Platform
Also known as The Platform, Routine Platform
Johnstone's term for the established normality of a story (the who, where, and ordinary routine) that exists before the tilt arrives to disrupt it.
Known for
- Johnstone's narrative grammar: build a clear platform, then break it with a tilt; a story the audience can follow needs a stable normal first.
- The Johnstone-school relative of UCB's base reality, but framed for storytelling rather than comedic game (platform implies a routine waiting to be interrupted).
- Common pedagogy fault is rushing past the platform to get to action; without it, the tilt has nothing recognizable to disturb.
- Platforms can re-form mid-story: every time the world settles into a new normal, that becomes a fresh platform ready for the next tilt.
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People
Notes
Already referenced as a key_relationship by concepts/routine but previously undefined; this entry resolves that dangling link.
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