Unit 8.4, Building-up a Story

Building-up a Story

MODULE 8: Technical parts in Building-up a Story

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Unit 8.4: How to use conflict into your story

Conflict... Conflict... Conflict…

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The conflict is the most important part of a story because it determines the course of action, captures attention, and gives a sense of action to the hero in the story. A story without conflict is boring, banal, and uninteresting, it does not capture attention.

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Listen to this story:

Victor gets up in the morning, eats breakfast, goes to school where he is a teacher and gives music to children according to the contract he has with the school. When he finishes his school program, Victor comes home, has dinner with his wife, watches TV and goes to bed. How do you like this story? Is there a conflict? Is there anything that catches your eye?

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Let's take the same story and try to bring an element of change, of capturing attention:

Victor gets up in the morning, eats his breakfast, and goes to the school where he is a teacher to make music lessons with the children according to the contract he has with the school. However, when he arrives at the school, the school gate is wide open and there is no one in the school... The classrooms are empty, the teachers' office is empty, the porter is not at the gate to greet him, as every time, the school canteen is empty... Victor anything. He pulls out his phone and calls the school principal, Johana ... but Johana doesn't answer either... How do you like the story now? Did it pique your interest? Did a surprise item appear? inconsistent with the reality known to our hero in the story?

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Conflict is

not a problem but an opportunity to develop the story.

the obstacle that stands in the way of our hero's goals.

Our hero has a goal and a path that he takes to reach this goal. Suddenly an obstacle, a problem, a conflict appears in his way, the hero in the story must overcome this obstacle in order to reach his goal, to make the world a better place.

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In any story we have six (6) types of conflict

Five types of external conflict:

The only internal conflict:

2 Character versus other Character

3 Character versus Nature

5 Character versus Society

4 Character versus Machine

6 Character versus Destiny

1 The conflict with oneself

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In any story, you can identify more than one conflict. In general, there is an inter-conflict and one or more external conflicts.

Remember that a conflict gradually increases in intensity to reach the "Climax" stage.

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To have an overview of the details of the conflict, watch the following video:

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MODULE 8: Technical parts in Building-up a Story