# Conversion Outline Document
## Alan Moore Storytelling — BBC Maestro Course Notes
### Document Formatting Styles

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## Typography

- **Title font** — large, heavy condensed sans-serif (all-caps)
- **Part/lesson headings** — serif italic, mixed case (e.g., *Part One : Origins ~ 02. Writing As Enchantment*)
- **Section subheadings** — small caps / tracked uppercase sans-serif (e.g., `WRITING & MAGIC`)
- **Body text** — justified serif, regular weight
- **Pull quotes** — large serif italic, often white-on-dark or dark-on-light
- **Exercise labels** — bold sans-serif in a solid orange/red rectangular button
- **Tilde (~)** — used as separator between part title and lesson title

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## Layout

- **Two-column grid** — left body / right body on content pages
- **Full-bleed photo** — left half photo, right half text on section openers
- **Left sidebar strips** — vertical color blocks (orange, grey, charcoal, black) stacked down the left margin
- **Cream/off-white background** on all text pages

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## Color Palette

| Role | Color |
|---|---|
| Accent / buttons / rules | Orange / red |
| Primary text | Dark charcoal |
| Pull quote text (on dark) | White |
| Page background | Cream / off-white |

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## Decorative Elements

- **Large "66" quotation marks** — introduce pull quotes
- **Short horizontal rules** — beneath headings and between sections
- **Dot row separators** — small dots used as page/section breaks
- **Section icons** (change per part):
  - Part 1 — winged imp / demon
  - Part 2 — crossed swords
  - Part 3 — raven / bird
  - Part 4 — cross pattée
  - Part 5 — grotesque goblin
  - Part 6 — crossed swords (variant)
- **Kanji 練** — appears alongside every Exercise block
- **Circular mandala / geometric** — faint background illustration on many pages
- **Tilde bullet (∿)** — used for sub-list items within comics / screenwriting sections

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## Text Conventions

| Convention | Usage |
|---|---|
| *Italics* | Book / film / work titles |
| **Bold lead word** | Opens definition-style entries (e.g., `COINS`, `THE SWORD`) |
| Underline | Hyperlinks (e.g., "BACK TO CONTENTS", linked book titles) |
| ALL-CAPS tracked | All section subheadings |

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## Page Footer (consistent on every page)

```
BBC MAESTRO   [page number]   STORYTELLING        BACK TO CONTENTS
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## Writing Styles Referenced in Content

### Prose Styles
- **Attic** — simple, blunt, plain English (Hemingway)
- **Asiatic** — decorative, elaborate, uses every linguistic trick (Baudelaire / Decadent writing)
- **Stream of consciousness** — inside a character's head, thought by thought (Virginia Woolf)
- **Cut-up** — texts cut and recombined for accidental / exotic sentences (Burroughs)
- **Oulipo / Constrained writing** — language restricted by formal rules (Perec, Christian Bök)
- **Literary difficulty** — deliberately demanding technique that rewards persistent readers
- **Free indirect discourse** — close third person, hopping between characters' inner thoughts
- **Avant-garde / Postmodern** — formally experimental, progressive (Barth, Sorrentino, DFW)

### Narrative Modes
- Comedic
- Dramatic
- Horror
- Mixed / hybrid mode

### Structural Styles
- Linear narrative
- Non-linear / flashback
- Epistolary (letters, diary extracts)
- Three-act structure (set-up / confrontation / resolution)

### Point of View
- First person (including unreliable narrator)
- Third person omniscient
- Close third person

### Genres (Lesson 13)
- Action & Adventure
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Mystery
- Drama
- Science Fiction
- Thriller
- Historical
- Romance
- Western
- Literary Fiction
- Bildungsroman (Coming of Age)
- Speculative Fiction
- Dystopian
- Magical Realism

### Rhetorical / Language Devices (Lesson 10)
- Iamb
- Trochee
- Iambic pentameter
- Alliteration
- Anaphora
- Assonance
- Hypotaxis
- Parataxis
- Hyperbaton
- Synesthesia