Digication ePortfolio :: Emily Schultheis' Mentorship Portfolio

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The Story Template is a new writing tool soon to be available on the market in 2010-2011. It describes story structure on the data-persuaded assumption that "good" stories are nearly identical in the elements of structure it describes. Its data sample does not include short stories, comics, TV shows, documentaries, plays etc., but does include novels and full-length movies.

The Story Template proposes a description of story including a greater number of essential elements than those described in systems such as Freytag's Pyramid, The Hero's Journey, or The Monomyth. Furthermore, The Story Template also insists that existing systems, particularly The Hero's Journey and The Monomyth are too rigid in their interpretation of story to be applicable to most "good" works.

The Story Template embraces a more fluid model that it claims is both sensitive and specific to most "good" works. The Story Template was compiled by analyzing subjectively-chosen "good" modern stories side-by-side for similarities. The proportions of these similarities in reference to the story's endpoints were finalized through a statistical analysis among subjects.

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Slide 24

The first graph, Sensitivity: Identifying Classics, shows the percent of gold-standard classics that were also identified as classics by The Story Template algorithm. Six stories out of seven were identified as classics both by the gold standard and by The Story Template. One story out of seven was identified as a classic by the gold standard, but as a non-classic by The Story Template. This score of 86% sensitivity is high, indicating that The Story Template algorithm accurately detected acknowledged classic stories in this small sample size.

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