Dramatica makes a distinction between the structure of a story and the way that structure is revealed. Many books on screenwriting dictacte that a certain event must happen at page 15-20 or that act turns happen every 30 pages. Well then, how does this explain the recent success of films like Memento or Crash that are told out of sequence and with complete disregard to any time constraints? How come their stories still work?
Entries Tagged with 'story weaving'
The Jigsaw Puzzle That Is A Story
March 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
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breaking down the art of storytelling
October 27th, 2005 · No Comments
The move is over and now I’ve finally got full time access to my Dramatica notebooks. Scanned through the first one and found a really interesting observation. This one is from a weekend workshop I took way back in October of 1998. Melanie Anne Phillips, the other co-creator of the theory, was [...]
Filed under: Story Theory
