by Robert Bradbrook
During the storytelling workshop, we learned the structures (Hollywood and European) of storytelling in depth. We covered the needs of storytelling and the need for storytelling too. I’ve had some prior experience with storytelling, and scriptwriting during my undergrad but one of the biggest things I learned during this session was about the European structure and the high point of the story being the penultimate scene right before a drop in tone. A lot of stories I’d grown up with started making sense to me immediately.
We delved a little bit into establishing conflicts in a story to make it interesting and how conflicts and resolutions are the foundation of every story. These are some of the notes I’d taken down during the session:
