Who is the protagonist? Identify their ordinary life.
What does the protagonist want?
Who is the antagonist? What is the inciting incident? What is the turning point/plot point?
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Alma by Rodrigo Blaas
Holy moly: everybody's favourite fear, the creepy doll that steals your soul. Great interior, shadows, and character design. Our protagonist, Alma, a little girl, is skipping along on a wintry day. She sees a doll in a shop window that is dressed just like her. She wants to look at it more closely. Who IS the antagonist? Is it the shop with windows that look like a sneering face from the outside? Is it the doll that keeps magically moving, drawing her further into the shop? The inciting incident is the movement of the doll from the front window to further into the shop. The turning point is when the door swings open to let Alma in.
The Kinematograph by Tomasz Baginsk
The inventor is the protagonist and he spends all of his time perfecting his moving image machine. Here's another film where the antagonist is not an obvious person or thing. Is it the machine, which will not do what he wants? Is it the illness of his wife, which she succumbs to in the end? Or is it time itself which will not allow him to work and have a personal life in equal measures? Actually, I don't know what the hell was going on in this movie. Has the wife been dead for years and he keeps working on the movie camera, watching her films and replaying conversations with her ghost?
Time for a Bugs Bunny cartoon: Hooray for American Clarity!
Bugs Bunny at the Opera by Warner Bros. Cartoons Who is the protagonist? Depending on your point of view, it could be Bugs Bunny OR Elmer Fudd. What does he want? To live another day/kill another wabbit. What is the inciting incident? Elmer's got a gun/Bugs Bunny's got it comin'. What is the turning point/plot point? Elmer chases Bugs into a production of the Barber of Seville and the orchestra begins to play.
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