Many shows and podcasts have a formula, on the looser end: Dan Harmons shows have his story circles,<\/p>\n
then there’s my brother my brother and me, which doesn’t outline the when like Dan but have more specific segments, and within each question answer there are usually a few sets of methods they use to go deeper, like giving actual advice, purposefully misinterpreting the question, creating a scenerio based on the question etc,<\/p>\n
then there’s something like (some episodes of) welcome to nightvale, where the segments feel so rigid it is genuinely like it’s network programming from another world, the story beats are precisely timed and intersperse with the segments in a harmonic way, almost every charecter behaves in a formulic way, fractals of 3 act structures and motifs everywhere, <\/p>\n
then there’s children programming like Mr. Rogers and his segments and routines that are so similar each time it could almost be replaced with a previous clip. <\/p>\n
These are referenced in media analysis like everybody knows all of these and more, <\/p>\n
Is there an actual collection of all the formulas media and premises that we’re aware of?<\/p>\n
I’m interested in the interplay as to how specific you can make your premise, and how much new and valuable information per episode you can provide, and still having a very structural formula, and how the formula can be interpreted different ways without feeling like it’s a different structure. (Also I’m not using this for ai, just looking to analyze it and maybe write some formulas myself)<\/p>\n
Thank you for reading!!<\/p>\n
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