A story is a sequence of events
Narrative is telling of the sequence of events
Narratives give audiences
- Diversion
- Personal identification
- Personal relationships
- Surveillance
narrative theorys
- Todorov 5 point narrative
- Claude Levi-Strauss – 5 point narrative
- Opposing forces
- Vladimir prop – functions and characters
- There are 7 character types
- Hero
- Villain
- Donor
- Helper
- Princess
- Father
- False hero
- Joseph Campbell- Hero with 1000 faces
7 basic plots
- Quest
- Overcoming the Monster
- Rags to riches
- Rebirth
- Voyage
- Comedy
- Tragedy
Narrative forms
- Linear
- Nonlinear narrative
- Single strand narrative
- Multi strand narrative
Narrative types
- Realist
- Anti-realist Surrealist
- Dramatic irony
Narrative devices
- McGuffin: a series of unfortunate events sugar bowl
- Flashback: forest Gump
- Flash forward
- Foreshadowing
- Chekhov’s gun: mad max angharrad is pregnant
- Deus ex machine: resident evil the cure saving the world/ lead survives the cure
Script writing
Dialogue the dialogue is indented for the actor name of actor is bold action marks to give the script tone
The font size is always 12 courier/courier new first ten pages need to be the best
Caps the first time a character is met
Page of script is a page of screen time write what you can see have distinct characters
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