Dramatica: A New Theory Of Story By Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley Chapter 17 Plot Appreciations A Thematic Side To Plot Plot has two sides: One side deals with the sequence of what happens next. The other side is thematic in nature and determines what the plot is about. Terms that describe the sequence of plot […]
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Dramatica: A New Theory Of Story By Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley Chapter 38 Storytelling: Reception and Adaptation A Word About Adaptation “Read the book; see the movie!” “Now a major motion picture!” “A novelization…” “A new musical based on the stage play…” “…based on the book…” “…based on the hit movie!” “The timeless […]
Dramatica: A New Theory Of Story By Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley Chapter 37 Storytelling: Reception & Propaganda A Quick Lesson in Propaganda Propaganda, n. 1. any organization or movement working for the propagation of particular ideas, doctrines, practices, etc. 2. the ideas, doctrines, practices, etc. spread in this way. (Webster’s New Twentieth Century […]
Dramatica: A New Theory Of Story By Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley Chapter 36 The Art of Storytelling Stage 4: Story Reception About the Audience What do you have in mind? Few authors write stories without at least considering what it will be like to read the story or see it on stage […]
Dramatica: A New Theory Of Story By Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley Chapter 35 Storyweaving Tips for Short Stories How to Make Short, a Story The Dramatica model contains an entire Grand Argument Storyform. There is simply not enough room in a short story, however, to cover all aspects of a Grand Argument. The worst thing […]
Dramatica: A New Theory Of Story By Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley Chapter 34 Storyweaving & Storytelling There are two kinds of storytelling: techniques, those that affect the arrangement of things (spatial) and those that affect the sequence of things (temporal). In Dramatica theory, we have cataloged four different techniques of each kind. Spatial […]
Dramatica: A New Theory Of Story By Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley Chapter 33 Storytelling, Storyweaving & Structure STORYWEAVING and STRUCTURE Part of the purpose of Storyweaving is to communicate the underlying dramatic structure or message of a story. The other part is to make that process of communication as interesting and/or effective as possible. In […]
Dramatica: A New Theory Of Story By Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley Chapter 32 The Art of Storytelling Stage Three: Storyweaving Introduction To Storyweaving Of the Four Stages of Communication, Storyweaving is most like what authors usually think of as the writing process. It is here that we gather everything we know about our […]
Dramatica: A New Theory Of Story By Melanie Anne Phillips & Chris Huntley Chapter 31 Storytelling & Encoding Genre Encoding Genre As previously discussed, Genre is only slightly influenced by a storyform. This is because only four appreciations have a structural influence on Genre: the four Domains. Once each Domain has been encoded, all the rest of […]