Blog # 8

The benefits for script analysis are most beneficial, I believe, for someone who plans on directing or producing the given script. The aspects that I found most beneficial were McKee's and Weston's methods for script analysis. Weston teaches us about the emotional event of a scene. As a director if you know and believe what the emotional event is then from there you just have to figure out how to achieve that on screen for each scene. I suppose then, it is the "tools" that Weston speaks about that I found most beneficial. It gave me targets and goals for analyzing scripts.
I also believe that reading numerous scripts will give the filmmaker a broader scope of how scripts are written. So when the time comes and you have to read through a pile of scripts, having prepared for the different styles of writing already, you will be ahead of the game.
What I learned the most are the "tools" that Weston writes about on the rehearsal chapter. The Big Fat Fact, Through lines, Beats, Emotional Event, Mysterious Lines, etc, are what will help shape the movies I plan on making in the future and the analysis procedure I will use when breaking down each script.

Questions: Are there other books that have clear and succinct script breakdown methods like McKee and Weston?

2.) If forced to use one analysis method, McKee or Weston, what would you use and why?