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1. Entertainment Storytelling The Emotional Journey
2. Storytelling: The Most Powerful Form of Communication
Entertainment: Movies, Books, Plays, Songs Literature: Novels,
Poems, Plays Art: Literature, Opera, Painting, Dance Religion:
Story of Jesus, Bible Psychology: eg. Oedipus Complex History: Abe
Lincoln Railsplitter Politics: George Washington/ Cherry Tree
Marketing/Advertising/PR
3. Story Definition: The organization of incidents and events
that depicts an emotional journey of its characters and creates an
experience of emotional journey for its viewers.
4. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero
5. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero/Protagonist a. The central character of a story
6. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero/Protagonist a. The central character of a story i.
Protagonist from Greek: One who plays the first part, chief
actor
7. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero/Protagonist a. The central character of a story b. The
doer i. The one who takes action ii. The one whose actions the
audience follows
8. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero/Protagonist a. The central character of a story b. The
doer c. The central character whose actions and emotional journey
the audience follows, identifies with and grows to care about
9. WINTERS BONE The Hero: Ree Dolly
10. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero/Protagonist a. The central character of a story b. The
doer c. The central character whose actions and emotional journey
the audience follows, identifies with and grows to care about
11. Hero/Viewer Bonding
12. Hero/Viewer Bonding 1. Make Hero a Victim
13. Hero/Viewer Bonding 1. Make Hero a Victim a. Clint
Eastwood: In the fifth minute of the film some people will kill his
wife and his children and burn his house down.
14. Hero/Viewer Bonding 1. Make Hero a Victim a. Clint
Eastwood: In the fifth minute of the film some people will kill his
wife and his children and burn his house down. b. Jacques Audiard:
Its simple. I crush them.
15. Hero as Victim
16. WINTERS BONE Hero as Victim
17. Hero/Viewer Bonding 1. Make Hero a Victim 2. Give Hero a
Want
18. WINTERS BONE Heros Want
19. Hero/Viewer Bonding 1. Make Hero a Victim 2. Give Hero a
Want
20. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal
21. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal a. A credible and specific goal in
response to incidents that confront the hero
22. Heros Goal
23. WINTERS BONE Heros Goal Ill find him
24. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal a. A credible and specific goal in
response to incidents weve seen confront the hero b. Deepens the
audiences bond to the hero i. Thats what I would do ii. Hero is
smart and strong to embrace that goal iii. This is gonna be
fun!
25. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal a. A credible and specific goal in
response to incidents weve seen confront the hero b. Deepens the
audiences bond to the hero i. Thats what I would do ii. Hero is
smart and strong to embrace that goal iii. This is gonna be fun! c.
Propels the hero into action
26. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist
27. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist a. The opponent, the
enemy, the villain
28. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist a. The opponent, the
enemy, the villain b. Antagonist from the Greek: To contend for a
prize
29. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist a. The opponent, the
enemy, the villain b. Antagonist from the Greek: To contend for a
prize i. The Antagonist tries to stop the Hero from achieving her
goal
30. WINTERS BONE The Antagonist: Rees Family
31. WINTERS BONE The Antagonist: Cousin Merab
32. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist a. The opponent, the
enemy, the villain b. Antagonist from the Greek: To contend for a
prize i. The Antagonist tries to stop the Hero from achieving what
she wants c. Pitting the Antagonist against the Hero creates
conflict, the source of drama
33. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes
34. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes a. Whats
at stake if the hero doesnt achieve her goal?
35. The Stakes
36. WINTERS BONE The Stakes If he doesnt show up at trial you
all gonna lose this place.
37. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes a. Whats
at stake if the hero doesnt achieve her goal? b. Stakes need to be
emotional
38. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes a. Whats
at stake if the hero doesnt achieve her goal? b. Stakes need to be
emotional c. The bigger the stakes, the bigger the drama
39. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes After
the conflict between the Hero and the Antagonist for the Heros Goal
steadily increases culminating in the Climax (a structural step of
the story were not getting into)
40. WINTERS BONE Climax Your daddy would want you to do this.
Hold his arms out straight, child.
41. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes the Hero
discovers
42. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The
Heros Need
43. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The
Heros Need a. After battling for her Goal, the Hero achieves a
higher level of understanding: What she Needs
44. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The
Heros Need a. After battling for her Goal, the Hero achieves a
higher level of understanding: What she Needs b. A truer, deeper
understanding of herself
45. Heros Need
46. WINTERS BONE The Heros Need
47. Elements of Storytelling Creating the Emotional Journey 1.
The Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The
Heros Need a. The Wants/Needs Analysis: i. The Hero thinks she
Wants X, but learns she Needs Y ii. Ree Wants to join the ROTC and
go off to the military, but learns she Needs to embrace her
family
48. THE GODFATHER Michaels Journey
49. Elements of Storytelling Five Fundamental Elements 1. The
Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros
Need
50. Elements of Storytelling Two Additional Elements 1. The
Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros
Need 6. Jeopardy a. Creates tension that keeps audience
engaged
51. WINTERS BONE Jeopardy
52. Elements of Storytelling Two Additional Elements 1. The
Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros
Need 6. Jeopardy 7. Drive/Rooting Interest
53. Elements of Storytelling Two Additional Elements 1. The
Hero 2. The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros
Need 6. Jeopardy 7. Drive/Rooting Interest a. Energy audience
brings to the story by wanting to find out if Hero achieves her
Goal
54. Ticking Clock
55. Elements of Storytelling Evaluating Story 1. The Hero 2.
The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros Need 6.
Jeopardy 7. Drive/Rooting Interest
56. Elements of Storytelling Evaluating Story 1. The Hero: Do I
like him? Do I love him? Do I care what happens to him? 2. The
Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros Need 6.
Jeopardy 7. Drive/Rooting Interest
57. Elements of Storytelling Evaluating Story 1. The Hero 2.
The Heros Goal: Is it credible? Do I care if he gets it? Is it
concrete and specific? 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros
Need 6. Jeopardy 7. Drive/Rooting Interest
58. Elements of Storytelling Evaluating Story 1. The Hero 2.
The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist: Is he credible? Smart? A worthy
opponent? What does he believe in? 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros Need
6. Jeopardy 7. Drive/Rooting Interest
59. WINTERS BONE The Antagonists Beliefs
60. Elements of Storytelling Evaluating Story 1. The Hero 2.
The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes: Whats at stake? Do
I care? How can the stakes be bigger? 5. The Heros Need 6. Jeopardy
7. Drive/Rooting Interest
61. Elements of Storytelling Evaluating Story 1. The Hero 2.
The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros Need:
Has the Hero learned something? Have I learned something? 6.
Jeopardy 7. Drive/Rooting Interest
62. Elements of Storytelling Evaluating Story 1. The Hero 2.
The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros Need 6.
Jeopardy: Is there jeopardy throughout? How can we increase the
sense of jeopardy? 7. Drive/Rooting Interest
63. Elements of Storytelling Evaluating Story 1. The Hero 2.
The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros Need 6.
Jeopardy 7. Drive/Rooting Interest: Am I on the edge of my seat? Do
I feel momentum? Do I care?
64. Elements of Storytelling Evaluating Story 1. The Hero 2.
The Heros Goal 3. The Antagonist 4. The Stakes 5. The Heros Need 6.
Jeopardy 7. Drive/Rooting Interest