Blogs1 - 10 of 22 recent posts for tag:"narrative structure"
24
Nov
2009
Week 8 Individual Task

22 hours ago by Elena

1.For this week’s individual task I’m going to look at one print-based, one television-based and one film-based media object. I have chosen the book “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, the television series “Ghost Whisperer” and the film “The Ring”. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” ...

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18
Nov
2009
Premise Threat and Iconic Identity

7 days ago by robin_d_laws

[Contains spoilers for the present season of House, M.D.] A common form of false suspense in serial media is the premise threat: a story possibility that, if not reversed, ends the premise of the property. For example, you know in any episode of Gilligan’s Island, or its descendant, Star Trek: Voyag ...

Robin D. Laws - robin-d-laws.livejournal.com · 156 references

16
Nov
2009
Your Character's Dramatic Arc

9 days ago by robin_d_laws

Dramatic protagonists are encountered in a state of crisis or incompletion, often expressible as a conflict between contradictory inner impulses. Through the action of the narrative, they either: resolve the crisis, and are transformed by its outcome fail to resolve the crisis or contradiction, and ...

Robin D. Laws - robin-d-laws.livejournal.com · 156 references

26
Oct
2009
framework – 25.10.09 (#255)

30 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

36 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 · 156 references

18
Oct
2009
Readying Step Outline for Delivery

38 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

41 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?

41 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 · 156 references

07
Oct
2009
Empty

49 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 ...

Nothing, like something, ... - jonpsevers.wordpress.com · 1 reference

On Morality and Narrative Law

49 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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