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Dramatic Structure and Conflict

Learn about the key components of dramatic structure - Exposition, Complication, Climax, and Denouement - and how they contribute to the emotional impact of a film plot. Explore linear and nonlinear structures, conflict types, and storytelling techniques like flashbacks and flash-forwards.

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Dramatic Structure and Conflict

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  1. Dramatic Structure and Conflict

  2. Definition • The aesthetic and logical arrangement of parts to achieve the maximum emotional, intellectual, or dramatic impact • Film plot has four basic elements • Exposition • Complication • Climax • Denoument

  3. Exposition • Introduces characters, shows relationships, places them in believable time and place

  4. Complication • Conflict begins and grows in clarity, intensity, and importance • Usually the longest section

  5. Climax • Point of maximum tension, two forces confront one another in physical or emotional conflict

  6. Denouement • State of relative equilibrium

  7. Types of structure • Linear structure presents the four basic elements in their traditional order • Nonlinear structure breaks the traditional order, it may use various other structures

  8. Nonlinear structures • In media res- means “in the middle of things,”begins after the complication • Flashbacks- filmed sequences that go back in time • Flash forward- filmed sequence that jumps into the future

  9. Conflict • Two types of conflict: internal and external • Internal- the character struggles with some moral or ethical decision within his or her own mind • External- the character struggles with someone or something outside himself or herself

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