Story Development Check List


  1. What is the working title of your story?

  2. What is your premise?

  3. What is the emotion and tone of your story?

  4. What is your theme? (meaning of story)

  5. Describe your characters? Include backstory.

  6. What is your setting? What is the year/time/season/etc

  7. Who is the intended audience?

  8. What is the intended lighting style? (e.g. low-key, high-key, high contrast, low contrast, hard/soft, color… see WT - chp 7)

  9. Make a graph of the conflict/tension as a function of time. Does the level of conflict and tension vary over the course of the story?

  10. How might you use music and sound to help tell the story?