Blake Snyder Beat Sheet
Blake Snyder Beat Sheet
October 19 2012
Mean girls
Opening image: The first image seen is of a girl’s parents telling their daughter goodbye and to have a good first day at school. The girl’s mother is crying because unlike most kids her daughter has never been to a real school. She is sixteen years old and has been homeschooled all her life.
Theme stated: “I had a lot of friends in Africa. But so far, none in Evanston.” This line basically foreshadows how she has no friends at her new school so far… Which tells us she will meet new friends and people and that we’ll just have to wait and find out whom and how it goes.
Setup: In the first ten minutes of the movie we learn that Cady is our main character and she has moved from Africa. Her and her parents have been living in Africa until her mom got offered tenure at Northwestern University and moved from Africa. The daughter almost gets hit by a school bus when crossing the road and it showed how nervous and scared her parents were. Cady is now attending her first school because she used to be homeschooled. She has orange hair, she’s naturally beautiful and she’s smart. Cady meets two new friends called Janis and Damian (too gay to function) who show her around the school and make a seating plan of all the different cliques such as: freshmen, ROTC guys, preps, JV jocks, Asian nerds, cool Asians, varsity jocks, unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wannabe, burnouts, sexually active band geeks, Janice and Damian (a.k.a the greatest people you’ll ever meet) and the “plastics”. You see how the plastics are the three girls Regina George, Karen Smith and Gretchen Wieners, who rule the school; they are teen royalty and are the most popular girls at Rosewood High. We learn from Janice that Regina George is your typical selfish, back-stabbing slut-faced ho-bag; Karen Smith is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet and Gretchen Wieners knows everything
October 19 2012
Mean girls
Opening image: The first image seen is of a girl’s parents telling their daughter goodbye and to have a good first day at school. The girl’s mother is crying because unlike most kids her daughter has never been to a real school. She is sixteen years old and has been homeschooled all her life.
Theme stated: “I had a lot of friends in Africa. But so far, none in Evanston.” This line basically foreshadows how she has no friends at her new school so far… Which tells us she will meet new friends and people and that we’ll just have to wait and find out whom and how it goes.
Setup: In the first ten minutes of the movie we learn that Cady is our main character and she has moved from Africa. Her and her parents have been living in Africa until her mom got offered tenure at Northwestern University and moved from Africa. The daughter almost gets hit by a school bus when crossing the road and it showed how nervous and scared her parents were. Cady is now attending her first school because she used to be homeschooled. She has orange hair, she’s naturally beautiful and she’s smart. Cady meets two new friends called Janis and Damian (too gay to function) who show her around the school and make a seating plan of all the different cliques such as: freshmen, ROTC guys, preps, JV jocks, Asian nerds, cool Asians, varsity jocks, unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wannabe, burnouts, sexually active band geeks, Janice and Damian (a.k.a the greatest people you’ll ever meet) and the “plastics”. You see how the plastics are the three girls Regina George, Karen Smith and Gretchen Wieners, who rule the school; they are teen royalty and are the most popular girls at Rosewood High. We learn from Janice that Regina George is your typical selfish, back-stabbing slut-faced ho-bag; Karen Smith is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet and Gretchen Wieners knows everything