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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The Quest

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“For better or worse. an event throws a character's life out of balance.

arousing in him the conscious and/or unconscious desire for that which he feels will restore balance.

launching him on a Quest for his Object of Desire against forces of antagonism (inner. personal. extra-personal). He may or may not achieve it. This is story in a nutshell.” - p197 Mckee

The Quest