TYPES OF STORY SOURCES
These types of stories are defined as "inauthentic histories."
What are Legends?
What are copyrighted works?
This type of story expresses the kind of conflicts that Humans cannot solve, but must somehow accommodate.
What are Myths?
This writing process uses free-ranging play, imagination, and intuition as you search for the subjects or plots that bring you the "shock of recognition."
What is Discovery Mode?
This greek philosopher once said "character is Destiny."
Who is Heraclitus? (*)
This Director took a victim of a school shooting to Kmart to ask for a refund.
Who is Michael Moore?
To create this type of story you would need to interpret from large methodically compiled knowledge bases.
What are social science and social history stories?
FOCUSING ACTIVITY: This development work consists of paring away everything extraneous to one's central purpose.
What is Narrowing the Frame? (*)
This filmmaker supposedly told a producer "If you want to send a message, use Wester Union."
Who is Sam Goldwyn?
These types of stories are intimate, and often define special members or qualities of a group.
What are family stories?
This writing process logic, analysis, and dramaturgical principles to structure and organize the material you have generated.
What is Story Development and editing Mode?
"In what area am I most knowledgable and even opinionated?" & "Do I have a drive to learn more about this subject?" Are two questions you should ask yourself before you can make a documentary.
What is Testing a Subject?
In Nostalgia for The Light, this film the director captured telescopes searching the origins of the universe, while nearby, relatives searched for the remains of their loved ones in the Atacama Desert.
Who is Patricio Guzman?
These resources are a cornucopia of the human condition at every level, from the trivial to the global...
What are Newspapers and Magazines?
To ensure that we avoid developing ideas by impulse, luck or haphazardly, we use a more sustained and deliberate process known as....
What is Ideation?
What is Raising the Stakes?
Who is Nathaniel Kahn?