Story Structure Spring 2018

Overview

Notes from Story Structure with Richard Keyes at Cartoon Network, March 2018.

"Because" always starts a story. (Cause & effect)

"Stories to inhabit" as a goal for creating a story. Stories are compelling when the audience feels that they are living in them.

EPIC - Archetype of story

SAGA - large scale achievements of a family

YARN - goes on and on, stringing together tails, e.g. Arabian Nights

FABLE - Fictional moral lesson

ALLEGORY - narrative metaphor

LEGEND - Based on historical figures but distorted

PARABLE - Short germ of a story telling a single truth

FOLKTALE - Regional

GOSSIP - Stories about people within a community

HISTORY -