{"id":7586,"date":"2014-10-14T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obrown.ca\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2016-02-01T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T21:37:35","slug":"what-is-a-testing-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/what-is-a-testing-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a Testing Plot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xTlL_2GS2Nk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn this two-part Q&amp;A, Robert McKee discusses the inciting incident and struggle of this somewhat rare story.\u00a0In <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xTlL_2GS2Nk\">Part 1<\/a> McKee explains the nature of a testing plot.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re considering using a testing plot, recall that these can often be mixed with other plots, as in the examples McKee\u00a0provides in <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/f3RWk472wBo\">Part 2.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='one_half'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4>Quote of the Week<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the old times, character and dialogue were essential tools in the film-maker&#8217;s kit.\u00a0Now they are the last things they consider after special effects and car chases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Richard Dreyfuss<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='one_half et_column_last'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class='clear'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this two-part Q&amp;A, Robert McKee discusses the inciting incident and struggle of this somewhat rare story.\u00a0In Part 1 McKee explains the nature of a testing plot. &nbsp; If you&#8217;re considering using a testing plot, recall that these can often be mixed with other plots, as in the examples McKee\u00a0provides in Part 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}