How to tell compelling stories out of video interv
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
  • Paper-editing
    • Documentary Production Overview
    • Key concepts in documentary theory
    • Why paper-editing?
    • Paper-editing overview
  • Story concepts
    • Paper-editing and story concepts
    • Terminology
    • levels of conflict
    • The Gap
    • The Quest
    • Three act structure
    • Exposition
    • ladder of abstraction in paper-editing
    • Annotated bibliography
  • Two Column Script
    • Two Column Script
  • Digital Paper-editing
    • autoEdit 2 digital paper-editing software
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  1. Story concepts

The Gap

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One Gap

“STORY is born in that place where the subjective and objective realms touch.” - Mckee p147

Subsequent Gaps

“The protagonist's first action has aroused forces of antagonism that block his desire and spring open a gap between anticipation and result, disconfirming his notions of reality, putting him in greater conflict with his world, at even greater risk. But the resilient human mind quickly remakes reality into a larger pattern that incorporates this disconfirmation, this unexpected reaction. Now he takes a second, more difficult and risk-taking action, an action consistent with his revised vision of reality, an action based on his new expectations of the world.[..]” - Mckee p151

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