Developing the story

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Developing the story
SubjectContent
SUBJECT The media production THEME FORM
Formstructure, representation, depiction
Themeidea, intention
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From The Poetics of Aristotle

• We represent people as better/worse than they
  really are.
• The reasons for poetry imitation is
  planted from childhood instinct for harmony
  and rhythm
• most important is the structure of incidents.
• A whole that has a beginning, a middle, and an
  end.
• The unity of plot time place acti
  on Practical Result economies of dialogue,
  characters, and scenes

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Encoding the Narrative Creating Identification
Protagonist The person with a problem Person
Sympathy Empathy Antipathy Problem
Antagonist Adversarial Forces person
v. person person v. nature person v.
self person v. institution person v.
society
EMOTIONAL CATHARSIS
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Dramatic Structure Rising Action

Major crisis Climax

Crisis Setback for protagonist
Denouement
Crisis or turning point
Exposition
Complication
Climax
Resolution
Functions also include Foreshadowing/Deflection
and Character Trait
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Nick Browne
Evidently, a spectator is several places at
once--with the fictional viewer, with the viewed,
and at the same time in a position to evaluate
and respond to claims of each. This fact
suggests that like the dreamer, the filmic
spectator is a plural subject in his/her
reading s/he is and is not him/herself.
From The spectator-in-the-text The rhetoric of
Stagecoach (1975)
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The Cinematic Narrator The Apparatus
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Developing the story
SubjectContent
SUBJECT The media production THEME FORM
Formstructure, representation, depiction
Themeidea, intention