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Conundrum of
storytelling
Julian Friedman
A presentation based on the talk by Julian Friedman-”The Mystery of Storytelling” in TED
Agents
What are we? What we do?
What we want?
Agents are in the business of…
Rejection!!!!!
Agents are of two types....
Good
Agent!!
Bad Agent!!
Marriage but broker Known as a Pimp
Why Hire Agents?
Nope!!!!!!Not Gonna Happen
Crazy!!!
Millions of people who wants to write and wants to tell
and what they write is….
Boring!!!!! Crap!!!!!!!!!!
It Sucks!!..Why Me??
Why writers need it?
Holy Trinity??
1.Writer
2.Customer
3.The Union
Julian Friedman
George Orwell
Have you
heard of it??
Sheer Egotism and Immortality
Samuel Johnson
"Your manuscript is both good and original. But the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”
According to Julian Friedman story defines us not language
Common?
Language Language
But we have stories
So is there any formula??Most Books will tell you not,
But…
Aristotle
“Eureka, I find it!!!Formula??
Pity
Fear
Catharsis
Formula is…
Maurizio pollini
Beethoven’s preference for happy endings is not by any means a tendency towards kitsch, but rather a musical style akin to Schiller’s philosophy of struggle, suffering and overcoming.”
Struggle, suffering and overcoming – pity, fear, catharsis – beginning, middle and end.
Let’s consider the
film industry!!!
American movies are earning better than European movies in the box-office because…
“Big Budget”
“Popular”
“Sentimental
Ending” “Awesome
Visuals”
“Dialogues” “Music”
Recap
1.Agents- What we do?, What we want? And What are we?
2.The story is much more about the audience than it is about the characters or the plot. And it is much more about the audience than it is about the storyteller.
3.Your primary relationship has got to be with your audience, not with your characters.
4.Stories define us, not language.5.The three act structure is actually a function of how
the human brain works.6.Entertain us.
Created by Bhaskar Bora, NIT Silchar, during an internship by Prof. Sameer
Mathur, IIM Lucknow.www.IIMInternship.com
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