The Four Core Elements of Story

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#screenwriting #storytelling

[TylerMowery]

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[Jollzzz]

Tyler, just wanna honor you for your selflessness and determination/desire to help so many tell effective stories, as it is so intrinsic within us. I hope you realize that you are part of preparing a generation to tell stories that will shape hearts and minds and ultimately lead people in a better direction. I thank God for you bro! Thanks for making storytelling just that much more attainable. You break it down well and encourage us to keep going. Its tough to feel like we're being kept out of this knowledge and that it's out of reach, yet you present it in a way that accessible, and simple to grasp and that deserves to be acknowledged. Thank you bro, keep it up! Any lies that try to discourage you with what you are doing, you can shut them out knowing that you are right there in your lane, helping so many! God bless you, remain humble and thank you again lol! 🎉🎉🎉

[paulsimmons]

To be good storytellers we need to guide and direct the audience’s thinking process as well as their emotions when engaging with the story.

We do this by answering 4 key questions our audience ask when engaging with a story.

1. Whose story is this?
2. What’s happening?
3. How does what’s happening point forward or backward to something.
4. Where in the story do I need to look for emphasis to follow the story and arrive at the story’s resolution and takeaway.

The story circle is a great tool to use to accomplish this.

[TheOrganizedWriter]

Your structural representations of stories are very valuable when trying to find your way through the jungle of story theory. Great video!

[noah]

Tyler Mowery, I remember when you saved me and my parents lives, we were walking in a dark alley then suddenly, three people were pointing their guns at us, they were about to pull the trigger, but then you explained what philosophical conflict is to them and they were in so disbelief and distracted that they fell unconscious into a coma for 100 years.

[squali]

1 Thessalonians 5:23 Spirit(mind)/Soul/Body. Stories by humans include all the human parts.

[chriskilvington]

Man, this is a super helpful video, along with the perfect scene one, too. Thank you.

[TristanLowe-luqq]

You have helped me begin to write my series that I will be uploading the first episode some time in June and you have helped me think of ways it should end so again thank you for helping me make a series that me and my friends will make this summer

[stevenvprasad]

Thank you Tyler, that was really useful. Could you please chop few more from live sessions and post them. It'll be easy to rewatch them.

[kh]

You are brilliant thank you and now im addicted to this channel

[tomaskaila]

While I do think all this is a bit too character-centric and neglects the plot and setting side of things a little, I have to admit that you've made a good breakdown of the fundamentals of character arcs.
Especially that story circle, I've seen it analysed many times but never has it felt so clear and easy to understand as "character, situation, problem, choice, consequence, problem, choice, consequence". My issue with the story circle (and hero's journey) has always been how it kind of glances over the middle part of a story, but framing it as "the consequences of the first choice" does help give some direction to it.

[Prayt]

22:26 lmao ah yes, what cinema was made for

It's a lot more emotional also because the non-verbal implication just clicks. YOU get it, no one is explaining it TO YOU. It's a lot more powerful.

[omegaswiper]

Lol at Tarantino talkin. Wow how interesting. lol

[vampirebunno]

When should we expect the practical screenwriting course 2.0 to drop?

[Cogh_]

Hi! Cool video. Is your discord still active? The link appears to have expired.

[KeiaJohn-]

Hey Tyler can you recommend a good laptop for a screenwriter, other than a MacBook — Thank you

[gaznawiali]

Could you analyse great films like the matrix, terminator 2 etc and explain what you think makes them so good?

[SuSTR]

Great video as always. Can you make a more in depth video about open ended arc?

[squali]

Can you go over how to write a fight scene?

[Fsinthechat]

Tyler why don’t you write a model script of your own and show us? It is hard to follow you as you give a lot of different advice in each of your videos. So please make a model script following your advice so that we can learn