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Topic: This Is How You Story: a setups and payoffs blog

I've been kind of working on setups and payoffs charts like these for a little over a year and had a bunch of half started ones. I have some extra time on my hands now, so I decided to finish a few of them off and needed some place to put them, thus a new blog.

So far I've got: Back to the Future (which you may have seen already)
                      Contagion
                      Apollo 13

It's really interesting to see the different pattern and shapes they make. I've been trying to keep the formatting roughly the same so that it's easy to compare them.

I'd like to post on the blog about once a week with something, whether it's a setups and payoffs chart or something similar to do with charts and stories. Anyway, hope you like it!

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Re: This Is How You Story: a setups and payoffs blog

Love this idea. Looking forward to seeing more.

Would quite like to see ones for Die Hard and Shaun of The Dead (I think those are absolutely perfect for this).

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Re: This Is How You Story: a setups and payoffs blog

Oh cool, thank you for the suggestions! I'm trying to make a list for weeks where I lack inspiration.

If anybody else has a good candidate, let me know.

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Re: This Is How You Story: a setups and payoffs blog

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is definitely a solid candidate.

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Re: This Is How You Story: a setups and payoffs blog

I gotta geek out here for a moment and say: Die Hard is so well constructed that the setups and payoffs are very easy to find, but there's one you may miss: when Hans and company first appear (the shot of their truck, I believe), there is a leitmotif from Beethoven's 9th symphony. When they finally open the vault, Ode to Joy plays in all its glory. Subtle, but it's a payoff!
It's also fun to note that, from a musical standpoint, Hans is the "protagonist" of the film, at least for the first two acts.

(Sorry! I am a massive geek for this, and wholeheartedly admit if Die Hard were a person, I would probably perform sexual acts on it.)

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Re: This Is How You Story: a setups and payoffs blog

Relevant thing I was linked to recently:

http://dejareviewer.com/2014/04/29/cine … ical-film/

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Re: This Is How You Story: a setups and payoffs blog

Nice! That's awesome! There's a book that does that for each of the Harry Potter books and the series overall. Always fun to see somebody using that concept.

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