Storyform for "CONTACT"

CHARACTER DYNAMICS:

    MC RESOLVE: Change
    MC GROWTH: Stop
    MC APPROACH: Do-er
    MC PROBLEM-SOLVING STYLE: Logical
    IC RESOLVE: Steadfast

PLOT DYNAMICS:

    DRIVER: Action
    LIMIT: Optionlock
    OUTCOME: Failure
    JUDGMENT: Good

MAIN CHARACTER - (Dr. Eleanor Ann Arroway)

    THROUGHLINE: Situation
    CONCERN: The Present
    ISSUE: Repulsion vs. Attraction
    PROBLEM: Probability
    SOLUTION: Possibility
    SYMPTOM: Reduction
    RESPONSE: Production
    UNIQUE ABILITY: Attraction
    CRITICAL FLAW: Reappraisal
    BENCHMARK: How Things are Changing
    SIGNPOST 1: The Future
    SIGNPOST 2: The Present
    SIGNPOST 3: The Past
    SIGNPOST 4: How Things are Changing

MAIN VS. IMPACT STORY - (Colleagues or Lovers?)

    THROUGHLINE: Manipulation
    CONCERN: Conceiving an Idea
    ISSUE: Permission vs. Deficiency
    PROBLEM: Probability
    SOLUTION: Possibility
    SYMPTOM: Evaluation
    RESPONSE: Reevaluation
    CATALYST: Need
    INHIBITOR: Analysis
    BENCHMARK: Playing a Role
    SIGNPOST 1: Conceiving an Idea
    SIGNPOST 2: Developing a Plan
    SIGNPOST 3: Playing a Role
    SIGNPOST 4: Changing One's Nature

OVERALL STORY - (To Learn that we are not alone)

    THROUGHLINE: Activity
    CONCERN: Gathering Information
    ISSUE: Prerequisites vs. Preconditions
    PROBLEM: Probability
    SOLUTION: Possibility
    SYMPTOM: Certainty
    RESPONSE: Potentiality
    CATALYST: Strategy
    INHIBITOR: Expediency
    BENCHMARK: Doing
    SIGNPOST 1: Understanding
    SIGNPOST 2: Gathering Information
    SIGNPOST 3: Doing
    SIGNPOST 4: Obtaining

IMPACT CHARACTER - (Palmer Joss)

    THROUGHLINE: Fixed Attitude
    CONCERN: Contemplation
    ISSUE: Reappraisal vs. Appraisal
    PROBLEM: Proaction
    SOLUTION: Reaction
    SYMPTOM: Certainty
    RESPONSE: Potentiality
    UNIQUE ABILITY: Appraisal
    CRITICAL FLAW: Repulsion
    BENCHMARK: Impulsive Responses
    SIGNPOST 1: Contemplation
    SIGNPOST 2: Memories
    SIGNPOST 3: Impulsive Responses
    SIGNPOST 4: Innermost Desires

ADDITIONAL STORY POINTS

GOAL: Gathering Information
CONSEQUENCE: Conceiving an Idea
COST: Contemplation
DIVIDEND: The Present
REQUIREMENT: Doing
PREREQUISITE: Playing a Role
PRECONDITION: Impulsive Responses
FOREWARNINGS: How Things are Changing

Copyright © 1994-2006 Write Brothers, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Based on theories and materials developed by Melanie Anne Phillips and Chris Huntley
Dramatica is a registered trademark of Screenplay Systems Incorporated. Patent #5,734,916; #6,105,046

 

 

Copyright © 1994-2006 Write Brothers, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Based on theories and materials developed by Melanie Anne Phillips and Chris Huntley
Dramatica is a registered trademark of Screenplay Systems Incorporated. Patent #5,734,916; #6,105,046