These have nothing to do with Dramatica at the Storyform level, but are entirely worthwhile for people who write. They are made by Yves Lavandier, a French script doctor and teacher, who holds the honor for being the only other person I know of who considers that sometimes, the MC does not change.
They are short, but very good. (And in English.)
Merci bien, Mike. These are great little clips.
Those are wonderful little clips. An omg! Yves is so adorbs!
Yves Lavandier’s added some new clips.
Also, from a previous thread, the guy who does the Every Frame a Painting, Tony Zhou, presents some really outstanding film composition essays. Some of them, especially his latest, pertains to writing.
Thanks!
It’s worth noting that dramatica does not label someone’s reputation as “internal” but rather as a Situation/Universe. (Episode 9)
Yeah, it sounded like he was talking about a Situation MC in that one. Looks like a great movie though, had never heard of it.
I wonder what Yves would think if someone offered him a class in Dramatica…
Yves believes in the synthetic model, which (in short) is what you get when you take a lot of samples, and determine what in them makes them tick. It’s what Aristotle did, and what almost everybody else does too.
I think as a mental stance towards story design it is behind the times. It can be a way of discovering wonderful methods of storytelling, and lots of the examples here are proof that Yves does this very well. But it has to be discarded before you can really grasp the essence of Dramatica: that stories take the shape of arguments, and screenplays and novels are a way to convey that story. Most synthesists, so far as I can tell, think that the start of a book is also the start of the story. The end is the end. We know that not to be true.
I guess my point is that he would have a serious amount of work waiting for him if he were to change horses now. But yes, I’d be curious.
I just e-mailed him. We’ll see what he says.