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What is a characteristic of transmedia storytelling?
What is a characteristic of transmedia storytelling?
- A focus on a single medium
- A unified message across multiple platforms (correct)
- A linear storytelling approach
- A single, fixed narrative
What is the primary purpose of the first act in a three-act structure?
What is the primary purpose of the first act in a three-act structure?
- To establish the main characters and setting (correct)
- To introduce the climax of the story
- To introduce the denouement
- To resolve the conflict
What is the function of the inciting incident in a story?
What is the function of the inciting incident in a story?
- To resolve the conflict
- To provide backstory
- To introduce the protagonist's goal
- To set the story in motion (correct)
What is the purpose of the midpoint in a story?
What is the purpose of the midpoint in a story?
What is the climax of a story?
What is the climax of a story?
What is the purpose of an action knot in a story?
What is the purpose of an action knot in a story?
What is anagnorisis in a story?
What is anagnorisis in a story?
What is the function of peripeteia in a story?
What is the function of peripeteia in a story?
What is the denouement of a story?
What is the denouement of a story?
How does transmedia storytelling differ from traditional storytelling?
How does transmedia storytelling differ from traditional storytelling?
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Study Notes
Story Elements
- A big change of fortunes can break expectations and add complexity to a story
- Complication: an obstacle created by the protagonist for themselves
- Montage: a series of summarized actions, often with music
Foreshadowing and Payoff
- Foreshadowing: a hint that sets up something that will happen later in the story
- Red herring: false foreshadowing to mislead the audience
- Dead end: foreshadowing with no payoff
- Deus ex machina: a payoff with no foreshadowing, where a solution comes out of nowhere
Suspense and Ellipsis
- Suspense: a state of tension or uncertainty in the story
- Ellipsis: a break in the narrative, often leaving out information to create suspense
Characters
- Character arcs: changes in a character's inner nature, for better or worse
- Desire: what drives a character's choices, what they want (conscious and unconscious)
- Motivation: why a character wants what they want
- Dimension: a character's inner conflict, contradictions, and complexity
- Supporting characters: help to reveal the protagonist and are part of the story world
- Comedic characters: have a blind obsession, often creating humor
Dialogue
- Definition: a dramatic text to be expressed by one or several players
- Five functions of dialogue: characterize, reveal inner information, establish conflict, exposition, and humor
- Subtext: what is meant beneath what is being said
Genre
- Definition: a dramatic approach that conditions the construction of the story
- Model: a special world, a protagonist with a special talent, a weakness, and an antagonist
Creative Process
- Daniel Cassany's advice: look for ideas, organize them, develop them, put it on paper, revise constantly, adapt to constraints, and have the audience in mind
- Methods: diary, maps and diagrams, brainstorming, explore the subject, and the "star" method (what, who, when, why, how, where)
Dramatic Premises
- Universal patterns present through narration in history, helping to construct plots and characters
- Examples: Ronald Tobias' 20 Master Plots, Estrategias del guion cinematográfico, La semilla inmortal
Story Structure
- A sequence is a series of scenes that culminates with greater impact than any previous scene
- A scene is an action through conflict in more or less continuous time and space that turns the value-charged condition of a character's life
- Crossmedia: one story, many channels, reaching different audiences
- Transmedia: one storyworld, many stories, many forms, many channels, with every story complete in itself
The Three Act Structure
- Robert McKee's definition of ACT: a series of sequences that peaks in a climactic scene
- First act: establishes main characters, relationships, and the world of the story
- Inciting incident: event that sets the story in motion
- First turning point: event that makes the story take a new direction
- Second act: rising action, obstacles, and conflicts
- Midpoint: an important event that doesn't change the story's direction
- Second turning point: introduction to the third act, with more weight than the first turning point
- Third act: resolution of the story, climax, and denouement
Other Dramatic Tools
- Action knots: narrative units with their own set up, development, and resolution, forming a chain of cause and effect
- Anagnorisis: a dramatic recognition of a character's identity
- Peripeteia: obstacles, reversals, and strong story events
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