Comparative Narrative Story Structures Charted!.
Lots of people have come up with lots of ways to map, chart, categorize, name and formulate story patterns and structures. Also see The Story Structure Countdown: How Different ‘Experts’ Say You Should Structure a Story.
We visualized character interactions and relative emotional content for three very different books: a haunting memory play, a metaphysical mood piece, and a children’s fantasy classic. A dynamic graph of character relationships displays the evolution of connections between characters throughout the book. Emotional strength and valence of each sentence are shown in a color-coded sentiment plot.
It wouldn’t be a Rocky movie without an epic montage, a good and bloody fight, oh and some dialogue, too. There are, in fact, only a few basic narrative elements that make up the formula for all six Rocky films. Using empirical data collection (i.e. watching the six movies over six days straight), Rocky Morphology analyzes the Rocky series in order to identify its key narrative elements.
Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories – YouTube.
Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the ’simple shapes of stories.‘
from Jason Mittell. Here’s the accompanying description.
