Week 2-Conflicts
Conflict
-serious disagreement
-hostile encounter
-struggle (mental,emotional,physical)
-opposition of persons or forces
-can result internally or externally
-it is the interaction of opposing ideas, interests, or wills that creates the plot.
Types of conflict
-dramatic conflict is the protagonist’s struggle against something or someone
-man vs man
-man vs environment
-man vs system
-man against self
-variations of conflict can arise from gender, age, religion and culture
Causes and effects of conflict
- conflict arises when there is change
- changes may be major or minor
- while change is universal and common, it is not always accepted
-Example of changes:
-seasons, lives, relationships, feelings, bodies, locations, technologies,
-conflict arises when people resist changes
-the intensity of conflict depends how people react to the change
-people must learn to cope with change if they want to survive
-the action in drama depends on conflict
Importance of conflict
- plot cannot be constructed without conflict
- central feature of the screenplay
- as your characters attempt to reach their goals, they come into conflict with each other.
- the end of the story nears when the protagonist and antagonist approach their goals and the conflict rises to generate maximum suspense and excitement
writing for an audience
-screenwriter = storyteller
-its people to people
-to connect audiences:
- themselves
- their unique vision
- the material/issue
- the drama
-others
-audiences want to be transported by a screenplay
-within yourself eg. experiences, memories, emotions
-practice observing, ‘listening’ and reading body language of people
-figure how to connect your viewers to your story through emotions, characters, etc
Assignments:
-5 stories of exactly 50 words each,
- do word count
