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I know that it is not a full sized documentary but it occurred that you might be interested in the first cut of a very short film I made a few weeks back. A colleague called me late one morning. In his capacity as leader of a charitable foundation he was visiting a local school and came across what ...

Whoops, I have been busy and away for a while. If Dramatica works as seamlessly as I suspect with factual content then this will provide proof positive of its validity. The rules of documentary are pretty much the rules of the 'real' world and so a coherent story here means that it is working within...

Gosh, I've not been here in a while. Another fascinating tool that I have found is Dramatica's grid of genres against modes of expression on page 158 of the book. This has lots to say to documentary film makers. There are really four fundamental questions you must answer to make a complete documenta...

I've been thinking about how Dramatica can help me with documentary film making. Having tried out the theory and software on real life situations and getting some interesting results it occurs that the value of Dramatica is to be found in more than only stories of fiction. I've been working on a pri...

Dramatica was spookily accurate when I used it recently to map a corporate organisation which clearly has some issues with leadership. As they say in QA circles, the fish stinks from the head down. So my chum who currently works for this blighted company answered my questions and pretty soon we had ...

Brilliant Chris and thanks.

I think I have learned something from this. Dramatica theory is applicable from logline to full blown story whathever the medium.

I wonder how it will apply to the business itself...

In the way that Newtonian mechanics gives way to Quantum theory as magnification increases so I was wondering what happens to the rules as stories get smaller. I spent a lot of yesterday looking at and thinking about an article by Dr Renée Fuller at http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC27/Fuller.htm . In ...