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The Dramatic Code: Storytelling and Communication
Introduction
This collection of essays is about the artistic paradigm of drama founded on the way human grow and develop their life. Authors like John Truby, Blake Snyder, Michael Tierno, Dan O’Bannon, Todd Klick, Dan Calvisi, Chris Huntley & Melanie Anne Phillips have situated this paradigm as founded on principles laid down by Aristotle and integrated into screenplay structure as story beats, story structure and story mapping. Each author presents the story canon founded in human nature from their different theories and story structures. Each of the authors mentioned has had numerous success in the movie industry and have either discovered these story structure paradigms thru their work as story analysts, script readers and analysts, screenwriters or teachers of the art of storytelling and structure. In this collection of essays, I only concentrate on the essential contributions of Blake Snyder, John Truby and Michael Tierno, while trying to keep open to the larger picture of storytelling as applied to all the authors. Sometimes this is not possible because of the different way these authors present their story structure or storytelling paradigm. Each author, thru their work, has contributed to the corpus known as dramatic theory.
This collection of essays is about the artistic paradigm of drama founded on the way human grow and develop their life. Authors like John Truby, Blake Snyder, Michael Tierno, Dan O’Bannon, Todd Klick, Dan Calvisi, Chris Huntley & Melanie Anne Phillips have situated this paradigm as founded on principles laid down by Aristotle and integrated into screenplay structure as story beats, story structure and story mapping. Each author presents the story canon founded in human nature from their different theories and story structures. Each of the authors mentioned has had numerous success in the movie industry and have either discovered these story structure paradigms thru their work as story analysts, script readers and analysts, screenwriters or teachers of the art of storytelling and structure. In this collection of essays, I only concentrate on the essential contributions of Blake Snyder, John Truby and Michael Tierno, while trying to keep open to the larger picture of storytelling as applied to all the authors. Sometimes this is not possible because of the different way these authors present their story structure or storytelling paradigm. Each author, thru their work, has contributed to the corpus known as dramatic theory.
17 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 16, 2014
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