Mark Sevi

New Storytelling Paradigms – Crots And Fractals (Part 2)

New Storytelling Paradigms – Crots And Fractals (Part 2)
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Story Paradigms

Crots   A crot is defined as a piece of story. I’m not sure you can get away with seemingly unrelated pieces of story, but imagine if you could throw small vignettes on the screen that will then form the whole. Like a jigsaw puzzle tossed willy-nilly on a board and you must put it […]

 Mark Sevi

New Storytelling Paradigms – Meander and Explode (Part 1)

New Storytelling Paradigms – Meander and Explode (Part 1)
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Story Paradigms

I am a curmudgeonly sort when it comes to change. And I tend not to like trends because they mostly don’t stand the test of time. Social media? A flash in the pan. Okay, so I was wrong about that one – big time. But these so-called “New Hollywood Structures” leave me as cold as […]