Robert McKee

By Molly Oven

History

McKee was born in 1941 and he was a creative writing instructor. Robert McKee began his theatre career at the age of 9, playing the title role in a community theatre production.

Robert McKee’s Theory

Just like Todorov’s theory of everything being an equal balance,then something happening to make it unequal and finally problemsare solved; McKee’s theory is the same but has been expandedmore. McKee’s narrative structure is generally described as thestructural framework that underlies the order and manner in whichnarrative is presented.

The 5 Stages:

1. An inciting incident2. Progressive complications3. Crisis4. Climax5. Resolution

Robert McKee’s TheoryThis can be used within my short film by including all the 5stages to make my film more interesting for the audience. My heroinmy drop her credit card before a man runs past and picks it up(incident and complication). She may then find out that the card isbeing used for a lot of transactions (crisis) before she finds the man(climax) and gets the card back (resolution).