Screenwriting 101. Episode 3, Building Your Story World.
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Angus Fletcher
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2017.
Every script has a setting, both a time and a place where the story occurs. Your "story world" is more than the physical or temporal - what makes the world are the rules you create for it. Understand the value of the rules that underlie your story and see how genres allow you to use pre-existing structures while enabling you to embrace a multitude of possibilities.