Storytelling Triangle

According to many authors there are four basic elements in building a story that is:

1. Characters
As mentioned previously is The Who.
For this points to keep in mind in giving the name, we can get from a dictionary or we develop from what occurred in our heads, and for the main characters as much as possible we make a name that will easily be remembered by the audience, it need too long or hard.

2. The Plot
Is The What, what the characters want and what happens? The simplest example, Gemblung want to go to the office early for a presentation to clients and bosses, unfortunately he was late to wake up and the clock shows the time in the office is near, when they want a shower, Gemblung suddenly had an idea that is bathed in the office, on middle of the road he suddenly remembered that the bathroom faucet is not turned off so that he must come home to take the turn off the tap water and finally Gemblung too late to get to the office, as a result of his presentation failed, body odor and got upset by his superiors.
So the plot is a series of conflicts and settlement of which culminate in klimax.

3. The Story
Is the Where, When, How and Why. Where and When are the early details, they are important because they determine how the characters react and behave and surrounding areas. Just an example of the city must have a different attitude to the rural people. Plot the above would happen in a big city, the plot could not be moved to the area of Gunung Kidul 1200s.

How to develop the question "What is desired by our character?" Is to explore how they are to achieve their goals. Then we look at why each event in the plot may be associated with the characters and the audience.

Finally, the story has an impact on Gemblung, superiors, other characters and most importantly to the audience. Why the audience should care about the delay Gemblung and its consequences? Here lies the story.

4. The Theme or Premise
Every story must have a theme, the theme of the story could have "Turn on the alarm clock so as not to wake up late." Or "Prepare everything before leaving." Consequences of not turn on the alarm clock or preparing materials for the office and then translated. The theme does not have to be complicated to "Love can conquer anything," "Crimes must be paid," "Everything is back to the decision of Allah or God." And probably could have made a complex about politics. No problem complex or simple theme that we want to convey as long as everything was still inside the story we have created and headed to the settlement of the story, or characters, plots, and stories relating to the themes and visual forms, usually when someone asks about the story we make, they do not know the theme that we wish to convey.

5. Three-act structure
After considering all the above description it can be concluded that the function of Storytelling is to maintain and play a momentum, momentum is the intent of an incident will result in the reaction of other events, then the reaction is a reaction to make the next event so it goes. So with that momentum plays a decisive interesting or not our film. For that needed momentum management or structure that is composed with good momentum.

There were really only three important points that the momentum of Action (Problem), Reaction (Development), result (Resolution). An "Action" will cause "reactions" and produces "a result". This method became known as "The Three Act." Or the structure of three acts.

Round one is the "Action" or a Problem, round two "reaction" or the Development or the development and round three is the "result" or Resolution or settlement.