[SKRIVA] Åsikt om programmet Dramatica

Jag har suttit och försökt klura ut vad författarhjälpprogrammet Dramatica 
egentligen går ut på. (Programmet skall finans att ladda ned som demoversion 
någonstans på http://www.dramatica.com/ - demon kan göra allt, men inte spara 
sessioner.)

  Så hittade jag följande beskrivning på nätet, av någon som provat (och jag 
låter personen vara anonym):

 

The whole point of the 
program is to write a coceptually complete story with both an emotional and 
logical comprehensiveness. This is seen in the story's Structure, Dynamics, 
Character, Theme, Plot and Genre. There are 32,672 possible story forms to 
use and the program basically helps you to reduce those 32,672 story 
possibilities to ONE STORY FORM. Which will give you a Total and Compete 
Story after it's written. 
What the program does is help you pool together how the characters interact 
with each other within the 4 throughlilnes. The Throughlines are (1) Overall 
Story Throughline, (2) Main Caracter Throughline, (3) Impact Character 
Throughline, and lastly, the (4) Subjective Story Throughline. Think of 
these throughlines as story perspective. Overall Throughline is equivilant 
to the Objective Character (ie, a general looking over the battlefield), 
who's eyes we see the story through. The Main Character throughline is 
equivilant to one of the soldiers on that battlefield that is Experiencing 
the battle personally. The Impact Character Throughline is equivilant to the 
enemy soldier on the battlefield, and lastly the Subjective Story 
Throughline is the final conflict between the Main Character and the Impact 
Character once they meet on the battlefield. 
It will also help you find storypoints that are weak or lead to dead ends in 
plot and/or thematic instances, that need to be fixed to make it a FULL 
Comprehensive Story. Which will hold your audiences attention while they're 
reading or watching it unfold before them. 
This is the basis of using the program. If you've researched the program 
there are many analysis' of major films which point out the interactions 
between characters as archetypical characters or complex characters, and 
gives examples as to what sections of the program are used in the story. A 
good example of this is Star Wars. It shows you which characters are the 
dynamic pairs (ie, how each archetypical characters are opposed to one 
another to balance the story) The pairs are as follows: Antagonist -- 
Protagonist, Guardian -- Contagonist (unique to Dramatica Pro), Reason -- 
Emotion, and Sidekick -- Skeptic. These are what the dynamic pairs are 
equivilant to respectively in STAR WARS: Empire -- Luke, Obi Wan -- Darth, 
Leia -- Chewy, and R2D2, C3PO -- Han Solo. These analysis' are numerous 
and applies to all story structures. 
Anyway, there are steps which force you to think about how your story is put 
together. It just depends on your writing style. If you are a structurist 
type writer, you use the program to plot out all your characters and their 
functionality in your story, their interelations between each other, the 
conflicts, the overall plot of your story and the theme of your story. You 
then write your story within those confines. If you are a Muse writer, just 
following your writing muses, you input them into the software along with 
dialog in their appropriate spots within the program and then you figure 
out how each character relates to the parts you've already written . 
I'm not saying that one method or the other is the one to use. It's just how 
you write or create your tale. In all stories there is conflict, whether 
it's personal, psychological, physical or mental. These conflicts are what 
drives the story forward and to a conclusion. The program just helps you 
organize your characters, and points of the story you are writing to make 
sure that all the basis' of GREAT Storytelling are covered. This is done by 
generating the reports that the program will give you after you completed 
all the points needed to tell your story correctly. The result being a 
perfectly structured story with no holes in any of the story properties 
(dynamics). 
All of these facts that I've mentioned are just a basic explanation of what 
the program is capable of helping you to maintain a coherence in your 
screenplay, Novel, or Short Story. I find it very useful to me, but as I 
said the learning curb seems astronomical, but if you break it down a bit at 
a time, you will change the way you write your stories. There is an 
extensive help system built into the program to help you understand how 
things work within the program and together.

 

AE igen: Ett ganska komplicerat program i alla fall...

 

--Ahrvid

--
ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx / ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Gå med i SKRIVA - för författande, 
sf, fantasy, kultur (skriva-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, subj: subscribe) YXSKAFTBUD, 
GE VÅR WCZONMÖ IQ-HJÄLP!




_________________________________________________________________
Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx

Other related posts: