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'Hooks' usually appear in a script in the first 10 pages.

A hook is an unexpected event that shatters something: shatters the status quo, shatters a character's dreams, shatters some physical element of the story.

A hook is meant to rivet and engage an audience, so they become interested in 'what happens next'.

Q: What hooks do scriptwriters use?

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