《STORY》要点.pptxVIP

《STORY》要点Part 1: the writer and the art of story1.The story problemPart 2: the elements of story2.The structure spectrumThe structure spectrumStructure is a selection of events from character’s life stories that is composed into a strategic sequence to arouse specific emotions and to express a specific view of life.A story event creates meaningful change in the life situation of a character that is expressed and experience in terms of a value and achieved through conflict.A scene is an action through conflict in more or less continuous time and space that turns the value-charged condition of a character’s life on at least one value with a degree of perceptible significance. Ideally, every scene is a story event.A beat is an exchange of behavior in action/reaction. Beat by beat these changing behaviors shape the turning of a scene.A sequence is a series of scenes——generally two to five——that culminates with greater impact than any previous scene.An act is a series of sequences that peaks in a climactic scene which causes a major reversal of values, more powerful in its impact than any previous sequence or scene.Story climax: a story is a series of acts that build to a last act climax or story climax which brings about absolute and irreversible change.2.The structure spectrumThe story triangleTo plot means to navigate through the dangerous terrain of story and when confronted by a dozen branching possibilities to choose the correct path. Plot is the writer’s choice of events and their design in time.Archplot(causality, closed ending, linear time, external conflict, single protagonist, consistent reality, active protagonist)Miniplot(open ending, internal conflict, multi-protagonists, passive protagonist) antiplot (coincidence, nonlinear time, inconsistent realities) Classical design means a story built around an active protagonist who struggles against primarily external forces of antagonism to pursue his or her desire, through continuous time, within a consistent and