 Now, up to the content, the story itself. How do we design a story? How do we create it, form it? A good point to start is to learn about the difference between story and plot, as defined by famous film theorist David Bodwell. Even if anybody is invited to form and discuss their own definition of storytelling in this course, the following definition is what I would like to base this course on. David Bodwell describes a story as a causal chronological series of events. So to speak, all the events in the original linear order first A happens, then B, then C. The plot on the contrary is defined as the order and duration of events as they are presented to us. That means information and story parts can be left out or even switched in this presentation. This can be easily seen for instance in the feature film Memento by Christopher Nolan from 2000, where the chronological order of the story is broken up and fragmented and the story bits are even presented in reverse. If we talk about the dramaturgy of a work, we therefore refer to the plot and the way the story information is assembled, not the linear story that might lie underneath. We've linked several books on the topic in our reading list in case you'd like to dive deeper into this topic. Now up to another interesting question, how is a story structured? Which means do we have to discuss the smaller and bigger parts of a narrative?