쉐도잉 연습: Story structure: Theme - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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In the last video, we talked about structure as a sequence of beats, and that's a great first step.
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During the process of creating a story, we also try to step back and think about what connects all the individual events in the story.
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To do this, we often ask our storytellers the following simple question: What are you trying to say in your story?
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When we ask this question, we're getting at something we call the theme.
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The theme is connected to the moral, which is the lesson that the main character learns at the end of a story.
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For example, the moral of cars might be: There's more to life than winning.
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And for thousands of years, people have been weaving morals into stories.
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Notice the story spine exercise also ended with the step And the moral of the story is,
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That can help you make sure that all your story beats work together to get across this larger point.
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Let's check in with our Pixar storytellers to hear how they think about theme.
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When the audience leaves your movie and a month later they're saying to their friend, "Oh, I love this movie.
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It was about...
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What do you want that to be?
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So for a movie like the Incredibles, you could say Oh, it's a movie about a bunch of superheroes fighting crime. But...
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When you're talking about theme, you're asking about the deeper thing it's about.
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Oh, it's a movie about a guy who's lost his sense of identity, and he finds it again in reconnecting with his family, his identity as part of a family,
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as part of that super team.
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It's basically why you're telling me this in a nutshell.
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I worked on a great film in 1999 called Iron Giant.
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and the theme of that movie was You are who you choose to be.
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like in Toy Story 3, learning to love, the theme, one of the themes was learning to love is learning to let go.
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I find if I experience a film that doesn't have a core idea or a theme, it becomes very, unmemorable.
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And later, when I'm trying to think about the film and wonder what it was about, I can't remember because There was no unifying theme.
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Oh, the theme is basically the reason that the character lets go of their wants for what they need.
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Always start a story knowing the goal of your protagonist, and the goal is what they want.
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So a character is going after what they want.
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But often they realize that what they want is not actually what they needed.
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and then what they needed is much more important.
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finding out what they need that usually is the theme of the movie.
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Once you know what your theme is, what you're trying to say, you can then create a series of dramatic events,
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dramatic tests for your protagonist, for the realization that I need to change.
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and I need to be influenced by the theme of this movie.
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It's important to know the theme or the moral of the story before you start.
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Sometimes, however, you discover the moral of the film while you're working on it, and it's actually different than what you had expected.
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So when I think about Inside Out, that started with this clear question, what happens if you lose your joy?
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And then for a few years, like two and a half years, the focus in the middle of the story was losing your joy and joy and fear going on a journey into
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Riley's mind.
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Then there was an epiphany, which is, Joy has to learn that there's a role for sadness in Riley's life too and has to let sadness in.
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So it became a big theme about learning to embrace sadness.
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You don't ever want to limit yourself by the thing you thought on day one.
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You want to allow it to grow and become deeper
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and richer and more thought out and more evolved as you spend the time developing it.
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One thing is for sure: you don't need to start with a theme.
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But by the end of the storytelling process, you should be able to communicate it clearly.
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And whatever the theme is, it's usually connected with the needs of your main character, what they need to do, know, or learn in order to succeed in life.
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In this next exercise, you'll have a chance to identify the theme
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or moral in your three favorite films as well as consider what you want to say in your story.
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문맥 속 문법 & 표현
- "What are you trying to say...": 주제를 물을 때 자주 쓰는 표현입니다. "너가 무엇을 말하고자 해?"보다 자연스러우며, 논의에서 핵심을 파악할 때 유용해요.
- "connected to the moral": "도덕적 교훈과 연결된다"는 뜻으로, 이야기 분석에서 자주 사용됩니다. "A is connected to B" 구조는 관계를 설명할 때 필수적입니다.
- "learn to let go": "놓아주는 법을 배우다"로, 감정적 내용을 표현할 때 활용도가 높습니다. Toy Story 3의 주제로 사용된 이 표현은 발음도 부드럽게 연습할 수 있어요.
발음 난관 포인트
이 비디오에서 주의해야 할 발음이 몇 가지 있어요. "theme"은 /θiːm/으로, "th" 소리를 치아 사이로 공기를 내보내며 발음해야 합니다. "protagonist"는 /prəˈtæɡənɪst/로, 중간의 "tæ"가 약간 빠르게 발음돼요. 또한 "epiphany"는 /ɪˈpɪfəni/로, 마지막 "ny"는 부드럽게 끝내야 합니다. shadow speak 연습을 할 때 이 단어들을 집중적으로 반복하면, 순간적으로도 자연스러운 발음이 가능해질 거예요!
이 비디오로 shadowing site에서 쉽게 연습할 수 있고, shadowspeaks 방법을 적용하면 1주일 만에 발음과 표현이 눈에 띄게 좋아집니다. 유튜브 영어 공부의 핵심은 반복이니, 오늘부터 매일 10분씩 shadowing을 시작해 보세요!
이 영상의 문법
화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
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| 수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점 | is connected · be influenced |
| 관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보 | moral, which is · epiphany, which is |
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