Scene Emotional Objective Setting

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Alex Rivera

@alex-rivera

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Define clear emotional objectives for scenes and design elements to achieve them.

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Set the emotional objective for this scene:

Scene Context: {{context}}
Characters: {{characters}}
Plot Function: {{plot_function}}

Emotional Objective Design:

1. TARGET EMOTION
- What should the audience FEEL during this scene?
- Primary emotion:
- Secondary/undertone emotion:

2. EMOTIONAL JOURNEY
- Starting emotional state:
- Midpoint emotional state:
- Ending emotional state:

3. TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE
- Pacing choices (fast/slow)
- Dialogue tone
- Physical staging
- Visual elements
- Sound/music suggestions

4. CHARACTER EMOTIONAL STATES
- What is each character feeling?
- How does that manifest behaviorally?
- How does character emotion affect audience emotion?

5. COMMON PITFALLS
- What would undercut this emotion?
- What tonal missteps to avoid?

6. THE SCENE
- Write the scene achieving the emotional objective
- Note specific choices that serve the target emotion

Details

Category

Creative

Use Cases

emotional scene designaudience manipulationintentional craft

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gpt-4oclaude-sonnet-4-20250514
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