Blogs1 - 10 of 24 recent posts for tag:"narrative structure"
26
Oct
2009
framework – 25.10.09 (#255)

13 days ago by modisti

*this edition of framework:afield has been produced in udine, italy by giancarlo toniutti. for more information you can see his website (still under construction) at http://www.quasi-rn.org. giancarlo has this to say about his show: * khoe dullinëng rungs shëts* /(he told a story while walking)/ Thi ...

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20
Oct
2009
An Enigmatic Query

19 days ago by robin_d_laws

Hey amigos, please oblige me by responding to the following poll. Pick as many as apply. Which of the following are you familiar with and interested in? All About Eve Casablanca Death of a Salesman A Doll's House Glengarry GlenRoss In a Lonely Place Manhattan Midnight Cowboy Raging Bull Sex, Lies an ...

Robin D. Laws - robin-d-laws.livejournal.com · 154 references

18
Oct
2009
Readying Step Outline for Delivery

21 days ago by MOGBlogger

There's an interesting statement by William Goldman in his book Four Screenplays with Essays that inspired me to go back and polish up that Act I step outline before delivery...

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15
Oct
2009
Work your magic, Plot Fairy

23 days ago by Natalia Maldonado

Last night I went to a reading by the poet Maureen Seaton, who read from her book of poems, Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen, her memoir, Sex Talks to Girls and her chapbook, America Loves Carney. The theme of these readings at the University of Miami is “Lyric Hybrid,” because all the writers have ste ...

Natalia Maldonado - nmaldonado.com/blog · 1 reference

Pass/Fail Or Hope/Fear?

24 days ago by robin_d_laws

I started the process of breaking down Hamlet by calling it a turning point analysis. Now that it's finished, I find myself revisiting my terminology. Many of the story units that clearly present themselves when you study the text for narrative movement aren't necessarily branch points in the storyl ...

Robin D. Laws - robin-d-laws.livejournal.com · 154 references

07
Oct
2009
Empty

32 days ago by jonpsevers

Turner Prize nominee Enrico David manages to capture the raw narrative forms of society and encapsulate them in a truly modern representation of urban experience, building a reflection into which all of us can find familiarity. Your thoughts? Well, you would have to see it first, obviously, so have ...

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On Morality and Narrative Law

32 days ago by Donald Miller

I’ve been wondering lately about the possibility of a new perspective on law, a perspective I’ll call narrative law.

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05
Oct
2009
Rules For Your Iconic Moment

34 days ago by robin_d_laws

Rather than being changed by the world, iconic heroes change the world, reimposing order on it by taking actions that recapitulate their individual ethoses. To play an iconic hero, you must be reasonably assured that the world will bend to your will when your PC recapitulates his ethos. You probably ...

Robin D. Laws - robin-d-laws.livejournal.com · 154 references

28
Sep
2009
Your Character’s Iconic Ethos

41 days ago by robin_d_laws

Hit the tag for previous discussion of iconic heroes... An iconic hero re-imposes order on the world by reasserting his essential selfhood. The nature of his radical individuality can be summed up with a statement of his iconic ethos. It is the ethos that grants higher meaning to the hero’s actions, ...

Robin D. Laws - robin-d-laws.livejournal.com · 154 references

09
Sep
2009
Exposition and Spectacle

60 days ago by robin_d_laws

Continuing a previous discussion... In addition to putting us on the upside of an emotional rollercoaster by placing its heroes in the win space, sequences of premise exploration fall into two other categories: exposition and spectacle. Scenes in which the characters tool around in the setting witho ...

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