who's story is this?
what does he want
why can't he have it
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Thursday, January 16, 2014
The B Story/ Subplot
The B Story or Subplot piece of the plot revolves around/is derived from, the Backstory.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Charater's Belief has a structure.
In a drama and In life
Act 1 (Introduction) Birth - belief is illustrated as true and confirmed by others
Act 2 (Rising Action) Growth - belief is questioned and doubted by others
Act 3 (Climax) Maturity - Belief is reinforced by others
Act 4 (Falling Action) Decline - The doubted side of the belief is reinforced by others
Act 5 (Conclusion) Death - Belief is illustrated as false and confirmed by central character
Act 1 (Introduction) Birth - belief is illustrated as true and confirmed by others
Act 2 (Rising Action) Growth - belief is questioned and doubted by others
Act 3 (Climax) Maturity - Belief is reinforced by others
Act 4 (Falling Action) Decline - The doubted side of the belief is reinforced by others
Act 5 (Conclusion) Death - Belief is illustrated as false and confirmed by central character
Jaws
To me Chief Brody's story is under-developed.
His story to me "a weak-willed man moves to a peaceful town and has to prove himself to the locals of his value when a strong-willed shark threatens their local economy and way of life." While his character does arc from weak to strong-willed. His relationship with the town's people isn't illustrated. The ending doesn't have a scene in which the towns people "crown him" and it fails to revisit Kitner's mother.
Alex Kitner's death illustrates the cost of being weak-willed. And his mother, should have been in the "Resurrection" stage of the hero's journey to remind us of this cost.
Also, a backstory incident is never clearly brought above the surface. I felt like this hero's journey type story, excluded: The Road Back. Resurrection Hero. Return with Elixir.
Inspite of those missing pieces, I feel the movie is enjoyable. So it seems possible to have missing story pieces and still have an enjoyable movie
His story to me "a weak-willed man moves to a peaceful town and has to prove himself to the locals of his value when a strong-willed shark threatens their local economy and way of life." While his character does arc from weak to strong-willed. His relationship with the town's people isn't illustrated. The ending doesn't have a scene in which the towns people "crown him" and it fails to revisit Kitner's mother.
Alex Kitner's death illustrates the cost of being weak-willed. And his mother, should have been in the "Resurrection" stage of the hero's journey to remind us of this cost.
Also, a backstory incident is never clearly brought above the surface. I felt like this hero's journey type story, excluded: The Road Back. Resurrection Hero. Return with Elixir.
Inspite of those missing pieces, I feel the movie is enjoyable. So it seems possible to have missing story pieces and still have an enjoyable movie
Sunday, January 12, 2014
My Structure for Comedy
A character wants a feeling - respect, love, freedom, control, etc.
A character enters their world and wants a relationship with them but the main character refuses to form one with them.
That feeling is brought about by specific people or a person in their life. That relationship is severed during the inciting incident.
Now some incident in their past they caused haunts them.
The character tries to reconcile with the severed relationship character. but they won't reconcile.
The character decides to cut themselves off completely from the severed relationship character.
The character forms a relationship with a new character.
IN terms of Genre:
Comedy Comedy - The past haunting incident is funny
Action Comedy - The past haunting incident is actiony
Horror Comedy - The past haunting incident is scary
Etc.
A character enters their world and wants a relationship with them but the main character refuses to form one with them.
That feeling is brought about by specific people or a person in their life. That relationship is severed during the inciting incident.
Now some incident in their past they caused haunts them.
The character tries to reconcile with the severed relationship character. but they won't reconcile.
The character decides to cut themselves off completely from the severed relationship character.
The character forms a relationship with a new character.
IN terms of Genre:
Comedy Comedy - The past haunting incident is funny
Action Comedy - The past haunting incident is actiony
Horror Comedy - The past haunting incident is scary
Etc.
Tragedy and Comedy
A comedy is a situation in which a character resolves a scarring incident from their past.
A tragedy is a situation in which a character creates a scarring incident based on the desire for a future incident.
A tragedy is a situation in which a character creates a scarring incident based on the desire for a future incident.
Friday, January 10, 2014
4 ACT Structure
Hero has his problem
Hero has fun and games
Hero has unpleasantries and work
Hero has his solution
Hero has fun and games
Hero has unpleasantries and work
Hero has his solution
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