7 step outline
7-Step Outline
Back to the future I
The Setup
Marty is a 17 year old student who lives in hill valley, California, in 1985. He lives with his mother, father and older brother and sister. His friend is Dr. Emmett Brown who is a scientist and has a girlfriend named Jennifer. Marty has his dreams set on being a musician but is failing to get a record deal. He is also dreaming to own a certain Toyota truck. His teacher Mr stricklen for being late for classes gives Marty a hard time.
Inciting incident
Marty meets up with Dr Brown to test his new invention a time machine. Terrorists interrupted the demonstration where Doctor brown gets shot and Marty travels back in time to the year 1955. Marty is then trapped in the year 1955 and is thought to have no return to his life in the future.
Act 1 Turning Point
In following his younger found father (George), he accidentally interferes with the first meeting between his future parents. Marty meets up with the 1955 version of Doc and enlisted his help.
Mid-Point
Marty’s mission is to try to get his parents (Lorraine and George) to fall in love, or they would never marry and Marty would never have been born. Marty tricks George into asking Lorraine out to the dance, but George fails and Marty is then chased by Biff (a bully), but is outsmarted by Marty into crashing his car.
Act 2 Turning point
Marty sets up a rescue mission for george to save Lorraine from him as he tries to annoy her in the car at the dance. This is interupted by biff taking marty’s place. The band’s lead guitarist hurts his hand and cannot play and Marty runs out of time to travel thrue time and save warn Doc in the future.
Act 3 Turning point
