During today's lecture we looked into depth on Joseph Campbell's monomyth theory on the 17 stages of 'A Hero's Journey' and how the stages are very evident in films such as Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) and The Matrix (1999). The theory has 3 acts which come together to form the 17 different stages in A Hero's Journey. Below is a diagram to explain Campbell's theory: Figure 1. Joseph Campell - 17 Stage Monomyth - A Hero's Journey (1949) The film that I am using to help prove this theory is A Knight's Tale (2001). Figure 2. Original Movie Poster (2001) Stage 1 - The call to adventure: The Knight that William (Heath Ledger), the knight's servant, works for, dies, meaning that William, along with all of the Knight's over servants, are left without a job. As the servants worry what to do next and panic as they haven't eaten in three days, one of the King's servants come over on a horse and explains that the Knig
Hi Phil,
ReplyDeleteI have looked into what you said about involving the Diabetes monster character more within the animation and script. I like how I have involved the character more in this script, any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Hi Tia - this is SOOOOOOOOO much more promising, don't you agree? I think you need to move immediately to creating a loose animatic that really exploits the 'white space' idea and the simple sets - but where all the emphasis is on bringing out the character of your creature... some references to give you some further inspiration!
ReplyDeleteManipulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG1hfBf1ppk. (quality is poor...)
Duck Amuck: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ofats
Hi Phil, Yes I agree! I really like my script now! Ill start working on that :)
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