3-Act Structure

Act 1:

EXPOSITION- Consist of scene 1 and 2.

Scene 1- Caden and his mother are in the bedroom having small talk about the impending future. During this scene the viewer begins to see the close relationship that the mother has with her child.

Scene 2- Dominic and Maya are introduced for the first time. This scene sets up who the main characters are and what this animated short will be about. I purposely use Maya as the ice-breaker in the story, because of the Dominic and Caden are out of place and not really bonding as a family. Maya who has no problem with the big move and new family expansion takes advantage of situation and befriends Caden as a brother. During this scene I set up the environment that the characters will spend most of there time and small event instances to push the animation forward.


MAIN CHARACTERS- Caden, Maya, Dominic, Milli


INCITING INCIDENT- Scene 2

The brief flash events that shows that the characters getting to know one another which leads into the end of scene 2 where Caden intentionally leaves his brother behind to go to a party.


PLOT POINT- Scene 3

In the beginning of scene three Caden takes matter into his own hands and asks Dominic to clean up his side of the messy room right away. Doing this created tension and the need to prove the seriousness of Caden's turmoil of having dirty roommate. Caden began kicking things that were not his and Dominic's reaction made the situation worse for Caden.




Act 2: Confrontation

OBSTACLES- Scene 3 and Scene 4

Caden experiences three let downs. The first obstacle was getting Dominic to clean up his mess on ground and instead gets pushed to the ground. He later gets let down again when he tries to get Dominic in trouble for his actions towards him, but is told to help Dominic to clean up. Caden's third obstacle is when he tries to mentally build confidence and enough boldness to actually lay hands on Dominic through anger for payback. However he fails at that as well.

MIDPOINT- Scene 5

Caden and Milli (The Mother) finally catch up on their talk from scene 1 and reveals his problems to his mother.




Act 3: Resolution

CLIMAX- Scene 6

Caden and Dominic are playing hide and seek when Dominic finds Caden playing with Maya's bear during the game. Because of Dominic's jealousy, he begins to take the bear away from Caden possession forcefully. This event results in the bear that was dearest to Maya to rip apart.

DENOUEMENT- Scene 6

Caden and Dominic finally talk about there problems out loud to one another and finally come up with a truce that would be the first step to being more like a family.