Why your Story SUCKS

At the beginning of every story, there is that one point, which essentially triggers the following events. Without it, there is no story to begin with - it’s called the Inciting Incident.

The subject for today is the beginning of the story or what causes the story to start in the first place. Taylor and Mads both explain what can be understood under the term ‘Inciting Incident’ and they dive further in and reflect on their story how they found Burning Boat through this logic.

To further strengthen the point, movies such as Cast Away and The Lord of the Rings are used as a form of reference to gain a more movie centred insight. Taylor then raises an important remark regarding similarities between the ‘Break into Act II’ and the Inciting Incident and both continue to draw a distinction between the two.

Watch Mads and Taylor talk about inciting incidents - its significance to a story and a way how to identify YOUR inciting incident.

00:00 - 00:19 - Introduction
00:20 - 00:47 - What is the ‘Inciting Incident’?
00:48 - 02:41 - Taylor’s Inciting Incident
02:42 - 03:06 - Example A: The Lord of The Rings
03:07 - 04:13 - Mad’s Inciting Incident
04:14 - 05:38 - Example B: Cast Away - Inciting Incident vs. Break into Act II
05:39 - 06:43 - Storytelling structures
06:44 - 07:13 - Find YOUR Inciting Incident
07:14 - 07:43 - Outro

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Dropped out of a multimedia college course because building websites and programming wasn't for me although there was one module in film I really enjoyed so just decided to become a filmmaker and now work with luxury hotels around the world 🙌