Story Brief
A pig with an extensive knowledge of all things parkour but oblivious to the fact that he's got a few extra sausage rolls. When ridiculed by his fellow swine, will this shaken bacon wee wee wee all the way home?
For Porker, Parkour is lyfe. He's a sweet pig but believes he is the best at Parkour when he's is not even mildly proficient. He exudes knowledge about all things parkour, but physically he lacks all skill. Shows that knowing the technicalities is not the same as practicing the skill.
Story Brief:
Hardcore Porkour
Character: Anthropomorphic Pig name Parker
STATS: 5' (average height for the domestic pig is 5'9" head-plus-body)
Weight: 300+ lbs
friendly, kind, energetic, impulsive, good-natured, spunky, innocent, fun-loving, compassionate, smart, naive, loveable, clumsy and as the story develops, competitive
THE ANTAGONIST:
Porker has a few "antagonists"
1. The Wigglymart Manager - Old with poor eyesight (Can not tell that porker is actually a pig. Calls him Parker) more of a emotional hinderance, always telling Porker that he needs to get his head out of the clouds. Telling him to get real and grow up. Secretly just wants the best for Parker in the long-run.
2. Parker- Parkers own internal struggle with himself. He goes through a period of growth after recognizing he is not cut out for free running even though he thinks he his. He goes through doubt and a bought of depression
3. Mother- His mother is the coddled Porker but now thinks its time for him to grow up. She is responsible for the death of his Birthmother.
4.There is a character that will be introduced that pushes parker to realizes how inadequate he is. This character will be another competitor in the free running competition
power of positive thinking. if i just believe i can do it.
controlling idea: whats the moral of the story.
Sometimes you are not capable of achieving something because of personal situation
sometimes you have to adapt.
Set in a Fly-over state (Idaho, Iowa) where technology seems to advance a tad bit slower than the urban city. VCRs are still the main source of entertainment, and Blockbuster is still very much a thing that is relevant.
Parker, a small piglet at a local secondhand store with his mother, comes across a series of VCRs that introduces him to Parkour. He binge watches everything he can find and googles, on very slow connection, whatever he can find regarding free running. He begins to practice in his yard on makeshift walls and obstacles.
Parkers starts to lose focus on things in his life. He starts to create problems at work (Wigglymart) and he starts to fight with the costumers. He is obsessed with practicing parkour. He is introduced to a local parkour competition that will be held. Parkour enters the contest, but as expected, fails miserably. after that he is forced to take a step back and really reevaluate himself as a bacon. He realizes his priorities have changed. he learns to balance work, relationships, and practice.
After this sequence of self discovery, he enters another parkour competition and at this point has figured out the technicalities of the sport. He is not complete cut out for it but he finds a way to use his disadvantages to his advantage.
friendly, kind, energetic, impulsive, good-natured, spunky, innocent, fun-loving, compassionate, smart, naive, loveable, clumsy and as the story develops, competitive
THE ANTAGONIST:
Porker has a few "antagonists"
1. The Wigglymart Manager - Old with poor eyesight (Can not tell that porker is actually a pig. Calls him Parker) more of a emotional hinderance, always telling Porker that he needs to get his head out of the clouds. Telling him to get real and grow up. Secretly just wants the best for Parker in the long-run.
2. Parker- Parkers own internal struggle with himself. He goes through a period of growth after recognizing he is not cut out for free running even though he thinks he his. He goes through doubt and a bought of depression
3. Mother- His mother is the coddled Porker but now thinks its time for him to grow up. She is responsible for the death of his Birthmother.
4.There is a character that will be introduced that pushes parker to realizes how inadequate he is. This character will be another competitor in the free running competition
power of positive thinking. if i just believe i can do it.
controlling idea: whats the moral of the story.
Sometimes you are not capable of achieving something because of personal situation
sometimes you have to adapt.
Set in a Fly-over state (Idaho, Iowa) where technology seems to advance a tad bit slower than the urban city. VCRs are still the main source of entertainment, and Blockbuster is still very much a thing that is relevant.
Parker, a small piglet at a local secondhand store with his mother, comes across a series of VCRs that introduces him to Parkour. He binge watches everything he can find and googles, on very slow connection, whatever he can find regarding free running. He begins to practice in his yard on makeshift walls and obstacles.
