Denial, Anger, Bargaining, despair… and Narrative Structure | John Yorke | TEDxNicosia

The gift of narrative structure. How the feelings of denial, anger, bargaining and more provide a narrative which connects and influences the masses.
John Yorke is Managing Director of Angel Station where he works as a drama producer, consultant and lecturer on all forms of storytelling. He has spent over 30 years studying our insatiable appetite for stories.
A former MD of Company Pictures where he Exec Produced Wolf Hall, he’s worked as both Head of Channel Four Drama and Controller of BBC Drama Production. As a commissioning Editor/Executive Producer, he championed Life On Mars, The Street, Shameless and Bodies and in 2005 he created the BBC Writers Academy, a year-long in-depth training scheme which has produced a generation of successful television writers.
The author of INTO THE WOODS - the highly acclaimed book about how and why we tell stories - John is Visiting Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and lives and works in London. www.johnyorkest...
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[@rixx46]

Really great on so many levels. I am a longtime screenwriter and now a teacher as well. This is one of the best illustrations of structure I have seen/heard.

[@be6386]

I think the meaning of despair and hope is that you need both of them for in order to over come despair is to except for what it is and move forward from it , you can’t erase it for if is gone then hope will also be gone for they both can’t be without the other