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Contents

Which material is suitable for an engaging story?

Excitement results from contrast

Satisfaction

Closure

Relevance

Basic dramatic patterns

Genres

Love

Adventure

Investigation

Chase

Clarification

Sublime

Aristotle's dramatic patterns

Simple

Complicated

Gripping

Sentimental

Plot

Definition

Suspense

Definition

Creation

Suspense regarding an occurrence or decision

Title

Promised decision

Purpose

Doubt

Suggestive representation

Mantic

Suspense regarding a clarification or meaning

Reconstruction

Surprise vs. Suspense

Starting at the End

Varying levels of knowledge between the audience and the hero

Varying levels of knowledge between the characters

Empathy

Comic condition

Qualities

Expectation vs. Doubt

Increasing Suspense

Course of action

Expectation

Enter doubt

Complications

Relief

Steps to create and optimize a dramatic story

Questionnaire

Action Idea

Step Outline

Screenplay

Quote from chapter RETRACING ACTION

"Retracing" action, on the other hand, excites the interest of the viewer in a different way. The decisive event towards which progressive action develops happens at the beginning of a retracing action. It's the first thing the viewer comes face to face with, but without the preparatory steps leading up to such result. Therefore, it surprises, even astonishes. The viewer is then primarily waiting for the explanation of the causes of this surprise. He is awaiting a scene which will provide this explanation. Whereas in a progressive story we see a fate unfolding itself and being sealed in real time, the major incidents of a retracing plot have taken place before the beginning of its telling, during which comprehension successively occurs. For example, the main character of a story discovers that something has been stolen from him. No suspense preceded this misfortune, i.e. the character didn't expect to be robbed. Almost like in a blind person who has been slapped, the unexpected stroke of fate causes suspense regarding the answer of the question: Who robbed me? When did it happen? How did it happen? The robbery victim looks here and there. Maybe he discovers tell-tale footprints in front of his door, and asks the neighbours if they have seen anyone. He retraces the course of what happened, i.e. its history. By comparison, in another story, the plan or goal set by the hero at the beginning leads him to carry it out bit by bit until at the end he completes the plan or reaches his goal. The deaf and dumb woman decides to study law, ignores her father's resistance, successfully registers at the university although she is already 30, studies and practices until she can finally pass the state exams. This action is not retracing or explanatory but instead, progressive, because its decisive event, passing the state exams, waits in the future. In order to make retracing action out of it, one must conceive the development differently; for example, the father of the young woman gets into difficulties with the law. His daughter warns him about a certain procedure and thereby saves his interests. Her knowledge of the correctness of a certain procedure is only possible when she is in the position to interpret the law. But she has no idea about these matters Or maybe she does?