Story Structure and Development Guide - Essential Writing Techniques for Novels, Screenplays & Scripts | Perfect for Authors, Screenwriters & Storytellers
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Professor Craig Caldwell’s Story Structure and Development offers a clear approach to the essentials of story. It lays out the fundamental elements, principles, and structure for animators, designers, and artists so they can incorporate these concepts in their work. As a practical guide it includes extensive insights and advice from industry professionals. Readers will learn the universal patterns of story and narrative used in today’s movies, animation, games, and VR. With over 200 colorful images, this book has been designed for visual learners, and is organized to provide access to story concepts for the screen media professional and student. Readers will discover the story fundamentals referred to by every director and producer when they say "It’s all about story".Key FeaturesConsolidates into one text universal story structure used across the digital media industryIncludes enormous visuals that illustrate and reinforce concepts for visual learnersOrganizes content for faculty to use sections in a non-linear mannerIncludes chapter objectives, review questions, and key terms to guide the reader
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Is Craig Caldwell just a man that has worked in the entertainment industry? Or is the author of this book actually just the mentor archetype to the story that is our individual lives?After reading and ruminating on this book, I can assure you that Craig Caldwell is probably not even a real person. Craig Caldwell is probably just the name of one of the fundamental forces in storytelling. Does a masterful job of delving into multiple medias of the entertainment industry including movies, games and even VR. The book has compiled in between it's covers many key topics in a format that makes referencing easy.You want a section that talks about the beginning of story structure? *BAM* Section 2 covers just that.Do you need help understanding what motivates your character? *SHAZAM* Section 11.What if you started reading this review without knowing what a mentor archetype is? *BOOM* Your journey begins in Section 9 on page 118 my friend.The sections are all neatly categorized so you can go back and find exactly what it was you read.This post is YOUR call to adventure my fellow review reader. You may deny it at first, but if you had this book in hand, you would know that this is just the "Refusal of the call." It's inevitable! You'll feel it in your gut as you sit in the movie theater probably having paid a 3rd of what this book costs on tickets and concessions. You'll feel joy or pain while watching this movie, but when your friends and family ask you "Why did the movie fill you with joy/pain?" you won't be able to answer them, for you will be missing the knowledge of this book. You'll race back and purchase to book and finally understand why the movie moved you the way it did! Your only sorrows will be not having bought the book beforehand.TL;DR As the header said, the book is clear and concise, fun, and full to the brim with information that is all referenced should you feel the need to dive further into to the topics of this book.
