[SKRIVA] Åsikt om programmet Dramatica
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:24:50 +0100
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
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