Parkers starts to lose focus on things in his life. He starts to create problems at work (Wigglymart) and he starts to fight with the costumers. He is obsessed with practicing parkour. He is introduced to a local parkour competition that will be held. Parkour enters the contest, but as expected, fails miserably. after that he is forced to take a step back and really reevaluate himself as a bacon. He realizes his priorities have changed. he learns to balance work, relationships, and practice.
After this sequence of self discovery, he enters another parkour competition and at this point has figured out the technicalities of the sport. He is not complete cut out for it but he finds a way to use his disadvantages to his advantage.
Notes on story writing via Jacob
1. Just start
saying youll do something is not the equivalent to actually going out and starting. dont be afraid everyone starts somewhere
2. Plan your ending
Dont build people up to just let them down with a shitty ending.
3. Everything else
fill in the middle of your story the ending is the most important
Your story should be engaging. arrouse curriousity Whats the point of telling your story, a story needs a premise. and dont be super cliche. (HW: plan ending, find premise)
Find a 5 second ptch for your story. (logline)
what makes a logline successful-
Story has 4 dimensions
period
duration
location
level of conflict
3 BASIC COMPONENTS OF A STORY
1 the setup (hook) - what are we waiting for (queue james struthers) what are we worried about who wants what and why
2 conflict - (the spine) the longest part of your story. whats the track that your story runs on
3 resolution (the reversal, the turning point, the twist) when the character Luke i am ure father, i see dead people, bruce wills was ded intire tim
Arch plot vs mythic structure
Arch plot
setup
1 the inciting incident
2 progressive complication and reversals happen
3 crisis fork in the road a do or die moment
4 crisis and climax
5 resolution
Mythic structure
1 start in the ordinary world
2 problem in the ordinary world,call to action, refusal of call
3 mentor,
4.threshold guardian(thing that blocks ordinary world from extraordinary world) progression of prblem gets worse until
5 the dragon and the inmost cave are reached (detox sequence in trainspotting)
6 return from cave with elixir
7 return to the ordinary
SO THE PARKOUR STORY REVAMPED
It follows the Arch Plot
1 inciting incident
2 progressive complications
3 crisis: fork in the road
4 crisis and the climax
5 resolution of it all
parker as a young piglet is made fun of for his low social status and interests, goes to the secondhand store with his mother. Stumbles on a copy of VHS of an old popular parkour action film. Mother bonds with him over the movie and role plays with parker. He feels the happiest when he runs around in the front yard with her on make shift obstacle courses.
Never use coincidence to end your story. if you use coincidence use it early in the story like exposition. never in the end. start with coincidence and build meaning out of it. In the story dont have extrenuous stuff. everything should have meaning. SHOW DON'T TELL. don't give the audience more information to keep them interested. Withholding things makes things interesting. least important facts come early. important facts next, critical facts come last. dont give it up too soon. TWIST IN THE THIRD ACT. Dont preach. allow people to choose. maintain opposite opinions. entertain the antagonists ideas. become your character een if hes repugnant. BUT saying nothing is worse. better in your face than not. HAVE OPINIONS. didactically.
Shock design
cut for continuity/ cut for contrast
conflict- choice. the choices must be difficult or else there is no story. Cannot do right/wrong good/evil.
ex. a choice between irreconcilable goods where circumstances are forcing someone to choose. or a choice between between the lesser of two evils.
substance of a story is the gap that splits open between what a character expects to happen and what really happens. these are the meat of a story.
WHATS THE WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO MY PROTAGONIST AND HOW CAN THAT END UP BEING THE BEST POSSIBLE THING
conscious and unconscious desire of the protag. should inspire them the thing they would feel restore balance. should bring to life unconscious desire. Will this actually happen. Launch on a quest. EXAMPLE SPIDERMAN. nerd avenges uncle ben
CRISIS the obligatory scene. most concentrated form of antagonism
gives the most penetrating view of the character.
what is your crisis what is your climax. a climax built around a reversal is satisfying. climax is not necesarily noise and violence but it does have to be meaningfull. 75% of the story is building up to the climax. example is lovemaking sex hankypanky the deed bumping uglies
all scenes must be structured to justify the climax. GIve the audience what they want but not in the way that they expect. and ending must be both inevitable and unexpected
Resolution. cuddling after sex.
to climax the subplot not previously given the opportunity
to show the spread of climactic events
as a courtesy to the audience, a slow curtain.
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