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Dramatica Weekend Workshop Syllabus 3 STORYFORMING Storyforming:
Developing a story’s underlying skeleton of structure and dynamics.
The Eight Essential Questions Main Character Dynamics• Main Character Resolve: Change or Steadfast Will the Main Character ultimately hold onto his original motivation or exchange it for a new motivation* * Video Clips: Examples of Change Main Characters: Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Judah Rosenthal in Crimes and Misdemeanors, Luke in Star Wars. * Video Clips: Examples of Steadfast Main Characters: Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive, James Bond in Goldfinger (Pussy Galore is the Obstacle Character). • Main Character Direction: Stop or Start Will the direction of the Main Character’s growth be toward something starting or toward something stopping* * Video Clip: Example of Stop Main Character: Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive. * Video Clip: Example of Start Main Character: Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. • Main Character Approach: Do-er or Be-er How does the Main Character prefer to solve his problems, through external work or through internal work* * Video Clip: Example of Do-er Main Character: Harry in Dirty Harry. * Video Clip: Example of Be-er Main Character: William Munny in Unforgiven. • Main Character Mental Sex: Male or Female Does the Main Character fundamentally tend to see things linearly or holistically* * Video Clips: Example of Male and Female Mental Sex swap: Agents Mulder and Scully in The X Files. * Video Clips: Example of Female Mental Sex Main Character: Jack Ryan in The Hunt for Red October.
Plot Dynamics
• Story Work: Action or Decision Which takes precedence over the other in driving the plot, do Actions drive decisions or do Decisions drive actions* * Video Clips: Example of Action driven stories: Jaws, Star Wars. * Video Clip: Example of Decision driven stories: The Godfather.
• Story Limit: Timelock or Optionlock What brings your story to a climax, running out of time or running out of options* * Video Clips: Example of Timelock stories: 48 Hrs., High Noon. * Video Clip: Example of Optionlock stories: The Verdict.
• Outcome: Success or Failure Is the Story Goal reached or not*
• Judgment: Good or Bad Does the Main Character work out his angst or not*
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