SELMA breakdown, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Act I: Sequence 1

It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Why not celebrate this hero and work on your storytelling craft this month—by watching Selma?

We’ve started talking about using Story Patterns (What KIND of Story is It?). In Selma, the filmmakers have chosen the structural form of a War Story and ingeniously use storytelling conventions of great war movies to keep the st…