Today, I took the course of storytelling and it was such a nice experience for me because I always got problems in storytelling. I really enjoyed this class because Professor Robert made every single point easy to understand and he was really humorous.
I learned two structures of story:
Structure1. First with happy story, but then so much troubles come out and has a great ending in the end.
I found one example fitting this structure: Short film <BAO>
- The Baozi, a kind of Chinese food mother make, become a baby Baozi with life and baby Baozi go through a great lifetime with Mother.
- Baozi starts to do what he likes, but mother thinks those activities dangerous and forbid Baozi to take part in. So Baozi is not happy as before and begin to bicker with mother.
- Baozi gets a girlfriend and wants to live with the girlfriend. Mother is not willing to let Baozi go and she eat it.
- Everything is a dream and Baozi actually is mother’s son and now he comes back and says sorry to mother with a happy ending.
Structure2. First with difficulties, then the characters solve all of the problems and has a bad or great ending in the end.
I found one example fitting this structure: Short film<Piper>
- Piper’s mom wants piper to find food by itself rather than waiting to be fed. So small piper needs to find piper and come across lots of troubles.
- Piper’s become wet during its finding for food.
- Piper find its own way to look for food.
- Piper can feed itself easily right now.