Instructions
General
Kapsul is a set of 3 main sections which covers three basic steps in developping the first elements of your ideas. The application follows the concept of 3 acts in which each act has 2 sequences themselves splits in 2 parts or segment each. Each segment represents roughtly 7 minutes of a movie script or 25 pages for a standard book.
Section 1 - Summary
A serie of questions are listed to offer you the possibility to capture the main phases of a story. It is based on fundamentals aspects of the most common story. Options are available to let you enter genre of the story, characterisitc of the main character, location of story, incident, consequence and circumstances of incident, potential solution to solve issue and hero's arc and desire. Each question will be provided with a help box to guide you during this process.
Section 2 - Character
You can add as many as 24 characters for your story, but shoudl limit yourself to the minimum in that stage. Link is provided to get inspiration from real actors name from the imdb list. Enter the charater's role as what place is going to take in your story.example: Police officer, neighbour or fighter trainer, then complete your description in stating the function as Protagonist or antagonist
Section 3 - Outline
In this section each sequence represents roughtly 15minutes of a standard movie or 50 pages of a standard book.
Consider about 8 to 10 plots or points per sequences.
Act 1 introduce your character and the world or environment he lives in. Incident will be introduce in this act to get the hero to new grounds or direction and end of act 1 he should have an plan set up to solve his issue.
Act2 will introduce a plot 2 or parallel story to add new emotional degree, mystery or complexity to hero, but also represent a succession of obstacles. at that point if hero is down or lost is first battle he should be winning at end of Act3
mid of Act contains a so called reversal, a point of no return and revelations that bring the story to new directions.
Act 3 - This is where the final battle take place with last call to action. Climax will occurs at the end of Act3
Preview
This section will list all your entries and enable you to email it as atext file for being reworked in other programs like Word of final draft.
Project
Create new project or rename/copy existing ones. An option gives you the possibility to display tips in the outline section or get a clean sequences without predefined items for help.
