Les 2

Titanic

Themes:

• Love

• Class

• Time

• Power

• Memory

• Greed

• Loss

Child Focus

• Poster vermiste kinderen bevat 7 elementen van storytelling

Broodje Ludo

• Goede PR

Production process

• idea

• planning

• production

• editing

• dance party

5 Major Story Elements

• character

• situation

• objective

• opponent

• disaster

8 afleveringen: 8 blokken ipv 3 actstructuur

Horizontale programmatie

13 of 26 afleveringen (tv-seizoen) → Streamers moeten zich hier niet aan houden en kunnen dus kortere seizoenen maken

How to write a screenplay from Paul Schrader

• You have to have a theme

  • In taxi driver the theme is loneliness

• Find a metaphor

  • In taxi driver, that was the cabbie, the perfect expression of urban loneliness

• Find a plot

  • 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

Voorbeelden Titanic en ET

• Plot point 1

  • ET

    • Elliott ontdekt ET

  • Titanic

    • Jack verhindert Rose van de boot af te springen

• Plot point 2 (Point of no return)

  • ET

    • Kinderen gaan hem helpen zijn vrienden terug te vinden

  • Titanic

    • Rose beslist als vrouw om toch niet mee in reddingboot te gaan

• Climax

  • ET

    • Wanneer ET naar huis gaat

  • Titanic

    • De deur scène

• Metaforen & Foreshadowing

  • ET en Elliott hebben parallelle verhalen

• Character arc

  • Karakters veranderen

Voorbeeld Back To The Future

• Inciting Incident

  • Doc Brown’s invention … the Rube Goldberg machine fails!

    • niet alle uitvindingen werken!

• Plot Point 1

  • 88 miles/hour … back to 1955!

• Plot Point 2

  • Get the car to the Square … before lightning strikes! (ipv Plutonium)

• Climax

  • His ‘present’ is now better than his ‘past’ ever was!

• Character arc

  • Marty is niet veranderd, zijn hele omgeving is veranderd

Basic elements of Creativity

• Copy

• Transform

• Combine

→ Creative theft

8 steps in the Dan Harmon Story Circle

1. You

   • A character is in a zone of comfort

2. Need

   • But they want something

3. Go

   • They enter an unfamiliar situation

4. Search

   • Adapt to it

5. Find

   • Get what they wanted

6. Take

   • Pay a heavy price for it

7. Return

   • Then return to their familiar situation

8. Change

   • Having changed

Example: Star Wars

1. You

   • Establish the protagonist

   • A character is in the zone of comfort

   • Luke is working at his uncle’s farm on Tatooine

2. Need

   • Something ain’t quite right

   • They want something

   • Luke finds a distress message from princess Leia. The message leads him to Jedi Master, Obi-wan Kenobi. Obi-wan asks Luke to join him in a rebellion against the empire.

3. Go

   • Crossing the threshold

   • They enter an unfimiliar situation

   • Luke decides to join Obi-Wan and fight the empire after the empire kills his family. He leaves Tatooine

4. Search

   • The road of trials

   • Adapt to it

   • Luke learns the way of the force. They are captured by the emire’s death star and plan their escape

5. Find

   • Meeting with the goddess

   • Get what they wanted

   • They discover princess Leia is being held prisoner oboard. They rescue her from her cell.

6. Take

   • Meet your maker

   • Pay a heavy price for it

   • Obi-Wan sacrifices himself, creating a distraction so the rest of them can escape the death star

7. Return

   • Bringing it home

   • Pay a heavy price for it

   • They fight off an attack & return to the base camp of the rebellion to plot the destruction of the death star

8. Change

   • Master of both worlds

   • Having changed

   • Luke uses the ways of the force and successfully destroys the death star with the help of his friends

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

  • Engagement through story

• Community

  • Fans feel connected to each other

• Convenience

  • Right content and the right time