The basics of a story. Do you know them and use them to tell great stories?

1. Story Definition: The
Four Elements of Story
Jeremy Casper

2. A story is a character

3. A story is a character
trying to solve a problem

4. A story is a character trying to
solve a problem while facing
opposition

5. A story is a character trying to solve
a problem while facing opposition…
and the resolution to the problem.

6. Jeremy Casper is a writer/director/producer as well as a
film instructor and lecturer. He currently teaches narrative
storytelling at his alma mater, the Los Angeles Film
Studies Center and has led screenwriting and directing
seminars all over the world, in partnership with The
Global Short Film Network and the Visual Story Network.
His first feature film, Vacant House has won numerous
festival awards for screenwriting, directing, acting, and
best picture.
Jeremy teaches Story in Ministry
at Mission Media U.
Learn more at:
missionmediau.org/courses/story-
in-ministry/