching? Pastors trying to write mini-screen plays with PowerPoint visuals rather than sermons?
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