April 23, 2012
Dramatica song
Dramatica is like Holdem Manager for stories. It’s a deep, complex, intriguing and challenging theory, and an incredibly useful tool once you begin understanding how it can help you. Dramatica says that every complete (fully explored) story is a model of the human mind trying to solve a problem. To fully explore any issue, an author has to examine all possible solutions to that issue and make an argument to prove to an audience that the author’s way is best. Basically, it allows for a deeper understanding of how and why stories work to communicate meaning to an audience.
Structure and dynamics are what give a story its meaning and make you feel the way you feel when you experience them. Dramatica can help develop the best structures, fix broken stories, or analyze stories to extract their structure. I’m going to use it this week to figure out exactly what made Pushkin’s original Queen of Spades short story work. To adapt it into modern day New Orleans, we keep the precise original structure but illustrate the story points differently. For example, Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story have the same structure... but they’re illustrated differently.
More tomorrow, where I’ll explore some findings...
3 Comments:
hayes13 posted on April 24, 2012 at 02:56 AM
reminds me of this algorithm some engineers developed to see if a song would be a hit or not. They had a bunch of stings song put through it and they seemed to rank highly on it.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/hit-potential-equation/
Melville posted on April 24, 2012 at 18:45 PM
Looking forward. We just started rehearsing "A Midsummernight's Dream". You might have a look at that one, too?
KRANTZ posted on April 24, 2012 at 21:22 PM
@Melville would be my honor, sir. your avatar is worthy
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