This document provides an overview of a proposed media project titled "Thinking of You" including: 1) A synopsis that establishes the main character as a 20-year old woman in 1928 England struggling as a single mother after losing her husband. 2) Details of the three-act story structure outlining the set-up, confrontation/development, and resolution phases of the narrative. 3) Key details about the main character's wants, needs, and opposition that will drive the story's conflict. 4) A description of a climactic emotional breakdown for the main character and the resolution where she finds acceptance by letting her daughter say goodbye to her deceased father.

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Story synopsis
A sequencing of events in story order
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Three Act Structure
BEGINNING
The “Set-up”...
...in which the characters, the dramatic premise, the situation and the relationship between the
protagonist and other people who inhabit the landscape of his/her world are all established.
Thinking Of You
Genre: Social Realism/ Period Drama
Setting (Time & Place): Winchelsea Beach, Rye, December 1928
Main Character: Mary, 20 years old; has a young child, 6
A young woman awakes from a nightmare. She is alone in her room. Sitting down at the
dressing table she starts to get herself ready for the day ahead.
Three Act Structure
MIDDLE
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The “Confrontation/Development”...
...in which the protagonist encounters obstacles that keep him from achieving his dramatic need.
Want: Her husband
Need: To say goodbye and move on
Obligation: To create a stable life for her and her daughter
Opposition: She loves him and can’t let him go. There is no one to supply the money
anymore, they’re struggling financially, etc
Catalyst for change: The social worker
Ruth is making a cake for her father’s birthday but as a result has made the kitchen into a
huge mess. Annoyed because Mary knows she has a guest arriving soon, she stops Ruth and
begins to clean up. Ruth then starts getting out her crafts and again making a mess, so Mary
snaps at her. Upset Ruth runs off and Mary is left to clean up another set of mess with a guilty
conscience.
Later that day the social worker arrives and makes sure that Mary is coping ago after her
tragic loss. Consequently, Mary has an emotional breakdown.
Three Act Structure
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END
The “Resolution”...
...in which the conflict is resolved and obstacle(s) surmounted.
Climax: The emotional breakdown
Resolution: Letting Ruth send him her ‘message in a bottle’ birthday card.
Audience Reaction/ theme: Grief/acceptance
Mary and Ruth walk down towards the sea. Ruth has made a birthday card for him and puts
into a bottle which is then dropped into the waves.
Upon there departure Mary leaves flowers by the Lifeboat house and a note that reads
“Thinking of You”.
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