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Production process

Production process

• Idea

• Planning

• Production

• Editing

• Dance Party

5 Major Story Elements

• character

• situation

• objective

• opponent

• disaster

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Horizontale programmatie

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How to write a screenplay from Paul Schrader

• You have to have a theme

• Find a metaphor

• Find a plot

Screenplay of Taxi Driver

• The theme is loneliness

• The metaphor was the cabbie, the perfect expression of urban loneliness

• You push the theme through the metaphor and you should come out with the plot

The magnificent seven plot points from “the screenwriter’s bible”

• Act 1

  • The backstory

  • The catalyst

• Act 2

  • The big event

  • The midpoint

• Act 3

  • The crisis

  • The showdown

  • The realization

Basic elements of Creativity

• Copy

• Transform

• Combine

→ Creative theft

8 steps in the Dan Harmon Story Circle

1. You

2. Need

3. Go

4. Search

5. Find

6. Take

7. Return

8. Change

You

• Establish the protagonist

→ A character is in a zone of comfort

Need

• Something ain’t quite right

→ But they want something

Go

• Crossing the threshold

→ They enter an unfamiliar situation

Search

• The road of trials

→ Adapt to it

Find

• Meeting with the goddess

→ Get what they wanted

Take

• Meet your maker

→ Pay a heavy price for it

Return

• Bringing it home

→ Then return to their familiar situation

Change

• Master of both worlds

→ Having changed

Storyworld

• Film

• Community

• Games

• Fan Fiction

• Toys

• Books

• Graphic Novels Comics

• Serial Content

• User Generated Content

7 tenets of future storyworlds

1. Pervasive

2. Persistent

3. Participatory

4. Personalized

5. Connected

6. Inclusive

7. Cloud-based

3 C’s of storytelling

• Characters

• Community

• Convenience

Characters

Engagement through story

Community

Fans feel connected to each other

Convenience

Right content and the right time