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Structure Planning What are the main points needed to tell your story, the skeleton? What scenesare absolutely necessary? Look a ...

There should be no surprises left for the final script! Include the structure, what happens, the major jokes. Show your characte ...

Jade’s skin is turning ninja blue. It looks like Jade will come under the influence of Shendu and end up destroying Jackie, who ...

The plot must be logical. Later developments need a seed planted early in the script. Use unresolved questions and action throu ...

Does everything move the story ahead with nothing extraneous? Is everything clear, specific, concise? Does your writing flow? A ...

The Outline 135 sooner has Jackie grabbed the book than an ARMY OF SHADOWKHAN “melt” out from the darkness and attack! CUT TO MA ...

136 Animation Writing and Development might get one, too. But class-skeptic DREW calls her bluff: there’s NO WAY her “wimpy-dig- ...

them.” Jackie of course answers with a flat “no,” and Jade emerges into the main shop room, grousing. But when she spots that SU ...

blame onto the Shadowkhan; but Shendu crossly reminds them that the Shadowkhan are merely “drones” in Shendu’s command: are they ...

That evening at UNCLE’S SHOP, Jackie studies the Archives with Uncle and Tohru while Jade (who’s doing her homework) goes throug ...

NINJAS start kicking Hak’s butt! The Shadowkhan send a con- fused Hak Foo running, then vanish back into the shadows. A beat lat ...

time for breakfast, a SHADOWKHAN steps out of a mirror and scares the heck out of her. But when the docile (and SILENT) ninja of ...

At SCHOOL, Jade prepares to prove to her classmates once and for all that the “magic ninjas” she’s talked about are “real.” But ...

her Shadowkhan fury on them in a quick ACTION SET PIECE. As the Enforcers get a sound beating and the Shadowkhan retrieve the bo ...

because, like himself, they cannot touch the Pan Ku Box (for that task, he is stuck with the Enforcers). But as for “the girl,” ...

from her arm. Uncle quickly mixes the potion; but when Jackie drags the protesting Jade over to remove the tattoo, she hisses an ...

Jackie (perhaps searching the streets) gets a call from CAPT. BLACK on his cell phone, informing him of developments [Black has ...

realize that the only way to get close to Jade, is under- cover... Meanwhile inside Section 13, we see Capt. Black and the agent ...

to the talismans, but Shendu tells her that he no longer desires them. Jade protectively guards the book: he cannot have THIS, y ...

past all that evil to the goodness that is still in Jade’s heart. Fast as lightning, the Shadowkha+n release Jackie and attack S ...