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Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction model is a nine-step process for good instructional design.

Before you dive into writing your course, it's important that you're super clear about your learning goals.

Foreshadowing is a literary device where a writer gives a sneaky hint about what's going to happen later in the story.

Performing an eLearning needs analysis takes time and costs money but is a fundamental step in creating eLearning content.

When cinematographers pick a color palette for their movie or animation, it's about more than aesthetics. In fact, they're probably using color theory to stir up your emotions as you watch the images onscreen.

Before you start work on your Hollywood-busting screenplay, you'll need a logline. It's a one-sentence summary of your movie that entices someone to read the entire script.

In movies, TV shows, and books, a foil character is someone who contrasts with another character – usually the main character – to highlight their qualities.

Pre-production includes the creative and logistical work needed before shooting a film, TV show or video. Explore each step in the pre-production process.

Good dialogue is the thing that makes your story ring true for your audience. If it's believable, they'll be on your side. If it doesn't sound like real life, you'll probably lose them.

Lots of people know what irony is but find it hard to explain. So here's an irony definition. It's a literary device that highlights the incongruity (a fancy word for 'difference') between one's expectation for a situation, and the reality.

You’ve invested weeks (months! years!) of hard work writing your story, and it all comes down to this... The end. The last line. No pressure.

It takes a lot of work to tell a great story. Just ask all the struggling filmmakers and authors, hustling away at their craft in an attempt to get a break.