(electric guitar music playing)
Hey storytellers, get ready for an exciting day
where we'll learn about premise and conflict.
Premise is a situation in which
the main character begins the story
and a problem, or conflict, it presents
must be solved by the end of the story.
Here's an example of premise.
In Shakespeare's classic play, Romeo and Juliet,
the two main characters are in love
but their families forbid them from being in a relationship.
That's the premise.
The events in the story, the plots,
work together to resolve this main problem.
Every premise fits into one of four categories.
Character versus character,
character versus society,
character versus themselves,
or character versus nature.
For example, a story about a person
in the wilderness trying to survive
fits into the character versus nature category.
You may notice that the four start-up project options today
are named after these four categories.
You can choose one of these premises
to start out the story for today.
In the Sprite versus Sprite starter,
the knight encounters a dragon,
which will not let the knight pass.
In the Sprite versus Society starter,
one alien feels different from all the other aliens
at a pool party.
In the Sprite versus Themselves starter,
the ballerina wants to dance but she's scared.
In the Sprite versus Nature starter,
the creature is out in the cold
and needs to find shelter.
Your task now is to pick one of these starter projects
and make it your own.
Tell the story that you want to tell.
And keep in mind that these are just the beginning.
They lay a foundation for you to build your story upon.
On the next page, you'll get to continue
telling your story by adding cool elements to your project.
You can pick and choose which elements you want to add
and you don't have to go in order.
Now it's your turn.
First, pick a starter project from the ones
listed next to this video,
second, begin to build your story
based on the premise you selected.
Once you've started your story with scripts for each Sprite,
move onto the next page.