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Showing posts with label Setting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Setting. Show all posts

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Vernacular: setting

SETTING is 4-dimensional:

PERIOD: Story's place in time
DURATION: Story's length in time
LOCATION: Story's place in space
CONFLICT LEVEL: Story's position on hierarchy of human struggles

[Robert McKee--STORY]

Posted by Erica Ridley at 2/18/2007 10:33:00 AM

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