The Primary Colours of Story
A storyteller's guide to what stories are, why stories exist and how stories work (The Story Series Book 4)
Book four in the five books Story Series by author, scriptwriter, story consultant & PhD scholar of narrative theory, David Baboulene.
“David Baboulene is truly a master when it comes to the science behind storytelling.”Craig Hinde (Director).
A story is a conversation between an author and a receiver. The author encodes using knowledge gaps. The receiver decodes by providing the knowledge that goes into the gaps. The knowledge that goes into the gaps is called SUBTEXT. That, right there, is the substance of every story ever made and will be the substance of yours. In the first ever holistic definition of story, David Baboulene brings you the ground-breaking, flagship masterwork of his decades in the study of narrative theory. An intuitive understanding of how stories work coupled with practical tools and methods for those who work with stories. Simple and ground-breaking. The Primary Colours of Story is a masterpiece.
"Great Book for Learning to Create Meaningful Stories. I highly recommend The Primary Colours of Story. After reading David's The Story Book and now this book, I think very differently about creating stories. His information has helped me move beyond attempting to create stories from a structural focus. David's Working With A Contemporary Step Outline: The Tool Of Choice For Story Development complements this book by showing his steps for creating a story. Thanks, David. I've been looking for this information for a very long time." FableMinded.
"Simply Excellent. I found this book, the Primary Colours of Story, to be excellent. Baboulene, through years of research, study and analysis, has managed to arrive at a complete understanding of the composition of Story, and then to break it down and explain it in such a way so that anyone else is able to understand it, too." Amazon reader.
The Primary Colours of Story
Available in Paperback and eBookDavid Baloulene
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David Baboulene is a published author, filmmaker, story consultant, and Ph.D. academic of story theory. His research has provably shifted the cutting edge of narrative theory from a focus on structuralism to an approach based on evolutionary psychology – factors such as knowledge gaps and subtext – that cause stories to exist and to have such power to grip and intrigue us.
David is one of the first highly qualified story consultants to also have published works of fiction and film deals for his own stories. (See the full list of published works here.)
He has also studied stories back to pre-biblical and Greek times, classical literature as well as talking to big names in contemporary story-telling, including:
- Bob Gale (Back to the Future trilogy);
- Lee Child (20 million Jack Reacher novels sold);
- John Sullivan (Only Fools and Horses; Just Good Friends; Citizen Smith…);
- Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Blood Brothers, Shirley Valentine…);
- Mark Williams (The Harry Potter films; 101 Dalmatians; Shakespeare in Love…)
and many others (These conversations feature in The Story Book (2010).
“David Baboulene is truly a master when it comes to the science behind storytelling.”
Craig Hinde (Director).