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Classical Linear Narrative. Try it! It Works!!. Linear Narrative. Protagonist : The Character around which the story revolves Protagonist seeks objectives and encounters obstacles. If that obstacle is a person he or she is called...
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Classical Linear Narrative Try it! It Works!!
Linear Narrative • Protagonist: The Character around which the story revolves • Protagonist seeks objectives and encounters obstacles. If that obstacle is a person he or she is called... • Antagonist: Someone who gets in the way of the Protagonist’s objective
Linear Structure • In the beginning... There was Balance • Inciting Incident: something that disrupts this balance. • Rising Action: the protagonist pursues his objective and meets various obstacles. • Crisis: moment of highest tension. We don’t know what will happen • Climax: What happens when the tension is decided. • Denouement: tying up loose ends.
The Hollywood Style “If it isn’t making dollars, then it isn’t making cents!”
Melodrama • Morally polarized characters (Pure Good vs. Pure Evil) • Spectacular Settings (stunts, special effects) • physical conflict, a final battle between hero and villain • comic sidekicks • heroine needing rescue, ends up with hero • musical underscoring of important scenes • a happy ending
Melodrama? Snow White? The Lion King? Braveheart? Lord of the Rings? 24?